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After a long day of moving and unpacking boxes and stressing over whether he forgot anything back at his previous home where he lived with his mother, Izuku was ready to slump on his bed and bury himself under his pillows. He looks at the empty living room of his apartment and at the boxes piled in the corners of the room before taking a deep breath. He was already finished unpacking in the bedroom and the kitchen and had already unpacked his recording equipment. He'd unpack the rest when he woke up, yes. Definitely.
Izuku grabs a towel from his bedroom drawer, deciding he'd use what's left of his energy to take a warm shower to maximize comfort as he slept. The warm water hits his face and somehow it lessens the tiredness he feels. Starting from now, he's going to live alone. He feels nervous and excited at the same time. It's never been part of his plan to live away from his mom the moment he graduates high school but he got accepted to UA University (his dream school). Finding this apartment among the list of many apartments in this area had been a blessing because not only was it just a few minutes away from his university, it was also affordable for him. He's not poor, far from it, since he makes quite a lot from his baking channel on youtube but he's not the type to splurge. After soaking for a while, he finally got to work and started shampooing his messy green hair and massages his scalp until suds form.
After showering, he puts on a pair of gray sweatpants and a gray sweater. It's the ultimate nap outfit, Izuku thinks to himself with a small smile. He was in the middle of drying his hair when the doorbell rang. He frowns. He wasn't expecting anyone over. Could it be his mom checking whether he finished unpacking? Was it his best friend? What if it was a murderer? Oh, God. Leave it to Izuku to die on his first day of moving to a new place.
"Who could it be?" Izuku mumbles as he puts the towel over his shoulders. Gray sweaters with wet spots aren't cute and if he was dying today, he wanted to be cute.
He looks through the peephole and sees a man who seems to be his age but taller. And handsome as fuck. Like really handsome from what he could see through the little hole on the door. The man had red and white hair, divided right in the middle, different colored eyes, and a scar on the left side of his face. He's beautiful.
"Y-Yes?" Izuku stutters, realizing he'd been staring at the man when he heard his doorbell ring again.
"Hi, I'm your neighbor. I live next door and some of your mail got into my mail slot." The handsome stranger says and Izuku thought it was impossible to fall in love with a voice but impossible things happen because Izuku would marry that voice. It was cold and disinterested but warm and deep at the same time. Did he just say he lived right next door? Izuku could hear the gay heavens opening and the gay angels singing. Mentally preparing himself, he opens the door and bows apologetically.
"I'm sorry! That must have been troubling for you." The towel around his neck falls on the floor as he looked up to smile at the handsome man in front of him.
"Oh." The stranger says.
Oh?
The man just stares at him and the silence was beginning to feel awkward.
"I'm Midoriya Izuku, I just moved in. It's nice to meet you." The handsome man with dual-colored hair stares at him with a calculating gaze and hands him a couple of envelopes before picking up the towel on the floor. Izuku looks on with confusion but his neighbor returns the towel to where it was, gently placing it around Izuku's shoulders.
"Careful. You'll catch a cold, Midoriya-san." His neighbor gives him a small smile and Izuku's face turns a deep shade of red. The hot guy said his name and it's probably the sexiest way his name has ever been said. His neighbor- Wait, he didn't even introduce himself. Izuku opens his mouth to say something but his neighbor already makes a move to leave.
"Weird." Izuku whispers to himself as he closed his door. With his heart beating so rapidly, he hoped he could still grab a few hours of sleep before evening comes.
Izuku takes a look at the envelopes in his hands and two of them were just mail from his bank but one of them was an important-looking sealed envelope that said "URGENT" in front. He furrows his eyebrows since he didn't recognize the sender named Ashido Mina. Could it be his neighbor's and he accidentally mixed it in with his mail? His heart pounded in excitement again at the idea of getting to talk to his hot neighbor so soon as he double-checks the address of the letter, it says "Unit 321, Bakugou Katsuki".
"Bakugou Katsuki. That's unexpected but cute." Izuku chuckles to himself. He now had a name to place on the handsome neighbor's face. He looks longingly at his bed though, finally feeling his exhaustion from the day come back, then back at the envelope that looks super important. He has to return this to his neighbor right away since it looked urgent (not because he wants to see Bakugou-san's handsome face right away again, nope).
Izuku leaves his towel on the couch and fixes his hair, trying to look presentable but not too much that it'd make Bakugou-san aware that he's actively trying to look attractive. As he exits his apartment he walks to the door on his left side and reads the number and nameplate. 323, Todoroki S. Oops, 321 is in the other direction. He briefly wonders what his other next-door neighbor is like as he walks to the opposite side. He stood in front of Bakugou's door and exhales nervously. 'I can do this. Just smile and tell him about his mail.' He rang the doorbell and there was no response. He tilted his head in confusion. Maybe he was out? A disappointed pout found its way on Izuku's lips but he decides to ring the doorbell one last time before he leaves. After five seconds of silence, he was about to turn and leave when the door slams open as fast as an explosion and a blonde guy emerges.
"What the fuck do you want?!" The blonde guy grumbles and Izuku is terrified because this isn't his hot stranger. This was hot stranger #2 with a husky voice and piercing crimson eyes.
"B-Bakugou-san?" He takes a good look at the guy who was very much not the guy who met earlier and was very, definitely, 100% shirtless. His torso was exposed and Izuku thinks it'd be a crime to the law to hide those glorious pecs and holy abs. Motherfuckin-
"Oi, nerd. Eyes up here." Hot guy #2 says, tone threatening but with a hint of playfulness supported with the smirk on his lips. "Who the hell are you and why do you know my name?" The real Bakugou props his arm on the door frame, arm muscles flexing as he moved and Izuku feels like he's about to explode.
"U-Uhh I live next door. Your mail got mixed up with mine and it said it was urgent so yeah." Izuku says, ending it lamely because, for the first time in his life, he's speechless. He held up the envelope that says "URGENT" and Bakugou leans close. The taller man grabbed his hand that was holding the envelope and brought it closer instead of just taking it himself. Izuku was burning, his face was flushed red down to his neck. He's sure Bakugou-san was doing this to him on purpose now.
"Tch, stupid raccoon eyes." Bakugou huffs and makes eye contact with Izuku who gulped. Bakugou's face was handsome in a rough, bad boy type of way while his neighbor from earlier was handsome in a prince charming type of way. And both happen to be very much his type.
"You still fantasizing over me, nerd?" The blond snaps him out of his thoughts before his thoughts even got to escalate. He's even closer now and it feels unreal how he could just take a step forward and he'd be pressed up against the other man's bare skin. Okay, he's escalating.
"I haven't even fantasized about you yet!"
The smirk on Bakugou's face deepens.
"Yet, huh?"
Izuku wants to combust.
"I didn't mean to say it that way!" Izuku shoves the envelope towards Bakugou's chest (fuck it was so firm) and makes a run for it towards his apartment. He locks the door behind him and slumps against it.
Izuku didn't know living here would be bad for his heart. All he wanted to do was take a nap, not find out that he's living between two of the hottest people he's ever seen in his life. He feels like the main protagonist of an otome game except he's a guy and his neighbors aren't magically interested in him and nothing will actually develop.
Bakugou-san was something. He was playful but hot-tempered. Plus he kept calling him a nerd? Yeah. His body was to die for but he's got a personality that Izuku feels like he wouldn't get along with.
The neighbor that he first met was probably Todoroki-san. He was kinda sweet (?) but also very weird. He didn't even introduce himself but Izuku still finds him very charming.
He wants to get to know them but just because they're neighbors don't mean that they'll get to see each other a lot from now on. He's sure he's used up all his luck being neighbors with those two hotties and he'll never get to interact with them again. He didn't even interact with his neighbors back when he lived with his mom.
Izuku sighs and finally, finally slips in his sheets and buries himself under his pillows. Just as he closes his eyes to get his well-deserved nap, he receives a text from his mom.
"izukuu have u unpacked everything yet? im coming to visit tonight >.< ill bring us dinner. love u"
Well fuck.
He gets up and stretches. He has unpacking to do.