Katsuki didn't know what to do.
Deku's words.... No, it was Izuku then right? Did he have a right to even call him that? The whole 'personality disorder' or whatever it was still confused Katsuki. All of those years of never caring about someone else's life and not caring enough to actually understand were catching up to him. His words put the nail in the coffin, so to speak, on Katsuki thinking that he still had a chance.
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"It's too late, Kacchan."
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Katsuki shuddered. Kacchan. THAT DANG NAME!!! That name he gave me cause he thought we were friends! Why couldn't I see it? Why was I so stubborn enough to not look passed my own pride? All the compliments and cheers... I DON'T DESERVE THEM!
Aizawa-sensei and Recovery Girl tried to comfort Katsuki but there wasn't much they could do. Speaking of his homeroom teacher, and the old lady too, the eye bag man knew about this whole Deku-Mikumo-Izuku thing apparently but acknowledged that they weren't the same person. What a load of bull... He should still report it. Then again, who was he to talk? Katsuki wouldn't even open his own mouth long enough to say "Hi" nowadays. Speaking of his muteness, the blonde could feel his speech therapist's disappointment when he stopped talking altogether again. Katsuki couldn't even explain why he had suddenly gone completely mute again after he had improved so much.
He had even started talking to Gravity Girl and Sucky Hair a bit. Then he saw it. The necklace that Mikumo had given Uraraka was back on. She told them that they were back together. Did she really believe that little show he put on?! What a dunce.
Katsuki went home feeling very conflicted that night. School was hard to focus in but he refused to let his grades drop. He was still going to be a hero, the number one, of course, Katsuki was just so conflicted about what to do with Izuku. He thought that he wouldn't have to worry about it though come the training camp. That was until they were freaking attacked!
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Katsuki swung his head around. Sucky Hair and Octopus were running towards him with a raging birdman following. Octopus was screaming for him to use his quirk but Katsuki had a better idea for currently, he was struggling against a crazed man obsessed with flesh and teeth. The blonde roughly pulled the two into the bushes. They watched in aw as the bird freak mauled over the crazy man. Katsuki quickly jumped out and made many large explosions, using the light to dwindle down the creature.
The bird kid fell to his knees panting. "Th- thanks. I'd did not expect Dark Shadow to get so out of control." Katsuki rolled his eyes. Just then a telepath message came in all of their heads.
"All students are permitted to fight but DO NOT go looking for a villain. Only engage in battle if you are attacked. Make your way to the cabin as safely as possible!"
Bird Head got to his feet. "You heard her. Let's make our way to the cabin." They all nodded, Katsuki, too, finding the reason in that. It was tense. A fire had spread and the heat was almost unbearable as it burned around them. Katsuki actually struggled to keep his quirk under control, one slip up and the whole area around them could blow, him mostly since he was sweating buckets. He held his breath, willing his reflexes to calm so at the sight of an enemy he does not kill them all. Suddenly he recalls Number 13's speech at the USJ so long ago about how quirks are dangerous.
Soon the group sees the cabin. Aizawa-sensei must not have seen it because of the bandage over his right eye but as he was running out of the cabin, but a villain was perched under the overhang. I need to say something! Katsuki opened his mouth.
"AIZAWA-SENSEI!" Sucky Hair screamed out. Katsuki couldn't even get the words from his mouth. How was he supposed to be a hero if he couldn't even use his voice enough to warn a person of danger?
The hero in question turned but it was too late. The villain burst blue flames out from his arms. Katsuki, Sucky Hair, Bird Head, and Octopus all dashed forward just to find that the man had multiplied. Not only that but out of the forest man members of the Quirkless Rejects and League of Villains surrounded them. Aizawa-sensei looked a little charred but not worried. He ran over to them in a hurry and stood in front of the group of students.
"Aizawa-sensei, what is happening?" asked Octopus.
"We've been raided," Aizawa-sensei answered. Well nah dip, Sherlock. If the masses of Villains weren't a good representation of that then what is? "Brace yourselves." They all got in position, readying their quirks. Aizawa-sensei suddenly turned to them, his hair going up and eyes glowing.
Ah, he erased all of their quirks, good. Wait... Aizawa-sensei's bandage was also charred when the flame villain attacked. It was falling off. His hair raised when he looked at us. Katsuki's comrades started to realize it as well. The bandage fell off and underneath his right eye was the symbol of the Quirkless Rejects. Aizawa-sensei's eyes, while they glowed with his quirk, they held something dark.
Aizawa-sensei grabbed Katsuki's collar and pulled him close. He heard Sucky Hair and Bird Boy call out. Aizawa-sensei hissed in his ear: "You know too much, Bakugou." Katsuki wanted so badly to use his quirk, he willed it to work but his quirk would not come to him. Aizawa-sensei spun around, dragging Katsuki with him in a circle and knocked down his students with a quick sweep. Sucky Hair looked up from the ground. "Aizawa-sensei! What are you doing?!" A warp gate opened behind the blonde and his teacher. Suck! No! This legit cannot be happening! Katsuki tried to struggle but Aizawa-sensei had him in his capture weapon, the dang scarf. With the same, uncaring face that his homeroom teacher always had, the words came cold and leveled and they sent a shiver down Katsuki's spine.
"I'm not your teacher anymore."
Aizawa-sensei dragged Katsuki into the void along with him. Katsuki saw his vision shrinking as he went in deeper. His last vision before delving completely into the black mist was of Bird Head and Octopus getting up, villains moving in closer to them, and Sucky Hair... Kirishima, his best... friend... He was reaching out to him. His red hair flattened but messy from the fights, his crimson eyes wide and frantic, mouth agape. The blatant worry on Kirishima's face did not suit the teen at all. Katsuki didn't know what compelled him to do so, but he opened his mouth and called out to the red-head.
"KIRISH-IMA!" Katsuki's voice cracked as he screamed.
"BAKUGOU!" Kirishima reached out. Katsuki felt his fingers graze the other boys but they were too far. Aizawa-sensei and Katsuki disappeared and the blondes vision went black.
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Eijirou fell to his knees. Bakugou had just disappeared into a warp gate. Villains were closing in but he didn't care. Bakugou was gone... Eijirou had friends back in his middle school but he was always that background character, so to say. That friend that is three people were walking on a small sidewalk would walk behind them so the other two could talk and he'd just be... there. But then he got into UA! He had made so many real friends and Bakugou? Well, the angry boy had honestly become his best friend.
Bakugou was angry and very, VERY expressive when signing. He called them all weird, sort of mean names and was very brash. The only sounds he ever made were grunts and exasperated sighs. As a rule, Bakugou didn't talk. Not even with speech therapy. No one tried to ask why, it was in mutual understanding that that was a touchy subject. Bakugou just didn't talk. Except for recently, he had tried but it stopped soon after without any reason. Eijirou was still proud that the blonde was improving.
The blonde used sign language to talk. Now, Eijiorou did not know sign at first, but Eijirou saw something in Bakugou that he saw in his old self. Loneliness. Because he did not speak and not many people know sign, Bakugou was stranded when the redhead saw him. Well, except for Iida yelling at him for having his feet on the desk on the first day but that was a given.
So Eijirou went and "talked" with him. He didn't get much but he kept pressing and eventually, they got close and their group grew. Eijirou, not to toot his own horn, found himself as a light in Bakugou's life, as the first person to reach out. But in turn, the brash, loud (in his own way) kid became a light in Eijirous life as well.
Katsuki Bakugou had become Eijirou's best friend.
But then this happened. At first, the redhead did not understand but it soon became clear when he saw the Quirkless Rejects symbol under his teacher's eye. By that time though, it had been too late.
Eijirou tried, he really did! But Aizawa-sensei had ahold of Bakugou and their quirks with a large group of villains closing in. He scrambled to his feet, willing his body to move fast and the world around him to move slower. In the panic of the moment, Bakgou, mute, angry, fearless Bakugou, screamed out his name. Not signed 'Sucky Hair' or even yell it. He screamed it out with a cracked voice full of fear and desperation, highly unbefitting of the strong, independent teen Eijirou had come to know.
"KIRI-SHIMA!" Eijirou's eyes widened. He didn't call out to anyone else, just him. Eijirou couldn't let him get taken away! He reached out. "BAKUGOU!" Eijirou felt his fingers graze the blonds. He tried to grab him but it was too late. Their eyes met.
No, it wasn't the fear in Bakugou's eyes that he'd remember, though he'd remember that too. It wasn't the desperation either.
It was the look Eijirou saw in his best friend's eyes when the small touch between the two was separated, the only life-line that could have saved him. Hopelessness, dread, and... acceptance of what might be the worst fate awaiting him. The warp gate closed. *THUD* Eijirou fell to his knees, not caring that they were being attacked at the current moment.
All that mattered was that he had failed.