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Deku’s been acting weird and it's pissing Bakugou off. Nobody but himself is noticing it, everyone is acting like everything is normal but something is clearly up with him. It started five days ago, Deku’s muttering is usually a constant in class and he sits directly behind Katsuki so he's become pretty good at blocking the nerd out. Except its suddenly stopped, at first, he thought it was a coincidence maybe he had fallen asleep or something which good riddance it means a little peace and quiet but when class ended and he subtly peaked over his shoulder with the intention of calling the nerd out for falling asleep in class he was met with a distant blank expression staring right past him.
‘Okay weird’ he thought. That's when pink cheeks came over and suddenly the nerd snapped out of his trance and went back to being all cheery and smiling like nothing happened ‘guess it’s nothing' he sighed and collected his stuff and headed back to the dorms followed by Sero and Kaminari who were shouting about some stupid game that had just been released.
This happened every day. It is now Friday and their final class has ended. He was just about to turn around to demand Deku to stop acting like a kicked puppy. It was creeping him out but just before he went to speak shitty hair came barreling into his bubble announcing that tonight was movie night and bakugou's horror film was finally picked to be played.
Every Friday evening the class gets together in the common room and they watch a movie surrounded by blankets, pillows, and snacks. Bakugou doesn't like attending but shitty hair is always bitching about how its tradition which ends with Kirishima practically dragging him into the common room 5 minutes into the movie. Everyone picks a film they want to watch and it goes into a hat and is picked by random. Last week icyhot was chosen and everyone was forced to watch Frozen, bakugou stayed on his phone the entire time only looking up periodically. Thinking back to it Deku seemed entranced then too, not in the same vacant way as he has been this week but more like he had stars in his eyes like he was hypnotized. Strange.
“Bakubro? You listening?” Katsuki snapped out of his thought train “huh? Yeah, idiot. Fucking finally if I had to watch one more shitty Disney movie I would have blown myself up” Kirishima rolled his eyes “bro Disney movies are awesome you are just too embarrassed to agree with me” Kirishima turned to Izuku who had his head down but clearly listening in to the conversation “Midoriya! You’ll agree with me right?”
He jolted and looked up for the first time “um, yeah Disney movies are.. Good” Kirishima gave a blinding smile “see even Midobro agrees and he's manly as hell so it must be true!” Bakugou scoffed “whatever, you can't take the nerds opinion into consideration he still watches the same childish All Might cartoon as when we were four” then Deku did it again, he started playing with the All Might bear keychain on his bag and pouted..POUTED! Why is he acting so goddamn weird!
“Bro uncalled for, those cartoons were and still are a masterpiece even I have the episode with Crimson Riot saved on my laptop” Kirishima smiled softly at Midoriya and Deku gave a small smile back. ‘Weird’ Katsuki thought raising his eyebrow looking between the two of them “whatever come on shitty hair, we are doing the maths homework before dinner, don't think for a second that just because it's movie night you’re getting away without studying” Kirishima threw his bag over his shoulder and followed Bakugou out of the classroom “yeah yeah, I'll tell the baku squad to meet in my room in thirty”
A few hours had passed and a knock came at Kiri’s door “yo! Come in its open” shitty hair shouted over the noise of Kaminari, Sero, and Mina fighting over Kiri’s phone which they nabbed while he was distracted. Deku walked in a little timidly “hi guys, I was sent up to let you know that they are getting ready to play the movie now”
Kaminari's eyes lit up “hell yeah! I’m so bored of homework, let's go downstairs!” Bakugou rolled his eyes “you haven’t even finished the first-page sparky you spent the last two hours fucking around” Kirishima smiled and threw his arm over Kaminari's shoulder “come on bros! Let's just carry on tomorrow, everyone is waiting on us”
Huffing Bakugou stood up and barged passed Deku who was still standing in the doorway “move it nerd” Izuku looked down to his feet and followed the group back downstairs to where Momo, Jiro, and Hagakure were setting up blankets and pillows for everyone to use.
The common room lights were turned off and everyone sat in their usual spots, the baku squad always ended up sitting close together on one of the sofas while everyone else either sat on bean bags, the pillows, or the other sofa. A quick glance around the room showed that Deku was sitting on the opposite end of the other sofa. He usually loved movie nights and he was always the most chatty outside of mina and kaminari, but he sat on the sofa knees to his chest fiddling with.. That All Might bear? Weird.
The film started slow, Katsuki has seen this movie a few times already, he had seen it twice in cinemas partially because he found the people shitting themselves at the jumpscares hilarious. He knew that nobody else in class other than maybe Tokoyami had seen it so he was prepared for the jumpscares unlike everyone else. The first jump scare, everyone screamed and Bakugou snorted and looked around the room again. Mina, Ochaco, and Tsu were all cuddled up together under a blanket. Kirishima had his arm around Kaminari whispering something to him as Kaminari’s head was buried in his chest. Todoroki and Tenya had blank expressions while everyone else was peeking through their fingers to watch the rest of the movie.
He then looked to Deku who was.. Crying? Wait what. Okay yeah, Deku is a crybaby but he isn't even making any noise he looks frozen. The light from the tv reflecting off of his tear-stained cheeks, the All Might plush held close to his chest. He was about to look away when he caught him pulling the blanket up to his neck and putting his thumb in his mouth hidden behind the Plush. Everyone else is too invested in the film to notice but it really shocked Katsuki. He shook it off and went back to watching the film.
By the time the credits were rolling everyone started getting up to get ready for bed. “Deku! Are you okay? Your eyes are really red!” pink cheeks said a little too loudly “yeah im ‘kay. Sleepy gunna’ go bed” Deku replied, shuffling relatively quickly towards the elevator. “Oh, okay goodnight!” Ochako shouted back. ‘Weird’ he thought again. Was he hit with a quirk? He was acting way more babyish than usual, maybe a mental deaging quirk? No, he can act normal around other people so that wouldn't make sense..
Katsuki goes back up to his room leaving the others to clear up. His mind is reeling and he just wants to get some sleep.
Four hours.. It has been four hours of just staring at the ceiling, he looked over to his alarm clock, 2 am. “Jesus Christ” he huffed out as he sat up. This was clearly going nowhere. He thought about going for a run to clear his mind but being caught outside of the dorm past curfew would inevitably end with him on house arrest again so that's a no go. Bakugou stands up and grabs an oversized black hoodie with a skull emblem on the front from his wardrobe and shoves it on, over his tank top. He decides to make his way to the kitchen to get some water. He took the stairs as the elevator may have woken the other students up but once he got to the bottom of the final flight of stairs he heard a noise coming from the kitchen.. It sounded like whimpering..
Not knowing who it was he snuck around the corner fists clenched and slightly raised.. “Deku?” Katsuki’s voice is uncharacteristically laced with concern. Izuku was sitting on the floor of the kitchen clutching his hands to his chest, surrounded by spilled milk. It smelt too sweet to be milk. His eyes were red and puffy. His All Might bear was off to the side away from the river of milk that was making its way to Katsukis feet. Deku looked up at him in utter shock and started crying harder “K-Kacchan” he managed to get out through sobs.
Katsuki relaxed and unclenched his fists “what happened nerd, get up off the floor you are sitting in milk” he said softer than he meant to. Deku started shaking his head and he quietly kept repeating a single word ‘can’t’. It was clear he wasn't going to get anywhere and he was somehow more awake than when he was earlier so he grabbed some paper towels and started clearing up the mess. Vanilla that's what he can smell, the milk was warm, he saw the bottle that the milk was coming from. It had rolled under the table.. It was a baby bottle, he went to grab it, it was hot, very hot. His hands could handle that temperature but he knew it would burn anyone else.
He looked back at Deku who looked guilty and then down at his hands which were still being held close to his chest. Katsuki held his hand out to Izuku “let me see” he said softly. Deku looked skeptical but placed his hand in Katsukis palm. It was red and already starting to blister. Katsuki hid his anger not wanting to make him start crying again, instead he stood up and lifted izuku up onto the kitchen counter by his armpits and started running cold water and placing his hand under it. “Keep your hand under the cold water till I say, I'm going to clean up the rest of this mess”. Deku nods silently.
After all of the milk has been cleared up from the floor, Katsuki grabs the All Might plush and puts it in Izuku's lap, and grabs the baby bottle which had cooled down. “This is yours?” He held up the baby bottle which was covered in cute little green ducks. Deku nods and starts to tear up again. “Shit. look I know I'm a dick but I ain’t that much of a dick I don't know whats going on but I'm not going to tell anyone or take the piss. Calm down” he sighs “did you want another one?” Deku looked up with his big watery eyes blushed and did a small nod. “Okay nerd, were you trying to make that nighttime drink auntie made us as brats?” a slightly more enthusiastic nod came from the nerd this time. Okay, he's got this.
He quickly washed the bottle as it fell on the floor and grabbed a microwave-safe mug from the cupboard above Izuku's head, Izuku's eyes following everything he did. He grabbed the milk back out of the fridge as well as the sugar and vanilla. He put it all in the mug and placed it in the microwave until warm, and then poured it into Izuku's ducky bottle. Testing the warmth on his wrist to make sure it wasn't too hot he then turned to izuku and turned off the tap. “Come on nerd, do you have burn cream in your room?” Izuku, feeling a little more confident, replied “mhm! Under da sink”. Bakugou gave a slight smile “come on then nerd show me where it is” he helped Deku down from the kitchen counter and Deku lightly grabbed the sleeve of Katsuki’s jumper and directed him towards his room.
Once they got to Dekus door Izuku stopped and looked like he was contemplating something. “What is it, nerd? Are ya gonna let us in or are we gonna stay out here all night?” izuku let go of Katsukis sleeve and turned to him “promise no be mean Kacchan” Bakugou raised an eyebrow and looked as if he was contemplating for a second and responded, “yeah, promise”. The door opened and Katsukis eyes widened.
There was a baby blue bean bag in the corner, which matched the baby blue fluffy bedding. There was a box in the corner with ducks on it clearly full of toys. A half coloured in drawing on the floor surrounded by crayons and on the table next to a laptop that was playing that old All Might cartoon was another baby bottle, this one space themed with a pacifier and teething ring next to it. Okay, this was a lot to take in.
He turned to Izuku who was staring up at him, clearly worried about how he would react. He wanted to ask what was going on but he didn't want to sound insensitive or make him cry again. “So, are you going to show me where the cream is or are you gonna stand there staring at my handsome face all night?” This seemed to be the correct thing to say as Deku smiled and bounced into the bedroom's connecting bathroom and grabbed the first aid kit and handed it to Katsuki.
After Katsuki gently applied the cream to his blistered palm and put the cap back on he said “you should change your pajamas before you go to sleep, you smell like milk” and handed Deku the warm milk he made. Izuku smiled and started drinking from the bottle “uhu! Kacchan get me PJs?” Katsuki stood up and walked over to his wardrobe and opened it to find half of it filled with normal clothes he sees him wear daily and the other half fluffy pastel childish clothes he has never seen before. His eyes wander to a pair of pastel orange shorts with kittens on them. Cute he thought. He picked them up and chucked them at Deku. “there now get changed and go to sleep, it's..” he looked over to Dekus All Might alarm.. “3 am Jesus Christ”
Katsuki was about to turn to leave when Deku grabbed the back of his hoodie, eyes glossy and half closed due to how sleepy he was “thankoo Kacchan”. Katsuki didn't know what came over him but he placed his hand on top of Deku's fluffy green mop of hair and ruffled it. Soft he thought. “Goodnight nerd, don’t go thinking that acting cute is going to get you out of talking about this tomorrow” he turned around and turned out the main light as he walked out the room, missing Dekus blush “nuh-ni Kacchan!” he heard through the door. Fuck that was cute he needs to go to sleep right now.
Once Katsuki got to his room and laid back in bed he was out like a light.