It Gets Better

(Third person P.O.V.) Katsuki Bakugou, a 16-year-old that has spikey ash blonde hair and crimson eyes, is halfway done with his second year in UA High School. As he is reaching the school gates, a stranger approached him and asked, “Excuse me young man, I am sorry to bother you but, do you by any chance go to UA?” “Yes, now what do you want extra?” Bakugou said with a little attitude and raised voice. He did not like anyone he didn’t know just walking up and talking to him. “Again, I am sorry sir, but do you know a Katsuki Bakugou and a Izuku Midoriya?” the man said. Now that Bakugou was looking at the man he could see that he was a mail man. “Yeah, I am Bakugou and yes, I know Deku as well, what do you want?” he asked the mail man. “Oh well here you are sir; this letter is addressed to the both of you at the school. Have a good day Mr. Bakugou.” The mail man said and left. ‘Me and Deku?’ Bakugou thought confused. He looked at the sender’s info and saw a name he slightly recognizes but didn’t know who exactly it was. ‘It has my name on it anyway, so I don’t need that shitty nerd here to open it.’ He thought. After he opened the letter, he immediately knew who sent it by the nicknames that were written. Dear Firework and Broccoli b***h, I know that you may not remember me right away, but I just wanted to say that I am back in Japan. For good. I know that I left unexpectedly and never told you or tried to reach you, but my parents took my phone away and didn’t allow me to make any sort of contact with you. Now that I am back, I wanted to apologize to the both of you for leaving. I also wanted you to know that I am going to UA! I hope that you will forgive me, and we can be friends again. Trust me it’s a bit better to explain what happened in person. I hope the both of you will give me a chance to explain. Sincerely, Kiiarda, or as Firework might remember, Triangle Bakugou stared at the letter and reread it at least twice before folded the paper in half then half again and ran to the school gates. After he showed his school ID, he went in and started looking for that green haired nerd. “Hey Bakubro! What’s up?” a spikey red-haired guy asked him. “Looking for Deku shitty hair, where is he?” Bakugou said to Kirishima. Kirishima ignored the nickname since he is used to it and looked around before pointing somewhere and saying, “He’s over there but you’re not seriously going to start a fight with him on the first day back from Christmas break, right?” “Relax shitty hair, I’m not gonna start a fight with him unless he says or does something I don’t like.” Bakugou said as he started to walk over to Midoriya. “Fuckin Nerd, come here!” he yelled aggressively to the slightly shorter green haired boy. Midoriya looked over and asked, “Wh-what Kacchan?” Midoriya said a little guarded because he thinks that he came over for a fight. He was surprised when Bakugou held out a piece of paper to him. Midoriya took the paper and started to read it. After he was done reading it, he looked up to Bakugou and asked, “Is this real?” Bakugou said nothing but handed him the envelope in which the letter was in. Midoriya looked at the senders’ address and started to smile a bit. “Is this actually real? Is she actually back and coming here?” he asked as he handed the letter and envelope back to Bakugou. “I don’t fuckin know nerd, but I guess we will see when class starts.” Bakugou said as he left. He immediately headed to their first class while three other people caught up with him. “Hey Bakuhoe, why are you in a hurry to class?” a pink skinned and pink haired girl asked him. “Nothing Pinky, I just need to see something.” He replied. “Hey Kiri, why do you look so confused?” Mina asked Kirishima to which he explained what just happened. That only led to them being more confused and interested to know who this girl is. “So, who exactly is this girl Bakugou? She a lover or something?” Denki, a yellowish blonde with a black lightning bolt in his hair asked with a small smirk as they got to the classroom. “No Pikachu, just someone I used to know who supposedly is back and coming here, but I don’t know for sure.” Bakugou said as he went to his seat. He sat down and tried to wait for the class to start but he had ten minutes left and he was not a patient person. When it got five minutes till, the classroom started filling in and he realized that there was an extra seat behind Denki and to the left of Mineta. As the bell ringed to signal the start of class, a yellow caterpillar entered the room and went behind the desk. A man came out of the yellow sleeping bag and walked to the front of the class and said “Alright, so I am sure you noticed that there is an extra seat in the classroom and yes that means that we are getting a new student in this class. I do not want any of you to start fights with the new student or to make trouble.” He said as he looked pointedly at Bakugou and a few others in the classroom. He then looked at the door and motioned for someone to come in. As the door opened, the teacher said, “This is your new classmate, you can introduce yourself, say something about yourself, and then sit in the empty seat behind Kaminari, the loud blonde over there.” While gesturing to the girl that walked in. She has black eyes, black hair down to her waist with white tips, and stood about 5’10. He motioned for her to start, and the new girl looked around as her eyes locked with Bakugou’s and Midoriya’s then she said, “Um hi I guess, my name is Kiiarda Akiyama, and I love the color black.” She looked to the teacher as he just nodded and motioned for her to go sit down. She pointed to Denki as the teacher nodded again and went to speak as she went to sit down. “Alright, Akiyama, I am your teacher Mr. Aizawa. If you have a question about class regulations or what not, do not come to me, you can ask Iida, also since we have a new student, today is a free day to get to know the new kid and catch up from the holidays. Now goodnight and don’t bother me.” he went back into his sleeping bag behind the desk and went to sleep while the class continued. (Kiiarda Akiyama’s P.O.V.) ‘Holy s**t there are more people in the classroom than I thought there was gonna be.’ I thought as I looked around. I heard a rapid tap on my desk, so I faced forward to see the yellowish blonde in front of me trying to get my attention. “Hey! My name is Denki Kaminari, but you can call me Denki or Kami if you want, also this is Mina, Sero and this is Kirishima.” He said as he pointed to the other three. “Um hi, I am Kiiarda Akiyama, but you can call me whatever you’re comfortable with.” I said to them before I heard a slam on my desk. I flinched the tiniest bit and hoped no one saw. I looked to my right to see Bakugo with his hands on my desk and Midoriya behind him with a little bit of a mad face and his arms crossed. “You better have one damn good of a f*****g explanation for why you left ya fuckin tricycle!” Bakugou yelled at me. I can’t believe he’s doing this now. “Ok look, I know the both of you are mad at me, however, I couldn’t exactly control it. You know how I was telling you that the house was looking emptier the closer it got to the day I left?” I asked them. They nodded so I continued, “Well the day I left, I went home to see a moving truck parked out front and my parents were loading boxes into it. I asked them what was going on and all they said was that we are moving, and I could not tell anyone. They told me to give them my phone and tablet and that if I were caught trying to tell anyone anything they would break it and that they would make sure that I won’t see the outside of my room ever again. I tried to send a letter and I tried to call you but anytime I was writing or typing in the contact info my parents would bust in and take everything away from me. I did not leave by choice, and I wouldn’t do that, you should know me. I just want to know if you will ever forgive me and if you can stand to still be friends with me.” I looked at them and tried to get them to understand that I was saying the truth. I was, in fact, telling the truth and I wanted so bad for them to know that I could not stop it from happening. I didn’t realize that I was standing until Midoriya hugged me and said, “I forgive you and yes, we are still friends. I understand that you couldn’t control it and I won’t hold it over you. I am just glad that you are finally back.” I hugged him back and let go as I faced Bakugo ready for him to yell at me and tell me that I am dead to him. To my surprise, he hugged me tight, and after I got over my shock, I just hugged him back and I could hear the gasps that left people’s mouths from around us. I guess he must still not show much affection. After a minute he let go and said, “If that is truly what happened then I forgive you too. But! If you ever leave again or I find out you are lying to me, I will explode your fuckin face off, got it?” I nodded, laughed a little bit, and said, “Yeah, I got it. So, still close friends?” He nodded and said “Yeah, your still like a little sister.” I couldn’t take it anymore and hugged the both of them as tight as I could. I let them go and asked, “Is it normal for the teacher to be that unconcerned for his students, and that unguarded in his sleep.” With a little smirk at the end. Bakugo just put a smirk on his face and nodded. I was about to ask them if there was anybody to worry about when I felt a presence behind me. Because I had trained myself in a little self-defense because of what happened before, I put a wall up with my force field and forced whoever it was behind me against the wall. As I made a whole appear where the guy’s head was, I asked, “Who’s the handy grape fucker?” “Oh, that’s Mineta, he’s the perv of the school and tries to put his hands on every girl in sight. I was about to warn you, but Bakuhoe made me forget when he slammed his hands on your desk.” The girl named Mina said. “Don’t worry about it. Plus, if he’s a perv then I am gonna burn him alive.” I said as I looked over at the grape boy. “What? I can’t help it if there is a girl around, I just want to feel their body.” He spoke. I made spikes appear on the side of the shield thing he was on so that it stuck him to the wall. I was starting to get angry but before I could do anything Mr. Aizawa came over and said, “Put him down.” I didn’t want to, but I did after a little hesitation and because he was my all-time favorite hero, but he doesn’t need to know that. After the grape slid to the ground, I stepped back so that I wasn’t near him in case he decided to try something. “You are going to switch seats with Iida, and I am going to take him to the office. Hopefully, I can get him expelled this time because I have had enough with his harassment towards others. Iida you are in charge while I am gone and no one, I mean no one is to make a mess or cause this room to collapse again, understand?” Aizawa said and looked pointedly at Bakugo. I didn’t miss that and just smirked a little bit. Bakugou did not miss it either and just scowled at me. As soon as Aizawa left the whole classroom erupted is conversation as people moved to their friends. I was about to get one of my spare notebooks out when someone grabbed my wrist and dragged me over to Bakugo’s seat. Turns out, it was Kaminari who dragged me over here and after he let go of my wrists he said, “You can be part of the Bakusquad! By the way, this is Kirishima, Mina, Sero, and obviously you know Bakubitch.” Introducing themselves again. I laughed and said, “Sure, so Bakubro, and Bakubitch, anymore I should know about Firework?” I asked him with an eyebrow raised. Before he could say anything, Mina interjected and said, “Well I call him Bakuhoe!” I laughed a little bit then said “Perfect.” I smiled at Mina and said, “You know what Firework, I like her, you need to keep her around.” To Bakugo. “I don’t need your approval on who I hang out with ya fuckin triangle, also who said she could be part of the Bakusquad fuckin Pikachu!” Firework said to Denki. He just shrugged with a smile on his face and said, “No one, but is there anyone who doesn’t agree with it?” No one said anything and just smiled at me. “So, when did Firework make his own squad?” I asked not talking to anyone in particular. “I didn’t make it; Battery Pack just started calling us the Bakusquad and it just stuck. Hell, I told them not to call it that, but these extras don’t fuckin listen.” Bakugou said to me. I just nodded and asked a guy with black hair, “Ok, so what do we do now?” I was used to being left alone to do whatever you wanted so I had no idea what to do with a group of people. “I don’t know, Denki got any ideas?” he said as he asked the real live Pikachu. He just smiled and said, “Well Sero, since we have a new member, we should put her through initiation once we get to the dorms. We should also plan for what we are gonna do after we get settled in.” Oh, s**t I have to go through an initiation? All of them nodded, even Bakugo and when I looked at the red head I said, “Holy s**t, do you have shark teeth?” “No, my teeth are just naturally sharp.” He said and smiled a bit wider so I could get a better look. “Dude that is awesome! I only have my K-9s, but they are nowhere near as sharp as that. That’s cool.” I told him. He had a little bit of red dust on his cheeks as he said, “Thank you.” The door to the classroom opened to reveal Aizawa and he just ignored everyone and went into his sleeping bag behind the desk and fell asleep again. “Okay seriously, is that normal for a teacher?” I asked them while internally fan-girling again over the fact that my favorite hero Eraserhead, (Aizawa), is our teacher. They just nodded and we continued taking about random s**t. Apparently, we are to meet in one of their dorms after we get settled in so I can go through my initiation and be an official member. When the bell rang it caught me off guard because I didn’t realize that we talked that much. The Dekusquad, or so I am told that Midoriya has his own squad as well, even joined in conversations. As we went to the next class, I realized that we were heading to the gym. ‘I wonder what they are gonna have us do in the gym?’ I thought. When we entered the gym, All Might was there standing in the center and when everyone was there, he said “Alright, now today we are going to have 1v1 battles to see what you have learned over the break. Now, I understand that there is a new student, can you please tell me your name and if anyone knows what your quirk is already.” “Okay my name is Kiiarda Akiyama and only Bakugo and Midoriya know the full scale.” I told him. Before he could say anything, else Denki said, “Wait, but we all saw you use your quirk in class.” “Well, that was only one of her quirks, she’s like Todoroki in which she has more than one, but they all have the same color coordination instead of distinct colors.” Midoriya said. “Okay then, in that case, since only young Bakugo and young Midoriya know what quirk she has; they can team up against young Akiyama so we can see what she can do. All of you change into your hero outfits and come back out. Young Akiyama you will stay here and fight with the cloths you have on until your hero suit is completed. Now off you go.” All Might ordered. Everyone nodded and left to change except for me of course. I was not liking this one bit, I kinda wish that I didn’t have to train today but I guess I must. I can act tough at times, but I am very self-conscious of my body. I don’t like my body being shown in any type of way, and before I came to the school, I had to enter in a sketch of what I wanted my hero suit to look like. That was fun to say the least cause I was able to get a jacket and pants to be incorporated into it. Once everyone was back, I set my bag down and headed towards All Might to see how we were going to do this. “Alright, young Bakugo, young Midoriya, and young Akiyama, please head to the ring and get situated.” All Might said. “Um, sir, isn’t it a little unfair to do 2v1?” I asked him. “Maybe but it will allow me to see how well you would do when facing more than one opponent. But I guess we can do that another day, young Midoriya, you can go back, and young Bakugo can be your opponent this time.” He answered. I just nodded to him and entered the ring. I can hear people placing bets from the Bakusquad. From what I can tell, Pikachu has 20$ on me winning while Sero, Mina, and Kirishima place it on Bakugo winning, well at least someone has faith in me. As I looked towards Bakugo, All Might stood between us on the outside of the ring and said, “Alright, first one out of the ring loses or last one standing wins, just don’t kill one another. You can rile each other up all you want, just make sure you don’t kill each other over it. Begin!” And with that an explosion was set off right next to me. I put up a shield and yelled to Bakugo, “You don’t waste time do ya Firework?” “You should know by now that I am not a patient person! Fight back already ya fuckin tricycle!” He screamed at me. Fine ya want me to fight back? Then I sure as hell will. I ran towards him and made a fire ball before I threw it towards him. He narrowly missed it by a hair and yelled, “That all most hit me you b***h!” “Isn’t that the point of this fight ya fuckin i***t! I am supposed to aim for you!” I yelled back. He kept setting off explosion after explosion and I barely had any time to counter-attack. ‘I know that his sweat is made of some s**t that helps with his quirk so it must be flammable. He is covered in sweat so if I can just have my fire snag him just a bit or at least enough to set off an explosion from his sweat, I could have him distracted enough to fling him out of the ring. Or I can try to knock him out with my electricity. I can try for both as well.’ I can’t think anymore so I just tried to get him to build up more sweat so it would make my job easier. As I dodged the explosions he threw at me, I realized that he was starting to get a bit tired which means that his attacks will get more spread out. I charged up a few bolts to at least shake him up a bit. I got a little bit closer and sent the electricity towards him. He got shocked and stumbled backwards a bit. Not wasting my time, I sent my fire towards him and like a literal bomb, when the fire contacted the sweat on his body, it exploded. However, it was not as big as I thought it would be. And by that, I mean it wasn’t very big at all. Damn it! So now I have to get him out of the ring. I ran towards him, making sure to see what he was planning to do. As I dodged another explosion, I realized that I was getting sloppy with my moves. ‘I can’t have this now!’ As I got next to Bakugo, we started to do close quarter combat. I started to charge up some more electricity and wait until he lands a hit so that when his hand makes contact with my skin, I can shock him then fling him out of the ring. After throwing a few kicks and punches, he hits me in my ribs while making an explosion and I let the electricity flow through my body and shock him. Once he freezes, I grab him and fling him out of the ring landing near All Might. I put my hands on my knees and try to catch my breath as Firework gets up also panting. I walk over to him and say, “Sorry about the shock but I had to. Also, I am a bit upset that my plan did not work entirely. You did good though. Your explosions have gotten so much better from the last time I saw them.” “No s**t they got better. The last time I saw you, I was nine. I have improved greatly since then. I forgot that you had something like Pikachu and half-and-half. Plus, how did you get so good with close combat? Before you couldn’t even land a hit.” he replied. I just smiled and shrugged my shoulders. I had a few burn marks on me from the explosions, but I could deal with them later. I looked at All Might to see that he had a bit of a shocked expression. I looked at Firework then we both looked at All Might who asked, “So what exactly is your quirk Kiiarda?” “Well, I have Devils Fire, Negative Electricity, and Obsidian Shield. I have another one, but you won’t see it happen so there is nothing you need to know about it.” I said while I sat down next to Firework who was still standing. I was a bit tired, and my body was starting to hurt a bit more. I don’t think I realized how much energy I was using and how much pain I was in because every second I sat on the ground, the pain my body was in became more noticeable, especially on my right side. I stood up so I could go back to the bleachers but when I tried to move, I felt like a knife went through my side. As I put my hand to my side and hissed in pain, I saw that All Might had asked a guy with red and white hair to come over. I was about to ask All Might why he needed the guy before I passed out. (Bakugou’s P.O.V.) I can’t believe it, I lost to fuckin Triangle. I looked over to Triangle and saw that she was sitting down next to me with a hand on her side. There was blood surrounding her hand and spreading quickly. I looked over at All Might to tell him that she needs to be taken to recovery girl, only to see that he already knows and called fuckin Icy-hot over. I took the jacket that she was wearing around her waist and tied it more around her side to try and stop as much bleeding as I could. “Young Todoroki, I need you to take young Akiyama to Recovery Girl as fast as you can, Young Bakugou, you go with them and have Recovery Girl look at you as well. You can come back when you are given the ok from Recovery Girl. Go!” All Might said to me and half-an-half. I was about to tell him that he should have been a bit more concerned, however, we had the get to Recovery Girls quick incase things decided to take a turn. As we headed to the Hospital wing, Icy-hot said, “How exactly do you know her?” “We are childhood friends, she disappeared when me and Deku were nine. Now could you hurry the f**k up? Blood is leaking out of her right side through the jacket I wrapper around her.” I was snarling at the end. I myself was a bit slow because of all the hits that she managed to land on me and from her using her quirk. I will never admit it, but I do care for my friends. She was one of my closest friends so seeing that she was hurt this much, puts me in a bad mood, although I am the one that did this it does not change anything except that I feel a little bit guilty, and I will not show that. Half-an-half bastard adjusted his grip on her as he said, “You aren’t one to talk, you are injured just as well.” He sped up a bit and I just ignored him like I usually do. He is lucky my focus is on Triangle, or I would have already thrown a few explosions toward him. After finally making it to Recovery Girl, we went through the door. Recovery Girl looked up and was about to ask us what we needed when her eyes landed on Tricycle. “Quickly, put her on the bed!” she said. Icy-hot put her on the medical bed thing and stepped back so Recovery Girl could do her thing. A few moments later, Recovery Girl spoke, “Okay, she is stable and most of her injuries are healed, she should be waking up in an hour or two. Who is this student? I don’t believe that I have met her before.” “Her name is Kiiarda Akiyama, she just transferred and today is her first day.” I told her. “Poor thing. Okay, you are next Bakugou, lay down so I can get you taken care of.” I went and laid down on the bed thing because I know that I am gonna end up passing out after this. Icy-hot was about to walk out of the room before he glanced back at Tricycle and sat down in a chair next to her. I was about to ask him why the f**k he sat down and didn’t leave but Recovery Girl kissed my forehead and I passed out while my body healed.