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❤️Ready Up, Red!❤️
Eijirou sat at his desk as he fiddled with his set up, it was hard to focus as Katsuki ran his fingers through his hair, his thumb gently running at the base of his ear as he massaged the back of his neck slightly.
“Baby boy, are you listening?” Katsuki questioned softly and Eijirou nodded.
“Yeah, you’re leading the group and we are trying to win and be the best so we can donate the most to charity! I’m really excited!” Eijirou promised Katsuki nodded with a smile as he bent over kissing his boyfriend heatedly.
“You’re just precious aren’t you?“ Katsuki teased softly and Eijirou just grinned with a giggle as he sat the headset down. Hugging Katsuki around the waist as he nuzzled in.
After their first meeting they were flying back and forth to see each other almost every other week.
Katsuki and Eijirou invested to get each other set ups at their own place, Eijirou even transformed his guest bedroom in his duplex to allow space for Katsuki’s set up, the blond was meticulous about what he wanted for his keys on his keyboard down to his liquid cooling unit inside of his tower. It was something about Katsuki he appreciated.
Eijirou was more scatterbrained, a little more manic and affectionate.
Katsuki was collected, organized, and soft only to Eijirou.
The redhead melted everytime Katsuki held him in his lap as he streamed, he took his hearing aids out and could feel the vibrations of him yelling at the screen and only the muffled sound of his love's voice and soft kisses against his temple interrupted his relaxation time, but he didn’t care. He was happy. He was so fucking happy to be held in those strong arms, and listened to the muffled screaming.
He was in love. Sickeningly sweet love.
And Katsuki never let him forget how precious he was.
So here they were getting ready for another streaming event with Deku, MindJack, Katsuki, and himself.
They were playing for a children’s hospital in this stream and Eijirou was pumped to be a part of it all. He had played with MindJack and Deku plenty of times now.
MindJack was dry and sarcastic and he also knew sign language which was nice for Eijirou when he missed something Deku said because the green haired man could speak 50 thousands words a second and to his hearing impaired self a lot of it got mumbled and jumbled together that it caused him supreme anxiety.
Katsuki’s sign was slightly choppy and hard to understand at times but he was trying and Eijirou could appreciate that.
He truly could, after they met he had apparently signed up for Sign Language classes because he wanted to be with Eijirou forever.
A sentiment the red head totally agreed with. “Rou, baby, you listening?” Eijirou blinked, looking at concerned scarlet eyes.
“Sorry, Kats…I got distracted” he admitted sheepishly, giving him a grin, his cheeks slightly flushed as he tugged at the back of his head, his hearing aid charm jingling slightly.
Katsuki just looked at him with eyes filled with adoration. “I just wanted to make sure that your hearing aids were charged and good to go?” The blond questioned gently and Eijirou nodded with a kind smile.
“Yeah! I charged em last night!” Eijirou beamed and Katsuki was just soft laughs and gentle smiles as they hung up right until it was time to stream.
Eijirou was getting situated, putting his headset on and clicking the camera on. “Hey Rioters! How are ya?!” He cheered excitedly as his chat was flooded with positive messages, he couldn’t stop the sharked tooth grin. Then he frowned, “the captions aren’t working?” The redhead questioned, and then he fiddled around a bit on his end.
“Alright let’s try this! Hey! I see them, do you guys?” He questioned softly. “Just a quick reminder, these will only pick up what I am saying, we are playing with Deku, Dynamight, and MindJack. I know Dynamight is going to run the voice to text captions like I do.” He smiled happily, his boyfriend really was amazing. “I know he messaged MindJack and Deku to do the same, but they are also all super busy so” he smiled at his chat. As his eyes skimmed the messages flooding him.
He smiled when he heard the signature ring of the donation alert, the little red shark with the cogwheel fin jumped out the water to give a fin five for their donation.
“Thank you so much for the donation already! FoxyFirefly134! Can we start a Riot for FoxyFirely134?!?” He smiled as his chat whooped and hollered as he jumped on a voice call.
“Hey Extras! Hey baby boy!” Katsuki’s voice rang through the speakers and Eijirou beamed on screen.
“Ya know you really shouldn’t call your boyfriend an extra.” Hitoshi joked and Eijirou couldn’t help the giggle.
“Oi! Mindfuck! I would never call you, baby boy in a million years!” Katsuki scoffed with a laugh. Eijirou just laughed softly as he sort of heard Deku ramble over the headset. “Also Deku speak fucking clearly.” Katsuki warned and Eijirou smiled as he logged into Dead By Daylight, an asymmetrical horror game.
Where they were going to play against a killer and they were the four survivors.
“Okay! So listen here ya fucking extras.” Eijirou chuckled, shaking his head. “Depending on how much you donate you can decide who we play and what perks we run” Katsuki explained and Eijirou nodded along as the statement was posted on each of their screens. “The rules are simple, we all want to survive, but we will be working as a team! Eijirou will be running the killer, the morherfucker is exceedingly good at it and it’s ridiculous.”
The redhead blushed and shrugged as he readied up his character.
“Deku and I will be doing gen jockey service so we will be repairing the generators to let us escape and then Mindfuck will be on flashlight and totem duty” Katsuki replied. “Oh shut it ya heathens Reds got this.” Katsuki teased and they all loaded up.
He selected his character and his perk lay out, making sure everything was ready to go.
-Donation $45 from Ingenium: I cannot wait to see what happens, Red is amazing at this game-
Eijirou smiled as he read the donation, “thank you so much for Ingenium! That money is going to go to a great cause!” He promised as he readied up Eijirou was chatting with the guys in the chat as well as his own chat full of Rioters.
Everything was going smoothly.
They were raising money and Katsuki was throwing out commands on where they needed to go, Eijirou was running the killer around giving information on where and what palettes he was using.
Hitoshi was breaking totems and counting them out when everything went silent.
Eijirou blinked, jarred by the utter and complete silence.
The redhead hummed, it was probably his headset, he probably hit the button that turned it down. So he just turned it up.
“Red, where are you?” Katsuki questioned over the headset and Eijirou’s red eyes were tracking the bright red killer that was chasing him; he wasn't paying attention. “Red, we need your position?” Katsuki tried once more, and he heard Hitoshi clear his throat.
“He’s in the main building now, the killer has gotten one hit on him he’s injured” Hitoshi responded to Katsuki and the white blond hummed as he finished up another gen.
Eijirou blinked as he tried to Focus on the game. He relied heavily on being able to hear the killer, but right now he was just relying on the red stain the killer left on the ground. The redhead twirled his character around the wall trying his best to outsmart a killer he couldn’t hear. “Sorry chat, my headset isn’t working” Eijirou admitted with a blush.
Izuku looked into the screen perplexed. “Dynamight, his headset is on the fritz. I'm gonna take over running the killer for him.”
“Aight, Deku! Hitoshi be prepared to blind the killer!” He instructed and he finished up another gen. The white blond’s heart was racing as he took in Eijirou’s face on his stream the redhead looked so nervous.
That set Katsuki on edge. Especially since his chat was going insane. “I’m gonna tell you extra’s right now to knock it the fuck off, Red isn’t some gold digger, he can’t hear very well and if his headset isn’t working that’s not his fault. Show some damned compassion.” Katsuki replied as message after message was telling Katsuki that Eijirou was only with him to gain followers and it pissed the blond off more than anything. “One more word and I will mute the whole chat. I love Red, more than I have words to describe.” Katsuki snarled as he finished another generator.
Eijirou’s tongue was peeking from between his lips as he watched Deku take over running the killer after Hitoshi blinded him. His injured character wobbled toward the jungle gym to heal. “I’m sorry guys! I have a backup headset! So we are all good!” He promised as the exit gates powered Eijirou quickly exited the game and went toward his closet pulling out his spare headset. So stuck into what he was doing he didn’t realize he didn’t hear anything at all, not his footsteps, the light music he usually played during the stream.
Nothing.
Eijirou came back over fiddling with the control panels and things when he plugged the other headset in and nothing came out.
He grunted in frustration as he kept turning it up and up and up, till he heard just the faintest bit of nose.
Katsuki watched Eijirou crank the volume dial louder and louder and louder, to the point he could clearly hear the game music over the microphone.
Then it struck Katsuki like lightning.
His partner’s hearing aids.
It wasn’t the headset, it was his hearing aids.
“I’ll be right back! He needs help” Katsuki replied as he quickly exited Eijirou’s spare room and made his way toward Eijirou’s room.
He opened the door and he could see clear as day Eijirou’s eyes overflowing with tears. “I don’t get why it’s not working” he squeaked a bit as he wiped his eyes, turning off his camera and microphone with his little screen saying the Riot will be back soon.
Katsuki walked over wiping his eyes as he quickly extracted the blaring headphones from his ears. Eijirou was about to protest when Katsuki signed.
/It’s your hearing aids/
Eijirou’s eyes widened as he pulled the neon red aids from his ears, his eyes lingering on the lack of green light stating the device was in fact working.
The redhead let out a sound of distress and Katsuki shot forward, running a hand through his hair. Eijirou's glossy red eyes looked up at his partner and Katsuki smiled reassuringly. /it’s okay, do you have a backup set?/
Eijirou nodded as he pulled the older ones out of his desk. They weren’t too old and he knew they still worked, he had only upgraded because his newer ones connected via Bluetooth to his phone so he could hear phone calls better as well as music.
Eijirou’s hands were trembling as he sat there staring down the tan colored hearing devices with hard eyes.
He hated these ones.
He hated them so much, they were a part of his life he wanted to forget. A time when he hid himself away from the world and now it felt like he failed.
Eijirou jumped when he felt a hand go through his hair gently.
/Do you not want to wear them?/ Katsuki questioned and Eijirou bit his lip.
/I don’t like how plain they are. I don’t want to hide who I am./ he replied back quickly with a bite to his lip and he watched Katsuki nodded, then he smiled, and held up one finger as he exited the room.
He sighed heavily as he leaned back in his chair staring up at his office ceiling, why was he acting like such a baby?
Why was he so upset?
It wasn’t like this was different for him. He was hard of hearing his ears didn’t work well if at all…and everyone knew.
He tried hiding it for so long….but what was the point? He was so much happier just being himself.
He jumped when he felt a soft hand touch his cheek and in Katsuki’s hand was a bunch of colorful sharpies. /draw?/ he signed, pointing to the tan hearing aid and Eijirou hummed softly.
“You do one? I do one?” Eijirou questioned and Katsuki leaned down pecking himself on the lips as he smiled.
/I would be honored/ he promised as they got to work messing around with the sharpies doodling Eijirou’s was red with the two Rs that represented the Red Riot channel and Katsuki’s was black with that bright orange X and Eijirou was grinning ear to ear, these ones were almost cooler than his neon red ones.
When they were finished he curled up in Katsuki’s lap letting his boyfriend pet through his hair as he chatted with his chat. He could see Katsuki signing and speaking which just made his heart more full. He reached over making sure the marker was dry before he put his old hearing aids on. “You good, baby boy?” Katsuki rumbled out and the redhead nodded.
“Yes…thank you, Kats” Eijirou smiled softly and the blond leaned down kissing his forehead.
“It was nothing” he promised with that soft smile he only reserved for Eijirou.
The redhead giggled softly. “Yeah but the stream” he started and Katsuki kissed him gently to silence the negative thought.
“Isn’t as important as you.” He promised gently. “Now you ready to ready up, Red?” Katsuki gave him that signature smirk and Eijirou nodded enthusiastically.
“Heck yeah! Let’s get some money for charity!” Eijirou hollered.
Katsuki deposited him in the chair with a soft grin. “That’s my love, let’s do this” Katsuki promised, the rest of the stream went off without a hitch.
They surpassed their goal not even half way through the event and Eijirou went to bed that night curled up in his lover's arms.