Timeloop Trouble

Chapter 28 - Fights and Warnings

Why was Shinsou being so stubborn about this?!

GreenPsycho📗: Does it even matter at this point??

CatLover🐱: It does to me
CatLover🐱: I mean, if you're planning to use me as your messenger, you might as well tell me why

GreenPsycho📗: The message is also for you so it's not that much extra work

That's right, Hitoshi's acceptance test wouldn't be held during a joint training exercise this time around. Well, it might still be, but Izuku wouldn't know since UA was planning on taking him with them on the first year hero course summer training camp. Shinsou would be a variable Izuku couldn't predict, a factor that could change everything. The attack would still happen, but its scale, its effects... It could all differ.

Kacchan didn't have to get kidnapped again, a tiny voice in the back of his mind whispered.

CatLover🐱: Alright I conceit
CatLover🐱: Tell me what's it about

GreenPsycho📗: Tell Kacchan to be careful at training camp

CatLover🐱: What?? That it??
CatLover🐱: Tell him your sappy worried goodbye yourself psycho

GreenPsycho📗: I'm serious!!!
GreenPsycho📗: And you should be careful too! They might come for you as well

CatLover🐱: Who??

GreenPsycho📗: Can't say
GreenPsycho📗: Kacchan will understand tho
GreenPsycho📗: Just tell him I told you

CatLover🐱: Vague af but ok

GreenPsycho📗: Are you going to tell him or not??

CatLover🐱: Yeah yeah don't worry bout it

Izuku smiled, knowing he could rely on Shinsou to warn Kacchan. He should probably ask him to watch his back, too, since Izuku knew for a fact they'd be coming for Katsuki. He wasn't lying when he told the insomniac that they might come for him too, though. Brainwashing was quite the villainous quirk... Izuku doubted they'd still go for Tokoyami, since he didn't make it to the last round so he was barely able to show off his quirk. But Shinsou? Shinsou got to the final. He ended up in second place with a scary quirk and an obvious grudge against the hero course, or maybe UA in general. Their entrance exam was super biased, after all.

He didn't know how the ambush on the training camp would go in this timeline, or whether or not Himiko would regain her memories. Izuku wouldn't be with them this time, either. Just like with the Stain incident, all he could do was hope everyone would be okay. He should probably fill up his schedule ahead of time so he'd have something to keep himself distracted. Something productive, something to keep his mind off the inevitable doom that would fall over the hero course classes. He just hoped Kacchan would take his warning seriously...

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"Alright, what the hell do you want?" Katsuki spat out as he walked up to Shinsou. "There better be a damn good reason for calling me out here, asshat."

It was their summer break and Katsuki was busy training, mind you! He didn't have time for whatever nonsense this guy would yap to him about. Probably some bullshit Deku told him. Probably some half-assed excuse or a plea to reach out. Well, too fucking bad! If the nerd really wanted Katsuki back in his life, he was gonna need to fess up about where he got his information from, starting with an apology.

"Nice to see you again, too," Shinsou reacted, sounding as amused as he did sarcastic. "I'm sure you already know this involves Midoriya, since the two of you are too immature to make up after your fight."

"We didn't fucking fight!" Katsuki snapped. It wasn't a fight. Deku fucking ran like a coward before it could turn into one.

"Funny, Midoriya said the same thing," Shinsou snorted. "So I take it you're not interested in the message he asked me to give you then?"

"I didn't come out here for nothing," Katsuki huffed. Hitoshi gave him a lazy smile, grating Katsuki's gears even more.

"Aw, you really do care~"

"Fuck off! Just tell me what this is about already!"

"Alright, alright, no need to blow my head off," Shinsou sighed, holding up his hands in surrender. "He told me to warn you for the training camp."

"...What?" Katsuki asked, squinting his eyes. Deku warning him about something was never a good sign.

"He was pretty vague about it," Hitoshi shrugged. "But he said we should be careful- Right, uhm, I'll be coming to camp too. As a test to see if I really fit in the hero course."

"Don't care about that shit. Why do we need to be careful?" Katsuki asked. He already knew the teachers were planning on doing something with Shinsou after he got second place in the sportsfest, they weren't exactly subtle about it either.

"He said someone might come after me- or, well, definitely after you, if I had to guess," Shinsou said. "Like I said, his texts were vague as fu-"

"Show me," Katsuki demanded, holding out his hand.

"What?"

"Show me the texts, dumbass!"

Shinsou frowned, but relented when he saw how serious the ash blonde was about this. Well, Midoriya had said Bakugou would understand... And seeing how the crease between his eyebrows got worse as he read the conversation, Hitoshi could only guess it was bad news.

"This is bad."

Ah, who could have foreseen that?

"Last time Deku warned me like this, villains attacked us at the USJ," Katsuki added, making Shinsou's eyes widen a bit

"He knew about that attack?"

"Deku knows about a lot of shit," Katsuki grumbled, seemingly pissed off about it. "His intel is always accurate, though."

"So what? You think our training camp is going to be attacked by villains, too?" Shinsou asked, frowning. Katsuki simply shrugged. It was a possibility. "We should tell the teachers about that."

"And say what?" Katsuki asked. "We don't have any proof anyone is out there to get us, now do we? And Deku isn't gonna reveal his sources. Believe me, I've fucking tried."

"...This is what you've been fighting over, isn't it?" Shinsou asked, Katsuki's reaction giving away his assumption was absolutely right.

"Doesn't fucking matter," Katsuki scowled. "If Deku says we're gonna be targeted, we are gonna be targeted."

"Better stick together then," Shinsou hummed.

"What? So they can snatch us up in one go? No fucking way," Katsuki stated. "Just... Fuck. Stay alert. Warn one another when something doesn't feel right or something. But we can't stick together all the time unless we want to make ourselves an easy fucking target. It'd be weird if we suddenly got close, too."

"I suppose you're right," Hitoshi sighed. He didn't like this, but Bakugou had a point. All they could do was wait and see. Walk into the trap that was laid out for them and make the best of a bad situation. Guess that's what being a hero is all about, right?