The Day the Monster Changed

Chapter 8 - The Beach

3rd Person POV: (I think I keep forgetting to write this..)
Izuku skipped down the hallway happily, dragging the half-asleep and grumpy Bakugo behind him.
"We're going to the beach! We're going to the beach! Yay!!" He sang.  The little boy dragged the grumpy teen to the elevator and out of it when they arrived at the common room.
Izuku skipped out and his eyes sparkled as he saw the whole class ready, swimsuits on with everything ready. Kirishima noticed them first and waved.
"Hey mini Midobro!! Hey Bakubro!" He grinned. Izuku laughed and jumped up with his fist in the air.
"YEAH!! We're going to the beach!!" He screamed. Bakugo grumbled.
"Shut up idiot. Shitty Hair, why did class cancel again? Did Eri get sick again?" He asked.
Kirishima nodded. "Yeah. But not only that, Aizawa said some kind of humans are coming to our classroom to renovate stuff." He said and shrugged. "Didn't bother remembering the name of them."
Bakugo sighed. "You mean builders."
But Kirishima wasn't listening to him anymore and was already chatting to Denki who just walked up. Bakugo raised and eyebrow.
"Oi." He said, getting the attention of the two teens. "Somethin' happened?" He said, twirling his finger between the two. Immediately both blushed furiously and shook their heads.
"N..no!! Not what you think!!" They both yelled. Bakugo sighed.
"I meant, are you two now finally official?" He said.
Both of them nodded and smiled.
"Yeah!" They said in unison once again and then Denki kissed Kirishimas cheek. Immediately Izuku who was silently watching the scene all this time, closed his eyes.
"Eewwwww disgusting!!" He whined. The teens laughed, but soon their attention shifted to Momo who clapped her hands.
"Guys! Let's head out, everyone's here!" She announced.
"Yeah!"

The whole class arrived at the beach, and immediately gasped at the beautiful landscape. Izuku didn't care about the beauty. He wanted to have fun.
"Kaachan!! I'll race you to the water!" He yelled, already dropping his things on the sand and running to the water. Bakugo grumbled something, then dumped his things onto Kirishima and ran after the kid. Kirishima yelled something in protest as he collapsed from the sudden increase in weight. Kaminari gasped and hurriedly helped him up. Everyone else set up their stuff next to Bakugo's and Izuku's. Momo and some other girls set up a picnic. Some people sat around it, playing games, talking and laughing, while others layed around, sun baking under the warmth of the sunlight. Because it was a week day, there wasn't much other public, so the class had the whole beach to themselves. And they used that opportunity to the fullest.
Some enjoyed their time in the cold water; Izuku laughed as he swam around to the back of Bakugo and splashed him with water. Bakugo roared in anger because he didn't like the temperature of the water. He turned around and lunged himself at the little boy, tackling him into the water. Izuku screamed and splashed around as others splashed together and each other. Some enjoyed peaceful floating, then being of course drowned under by other people. Everyone had fun like never before, and after 2 hours spread around the picnic and ate the food prepared. They then had a competition of "the best sandcastle", which Koda won. Everyone agreed on it together, and the teen got a second ice block as a prize after Izuku whined for a long time.
After that, the boys went into the nearby forest and collected some sticks and branches, which they then carried them to the picnic and made a campfire. Todoroki set it on fire and everyone enjoyed marshmallow roasting. Izuku fell asleep halfway through for his day nap, and slept his time on Bakugo who surprisingly managed to not wake him up the whole time.

Everyone had a lot of fun on the beach, and returned to the dorms only at 5:00pm when it was starting to get dark. When they returned, they had dinner and watched the photos Jiro took of everyone while they were on the beach. Everyone laughed as they saw the angry Bakugo drowning the poor Izuku, scowled when they saw Mineta who was thrown far away when caught doing his "stuff", smiled when the photo of Koda proudly smiling about his sandcastle came up, and grinned when they saw everyone eating around the picnic and roasting marshmallows.
Eventually, it became 7:20pm, and Bakugo took Izuku up to their room. Today Izuku was growing to the age of 6, and the growing became more and more painful each night. At least it looked like that to Bakugo.

Bakugo changed into his pyjamas, as did Izuku, they both brushed their teeth and got ready for bed. Izuku smiled when they both crawled into Bakugo's bed, unaware of what was going to happen in any minute.
Suddenly he scrunched up his face as his eyes widened and then closed. Tears poured out as Bakugo exhaled and hugged the poor boy. Izuku clenched his fists and hugged back, crying from the intense pain. His arms and feet grew, as did every other body part, and soon Bakugo was already hugging a 6 year old Izuku. Izuku fell asleep from all the crying and exhaustion, as Bakugo smiled sadly down at him, humming a calming melody.
It hurt Bakugo to see the boy in pain every night, and hurt to see that he didn't remember anything they did the days before. He understood that this was just something the quirk did, but he still felt pain from seeing all this. Bakugo, though, didn't understand why. He always told himself that he hated the green headed boy, and yes, he seemed like he did, but really, all that time, was there actually that warm little light inside him that told him the opposite?
Was that light now coming out?

Bakugo closed his eyes and sighed as the realisation hit him. The truth that he so carefully tried to hide from himself and everyone around him for all this time. The truth, that now was undeniable.
Damn it. I'm in love with him.