Mina knew Bakugou had been banned from class until the next week, Aizawa had made it extremely clear they were not to even consider sparring or any kind of training with Bakugou no matter how much he pestered. they were also warned off asking him for help with homework. Technically Aizawa hadn't said anything about Bakugou being banned from the cafeteria, or bothering him well they ate.

"I'm telling you dude-" Kaminari shook his head telling them again about the mysterious cheese burger he'd found in the fridge and had for breakfast the morning before. " This was the best cheeseburger I have ever had!"

"We believe you Denks, But was it really good enough for you to still be going on about it two days later?" Sero asked.

"It's not like much else has happened that I want to talk about." Kaminari defended, " That any of us want to talk about."

As if called from the void bakugou dropped his tray on the table, slouching into his chair. He didn't say anything, just went straight to work on the soup and bread lunch rush had given him. He offered them a hard glance when they all stopped eating in surprise. "Uhhh... Hey?" Sero offered.

"Gorilla tape." Bakugou acknowledged.

"Why?" Kaminari questioned.

Bakugou almost hissed like a cat."Look dumbasses, I've been sitting here for most of my time at this school. I'm not going to stop now."

"You remember sitting with us blasty? Really?" Mina asked, the gears already turning. He said he could remember them, and that he knew who Kirishima was. If he could remember them, which from her admitted limited knowledge should be impossible because he wasn't supposed to remember Kirishima at all, maybe the surgery had failed? and if the surgery had failed, then maybe, just maybe...

"Yes Raccon eyes. I remember shit. Big deal."

"Dude- then why are you being so rude? You remember we're your friends right?"

Bakugou set down his spoon, finally looking up at them. Mina watched him carefully, Bakugou had always been closed off, and well Mina was pretty good at reading him the only one she'd ever see really get him was Kirishima. Right now she envied the red heads understanding of the blonde. She wouldn't go as far to say if she understood the blonde this whole thing wouldn't have happened, but she didn't have the same self doubts that had, in her humble opinion, Be the cause of all this trouble to start with. Maybe she could have used one of the many schemes in her notebooks to solve the problem before it even happened, set them up on a mall date or something.

"When you look at stock photos in the store do you care about those people in the picture?" Bakugou asked, "You might recognize them, might have seen that exact picture but they don't hold any value do they? You just throw out the stock photo when you get home and put a picture of your family in the frame right? Well right now My memories feel like a bunch of stock pictures. Only I don't w- Can't throw them out."

Kaminari nodded like it made perfect sense to him, Whether or not he did, Mina couldn't say for sure. Sero just smiled like he knew what was going on but Mina could tell he didn't by the side eye look he was giving her. "So- you can remember?"

"Yeah." 

"Any You can feel like Love and stuff?"

"Fucked if I know. I don't w- can't throw you shit heads out at this point."

"I'll take it." Mina grinned. He notebooks would come in handy one way or another.

***

Aizawa Knew it wouldn't take long for his students to catch on to Bakugou's memory. Izuku had been the first, not to Aizawa surprise he'd over heard the boy muttering to himself, statistics on Hanahaki and memories. The boy had been frustrated about how little science actually knew about memories and how the brain worked. Aizawa had been tempted to just tell the boy flat out but decided that would qualify as a violation of HIPAA.

He wasn't surprised that the first person to confront him about Bakugou was one of the boy's friends, Mina Ashido. "Look- I'm not a scientist and I know I can't like force you to give let us go to the mall this weekend on leave but-" The pink girl pulled out a black spiral bound notebook with several stickers and the words "Hanahaki Battle Plan" Written on the front in glitter pen, " I asked Momo for help with some of the sciencey terms and Tsuyu checked it over to make sure I wasn't missing something! Sero and Kaminari will be there too so It's not like they'll be alone. Plus none of what bakugou remembers and doesn't makes sense!"

Aizawa eyes the first page of the notebook, Perhaps Midoriya was rubbing of on his classmates, because there was meticulous notes on Hanahaki statistics a detailed explanation of flower anatomy and even from what he saw, a perfectly sound explanation of memories and their relations to emotions. he flicked to the next page labeled "Hypothesis"

I hypothesize that Bakugou Katsuki's surgery failed and he is suffering some emotional deprivation but not incapacity. Further exposure to Kirishima Eijirou may result in him regaining or developing feelings for the red head. This will be Accomplished by the following steps.

1) Get the two to hang out together ( Mall this weekend?)

2) Get Bakugou to talk about his memories,

3) Get Kirishima to mention his own Hanahaki and the forget me nots

4) Get bakugou to see how manly kirishima is by having some non violent or anaerobic competitions.

5)????

6) Both home boys are in love and not puking up flowers.

Her plans left something to the imagination. And she didn't technically filled out any of the official paperwork she was supposed to to request for the day trip. But If teaching 1-A had taught him anything it was that they were going to raise hell either way. Besides, the mall wasn't that far outside of the range of where the students were free to go anyway. And If Aizawa knew the kids where at the mall then he'd be able to call in a favor with some hero companies and get an extra patrol around the area. His skin was almost crawling at the thought of putting that much effort into something he wasn't sure would even help. Why should he even bother? "You can go. On the condition you get the proper paperwork to me by tomorrow morning and update this 'Battle plan'. I expect better from a future hero." 

Mina Jumped into the air snatching the battle plan notebook and replacing it with a handful of folded papers she had in her back pocket, " Thank you so Much Da- Aizawa! I'll make sure the boys stay safe, You can count on me!" She practically danced out of the classroom, leaving Aizawa to dropped the papers into his already sizable pile for Nezu and itch at his arms. Jesus he needed a good long nap.

***

Bakugou was studying when the knock on his door came, He considered not answering. If he couldn't train at the risk of some snitch rating on him to recovery girl he could at least ensure he got first place on the academic exams that were coming up. but whoever it was kept knocking so bakugou threw his history text book on his bed and slammed open the door, " The fuck you want extra?" he barked in the pink girls face.

"Oh Hush- Make sure you're ready to go by 8 saturday." Mina said flicking her hand at his face, " We're all going to the mall. No, it's not optional."

"Why the hell would I want to do that?" Bakugou asked, He tried to think of a good reason, and was meant with several black and white flavored memories of "we're all" hanging out, The bakusquad. Which meant the red head.

"Because you've been cooped up all week and I'm buying lunch?"

Bakugou huffed, and shut the door in the girl's face. He wasn't going to turn down free food out right but he'd see how he felt come Saturday morning.

When Saturday morning did arrive he did not feel like staying another second in the dorms or anywhere else on campus. He was sure he'd walked every inch of the campus and apparently he'd been banned from the small amount of area off campus they could go without per approval. When Mina and the rest of the "Squad" showed up at his door he was ready to fight anyone who tried to stop them leaving. Sure he was a little stiff up, he was in better shape than The redhead who looked dog tired at best, and down right zombified was a more accurate description. Still he had a smile on his face when Bakugou joined the group in the hall and the god awful crocs Bakugou had found in his room on his feet. "I knew I should have just burned those damn things."

"It wouldn't have mattered he had like 20 other pairs." Sero shrugged.

"It's only 7." Kirishima grinned proudly, " Besides they're versatile Kats!"

Bakugou paused at the name, He could remember when the Red head, Kirishima, had started calling him that, or rather the first time he had. He hadn't been made then from what he could tell. He shrugged, if him with feelings wasn't pissed there probably wasn't a good reason he should be. Not that he needed one, but he definetly didn't want to put his chance of getting the fuck off campus at risk. "They're abominations is what they are."

"To each there will be done." Kaminari added cheerfully.

"That's not the saying." Sero shook his head, " It's to each their own, and they will be done."

"Isn't that a bible verse or something?" Mina asked as she scanned her ID at the gate.

"That's thy kingdom come thy will be done" Kirishima offered, " Uhh I think?"

Bakugou shook his head, and pushed quickly through the gates and off campus, " Whatever it is I don't care- let's get the hell out of here." 

1708

Once again, I return to update out of the blue. I wish I could tell you that the next chapter is already written and will be published soon but we both know that's a lie. 

- not dead yet, Rose