I'm better.

I like you.

"Would you chill out!" she yelled, "Just shut up."

He made a face of annoyance and waved his arm, "Go ahead. Speak."

She huffed, "I met AllMight when I still lived in Japan."

He made a confused face, "You were born here?"

She nodded, "In middle school, I—My mom—" She placed her hands to her mouth and fought back the lump in her throat, "I lived with my mom." Bakugo nodded, wanting her to continue, "And when I was in high school, they used to..." Her voice trailed off.

"So some stupid kids made fun of your mom?" he asked with a scoff.

She stared at him, her blood lust spilled for a second, "I thought I told you to shut up."

"Don't tell me what to do," he growled to himself.

"She was a.. she was a villain," she admitted for the first time in years, "She was an assassin."

Bakugo's eyes widened, his lips parted open, "Holy crap."

"She had gotten a good deal with one of her employers," she continued, "But she scammed him."

Bakugo crossed his arms against his chest, his tongue poked at his cheek, "Did they kill her? " he wondered.

"He caught her," she continued, "He gave her an ultimatum; either give me to him and kill herself, or he was going to kill us both," Tsuki swallowed hard, "He knew I was her daughter so that meant I inherited a quirk similar to hers, and I did. Blood Lust. I could emit a menacing aura to paralyze people with petrifying fear. But to him that wasn't enough. He said that I had potential. So he gave me a cursed quirk, one he had stole from a shrine that was hundreds of years old. The curse from the red moon, blood bending."

"He—he gave it to you?" Bakugo interjected; his expression changed, "He—"

"Let me finish," she warned him, "He gave me the quirk and then told me to teach those boys who bully me a lesson. He wanted me to kill them. He wanted me to be something even more than what my mother was. He gaslit me and manipulated my brain. The first day after my mom .. was gone; it was all over the news. Those damn kids had a field day," she laughed, sorrily, "They were so excited to find me and remind me." she paused, looking up at the roof for a moment before looking back at her hands, "That alley way was dark. It was so cold, I hated my school uniform. They knew the way I went home for school so they waited for me. They waited for me and they cursed me. I tried to fight it, the blood lust, I mean. My mother had taught me how to hide it, but I had never felt the intent to kill like that before. I wasn't used to my new quirk yet either. I was going to kill them, I mean, my blood lust was everywhere, but then..."

"AllMight saved you?" Bakugo whispered, finishing her sentence.

She nodded, "The golden hero jumped in and saved those boys from the girl with a villain for a mother." She laughed with a saddened smile. "It hurt. Watching him protect them when I was the one who needed saving. He sent the boys away and I honestly thought he was going to arrest me or yell at me or scold me but he didn't. He said he was sorry. He told me that I could save people too."

A red tear rolled down her cheek; Bakugo's hand was quick to wipe her falling tear, "Can I stop shutting up now?"

She smiled, her face flushing, "Yeah."

"All for One."

The nerves in Tsuki's hands froze, "You know him?"

He scoffed, "I met him."

Tsuki gulped hard, "When, how?"

"During Kamino," he said solemnly, "He was there."

Her eyes widened, "I didn't know that."

He nodded, "How long ago was all this?"

"I was 13, so around 4 years ago."

He hummed, "Why does AllMight always ask you if you used it? Your quirk."

"He think's All for One might have a way to track the people who use quirks sent from him," she said with a shrug, "We got into a huge fight about it a year ago, and I kinda stopped reporting to him about stuff."

He tilted his head, "What kind of stuff?"

"I used to test things out to see how my power worked and the impact it had on my mental health; the more I use my cursed quirk, the more frequently I dreamt about my eternal hatred and my mom."

"That's part of the curse?"

"That's my personal theory," she concluded, "I'm not all too sure; I just got a bad feeling from AllMight. Like all he cared about was me not using my quirk rather than how I was actually doing."

Bakugo nodded his head understandingly, "Are you okay? Like now?"

She paused for a moment, "I've been asked that twice today."

He tilted his head, "That wasn't an answer to my question."

She slumped her shoulders, "I don't really know how to answer it."

He sighed, "You're really good at making things difficult, you know that?"

She smiled sadly at him, "Yeah."

He karate chopped the top of her head, "But it's nothing I can't handle."

She smiled at him, "Is that right?"

He scoffed, "The future number one can handle anything."

She looked at him, "You know, I like you, Katsuki."

His face went a deep shade of red, "Huh? What the hell? What are you talking about," he took a step away from her; his arms were in an awkward position.

She laughed at the expression on his face, "I like you."

He looked away from her, steam practically protruding from his head, "Shut up."

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Authors note: No dramatic confession chapter bc thats not like either of them.