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He did it again. He fucking did it again and he’s taken the worst route to fix it.
Katsuki thought he was doing better, hell everyone thought he was doing better. Minimal panic attacks, minimal nightmares, his heart hasn’t frozen up in weeks and he’s even hung out with everyone more. Unfortunately when you’ve gone through traumatic shit, your mental health doesn’t just suddenly fix itself because you’ve decided to choose peace over anger.
He doesn’t know where the hell he is, he just knows it’s empty and he’s cold. He knows he snapped at Eijirou but he can’t exactly remember what he said and even if he did remember, why the fuck would he want to keep replaying it in his head? All he knows is he essentially blacked out and once he came back to earth? Eijirou was crying and trying to get to him, Tenya was trying to keep Katsuki from running and everyone else just stood there like cowards.
Katsuki knows it could be worse right now. He could still be at the dorms and have his boyfriend yell at him, shit maybe even throw a few punches at him - which he wouldn’t even be mad if Eijirou chose to do that - and probably get broken up with but no he didn’t choose that.
He chose to run like a damn idiot and now he’s outside on a cold spring evening and can’t even talk to anyone because he refuses to turn his phone back on.
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Katsuki’s not going to play damsel in distress though, he doesn’t roll like that.
He gets up and walks to wherever there’s light so he’s not stuck in the shadows and eventually it gets him somewhere!
He finds a convenience store on a corner and walks in. If he’s not going back any time soon - and honestly that might be his plan - he at least needs to hydrate and eat something.
While he walks through the chip section, he hears someone clear their throat behind him. Not bothering to look up though, he moves over a bit thinking he’s just in their way but the second the person clears their throat again, he huffs and looks up.
“Why are you upset?”
Oh for fucks sake..
“Do you two have a fucking tracker on me?! What is this, some weird parent child sense?!”
Mitsuki rolls her eyes while Masaru holds in a laugh knowing it would piss them both off but decides to answer,
“You’re not hard to miss when you smell a certain way and it practically radiates off you everywhere you go.”
“Fuck you, the fuck do you mean certain smell?! I shower everyday!”
“Your quirk Katsuki, your quirk.”
He looks between the two and rolls his eyes before going back to browsing.
“Whatever, I’m fine.”
“We’re your parents, we know when something’s up.”
He huffs again and goes to the checkout but not before buying two waters. When he grabs yen out of his wallet, he feels a hand on his shoulder and looks up to see his dad pay for it. That makes him frown and furrow his eyebrows but he thanks him anyway.
When they all leave the store, he eyes their car before turning around.
“So what, you two just found me and decided to stalk me around the city?”
“Stop being so pissy and get in!”
He raises his eyebrow and looks at the car again before shaking his head.
“I wanna be alone.”
“Well you aren’t so get in.”
“Fuck no!”
Whether it’s because deep down he doesn’t want to be alone or it’s because he doesn’t feel like arguing, Katsuki doesn’t move when Mitsuki walks up to him and gently but firmly holds his hands while giving him a look he hasn’t seen in a while, not since he was finally discharged from the hospital after the war and she had to watch him build himself back up again.
“You know we love you. You know we let you do whatever you want with reason and I want to let you be free but we can’t trust you right now.. I can’t trust you right now, honey.”
Mitsuki knows it hurts him more than anything. Katsuki doesn’t like feeling pitied or belittled or like he can’t do anything himself but unfortunately he gets where they’re coming from. He slowly retracts his hands and walks to the car to get in the backseat.
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It takes an hour to get Katsuki back to the dorms.
Not because he’s stubborn but because he never knew his mom could cry so freaking much..?
Sure the Bakugou’s have had their own talks with each other over serious things and sure some tears were shed but Katsuki guesses because his mom has to come to terms that he genuinely isn’t okay and that he isn’t doing good anymore probably broke her more than anything.
His dad’s usually the crybaby of conversations but even he cried less than her and that freaked him out too.
It took exactly thirty minutes for everyone to fully calm down and another thirty for Mitsuki to let Katsuki leave the car because she got worried all over again that once he closed the door that her and Masaru would be back up at UA in five minutes because he fell again.
He reassured her all of those thirty minutes which felt weird because usually it was her reassuring him, always telling him that everything would be okay. Always calling him ‘Kit Kat’ because it pissed him off but also that’s always been her nickname for him since he was a baby so who is he to shit on it? If it makes her happy.. he never thought he’d say this but if it makes her happy then let it be.
When Katsuki goes inside the building, he goes to his, Eijirou and Shoji’s dorm floor. After the conversation, he assumes Aizawa or Nezy contacted his parents and told him to just ignore everyone for now and go to his room. Whether they also said to apologize to Eijirou or not, he doesn’t know but he doesn’t care enough to go ask because he knocks on the redhead’s door anyway.
His heart sinks to his ass though when he sees the dried tear marks tracking down his boyfriend’s face and how puffy and red his eyes became.
His heart sinks even more when Eijirou ACTUALLY lets him in. He doesn’t deserve forgiveness so easily but he walks in anyway, placing the snacks down.
“I-”
“No.”
“Eijirou-”
“We can talk later, just shut up and lay down.”
Katsuki sighs. He knows Eijirou’s right no matter how much he wants to talk now. He guesses it’s some sort of tactic that’ll eventually get Katsuki to want to open up more because he’d rather resolve issues now instead of later.
When Eijirou lays down next to him, he eyes the snacks.
“You were gonna leave?”
“Not leave just.. stay out a bit. Ma and Dad found me so..”
Eijirou nods and sighs. He wraps his arms around the blond’s middle and rests his forehead against the crook of his neck.
“I’m still upset.”
“I know.”
“The way you reacted was valid though.”
“I fucking screamed in your face?”
“..validly though. You don’t remember what I said?”
Katsuki tenses and shakes his head which makes the redhead sigh and focus his gaze on his blanket.
”I brought up your moods. I know I shouldn’t have and I regret it but I have my own feelings too, Kat. Even if they don’t function on the same level, I can’t always just take your yelling and insults so easily y’know?. Usually I leave it alone but when you get mean you can get like.. really mean. I’m talking like above Izuku type sh-“
”-yeah okay, I get it!”
The two look at each before the blond is sighing and mumbling an apology.
”I don’t know what’s wrong with me.”
”There’s nothing wrong with you.”
”Why do you lie all the fucking time? You know there is.”
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with how your brain sees the world. Just because you experience and navigate through life differently than the rest of us doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you.”
Katsuki stares at Eijirou like he’s grown two heads. After admitting he basically needs a break from him half the time, it’s really confusing to hear that he’s also done nothing wrong. Being that they’re both exhausted though, he nods and leaves it alone.
”I’m sorry okay? I’ll tell you when I need space next time, today was just a lot.”
”Yeah I get it.. I’m sorry too.”
Eijirou presses a few kisses to Katsuki’s neck before he leans up to peck his lips. They both sigh knowing this might repeat but at least their communication progress isn’t tumbling downhill again.
Tomorrow is a new day.