MHA/BNHA react to For The Want of A Nail by Clouds part 1

D?ITHSP... 23 Therapy

"No." Bakugo scoffed, but it kind did. Maybe therapy wouldn't be so bad if he wouldn't have to change everything about him. It would still be pretty bad, though.

Inko: Progress at least?

Mitsuki: I'll take it.

"Let me put it this way." Hound Dog said. "How would you like to be on the receiving end of one of All Might's full power punches?"

"The kind that changes the weather?" Hound Dog nodded, smiling, and Bakugo stared at him. This guy wasn't just an idiot, he was insane! "That would kill me!"

Thirteen: Method to his madness I guess.

Hound Dog laughed, "Yep, getting a full punch from All Might would hurt like hell and probably kill you to boot, so why does he still punch villains?"

"He holds back, you idiot!"

Hound Dog nodded and hummed, "So? Objectively, he's still violent. I mean, he doesn't try to bring villains in by offering them flowers and holding their hands and singing kumbaya."

(everyone snorted again)

Katsuki threw his hands up in the air, "I guess!"

"So how is that different from your anger?" Hound Dog asked. "Bakugo, if you learn what you do that genuinely hurts people, you'll be able to hold back on those behaviors just like All Might holds back on his punches, while at the same time maintaining the fierceness and, yes, even the rudeness that makes you who you are."

Katsuki sat silently for a minute. "So... I really don't have to lose who I am?"

Midoriya: Nope!

Hound Dog shook his head, "No, you don't. You're in control here, I'm not here to force you to become something you're not, just to make sure you aren't going to keep hurting people like you have in the past."

Katsuki glared at him, "I'm not going to be nice."

Kirishima: That's okay.

Hound Dog shrugged, "I'm not asking you to be. You're a brash person, Bakugo, just like me, and if I don't have to be nice, you don't either."

Bakugo scoffed, "So you really think I can be myself and still stay at UA, huh?"

Hound Dog grinned behind his muzzle, "It's just a matter of honing your bark, but reserving your bite for the villains you fight."

(everyone looked at each other and then at Hound Dog who somehow managed to sit there completely impassively like he didn't notice)

Shoji: Does he think he's funny?

Ojiro: I mean it kind of is but...

Bakugo rolled his eyes and laughed, "Shut up, mutt, don't try to have a sense of humor just cause you think it's funny."

Hound Dog laughed again, "Oh, but I am funny." He stood up and opened the door. "I'll see you in a few days, Bakugo. Don't forget what we talked about, ok?"

"I'll forget if I want to, mutt!" Katsuki yelled. "You're not the boss of me!"

Mitsuki: Mm-hm sounds about right.

Hound Dog chuckled and waved as Katsuki stomped down the hall, back toward class 1A. That guy obviously didn't know what he was talking about. Katsuki couldn't be nice and angry at the same time, it was just impossible. Besides, even if it was possible, Aizawa and that stupid rat faced principal wouldn't be happy until they'd squashed his personalilty.

Nezu: Again that is in no way what we are trying to do.

Kirishima was waiting in the hall by the time Katuski got back to the classroom a few minutes before the bell.

"Hey Bakugo!" He smiled with sharp teeth and Bakugo rolled his eyes, "How was your free period?"

Iida: Well it was a start at least.

Katuski just scoffed and shoved past Kirishima, "Get outta my way, (*&%$ hair."

Kirishima laughed and stepped aside, "Glad you had fun, dude."

Spinner: How does he manage to keep being so nice to him?

Toga: No idea.

Katsuki glared, "I didn't have fun."

Kirishima shrugged, "Whatever you say, dude. Good luck next class, by the way, I hear Midnight's a total sadist when it comes to art history."

Midnight(giggling): Yup!

"I don't need luck." Katsuki huffed, but Kirishima just patted him on the shoulder and went to go sit down. Katsuki found his own seat and put in earbuds for a few minutes. Maybe that stupid mutt was onto something. Probably not.

But maybe.

Inko: He's learning. Slowly, but he's learning.