Alright, going off of my first post about the possible side effects of sweating nitroglycerin that Katsuki Bakugou would face.
I would like to present a slight AU. Namely one in which Izuku has Angina attacks (Please note I’m stretching medical science a lil here but shhhh). Basically, chest pains because of a lack of blood flow to the heart. He starts getting them as a little kid, which is rare. Because he’s so young and anxious, it gets misdiagnosed as panic attacks. Katsuki is still his friend at this point, and so when Izuku gets a “panic attack” he tries to help by hugging him to calm him down. It doesn’t actually help, but Izuku says it does afterwards because it was much nicer to deal with the pain when his friend was hugging him. They’re both very young still, and neither know much about what’s going on.
He doesn’t get them often, but Katsuki always tries to help when he does. After Katsuki gets his quirk, he still tries to help with the “panic attacks”. Now though, he’s done a little bit of reading in a book he found at the library, and he’s learned panic attacks can be caused by too much stimulus, and that removing some of the stimulus can help. So the next time Izuku has a “panic attack” Katsuki not only hugs him, but covers his eyes too. Izuku’s a bit confused, but it actually works really well. The pain goes away much more quickly and he feels relaxed afterwards.
The next time he gets a “panic attack” on his own, he tries to cover his own eyes but discovers the trick doesn’t work. His mom doing it doesn’t help either. It’s only Katsuki that helps calm him down. So it becomes a silent rule of theirs, Katsuki always helps Izuku with his “panic attacks”. Even as they grow up and grow apart.
As Izuku gets older, they get less frequent. By the time he hits UA they’re basically a thing of his past. He’s never even mentioned it to All-Might since it’s been a few years since he had one.
Until at some point, an attack gets triggered again during training. Aizawa notices the signs of a heart attack/chest pains right away when Izuku hits the ground, but Katsuki gets in the way. Even after all these years, Katsuki still has a very instinctive need to help Izuku with these attacks. It’s just a thing. Everyone else is stunned to see Katsuki carefully wrap Izuku up in a hug and after yanking his gloves off, covers Izuku’s eyes. Aizawa is more confused than anything else 1) that Katsuki is doing that like it’s supposed to help anything when Izuku is clearly have heart problems 2) wait hold on why is that working?
So now Aizawa is confused, while Izuku and Katsuki are confused about why he’s confused. Once he’s recovered, Izuku explains that it was a panic attack and he’s not sure why he got it here, but it should be okay now. When pressed, Katsuki explains that he’s always done that for Izuku and it helps him calm down from the panic attacks. Aizawa brings them both down to Recovery Girl to figure out what’s going on here.
It only takes a few minutes for Recovery Girl to figure out what’s actually going on here. She manages to correctly diagnose Izuku with Angina based on what he describes and a few tests. Which then leads to the question of ‘okay wait, so why did Katsuki’s hug and covering the eyes work then?’. Nobody is really sure until Recovery Girl starts talking about treatments for Angina. The primary one? Nitroglycerin. Instantly Katsuki and Izuku put together.
So as it turns out, the reason Katsuki was the only one that could help, was he was actually sweating a very potent, safe to consume form of the medication Izuku needed. It had nothing to do with calming him down whatsoever.
Aizawa’s baffled as to how much of these two’s childhood appears to have been survived by pure luck.
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