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Denki and Katsuki were paired to spar.
It’s not like Aizawa particularly wanted Denki to get his ass kicked five ways to Sunday, but he wanted to see Denki’s progress in handling higher level enemies.
If Denki could somehow approach Katsuki and use his electricity up close, he could shock him easily, getting the win.
Katsuki knew this of course, so as soon as the match started he rocketed off the ground, and aimed at Denki’s feet to make him fall over.
But Denki weaved out of the way immediately, shooting his gauntlet bolts as he dodged Katsuki’s attacks.
Katsuki gasped in surprise, and twisted out of the way of each bolt, since getting hit wouldn’t be good.
But he needed one hand to keep him in the air, which was his dominant hand, and having to make complex dodges while shooting at Kaminari running around like a cheetah, isn’t exactly easy.
And Katsuki couldn’t keep it up for much longer, as one of the bolts managed to hit him square in the chest, knocking him out of the air and back down to the ground.
As he made impact, he noted that this shock was significantly stronger than the ones that have hit him before. Denki was making so much progress.
Why does his stomach feel funny?
Before he could gather himself, he felt Denki on his back, trying to pull him into a headlock. Now, Katsuki was still so much stronger than Denki physically, but the shock rendered him much weaker. Did he know it could do that?
But Katsuki couldn’t think about that, he had to get away, or he would lose. And he hates losing.
He sharply raised his arm, and his elbow made contact with Denki, hard. Denki shouted in pain and surprise and backed off, letting go of Katsuki and scrambling away.
Katsuki finally was able to stand, and turn to face him, but he paused.
Denki was standing still, holding his mouth, thinking. Katsuki must’ve hit him in the jaw.
Denki was still for a long time, and as much as Katsuki wanted to take advantage of this moment, his body stayed still. Did I… really hurt him?
Suddenly Denki’s eyes widened, and he let out a muffled scream and started to panic. What happened?
Denki removed his hands from his mouth and gagged, then spit out a frightening amount of blood and…
A tooth.
Shit!
Katsuki hadn’t meant to hit him that hard! He only wanted to get Denki off of him, not knock out a tooth!
His stomach filled with guilt as Denki stared at the tooth, and back at Katsuki like “dude, what the fuck?”
And something in his eyes changed.
“Are you fucking /serious/?!” Denki shrieked, making Katsuki wince and back up. Denki’s mouth was full of blood, but Katsuki saw that the missing tooth was a canine.
He opened his mouth to defend himself, but gasped instead as he was shocked again, much stronger this time, and fell backwards.
He felt a sparking hand land on his throat, and opened his eyes to find Denki on top of him, pissed to hell, rearing back a sparking fist to punch him into orbit.
Why is my dick hard right now?
Katsuki braced for impact, but Denki’s grip loosened and the sparking stopped. His eyes drooped closed and he collapsed, sighing.
Midnight walked over to them and gently picked Denki up off of Katsuki. “The match was called after he spit his tooth out, but I don’t think he heard it.” She said, putting a lock of his hair behind his ear. He looked so peaceful, where just seconds ago he looked like he was about to kill Katsuki.
He couldn’t decide which version looked better.
Yes, thank you class 1A, I have also never seen Denki get that mad before.
Seriously if Katsuki had to hear someone say that one more fucking time, someone else would be missing a tooth.
To get away from everyone, after school Katsuki wandered over to the infirmary.
Originally, Katsuki was just going to avoid Denki until he died of old age, but Deku convinced him to at least go and apologize.
But how could he? There was no way Denki would want to be his friend anymore after the whole ordeal.
The thought of Denki not bothering him anymore made him unreasonably depressed. Deku just told him that "you don't actually hate Kaminari, you like him more than you know."
That was probably true. Deku has always been more aware of his feelings than Katsuki is.
Considering the immense guilt knowing that he had hurt Denki, Deku was definitely right.
Katsuki paused at the door and listened, noting how quiet the room was. Everyone must've paid their visits earlier. Might as well get this over with.
He slowly opened the door and found Denki playing on his phone in the bed, looking a lot more like his usual self. Katsuki decided not to assess the relief that rushed through him.
Denki looked up. "Oh, hi." he smiled with his mouth closed.
"H-hey." Katsuki shoved his hands in his pockets, and stared at the ground. "Are you... like, okay, now?"
He heard Denki shuffle around. "Yeah I'm okay. Sorry I went all apeshit on you-"
"No," Katsuki stopped him and met his eyes. "You had every right to be pissed."
Denki's eyes widened in surprise. "Are you sure? The shock i was charging could've like... paralyzed you at least, if not, killed you."
Katsuki blinked. "No shit?"
Denki shuffled awkwardly again. "Yeah. Kinda too much over a lost tooth that can be replaced in my opinion."
Katsuki approached Denki's bed until they were close together. "Kaminari... that's amazing."
"W-what?" Denki didn't move away, but he seemed extremely confused.
"You've been working so hard to get stronger, that now you can dish out a move that devastating, is amazing."
Katsuki doubled down. "Even before that, you had the upper hand on me pretty much the whole fight. That frustrated me and I took it out on you, even though I shouldn't have.
"I didn't have to be that rough since it's just a sparring match, but now you lost a tooth. That's shit." Katsuki backed up and looked at the floor again, feeling suddenly bashful. "So like... fuckin'... how can I... make it up to you?"
Denki just stared at Katsuki in shock, trying to process. He was quiet for a little too long, making Katsuki start to worry a little.
"Go on a date with me."
"HAH???" Katsuki looked back up at Denki's face, who was dead serious.
"This Sunday, 4 pm, let's meet at the arcade, then watch the sunset at the park. Just the two of us, and you're paying, because I'm broke as shit."
Katsuki was practically speechless. “And… /that/ will make it up to you?”
“I mean… if you /really/ don’t wanna do that you could pay for my replacement tooth.” Denki smirked, opening his mouth to show the missing canine. “It’s gonna be /way/ more expensive.”
Katsuki was just shocked that Denki didn’t hate him for knocking his tooth out.
Wait. Does he like me? Enough that he basically just asked me out?
Well, Katsuki had a funny feeling Denki was challenging him here. Like “I bet you’re too chicken to take me out.”
Katsuki is absolutely not a chicken, and he didn’t want to pay the thousands for his replacement tooth.
So… fuck it.
“Fine.”
Denki wasn't terribly late, but he was late nonetheless.
Or maybe Katsuki was early. He honestly had no idea. But the enthusiastic "Hey Kacchan!" from a little ways away startled him a little.
He looked up from his phone and saw Denki giving him a full smile, showing off his...
"Are you fucking kidding me?"
"Hmm, this?" Denki reached him and grinned, pointing out his now golden canine. "Pretty snazzy, huh?"
"More like gaudy as hell. What the fuck?" Katsuki was just surprised. Denki didn't seem ashamed of the injury at all.
"Oh relax. I have other ones too!" Denki reached in his mini backpack and pulled out a small case, opening it. Inside there were a few versions of the same tooth in different colors and representing different gemstones.
"The school went ahead and paid for the replacement, sooooo I decided to get a few options!" Denki snapped the case shut. "They aren't real jewels of course, but they're fun to pretend! It's like I'm a pirate or something."
"That's..." Katsuki struggled to find an adjective that wouldn't make him sound stupid. Cute? Hilarious? Infuriatingly distracting? The opal one would like really nice on you?
"That's... interesting." Okay.
"Oh Bakugou, you always have such a way with words." Denki giggled, and gently grabbed him by the hand. "Shall we go inside?"
Without giving him a chance to respond, he was whisked away into the way too crowded arcade to spend the entirety of his allowance.
But he was fine with it.
Katsuki was incredibly determined to make this the best date of Denki's fucking life.
And he thinks he did pretty well, at least during the arcade portion. He paid for everything, and played every obnoxious game Denki wanted to play.
He even nearly fist fought a 6 year old for the last jumbo Yamper plush because Denki cooed at it when they walked by.
But Denki also wanted Katsuki to have a good time too, pretending to be bad at a game just so Katsuki could win and be happy about it.
But he still beat his ass at DDR, but neither was upset.
There was 15 minutes until sunset when they finally walked out of the arcade and made their way over to the park, joking and laughing like they would in a normal group hangout, so it wasn't weird with just the two of them.
Eventually they reached a park bench overlooking a river, with the sun gently making contact with the water, turning the sky a gorgeous pink and orange.
Denki set down the plush and scooted closer to Katsuki, making him a little nervous as he remembered this was a date.
And that he also needed to address the elephant in the room.
"So um... how are you feeling about your missing tooth?" Katsuki asked eventually, breaking the silence. "Like... how do you /really/ feel?"
Denki took a moment to think, scooting even closer until Katsuki had his arm around him. "Honestly? I'm still kinda pissed about it, since it won't ever grow back."
Katsuki inwardly winced, but stayed quiet.
"Like of course I expected to have scars and stuff since we're gonna be pro heroes, I just didn't expect it to happen while we were having a quick sparring session." Denki continued, resting his head on Katsuki's chest. "But you have a ton of scars already so... maybe I'm being selfish or stuck up. I don't know."
"You're not." Katsuki said, watching the river run by. "I'm still pissed that I have scars all over me, so you're allowed to be pissed about this permanent injury. I think you're allowed to be more pissed since it was over a stupid spar, and not actual hero work.
"Either way, I'm sorry." Katsuki never thought he would be able to say it, but he kept going. "I didn't mean to knock your tooth out, but it happened and I can't change it, so I'm sorry." he stopped, and glanced over to see Denki was staring at him. "And I know this date won't bring your tooth back and... it's probably not making up for it."
Denki blinked at him, and smiled, showing teeth. "Well if you really wanna make it up to me, you can be my boyfriend." he chuckled, albeit nervously. "I-If you want."
Katsuki has no idea what he wants. He barely knows how to feel normal human emotions. Deku literally tells him what he's feeling if it isn't anger.
But he's described this feeling before. The "butterflies in the stomach and flutter in the chest" sorta thing.
He told Deku about it after the spar, how he felt that way when Denki was both enraged and peaceful. Deku said he had a crush on Denki, which Katsuki loudly denied. He can't have crushes! He's the number one hero!
But the thought of only one date made him sad. Like, super sad.
But Denki... wanted more dates. If you call someone your boyfriend, you're dating. And you do couple things.
And Katsuki knows when he wants something. And he wants that. He wants it a lot.
"Yeah... yeah that's fine."
Denki's smile was going to be in Katsuki's dreams for the rest of his life, even with the gaudy gold tooth glittering with the sunset light.
I'm in love with a goofy son of a bitch. he thought, pulling Denki in and kissing him for the first time, much to his delight.
And he wouldn't have it any other way.