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Everyone including All Might looked surprised at Izuku’s tone.
“Ah, young Midoriya!” All Might said, spreading his arms, and flashing his trademark grin “it’s good to see you awake!”
“Why are you here?” spat at him, almost venomously.
All Might looked taken aback. His smile faltered bit, and his eyes lost a bit of their confidence.
“What do you mean my boy, I’m just here to make sure you were doing all right.”
“First off” izuku said lifting a finger into the air “I’m not ‘your boy’, and second; shouldn’t you be out saving people or some shit?”
Bakugou visibly flinched at that. ‘Since when does the nerd swear? And at All Might, his hero, nonetheless!”
All Might also seemed taken off guard for maybe the third time in that conversation.
“Well kind of, but I just wanted to see if you were ok first!” All Might said, obviously trying to lead the conversation back to something a bit more cheerful.
“Well I’m fine; if you want to be helping me, maybe go try doing something useful.” Deku all but hissed at his teacher.
“Oh, well umm ok. It’s good to see that you’re getting better Midoriya” All Might said looking slightly dejected and extremely uncomfortable as he shuffled out of the room, his slumped form looking extremely out of character as it vanished past the doorframe.
Bakugou curled his lip and an incredulous expression washed over his face as he turned back to Deku; who is turn was still glaring at the door that All Might has walked out of.
“What the f*ck is wrong with you?” He yelled at the smaller boy, waving his arms slightly.
“I don’t owe any of you anything at all” Deku said turning to face Bakugou and locking eyes with him.
“Listen here you bastard!-“ he began to shout
“I think it’s time for you to leave” Recovery girl Interrupted him.
“No way!” Bakugou shouted at her. He had been kept in the dark for too long and he was not going to be put back in it.
Recovery girl just raised an eyebrow.
“If you don’t leave now, I’ll have you taken out forcefully” She said, her voice commanding a sort of authority.
Bakugou gritted his teeth and clenched his fist when he realized that he had lost this argument.
He turned back to Deku one last time before leaving and glared at he almost smug expression that faced him.
And with that he stormed out his exit and that was it.
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Bakugou was back in his seat only a little after class had begun.
All of class 1-A was buzzing with the rumors that had spread since the accident yesterday. Worried looks were on the faces of almost every face in the room.
All except Bakugou of course.
What was with Deku this morning? Was his head hit that hard? Is this something big?
Bakugou’s thoughts were running wild again. ‘Goddamn, when did I start caring this much? This is so stupid.’
He just sat back in his chair, and tried to look over his scribbled notes from last class.
After a couple minutes Bakugou became acutely aware that the low hum of voices had died down, and he looked up.
Aizawa walked back Into the classroom, a guarded expression adorning his face.
“Class, we have a sort of complicated situation happening right now.” He said, the edge in his voice leading onto something else.
“I’m sure you all remember the attack we yesterday, and I’m sure you have all heard about how Midoriya was hit by a strange quirk and has been hospitalized.
The entire class seemed to erupt into small whispers that carried all around the room.
“Well yeah I heard about it, but I’m not sure exactly what happened. All my sources told me a different story” Bakugou heard Kaminari said in a muted whisper to Mina.
Aizawa cleared his throat for he class to silence, and curiosity made them all comply.
“We have some suspicions that he may have something different or off about him, but he denies it. His vitals are all normal, so we don’t have legal authority to keep him locked in the infirmary, so we need you all to keep an eye on him.”
Aizawa toon a break from speaking to gauge the reactions of all the students looking back at him.
One hand from the back was raised.
“Yes Yaoyorozu?”
“What do you think is ‘off’ about Midoriya?” She asked, putting little finger quotes around the ‘off’.
“Well,” Aizawa said “we think he may not be ‘our’ Midoriya”
The confusion in the air was palpable, but Aizawa just continued to speak.
“We have no reason to believe that he’s a threat, but we are still responsible for his safety and education” Aizawa continued.
“This doesn’t mean that we are disregarding your safety. I can promise you that none of you will be harmed in relating to this incident.”
Surprisingly, no one in the class was whispering or asking questions. Presumably, everyone was in total shock.
Bakugou’s bead began to spin, all the pieces there, but not quite connecting.
That would explain how he was earlier.
Does that mean that he’s changed forever or is he just temporarily switched?
“-meaning that he will be joining us back in class tomorrow or when he is well enough” Bakugou blinked back into reality, realizing that he had missed the last bit of the announcement. Looking around, everyone seemed either really easy to read, or completely poker faced. Uraraka looked worried and a little bit on edge. Iida had his eyebrows furrowed and his mouth pressed into a tight line, and even Todoroki was showing a bit of concern on his normally stoic face. but most others just looked worried and sympathetic to the boy who wasn’t even there.
“Class will continue as normal, and I still expect your papers on the civil disfailty of hero binomenclature by Monday” Aizawa says moving to sit down despite all the groans and murmurs of complains that he gets.
“We get freaking attacked, but we still have to do homework?” Bakugou hears someone groan from the back.
“One if your classmates has something seriously messed up about him and you're complaining about goddamn homework??” He wants to shout at them, but he decides to bite his tongue and take his anger out by snapping his pencil in his fist.
The rest of the day continues without incident minus the (almost) food fight at lunch and the sprinklers going off because of a spark quirk getting out of hand.
That night Bakugou dreams of Deku being suffocated by black mist, and his eyes glowing green.
He doesn’t get much sleep.