"You fucking suck." Katsuki said, watching Aang trying to earthbend. "It's gotta come from your fists and deep in your gut."

"I don't know how to do that though. What does that even mean, deep in your gut?"

"I don't know! I just feel like it would come from your gut!"

"Just hear your heart." Izuku said pointing at his chest.

"Hell no, Deku, do you want him to die. That is the most horrible idea you've ever had. Hearing your heart ain't gonna help nothin, it just pounds. There's nothing else to hear!"

"Not know how feel your gut is better?"

"It just is! Your gut ain't a sissy. Ever hear of a gut attack?"

"… No."

"Oh yeah? Well you know what I've heard of? A HEART ATTACK! Which proves that your heart is weaker than your gut."

"Feel my gut…" Aang closed his eyes and really tried to feel something, but all that happened was his stomach growled. "I'm hungry."

"No wonder Toph left, you're a fucking disgrace."

"No! She left so that I could practice by myself!"

"I'm pretty sure what she actually said was that she wasn't going to babysit you all day, but whatever makes you feel better."

Aang huffed, crossing his arms. "Oh well. I think I've practiced enough today."

"I bet that's what the avatar before said right before he croaked."

"I think Aang is right. He been going all day."

"Your English is so terrible my ears are fucking bleeding."

Izuku gritted his teeth. "Kacchan?"

"What?"

Izuku screamed into his ear and Katsuki fell backwards. "That's how my ears feel every time you open your damn mouth."

At least, that was what Izuku wanted to do. Instead he just sighed and tried to let the anger flow out of him. He still couldn't help but let out the snarky, "Then why don't you just cut them off. Maybe if you couldn't hear you wouldn't have to talk so much." And that might've been worse than the first thing he'd wanted to do.

"What did you just say to me you fuck."

"Can't you think of any other insults besides cuss words or was Deku all you had?"

Fuck, Izuku, stop talking.

"Do you wanna go, cus we can go! I will KILL you, Deku!"

Izuku had tried to remain civil for everyone else, but he was beginning to lose his patience. "You think you can kill me? With your pathetic excuse of a quirk!"

"Deku!" Katsuki charged forward at him.

Izuku took a step back and dodged Katsuki's first swing. "Kacchan, hang on, I didn't mean all that." He had meant every word, except perhaps the quirk thing, however, he also didn't want to fist fight.

"Oh yeah you did, you little shit." He threw another fist, exploding it in Izuku's face. All he could do was throw his arms up to shield his face. Izuku didn't have on his hero suit, so he didn't have hardly any of the protection he normally would against Katsuki's explosions.

It stung, stung a lot, but that was all. Izuku could handle that.

"Whoa," Aang breathed and then ran off to go do who knows what.

Izuku got another explosion in the face for not paying attention. "Pathetic, huh? What about THIS!" Katsuki's hands exploded, rocketing him up in the air.

Izuku activated full cowling and hurriedly dodged Katsuki's rapid attacks. "Kacchan, listen—"

"—No YOU listen, bastard. I'm not pathetic, you are, and I'm gonna prove that by beating you into the ground like the weak nerd you fucking are!"

"I'm not a weak nerd, Kacchan. You're weak for putting me down to build yourself up."

"Shut the fuck up, Deku! Just shut your tiny nerd mouth!"

Katsuki's rocket boosters flickered and he almost fell. That distraction was enough to jump and elbow him in the jaw without getting another explosion in his face.

Katsuki smacked the ground, skidding from the force of the blow. Katsuki dug his nails into the ground and halted himself, standing up, only to get punched in the face. Twice.

The only thing Izuku forgot was that Katsuki was a literal bomb and he created an explosion that rocketed straight to Deku and blew him back. "Fuck you." Katsuki growled, spitting blood onto the ground.

Izuku shook his head and threw himself at Katsuki.

They smacked into each other and wrestled each other to the ground.

Out of the corner of his eye Izuku saw Aang and the rest of them arrive and watch the fight. Sokka looked a bit shocked, Toph kind of excited, and Aang and Katara just looked worried.

Momo tilted his head and Appa yawned.

"Fuck all of you, I'll bring down the firelord myself. And I'll find a way to get home myself and leave you sorry losers here to rot. Who the hell even cares about Shouto. He seemed happier here than he ever was back home anyway!"

"Don't say that, you idiot. We need each other right now if we're ever going to get out of this."

"Did you miss the part about how I DON'T need you!" Katsuki hissed.

"No I didn't miss it. I just chose not to acknowledge it because you're talking out of your ass like you always do. You think you're so cool, that you don't need anyone, and you can just do everything by yourself because you're the best. Well that's not true. You can be the greatest, strongest, coolest person in the world and you'll still need help!"

"I don't need help! Least of all from a stupid fucking nerd like you."

Izuku felt tears of frustration start to well up in his eyes and he tried to hold them back because he knew that Katsuki would chomp down on the display of "weakness". But he couldn't help it. Izuku rolled on top of Katsuki and grabbed the collar of his shirt, lifting him and then slamming him into the ground. "Stop fucking cursing you fucking dipshit fuck and listen to one thing I'm saying you shitty bastard!" Izuku screamed.

"Get the fuck off me nerd. We're done here."

Izuku felt a foot dig into his side and push him off. Katsuki got up and dusted himself off before walking in the opposite direction, hands shoved deep into his pockets, an angry scowl on his face.

"What happened?" Katara asked slowly coming over.

What did she mean by that? Had she not heard a single thing they said?

Then Izuku realized the conversation was gibberish to them because it had been entirely in Japanese. "Nothing." Izuku said. "He'll get over it."

Izuku knew he needed to as well. He couldn't be having random fights with Katsuki right now. He had to focus on other things, like how to get home.

That fight wasn't even worth it.

Izuku supposed he'd learned his lesson though. It was fruitless to fight with Katsuki, and he just needed to bite back his anger and deal with Katsuki's stupid moods.

"It didn't look like nothing." Katara said, frowning.

"Yeah, it was nothing, swear."

"If you say so." Katara murmured, but she sounded doubtful. "Anyway, dinner's ready, I just thought you should know." She smiled and went back to the campsite.

Izuku was being stupid. As if he needed that nerd. As if he needed any of those ragtag group of misfits. In the end they were just holding him back. If he were by himself, he probably would've already figured out how to get home and he would've been well on his way to doing what needed to be done. Instead, he was tagging along with a bunch of stupid kids and the stupid nerd, wasting time, running around like a bunch of stupid idiots. This trip would be going a whole lot quicker if they didn't go on a bunch of dumb side trips like they were just tourists or something.

This entire thing was fucking dumb. And then the nerds words echoing through his head about how they needed each other didn't help either. What a load of bull. That useless, stupid nerd was going to have to learn someday that pretty words didn't always get you what you wanted. This was so stupid.

Katsuki sighed and sat down on one of the rocks to try to calm himself down. He couldn't storm back in there and keep beating up Izuku, unfortunately, because that would waste time too. And it would be just as stupid as following a bunch of kids around.

"Hey," Katsuki heard a voice behind him. He turned to see Toph

"What?" he growled. Katsuki didn't really want to talk to anyone right now.

"What was that fight about, dummyhead?"

"None of your fucking business, fuck."

"It is my business when you guys are tackling each and fighting. Your animosity affects me cus we're traveling together. So why don't you just tell me what the fight was about big guy."

"Don't call me that." Bakugou grumbled.

She said nothing and only raised her eyebrows.

"Fine." He huffed. "Deku was fucking insulting me so I decided to take him out… but then he started being a dick and I wanted to kill him. So I removed myself cus I was pissed… and yeah."

"What was he saying?"

"Stuff about how I need you guys? Like hell that's true. Deku can bite me before I ever ask him for his sorry help. I'm not that fucking weak." Katsuki bit out a harsh laugh.

"Hey bastard."

Katsuki finally fully turned to look at her with that.

"You calling me weak?"

"Uh… no. I'm saying Deku implied I was weak."

"Yeah well, if you think needing help makes you weak then I guess I'm weak too."

"What would you need help with?"

Toph rolled her eyes and waved a hand in front of her eyes. "HELLO I'm BLIND I can't exactly write, I can't swim, I can't see at ALL when my feet aren't on the Earth. So sometimes I need help too!"

"Whatever, those are minor things." Katsuki waved his hand dismissively. "Stupid Deku thinks I need his help all the damn time, and expects me to just accept it like some weak bastard."

"My parents MADE me accept help for twelve years, but sorry that someone thinks you need help every once and a while." She rolled her eyes.

"Did you just miss the part about all the damn time or are you deaf too?"

"I'm not deaf, I'm just saying!"

"Yeah? Well shut the fuck up. I don't wanna hear it."

"Hey." Before Bakugou knew what was happening there was a rock buried in his gut that sent him flying.

"What the hell." Katsuki choked out when he landed, flat on his back. "You wanna rumble little girl cus I will KILL you!"

"I'm not just a little girl, you moron, I'm Toph Beifong, and I am the greatest earthbender ever! So yeah, come at me."

"I'm not going to hold back."

"If you did you would LOSE! I mean, you're still going to lose, you just would've lost faster."

Katsuki didn't want to fight right now, that was why he'd left. But he was also starting to feel an uncontrollable rage build in the pits of his stomach and rise up to his throat, burning him up inside.

And suddenly all he could see was red.

He didn't remember much of the fight. Just that he blew up lots of rock, and was also slammed with lots of rock.

And then he woke up with a splitting headache, and that water girl hovering over him. When he moved his head to the side he also saw Toph lying beside him, looking beat up too.

Katsuki groaned and sat up, putting a hand to his head. His entire body ached. Not that he wasn't used to it, but it'd been a little while since he'd felt this horrible.

"Kacchan you're okay!" Izuku said in Japanese. "You were out for two entire minutes!"

"Ugh, fuck you, Deku."

"Hi to you too." Izuku grumbled, rolling his eyes.

"Ugh." His head was killing him and he felt a bit nauseous.

"Hang on, I'm almost done with Toph, and then I can heal you." Katara said.

"Fine," Katsuki stood up, stumbling a little. Deku grabbed his elbows to steady him. "Let me the fuck go, Deku."

"You don't look good, Kacchan."

"Stop fucking insulting me, shitty Deku!"

"I'm not insulting you, it's just the truth."

Katsuki gagged, his knees giving out. Izuku helped lower him to the ground and rubbed his back as Katsuki dry-heaved. And god his head hurt. Like a pounding, but sharp pain that never ceased on his temple, the back of his head, and behind his eyes too. God it hurt so much. "Get the fuck off me." He gasped.

Izuku ignored him.

"Alright," Katara hurried over to where they were and kneeled down beside them. "Where does it hurt the most?"

"My head." Katsuki heaved and panted, shaking slightly.

"I did see him get hit in the head by a rock right before he went down." Izuku said.

"Toph was complaining about a ringing in her ears. I think the explosions got to her, but she should be alright, or mostly alright now." Katara said, bending the water in her hands and then over Katsuki's head.

The results were almost immediate. Katsuki started feeling better and the headache went more to a dull throbbing and he didn't feel as nauseous anymore. Katara healed several cuts and bruises along his arms, legs, abdomen.

He was probably never going to be this healthy ever again considering how much fighting he did. This technique reminded him of recovery girl, yet he didn't feel completely exhausted.

Or, he did feel tired, but he didn't think it was from whatever healing the girl had just performed on him.

After she was finished, Katsuki collapsed on his side next to Izuku who still had a hand on his arm. "Fuck off, Deku." Katsuki grumbled, his eyes feeling like they were weighed down by a ton of bricks. It took all his energy just to keep them open.

"We'll wake you in an hour or so, but for now you and Toph both should just get some rest. And this kind of proves my point about you needing us."

"How the hell did that just prove your point?" he murmured. His body felt so exhausted and his eyes just wanted to close.

"If it weren't for Katara, you'd still be heaving and completely useless."

"You're useless." He snarled.

"I recognize that I can't do everything alone. It's time you do the same, idiot."

"You're... an idiot… nerd."

"Just go to sleep you asshole."

But Katsuki didn't hear that part.

"I take Kacchan. You Toph." Izuku told the others, this time in English so the others could understand him.

"Okay, sounds good. Sokka can get her."

"Aw man, why's it always me, Katara?" Sokka half-whined. She only gave him a glare.

"Sokka, you're going to take Toph. It's not a big deal unless you aren't strong enough?" she raised an eyebrow.

"I'm strong enough." Sokka grumbled, glaring back at her, picking up the smallest of the group. Toph was asleep as well, exhausted by the fight and from traveling so far.

Izuku did the same for Katsuki, though he was not as careful as Sokka and flipped Katsuki over his shoulder. Not like Sokka was carrying Toph as you might a bride.

Then they all got going back to the campsite.

When they arrived, Izuku eased Katsuki off his shoulder on to the ground. He couldn't believe the moron had picked two fights in a row like an idiot. And on top of all that got himself really hurt. If Katara couldn't heal people, Izuku honestly wasn't sure what he would've done in that situation. What even could he have done?

Katsuki's ailment was obviously a concussion, and Izuku would've had no idea what to do for that except use ice, which they didn't even have.

What an idiot. Izuku shook his head and sighed, walking back over to the group. "They going to be okay, yes?"

"Yeah, they're going to be fine, Izuku." Katara said, smiling. "They just need some rest and then they'll be as good as new, kicking and screaming just like usual."

"Well…" he supposed that was good news. At the same time, he was not looking forward to dealing with Katsuki's screaming about how he dared tried to help, and how everyone thought he was weak and Izuku just wasn't ready to deal with that… at all.

It did take an hour or so for them to wake, however, so Izuku did have some time to prepare. Toph was normal, going on about the fight but how she couldn't believe it'd been such a close match.

But all Katsuki did was stare at him. He didn't start screaming about how he wasn't weak and hadn't needed help or anything like that, he just stared.

Izuku raised an eyebrow, "So… do you still have that concussion, Kacchan?"

"Oh shut the hell up, Deku." Katsuki grumbled and turned his back toward him, eliminating any further conversation.

Which Izuku was okay with, he hadn't wanted to talk much anyway. Even with the fact that he'd just dodged a bullet in mind, Izuku still crawled over closer to where Katsuki was sitting. "So, you're sure your fine."

"Yeah, I am."

"Are you su—"

"What is it with people and are you sure's? Yes I'm sure!" Katsuki shouted. "Now leave me alone, asshole!" Katsuki turned around only to glare at him and huff angrily before turning around again.

"Okay," Izuku mumbled. So he backed off and did what he was told before he made things any worse.

Maybe Katsuki would be more willing to talk to him tomorrow. Until then, Izuku enjoyed the company of people much less angry than Katsuki. He was still worried about what his friend was thinking up over there. Hopefully it was nothing too crazy.

A/N So I decided to catch up with Katsuki and Izuku in this chapter. Besides, a bunch of... interesting things are about to happen to the Gaang, so it might switch back and forth a little bit right now. This chapter came sooner then I thought however, I had a... very long car trip a couple days ago soooo here we are. Hope you enjoyed, see you guys soon! (I forgot how much I loved this fic)