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Bakugo POV

She sat there, and looked at me with wide eyes. She didn't move, she didn't say anything.

Why isn't she talking? Why isn't she laughing at me? Why does she look so serious? And why do I have a very bad feeling about it?

Mitsuki Bakugo (katsuki's mom) POV

I couldn't believe to what my ears have just heard. I never thought that this day will come. It felt so unreal even though I knew it will happen someday.

I can't believe it!  To think that my Katsuki actually found his soulmate...

More than that, his soulmate is Midoriya? They were really good friends when they were little, but I don't think that they saw each other outside school in the past... 10 years? And, to be honest, I thought that his soulmate is going to be a girl. But it doesn't matter anyway, I'm sure that they will be happy together.

"Did Midoriya said something to you about it?" I asked Katsuki. "No, why would he?" he looked at me with a confused expression on his face. "Oh... so maybe he acted weird or something like that?"  I tried again. "He is always weird" he said simply.

I sighed, I wasn't sure of how I'm supposed to explain it to him. "Look, if what you say is true, then Midoriya was supposed to see a light like this around you too" I said.

He waited for me to keep talking.

I took a deep breath before I continued:"The light you saw around him... means that he is your soulmate"

As he heard my words, his expression turned from a confused one to a shocked one. His eyes widened and his face turned pale. "What?" his voice was like a whisper. I didn't respond. "What?" he asked again, a little bit louder. "You're lying!" now he was already shouting. "YOU ARE LYING!" he yelled again while standing up.

But he knew I wasn't lying.

He ran out of the kitchen and I could hear his footsteps running up the stairs. He was cursing."Language!" I called after him, but I don't think he heard me.

Well... maybe I shouldn't have said it to him so directly.

Maybe I should have prepared him beforehand.

Bakugo POV

"No way!" I screamed.

"No way, no way, no way!!!There is no fucking way that he is my soulmate!!" I screamed as I ran upstairs to my room and slammed the door behind me.

I couldn't accept it. How come this useless, crybaby nerd is my soulmate!? She was kidding right? My mom was kidding right? She just tried to pull a cruel joke on me. That's it. Nothing more than that. I kept telling it to myself even though I knew it was useless. My mom loved to joke around all the time, but not this time. This time she was dead serious.

And still, it didn't make any sense. Deku was the weak crybaby that I have always—The reality suddenly punched me in the face, like a heavy, big fist made of regret and shame. Bullied.Deku was the weak crybaby that I have always bullied.

I bullied my fucking soulmate.

I shook my head in order to get rid of those thoughts. No, I didn't bullied my soulmate because he isn't my soulmate. There must be some kind of a mistake here, I thought. But then I remembered the weird expression on Deku's face when he looked at me yesterday, at lunchtime. I knew I said that he is always weird, but that time he was... weirder. Like something was disturbing him.

Something like a strange light that came out of nowhere and was stuck to my body, perhaps?

I couldn't bare that thought anymore. Who the hell is responsible for this soulmate thing? Because this time he made a very big mistake. Actually, that was another problem. I never heard about soulmates who found each other and didn't live happily together after that. Soulmates are supposed to be the perfect match. Then why Deku is my soulmate? Am I going to be the first man in history who hated his own soulmate?

I punched my pillow, trying not to blow it up (My mom was very mad at me in the last time I accidentally did that). I punched it again and again and again, but it wasn't enough. The frustration I felt turn into anger, I needed to relax before I will set my whole room on fire. With that thought on my mind, I decided to get out of the house and run.I didn't run to someplace specific, I didn't even notice where my legs were taking me. But it didn't matter because I didn't care anyway. It felt good to run, I felt as if I'm living all my disturbing thoughts and troubles behind me. My mind was clear again.

Too bad I couldn't keep running forever.I had to stop, my heart pounded fast and I felt my leg muscles burning from the effort.

I put my hands on my knees and took a deep breath while closing my eyes. Suddenly, one little cheering thought crossed my head. I realized that soulmate or not, if I'm not willing to spend with him the rest of my life- then I won't do it. And nobody can force me to do so.

And that jerk didn't even act as if he knows about us being soulmates. So maybe I should do that too. I will forget about it. I will act normal. Like nothing ever happened.

I walked back home, much more calm and relaxed.But the truth is that all I did was selling myself lies. The truth is that... I was afraid. Of course I couldn't show it, and of course I hated that feeling so much that I basically ignored it. I pushed it away, not willing to admit it.

But if I push away my soulmate, the person who is supposed to be the most special and dear me, then does it mean I will end up completely alone?

———————————-Hello guys👋🏻 I hope you all had a great week ~

And I also hope that there are no grammar mistakes in this chapter *^* I checked it a couple of times but who knows what I had missed ;-;

Well, I'm off to do my math homework. Bye bye :)

**FYI- soulmates who find each other don't keep glowing forever. The light is just a way for them to find each other. The light is gone when they understand it's meaning**