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“Now we only need to grab the milk, sugar, and more vegetables for Kodas bunny” Midoriya muttered under his breath while looking at the list of things to buy. It was Bakugou’s and Midoriya’s turn to grocery shop for the class and were cutting it close to getting inside the store on time. Class had been extra difficult and all of class 1A had to have a study session that ran a little later than normal. Looking at the time, Bakugou hurriedly yanked Midoriya by the hood of his light blue sweater as he told him to shut up when Midoriya was startled.
As they passed the produce section Bakugo grabbed eggs that were not on the list. Midoriya gave him a curious look to which Bakugo clicked his tongue at “Their fat asses are gonna be extra hungry after tomorrow's practice”.
Midoriya could only hold in a slight smile “That’s sweet of you kacchan” his eyes shimmered at Bakugou. Bakugou felt repulsed, a sudden need to punch the nerd in the face and blast himself away as fast as he could arose in him, thanks to his anger management therapy he decided to take a deep breath instead.
“Only cuz they’ll keep on complaining and whining” he said before flicking Midoriya's forehead and walking away with the shopping cart. Okay so maybe the therapy didn’t change him to a complete 180 but it definitely helped. He still avoided his feelings but learned how to not go straight into wishing hell on earth onto everyone. He has been doing a really good job, or had. Sometimes he feels overwhelmed, these “times” he is always around Deku and he doesn’t know how to feel about it. The fact that it’s Deku, that is, he hasn’t considered the nerd to be his friend in a long time. The only friends people he tolerates are shitty hair, pinky, tape, ears, and maybe dumb face on a good day. Deku makes everyone like him, hell even the villains do, it makes sense Katsuki used to too. Despite him having a quirk now the only thing that changed was his confidence which God knows he was missing. So maybe he misunderstood him as looking down on him in the past, but he knows better now.
The only problem is that now he doesn’t know if he actually likes knowing the fact that the nerd genuinely admires- heck, is basically infatuated with him despite everything. But that’s another thought for another time.
As they exit the store with their grocery’s Midoriya abruptly stops and slaps his hand on Bakugos firm chest. He blushes at the contact and before he can even shout, Deku looks at him with serious eyes and a pointer finger is placed on his pink lips in a shushing motion. As much as he would hate to comply he knows Deku saw something worth shutting him up. They place the grocery bags in a dark alley before he follows alongside Deku.
By the surroundings it was not hard to guess what was happening. It looked almost exactly what they had gone through in training. There was a bank nearby and a suspicious white van parked on the street with an observant masked man who was looking at a specific alleyway behind the bank. Bakugo gave Midoriya a look before charging straight on to fight the robber. Midoriya knew this, Bakugo would always go for the flashier option given the chance. They both silently approached the criminals and knocked them unconscious. They grabbed them and set them down in the alleyway so as to not disturb citizens and called the police. It was a really easy task, too easy. Which is why they didn’t notice there had been another criminal at the top of the bank that watched the whole thing.
As soon as the man jumped down he tried to attack Midoriya but he noticed him at the last second and activated one for all and launched himself out of the way. Bakugo restarted his explosives and charged at the man. He was dressed like an adventurer from a jungle movie, his ashy dark blonde hair was messed up, his arms were strong and wide, and he had a wider mouth than most people. “Hey hey now don't be so rash just let my buddy go, we ain’t do nothing”
“Well you won't do anything in your pathetic life ever again once I kill you” Bakugo said with a manic look on his face as he began pulling the safety pin off of his bombs. The man lunged himself at Midoriya in order to block the attack. There was a smoke screen between Bakugo and the criminal with Midoriya.
The man with the wide mouth smirked as he straddled Midoriya and locked him into place with his hands behind his back. “You look like you weigh less, eh. Guess it won't be a problem to tell you that my quirk is to control bodies”. And with that the criminal stood up from Midoriya’s lap and leaned on the alleyway wall.
As the smoke screen disappeared Midoriya stood up. Except he didn’t mean to stand up at all, his body was no longer in his control. Before he knew it he was launching himself at Kacchan, his movements were jerked and moved his legs clumsily. Although he couldn’t move his mouth it was left open a bit “Kacchan he’s controlling my body! Knock him out to deactivate it, please!”.
Bakugo swiftly dodged Midoriya’s attack “Yeah no shit, even you could put up a better fight than that.” As he passed next to Midoriya he was hit on his rib with one for all followed by a crack and a scream from Midoriya.
“Damn, it looks like that hurt. One with a broken arm and one with broken ribs, yikes” The criminal said. Sirens started to fade into the background rather quickly. “And I guess this is my time to go. Toodles!” Without even looking to pick up his other culprits he climbed the bank and jumped from building to building away.
As the police arrived on scene Midoriya still had no control over his body and it seemed like it was twisting himself and breaking as many bones as it could while Bakugo was on the floor coughing up blood.
They brought them into UA’s hospital and sedated both so they could rest up before Recovery Girl healed them up. Although the attacks were rough, it wouldn’t be anything that wouldn’t be able to heal in a couple of days given enough rest. As they woke up they were interrogated by the police officer. “Thank you for catching those criminals back there, they have been on our radar these last couple of weeks. However, given the evidence of the scene we believe that these are not criminals but actually the work of a bigger group of villains. I would appreciate it if you could tell us everything that happened.”
“Of course officer! Well Kacchan and I were grocery shopping for our class… oh crap we left them on the street!” Midoriya sighed rather defeatedly.
“Not to worry, we figured it was yours and sent it to your class.” Tsukauchi reassured him with a gentle pat on the arm.
Bakugo shot a glare their way “Yeah yeah shut up my head is killing me. We saw the two captured fuckers looking suspicious and knocked them out and called you guys. Then the Indiana Jones wannabe jumped down and told Deku some weird shit about his weight being lower than mine and said his quirk was controlling people. After that Deku was being controlled until you guys came and he ran away like a pussy”. He turned away and tried to go back to sleep.
“Ah I feared you knew, we dont know the specifics of his quirk just yet that is under investigation. What we do know however, is that that his quirk is activated on the fact that you know he has this quirk. I would like for you two to keep not just his quirk but the investigation a secret” Both boys nodded “I’ll come back and mention any other details, your knowledge might be needed in furthering his capture. I hope you two rest well, good night”. And with that he left the blonde and the green haired boy alone in the hospital.
The moon was raised high, several hours had passed by since the sun was down. If Izuku knew anything about Kacchan it was his strict bedtime, he had been pushing himself to stay up as long as he could tonight. Izuku's sleep schedule was irregular and being on painkillers only made him feel slightly woozy. There was not much else he could do but stare at Kacchan, his breaths evened out making his chest rise and fall slowly. It had been a while since they slept in the same room. Warm memories filled his heart of sleepover as kids. “Sweet dreams Kacchan” he said as he turned off his bedside lamp and drifted into sleep himself.