G*d he hated not being able to hear. As if he hadn't already made that clear enough. He was sitting in the diner down the street from where the arcade had been. They hadn't seen it, all of them had obviously thought about it, but hadn't dared to look.

Instead they had simply brought their school books over to the diner and simply sat down to begin studying. He was pretty sure they were all talking to each other more than they were studying. But he couldn't exactly stop them. He glanced up as he felt a small tap on his shoes. The redhead across from him smiled a little bit, seeming to want him to do the same. Both of them had been a little nervous, though they weren't showing it.

They were all trying to be calm but today was the day they were supposed to go to court to see the villains that nearly killed them all.

Since all the witnesses, and 'victims' needed to be present though, they had headphones with them at the cafe. Fat Gum and elf boy would be there too, though they were supposed to meet them later.

Bakugou raised his glass to his lips as he watched the other talk, unable to hear any of them. They were all signing but he still didn't fully understand all that yet. His eyes focused on Pikachu for a moment.

'So you got to talk to the --------?'

Kirishima nodded slowly, as he was the one Pikachu was signing to, using his straw to stir his drink, which was probably making the soda flat. But the boy kept his eyes on the people sitting around them to watch them sign. Though Headphones, Tape and Acid seemed to be having an entirely different conversation off to the side.

To make sense of what it looked like- they were sitting at a circular table, but Bakugou and Kirishima had half the table cause they had pulled chairs around and Kirishima had propped up his legs and leaned back up against Bakugou.
The boy's red eyes trailed over to the girls and tape, watching as they signed quickly to one another, though still talking out loud.

It seemed they had all really adjusted to the whole signing thing... they were all able to sign as fast as they talked.

If they put that much effort into studying for school, they'd get straight A's.

He rolled his eyes a bit at the thought with a grunt but managed to focus in on their signing.

'Yeah and how hard do you think that's going to be?'

Tape signed to the two girls.

'Pretty hard to be honest.'

Pinky replied.

'It could be easy depending on how the teams are formed.'

Headphones offered.

'But only if their teams are formed badly. Like imagine if Kirishima has to go against his counterpart in class 1-b? That's a bad example but you guys get what I mean.'

Pinky signed. Bakugou's brows furrowed and his gaze flickered to her face. They seemed to be talking about the upcoming training battle Headphones had discovered.

'Ye I get it. But how much longer do we have until this starts?'

Tape asked. Which was also what Bakugou was curious about. As it looked like it was going to be a team work together thing. Which meant he was probably going to be stuck in with Deku. The teachers obviously found it amusing to stick him with the one he hated most.

'Two weeks from now on a... Tuesday I think.'

That wasn't too terribly far away. It would give them time to calm down after the court case and all, and he could work on building up his muscle again from being stuck in the hospital for so long. He glanced at the time, they had about twenty minutes before it started.

"Time to go." He spoke aloud, he could feel that it had been a bit too loud, there was a scratch in his throat from it. He frowned and waited for Kirishima to sit up before he stood so the boy wouldn't fall over. He tossed some money on the table as a tip for the woman that served them, even though they didn't really get anything other than some drinks. She had snuck out some bread and she was chill.

And once everyone was ready, they all stepped outside, making their way down the street.

Even though Bakugou couldn't hear and everything was obviously silent for him, he could tell everyone else was silent as of right now too. They were about to walk past the arcade. The one none of them had seen since that day.

Pikachu and Tape led the way, continuously glancing over their shoulders at Bakugou and Kirishima, who were lingering in the back. He understood why. Bakugou usually didn't look like it, but he hated to go back to places like this. He never wanted to go back to the place where All-Might had fallen, he didn't even like going back to places where smaller things had happened. The first time he'd cried in front of Deku- he hated going there. It reminded him of times in his life where he had been too weak to even hold a strong face.

Pikachu stopped walking and a moment later Tape did too, their eyes setting upon the sight around the corner.

Bakugou stepped around them to see it, his ears stung just at the memory of the explosion that had happened there.

He stepped onto the property and quickly two hands grabbed him to stop him. He whipped around to glare at them.

"F*ck off." He growled at Pinky and Tape before he continued. In the corner of his eye he could see Kirishima step up beside him, and then felt him take his hand a moment later. "Are they yelling..?" He mumbled under his breath, nodding his head back to where the morons were. Kirishima shook his head as an answer before frowned at something behind Bakugou.

The blonde turned to look behind him. The go-kart track, and then the far wall by it that had been where the dance game was. A small bit of the wall remained. Though they had pulled out all of the arcade games, destroyed or not. They hadn't flattened out the property, or began reconstruction yet.The rubble remained for now.

He continued forwards, on to where the laser tag had been.

The pillars that had been the support of the building were crumbled, and already growing to be dirty and gross. He tested to see how easily they crumbled before he climbed up on top of one, extending his hand to Kirishima to help him up.

His jaw clenched tightly.

Their blood was still there.

There were two deep craters in front of them. The pillar they stood on seemed to have been one that a hero must have pulled off of them, as it was painted with blood as well.

Kirishima's grip on his hand tightened. And it wasn't until he did that Bakugou realized how hard he was holding the other boy's hand.

He opened his mouth to speak but his chin was taken before he could say anything. Kirishima forced him to look at him, giving a weak smile as he nodded towards the others, mouthing a small 'time to go'.

That was right... they still had to stand up in the court.

He glanced back down at where him and Kirishima had laid when that explosion that took so much from him went off.

"Like hell I'm going to help those b*stards..." He whispered before he hopped off the pillar to go follow Kirishima back to the morons.

~

He hissed as Kirishima straightened his tie. The thing was already choking him and he had barely been wearing it for two minutes. They had all been asked to dress formally, and had been offered clothes to wear. Though a few of them had brought along their outfits from when they had gone overseas for that whole whatever the f*ck that was. It was all a distant memory to him at this point.

Point was, he already had a suit that Kirishima had gotten him a while back. Though it had a few areas that had obviously been stitched up..

He brushed away that thought as Kirishima's gaze flicked to the door, and he spoke. Someone must have knocked and told them it was time to go.

'It's almost time to go.'

Kirishima signed to him. Bakugou nodded and took his phone out.

'i know theres going to be someone in there signing - but i probably cant keep up with them ~Baku'

He glanced up as Kirishima took off his shirt and took out his phone, reading over the text.

'I can ask before if I can text you through the whole thing and be your translator. I'm sure they won't mind that. ~Kiri'

'they might - if they think we're using our phones to mess with the trial ~Baku'

'That... would be a good reason to not let us do it, but we'll see when we get in there. Mina just came and said we had a five minute warning. - You gonna be good to see them in there? ~Kiri'

"I'll be fine. I just don't know which side I'm planning on fighting for." He answered aloud, tired of messaging someone who was standing right in front of him when he could just talk. Kirishima nodded slowly as he started buttoning up his shirt.

Bakugou grunted and stepped over to do it for him so the boy would text him back. Kirishima smiled a bit and then looked at his phone to text.

'Thank you - And I don't know either. I've talked to them directly more than you have, I got to know them and why they did what they did. - But seeing the arcade kind of made me think about it again. - Would it be manly to let a bunch of villains back into the world? Or would it be manly to put them in jail for possibly the rest of their lives? Either way, lives are at risk. ~Kiri'

Once Bakugou was done buttoning up the redhead's shirt he looked back to his phone. "Holy f*ck it's been a while since I've seen one of those. Your novels are getting worse Kiri." He muttered with a sigh as he began reading it.

"I know. I know they apparently had good reasons. I know they're supposed to be good people. But even aside from the fact that they nearly killed you and me, they destroyed an entire property. They said they were there to save that chick's kids. They went about the worst possible way of doing it. They should have contacted heroes about it. When we go out there, and when I get called up to testify. I'm going to tell them everything I know. The good, the bad, and my opinion on it. What they did was f*cking bullsh*t. I don't know if I even believe their stupid-a*s story. I can't hear you right now, I can't hear your laugh, I can't hear your voice, I can't hear that f*cking great thing you do when you're talking about something manly. I can't hear you make sound effects when you harden and go 'nyoom' and 'whoosh' with Pikachu and Tape. And that's their fault. Even if it was a mistake I hate them. I f*cking hate them for what they took from me. They didn't just take my hearing. They took a part of you away from me. And I f*cking hate that." He spoke, he tried to keep his voice down because he most certainly didn't want anyone else hearing them. But he couldn't exactly hear himself to fix his volume. It was clear his tone had been extremely harsh by the look on Kirishima's face.

The redhead nodded as he pulled a suit jacket over his button-up shirt.

'I know... It's really hard. We'll see what happens when we get out there. Just try to keep a level head alright? If you start getting angry and using language, they might not let you speak about it anymore. You were the one hurt most by them, what you say is going to be the most important. ~Kiri'

Bakugou huffed and nodded, stepping over to the redhead and gently pressing their foreheads together. "I'll be calm, as long as they don't act like f*cking r*tards." He grumbled, watching as Kirishima rolled his eyes and smiled, his lips moving as he spoke. Bakugou's brows twitched as he attempted to read the other's lip to find out what he'd said, though that wasn't something he was good at.

Kirishima pulled away from Bakugou and looked towards the door again, looking back to the blonde and signing a simple 'it's time' again before taking the boy's hand and stepping towards the door.

It was time to talk to the people who took his hearing.

Best day ever.