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Bakugou had no idea why his classmates kept talking about this stupid application. According to Alien, it was called Tinder. She had already bugged him to download it, but he told her he wouldn’t because it was fucking nonsense. Like hell he would be on some stupid dating app.
“You’re just saying that because you’re probably won’t get any matches,” she teased shooting Pikachu a devious look.
“Yeah,” Pikachu agreed, “no one would like to go out with that.” He laughed, pointing at Bakugou, who was looking at them with absolute disgust.
“That’s not true,” Uraraka stepped in.
Deku looked horrified, “What are you trying to say, Uraraka-san?”
“Nothing,” she started whistling and went back to her phone.
Bakugou watched her with a confused look. Round Face is fucking weird, he thought.
“Well,” Duct Tape started. “Apart from one person, no one would go out with Bakugou.”
“Shut your fucking mouth,” Bakugou retorted. “No one would willingly choose to spend time with you.”
“Why are you here then?” He asked, a smug grin on his face.
“Not because of you, obviously,” Bakugou rolled his eyes, picking up the phone and ignoring everyone’s responses.
Because he was sitting alone on the couch, facing everyone, no one could actually see what he was doing. So he secretly clicked the store icon on his phone and typed “Tinder” in the search bar, quickly finding the goddamn app and downloading it.
The truth was he hated when people made fun of him. And saying no one would be interested in him sounded like a fucking challenge. Not that he cared about what people thought of him. But the satisfaction of proving them all wrong would be fucking great.
Once the app was installed, he connected it to his Facebook account and started to set up his profile. The first picture he chose was him showing the middle finger to Kirishima, who, for some fucking reason, started to take pictures of him. The second one was a selfie in his hero costume. After that, he came up with his bio, which said “fucking die”. Thinking about it, his classmates would probably say he wouldn’t get any matches with that bio, but again, he would prove them wrong.
He then went to the settings, changing the show me section to both men and women and the distance to six miles. With that settled, the next step was looking at people’s pictures and deciding if they were worthy of his like.
All he did was swipe left for five minutes when he got a notification from the class’ chat group.
pink alien: GUYS
pink alien: baku got a tinder account
pink alien: everybody stay CALM
thunder shock: FUCK MY LIFE I CAN’T BELIEVE IT
uraraka (◡‿◡✿): AAAAAAAAA
all might #1 fan: URARAKA NO
uraraka (◡‿◡✿): URARAKA YES
uraraka (◡‿◡✿): I MEAN
uraraka (◡‿◡✿): whatever I’m out
“You fucks are gonna act like we’re not in the same room or what?” Bakugou said out loud, not really looking at them.
“I just wanted to let everyone know without you knowing,” Alien told him.
“Fucking do that when I’m not able to look at that goddamn group chat you guys forced me into.” He gave them a quick glance before going back to his phone.
“Leave then,” Kirishima dramatically said.
“I fucking tried, but you keep adding me back whenever I fucking leave.”
“Just don’t want you to miss all the fun,” Kirishima explained.
“What fun?”
He didn’t mean it to be funny, but they started laughing at it anyway.
“Bakugou, your profile pictures are really lame,” Pikachu announced. “Guys, look at this.”
Bakugou stared at them. Fucking assholes were making fun of his goddamn pictures.
“You guys are idiots,” he told them.
He kept swiping left because no one seemed interesting enough for him to like them.
After what seemed like forever, a picture of someone he knew appeared. He didn’t even have to look at the other boy’s face to know who it was. He could tell just by that fucking shitty red hair it was Kirishima.
He would never admit it to anyone, but apart from the shitty hair, Kirishima was actually not ugly. His bio said he liked manly things and tough guys. Bakugou scoffed, thinking about it for a second. Shitty hair was one of the two people he would call by name, and probably the person he hated the least. That must count for something, right?
Plus, he’d be lying if he said he’d never noticed Kirishima before.
Screw it, he thought, and casually swiped right.
Two seconds later, he panicked. The app was telling him it was a match. With goddamn Kirishima.
He looked right at Kirishima. The red-headed was staring dumbly at his phone. His friends, right next to him, immediately noticed something was up and looked at his phone.
“Guys, you won’t believe what just happened!” Pikachu was the first to speak.
“Damn, I definitely wasn’t expecting that,” Duct Tape added.
“I was,” Alien said like it was obvious.
“For god’s sake, tell us what happened already!” Jirou grumbled.
“Bakugou and Kirishima matched on Tinder!”
Everyone stopped whatever they were doing to stare at them. They kept quiet for a while, and the silence was uncomfortable as hell.
Bakugou looked back at Kirishima just to confirm he was watching his every move.
“You all are fucking ridiculous.”
Then he just left the room.
He decided he wouldn’t give a damn about what happened, and if the subject was ever brought up, he would certainly ignore it. It was the best option. His classmates were stupid and noisy as hell, and he didn’t have to put up with all the shit.
After a couple hours thinking about the episode, he went back to the common area and was surprised to find Kirishima sitting there, all by himself.
He was more than ready to pretend he didn't notice the red-headed boy, but it was too late. Kirishima had already seen him. He got up really fast, and before Bakugou could prevent it, Kirishima was already in front of him.
“Listen, man, I wanted to apologize for what happened earlier, with everyone.” Kirishima’s hand was on the back of his neck and he had a friendly smile on his face. “They meant no harm, though.”
“Whatever.”
“I’m really sorry, Bakugou,” Kirishima tried again.
“It wasn’t your fucking fault, Kirishima, shut up.”
Bakugou started making his way back but quickly noticed he was being followed by the other boy.
“The fuck you doing?” He looked over his shoulder.
“You’re okay with that?”
“With everyone knowing about my goddamn dating life? Not in the fucking slightest.” Bakugou turned to face Kirishima properly. “Not that I have a dating life, though.” He added.
“Same, bro,” Kirishima laughed.
Bakugou relaxed a little, just realizing he was kind of tense in the first place.
“But why did you swipe right?” Kirishima asked, sounding a bit nervous.
Bakugou snorted. “Why do you think?”
“Because you were just playing around?” Kirishima pondered. “Trying to make everyone lose their shit?”
Bakugou rolled his eyes.
“Why would I give a damn about everyone else?” Bakugou barked.
Kirishima blinked a few times.
“So you’re saying you swiped right because…”
“Because you’re decent looking,” Bakugou interrupted him, impatient as usual.
Kirishima stared blankly at him for a whole minute.
“Oh,” was all he said.
Bakugou just nodded, rolling his eyes.
“So that means I… Can I…” Kirishima didn’t finish the sentence. Instead, he pointed at him then at Bakugou.
“Hell no,” Bakugou cursed. “Those dumb pieces of shit are back and they’re looking at us.”
Kirishima had this confused look on his face and it only grew when Bakugou turned to go back to his room.
“I’ll fucking text you.”
Back at his room, Bakugou waited half an hour before picking up his phone and texting Kirishima.
bang bang bang: watcha doing shitty hair
kiri: nothing man
kiri: what kind of name is that
bang bang bang: fucking watch this
kiri: what
kiri: i cant believe you like kpop dude
bang bang bang: shut your mouth
bang bang bang: this song is the shit
kiri: it’s pretty good
kiri: hey
kiri: so
kiri: i was thinking…
bang bang bang: stop fucking stalling
kiri: wanna make out
bang bang bang: the fuck
kiri: SHIT
kiri: sorry man
bang bang bang: i was fucking messing with you
bang bang bang: i’m in my room
bang bang bang: be here in five
kiri: uh
kiri: i’m already here
bang bang bang: fuck you i need to tidy my bed
kiri: you’re wasting your time
bang bang bang: excuse me
kiri: why would you do that if we’re gonna mess it up
bang bang bang: dammit kirishima
kiri: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
bang bang bang: done
bang bang bang: the bed is fucking impeccable
kiri: you’re gonna open the door or what
kiri: whats taking you so long
kiri: are you scared????????
bang bang bang: THE FUCK YOU JUST SAID
bang bang bang: i’m on my way to make you regret the bullshit you just said