Years had passed and now my first childhood friend, Bakugou Katsuki, and I end up going to the same schools together year after year after year.

And here we are, we're already in our middle school years and this year marks as our third year of Aldera Junior High School.

"TAKE THIS, EXTRA!!"

Bakugou finished up a random student thug in the hallway all by himself and ended up smirking in victory.

Man, his personality just keep getting more explosive and reckless each year and he didn't even change a bit.

"A-Alright, alright!! You win!!", one of the student thugs said and started running away, "B-Boss, this was a bad idea to go against someone like him, let's goo!!!".

The "boss", who is actually the leader of the student thugs, stood up and wiped his sweat before he started to run away as well with his "henchmen".

"Yeah, you better run, losers!!", Bakugou yelled and growled.

"Katsuki!"

The blond boy stopped what he was doing and turned around to see me appearing from the hallway with the math book on my right hand.

"Oh, it's you...", Bakugou greeted me.

I sighed deeply and replied, "You know you'll get in trouble if one of the teachers find you fighting with other students".

"Oh shush, I know that!! Besides I took care of them in a flash!", Bakugou said and sighed before crossing his arms, "What are you doing here anyway?! Came all the way here to tell me that?".

I showed him the book and replied, "I want to return this to you so thank you-Eh?".

The moment he was about to retrieve it from my hand in a full swoop, a paper fell out which turned out to be -

"O-OH!!", I exclaimed and decided to pick it up but Bakugou did it for me and looked at it.

'CRAP! HE'S GOING TO SEE MY-'

My thoughts stopped me there when I can see his eyebrows knitting together as always and his eyes are now on me.

"You're horrible at this", Bakugou commented bluntly.

"W-Well, I'm sorry!", I said with an upset expression and got the paper which is actually my failed quiz from my least favorite subject called Advance Algebra, "I really tried my best on this, okay? It's just...I can't help but get confused...".

He raised a brow and went in a deep thought now the he saw how bad-well, actually he's right, the word "horrible" is actually how I performed during my advance Algebra classes.

I was good at Math during my elementary years and my first and second year of my middle school years.

But now, when my third year of middle school came...

Oh boy.

I had to deal with Pythagorean theorems, angels, more number theories and the uses of sin and cosine? Aghh, a living nightmare!

But at least there are times where my Math teacher, who is actually very nice, gives me effort points which is really relieving at my part.

"Tch...dammit. That's it. You better come to my place after school with me!", Bakugou said and looked at me.

"E-Eh?! But I was planning on walking home with Izuku-"

"Tell that damn Deku that you had a change of plans! This is only just for today", Bakugou interrupted and sighed heavily, "...Come on, let's go to the cafeteria. I'm starving after fighting those losers".

TIME SKIP (Brought you by Bakugou sipping milk tea / boba - "Hmph, I guess it's pretty tasty" *continues drinking it in a tough guy way*)

"Oh, hello Mrs. Bakugou-"

"Hello, (Y/N)~!"

Our classes ended today and walking all the way here to the blond boy's house wasn't too long.

In fact, while both of us were walking home together, a bunch of students looked the other way with fright and tried to be as far away as possible.

Note, Bakugou didn't do anything at all but I guess his vibe or perhaps his appearance is doing the work themselves.

I even tried to attempt myself to converse with the blond boy but as usual in between my conversation he wouldn't say anything at all but sometimes he would respond and even look at me.

Geez, he's confusing when you talk to him sometimes but then again, I can see that he's trying hard since he doesn't have many friends - only rivals.

Anyways...

Bakugou's mom hugged me really tight like I'm part of their family too and even lifted me up a bit. Just a bit, okay?

"How's school today? I hope Katsuki here didn't cause you any more trouble again-"

"Shut up. She's fine and there's no way I-HEY!"

He stopped talking when his mom put me down and ruffled his own son's hair.

"I'm so proud of you! Keep that and maybe-"

"Stop messing with my hair, old hag!", Bakugou interrupted and looked away.

"HAH?! Who are you calling old hag?! You do know I'm two-times younger than most of the girls you know!", Bakugou's mom smacked his back and turned to me after her raged expression turned into a gentle expression once more, "I'm sorry if my son is being rude again, (Y/N)".

"No trouble at all, haha", I said and sweatdropped before laughing nervously.

Man, the duality of his mom is out of this world.

I mean, throughout the years of getting to know Bakugou and his family since we're next door neighbors and all, I'm actually getting used their gimmicks and interactions with each other.

If only I'll get to see the day where I can see Bakugou be that way too, like I wanted him to show more of his gentle side and also, seeing him smile at least once - just like his mother.

"Grr, whatever!", Bakugou said and looked at me, "Come on, idiot-".

"HEY, DON'T CALL (Y/N) THAT WAY!"

*Smack*

"OWW!!"

...

Time passed and right now, both Bakugou and I are studying Math which is the reason why he brought me here in the first place.

'To be honest, this is really unexpected out of him', I thought as I watched Bakugou checking my answers from sample exercise worksheet he made for me, 'And since when was he good at math-'

"Oi, you're spacing out"

My thoughts snapped out and I went back to reality when Bakugou is tapping his pencil on the coffee table.

"O-Oh, sorry", I said and laughed awkwardly.

He sighed heavily and replied, "Get it together, you dumb dumb. I even offered to help you study so don't waste this opportunity...I hate that you're getting left behind".

The last part really left me speechless since a tough guy, who's all about explosions and going for the top all the time, is showing signs of kindness even he's showing it in his own way.

"I'm going to write more questions so you better get at least one of these right, okay?!", Bakugou said grumpily, "I can accept three correct answers out of this five. If you get all correct, I'll...I'll treat you to ice cream!! Got it?!".

"Deal!", I automatically replied and smiled since who wouldn't resist ice cream, right?

"Heck yeah, that's what I like to hear...idiot" was all he said and began to work his magic by writing another set of questions 

'I never thought I would befriend a guy like him', I thought and sighed as I watched him write, 'I mean, he keeps bullying Izuku and he calls me stupid, dumb and even idiot. Sometimes I hate him for it. Did I really made the right choice of befriending in the first place?'.

"Okay, here!!", Bakugou said and showed me the paper, "Show me when you're done. I want make sure you get these right by the end of the day".

Geez, he almost sounded like a legit tutor for a second there.

I nodded and proceed to answer the following questions.

'Even though he may be aggressive and grumpy, there are actually times where he's actually nice too', I thought and smiled as I watched him write, 'I don't know if I'm going crazy or what but then again, this isn't the first time he's showing it. Like, the last time he showed me that kind of gesture was two years ago when he replaced the pencil that he borrowed from me since he accidentally snapped into two out of anger'.

'Funny enough...',  I continued drifting through my thoughts while answering, 'Since we are about to graduate by next month, my heart is telling me that I should continue being with him. I have no idea why but...something tells me that there's a chance that he can change into a better person if I do that'.

I sighed and erased my mistake since my thoughts are almost clouding my mind right now.

'Don't tell me it's because of even the rare occasions that I can't help but admire his capabilities too like his quirk, intelligence and even his facial features. Not to mention the realistic advises that he actually gave me whenever I'm feeling down or going under certain pressures even if the way he delivered it was a bit grumpy-'

"OI!"

He slammed the table which finally cleared my clouded mind filled of thoughts about him and I ended turning my head towards him.

"You're already making squiggly numbers, idiot", Bakugou said and flicked my forehead softly with his finger.

"Oww...", I said and frowned even thought it didn't hurt that much, "Sorry...".

He huffed and continued watching me answer and use his phone in between.

As I continued what I was doing but unfortunately, my mind started to cloud again with thoughts about the explosion boy.

'Dammit, why am I thinking about him again?! S-Stop!'