Save My Soul : Bakugou x Reader

31 - Ultimate Moves

"So yeah I heard (Y:N) laughing hysterically and begging Bakugo to stop!" Kirishima was retelling what he heard from Bakugo's room to some of the class in the common area. The group gathered consisted of all the girls, who listened intently, Midoriya, Kaminari, Iida, Sero, Ojiro and Sato. They couldn't believe what they were hearing, Bakugo playing about with someone? They thought that was impossible. "I've been watching him for a while and... I think he's got a crush on her."

The group gasped at his whispered conclusion while Kaminari nodded and agreed. "Yeah he's got it bad for her!" The group shushed the electric boy who seemed to not know what whispering was.

"But I thought Todoroki was the one with a thing for her." Hagakure chimed in in confusion. You spent so much time with the peppermint haired boy and he always seemed to be looking at you at any given chance.

"I have seen Todoroki staring at her a couple times." Yaoyorozu gushed, she was thrilled at just the idea of her two friends liking each other. A couple of the girls nodded along with her words, Tsu brought her finger to her chin as she thought.

"So the both like her, ribbit, but does she like them?" The small frog-like girl posed the question they had all been thinking. The group thought over how you interacted with the two. From what they had seen, you treated them how you did everyone else.

"I don't know... we should investigate!" Sero proposed the idea of poking around in the three people's business. If there was a budding romance in the class they were going to find out. The drama was just too juicy to ignore.

"No. We should respect or friends' privacy." Iida's arm chopped through the air as one wrested on his chest. Although, he was just as curious as the rest, he didn't want to invade your privacy. Who you liked was your business and unless you brought it up yourself they should stay out of it.

"But Iida, if we don't know and accidentally do something to mess up the dynamic of the class, it would upset our concentration in class. Our grades will drop, surely as the class rep it's your duty to protect the class atmosphere." Uraraka sneakily reasoned with the blue haired male, she knew perfectly which buttons to press to get him on their side. They all stared at the boy as he contemplated her words in silence.

"...Fine. Us boys will take care of Todoroki and Bakugo, you girls deal with (Y:N). We'll have to be subtle so they don't catch on to our plan." The group nodded at each other. Luckily his sentence ended just as you emerged in the common area from Bakugo's room. You hummed happily to yourself as your eyes came to rest on the group of your classmates who looked like deers caught headlights.

"Uhhh you alright guys? Whatcha doin'?" You took out your hands out of your hoodie and plopped down on the sofa. You reached for the television remote and began flicking through the channels. The group looked at each other in panic before Kaminari tapped Kirishima on the shoulder and muttered an "I've got this."

"Soooo (Y:N)..." he sat down next to you and chucked his arm around your shoulder. He was always quite touchy with you nowadays so thought nothing of it. "Got a crush on anyone?" The group collectively mentally face palmed at their friend's tactlessness. You looked at him with an incredulous expression before shrugging and turning back to the television.

"Nope."

"Oh..." The boy replied dumbly before turning to his classmates and shrugging. Your answer sounded casual and honest because it was, you didn't know how having a crush felt so you just assumed you didn't have one. The more you thought about it though, the more two faces popped into your mind. You shook those thoughts from your head and refocused your attention onto the show you had put on, 'As if I'd go for the hero type.'

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"Ok, so I want to create an effective way to encase people in Anoddium without having to touch them." You explained to your Ectoplasm clone. He nodded and encouraged you try it. You stared at him before closing your eyes and taking a deep breath. You can create all the other carbon allotropes without touching them but Anoddium was different, it was something you could only create from your body. You opened your eyes and outstretched your hand in front of you and concentrated. You felt all of the Carbon atoms moving about in the air and tried to rearrange them, they vibrated slightly but they just wouldn't do it. You exhaled heavily and broke your focus. You let out a loud curse, why couldn't you do it?

"It's okay (Y:N), you don't have to get it first try. Also, watch your language." You mulled over his words before nodding. You were someone who was bursting at the seams with raw natural talent, which was great but you were used to being able to do things instantly. As soon as learning something got hard, you'd get frustrated and quit. It was so irritating, you didn't know how to push yourself properly. You had never needed to, someone else usually did that for you. You had no motivation. Why are you even bothering? It's not like you were ever going to use these shitty ultimate moves, you weren't a hero. You heard a loud cheer from Bakugo's area as he mastered another move. The sound irritated you, you weren't going to lose to some little hero wannabes. You focused again and felt the atoms, you let everything else around you slip away. All you focused on was the feeling of the atoms and you strained, you tried to rearrange any carbon atoms around you into Anoddium. Something was happening, you could feel it, but you weren't sure what. Still you plowed onwards.

"(Y:N)!" Your eyes, that you hadn't noticed closed, snapped open at the shout of your teacher. You saw the class looking at either you or the ceiling in awe and you didn't know why. You craned your neck to look above and your eyes widened at the sight above you. Covering the entirety of the ceiling were Anoddium stalactites. They were dangerously sharp and almost long enough to pierce into the concrete pillars Cementoss had created. What you couldn't see though was your appearance. Your hair had sliced through your bobble and had hardened into Anoddium, it was stood on end as if you were being hung upside down. The Diamond on your cheeks had spread down across your body in streams, it came to your fingertips and the tips of your toes. It had created long sharp fingernails and flowed around your form like rivers. You're wings had also deployed and were bigger and sharper than usual.

Aizawa took out his phone and took a photo of you before handing you the device. You gasped and almost dropped the mobile at the sight of yourself. You reached your hand up to your cheeks and traced along the lines of your quirk. Then you moved to smooth over your hair that was still defying gravity. Your heart rate started to pick up and you began to hyperventilate. It felt as if you couldn't breathe as you brought your hand back down from your hair to claw at your neck. You fell to your knees and continued to gasp for air, it felt as if something was crushing you.

At the sight of your distressed state, Bakugo and Shoto immediately rushed towards you. The explosive boy got there first and kneeled in front of you. As your breathing became more constricted and erratic the spikes on the ceiling started to grow. One finally, slowly pierced through the tallest pillar of concrete. There were shrieks of panic from the class who moved to dodge the debris that fell from the damaged structure. You paid this no mind as Bakugo grabbed your hand and brought it against his chest and he used his other hand to make you look up into his crimson eyes.

"Look at me (Y:N). Calm down, it's ok. Breath with me, you can do it." You tried to focus on his words and the feeling of his chest that rose and fell steadily. He kept repeating comforting words to you and encouraged you to breath in time with him. You stared into his eyes and attempted to calm down but every time you did you noticed the approaching stalactites which made you panic again. Though, every time you looked away from him to your surroundings, he brought your attention back to him. Eventually, that spikes stopped growing and the Diamond on your body started to retreat to its usual resting place on your cheeks. You rested your forehead against his as his thumbs rubbed gently and soothingly against your hand and cheek. Your hair finally fell and turned back into its usual colour. As soon as your heartbeat returned to normal, you felt exhaustion wash over you and your head fell to the ash blond's shoulder as darkness consumed you.