Admiration

Y/N and Midoriya walked back home with Iida and Ochaco that day. Although, she was mostly involved in conversation with Kyoka considering how much she was interested in music. Y/N wasn't the person who liked to brag but she was infact proud of her family, especially her elder brother, Haruto. Kyoka was more excited than she ever was seen in the class before when she heard about Y/N's brother. That day Y/N exchanged number with two people - Ochaco and Kyoka.

The next day their usual classes began. The hero course curriculum had normal classes like English which was taught by Present Mic and for your information, extremely boring. After lunch, the students finally got to their most awaited class in the afternoon - hero basic training.

"I am here!" The students heard the familiar voice, "I am coming through the door like a hero!"

"Really? Coming through the door like a hero? That's the line he decided to enter with? Kinda embarrassing~" Y/N muttered, observing the chaos around the class.

"You know you're talking about the number one hero right, dumbass?!" Bakugou said grinning.

"And you know that you act like a fanboy right?" Y/N said, trying her best to hide her smile.

"Shut up you adopted freak!"

"Fine, keep denying but let me inform you're just a bit of a different fanboy than Midoriya."

Bakugou gave her a side glance and looked forward to All Might, pretending to ignore her remark. Y/N continued looking at Bakugou's back, her mind full of thoughts. She thought about this the whole night yesterday and now she can keep denying or accept it.

She has grown to care for this hothead.

When, where or how she has no idea. But she decided go with the fact that watching him over the years and having conversations - even though in the form of a fight - she sure has spent a lot of time with him back in Aldera Junior High.

And right now, she had no idea whether it was a good development or a bad one.

"I mean just a bit of caring won't hurt...right?" Y/N broke from his thoughts after hearing Bakugou's excited voice.

"Fight training!" He said.

"So...combat training on the first day?" Y/N said, finally listening to All Might.

"What, you scared?!" Bakugou asked her, still putting on his scary excited face.

"Do you see me shivering?" Y/N asked back, sarcastically.

"Shut it, you are no match for me weakling." Bakugou said with a scowl on his face. Y/N immediately became quiet as it was obvious how Bakugou is in fact stronger than her. And even though she wanted to be confident about her quirk and how much she improved, she knew it wasn't as strong as Bakugou's. He had full control of it while Y/N didn't.

The left walls of the classroom opened up with small boxes attached to them and numbers on them, as All Might explained "These were designed for you based on your quirk registration form and the requests you sent in before school started. Get yourselves suited up and then meet me at the training ground."

"Yes sir!" Everyone yelled in excitement.

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Everyone arrived at the training ground, and All Might started giving his pep talk of how everyone looked cool. Some of them looked like they were wearing casual clothes instead of costume, while others looked like pro heroes. Y/N heard running footsteps as she looked back and saw Midoriya arriving.

He literally radiated the fact that he was a fanboy of All Might - well, apart from the fact that he looked like a cute bunny. While Midoriya was busy blushing while talking to Ochaco - no doubt in it - for her tight costume, which frankly speaking made Y/N feel a bit self conscious, her eyes wandered around and fixated on Bakugou.

Bakugou.

He looked....way more muscular with his costume on than he looked with his uniform. A blush formed on Y/N's face as she kept her eyes on him. While she did agree with All Might regarding the fact that everyone looked cool, she couldn't help but feel some of them looked hot - including Bakugou. Y/N blushed even harder when she realized she just thought Bakugou looked hot.

Feeling a pair of eyes on him, Bakugou looked back at exactly the direction where she was standing and Y/N's heart did a flip. An awkward moment of eye contact between the two was all it took to finally bring her back into what All Might was saying.

And Bakugou wasn't dumb. He was good in studies and even though he looked dumb due to his attitude, he was quick to catch on the fact that Y/N was observing him a lot since morning. He didn't know what to do with this information.

Admiration?

No, anything but that. For all the times that they spent around in school fighting and bickering, he was sure admiration was the last thing that would be coming from Y/N. She was always an observant person, so he went with the idea that since all the training was going on, she was observing his quirk just like Midoriya and concentrating on what could be done to defeat him.

His usual evil grin came back to his face as he continued listening to All Might.

"Hey, your costume looks cool." Y/N heard Midoriya say.

"Okay bunny." Y/N smirked, "Don't know whether to call you fanboy or bunny."

"Quit teasing, Y/N." Midoriya sighed.

"Well, with the wide steps you're moving on, you'll hump Ochaco after a week bunny boy. Try to keep it in your pants." Y/N laughed teasing him a bit more while Midoriya grew red on the face.

"What the- s-shut up Y/N! She might hear you and misunderstand!"

"Oh please, you were blushing so hard after just seeing her in costume." Y/N then smiled in assurance, "Don't worry, you're doing great."

After All Might explained the situation to them and everyone was on their way to a building, Y/N took a glance at Bakugou one last time as she accepted a fact that she has been denying all along. She knew why she was behaving this way regarding Bakugou and why she appreciated so many things of him. Ofcourse, it was obvious.

Admiration.