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Being in love with your best friend who is in love with and dating another one of your best friends is hard but Hanta manages... or at least pretends to
So when he sees Denki cuddled into Hitoshi or hears Hitoshi calling Denki 'kitten' he ignores the way that makes his heart clench. How he wishes he was Hitoshi sometimes, how he wishes he could get Denki to blush like that, or kiss him, god, what Hanta would give to kiss Denki even once
The bakusqaud have even noticed his crush, there's not much they can do for him though because he's not getting over it.
Hell, he can't get over it, Denki's his best friend he's always there no matter what, and you can't get over your crush if you can't get away from them - not that Hanta wants to but - so he deals with it.
Hanta, Denki, and Hitoshi are 'studying' in Hanta's room but now it's more Hanta trying to focus while the other two sit in his hammock arguing over something.
"Bananas are the best fruit!" Denki argued popping a raspberry in his mouth "That's just... stupid. And you're wrong." Hitoshi drawled, Hanta tried not to roll his eyes at the over-dramatic drawl in his voice.
Hanta didn't mean to hate Hitoshi, before they started dating he even liked him but it's kinda hard to not hate the person living out your dreams. Hanta's not even a hateful person... it's just something about Hitoshi that ticks him off now
"I'm am not!" Denki pouts voice going up an octave as it tends to when he pouts that Hanta finds adorable by the way "Sero help me out here!" and just like that he was dragged into yet another stupid argument, but how could he say no
"What?" Hanta asks pretending he hadn't been listening no matter how much he wished it was true "This idiot thinks bananas are the best fruit." Hitoshi explains poking Denki in the head and he just folded his arms. Cute- Denki or course
"I hate bananas." Hanta deadpans looking Denki right in his - yellow sparkly - eyes "Fuck. They are the best fruit and will not hear otherwise!" Denki said doing a crossing motion with his hands "Why?" Hanta and Hitoshi ask in sync, eye flickering to each other for a second
"Yellow duh!"
"Yellow? Really?" Hanta asks, Denk nods his head yes
"If that's the case why not any other yellow fruit? Like lemons?"
"Holy shit! Lemons are yellow."
"You are so stupid." Shinsou comments
"I'm being attacked and I don't appreciate it
* * *
"Why are you torturing yourself?"
Hanta jumped at the voice but calmed down when he saw who it was "God Mina don't scare me like that. But what do you mean?" Hanta was confused at the disappointed gaze
"You're staring and I'm not dumb, well a little bit." Mina responded Hanta's face turned a bright red he always forgot how observant his friend was "You like them. They're dating. You hang out with them still."
"Tha- wait no I don't like Hitoshi." Hanta said his previous thought flying out the window "I admit the Denki part, but Hitoshi?"
Hanta was very confused about that part like sure we would die for Denki without hesitation but... Hitoshi? that was a new and unwelcome thought
"Don't lie to me, sweetheart. Only you and Denki call him Hitoshi" Mina said, they were supposed to be training together but it hadn't started so he had no way out of this conversation yet "I don't like him like that!"
Sure he's a cool guy - Hanta's hatred aside - but dating him? no, he's not Hanta's type too mysterious... or he was but after getting to know him he's more like them than he seems he fits into the bakusqaud effortlessly even Katsuki thinks so
He likes him but he could imagine them being romantic
Like dating him.
Holding his hand.
Adopting cats.
Hanta looked over at the two, they were leaning against the wall talking - about strategies, bananas, any other random thing Denki thinks of? who knows - Denki looked up and noticed Hanta giving him an enthusiastic wave, Hitoshi just gave him a three-finger wave when he noticed.
Hanta felt his face flush as he looked away "N-no I don't like him like that." Hanta was adamant about this "Your face says otherwise, but don't worry I think they like you too" but before Mina could make him anymore embarrassed the alarm that alerted them training was starting went off
* * *
Hanta did not like this new discovery at all.
Having a crush on one person was one thing - especially when that person was Denki because literally, everyone had some sort of a crush on him at one point - but having a crush on two people how are dating was another thing, a thing Hanta wasn't ready for yet.
And somehow hs brain thought that this be discovery meant he should hurt twice as much - fuck you Mina - the two crept into his dreams that week
All he could think about was him being in the middle or rather on the side of the relationship.
And god it hurt because all his stupid brain could think was, What are they doing? What were they talking about? What if they did like him?
So he did what any anxiety-induced teen does: ignore them.
Which was really fucking hard seeing as they were everywhere, and he would talk to Mina but they tended to hang with her if they weren't with him, so instead he locked himself in his room and tried to study.
Instead, he did a lot of, everything else like he'd rearranged his room 4 times just for it to end up the same.
After about a week Hanta hadn't left his room but to pee, eat, and obviously go to class, it was hard declining all of Denki's hangout plans though, he also hadn't answered texts besides the three from his mom
At the end of the day Hanta was in his way back to his room and when he opened the door he sa-
"What the fuck Sero?!" Mina exclaimed from his hammock "Why are you in here?" He asked not sparing her a glance as he put his things away "You're lucky i didn't drag Kami and Shin here too!" she threatened, and Hanta did pause for a bit thinking about it
Hitoshi and Denki would probably be mad at him, like really mad, then he thought about the fact that he probably made Denki sad so Hitoshi's 'Protective Boyfriend Mode™' as Denki says would probably make him 10x more pissed "Hello! Pay attention!" Mina said snapping him out of his thoughts
"Why can't you just be normal and say you like them?" Mina sighed
"I like them."
"I meant to them!"
"No, no, no, hell no!"
Hanta's done some crazy things in his life but that is something he will not do.
"Sero, baby, love of my life. If you don't man up and tell them by the end of the week I will drag them here and make you!" Mina says before walking out the room and god Hanta hopes she was joking about that last part.
Because now is he not only avoiding them but he has actual work to do, and they don't help
Hanta's gonna fail!
Or lose his friends!
Oh god, he's gonna fail and lose his friends!
Wait, no calm down, Mina was probably kidding to get you to do it, no need to worry it's all gonna be fine. But what if it's not?! Oh god!
Don't panic just study. Maybe take a nap instead.
* * *
It had almost been two weeks and Hanta stopped using his phone because everyday Mina sends him a text saying how many more days he has left.
Now he has one but he really needs to study so haha fuck his life.
Time to excessively nap after studying or else he's gonna panic again.
Hanta knows he should tell them, they deserve an understanding but Mina's threat just made him panic whenever he thought about it.
Hanta's already somewhat accepted the fact that he would have to tell them tomorrow but fuck it was scary