Caged Bird - BNHA Band AU

[14]

-feel free to listen to the music while you read-

-trigger warning-

The three teens stared intently at each other, practically daring one of them to speak, to break the thick tension that hung in the air. Suddenly, Izuku sucked in a deep breath, "s-so, you w-wanted to talk about... h-how I'm feeling?" Izuku kept his hand at the back of his neck, scratching slowly at the scabs until they bled. "Yeah... I'm gonna be honest, I used my quirk to see if you were ok... Kirishima and Todoroki briefly told me about your family life-" "wait, hold up a second, you used your quirk on me, if you could tell something was up, you could've just asked me more demandingly." Both boys who were still standing in front of the greenette stared at him with gobsmacked expressions, "w-we'd never do that, that's too much of a Bakugo thing to do!" Kirishima replied quickly, waving his hands in a dismissing gesture, Shinso nodded along with the statement.

"W-well, how much do you want to know?" Izuku asked, trying to calm his racing thoughts and pulsing nerves. "We want to know enough, enough so we can understand what you're going through!" Kirishima raced to answer once again, Shinso seemed to agree. "We don't want to push boundaries, but we still want to know," Izuku brought his hands to his lap, hastily yet non suspiciously wiping the small amount of blood from his fingers, "o-ok, then I'd like for the other two to be here, I-it's only fair everyone knew my state..." the green haired boy watched as Shinso went to retrieve the other two boys, leaving him and Kirishima in a tense silence.

The silence lasted until Shinso returned, two teens hot on his trail. "Why the hell are we in the nerds room, you interrupted my drumming practice!?" Bakugo yelled, sending a glare at said boy, hesitating when he saw the boy close to tears. He seemed to have caught on that this was important, huffing as he leaned on the strangely bare wall, "so? What's this about, deku?" The others glared at the fiery male, but looked back at Izuku as he let out an airy laugh. "Shinso and Kirishima were worried about my... emotional state, so I offered to tell all of you...?" He asked, posing more of a question then actually answering the blonde.

"So.... m-most of you know about my family life," he hesitated as Bakugo looked confused, watching as literally everyone else nodded, he huffed, having no clue about what was going on. "I-I'll explain it to you later in better detail kacchan, but in short, it was abusive as heck," Izuku's hand gripped his wrist lightly. "My father is Hisashi Midoriya, he used to be a sweet man, but once my quirk started growing and developing, he became abusive, he got worse each day, it was usually verbal, but sometimes he'd come home drunk, only then would it become physical and s-" Izuku paused, turning his head to the side slightly, partly because of the memories that term provoked and partly from the small amount of slightly warm liquid that ran down his neck and back. "Anyway, I've lived with anxiety all my life, even when Hisashi was nice, I was always so bright, yet socially awkward, I sometimes wonder what happened to that me, I was so innocent, happy.... stupid-" a hand on his back caused him to jump, looking into the concerned eyes of Shinso. "Midoriya.. why's there blood on your shirt?" He asked, slowly following the trail back up towards my neck, "S-Sorry, it's a nervous tick I have... I'm trying to get over it, I swear! But it never works..." Shinso sighed, looking up at Todoroki, "could you gent some bandages and a wet cloth? We'll continue after we clean the scratch."

Bakugo was still standing against the wall, mostly trying to figure out where he'd heard the name Hisashi Midoriya before. He knew it was familiar, but from where. 'That nerd is definitely someone I haven't met before, so why do I recognise that fucking name?' He thought to himself, tapping his fingers on his crossed arm. He watched intently as Shinso and Todoroki cleaned up Deku's neck, wrapping a bandage before letting him continue.

"S-Sorry about that-" "stop apologising and continue the damn story you fucking nerd," Bakugo ordered, clearly irritated. Izuku nodded, a determined glint in his eyes, "right!"