Back to the Present

"What am I supposed to do now?" I almost mutter out to the two idiots in front of me. The sheer quietness of my voice snaps the two out of whatever petty argument they were having. All I got out of it was something about clothes cause they were talking about tops and bottoms of some sort. For a solid while we all just stare at each other bug eyed at my question, until idiot number 1, Kami, speaks up for the both of them.

"Uhh, Tell him? That seems like the obvious answer here," He says while quickly shifting his eyes between Mina and Bakugou.

Bakugou took a deep breath about to say something, but Mina beat him to it. "Oh MY GAWD. When you tell him we could be like wingmen and like set the mood! Dull lighting so you can barely see across from each other, perfect silence so there is no need to repeat your love confession twice. Because we all know once is all your emotionally dense ass can handle." At that Bakugou cut off Mina in the middle of her, *shudders* love rant.

"What do you mean one is all he's getting? And 'setting the atmosphere' definitely not happening."

"Let's be real Bakugou, your not really the type to slap your emotions on your face very obviously, much less say them outloud. Let me ask you this Bakugou, do you love Kami and I like friends?" All bakugou does is just squint challengingly at the two of them with tense silence.

"See, we know you love us because why else would you willingly-ish come to us for help for something as important as ~love~."

"Let's get this straight I tolerate-" "aka LOVE in Bakugou terms," Mina interrupts. Bakugou continues, "...Tolerate, the two of you enough to ask for help with emotions, that DOES NOT mean I want help 'professing my love'. I never said I was planning on it anyways..." He finished that sentence by pointedly looking away from the two with his brows unconsciously bunched together.

Mina was the first to fight back with, "What do you mean you're not planning on telling Kirishima?!"

"Clearly I MEAN, I'm not going to tell him. You said it yourself, I'm not the type of person to wear my emotions on my sleeve for all to see. I don't see why I should even tell him to begin with." Bakugou mutters out the last sentence almost to himself.

"So you and Kirishima can finally start dating?" questions Kami like that was obvious.

"Who says I want to do anything? I like how we are now, I don't want to ruin the last couple of months I have left with him with these weird emotions shit."

"But you have to tell him, that's like love law!" points out Mina

"I don't HAVE to tell him anything, and neither will you. Got it?" Bakugou says while threateningly staring at the two only other idiots in the room.

"But..!" Mina starts to say, before Bakugou interrupts with a "BUT nothing. For all you know I am NOT in love with my best friend, hell that I was even here in the first place. I'm not taking any chances to ruin the first real friendship I've ever gotten because of some stupid emotions. So that means neither will you." After clenching his hand hard at the last statement Bakugou stands up and throws open the door, before either of them have anything to say Bakugou stops right before slamming the door practically whispered out, "Please...", before only slightly slamming the door closed and speed walking to the elevator. The only thing that was swimming in Bakugou's head was, I can't let him know. He'll never know If I never tell him, then he'll have no reason to push me away like I used to do to him. I'll just never tell him. If I never tell him anything, he'll never know anything is different. Bakugou could barely fall asleep that night with his thoughts circling and circling.

***POV Switch***

Kirishima definitely suspected something was up. It started the study day before the big mid-term test. For the first time in months I had to be the one to knock on Bakugou's door after getting ready instead of him rapping at my door aggressively at exactly 7:40 on the dot nearly every damn day. After I knocked on his door at a late 7:45, I hear some shuffling and definitely some colorful language from behind the door before a scruffy looking Bakugou throws open the door. It's hard for me not to notice the way Kat's clothes look more physically thrown on then the casually thrown on look he usually sports. Then there's the bags under his eyes that are no joke.
I open my mouth to comment on anything, but he beats me to it with a, "Not a word." All I do in reply is just solute him and give an "Aye Aye Captain". As I turn around to march my way down the hallway, I hear an honest to god snort followed by a muttered "Dumbass". The walk across campus was like any other, me talking the whole time about whatever I can muster, and Kat acting like he's not listening. Secretly I know that he's holding onto every word like he's at the edge of his seat. The only difference is this time it feels like I'm being stared at, but whenever I catch a look at him, his head is almost facing completely forward. It's only tilted towards me just a little bit. *Authors cut here, He's staring at him in his peripherals, so with his eyes not his whole face obvious like. Our boi is smart enough to know that death staring at your friend first thing in the morning is a little weird. Non-chalant like staring at ur secret love tho? Totally fine. anyways....*

When we finally got to class, Bakugou went straight to his desk and practically threw his bag across the back of his chair. It is the day before the test, so usually Bakugous' all like "Don't talk to me, I'm supes busy." So I turn my attention to Mina and Kami who are acting like they're secretly hiding in the back of the room all casual like. At that I sneakily sit in my chair and listen into their conversation. "Dude, Mina, I'm BEGGING YOU. Please do not say anything to Kirishima. Seriously."

"You KNOW I live for this kind of gossip Kam, c'mon I gotta tell him something about it. Like a half truth ya'know? You know I can't keep these kinds of secrets down for long" Mina silently begs to Kami.

"The most emotionally unavailable person practically in school said PLEASE Mina, Fucking PLEASE. You know as well as I do that he's practically begging you to keep your mouth shut." Kami whispers. Emotionally unavailable person? I wonder why they're talking about Bakugou for?

"Dammit Kami, why do you have to be right about this?" Mina whispers back
Sounds like Kaminari was trying to reason with Mina, and not the other way around. Immediate weirder start to a weird day. They seem to be done talking so might as well head over there now.

"So what's this talk about Bakugou your trying to be stealthy about?" I ask the two. My voice it seems to snap them out of whatever silent agreement they were talking about because Mina immediately bursts out without a skip of a beat, "We're talking about the most emotionally dense man in school here, what do you think we're talking about?" That got an immediate elbow jab from Kami. Huh, weird for them.
"Ah, so what emotion did you help him debunk this time Mina." To my surprise it's actually Kami that speaks up first before her. He seems frantic as he looks between me and Bakugou, who seemed to have noticed we were talking about him. Man he's got a scary nack for that. I guess being so quiet in class makes you a good listener or something.

"We figured out that he's going to be ... uh ... sad!"

"Bakugou? Being sad about something? What did you guys even talk about?" At that sentence he elbows Mina to speak up. "Yeah, sad... Bakugous said he's going to miss hanging out with you all the time like we are now once we all get real jobs out in the field. Says it won't be the same not seeing you everyday like he does now.

At that Kiri perks up. Wait..., really? Kami talks this time considerably less nervous now, "oh yeah totally. You didn't hear it from me, but he actually really likes that you're always the first person he sees at the start and end of each day."

"OMG, BAKUGOU!~" Kirishima says happily while almost running to an already coming Bakugou.

***POV Switch***

After noticing a blabbing Kami and Mina in the corner, I fear the worst. While I was already on my way, I was practically fuming at the two idiots he forgot he shouldn't trust with these emotion bullshit. Before he even made it over to the two of them all he hears is an OMG BAKUGOU! Then before he knows what's happening Kiri is throwing him into the biggest of bear hugs that he actually lifts me off the ground a little bit.

While in the bear hug all I can possibly think of is Kirishima. Just SO MUCH KIRISHIMA. Being this close to his face I can really see every detail of his face. The way he has such light of freckles covering the bridge of his nose that are hard to spot with his sun kissed tan from jogging outside practically every day of the year. It took me months of making fun of him, but I finally got this idiot to stop wearing shorts to work out in the winter. How he could have never caught a cold before is beyond me. I hate the winter. The snow is 'cute' and all as Kiri put it, but I've never been one to like the cold much. Since my quirk works with sweat, it's always a little harder to get it working in the winter. Then there's also the fact that since my quirk gives off heat constantly that I'm just not used to the cold much. Never really liked it. How that brick shit house never gets cold in the winter is beyond me. Hell, he even usually gives me his scarf that his moms always make him pack just in case. At this point I think they started packing it for me because I haven't seen him wear that scarf since freshmen year.

I snapped myself out of my thoughts when he started to honest to god picked me up and start to spin me around. It brought me back to his face. The way there are creases in the corner of his eyes from smiling so hard. Then there's his lips and how the smile lines in the corner of his mouth are practically etched into his face with how much he smiles. But thinking about it now, this is the closest I've ever really been to his face. To his ... lips. I can practically feel the flush as it takes over my face. God I don't want to have to explain this to him. Better to have him put me down and walk away quickly.

"Would ya put me down you big lumbering idiot!

At my little protest to being picked up, Kirishima seems to take the hint and immediately apologized for picking me up without a warning. As I try to straighten out my already wrinkly clothes I ask, "Care to explain to me what in the world you were talking about with those other idiots."

"Just that you're going to be sad after this last semester's over cause you're going to misssss meeee~" he attempts to grab me for another big hug before I dodge it and turn around to mutter a, "really?" to the idiots that got me into this weird hugging mess. Kami just shrugs as Mina is practically ready to happy squeak and mouths, "Somebody's ~blushing~."

At that comment it just makes my blush worse, but before I turn back to Kiri I make sure to flip off those idiots. Before I can respond to anything Kiri grabs me while I'm turned around and gives me a big hug yet again. Having this much physical contact with said crush is making my face go into overdrive as I try to wiggle my way out of the hold. But behind me an "ah, ah ah! Ur not getting out of this until you admit it's true~."

After one more wiggle in an attempt to escape before I give up. "Ok, Yes, fine. I will miss being able to see you everyday and hangout like we do now. Now could u let me go you big Lugg." Bakugou retorts.

As he opens his arms he gives a "Yup!" While I'm take a deep breath to calm down my blush a bit before turning around, Mina practically materializes next to me with a mischievous smile on. "Welp you know what that means you should do Kiri.... is spend extra time with Bakugou.~"

I turn to give a glare at Mina but before I know it an arm is thrown over my shoulder and Kiri starts, "Don't worry Mina, I was already planning on it." And finishes the sentence with a wink. All I can think of is that these last couple of weeks I'm going to be fucked.

Shit, Fucked I was. I thought Kirishima was clingy before, but now? It seems like I physically can't sit in a room without the idiot bumbling to sit next to me. Sitting next to him is fine and all, it's not like I ever sat next to anybody else anyways, It's just all the extra... touching. It seems like since he figured out that I would honest to god miss him and our time together he just makes it so that there's so much more of it. He's gone and convinced me to do the common room hang outs with the class right after school. I plop down on the end of one of the sofas, and then that idiot plots down next to me as possibly close as he can so as many people can fit on the couch. No matter how many times he does it the fact that our arms keep brushing against one another as he talks with his hands while I just chill reading a book on my phone. I can feel how our thighs are practically glued together when another idiot sits next to him. After a couple times of begging with literal puppy dog eyes, I agreed to hangout in the common room for at least an hour or two to get 'Kirishima charged' for the day as Kami and Mina put it. I was going to deny it, really! But it's just once that he said "Do you just not want to hang out with me that little extra in the day?" that I cracked.

All it takes is one sad look and an ask from Kirishima that I practically do whatever the man wants for the past few weeks. There's a big test in English and the gang really wants help? They send little puppy eyed Kirishima. They want to see who would win in Smash Bros this time? Bakugou or Kami? They send Kirishima. So when Kirishima asks out of the blue to work on a mission with his work study? Those puppy dog eyes win every time. Little did I know how wrong it would turn out to say yes to this mission. What I lost, and what it means for Kirishima.