(Kirishima)

The two slid into the back of a sleek black car, Kirishima recognized the car, but not the driver. Normally, Fat Gum always sent someone from the agency to pick him up, but he wasn't too concerned with it.

"Morning!" Kirishima greeted warmly, taking his phone out to translate it all out to Bakugou.

"Morning." The woman replied dully. Kirishima flashed them a smile when they glanced into the rear-view mirror.

'the look in her eyes isn't good~B'

'I know, but we can't assume the worst, she might just not be a morning person.~K'

'sh*tty hair youre such a moron - shes wearing an earpiece and tapping on the steering wheel - is it to a tune - or is there music playing~B'

'There's no music. You might be a bit paranoid~K'

Bakugou glared daggers at Kirishima, raising to hand to form explosions and yell, but he remained silent. Kirishima had no idea why until the blonde glanced at the woman driving. He truly believed she was trouble and didn't want to trigger her too early?

'im not f*cking paranoid dumba*s and i swear if you ever say that again i wont hesitate to beat your a*s - trust me shes not on our side~B'

'Well what do you want me to do Bakugou? Cause an accident in the middle of the street?~K'

'dumba*s ask her questions only someone that worked in your agency would know~B'

Kirishima nodded and looked up to the woman. "Fat Gum mentioned to me that there was a big change at the agency while I was gone, he never went into detail about it, can you fill me in?" The Redhead asked.

"There's been a lot more food at the agency since you all had that big fight, trying to let Gum regain all his weight. That's about it." She answered, which Kirishima could only assume was correct. It was too easy of an answer though. Anyone that could have done their research would know that.

"Oh ok. I thought there was something bigger. Could have swore they built the team up because they were so backed up with work. Because before there was only one guy that would pick me up from school. But have we been introduced? I assume Fat Gum would have mentioned us-" Kirishima urged. He noticed her tapping on the steering wheel become more frantic.

Now he was finally starting to be convinced that this was actually bad. He looked to Bakugou for a moment, giving a slight nod.

"Of course. He speaks very highly of you both. He says you two have done great work for him and will have great futures as pro heroes. He talks about you more often, it's like he's adopted you. But he doesn't leave this adorable blonde out either, he speaks very highly of both of you!" She exclaimed, suddenly going from being gloomy to enthusiastic. The problem with that was;

Fat Gum knew nothing about Bakugou aside from what Kirishim had told him.

'You were right. We need to get out of here.~K'

Kirishima chuckled lightly, doing his best to remain calm. They had /just/ been through an accident. He really couldn't handle another one right now. "Yeah, I guess me and him have gotten really close. He's been a great mentor but ah... do you mind if we pull over for a minute? We had a long walk between the school and where we were picked up, I kinda gotta go to the bathroom." He said sheepishly.

"Oh we're almost there, don't worry. If you can just hold it for another minute." She said as she smiled into the rear-view mirror, driving slightly faster.

'We're almost there according to her and I'm assuming that we're not actually going to see Fat Gum.She probably went in the opposite direction.~K'

'if you had been paying attention to the way we were going you would know that dumba*s - iv got it - harden ~B'

'How are you going to protect yourself-'

'i see you typing shut the f*ck up and listen to me~B'

Kirishima looked at him worriedly, yet he stopped typing and put his phone in his bag, Bakugou doing the same with his own. Kirishima hardened his skin, gripping onto his bag tightly and preparing to grab Bakugou at a moment's notice.

Bakugou waited until there were no other cars near them and extended his hand, leaning forwards quickly and causing a large explosion right next to her ear, causing her to swerve.

"Bakugou!" Kirishima shouted as he let go of his bag and grabbed onto the other boy.

Before he could do anything more they slammed into the brick wall on the side of the road, the car turned onto its side.

Kirishima groaned and blinked his eyes open. His entire body throbbed, but he was fine. He looked to the boy in his arms, awake but very obviously in a lot of pain, hands over his ears. "Bakugou.."Kirishima said quietly.

The car had tipped over onto Kirishima's side, making it to where Bakugou fell into his arms anyways, which was extremely lucky for him, because if the roles had been reversed, Bakugou would have been stabbed through the stomach with the sharp metal that had stabbed into Kirishima. The longer they laid there, the further into the blade he sank.

Bakugou lifted his head, one hand still on his ear but the other resting on Kirishima so he could push himself up.

Kirishima winced, the blade hit something and was stuck. A bone most likely. "Bakugou please tell me the crash magically knocked your hearing into place because I really need you to get off me bro." He wheezed out with a cough of blood. Great.

Bakugou looked to the woman that was passed out at the steering wheel and looked at Kirishima with a smirk.

"She's out, we're good. You hardened right?" He asked, his gaze trailing to the blood that had come from Kirishima's lips. Obviously he didn't hear Kirishima's words. "You f*cking idiot I told you to harden!" Bakugou exclaimed loudly as he looked up at where they needed to climb out of the car. He carefully stood up, being sure not to stand or step on Kirishima. "Close your eyes and harden again." Bakugou ordered without even glancing at the redhead. Kirishima did as ordered. In the next moment he was showered in glass and was grabbed by the shirt and was being lifted up.

Kirishima screamed in pain as the blade left his back and blood spurted out. Bakugou wasn't realizing what was wrong. He was going to make this worse. When the blade was pulled out it was going to cause him to lose a lot of blood.

This was going to be bad.

~

(Bakugou)

"F*ck." Bakugou spoke as he tried to pull the boy out of the car. "Grab my arm dumba*s!" Bakugou called as he pulled harder. Kirishima took his hand, then the edge of the car and pulled himself out. He fell onto the concrete, he hardened his back again, hoping it would slow the bleeding.

Bakugou dove back into the groaning car and grabbed their bags. He plopped them down next to Kirishima. "What's wrong with you?" Bakugou asked in a rush,examining him. "You hit the wall really hard?" He urged further. Kirishima rolled slightly to show his back before laying back down.

"F*ck! Sh*t. Sh*t. F*ck. D*mnit. Sh*t." Bakugou spoke as he opened his bag and pulled out his gauntlet, putting it on one of his arms so it could start gathering sweat. "I thought you would be fine-" He continued but Kirishima couldn't hear it over the groaning and hissing of the car.

Kirishima tried to sit up but Bakugou instantly shoved him back down. "F*ck no. Don't make it worse. Don't move." He snapped. He pulled out the belt he had in his bag from his hero uniform and wrapped it around Kirishima's chest. Since the cut was on his lower back, close to his rear, maybe he could at least stop a little bit of the blood flow there?

Then he laid out His hero costume under Kirishima so he wouldn't lay on the dirty concrete and maybe the suit would act as a bandage of sorts as well.

Kirishima mumbled something, even though Bakugou couldn't hear it.

"I can't- Kirishima I can't hear. I can't f*cking hear, this would be so much easier if I could f*cking hear you right now. I-.. I can't hear."" Bakugou said in a rush, his ears were ringing uncontrollably. The moment they made contact with the wall there was a really distant thud, he had actually heard something. But it made him so dizzy that he could barely think straight.

That and his best friend was bleeding out right next to him.

"F*ck!" Bakugou called out loudly, his throat scratching horribly.

Cars began to pull over as the people traveling to and from saw the accident. An ambulance and the police arrived quickly, but Kirishima was already unconscious. They quickly began questioning Bakugou, he looked between them in a hurry.

"F*cking stop questioning me! I'm deaf! I can't f*cking hear what you're asking! We're first year students from U.A Highschool! I'm Bakugou Katsuki and that's Kirishima Eijirou! The woman driving the car was a villain!" He shouted at them before he moved towards where they were loading Kirishima into an ambulance. They tried to ask him something but he ignored them.

"You best believe I'm f*cking getting in here, try and stop me and I'll be a worse villain than you've ever imagined." He snapped at them as he sat down. He didn't get in the way of them trying to save Kirishima, he just sat there and stared.

Then it started to fade away, the whole world changed in front of them. As the ambulance doors slammed shut, the ambulance disappeared. The two boys dropped to the ground with a thud, the paramedics seemingly disappeared along with it.

The car accident faded away, the city, all of it. They were left in a warehouse.

A woman was left on the ground, panting, the driver.

Behind her stood a man with a knife, dripping with blood, and several others.

Bakugou's breath caught in his throat.

Silver thread, the girl that could turn people invisible, the handsy guy, and the guy with the ear shattering shriek she remembered all too well.

He looked to Kirishima next to him, still bleeding far too much. Bakugou looked at the villains, they were talking. They seemed to be oblivious to the fact that he was deaf. He looked to Kirishima again.

"I'm so sorry." Bakugou said quietly as he turned Kirishima onto his side and used his quirk against the cut, hoping to cauterize the wound and stop the bleeding. Kirishima let out another scream. Even though he couldn't hear it, Bakugou flinched. He stood up and looked to the villains, forming more explosions in his hands.

They were still f*cking talking to him.

The woman that had been driving the car stood up. He quirk must have been some kind of illusion thing like that chick from his provisional license exams.

"I'm deaf you f*cktards. And guess who's fault it is!" He shouted as he threw his hands against the ground, sending an explosion towards them and then instantly following it with his ap shot, turning it to try and hit everyone.

All he had to do was stall. Eventually Kirishima's work study would realize he wasn't there and would look for him. The driver woman held out her hands, the whole room changed again to where it was just them. The woman, Bakugou, and Kirishima.

"There is no need to fight." She told him. He took in a sharp breath and couldn't stop tears from welling up in his eyes. He just heard her. "We only want our comrades back. That's all. We never meant to cause any harm to anyone at the arcade..." She spoke gently.

"You nearly killed eight people! What the f*ck do you mean you didn't f*cking intend to harm people you lying piece of sh*t!" He shouted at her, for the first time in over a month, being able to hear himself.

Kirishima groaned on the ground next to him, he was awake.

"We really didn't... The owner of that arcade was a villain that had taken my children hostage, we went there to get them back, only to have them arrested and Silver's husband to be arrested as well. All we want is for you all to have them released to us and we'll go back to being calm. Please." She pleaded.

The woman faltered, the white room they stood in fading a bit. She clearly didn't have much control over her quirk. Bakugou could have taken her out right then. But in this illusion. He could hear. He didn't want to lose that.

So instead, he knelt down and looked to Kirishima. "You good?" He hissed at the boy.

"I'm fine." He said as he coughed up blood.

"Lying a*s.." Bakugou muttered. "We'll get your dumba*s to the hospital. Just hang on a f*cking minute or two." He continued.

Kirishima's brows furrowed. "You can hear?" He asked. Bakugou nodded.

"The b*tch's quirk is f*cked up." He replied, glancing at her. She was really struggling to keep the illusion up. She wasn't really helping at all. She was practically helping Bakugou stall until the police showed up. Unless there was something going on behind the scenes that he didn't know about...

"Heh.. that's pretty cool." Kirishima commented. Bakugou nodded with a slight smirk.

"Right when I thought I never had to hear your annoying a*s voice ever again." He gently put his hand on Kirishima's shoulder as the boy chuckled. "I have to lose it again though." He sighed and looked to the driver chick. She was on her knees by now, he could see the flickering image of the warehouse.

"Aye bro-" Kirishima spoke as Bakugou stood up again.

"What?" Bakugou questioned, glancing back down at Kirishima as he opened up the latch on his gauntlets.

"You're the manliest guy I know. I love you bro." He grinned, his sharp teeth stained red. Bakugou scoffed and held out his hand without the gauntlet for a fist bump.

"Better than Crimson Riot? And that's f*cking gay." He questioned.

"That's up for discussion." Kirishima gently pressed his fist up against Bakugou's, not clarifying which comment that was up for such discussions.

Bakugou looked back to the woman as she collapsed, her arms wrapping around her stomach, someone caught her as she went down, the handsy guy.

As the illusion went down, he saw someone going for Kirishima. He swung his arm around, throwing them to the ground, he slammed his fist right into their face with an explosion. Then there was a sharp, hot blade against his back. He turned around and kicked the guy in the chest before throwing an explosion at him.

They were too spread out now for him to use his sweat he'd built up in his gauntlet. He hissed gently. His hearing was once again gone, leaving him in the dark about them moving around. Kirishima forced himself back up to his feet and hardened. He would tell him to get back down to not mess with his wound again, but he honestly needed the help.

He couldn't hear what they were doing.

He felt a rush of air on his right and swung his leg around, sending the knife guy to his knees before bakugou grabbed his face, sending explosions through his hand. The villain grabbed his hand, pulling it off and cutting along his side with the molten hot blade. His body felt like it was boiling in the two areas that were cut.

He shouted in pain but continued to throw explosions at him until he was out. Kirishima grabbed his arm and pointed at where the door opened and the police and Fat Gum ran in.

Bakugou slouched over a bit. Finally. F*cking d*ckheads were late. Bakugou looked back to where Silver thread, handsy and driver chick were moving to get out while the sound dude had extended his hands. Kirishima, the cops and Fat Gum had their ears covered, shouting in pain.

"I think the f*ck not. You're f*cking lucky I can't f*cking hear you c*ntface." Bakugou growled as he held out his hand with the gauntlet and pulled the trigger, sending a massive explosion towards all of them. He tossed his gauntlet to the side and looked at Kirishima. "You good?" He asked. Kirishima nodded a bit as the police rushed in and grabbed the unconscious villains, dragging them off while Fat Gum went after the ones that had dodged the explosion and were running away.

Kirishima's lips moved again. "My hearing is gone again." He motioned to his ears. Kirishima frowned but nodded. He turned his head to where an ambulance had pulled up, Bakugou's gaze following his to meet the sight.

The real paramedics approached and began speaking, Bakugou remaining silent as Sh*tty hair spoke to them instead. They didn't have their phones so Sh*tty hair couldn't even translate anything.

Their bags were tossed to the side of the warehouse. Bakugou nudged Sh*tty Hair gently before he moved to go get their bags, holding his side that'd been cut.

It wasn't bleeding too bad, saying as the blade was hot as f*ck and cauterized everything it touched. But the stinging and burning sensation was annoying. He moved back over to Sh*tty Hair and the paramedics, dropping the bags at their feet.

The paramedics had them get in the ambulance to take them to the hospital, their wounds weren't bad enough to require them to have to lay on some sh*tty bed and have to be taken care of right away, the paramedics were just taking in their injuries and helping with what they could.

A woman knelt in front of Bakugou on the floor of the ambulance, signing something to him. "I'm deaf, but I can't sign, lady." Bakugou told her. She nodded and looked to Sh*tty Hair, her lips moving. Bakugou grunted in annoyance. "If you want to know what's wrong, I was cut across the back and across the side, the blade was searing hot so the wounds were cauterized. I've got cuts all over from a simulated car crash. Aside from that I'm fine. I just can't hear, and my glasses are gone so I can't f*cking see." He explained. He could see enough to know there were two paramedics in the ambulance with them, Sh*tty hair was sitting on the other side of the ambulance. And he could see the woman in front of him pretty clearly, but he couldn't make out Sh*tty Hair's facial features at all.

She made another motion to him. He still didn't understand sign language. He thought he f*cking told her that? He huffed. "Do it again." He told her. She did the same sign and mouthed out the word to him. Family. "My family?" He asked. She nodded.

"My family might already be here depending on what hospital we're going to. The Bakugous. Their number is-" He told them the way to contact his family and she nodded.

He felt the woman's cold hands move to his side to look at his cut. He simply raised his arm so she could work. F*cking thing burned. He wanted his phone. He wanted his glasses. Had someone grabbed his gauntlet? He swore if he had to go back to those b*stards down at the other stupid f*cking place at the school he was going to throw a f*cking fit. It took them forever to make his sh*t.

It didn't take them too long to get to the hospital. The woman brought Sh*tty hair and him to a room. He didn't understand why they weren't separated. They should have been. He looked to Sh*tty Hair with confusion. Sharky just sat there with his eyes closed, head hanging.

"Oi, f*cko. You're still a man. Don't f*cking forget that dumba*s. Head up. You're not f*cking weak so don't let them think you are." He told him sternly. Sh*tty hair smiled weakly and lifted his head to look at Bakugou. "Teeth." He said simply. Sharky grinned, showing his sharp teeth. Bakugou smirked and put a finger to his chin, lifting his head up the rest of the way, and then pushing it to make him look right up at the ceiling. He felt the boy chuckle.

The all so familiar doctor walked in and looked between the two, behind him Bakugou's parents ran in.

His mom- in that moment he was so f*cking glad he couldn't hear her because he was one hundred percent certain she was cursing him out. She then threw her arms around him and hugged him tightly, then pulled away and started cursing again. Then she lightly hit him upside the head. He glanced at Sh*tty hair. The redhead looked like he was doing his very best not to laugh but was terrified at the same time.

Bakugou looked to his father, who simply looked relieved he was alive.

"I'm fine ya old h*g." He told them as he fixed his hair. "Can I have my phone? And can he have his?" Bakugou questioned, clearly interrupting the conversation they were all having as he motioned to Sh*tty Hair.

His father went and unzipped their bags, moving their hero costumes around and grabbing their phones, handing them to each boy.

'catch me up~B'

'Your mom just lost it at you for one, she's pretty scary. They're talking to the doctors now about what happened.~K'

'yeah they were here anyway - they had a meeting with the doctors about the hearing aids - probably going to ask about a new pair of glasses too - that lady driving the car did they ever say anything about her quirk~B'

'No, not that I was told. But it seemed like illusions.~K'

'i got that part dumba*s~B'

Sh*tty Hair nudged Bakugou roughly, both of them wincing at the shooting pain through their bodies.

'Oww. But yeah, her quirk seems to fully convince your brain that you're somewhere you're not. She somehow simulated an entire car crash. I wonder how...~K'

'cops better f*cking fill us in~B'

'I'm sure they will- one sec~K'

Sh*tty hair set his phone down on the bed between them as the Doctor turned back to them and began talking to him. Bakugou sat and examined his parents. They both had their arms crossed, though their expressions were complete opposites, his mother agitated with the doctors, while his father was completely calm about everything.

That was kind of how it was with them. Bakugou just so happened to end up being a lot like his mother, while sometimes- mainly while he was asleep- he held that same soft expression of his father.

The thought was brushed away when Sh*tty Hair took his phone in his hands and hurriedly typed.

'They're talking about getting your hearing aids, and getting the process started while you're here.~K'

'cool - tell them im fine with that ~B'

He watched as Sh*tty Hair excitedly spoke to Bakugou's parents and announced to them that Bakugou was indeed fine with it. His parents smiled at him.

There was a tightness across his chest, a breath against the back of his neck, a heavy dust in the air that shone against the sunlight shining through the windows.

"Kirishima harden." He growled out suddenly, and quite loudly accidentally. He swung his hand towards Kirishima's head, watching as the boy ducked and hardened, Bakugou's arm slammed right into a searing hot blade. He used his other arm to send a blast behind himself and Kirishima, as he thought, there was a cloud of dust that flew everywhere, revealing two figures. Dust and the Knife guy. Naturally. He gripped onto his arm tightly, looking to the doctor and his parents.

Kirishima threw a punch at the man but he held up his blade and instead burnt the shark's skin with the glowing orange blade.

This was a hospital. Minimum damage building. There were patients here. No big explosions. Not unless they managed to get outside.

What the hell did these guys want with Kirishima and him anyways!? They could have targeted anyone, they could have given up, but no, they kept attacking and attacking repeatedly. They weren't even being smart about this.

"Kiri! Dust!" Bakugou said simply, he would take the guy with the blade. He did better with heat.

Bakugou took the wrist of 'Knife' before he could cut Kirishima again, twisting in behind his back and holding it there, glancing to where Kirishima was. Last time he left Kirishima alone to fight someone he was nearly killed. Dust was making her own limbs invisible so that she could get in a single punch.

Bakugou hissed in pain as Knife rotated his wrist and cut him along the lower stomach. He still held a tight grip on his wrist, kicking the back of his knee and sending him to the ground before rotating his wrist and putting the blade into his own back. The blonde pulled it out and used the butt of the knife to knock the man out.

Bakugou slid the slowly cooling knife to his mother, who caught it under her foot and picked it up. The doctors weren't letting her get any closer. Which was a mistake honestly. She could have hit these guys just as hard as bakugou could.

He then moved over to where Kirishima was and used another explosion to send the dust flying off of her, giving Kirishima enough time to actually cut her arm with the sharpness of his skin and flip her over his shoulder, knocking her out as a cloud of dust flew around the room.

Both of their wounds had reopened and by that time they were struggling to stay on their feet.

That's when the f*cking nurses and doctors finally stepped in and moved to help the poor kids.