Pairing: Katsuki Bakugou x Deaf!Reader
Warnings: cursing, bullying, angst, mentions of suicide
Summary: Katsuki Bakugou always wanted to be strong so to cover any weakness he’d bully other people such as Izuku, but what happens when a new girl who just happens to not be able to hear shows up?
A/N: Not too long I watched the movie A Silent Voice (which I really recommend if you haven’t seen it) and it really made me want to to write a similar situation with Katsuki and Reader so here it is! Also the ending is kinda angsty and ends with a cliffhanger so if you want a part two lemme know and I’ll begin to write it immediately!💖💗 Also feel free to tell me if I got anything wrong about being deaf because I really don’t want to offend anyone!💗
Prideful. Overconfident. Self-absorbed.
Those are three words that you could use to describe five year old Katsuki Bakugou.
He currently was showing off his newly gained quirk to his three followers friends, plus a shy Izuku who stood in the back gazing in awe, all the while bragging at how great it was and how no one in the kindergarten could even dream of surpassing him and his quirk.
The teacher came out indicating for the students to come inside, for class was now starting and it was this specific class that would change young Katsuki Bakugou’s life forever.
“Okay kids, before we start I would like to introduce a new student here; her name is (Y/L) (Y/N) and she just transferred here from a different kindergarten.”
You didn’t do anything but stand there with a kind smile and a nervous look in your eyes indicating your uncomfortableness at being a new kid in a different school. However, Katsuki would soon find out it was not as simple and you being new that caused your anxiety to be so extreme.
“Not only is (Y/N) here new but she is also deaf, can anyone tell me what that means?”
One of Bakugou’s so called ‘friends’ raised his hand confidently.
“It means she’s dumb because she can’t hear.”
The whole class laughed, save sweet Izuku of course, but Bakugou only scoffed and examined the new girl closely.
She didn’t seemed bothered by the class laughing, in fact, she began to laugh her self, the sound coming out a bit strangled and weird since she could not hear her own voice.
The whole class went silent until everyone began laughing again, the kind smile never leaving the girl’s face because of her ignorance to the reasoning of the rude laughter.
“That’s enough class and no Tsubasa that is not what being deaf means, please save your ignorance for outside of class,” the teacher scolded the winged boy who simply scoffed and began to complain to Katsuki about how the teacher just had no sense of humor.
“To be deaf means to have lost the ability to hear; sometimes it’s mild and you can still hear things with the help of a hearing aid, and sometimes it’s more severe resulting in the complete loss of audible noise,” the teacher explained.
“(Y/N) has unfortunately the more severe case where she can not hear a single thing so please do your best with her and don’t use the fact that she can not hear as an excuse to exclude and bully her.”
The young girl finally took a seat as the class officially began. She of course didn’t notice all the whispering around her as everyone began to talk about their new deaf student.
In all honestly, Bakugou could care less about you and whether you had a disability or not, all he cared about was being the best and nothing was going to stop him from achieving his dreams.
Although Bakugou didn’t care about you, that didn’t mean that he wasn’t going to go out of his way to personally bully you just like he did with poor Deku.
Speaking of Midoriya, he soon became you’re only friend, spending time with you and even go as far as to learn sign language so he could communicate better with you.
You simply adored Izuku and his sweetness and always encouraged him that he would get his quirk sooner or later.
That simply was not the case for you.
Not only could you not hear, but you also were quirkless.
What an unlucky life you had.
You didn’t let that stop you from being optimistic and gracious that you at least had good parents, food, and a roof over your head. You were the epitome of kindness that made up for everything else that went wrong in your life.
You distinctly remember the first day you first met Bakugou Katsuki.
You were playing on the jungle gym with Izuku, you pretending to be a princess in need of saving and him being your knight in shining armor.
You giggled, the strange sound not bothering Izuku in the slightest, he actually loved hearing you laugh because he thought you more than anyone deserved to be happy after all you had been through.
He quickly signed a ‘I am here to save you!’ As he finally reached the top of the jungle gym where you pretended you were being kidnapped.
‘My savior!’ You signed back as you both laughed and had a good time.
“Well look what we have here, a quirkless loser and a deaf quirkless loser, what a pair,” Katsuki joked as his group laughed behind him.
“Leave us alone Kacchan we haven’t done anything!” Izuku yelled feeling more defensive then usual because now you were being targeted and not just him.
A look of confusion formed on your features as you saw the distress on Izuku’s face and the smug look on Katsuki’s face.
You tapped your green haired friend on the shoulder and mouthed, ‘what’s going on?’
He sighed and shook his head as he grabbed your tiny hand and lead you off the play structure and away from the group of bullies.
“Hey where do you think you losers are going?!” Katsuki yelled as explosions began popping in his hands.
He grabbed the back of Izuku’s shirt and threw him to the ground, keeping his grip on Izuku as he began to use his explosions on him.
You watched on in horror as your friend was being attacked, tears streaming down his freckled cheeks from the pain and helpless he felt.
“Leave him alone!” You yelled the words sounding distorted as they left your mouth.
“Oh I almost forgot about deaf girl over here,” Katsuki said as he let go forcefully of Deku and began to focus his attacks on you.
“Why don’t you do us all a favor and never talk again, your voice is so annoying and no one can understand you!”
He finished his hurtful words by pushing you into the ground, his gang behind him cheering him on.
You stared at the ground for a second before you look up to Katsuki with a kind smile effectively making the young blonde’s eyes widen.
You intertwined your hands and made a forward motion with them, confusing Bakugou.
“What the crap is that suppose to mean?”
“I-It means she wants to be your friend,” Izuku muttered, his voice strained from the attack.
“Hah! As if I’d ever let such a helpless person be my friend! You’re useless not only can’t you hear but you don’t even have a quirk you’re just a waste of space and don’t you forget that!”
He pushed you one last time and left with his other two friends leaving you alone with Izuku.
He turned to you with guilty green eyes and immediately apologized for not being able to protect you.
You didn’t blame him at all neither did you blame Katsuki because you knew it was because of his own problems that he bullied you and you made it your personal goal to be friend him and help him with his issues.
With each passing year you tried becoming friends with Katsuki only to fail and be bullied.
He usually only verbally hurt you calling you useless and making fun of your lack of hearing, however sometimes he would take to physically hurting you either by pushing you or using his explosions.
He just couldn’t stand the kind smile on your face afterwards and the open gesture of friendship you would always extend to him.
Katsuki Bakugou couldn’t stand you and hated having to even go to the same school as you.
It was the first day of middle school and you did your usual walk with Izuku, six years never changing your friendship except that it was now even stronger then it was before.
You signed and joked as you made your way into the new middle school building.
As soon as you entered, a loud explosion went off in both yours and Izuku’s face, sending you both to the floor.
Loud laughter followed soon after that you could only tell by the way Bakugou’s eyes closed and his mouth widened.
“Wow it’s too fucking easy to send you guys flying now a days, are you both getting weaker or am I just getting stronger?” Bakugou boasted with a prideful smirk, causing Izuku to sigh and offer you a hand up.
‘Are you okay?’ He signed and you offered him a soft smile as you signed back, ‘I’m okay Izuchan thanks for asking.’
The green haired boy smiled back at you.
You offered Bakugou a small wave as you and Izuku began to walk away.
Bold of you both to assume he was going to let that happen.
For some reason when he saw you give Deku that soft smile and watched you both communicate in way that he couldn’t understand, it made his stomach churn and his heart feel weird.
He had never experienced this before and he didn’t like it which only made him angrier.
“Hey come back here you fucking weaklings!” Bakugou yelled while his ‘friends’ tried to tell him it wasn’t worth it.
It was fucking worth it if Katsuki Bakugou said it was worth it.
You and Izuku turned around only for you to be knocked down again, this time only you and surprisingly not Deku.
“Aren’t you gonna fucking say something or make that damn shitty offer to be friends, huh?!”
After all these years you had gotten pretty decent at reading Bakugou’s lips even through all the yelling.
It also gave you the excuse to look at Bakugou’s lips.
You understood every word he said which made your eyes widen in surprise.
Did he want you to ask him to be your friend?
Thinking that’s what he meant, you signed the gesture for friendship with a sweet smile on your face.
Immediately after he set explosions off on you causing parts of your shirt to be burnt and making you look like a mess.
Bakugou stood there and laughed his ass off as he walked away from the sad scene.
His heart now felt full and empty and the same time, a feeling he definitely decided to ignore.
Middle school was coming to an end and it was almost time for high school to start.
‘So Izuchan, have you applied for U.A. yet?’ You signed excitedly for you hoped your best friend would get into the school he dreamed of going to for a while now.
‘Not yet but I’m definitely going to soon,’ He signed back as you both entered the classroom.
“Well, well, well if it isn’t the most useless dorks in class,” a familiar brash voice spoke, not that you could tell how low and loud it was, but you did have a feeling that how it would sound if you could hear it.
“Kacchan could you please leave us alone for just one day,” Izuku muttered under his breath.
“Huh?! Wanna say that a bit louder shitty Deku?!”
You placed a gentle hand on Izuku’s shoulder and shook you’re head as if to tell him, ‘it’s not worth it.’
The freckled boy nodded and smiled at you as you grabbed his hand and began to lead him forward.
As soon as you tried to move, Bakugou stuck his leg out and you ended up tripping over it causing the class to erupt in laughter.
For some reason you weren’t feeling too kind in that moment and abruptly stood up and pushed Bakugou back.
Oh how stupid that decision was.
Explosions began to pop out of his hands in anger as he got ready to give you the worst burns of your life, but his plans soon came to a stop as the teacher walked in and made everyone go to their seats.
Bakugou glared at you as you sat down and mouthed, ‘after class I’m going to fucking burn you so bad you’ll think before even touching me next time.’
You felt no fear at his words only sadness.
You truly wanted to be friends with Katsuki, maybe even more, you didn’t want to make him angry or upset.
Class was long that day, the only disturbance really being when Izuku stated he wanted to go to U.A. and Bakugou made fun of him, but that was just the calm before the storm.
After class, Izuku said he had to go to the restroom before you guys left together so you agreed to wait for him out in the hallway.
You looked to your right to see Bakugou and his gang laughing while a girl leaned on him and seemed to laugh at everything he said.
Who was that girl, was it Katsuki’s girlfriend?
You wouldn’t be surprised if he had one after all he was very attractive and had a great quirk, but it still hurt to even think of that possibility.
Soon Bakugou realized you were looking at him and oh dear we’re you in for it now; he hadn’t at all forgotten that morning’s exchange.
“YOU!” He yelled loudly as he began to make his way towards you.
He was too far away for you to read his lips as you began to back away from his threatening form.
He grabbed your shoulders and pushed you against the wall forcing a strangled scream from your throat.
“YOU FUCKING USELESS DEAF BITCH, YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN PUSH ME AROUND CAUSE YOU FUCKING CANT; IM THE BEST AND I WILL BECOME THE NUMBER ONE HERO WHY DONT YOU DO THE WORLD A FAVOR AND TAKE A SWAN DIVE OFF THE ROOF AND PRAY YOU’LL BE BORN WITH A QUIRK AND PROPER EARS IN THE NEXT LIFE!”
Silence followed after that as you just looked down at the ground.
Katsuki Bakugou had just told you to commit suicide.
All the other insults you could take even if they did slowly eat away at your mental health, but this, this really did hurt.
Tears began to spill down your cheeks as you dropped to the floor.
Poor Izuku who was clueless walking to the scene immediately ran to your side and kneeled down next you.
“Kacchan what did you do!” He yelled out as he brought you close to him.
Bakugou remained silent as he watched you weep violently on the floor.
After all those years of insults and pushing you around, you had never once cried.
You would always smile that dumb smile that he liked hated, and then you would just go about your way.
His heart pulsed painfully in his chest as he continued to watch you cry.
His hands wanted to move to move to wipe away your incoming tears but he did no such thing.
He wanted to take back what he said knowing he went way too far but he did no such thing.
He turned around hearing Deku yelling but that wasn’t was caused him to turn around, no, what did was the sound of your voice.
“All I wanted was to be your friend.”
And that would be that last time Katsuki saw you.
It would be another six years before he laid his crimson eyes on you again.
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