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New Year

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Good morning, Bakugo. Happy New Year.

It's easier for me to type this than to say it. I don't always know what to say so if I type it out, I can see it and correct it hopefully with better accuracy. You are my friend, one of my best friends. I also know that you've gone very out of your way to take me into your home. Being brought to someone's place to rest is one thing, but you've allowed me to exist in your living room since the first day you brought me there to spare me being further overwhelmed. You know this, I know this. You could've left me there and gone home, told me to meet you anywhere else, a multitude of things and you didn't. There is nowhere that should be more sacred than someone's home. I know this first hand.

Instead you brought me somewhere safe that I knew I wouldn't have to sleep lightly. That's something I don't like doing anymore and yet find myself very in practice doing still. What I'm trying to say is, it is more than enough for me and I thank you for it.

It may be easier for you to read this, too, now that I'm thinking of it. I know you don't enjoy this sort of thing face to face. I don't think I could've said it to you face to face either. It looks like we both have a lot to work on and maybe in the coming year we can do that. We don't have to talk about this message either, but I wanted to make myself and my gratitude clear as well.

Your friend,
- Shoto Todoroki

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[This was a little unexpected... Katsuki didn't want to really address all of what happened after that bullshit banquet and ball that Vaeros threw a while back. He didn't want to even think about how half the reason he passed out, and passed out hard, after was because he was so wrung out emotionally. Both Todoroki and Deku forgot who he was, forgot everything in the case of Izuku, and Katsuki would be lying if that didn't effect him pretty badly. It's one thing to have them disappear, he at least knows his friends are in a place where they belong, but having them forget their memories, their very selves...that's truly torturous. He doesn't ever want that to happen to them again.

So this text, so sincere and heartfelt, hits extra hard after all of that. It makes Katsuki feel tight, but not necessarily in a bad way. Not the way he felt when his two friends, yes friends, forgot who he even was. This tightness doesn't feel constricting and painful, it's almost...soft. Warm. Like a hug.

He reads it, and rereads it, and rereads it again, not having anything to say back because Todoroki is right - he doesn't enjoy these things, face to face especially but even in text it's difficult for him to put what he feels into words. But Todoroki knows, he already said it all in his message. Katsuki's done all this - housed all of them and even made renovations to his home - to keep them all together under one roof, because he wants to share his space and his presence with them, his friends. His best friends. He doesn't need to say anything back, so he doesn't. They know, he's already shown them how important he thinks they are, and how much he cares about them. It feels a little cheap, but...he's not quite at the point where he can say things from the heart with such confidence. Katsuki needs just a little bit more of a push in the right direction, a little more time on his journey.

He saves the message, and makes a mental note to stop by Meryl's printing shop to have the thing printed out, so he can have something more physical to hold on to. This message is important, it means something, so Katsuki wants to keep it in hardcopy form.]