When Bakugou comes out to his parents, he loses one of the only constants he's ever had in his life.
But family isn't always blood, and his chosen family will make damn sure he knows he's loved.
It wasn't just any ordinary age changing quirk though.
Until it wore off, everybody would simply be watching their self from middle school do everything they are doing. It worked differently for everybody though.
The students were blasted to only a year earlier.
"We don't stray from the path." It's distinct and strict. If they stray from the path who knows what will happen. There could be anything in these woods and Bakugou could never forgive himself if something were to happen to Kirishima on his watch. But when he looks behind him, ready to give him a meaningful glare, scare him into listening and Kirishima is already stepping into the forest.
The ash blonde's expression goes from unreadable to almost comical, and his eyebrows furrow.
"What did you say?" he demands.
In which I-Island holds another party and Kirishima Eijirou finds himself on an empty balcony with Bakugou Katsuki under a starlit night.
Blue flames wrecked the building. Windows shattered, hostages screamed and the smell of burning flesh was overpowering. Dead bodies, charred beyond recognition, laid on the floor their blood pooling around their heads from being on the other side of Toga's unforgiving knife. And standing right in the middle of the building, surrounded by innocent civilians, was Deku with cold, black eyes, a smirk that could haunt someone's nightmares, and one thought running through his head.
Being a villain was thrilling.
The one in which U.A creates a reform school for young villains and Deku just so happens to be one of the villains picked to join the program.