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Everything in U.A is pretty much the same even in their second year.
Aizawa is still cranky, Iida is still strict, Yaomomo is still tutoring everyone, Deku is still mumbling things randomly, and Mineta is still a douchebag.
They’re way in their fourth month as 2nd year students and everything is pretty much the same.
Bakugou would like to disagree.
He noticed big changes in their class. He noticed even the small changes in their classmates. He noticed the miracles happening in U.A. He knows where these changes are coming from and he knows when it started-- and who was its first victim.
It started two months ago with Mineta and Kaminari.
It was wednesday and the sky was bright and warm so they were allowed to do self-training in the field with Midnight-sensei. Katsuki didn’t mind the excitement his classmates expressed as they jumped around the field as they entered. It was a self-training day, it wasn’t as rare as a one-on-one with eraserhead but he liked it. He was tired of sparring with the extras.
He walked towards a nice spot and away from his overhyped classmates and began stretching. Kirishima, being his best friend and immune to his nasty retorts, followed him.
“It’s a nice day, isn’t it?”, he asked as he began stretching as well.
“Self-training day is always a nice day, shitty hair”, he didn’t bother looking at his now smiling friend and continued stretching instead. “What? You don’t like trained matches with us anymore?”.
Bakugou sighed as he prepared himself to use his quirk. He did like trained matches, just not the ones with final scheduled ones they’re currently having with Cementos. “No. You extras are just not fun anymore.”
Kirishima scoffed before putting his hand on his heart. “You wound me!”. “I wasn’t just talking about you, idiot.”
Kirishima smiled and started his quirk on his legs. He’s training himself for speed. It was Midoriya’s suggestion for him to train on his speed but Bakugou said running away from villains isn’t what heroes do. He decided to follow Midoriya’s words and ignore Bakugou who in turn ignored him the whole day.
He’s used to his pettiness anyway.
Bakugou jumped and propelled himself forwards with his explosions behind him leaving Kirishima coughing and fanning the air with his hardened arms. “Bakugou, you asshole!”, he managed to yell.
The blonde only smirked as he launched himself to the right and up again while trying not to fall or touch the ground. He wants to be able to stay in the air while fighting someone. His longest record is 16 seconds and he still hasn't tried fighting something or someone in that state.
If only I could control gravity
Bakugou blinked and froze for a moment before falling onto the ground with a loud thud. Just as he hit the ground, Kirishima ran past him in which he assumes is Iida’s slow speed and laughed at him. “Karma's a bitch after all, Bakugou!”, he yelled from a distance.
Bakugou only grunted. Something purple caught his sight as he stood up and he rolled his eyes once he realized it was MIneta. He was whispering something to Kaminari and for the first time since the 2nd year started, he looked serious.
Must be some bullshit again
Bakugou shook his wrists and reviewed his past trial. He was doing so well until he fell. What was that? He was thinking of being able to control gravity then he thought of something- or rather someone who can actually do it. He should probably approach her later.
He did it again.
He jumped, maneuvered his body to the right, propelled himself higher, and even let himself fall and rise again before even hitting the ground. He was doing well and oh so well until he bumped onto Uraraka when he lurched himself to the right.
She let out an ‘eep’ as she reached towards him and grabbed his hand, letting him float beside her.
“You almost fell! I’m sorry”, she sheepishly smiled at him but didn’t let go of his hand. “It would’ve been fine”, he grunted. Uraraka raised a brow at him and looked down. “No, you would’ve had a fracture if you fell from this height”.
He looked down and saw what she meant. “Oh, shit”. Forget fractured bones, he would’ve died. They’re four stories high above what seems like Todoroki’s spiky ice and he could see him looking at them from down below. Stupid half-and-half was about to be my doom.
“Is he trying to kill me?”, he narrowed his eyes on the dual toned boy who started melting the ice he made. Uraraka laughed and shook her head. “I actually asked him to place it for me so I’d stay determined to float”, she explained. “So you’re trying to kill yourself”, Bakugou confirmed. She shook her head and thoughtfully placed her free index finger on her chin. “No. I’m trying to control my landing”, she gleefully said.
“By falling on sharp ice?”, Bakugou narrowed his eyes on her. He hasn’t been too informed about Uraraka since their first sports festival together and he wonders if she has a deathwish for herself.
“Todoroki made it dull, silly”, she laughed.
“Isn’t this supposed to be a self-training day?”.
“Yes but Todoki is also training himself by controlling the shape of his ice”.
Bakugou blinked and looked down to see Todoroki walking away from them.
“Do you want me to release you?”, she asked.
Bakugou turned to look at her and his hand she still hasn’t let go of.
“Yeah. I’ll catch myself”, he said.
Uraraka carefully let him go and he floated above her before she said the word. He caught himself before he reached the ground and gave Uraraka a thumbs up who was smiling at him from the sky.
Ah fuck, I forgot to ask her.
--
It has been twenty minutes since Bakugou and Uraraka were floating in the air and Bakugou broke his record to 25 seconds.
Still not good enough.
Kirishima is finally catching up to Iida’s speed and manages to outrun a hopping Tsuyu once.
“I feel like she let me win though”, Kirishima sighed. Bakugou was drinking water and only shrugged at his friend’s thoughts. “No. Froggy is a decent person, she wouldn’t have thrown the race for anyone”, he finally said after finishing his bottle.
“I didn;t know you have thoughts on our classma-- oh I mean the extras' ', Kirishima smirked and his friend just groaned. “You’re all my enemies to reach the top. I have my observations about you all”, “Really?”, Kirishima was surprised. He thought Bakugou didn’t care enough to actually pay attention to anyone.
“Yeah. And if I’m not mistaken, you and racoon eyes have been dating since last year”, he flatly said. Kirishima jumped and looked at his blonde friend like he went into his mind and took out his inner secrets.
“How did you know that? You hate listening to Mina and you don’t like gossip!”, he pointed at him like he was a mad man. Bakugou only rolled his eyes at him and pointed at Kirishima too. “Is it my fault I noticed you always ‘ran out of money’ everytime Pinky gets bouquets?”. Kirishima blinked before laughing hard. “You really do notice! Aw! Thanks man”, he reached to hug Bakugou but was pushed away.
“No. You didn’t shower this morning”.
“You noticed that too? How? I put deodorant on!”
“You woke up late and met me downstairs after five minutes! You either showered badly or didn’t shower at all!”
Kirishima pouted at him. “I showered last night”, he murmured.
They turned their heads to a loud shriek from the field. They both saw Momo’s uniform ripped, revealing her back, and it’s torn part on the ground attached to one of Mineta’s balls and Sero’s tape.
“Must be asshole Mineta again”, Bakugou sighed and leaned on the tree behind him. Kirishima frowned and continued to stare at the crowd forming. “Sero and Mineta?”, he asked.
“No. Sero isn’t dumb enough to give Mineta anything. It must be Kaminari”, Bakugou closed his eyes and listened to the loud voice of Mina reprimanding his two classmates. “Your girlfriend is loud”, he commented.
Kirishima only laughed.
Mina went on and on telling Sero and Mineta to apologize to Momo but Mineta kept pointing his fingers at Sero who keeps saying he’s innocent.
Bakugou was frowning as he realized this noise wasn't going anywhere soon. “Where the fuck is the teacher when you need them?”
“She had us out here for a reason, man. She said she had to organize first year schedules”.
“Isn’t Todoroki her boyfriend or something? Why isn’t he doing anything?”
“I thought you said you're good at observing everyone?”
“What do you mean?”
“Yaomomo is gay”
Bakugou opened his eyes and sat up straight. “What?’
“Yeah.She confessed to Todoroki last year but was rejected and she apparantly felt good about it and discovered she’s gay”
Bakugou was lost for words for a moment.
“How come I don’t know this?”
“Mina told us”, Kirishima grinned as he looked at his girlfriend who is on the verge of putting acid on Mineta’s eyes.
“Someone has to give asshole a lesson”, Bakugou said. He began doing his post training stretches and ignored the commotion.
:Well looks like someone is gonna give him a lesson”
“Fucking finally, Is it Iida? I bet he’d just tell on him to the teacher”
“Nope. It’s Uraraka”
Bakugou stopped mid-stretched and twisted his body to watch as Uraraka dragged Kaminari and Mineta behind her. The others were curiously watching her too.
“Guess she also knew Sero was too good for it”
“Maybe she did”.
--
That night, Mineta and Kaminari gave Momo a new set of uniform in the common room. “We’re sorry. We won’t do it again”, they both said. Everyone in the room was frozen in place as these are the sincerest words coming from Mineta’s mouth. Even Bakugou stopped eating his spicy chips.
“It’s.. fine”, Momo reluctantly said as she received the plastic bag with her new uniform. “Where did you get this though?”, she asked. Kaminari grinned before gesturing at the bruenette who was busy eating her mochi. “Uraraka mentioned a place that sells uniforms at a low price for the same quality as yours before”.
Uraraka huh?
“Agaian, we’re sorry”.
“I promise, I’ll change! I won’t do anything to anyone again!”.
Everyone just laughed at what Mineta said. Bakugou just continued eating. It isn’t the first time he said those words and Bakugou’s tired of hearing it again and again.
But Mineta truly didn’t do anything after that.