The very next day waddle waddle 🦆

I sat there in the teacher lounge, processing what All Might told me about his quirk, One for All, the 'Master', all of it. "Why are you telling me this?" I ask him surely he isn't looking for successor for it? Certainly not me. The former number one hero sighs and turn to look to the right of me "I think you should take it from here, Young Midoriya." I turn to him, hoping for an explanation of why "Because of Tenshi." he says, the baby responding to her name in my arms. 

I am 99% sure there is question marks floating around my head like a manga character. Izu looks at his lap "I was born quirkless, and All Might chose to pass One for All to me. But biologically I am still quirkless, and Tenshi might be quirkless too. Not to mention the possibility of me having to fight All for One."

"And I will be at your side to beat his ass." I say, causing Izu to look up at me in suprise. All Might seems suprise as well "What? I could probably do it too."

"It's not that," All Might says "you are taking this better than even myself."

Probably the manga. "I read a lot." I shrug before asking if anyone else knows about the two musketeers. Not actually saying 'musketeers', of course. "Very few know. But you, young Bakugo and Young Midoriya, obviously, are the only students that know so I implore you not to tell anyone." All Might tells me, I nod having something similar happen to me of not wanting people to know. "If there is anything I can do to help, let me know." I smile as the bell rings signaling the end of lunch.

Later that day because writer's block sucks.

"Are you sure you are alright with this?" Deku asks for the hundredth time "I can leave Tenshi." It's Friday so him and Shoto are going home until Saturday night because of something that we had planned. "I will be fine." I tell him, placing a kiss on his lips "I will see you tomorrow night." I give him a smile as he huffs in defeat "Okay, I better get going." he gives me a hug and a kiss before grabbing Tenshi "Love you!" he says as he leaves, "Love you too." I smile and with that he left, shutting the door behind him.

 I sigh before sitting on the bed, still in my uniform. I close my eyes trying to figure out why I feel different than normal, not in a good way either. I glance at my left wrist where two pale marks adorn it and a band of ice lays as well. Why did I relapse again? I question myself laying my arm down. I am glad no one noticed, especially not Izu and Sho. 

"Oi! Azula!" I hear Bakugo knock, without using a nickname? "Open." I call, the porcupine opens the door before "Get changed, we're going out." he orders before leaving, reclosing the door so I can't say otherwise.

A few minutes later, I open the door to Bakugo waiting across the hall playing on his phone. "You ready?" he asks, looking up. I roll my eyes "Would be nice to know where you are taking me." I slip on my shoes before walking out of the dorm, shutting and locking the door. "Somewhere, now come on." he says as he walks off. "Baka" I mutter before running to catch up to him. 

We get in the elevator together, I am a bit self-conscious about my left arm mostly because of my lack of sleeves. "So where are we going, Bakugo?" I ask. 

"Somewhere." he repeats, causing me to roll my eyes again "Well that narrows it down by a lot." I scoff like the brat I am. We ride down the elevator in silence after that.

We reach the first floor, but as the door opens Mayo head said something surprising "You can call me Katsuki in private. If you want."

Who are you and what did you do to bomb boy? I follow him out, still surprised. I mean come on, I have never heard someone calling him by his given name.

We walk out of the building and off campus into the wild streets of Japan. "It would be nice to know where we are going." I mumble where he can hear me. "Will you stop nagging?" Katsuki groans "We are going to the mall then my mother wants to meet you for some stupid reason."

"She wants to meet me." I repeat mildly confused, there isn't much to meet when it comes to me. "Yes pin head, and you don't have to worry about Deku, I told him about it as him and Sh- Icyhot left." the boy's cheeks turns a little pink at his almost mess up.

We get on the bus and sit near the front. "Would've been nice to know this before I changed." I say to him, putting an earbud in. "The old hag texted me while you were changing." he mutters as I put on some music, starting with Icarus, one of the few Western pop songs on my playlist. I lean back in the seat as the music flows, Kit-kat giving me a weird look. Being a slightly nicer person, I hand him an earbud that he took hesitantly "My earbuds don't bite." I say as the chorus [I think] starts playing:

Icarus is flying too close to the sun,

Icarus's life has only just begun.

I hum along, tapping my foot in time not caring about the looks I am getting. It's a great song [Pair it with a Hawks AMV and it's even better. YouTube it!] what else is there to say? 

The song ends as we reach the stop just before the mall, my playlist automatically goes to my next song: This Life is Mine from the cartoon that is on the level of anime Rwby. But just as the song starts, Bakugo pass me one of his earbuds. Confused, I pause my song and put it in. He plays it without a word as familiar vibrations resonates in my eardrum:

Listen girlfriend can't you see: 

I'm all of the things that you'll never be.

I'm cool like the rain and hot like the sun.

I'm a Neon rainbow and you're

no

fun.

"I see you are into RWBY as well." I say, jamming to the song the best I could whilst keeping the earbuds in. "You've watched it too?" he asks.

"Didn't I just say that?" I smirk "I finished Volume Six before the festival."

"What? I just finished the Vytal festival." the boy says. Thus starting us into a deep discussion about the Western Anime, though he doesn't want any spoilers. We even begin deeming our classmates as various characters.

"Okay, Ashido is definitely Nora."

"Duh it's either that or Nora is related to her and Pikachu with that semblance of hers." Bakugo adds as we reach our stop, both of us listening to the RWBY soundtrack during our fandoming. 

We get off the bus, thankfully without any known publicity yet, and enter the mall. "Okay and the billion yen question is: Why did you take me out?" I ask my classmate.

The boy shrugs "Partly as a thank you for your advice." Katsuki takes a deep breath "And because you look like you need a break. Your arm proves it." he lifts up my left wrist, the ice must've melted, unbeknownst to me, showing a small but noticeable cut.

Shame immediately seized my thoughts, sure it's not Izuku, Inko or my family members finding out but the fact that someone that I am mildly close to. I look down, taking my wrist back "Please promise me you won't tell anyone and I will give you an explanation once we get back to the dorms." I ask of him. Silence comes from the rambunctious child, but I glance up to see him nod. I cover the wound with some ice since it started bleed a little. "Want to go to Hot topic? They have some great RWBY merch." I say, changing the topic and my face to a simple smile.

The kid groans at my ability to slide away from the depress stuff and to our previous conversation.

"Whatever nerd." we make our way to the store containing many of the things that weebs and nerds alike wished were in all stores.

After looking for almost an half-hour we leave the store with various new gear, turns out Bakugo is also into Attack on Titans, Fullmetal Alchemist including Brotherhood, Naruto and even Bakuman. We make our way back to the first floor [I am kinda basing the mall off of the only mall I've been to only on few occasions.] To one of my favorite stores: Naki's Quirkless Defense

"Come on!" I say leading Bakugo into the store. Inside is knives, swords, Tasers, pepper spray and other things one can use to defend themselves without using their quirk. Though that is not the only things they sell. "Wow." Katsuki says looking around from the entrance. "You can see more if you walked." I joke, looking at the knives  protected by glass. "I am glad to see that our best customer has returned to us." the manager walks over to me after helping another customer. "Hi Ryku, haven't needed to use these on anyone yet have you?" I ask jokingly. Bakugo walks over to the glass case "This place is amazing!" I stifle a laugh "No der Sherlock."

Ryku smiles as he remembers something "Oh, be right back." the blue haired man goes to the back of the store as I continue to look at the pocket knives. "I need to come here more often." The boy beside me mutters as Ryku returns with a box. "We wouldn't mind more customers, but you have to learn how to handle these weapons." the manager says, setting the box down "Luckily this young lady can help you with that." he then turns to me "It just so happens that your custom orders came in this morning." I am surprised since I had ordered it just after we moved into the dorms. "They did?!" I exclaim opening the cardboard box and remove the paper before pulling out four cases. I carefully place them on the display. Each of the cases are different colors: orange, pastel green, baby blue and light gray. Making it easier to tell the knives apart. "I was going have them be open together, but I'll be nice." I sigh before handing Bakugo the orange box. He gave me a confuse look before pointing to himself. "Yes idiot, this is for you. Now open it." I tell him as I put the blue and green boxes in the bag Ryku gave me. The time bomb opens the box to reveal a sheathed blade with a hilt made of a black and orange cord. The sheath itself is black with orange woven into it. "This is for me?" Bakugo asks, "Noo it's for Levi and I need your opinion on if he will like it or not." the sarcasm prominent.

"Why?" he asks as Ryku went back to working. "You know part of it. I was in rope and luckily I always a have a blade of some sort on me." I tell him "Now when is this dinner?" It's almost seven and the curfew is ten. "The old hag said she would pick us up at seven-thirty." Bakugo replies before asking about the other boxes as we walk out of the store. "Knives, one for Izu, one for Sho and another one for me." I tell him walking toward the exit we had entered from at the mall.

Later

The dinner at the Bakugo's wasn't all the bad, and I can see where he gets his attitude along with his looks. So while mother and son yelled at each other, I had a polite conversation with his father.

His parents dropped us off back at the dorms with our bags and it's only nine.

"We're back at the dorms, so spill." Bakugo says as we walk in. I give him a warning glare, understanding one minute, impatient the next. He asks "Fine I'll meet you at your dorm after I change and put my stuff away." We walk into the elevator and ride it to our floor before splitting off or our respective rooms. He really must want to know if he is staying up long past his bedtime. I think to myself as I walk into my room.

I quickly change into one of Deku's shirts and gym shorts then putting on one of my hoodies. Comfort is definitely going to be needed.

I sit on the bed, crisscross, hugging one of the pillows as there is a knock on the door "Is it safe to come in?" Katsuki asks loud enough to be heard. "Yeah." I reply at the same volume, not wanting to get up, nor explain.

The teen walks in, leaving the door open a crack, and sits down on the desk chair. I hug the pillow tighter as Bakugo brakes the ice in an abnormally soft tone "Why?"

"Because for the longest time I hated everything about me." I say softly before going into the 'juicy details' "Imagine having a twin that you are practically attached to the hip to. One that looks almost exactly like you, pulling pranks with them.

"But one day, everything you know turned to ash in the matter of a day. All at the wee age of four. Thinking that the predicament was only temporary. Mornings of waking up, hoping that it was all a dream and that you would wake up with your twin in the other bed." I squeeze the pillow trying to keep my voice steady "When realization hit me, it was like a huge semi-truck hitting me at Mock one. My personality did a one-eighty, after a week and I wouldn't eat. Toya started getting worried so he took me to a private doctor late January, after my quirk had manifested.

"I was in almost horror, thinking that the world wanted to make things worst-" Bakugo interrupts me "Why horror? Aren't most kids excited when their quirks manifests?"

"I probably would have been, if I didn't know Sho's. His manifested when we were four and a half. Mine came six months later." my voice turns almost to a whisper as I say the day "Our fifth birthday." I swear to fucking Afro, can those crickets shut up?

"So you cut yourself when you were five."

I nod "But nobody knew, that when I first discovered the ice Band-Aid trick.

"Dabi only noticed the personality change and me not eating. The psychiatrist diagnosed me with suicidal depression, normally they would've sent me to a behavioral health hospital but since I was already separate from my family once, the doctor thought that doing that would make it worst. I just didn't go to kindergarten that spring but I did go to first grade and one of the aids help start my spark to come back." How the hell is the water works not coming?

I finally look at the boy, he has a lot of emotions going through his head from the looks of it.

"You cut yourself six times before now." he finally says Are they really that noticeable? "Yup, majority when I was five." Wait, why am I being so open? I haven't been like this since I was four.

Bakugo stands up from the chair, Is he just going to leave? I think to myself but he doesn't, Katsuki walks over to the bed and hugs me (and my pillow). Not just any random hug, but a hug that only give people that you are close to, like the ones I get from my twin.

I being the emotional human that I am hug him back, I mean come on. Bakugo Katsuki plus hugging someone never happens.

We stay like that for a few minutes before he lets go. "Here I am whining about Deku hiding his quirk when you fucking hiding your scars from Icyhot." Katsuki  chuckles slightly. "We both know Izuku wasn't hiding anything Katsuki." I say with a smirk. The boy seems surprise that I actually used his given name.

"Whatever, now go to bed before those two have my hide." he walks to the door and stops, bringing curiosity, "I'm not going to tell anyone. But you should, at least your family and Izuku." You sir are full of surprises.

Bakugo leaves, shutting the door and turning out the lights.

Just in time for Izuku to call me, What the hell are you doing calling me at ten fucking thirty?

I answer the request for face time "And what are you doing up at this time of night?" I ask him. The words from his childhood friend ringing through my ears.

Heck yeah!!! Almost 2900 words baby!! Anyways, sorry for the depressing stuff, especially after Mochi-San, but A) I wanted some bonding time between the two firecrackers and B) I really wanted/needed to get some more of Azula's past put there. It doesn't help when inspiration strikes as I listen to Icarus on loop in the form of a Hawks AMV.

I better go, it's ten (would be funnier if it was 10:30) Hope you enjoyed the bonding and Soft Baku. I shall be back with a more happier chapter. 💜💜💜