Part 1 <3 :3

"You look like crap."

You glanced over at Bakugou from where your desk and gave a small sniffle in reply with a frown.

"That was mean," you stated, feigning sadness at the blonde. He merely scowled at you as he took a seat beside you.

"I'm serious. If you're so sick, why the hell are you here?" he asked, gruffly, pulling out his textbook. You massaged your temples lightly before sitting up a bit in your seat.

"Aw, are you concerned for my well-being?" you asked, dramatically placing a hand over your heart and smiling lightly back at him. You watched his eyebrows furrow as his ruby eyes narrowed to glare at you. "No, idiot, I just don't wanna get sick with whatever you have," he spat back. You bit back a smile at the friendly banter between the two of you and turned closer to him.

"Are you admitting your weak enough to catch a cold?" you said, wiggling your finger at him in a teasing manner.

Bakugou's frown quickly gave way to a smirk and you knew at once that you had messed up. His smug cadence made your heart skip a beat, and if your cheeks weren't warm from the fever a moment ago, you were sure that they were warm now.

"I don't know, idiot, are you admitting you have a cold?" he said, with a know-it-all look.

Your smile vanished and in its place was a pout. He had beaten you at your own game. You crossed your arms across your chest and slumped back into your seat.

"Shut up," you mumbled, turning back around to the front of the class where Aizawa was now getting ready to teach.

You could feel Bakugou's eyes still on you as you tried to concentrate on class. It wasn't easy with the pounding in your head and your constant sniffling, but eventually the bell rang and you were grateful to have a break. Glancing down at your notes, you bit your lip in frustration.

The reason you had pulled yourself out of bed to class that morning was because exams were coming up and you were beyond nervous for them. You didn't want to miss a thing, and if that meant bearing through the pain, then that's what you would do. You were a UA student after all.

Isn't that what it meant to go Plus-Ultra?

As your classmates began to file out of the room for lunch, you gripped the side of your desk to pull yourself up, sighing deeply at the pain in your head.

"Y/N-chan, are you coming with us for lunch?" Mina asked, bouncing over to your desk. You gave her a small, tired smile and shook your head.

"No, but thank you. I'm gonna go back to the dorms and study for a little bit. These exams are gonna kick my ass for sure," you said, chuckling lightly. She frowned at you, but nodded in understanding. You waved her off, along with Denki and Kirishima before making your way to the dorms.

"Hey idiot, you forgot this."

You jumped at the sudden voice behind you only to find Bakugou standing there with your class notebook in his hands. Your eyes flickered between your book bag and the notebook before you hung your head in shame.

"Ah, sorry about that…guess I left it in the classroom," you admitted, slowly. You reached out for the book but to your surprise, Bakugou only pulled it farther away.

"You shouldn't skip meals, idiot, that's probably why you're so sick in the first place," Bakugou berated, holding the book in his hands. You listened to his words and noted how accurate they were as you flitted your eyes away from him, unable to hold his gaze.

"Shut up, that's not - " you trailed off, but Bakugou continued.

"If you're so worried about exams then you should take care of yourself first. Eat food. Get some sleep. Just cramming this crap in your brain all day isn't gonna help," he explained. His voice was sharp in an almost crude tone, but his words were genuine.

That only made you even more confused…and frustrated.

You knew what you were supposed to do, but it wasn't that easy. There was pressure and stress and too many outside factors to even begin to mention.

"I know! I try! But I just feel so stressed out all the time and I never feel hungry anymore! And in the time it takes me to cook, I could read another chapter, or study more or – "

This time you cut yourself off as you felt your throat began to close off and become dry; a telltale sign that if you kept talking and being frustrated, you were going to start crying. You didn't want to have this conversation with anyone, let alone the boy you had feelings for.

Bakugou was standing in front of you, his gaze piercing your own as he waited for you to continue. When you turned away from him, he let out a small sigh and held out your text book to you.

"I know it's not easy, idiot. If it was, then everyone would do it," he stated, more calmly than you had ever heard him speak before. You looked back at him with surprise and when your eyes met, it was his turn to look away as he continued to speak. "And knock it off with the self-loathing crap. You were smart enough to get into this school right? And your definitely smarter than dumb-hair and dunce face so you'll be fine."

Your heart was beating fast in your chest as you realized what Katsuki Bakugou was doing.

He was encouraging you.

You had never expected someone like him to say such encouraging words to you, even if he had called you a idiot. You avoided his gaze once more, this time due to the embarrassment of feeling your face flush once more, so you were surprised when he walked past you with his hands behind his neck.

"Come on, idiot. It's lunch time, we can study later," he called out, his back to you as he walked back to the cafeteria. You glanced down at the book in your hand that he had gone out of his way to return and let a small smile float to your face.

You felt your stomach growl and gave up on studying, hurrying to catch up with Bakugou before he out-paced you.

The next day was rather interesting to say the least. In the dorms everyone could cook as long as long as you didn't burn the house down, so you gave a yawn as you just came back from outside to let cupcake out to take care of business and then the first place you went to was the kitchen.

Dorm-life meant that you could have other people cook for you, so that was pretty awesome, but you still had freedom to cook yourself some food as well. Although you weren't exactly much of a 'cook' at all, you knew how to boil noodles and pasta, and heat up sauce and other things. That was better than nothing right?

You thought so. And once you and your puppy were in the kitchen, you decided to feed him too since earlier before he'd been trying to drag you into the kitchen so you could give him some food. So you grabbed a bag of dog food that you had decided to bring and keep in one of the cabinets, along with a bowl that said 'cupcake' on it and filled it up with chow.

cupcake happily barked as he began chomping and crunching away at the puppy food as you couldn't help but giggle. "My thoughts exactly boy." You smiled as you decided to just help yourself to some leftovers of 'lunch' you made for yourself the other day, or rather, 2 days ago when you needed something to satisfy your cravings.

Pasta, still sauced up in the bowl just like you had left in the container. You shrugged your shoulders and deemed that your snack for the night since it wasn't exactly yet let. 11 pm wasn't that late right? You thought so as you put the container in the microwave to nuke it for about 1 minute or two.

Nice and hot, and it tasted mostly like it did the day you made it as you happily ate your food, not bad. Now you and cupcake were both enjoying a late-night snack. However, you didn't hear your phone vibrating on the side of the couch where you put it. Nor did you remember that Bakugo often liked to text you to remind you to 'go to dang iting bed' since you didn't have good sleeping habits. Or eating habits for that matter.

Ever since you and he started dating he was bit judgy but to your surprise, it wasn't really mean, just his abrasive way of showing that he cared about you and wanted you to get healthier habits so you don't dang it up your sleep schedule or gain extra unwanted weight.

You grew to adore Bakugo, he was a kinder boyfriend than he led on and he was definitely something you could hug and hold at night when it was cold. Although, you also had cupcake to hug and cuddle with at night, so there were times where you naturally chose your puppy to cuddle with instead.

Bakugo still wasn't very fond of cupcake, especially when you and he started dating. That pup was always stealing your attention away from him and he still growled at him too because cupcake wasn't fond of Bakugo either. But that was mostly because Bakugo was loud and he yelled at him and you which the puppy didn't like at all so he held a bit of a grudge against him for that.

"RUFF!" cupcake started growling as he stood in the room and got that angry stance as you perked up a bit, "cupcake?"

"Who are you barking at mutt?" It was Bakugo, angrily sneering at the puppy who dared to challenge him as he barked at him before scampering backwards and then jumping on the couch to sit right next to you. But the blonde continued to glare at him, before he turned it to you and gave his own low growl.