Squish ❤ | Katsuki Bakugou x Reader |

(2) Fury

(Bakugou's POV)

We walked back to the dorms, our pinkies linked. She was happily telling me stories again, and I found it amusing how much she just loved to entertain. I wondered if not for her brother if she would have gone into schooling for that instead of hero work. She was certainly good at it.

I watched her speak, with her happy body language and hand gestures that she tended to hide around our other classmates.

However, the moment was ruined the moment I opened the door.

Twin A pushed past me, grabbing Y/n's wrist and snarling, "You." She looked up at him, surprised to see him.

"Mako? What happened? Is something wrong?" She frowned before looking up at me, confused. Twin A tugged her away from me, and I attempted to take her back. "Mako!"

He pulled her inside, practically shaking with anger. "How DARE you tell her! You said it was fine! How could you do this to me!" He cried, squeezing her shoulders. She started protectively bringing her shoulders up to her ears, trying to lean away from him.

"What do you mean? I don't know what you're ta-talking about?" She asked quietly, trying to counter his loud cries.

"YOU TOLD HER ABOUT OUR STUPID CHILDISH PROMISE IN ORDER TO MAKE HER FEEL BAD! NOW YOU'VE RUINED EVERYTHING!" He wailed, burying his face in her chest, crying, before realizing what he was doing and digging his fingertips into her skin and shoving her away.

She stumbled, and her eyes went wide as she realized what he meant. "What? But I didn't! I was out all day, I haven't seen Mina in weeks! It must have been someone else. Maybe Eijirou. I promise I'd never do that to you, Mako!" She held up a hand, trying to reason with him.

"LIAR! I KNOW IT WAS YOU! YOU WERE JEALOUS BECAUSE WE WERE HAPPY! AND YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO BE HAPPY, ESPECIALLY IN RELATIONSHIPS, SO YOU WANTED TO RUIN IT FOR ME TOO, SO YOU COULD BE SELFISH, LIKE ALWAYS!" His tongue shifted slowly, becoming forked, and his eyes slowly narrowed into slits, and eventually small green scales started popping up on his flesh.

"But I didn't!" She insisted.

"She was with me all day, Snake Boy. She didn't do anything!" I stepped up in front of her, realizing that this was going past a normal sibling fight. He was irrationally angry, a feeling I knew well, and he would without a doubt hurt her.

He hissed, his forked tongue flicking out of his mouth. Y/n glared at him, digging her nails into the bruises from her brother's tight hold on her shoulders. "You do not get to pin this on me right now. You know I have trouble saying no, and you know just how much today means to me! And yet you asked to spend the day with some- some girl you've been dating for hardly a few months!"

"Some girl?! You have no room to talk, leaving me alone to hang out with your- your DOG over there!"

His head turned to the side so fast I thought he would get whiplash. It took me a moment to realize what had happened, but when my brain finally caught up, my jaw dropped.

She had punched him.

She was practically fuming, and I had never seen her so much as hit anyone before. Especially not in a way so clearly hostile. By now, there was a small crowd forming in the living room.

Twin A reached up and pressed his fingers to the red mark already swelling up on his cheek. She had hit him hard. "You're an asshole." She spat, standing in front of him. For the first time since we'd met the twins she seemed the bigger and more imposing of the two. "Take a moment to think and talk to me when you realize how shitty you've been today. Maybe come up with a decent apology for the first time in your fucking life. I'll be waiting "

With that, she walked away. Twin A's snake like features disappeared, and he just looked shocked. It was obvious she hadn't ever snapped at him like that before. The mark on his cheek was already swollen and bruising. I glanced at him before following Y/n, extremely concerned.

Y/n didn't hit people. She tried her hardest to be calm in moments like these. I was worried.

"Y/n!" I called after her. Goddammit woman, how are you so fast for someone so short?

I heard a small gasp before she started running. I ran after her, and she ducked into her room, leaving the door open. When I glanced into her room, I saw her closet door shut. With a thump, any and all noise from her was cut off. Not even the sound of breathing.

"Y/n, open the door."

Silence.

"Do you wanna talk?"

Silence.

"...Please..?" I said quietly.

The closet door opened just a crack, a silent invitation. I opened the door wider, finding her crumpled up on the floor, hiding in the corner. I knelt down next to her, gently pulling her out of the corner and into my arms. I didn't know if it would help or if it was the right thing, but it felt like the only thing I could do.

"Y/n, what happened?" I spoke as softly as I could, not wanting to scare her.

"I-" she sucked in a breath, "I just h-hit.. Ma-Mako." She gulped. "I shouldn't have done that. I was ju-just so... angry." She clung to my shirt. "I hit him, Bakugou! I'm horrible..."

"You're not horrible. You're the most sickeningly sweet and kind person I've ever met. But even you are allowed to crack sometimes. He would've hit you if you hadn't struck first. And he completely deserves it, that ass."

She let out a shaky breath before nodding. "I still feel bad... I..." She took a moment to calm herself before continuing. "I don't hit people. But he fucking deserves it. I mean- he broke a lifelong promise for some stupid girl! But... But I did too. I'm no better than he is."

"He broke it first. What did he expect you to do, be lonely on your eighteenth birthday? That only makes him deserve it more."

She nodded again after a moment, still clinging to me. We stayed like that for a long while, her halfway in her closet and halfway on my lap, hiding her face in my shirt. I hoped Twin A did as she said and thought over things properly. From the way she had acted, it seemed there was a lot of pent up frustration at him that he'd never apologized for.

An apology doesn't always help you forget, but it does help you forgive.

Or so I'd heard.

End of Chapter.