My Hero Acadamia Short Stories (Volume 1)

Feeling: Part 4 (Tamaki)

There was a knock on my door as I sat on my bed, playing on my phone and squeezing a stress ball. 

"Come in." I called out and Tamaki opened the door. 

"Hey are you ready to-." He started to ask and stopped when he saw Bakugo laying in my lap, hugging my waist. "Should I come back later?"

"Oh no, sorry." I told him. "We're almost done."

"What exactly is this?" He asked, and I could feel how uncomfortable he was as he closed the door behind him.

"This is Bakugo's therapy session." I told him as he sat on my couch. "I take away his anger, and he takes a nap. Although, I turn into miss cranky pants every time we have a session." I said and gestured to the stress ball.

"How exactly does that work?" He asked.

"You know when you go to bed crying and wake up relieved or some type of opposite?" I asked him.

"Yeah?" He said questionably. 

"Same idea." I said. "He falls asleep touching me with all his anger, and after he's asleep I take some of it away. Then as time goes on I slowly give it back. I found that it kind of tricks his brain into thinking less aggressively. Same thing with your anxiety. Did you notice after I took it from you, you weren't as nervous as usual once you had it back?"

"Now that you mention it, yeah." He said.

"It's like forcing your body and brain to stop what it's doing, and gives you a complete reset." I told him. "And slowly but surely Bakugo's brain has learned that there's no point to have that much anger. Which has tricked him into being calmer and not so rude and aggressive."

"Like you said about how you think anxiety isn't a personality, but it can alter it?" Tamaki asked, after thinking for a minute.

"Exactly." I told him. "Long exposure to anger has led him to be mister grumpy pants constantly. That and his Mom is nowhere near the biggest help. But taking the anger away and slowly giving it back is allowing his brain to realize there's no need for so much anger. Much like when you fall asleep crying and at some point your body just cuts off the sad feeling to allow you to sleep."

"So he still has the same amount of anger as before meeting you?" He asked.

"Oh god no." I laughed. "Bakugo realized himself after a couple of sessions that he didn't need that much anger and let it go himself. All I'm doing is helping him realize what the issue is and how to alter it. He's always going to have some anger issues, but by doing this it allows him to step back from it. See the world a little differently. That and I get to peep in on his dreams."

"You can see his dreams?" He asked and I nodded. "What does he dream about?"

"Mostly getting into fights." I said thinking back to all our past sessions. "But he's slowly getting less aggressive in them, especially when I take away most of his anger."

"Really?" Tamaki asked.

"Mhm, but don't say anything to him." I told him. "He has no idea."

"Trust me I won't say anything." Tamaki said and there was another knock on my door.

"Come in." I called out again. Kirishima opened the door. 

"Hey, all set?" He asked.

"Right on time." I said and finished replacing Bakugo's anger, and shook him awake.

"My waffles~." Bakugo whined into my waist, and we laughed. The three of us laughing got Bakugo's attention and he sat up almost immediately. "Why are you freaks watching me sleep?"

"Well it's my job." I said.

"And I just got here." Kiri said.

"I-I, wasn't watching you." Tamaki said, and his anxiety instantly rose now that it wasn't just me and him.

"Whatever." Bakugo said and got off my bed.

"Are you ready to for work Bakubabe?" Kiri asked before getting a quick kiss.

"Yeah. Catch you later." Bakugo said to me and they left together. 

In the last couple of weeks, Kiri had gotten me and Bakugo spots in a work study at the same agency as him and Tamaki. Because there was so many of us, we were put on rotation. Tonight me and Tamaki had the night off and were going on a date.

"Wait they're dating?" Tamaki asked as I slipped my shoe's on.

"Yeah. The only reason Bakugo started these sessions was because of Kiri." I said and we left my dorm room. "Otherwise I doubt Bakugo would even think about doing them."

"Is he still doing it for Kirishima?" Tamaki asked and reached for my hand, before getting too nervous. I smiled and grabbed his hand.

"No, not anymore." I said. "Kiri convinced him to do three sessions. Then about two weeks after the last one, he came back asking to keep doing them."

"Bakugo did?" Tamaki asked. 

"Yeah." I said, and laughed at his reaction. "Like I said, it tricks some part of the brain to see it doesn't need what it's working so hard to make."

"I'm just surprised to hear that Bakugo went to you like that." Tamaki said and rubbed the back of his neck.

"So, where are we going?" I asked him and started jumping around like a little kid.

"We are going to the new theme park." He said. And I felt my heart drop a little.

"Oh, fun." I said.

"Wait you don't like roller coasters either?" He asked. And with holding his hand I could feel that those words soothed him.

"You too?" I asked him back and we giggled together. "I'm not the biggest fan no. The most exciting roller coaster I'll go on is the Ferris Wheel."

"Yeah, same." Tamaki told me. "How about we get some food and just play games all night?"

"That sounds nice." I told him, and we went to find something to eat.

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I stood and watched as Tamaki played one of the games, and I could feel his inner kid radiating off of him. And I couldn't help but smile as I watched him.

"Alright kid, what prize do you want?" The booth manager asked after Tamaki won. He pointed at one of the stuffed animals hanging and the guy got it down. After he got it he turned to me, with his cheeks red.

"H-h-here." He said and shoved it in my face, and I almost fell over. "I want you to have it." I took it from him and hugged it to my chest. It was a big fluffy bunny that matched the color of his hair, and was about as tall as my torso.

"Thanks." I said and hugged it to my chest. His face turned completely red and he started walking away.

"Come on, how about we go ride the Ferris Wheel now?" He said and I laughed before running after him. We got on and after a couple of minutes of sitting in silence, we got stopped at the top. 

"It's really pretty up here." I said and rested my head on his shoulder.

"Y/n." He said, but I didn't take my head off his shoulder. "I want to thank you."

"For what?" I asked.

"For helping me." He told me, and I finally looked up. "Even though we haven't done any therapy sessions like Bakugo, you've really helped me come out of my shell. Or have we been doing session's and I just didn't know it?" I laughed, before shaking my head.

"Nope." I told him. "All the progress you've made in the past few weeks has been all you."

"Well, I just got to say I'm really glad you asked me on a date." He said and rubbed the back of his neck. I smiled and kissed him on the cheek.

"You're welcome." I told him. I jumped at the sudden flooding feeling I was having. 

"What's wrong?" Tamaki asked. I leaned over the side of our car, and down at the bottom of the Ferris Wheel was a large group of guys starting to surround the Ferris Wheel.

"We need to get down there now." I told him. "There's about to be trouble."