Fandom A Rare Trait Among Friends | KiriBaku (CLOSED)

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Kiri had grown used to getting kicked in the face, thrown under the harsh tires of society's expectations. He was one of the rare kids with a talent, a quirk. Instead of awe, like the boy would have thought that he would get. He only got shunned and hated.

It was hard to get used to it, like anything mean, but it happened over time. He gave up on everything, school, home life (who didn't care about him anymore as the kids at school). He ran away and decided it was the best to just build his own life by scratch, pretend it he didn't have a quirk.

However, that ended up leading him into some darker places to make money. Stealing especially, asking for money and only getting cents as well as illegally selling things in home for enough for a cheap bed in a cockroach infested hotel. Kiri sat down against the wall on the side of the street he often asked for money on, he put his hands in his hair and closed his eyes. Everything he did wasn't enough.

 

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Bakugo had been labelled as a problematic child all his life; granted, he did have a rather nasty temper and a tendency to be antagonistic to others, but he was well aware that when others refered to him as problematic, it wasn't exactly his temper what they were alluding to. He knew that having one of those so-called quirks was the root of all his issues, especially when his particular quirk was a very hard to control and potentially deathly one for others, which made both children and adults alike avoid him out of fear.

It had been terribly hard for him, if he was to be honest, since he had been very proud of himself and his powers when he discovered them, but soon enough he became aware that he was never going to achieve much due to the stigma attached to him and his condition.

Despite his true desire and aspiration to work hard towards success in life (since even as a young child he had dreams of studying hard and having a profession that would allow him to help other people), the toxic environment he had been exposed to throughout all his life had pushed him towards behaviours that weren't exactly beneficial for him.

That particular day, the young male was walking on his own through a sketchy enough part of town for him to be able to buy cigarettes as an underage kid without people batting an eye at the fact that he was doing so in school hours, and simply taking long drags of his smoke. He didn't even noticed the brightly-coloured hair of what appeared to be a beggar.

 

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"It's hopeless, why do I even try?" Kiri whispered to himself, there was despair in his voice as well as his sitting position. His legs were pulled into his chest, and his eyes covered with his hands. It felt like there was nothing he could do, he was stuck in a never ending cycle of pain and fear.

He hadn't eaten in a day or so, and his body was tempted to already rip him apart. He didn't want to give up. That wasn't him. Kirishima wasn't the kid to give up, when kids saw him they would have never thought that he would be the type to become some beggar on the streets.

Kiri moved the cup that he used for coins in front of his legs, he pulled the cardboard nearby him and proped it so it stood up without his help. His eyes were bloodshot as if the teenager sat there, he obviously hadn't been sleeping or at least not well at all.

"Change please." He noticed someone passing by him, he hated how he felt when he asked. He needed to though, or he'd die for sure. Maybe he should steal, his mind peaked at the thought and a rush of happiness came with the idea. It was always how it started, he tried to do something honest and then push came to shove and he'd steal. Kirishima thought to himself, maybe he should pickpocket some people as dangerous as it was. It was very awarding if done right.

 

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Bakugo had learnt long ago that it simply was better for him to mind his own business and not get involved with others, so even if a very small part of his innermost self felt pity for that other man begging in the streets, he was not at all driven to help him. Due to a rather harsh upbringing that attempted to push him to be the best he could by making him accountable for himself even at a very young age, he was rather sure that said redhead had done something to make himself end in such a position and therefore it was his own responsibility to get back up on his feet without help.

"Fuck off" he said when that beggar had the audacity to ask him for money just like that when it was clear that he himself was not loaded either. He simply continued walking forth and smoking, wandering aimlessly for a while: he didn't have anywhere to go, since he was cutting school and therefore couldn't go home or anywhere where he could be seen and recognised by someone nosy enough to call his mother and get him in trouble.

 

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Kirishima couldn't help, but snap when he was told to fuck off. He grabbed the boy's arm, he was tired of the constant hatred.
"All I was asking is for some common decency. You don't have to be an asshole." He didn't even realized he used his quirk on his arm out of habit, it was just something that happened without him knowing most of the time.

He let go, realizing he had shown his quirk and stepped back. "Sorry, I just... Sorry." How does he even apologize for that? His throat ached in uncertainty, terrified that he was going to be hurt for being one of the people with a quirk. It was a huge mistake, and if he died right there he understood. Since he had been so stupid.

 

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It took Bakugo a moment or two to realise what that sudden bone-crushing grip around his arm was, having never expected the beggar to get up and outright touch him (and much less to have him do so with what clearly was a superhuman ability). He glared at the beggar and then looked at his own arm, realising that the hardened fingers of said redhead had managed to slice through his shirt and the flesh of his upper arm: he was bleeding.

He growled as he watched the other guy back off and apologise stupidly, dropping his cigarette and staring at him for a moment.

Bang.

Before he could even realise what he was doing, he had propelled himself forward using his explosive quirk and slammed the other kid up against the wall, glaring at him as he heard the flames around them die out. "What the fuck did you do to me?" He demanded, even if it was clear that it had been an accident stemming from what seemed to be a very poor control on his quirk.

 

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Kirishima stiffened up as he was pushed against the wall, noticing that he wasn't going up against a normal person. Someone who also had a quirk, man he was even more deadmeat than before.
"I'm sorry, I. I didn't mean to do that." He apologized, he closed his eyes.

It was terrifying knowing that he was completely at the mercy of that boy, and his small outburst was going to get him killed. He had gotten such a shitty hand of cards in his life, and now he had betted way too much and now he was going bankrupt. Kiri stayed still, he didn't use his quirk or fight back. He was just accepting it, if he was to die there, then alright.

 

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Bakugo had always been aware that his quick and explosive temper tended to get the best of him and ended up causing him massive issues more often than not, just like it seemed to be doing now; still, he wasn't scared of a fight, feeling actually very confident that he could win any sort of fistfight that might ensue from his previous outburst.

He squared himself up, getting ready for the imminent quirk-fueled skirmish, when suddenly he realised the other male was profusely apologising and looked terrified. Bakugo stopped to look at him for a moment and proceeded to let out a dry laugh when he was certain that the other kid was a big pussy that seemed to have no desire to settle things down by throwing some punches around.

"Pathetic" he spat out as he backed away, lighting another cigarette using a small and well controlled explosion on the tip of his fingers and taking a long drag out of it.

 

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"You're the one who is pathetic." Kirishima growled, wiping his face with his hand. He fell back against the wall, looking at the boy with a cold hard stare. He wished he had found some way of understanding, but he couldn't.

"Being so cruel when it can just be as easily you right here. Won't be long I guess." Kiri didn't stop talking, he could see Baku's weakness. It was easy to tell how to get a reaction, and Kirishima, at that point, didn't care anymore. He was as good as dead anyway, nothing was going to change that cruel statistic. He knew that the hatred of quirks were virtually universal and that Bakugou probably wasn't any better off than him, which only made his anger grow.

 

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Bakugo had to stand for a moment and actually review what the other male had just said to him: being used to interacting with a bunch of spineless twerps (such as Midoriya, his longtime frenemy/victim) that would quite literaly bend over backwards to avoid his wrath, he had never been expecting someone that seemed to be so vulnerable to simply come up with an insult and openly offer to fight him like that.

"What the fuck is that meant to fucking mean?" He roared and frowned as he looked at him, clearly showing that his go-to reaction for basically every interaction was over-the-top aggression and yelling. He was not aware that he was apparently an open book to that other kid, that seemed to be reading right through his fiery reactions.