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“Bakugou are you paying attention?”
Katsuki looks up from tapping his pencil over his desk in a neat precise one two pattern to see Aizawa looking at him with a semi-disappointed look upon his face. Now Katsuki hadn’t meant to zone out he really hadn’t but hearing all the extras around him especially Izuku whispering and muttering it was kind of hard for him to pay attention. It was so much easier to just zone out and turn down his hearing aids.
“Huh?”
“I’ll take that as a no stay after class so we can talk”
Those words should not have made Katsuki feel like crying and yet here the explosive blonde found him on the verge of tears from his sensei’s words. It would be such a sign of weakness to cry right then and there so he held the tears back until he couldn’t anymore. Once one tear fell it was like a dam over flowing they fell silently from vermilion eyes.
Seeing silent tears falling from his usually angry student was definitely something Shōta was surprised about he'd have to ask later about it though. Teaching the class felt like it was taking longer than usual when all he could think about was how different one of his students was being.
The ringing of the bell twenty minutes later brings a sense of relief to all the worrying that he's done over Bakugou. He watches as all the other students file out of the classroom and notes how Bakugou hasn't once stopped the repeatitive one tap two tap pattern of his pencil.
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He slides his hand under the pencil to stop the normally explosive blonde from tapping.
"Bakugou do you know why I asked you to stay after class?"
He can see his sensei's mouth moving but since he spoke much quieter than he had during class it was hard for him to actually hear what was spoke. He hated this entirely not only was he overstimutated by all the extras that had been in the classroom, he was regressed, and his damn sensei was talking to quietly.
He's a bit startled when he sees Aizawa reach by his ear to adjust his hearing aid's volume but he's also grateful he had kind of forgot that he had turned it down in the first place. Looking up at his sensei he wipes away the tears and tries his hardest to look natural.
"Bakugou I need you to be honest do you know I asked you to stay?"
"Cause I wasn't paying attention."
He offers up as an answer though his voice is lacking it's usual uncaring and biting undertone.
"True but there's more to it isn't there?"
Katsuki groans a bit he doesn't want to have to explain to his sensei that he sometimes spaces out due to his regression and therefore doesn't really get any work done.
"The extras were being to loud I'll do better."
"You're avoiding the real problem here Bakugou."
Aizawa is speaking to him while handing him something it looks sort of like a pencil but it's not. Upon closer inspection Katsuki realizes his teacher is handing him a chew stick and it's at tht moment to that he realizes he's chewing the end of his pencil quite aggressivel while talking to his sensei. Stupid oral fixation that seems to always get worse when he's between head spaces.
He snatches it up placing the chew stick into his mouth bending it in the middle and running his tongue over and under it letting it lull him into a more relaxed state.
After handing Bakugou the chew stick Shōta gets to work on doing a few searches while he already knows about Bakugou's trouble of hearing he's not entirely sure about the exlosive blonde's other tendencies. Sure he's noticed that Bakugou doesn't blow up for no reason like others think he seems only to go off when things get to be too much or can't hear someone approaching it's a clear thing that Bakugou gets overstimulated and overwhelmed easily.
Another observation he's made is Bakugou has a tendency to gravitate towards things like chewing and doodling all while zoned out when things get to be too much this is what interests Shōta the most. It takes a few tries to come across anything remotely similar to what he's seen in his student but there it is on his screen is exactly what he's looking for. His most explosive student was an age regressor.
"Bakugou?"
He gets the blonde's attention and holds up his hands. Shōta notes that it seems to take Bakugou a second to realize what he's supposed to do but the explosive teen eventually starts putting down some of his fingers. But the time Bakugou stops Shōta is left with five fingers up.
'Five that should be easy.'
A mentally five year old Katsuki turns out to be harder than he thought the boy barely speaks when asked a question. Shōta had only asked him a simple question of if Bakugou wished to spend the rest of the day in his own dorm and all he had gotten in response was a pretty blank look. Not at all much of a response however from what he knows of children they will simply follow if they feel left out.
With that in mind he gets up to head out of the classroom the moment he's at the doorway of the room he can feel Bakugou's hand slip into his. Walking to the class 1-A dorms was quite a simple task however getting past the rest of the students who were on break wasn't going to be easy.
"Bakugou I'm going to need you to do something for me. I need you to just keep chewing on the stick I gave you and ignore everyone else. Can you do that for me?"
He's happy when he gets a nod in return from the explosive blonde who still holds his hand tightly. A few of Bakugou's classmates try to ask if the blonde is okay and when their met with a simple explanation of him feeling a bit under the weather they don't ask much else just offer a few 'get well soon' which earns them the typical Bakugou scowl. Shōta is honestly quite surprised how a regressed Bakugou can act so natural.
Once in the confines of his own room Katsuki seems to relax completely he's quick to grab a hoodie and comfortable sweatpants and slip into the bathroom connected to his room to change. He loves the hoodie he selected it's a deep red colour with a bright red gear and the sleeves allow him to do sweater paws freely without it being awkward. He's flapping the sleeves of his hoodie when he comes out of the bathroom when he remembers his sensei is still in the room with him and stops it.
"There's no need to stop Bakugou you can stim all you want this is your space after all."
A smile rises on Katsuki's face he's so used to having to be professional and tough around everyone but if his sensei doesn't mind than maybe it wouldn't be so bad to just be free for once in front of someone. And it felt good once he finally let down all those walls he normally held up it truly felt like he could just be and there wouldn't be a single person to judge because sensei was a safe person.