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Bakugou finally crashes into bed at 8:30 and as always, promptly pulls out his laptop to blab about his day to the only real friend he has. Pretty sad isn’t it? He’s only got one friend and he doesn’t even know the guy’s name. His screen name is NekoNoHito and Bakugou refuses to call him Neko so Hito it is. Hito doesn’t know who he is either because Bakugou would really prefer if Hito didn’t know about all of his failures at handling himself around villains. As Bakugou logs onto discord he sees that Hito is already on so he starts up a message.

Bakusatsuou “Omg Hito I’m gonna kill those idiots. Pikachu & Pinky made me watch fucking legally blonde >:(“ 

Immediately Hito is typing

NekoNoHito “Idk Baku, I quite liked legally blonde. Maybe you just have bad taste.”

Bakusatsuou “Of course you liked it you fucking dork. It was terrible just like every movie you’ve ever recommended me.”

Bakugou smiles at his laptop. This is the best part of his day. Hito was always up for banter and never got offended or called him mean and always gave as good as he got.

NekoNoHito “To be fair I half expected you to never watch those. But I will still stand by the fact that bad movies are infinitely more entertaining than good movies”

Bakusatsuou “There’s nothing entertaining about Twilight Hito.”

NekoNoHito “It’s great if you pretend it’s a comedy.”

Bakusatsuou “Whatever, How have things been going on your end?”

Bakugou may not know much specifics about Hito’s life like his name or what school he goes to but he knows the important things. In the beginning Hito and him became friends from a hero theory forum but over time they’ve both really opened up. The first thing they really related to each other about was that they’re both aiming to be heroes despite most of the world seeming to think they’re villainous. He doesn’t know much about Hito’s quirk besides people seemed to be scared of it and think that it makes him destined to be a villain but Bakugou thinks that’s total bullshit. There isn’t a villainous bone in Hito's whole body and Bakugou is rooting for Hito to get to move up into his school's hero course. Who knows, maybe one day they could be a team, Bakugou would definitely still be number one for sure but maybe Hito could be his number two. Wait, no, that definitely didn’t sound right, not like that, just ugh, Friends Bakugou. 

NekoNoHito “I’m alright, My sister is slowly covering me in glitter. I probs look like a cheap hooker rn.”

Bakustasuou “Lmfao Don’t you always??”

NekoNoHito “HaHa very funny Baku”

Bakusatsuou “Aren’t I always”

NekoNoHito “Fuck you”

Bakusatsuou ”Take me out to dinner first Hito gosh”

Typing appears and disappears a few times. Oh shit, Maybe too much?

NekoNoHito “Why are we still here? Just to suffer?”

Bakusatsuou “You walked right into that one and you know it”

NekoNoHito “Yeah, Yeah laugh it up ya dick. You wanna get on the voice channel? My sister wants to bug you.”

Instead of responding Bakugou just hops right on and only has to wait a few seconds for Hito’s smooth deep voice to pour into his headphones

“Hey Baku.”

“Hi Baku-nii!” comes the much shriller voice of Hito’s little sister

“Hey kid, Hey Hito, what’re you two up to?”

“I’m making Hito-nii even more beautiful!” the girl screeches. Bakugou still wonders how the young girl has never once messed up and called Hito by his real name.

“That's Good kid, I’m sure Hito could use all the help he can get in that department.”

“Oh hush you brat, we’ve never seen each other and you know it.” Hito says, exasperated yet fond

Bakugou gets quiet. He is always too scared to show Hito what he looked like because anyone in Japan who was living under a rock would immediately know exactly who he is with one glance.

“Bedtime little miss thing.” He hears one of Hito’s dad’s say. His voice sounded familiar but Bakugou didn’t get to hear any more of it over Hito’s sister’s whining about not being done with her makeover.

Eventually, the kid gives up and goes to bed. “Now I have to try and get all this shitty glitter off my face.” Hito sighs dramatically, “Do you wanna watch She-ra tonight?”

“Oh fuck yeah dude!” Bakugou exclaims suddenly excited.

Hito chuckles good-naturedly and tells Bakugou to set up a screen share while he finishes getting his ‘makeover’ off.

The two boys settle down to watch She-ra and after a few episodes filled with Hito praising Adora nonstop and Bakugou being a Catra kinnie on main and singing praises of Entrapta they decide that they should wind down and try to sleep.

Bakugou doesn’t really know why but both he and Hito sleep better if they stay on call together. When they first became friends they both had horrible insomnia but once they started voice calls with each other they slept much better. They’ve never really talked about it but it’s an unspoken rule to just stay on call then they can say good morning before they leave for school in the morning. It was a little strange for friends to do but it helped them get better sleep and the times that one of them woke up with a nightmare the other was always right there. Maybe not physically but it was certainly a lot better than waking up alone.

“I’m sorry about my comment earlier…” Hito says softly.

“What comment you dork?” Bakugou says exasperatedly. Hito is always apologizing for stupid shit.

“When I mentioned that we haven’t seen each other, I didn’t mean anything by it. I just wasn’t thinking and-” Hitoshi rushes out with a little tremble in his voice.

“I’m not upset Hito,” Bakugou cuts him off softly “I know you didn’t mean anything by it and that you’d never try to pressure or guilt me into something I’m not comfortable with. You’re not like that.”

“Okay, good,” Hito sighs out like a giant weight was just taken off his shoulders “I just know that that makes you uncomfortable and I didn’t want you to feel like I was disappointed or like I was irritated.”

“You never make me feel like that Hito.” Bakugou whispers. It’s always easier to be vulnerable when you're shrouded in darkness in the calm of the night.

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“I got into the hero course! I finally did it!” Hito shouts as soon as Bakugou got onto the voice channel.

“Holy shit, you’re serious?” Bakugou breathes out “That’s amazing Hito! We’re gonna be heroes, fuck yeah!”

“Hell yeah! They just told me today that I’ll get to transfer at the start of second year. I’ll have a lot of catching up to do but it’s better late than never I guess.”

Bakugou had never realized that it was possible to feel so happy about someone else’s accomplishments. “You'd better start working on those math scores then Hito.” Bakugou teases.

“Oh shut the hell up Baku. One B is just fine you dick.” Hito huffs out.

Spring break came and went uneventfully and soon enough it was April and time to start the new school year. Bakugou walks into class and enjoys the ten or so minutes of silence he gets before his idiots start to pile in and drown him in questions about his break.

“Kacchan we’re all going out to the arcade today, I bet I can kick your ass at the shooting game.” Kaminari says leaning on Bakugou with a teasing smirk.

“Shut up sparky, I’m gonna win.” Bakugou growls, pushing Kaminari off.

“You’re too easy to rile up dude.” Sero chuckles as Kaminari bumps up against them after Bakugou’s push.

The class quiets down as Aizawa Sensei walks through the door wrapped in his iconic sleeping bag. “In case you didn’t already hear, Mineta has been moved down to general studies because of his poor behavior so you’ll have a new classmate this year. Behave.” Aizawa says in his usual monotone.

The class erupts into whispers about who their new classmate might be. Honestly, anyone is bound to be better than Mineta but if it turned out to be that copycat from class B Bakugou is gonna explode. The whispering stops when a tall tired-looking boy walks through the door. His hair is a pretty color but the way it stands up kinda makes him look like one of those ugly troll dolls.

“This Is your new classmate Shinsou Hitoshi. You all can get acquainted. I'm gonna take a nap.” Aizawa drawls and then promptly lays down and zips himself into his yellow cocoon. Lazy bastard.

“Shinsou you made it into the hero course!” Midoriya says happily, practically glowing.

“Yes, hello Midoriya.” Shinsou says gently, shifting under the focused gaze of the entire class.

Bakugou is thrown for a loop. Why does his voice sound so familiar? Is that a weird thing to notice about someone?

“You’re the guy with the mind control quirk from the sports festival right? That’s such a cool quirk dude!” Kaminari chatters, practically bouncing in his seat.

The sports festival huh? Maybe that’s where he remembers his voice from?

“Yeah man, you almost beat Midobro it was super manly.” Kirishima gushes.

Shinsou looks more than a little overwhelmed at all the attention but he starts to look truly alarmed as Kaminari bounds right up to him and immediately puts his hand out to touch Shinsou’s gravity defying hair. Shinsou practically does a full backbend in an attempt to get away from Kaminari’s touchy-feely nature.

“Kaminari, it is incredibly inappropriate behavior to invade Shinsou’s personal space like that. Please respect that not everyone is as comfortable with touch as you are. I apologize on behalf of my classmate Shinsou-san, I am Iida Tenya, the class president. If you ever need anything do not hesitate to let me know.” Iida states, chopping frantically.

“Thank you Iida. I will keep that in mind.” Shinsou mumbles out, trying to get to his seat without incident but unfortunately, his seat is right behind Midoriya who seems determined to make a new friend.

“Shinsou, the whole class is going to the arcade today after school, you should come along.” Midoriya beams.

Shinsou looks hesitant so Bakugou pipes up “You’re never gonna be able to get out of it. Trust me I tried, just give in it’s easier”

Shinsou looks surprised and then gives Bakugou a long calculating look. What is this guy's problem and why is his stare so unsettling?

“The fuck are you looking at eyebags?” Bakugou barks out defensively, squirming under Shinsou’s gaze.

“I figured you’d be smart enough to realize when someone’s looking at you boom boom boy,” Shinsou drawls with nothing more than a raised eyebrow still not removing his stare from Bakugou.

At that Bakugou visibly bristles “Fuck you asshole you know exactly what I meant! Why the fuck are you staring at me huh? You got a problem?” Bakugou shouts standing up and practically shaking with his rage.

“Don’t get your panties in a twist blasty. I have many problems but none with you quite yet.” Shinsou states, clearly unaffected by Bakugou’s shouting.

“Then stop staring at me you fucking creep.” Bakugou huffs, sitting back down to try and ignore Shinsou’s existence.

As Shinsou looks up he can see the rest of the class staring openly and sinks into his seat to try and avoid the attention. Sero strolls up to Shinsou, chuckling lightly.

“You seem to be handling Bakubro’s attitude perfectly dude. I’m Sero Hanta and welcome to the class of chaos.”

Mina bounces up to them with a gleaming grin “Yeah, no one handles Bakubabe that well when they first meet him.” it lets out a huge dramatic gasp with a hand to it's chest, “Does this mean we’re getting a new member!”

“Obviously we’re gonna try. If we snag him then we can be bigger than the nerd brigade.” Bakugou scoffs out like it was obvious.

“That’s Bakubabe’s way of saying he wants to be friends but he’s too prideful to say it outright so he has to come up with an excuse. You’ll learn his language eventually.” Mina beams laughing as a small explosion gets close to it.

Shinsou chuckles as Bakugou then glares out the window but doesn't deny anything. “Fine, I’ll go to the arcade then I guess.”

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The entire class gets off the train, walking the short distance to Taito Station. As soon as they walk into the massive arcade everyone scatters, some staying on the first floor and many disappearing upstairs. Bakugou races to the back of the arcade with Kaminari hot on his heels.

They end in front of Gunslinger Galactica and Bakugou immediately picks up the two red pistols leaving the two blue ones to Kaminari. Bakugou has his undivided focus on the screen as Kaminari puts a few coins in the machine.

The gameplay is filled with screaming and shooting sound effects and by the end of it all Bakugou is rubbing his victory in a pouting Kaminari’s face.

“As I said, I'm the best. You never stood a fucking chance dunce face. I enjoyed mopping the floor with you though.” Bakugou gloats, cackling maniacally.

“Why do you always have to be such a sore winner?” Kaminari whines, continuing to pout.

“I’m not being a sore winner. Winner gets bragging rights everyone knows that sparky.”

“Whatever, I’m gonna go see if Jirou will play guitar hero with me.” Kaminari huffs.

As Bakugou watches Kaminari trot off he tries to think of what else he might want to do. He starts to meander around the arcade looking for something cool to do. He passes Sero and Mina as fast as possible before Mina could see him and drag him into playing Dance Dance Revolution with them.

After a minute of wandering, he comes to a stop as he sees Uraraka beating the fuck out of a punching bag. As he decides he’ll leave her to her rage he turns and sees Shinsou at some UFO catcher game. Bakugou stands for a moment to watch a few of Shinsou’s pitiful attempts at getting some stupid cat stuffed animal before he decides to take pity on the idiot before he wastes more money.

Bakugou stomps right up to Shinsou, “You seriously suck at this eyebags.” Bakugou states plainly.

“Thanks captain obvious, I didn’t notice.” Shinsou sasses with an eye roll as he once again fails to free the stupid stuffed animal.

“Move over,” Bakugou growls shouldering Shinsou to the side.

“Fucking excuse me. I was playing that you ass.” Shinsou gapes rubbing his shoulder dramatically as if Bakugou really pushed him hard.

“You’re wasting money because you suck. I’ll get it easy.” Bakugou gloats, smirking proudly.

As Bakugou throws 100 yen into the machine he goes very quiet. He’s purely focused on winning that stupid cat plush. He has to one-up Shinsou.

The claw sinks down and grabs onto the cat perfectly. Bakugou is stoked, ready to celebrate. He really thinks he’s gonna get it on his first try but then the claw gets about halfway up and drops the cat toy. Fucking hell.

“Was that a failure mister ‘I’ll get it easy’?” Shinsou mocks like the snarky little shit he is.

Bakugou huffs, “Shut the fuck up. I’m gonna get it this time. And don’t act like you didn’t fail like ten fucking times.”

“Seven but go off I guess.” Shinsou states with an infuriating little smirk.

“Shut up.” At that Bakugou goes back to focusing on the game. He will get this stupid cat if it’s the last thing he does.

Bakugou goes back and forth from the side of the machine to the front making sure to get the claw in just the right place. He waits with bated breath as the claw drops and once again grabs onto the cat.

“Oh fuck yeah! Did you see that! I told you I’d get it! Ha, take that eyebags! I’m number one!” Bakugou screeches as the cat drops down into the collection area.

Bakugou bends down to grab the cat plushie he won then pops back up to hold it out to Shinsou. The idiot doesn’t take it and Bakugou starts to get pissy.

Is this guy really the type to not accept something he wanted just because someone else won it? Fuck that, I don’t want this stupid fucking cat.

“Take it dumbass. You wanted this one right?” Bakugou huffs out.

Shinsou starts to look incredibly confused. “I honestly just thought you were gonna take it as some kind of mean power move.”

Seriously? Who the fuck would do that? I mean I guess he could but from the beginning the plan was to win it and give it to Shinsou. Wait, isn’t that a couple thing? Is that why he’s weirded out?

“I’m not that much of an asshole damn. Just take your stupid stuffed animal eyebags.” Bakugou mumbles looking off to the side with pink ears.

Maybe Shinsou’s taking this the wrong way.

Shinsou takes his new cat plush and Bakugou quickly tries to disappear into the chaos of the arcade.

Is Shinsou gonna think he likes him like that? They hardly even know each other. Sure he’s kinda cool but for all he knows Shinsou could be like, super spontaneous, or secretly a soft sunshine boy or something else that’s equally as awful. Hard pass. Besides, he has no time for crushes. He’s gotta focus on being number one.

Hito is an exception, obviously. They only spend evenings and nights together. Besides, everyone needs a support system right? Hito will help encourage and support him while he rises to number one, unlike all these distracting extras.

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“So how was day one in the hero course? Do I need to kick someone’s ass?” Bakugou questions making Hito huff.

“No, it was fine, But all my new classmates are hellbent on befriending me.” Hito bemoans sounding disgusted.

“You are so dramatic, The extroverts won’t kill you Hito. Just make you kinda tired and irritable.” Bakugou teases.

“Ugh. The only one that I’ve been able to enjoy talking to is some angry pomeranian boy who’s fun to tease.”

“Hey, that's something. Also, why angry pomeranian?” Bakugou asks with a little chuckle.

Hito laughs, “His hair kinda looks like a pomeranian. Not a lot, just a little.”

 “Well we got a new transfer from our Gen Ed today and his hair kinda makes him look like one of those troll dolls.” Bakugou says, wheezing a little.

“It makes sense that all the transfers are at the beginning of the year. The hair must be very unfortunate though.”

“Yeah, he seems chill though despite the fact that he’s a snarky little shit emo boy.” Bakugou says, rolling his eyes at the memory of Shinsou’s witty banter.

“Baku, we are literally both snarky little shit emo boys.” Hito drawls.

“Speak for your damn self Hito. Anyway, if your classmates are that determined to be your friends then maybe you should go for it. I don’t have to be your only friend Hito and you can always just shoot me a message if you’re gonna be late.” Bakugou volunteers softly.

“But you have other friends and you’re never late.” Hito objects.

“That’s because I’m me and I’m super anal about being on schedule. Not everyone’s like that and I don’t have a problem with you being out and having fun. You deserve to have other good friends and experience all the dumb teenager shit.” Bakugou huffs fondly. “Besides, I’ll still be here when it’s time to go to sleep…” Bakugou murmurs with a light blush on his face. At least Hito won’t see how flustered he is.

This is the first time either of them has ever brought up their sleeping on call. Bakugou’s heart races as he waits for Hito’s response.

 “Yeah, you’re right. I’ll try and make friends. Also, I’m never letting you live down how cute that was.”

“Shut up I’m not cute!” Bakugou denies for the sake of his ego.

Hito continues his teasing, “You are and now you’re being a cute tsundere.”

“Fuck off I’m not a tsundere and I’m definitely not cute.” Baku says even though it’s probably ineffective with the pout on his lips. Why does Hito always have to make him so nervous?

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Bakugou huffs as he heads down to one of the campus gyms. This is absolute bullshit.

“I want you to help Shinsou with his hand to hand combat skills. Also, it will hopefully help you with your lacking people skills.” Aizawa had stated blandly.

“No way! My people skills are just fine. Besides, you're the teacher, shouldn't you be teaching him?” Bakugou protested frantically.

Aizawa huffed and rolled his eyes, “Put it this way, I’m giving you an extra credit opportunity. You want to move your grades up don’t you? Beat Midoriya?”

“Whatever.” Bakugou scoffed.

Aizawa nodded and shuffled away, understanding that that was as close as he would get to a confirmation from Bakugou. “Gym 2 after school.” He tossed over his shoulder.

So here he is, stomping his way to the gym to train some extra instead of to his room to do his homework. Fuck, he was gonna explode if anything else fucks up his schedule today.

Bakugou slams the gym door open to see Shinsou in full middle splits. Huh, wouldn’t have thought he could do that.

“Staring’s rude Bakugou.” Shinsou teases, smirking as Bakugou is taken out of his daze and snaps his head up. “See something you like?” Shinsou says with a wink.

“Shut up,” Bakugou scoffs with an eye roll. “Hurry up. I’ll go a little easy on you the first time. I’ve gotta see what you already know.”

“Why of course benevolent god of boom boom.” Shinsou says, dramatically holding his hand to his chest and wiping a fake tear from his eye.

“Don’t think I didn’t catch that euphemism you little shit.” Bakugou grumbles, pointing his finger accusingly at Shinsou.

“Me? A euphemism? Never. I am but a sweet innocent boy.” Shinsou drawls sarcastically, finally moving towards Bakugou on the mats.

“Get ready.” Bakugou growls, immediately throwing a punch which Shinsou dodges at the last second.

Shinsou counters with an attempt at a leg sweep which Bakugou easily jumps over. Bakugou is so focused on his feet that he almost doesn’t see Shinsou’s uppercut coming.

Bakugou’s body moves completely on instinct and redirects Shinsou’s uppercut and slams his fist into Shinsou’s nose with much more force than necessary hearing a sickening crack.

Shinsou stumbles back gripping his nose as it gushes blood “What the fuck Bakugou! This is what you call going easy?” Shinsou spits, giving Bakugou a murderous glare. Shit.

“Holy fuck! I’m so sorry. Fuck! I’m sorry I was running on instinct.” Bakugou rambles looking around frantically.

“Wow, the king of anger issues can apologize.” Shinsou bites out.

“Shut up asshole, we have to get you to recovery girl uhh…” Bakugou looks around before tearing his shirt over his head. “Here.” Bakugou says holding his shirt out to Shinsou.

“Stripping for me isn’t gonna make me less irritated with you.”

Bakugou sputters, “No you idiot, it’s for the blood. Now is not the time for your weird flirtatious jokes.” Bakugou shakes his head and tries to will his blush away. “Now come on I’m pretty sure it’s broken.”

Shinsou grabs Bakugou's shirt and uses it to keep blood from getting everywhere. “It’s always the time for my weird flirtatious jokes blasty.” Shinsou says, muffled from behind the shirt.

The walk to Recovery Girl’s office is thankfully uneventful but as soon as the boys enter they’re interrogated. ”What happened now? Shinsou, you sit and let me take a look. Bakugou, explain.”

Bakugou looks down at his shuffling feet as he explains the situation.

Recovery Girl gives her best ‘I’m not mad just disappointed’ look “Bakugou, as a future hero it is important to train all of your instincts including the one to disengage when you aren’t in danger. If your only instinct is to fight what happens when you find an unexpected victim? Perhaps someone injured? Maybe even a child. What happens then? Will you just break their nose too?”

Bakugou looks up at the sound of Shinsou trying to hold in a laugh and is about to start talking shit when recovery girl turns her disappointed look on him instead.

“And you,” Recovery Girl says, making Shinsou sit up ramrod straight, nodding his head with wide eyes. “You should know enough about first aid to know that you should’ve straightened your nose before coming here.”

Shinsou chuckles and gives a scared pleading smile, “How can I straighten my nose? I can't even straighten myself” then he puts up finger guns and visibly cringes at himself.

Wait. Shinsou’s gay? Or, at least not straight. Does that mean that he’s actually been flirting this whole time? No way. No one would be that bold towards him. And he did agree with me when I called it a joke. But he could just be trying to cover it up because I called it a joke. Am I overthinking this? Just because he’s not straight doesn’t mean he’s into me obviously, that’s dumb. But what if he is into me, what am I supposed to do? Do I want him to be into me? No, obviously not. I like Hito. So I should make it clear that I’m not interested. But what if he is just joking and not into me then I look like a self absorbed idiot. So, just wait it out and see if he does anything that clearly shows that he does or doesn’t like me.

Satisfied with his decision, Bakugou looks back up to find Shinsou looking at him and raising his brows. How long was I staring off into space? Bakugou raises his eyebrows and quirks his head in response and Shinsou goes back to paying attention to Recovery Girl’s lecture.

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Bakugou and his idiots are all sitting around in Sero’s room working on homework together when there’s a knock on the door.

Jirou quietly gets up from the hammock she was sitting in and opens the door before promptly turning around and going back to her spot, leaving Shinsou to walk in and close the door behind himself.

This is the first time Shinsou’s spent time with them in a few days, having been a little distant since the whole breaking his nose incident. Bakugou’s secretly a little glad to see him coming back around as it really had been an accident.

Shinsou sits down between Bakugou and Mina looking around a bit before starting to pull out his homework.

“Hey Shinsou, glad you could make it.” Sero mumbles absentmindedly from his seat at his desk, still staring resolutely at his homework.

“Shinsou! You actually came!” Kaminari beams looking up from his work to wave with his hand that isn’t viciously clicking a fidget toy.

“Come on sparky, focus.” Bakugou said with feigned irritation, bopping Kaminari on top of his head with a rolled up hero magazine. Even the littlest distraction never fails to get Kaminari wildly off track.

“But I’m too stupid for math Kacchan.” Kaminari whines, flopping backwards onto the floor.

“Oi! Shut the fuck up! You’re a dumbass but you aren’t stupid you just need help focusing. Now drink yer fucking coffee and work on math.” Bakugou barks out leaning across the table to repeatedly smack Kaminari with his magazine until the boy gets back to working on his homework.

After that everyone quiets down to study the only noises being Kaminari clicking his fidget toy.

Bakugou is mostly done with his homework so he’s really just there to help his idiots get better grades. He doesn’t want a repeat of what happened at the summer training camp where he had to be separated from them during a villain attack because they couldn’t keep their grades up. Henceforth, he patiently helps them to understand everything they’ll need to know to pass their classes.

About 30 minutes later Kaminari flops onto his back again looking up at Sero, “Hanta, could you pretty please help me with these last few problems? My brain’s all burnt out on math.” Kaminari pleads with a big pout on his face.

“That depends. When you say you want me to help you do you mean you want me to give you the answer?” Sero inquires.

“Maayybe.” Kaminari draws out.

“Then no.” Sero states flatly.

Bakugou snorts. At least Sero is a little helpful with keeping Kaminari in line.

“But Hanta! Pretty please I’ll pay you in kisses.” Kaminari whines, giving Sero puppy eyes and dramatically puckering his lips.

Bakugou silently rolls his eyes at their flirting but resolutely ignores them to continue trying to finish up the english essay that isn’t due for another week.

Then Shinsou leans towards Bakugou and questions in a hushed voice if Kaminari and Sero are dating.

“Yeah, you get used to their obnoxious flirting eventually.” Bakugou states with a shrug without turning away from his homework at all.

Mina, having overheard the exchange excitedly jumps in “Yeah, no one in the Bakusquad is straight.”

Shinsou raises an eyebrow at that “You don’t have a token straight?”

“Yeah, it’s pretty chill, if you don’t mind can we ask if you have a label you identify with?” Jiro asks quietly from her place in the hammock.

Shinsou’s brow furrows a bit “Uhm, just gay I guess. You all are?”

“Well I’m a Non-binary lesbian, Jirou, Kiri, And Bakubabe are Cis and Bi, Kamibabe is Bi and a trans guy, and Sero is Pan and Non-binary.” Mina pipes up quickly.

“Oh that’s sick. You and Sero’s pronouns are?”

“I usually use it/its and Sero likes they/them.” Mina says grinning.

“Noted.”

“Alright introductions over, enough mushy gushy gay shit get back to work.” Bakugou barks trying to make sure they all get their homework done in a reasonable amount of time.

“And you,” Bakugou says pointing an accusing finger in Shinsou’s direction “rule number one of these study sessions is I get to check your work when you’re done so hand over the math sheet bitch.”

“Okay damn. You don’t have to be so aggressive about it.”

Bakugou looks over Shinsou’s math sheet for a few minutes before spotting a simple mistake and setting it on the table. “You got number twelve wrong, let me show you.” Bakugou then patiently explains what he did wrong and shows him how to do it correctly.

“Okay now check the others to make sure you did them right and fix them if you didn’t then I’ll check it over again when you’re done.”

“Thanks blasty, I think you should really reconsider your number one hero dream, you would be a good albeit grumpy teacher. Definitely not with young kids though you curse too much.” Shinsou snarks while doing as he’s told and checking his math homework for mistakes.

“Fuck off I ain’t gonna be a shitty teacher. Now shut up and do your homework.” Bakugou grumbled while checking to make sure that everyone else is still working.

“Why of course bomb boy.” Shinsou teases looking up from his work.

Bakugou shot Shinsou a pointed look before going back to his essay.

Later Shinsou hands his math sheet back to be checked and Bakugou can see a few problems were erased and rewritten but they were all fixed properly showing that Shinsou learned his mistake and how to fix it. Good. He can listen at least. I guess he’s a good enough addition to the group.

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“Alright, standard squad rules are whoever loses the game has to go downstairs to make the popcorn for the movie. Tonight's game is never have I ever so we can learn more about Shinbro. Meens can go first.” Kirishima states as the rest of the idiots settle into a loose circle on the floor of Kaminari’s room.

“We all know how the game works right? Someone says never have I ever done this thing and if you have done that thing you put down a finger. First person to put down all ten of their fingers is the loser.” Mina rushes through the rules getting nods from everyone in the circle. “Alright then I’ll start us off. Never have I ever drank alcohol.”

Silently Mina, Kaminari, Sero, Jirou, and Bakugou all put one finger down.

“I’m always the designated driver because Kaminari always pukes his guts up and someone has to take him home.” Kirishima shrugs.

“You make it sound way worse than it is.” Kaminari pouts.

“No. It is that bad. One time you tried to cuddle with me while covered in your own vomit. You’re lucky you were too pathetic for me to want to kill you.” Bakugou grumbles. Fuck that was disgusting.

Kaminari continues to pout while Jirou says “Alright, never have I ever skipped school.”

Everyone puts a finger down and the game is back on track.

“Never have I ever cut my own hair.” Kirishima says smugly looking at Bakugou’s obnoxious spikes.

Bakugou, Shinsou, And Sero each put down a finger.

“I’m not gonna let some extra cut my hair! They suck at it. If I want it to look good I have to do it myself.”

Bakugou sees Shinsou’s lips pull up into a small smile. He’s glad the boy is settling back into the group. For some reason it really bothered him when Shinsou was avoiding him.

“Well I could never take a risk like that. My hair is too gorgeous to not be taken care of by professionals.” Kaminari gasps, flipping his hair dramatically.

Yeah right. Pretty sure his hair is like straw from getting zapped all the time. He’s only so resistant to electricity.

When he glances over at Shinsou he seems to be fumbling for something to say.

“Never have I ever stayed awake for over 48 hours.”

Of course that’s what he thinks of first. He really needs to sleep more with eyebags like that. Although Hito says his are genetic and still stay after a good night's sleep. Shinsou’s probably just an insomniac though.

Shinsou puts down one of his fingers at the same time as Bakugou and Kaminari.

“I stayed up for three days straight when Animal Crossing came out on the switch. Bakugou took my switch away so I would sleep.”

He wasn’t eating either, that idiot.

“I knew you were the mom friend.” Shinsou teases Bakugou.

“Shut the fuck up I’m not these extras mom.” More like a babysitter honestly.

“Bakumom.” Kaminari giggles receiving the Bakugou patented death glare. “Anyways, never have I ever cursed in front of a child.”

“Fuck you. They’re just words I don’t know why everyone gets so pissy about it.” Bakugou grumbles while putting another finger down.

Shinsou puts another finger down and at the idiot’s surprised faces reveals that he has a much younger sister.

At Mina’s excited squeals he pulls up a picture of his sister Eri going to her first day of kindergarten for everyone to see.

Interesting. I didn’t realize Eri had become a common name.

“You two don’t really look alike. Are you guys half siblings or something?” Sero inquires.

“Oh, no we’re both adopted. My dad’s kinda have a knack for adopting problem children I guess”

“You have two dads! I have two moms! I wasn’t adopted though. My mom is bi and she had me before she got with my ma.” Kirishima rambles excitedly.

“I guess lots of us have non-conventional parents. My mom and dad started dating Deku’s mom last year. I had to learn to stop calling her auntie because it got very confusing for other people when I called my parent’s girlfriend auntie.” Bakugou rolls his eyes.

“That’s interesting. So you and Midoriya are kinda like step brothers?” Shinsou tries to clarify.

“Yeah I guess. I mean we’ll never actually be step brothers because you can only legally marry one person but given that Inko has been close to my parents since they were in college I doubt she’s going anywhere anytime soon. Alright, my turn extras. Never have I ever set something on fire while cooking.”

Kirishima, Kaminari, and Mina all shamefully lower a finger.

“Ah, another incompitent cook.” Bakugou states as he spots Shinsou lowering his finger.

“I was like six, cut me some slack.”

“Who the fuck let you cook by yourself when you were six?”

“I told my biological father I was hungry and he told me to make something. I think he was expecting a sandwich or something but I tried for an omelet and almost burnt the house down.”

Who makes their six year old make their own food by themselves?

“Well, now we know where your stupidity comes from damn.”

That one might’ve been too much. Maybe biological parents are a sore subject because he’s adopted? Fuck why am I always such an asshole?

He’s pulled out of his spiral as Sero speaks.

“Play nice you feral bastard.” Sero chides “Now, never have I ever paid for something with nothing but pennies.”

“Shut up. We were supposed to be learning about eyebags not targeting me.” Bakugou barks while putting a finger down.

“No, I definitely wanna hear this story.” Shinsou huffs a laugh and suddenly Bakugou doesn’t really mind the embarrassment if it means Shinsou will keep letting out that deep chuckle.

Alright nope. That was way too sappy. No more thinking like that. 

“Okay so for context Bakubaby’s parents work in the fashion industry and so they go to new york a lot and sometimes they’ll take him along. He’s a big fan of buttermilk donuts and he can’t find them anywhere but one specific bakery in New York. So one time when he was there in middle school he bought two donuts using 214 pennies. Pretty sure the bakery secretly hates him now.” Mina retells the story.

Time to play the part. They actually enjoy my defensiveness so might as well play it up for their entertainment. Besides I’m pretty sure if I showed any serious emotions around them the whole group would fall apart.

“I came to get more the next day and I gave the lady a tip because she had to count that shit we’re cool now so shut up.”

“Okay hun. Now, never have I ever had braces.”

“Stop it, you just wanna show Shinsou pictures of me with braces!” Kirishima loudly complains while putting his finger down.

“No no, keep going. I definitely want to see his shark teeth in braces Mina.” Shinsou encourages.

Mina pulls up a picture of a black haired Kirishima in a middle school uniform flashing his teeth to the camera.

Kirishima is hiding his face in his hands as everyone teases him until Jirou takes pity on him and speaks up “Never have I ever owned an All Might figure.” she teases looking at Bakugou.

Ugh. I don’t even like All Might anymore after all the bullshit he likes to pull.

“We don’t talk about that.” Bakugou huffs as he put down his seventh finger.

“Hey I’ve got one. Never have I ever fought a classmate outside of training Bakugou.” Kirishima takes his turn.

“What did I say! We were supposed to be learning about eyebags not picking on me.” Bakugou complains.

Now I only have two fingers up and these idiots are gonna make damn sure I have to go make the fucking popcorn.

Mina also puts down a finger explaining that one time she couldn’t succeed in making a bully be nice like she usually could so she just beat the girl up after school.

Nice. Probably could've used someone to do that to me. Maybe I would've learned to not be a piece of shit a little faster.

“Okay um, Never have I ever dyed my hair.” Shinsou lets out.

Bakugou and Kirishima both put a finger down.

“Yeah, my hair isn’t actually red if you couldn’t tell by the middle school picture earlier.” Kirishima shrugs.

“Oh, I actually just assumed you dyed your hair black to be a rebellious teen or something. The red suits you well though.”

“Nah, Kacchan’s the one who dyed his hair black to be rebellious. His mom said he could dye his hair however he wanted except black so he went out and bought black box dye and did it himself. Made a giant mess and got grounded.”

“Whatever it was a stupid ass rule. Besides, the black looked cool.”

“Pics or it didn’t happen.” Shinsou blurts out.

Jiro grins mischievously and turns her phone around to show a picture of Bakugou with black hair dressed like a walking hot topic ad.

She’s lucky that’s a good picture. Wait. Why do I care if the picture’s good? It’s just Shinsou. He looks like an emo zombie 90% of the time.

“That’s a lip piercing. A fake one?” Shinsou asks.

He always asks questions without actually asking a question. Always has to reword it to be a question hidden in a statement. Why do I care?

“No, I did it myself with one of those piercing kits off Amazon. Didn’t put it in the right spot though so now there’s a little spot on my lip that’s numb. I did it while my parents were on a work trip. When they got back they made me retire it. Still have a scar though look.” Bakugou says, leaning into Shinsou’s space and pointing at his lip.

Huh. He’s kinda pretty.

Wait. No. No thinking like that. Wait. Is that why I care about if the picture’s good? Or if he’s sleeping enough? Or that he doesn’t ask questions? Or why I like hearing him laugh even if it’s at my expense? No no no fuck no. I like Hito. But…I could like both? My parents liked two people and they made it work? Maybe I should talk to Inko about it.

“Yeah definitely not wear a lip piercing goes.” Oh shit I’m still in his face back up.

“Yeah, anyway Kacchan only has one finger left and I would like to make him lose so, never have I ever had the stupidest rejected hero name.” Kaminari states proudly.

“It was not fucking stupid! You’re all just too stupid to see my badass naming skills!” Bakugou shouts his defense, his thoughts about Hito and Shinsou put on the back burner for a minute.

“Bro all do respect but Bakusatsuou isn’t a very heroic name. I see what you were going for but heroes shouldn’t include things like murder in their hero name. It’s not manly.” Kirishima tries to reason.

Bakugou is arguing with everyone about what movie to watch tonight when he realizes Shinsou’s been very quiet since the end of the game. Looking over Bakugou can see that he’s just staring into space with a furrow in his brow and a cute little pout.

Shit why am I thinking about that right now. He’s clearly upset about something now is not the time. I can analyze these stupid feelings later.

“Eyebags, you good? You’ve been zoned the fuck out we’re gonna put on a movie you need to vote. The conjuring or Encanto?” Bakugou says, waving his hand in front of Shinsou’s face.

“Uh yeah, sorry, um The conjuring I guess.” Shinsou stumbles over his words clearly still not all the way paying attention.

Maybe he just needs a minute?

“Fuck yeah! We won the vote! Sparky come help me make the popcorn.”

Shinsou doesn’t watch one second of the whole movie. Bakugou wants to check in on him and make sure he’s alright but he doesn’t want to do it in front of the whole group and put a giant spotlight on him. When it reaches 8:30 Bakugou tells the extras he’s going to bed and as usual they poke fun at him for having the sleep schedule of an old man.

I hope Shinsou’s better tomorrow.

When Bakugou gets back to his room he sees a chat from Hito saying that he’ll be late because he’s watching a movie with his classmates.

Maybe I should talk to Hito about Shinsou being upset? He’d probably give me some good advice. But what if Hito finds out I maybe like Shinsou and thinks I don’t like him? Or what if Hito gets up in his head and convinces himself he’s taking up too much time in my life again? Maybe it's best I don’t.

When Hito gets on voice chat at 9;30 he seems very tired from dealing with his classmates. As he doesn’t seem very talkative Bakugou suggests She-ra and they watch a few episodes before going to sleep.

I’ll think about the Shinsou issue more tomorrow.

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It’s another day of hero training. Today they’re training with class 2-B again.

Monoma interrupts the peace by coming up to declare that his class is better and that they’ll pummel class 2-A into the ground as he always does.

It’s an annoyance at best and now that he’s used to it he tunes Monoma out to continue his conversation with Jirou.

“Dude, stop being a little bitch and just go for it.”

“I can’t. What if it ruins our friendship? Or what if she still likes Todoroki? I mean she doesn’t really talk about him anymore but that could be because he’s taken. For fuck’s sake I don’t even know if she likes girls.” Jirou rambled freaking out a bit.

“Okay, for starters if she’s still into Icy Hot she’s a fucking idiot he’s so gay for Deku it makes me wanna throw up. Secondly, if she would hold your feelings against you she’s a shitty friend anyway. If she genuinely cares about you nothing will happen to your friendship. So again I will reiterate, stop being a little bitch and just go for it.”

“Fine fine I’ll do it. How though?”

“Fucking hell how are you this stupid? Just stop being a coward and say it outright. If you keep beating around the bush she’s not gonna get the hint and then you’re gonna get all up in your head thinking that she doesn’t like you and then you’re never gonna tell her. It cannot be that hard to just say ‘Hey Momo, I’m stupid levels of gay for you’”

“Shhh don’t say it so loud she’s gonna hear you.”

“It'd probably be a good thing if she overheard, then you couldn’t chicken out of telling her.”

The conversation dies as Vlad King starts to explain today's exercise. It’s more stupid class bonding bullshit two on two each team having a member of each class.

He’s paired up with the mushroom girl. Komori I think?

Once Vlad gives the all good to find your partner and start strategizing he walks right up to her.

“Alright Toadstool let’s win this.”

Then he catches a very cold tone coming from Shinsou nearby and tunes in.

“I’m assuming your quirk has something to do with how you made your hands huge to hit that Monoma kid earlier?”

She does do that a lot, I have no idea why Vlad doesn’t get onto her for it.

“Yes, sorry about him by the way. I try to keep him in line but he still finds ways to bother others and make us look bad. Now what’s your quirk so we can come up with a strategy.” Kendo says sweetly, clearly thinking that Shinsou’s hostile tone is because of Monoma’s yelling.

“Mind Control. If I ask someone a question and they respond I can control them like a puppet.”

“Oh, I’m surprised they would let you into UA. Like, I’m sure you’re a good guy now if you’re here but there’s no way you never used your quirk for something bad growing up.”

This fucking bitch.

Bakugou stomps up to her on pure instinct and for once his anger isn’t because he’s feeling defensive.

“Shut the fuck up Kendo. Everyone does stupid shit with their quirk as a kid and UA has never held that against anyone because then there wouldn’t be anyone able to attend UA. That’s also literally the whole reason anyone under 13 can’t be charged with illegal quirk usage. So keep your gross opinions to yourself, stop being quirkist and focus on coming up with a strategy to win.” Bakugou spits at Kendo garnering the attention of the rest of the students before stomping back to Komori.

After that Bakugou keeps an ear out for what Kendo is saying. She keeps her opinions to herself but still manages to be rude as all hell.

At least Shinsou looked a little happier after I called her out. It’s important that he knows there are people who will stand up for him.

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Bakugou is walking home from hanging out with his idiots at the mall. He finds out that he and Shinsou live in the same neighborhood as the walk side by side home.

It’s the late evening and their walk is calm until Shinsou suddenly stops in his tracks.

Looking back to see what made Shinsou stop, Bakugou realizes that Shinsou is looking rough. He’s wide eyed and hyperventilating; clearly having a panic attack.

Shit I’ve never been on the other side of this before. I’ve gotta calm him down.

“Hey, look at me. You’re having a panic attack, you need to breathe.”

Shinsou’s trying to talk but it’s impossible to understand him through his hyperventilation. No wonder no one can understand me when I’m like this.

“Hey, I can’t understand what you’re saying, you need to get your breathing under control before you start trying to talk.” Bakugou says trying to be as calm and gentle as possible.

Quiet voice. No sudden movements. That should help until his nervous system chills out.

Shinsou starts to cry.

Fuck. Was this gonna happen anyway or did I make it worse and that’s why he just started crying now?

Shinsou starts pointing and Bakugou starts to turn to where he’s pointing.

I guess it’s not a random panic attack, it had a specific trigger.

As Bakugou looks to where Shinsou’s pointing he sees a duck from the pond waddling towards them.

Oh. He’s scared of ducks. That I can handle.

Bakugou trots off towards the duck screaming at it and chasing it away and generally looking insane. Eventually the duck leaves and doesn’t come back.

That’s right you feathery fuck back the fuck up. 

“You could’ve told me you were scared of ducks before we passed near the duck pond. Feeling any better?”

“Forgot about the duck pond. Never come this way.” Then Shinsou lets out a wet chuckle, “And yes, I feel much better after seeing you chase a duck around and yell at it to take its feathery ass all the way back to hell.”

“Well glad I could be some free entertainment for you asshole.”

Before Shinsou could snark back both boys turn at the sound of a tiny meow.

Looking down the face of a little tabby kitten pops out of a bush.

Bakugou immediately goes to investigate. There are no other kittens anywhere nearby at all, this one seemingly all alone. It looks old enough to have been weaned but certainly too little to take care of itself. 

Bakugou then slowly approaches the kitten and holds out his hand. 

“Come on you little shit. You cried for attention, now come get it.” Bakugou speaks gently.

Slowly the kitten walks out of the bush and sniffs at Bakugou's hand before rubbing against it begging to be petted.

Bakugou looks back at Shinsou, “What should we do with it?”

“I’ll take it home. My dad brings home stray cats to foster and rehome them all the time. If he gets pissy about it, I’ll let him know he’s a hypocritical bastard. Pops will back me up for sure.”

“Alright then little shit looks like you’ve got a new home.” Bakugou states unceremoniously picking up the creature before handing it off to Shinsou.

“Come on, let's get to heading home before the sun sets.” Bakugou says without turning around to look at Shinsou and confidently walks ahead.

Well now I’ve made an enemy out of Kendo and ducks on Shinsou’s behalf. I really am down bad huh?

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Bakugou’s parents are out on a date and Deku is out with Todoroki so it’s just him and Inko home alone.

It’s now or never I guess.

Bakugou wanders up to where Inko is lounging on the couch with a novel and sits on the love seat next to the couch.

“Hey Inko, when you and my parents got together, who's the one who suggested polyamory?”

“That would be your mother naturally given her boldness. She told your father outright ‘I know you're in love with Inko’ and naturally he freaked out and tried to deny it before she cut him off by saying ‘Me too let’s ask her out’ and so they did.” Inko fondly shook her head.

“How did they bring it up with you?”

“Well the next time they came over for tea your mother just said ‘We’re both in love with you, can we take you on a date?’ and while I was working through the shock your father pulled out his laptop, apologized for your mother’s lack of subtlety and showed me a very organized powerpoint on polyamory before I agreed to go on a date with them.”

Huh. Maybe I need to ask for that powerpoint.

“It didn’t really take much convincing as I had had feelings for them for many years but kept them to myself out of respect for their relationship. If I had known this was an option I would’ve brought it up years ago. Obviously after a few dates we decided to be official and had to have a long talk about what we wanted our relationship to look like. We were able to come up with the dynamic we wanted and a loose schedule and have been doing well ever since. Is there a reason you’re asking?”

“So, there’s this guy that I’ve liked for a while now. Like since middle school kind of a while. But, now there’s this other guy. So I guess I was just trying to figure out how I might go about that.” Bakugou mumbled, staring at the clock on the wall.

“Well, how you go about it is up to you. If you want to bring it up with them go for it. If you wanna wait until you feel more confident or until you’re more secure with this new guy then do that. You could also only ask out one and then bring up the possibility of polyamory with them later. It doesn’t need to be so serious. You’re young even if this doesn’t work out you’ll find something that does. However, you’ll never be able to know if it’ll work if you don’t try. If you never try to pursue them it might end up being one of those what ifs that keep you up at night when you're older. But regardless you’re a big boy now and you can make your own choices whatever they may be.”

This is why I came to Inko. My mom would’ve just told me to stop being so cowardly and go get my man. Or men I guess?

“Yeah, I guess you’re right. I’m gonna think about it more before I decide.”

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Bakugou finds himself standing in front of Shinsou in his dorm.

“I need to talk to you.” Shinsou breathes out.

Clearly something’s weighing on him. Why would he come to me specifically though? Maybe Kendo’s being a bitch again?

“What’s going on?”

“I’ve been keeping a secret from you for a while now.” Shinsou says, looking down at his feet.

A secret?

“I can’t stand to keep it from you anymore. When we played never have I ever they brought up your rejected hero name. That’s when I realized who you are. You’re Baku and I know that because I’m Hito.”

Bakugou shoots up in bed.

Shit that was a weird fucking dream. That would be ironic though. Would also solve the two crushes issue. But there’s no way Shinsou’s Hito it’s just his brain turning wishful thinking into dreams.

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Bakugou is sitting off to the side during hero training chugging a cool water bottle  when Shinsou saunters up to him.

Speaking in a low tone Shinsou asks “Hey, after school today you think you could stop by my room? I’m gonna need a little help with today’s English homework.”

What the fuck? He’s literally fluent in English? Does he think I’m fucking stupid?

Looking again at Shinsou’s face he sees barely there nervousness.

I guess this is just his way of saying he wants to talk to me alone? He could just fucking ask.

“Alright whatever, but I’m changing out of my uniform first eyebags.”

“That works. Thanks Blasty.”

With that Shinsou wanders off towards Kaminari like he didn’t just leave Bakugou with a million unanswered questions.

What could he need? Maybe someone’s being a fuckhead again? No, he’d have no issue with saying that in front of the group .

Bakugou’s traitorous brain begins to think up a scenario that includes Shinsou wanting to confess to him.

That’s stupid. If anyones gonna confess first it’s gonna be me obviously. Also, what would I even do in that situation? Would I have to explain that I like him and someone else at the same time? Is that a dick move? Would he be upset? He didn’t react poorly to my parents dating Inko but just because he doesn’t have a problem with poly relationships in general doesn’t mean that he’d be okay with being in one. Let alone in a V ploycule where his metamour is someone he knows nothing about. Why am I even worrying about this? No one is confessing shit. But then why does he want to talk to me alone? I guess I’ll just have to wait and find out. Fuck I hate waiting. This is bullshit.

Later Bakugou grumbles to himself as he steps out of his room freshly changed into some baggy sweats and an orange tee shirt with a grenade printed on the front. He steps up to Shinsou’s room which is right next to his and knocks lightly.

What could he possibly need from me that he can’t say in front of the others?

As Shinsou opens the door he’s wearing an oversized purple hoodie and some loose joggers.

He only wears that hoodie when he hasn’t slept well.

Shinsou nervously rings his hands together as he steps back into the room to sit in his desk chair leaving the door open for Bakugou to follow.

Bakugou steps in closing the door behind himself and leans against the pale lavender dresser looking over at Shinsou “So what’d you need to talk with me about?”

Shinsou swallows hard and parts his lip before pressing them back together and furrowing his brows.

As Bakugou waits for him to get his words together he starts looking around the room.

Everything is some kind of purple. His pc setup on his desk glows purple as do the led lightstrips on the ceiling. The chair he’s sitting on is black with purple accents. The clothes he can see in the closet are mostly black and purple. The coffee machine on top of his dresser is a pastel lavender. The lamp on his bedside table is purple and shaped like a cat. Both the mug and thermos on his nightstand are purple.

You’d think he’d hate purple given the hair and eyes.

As Bakugou looks over at Shinsou’s bed nestled among an insanely fluffy also purple blanket and a few other stuffed animals is the little blonde cat plush that Bakugou had won for Shinsou at the arcade.

Just as Bakugou is reminiscing about that day Shinsou speaks “I’ve been putting off telling you this because I was scared of how you’d react but you deserve to know. So,” He takes a deep breath “I’m Hito and I know you’re Baku.”

Am I dreaming again cause if so this is getting ridiculous. Maybe I should hold my breath and check? Oh shit I’m not dreaming. Oh fuck. Oh fuck. Shinsou is Hito?

Okay let’s go over the facts. Same age. “villainous” quirk. Was in general studies and transferred to the hero course at the same time. Two adoptive dads and a little sister named Eri. Shit it’s all the same. Why didn’t I figure this out sooner? Fuck what am I supposed to do about this? How am I supposed to respond to this? Shit I haven’t said anything yet I need to respond.

“How fucking long have you been keeping this from me!”

Shit. I may not know the right way to respond but I know that wasn’t it. I’m not even that mad, just overwhelmed but I can’t take it back now. Fuck I’m fucking shit up again.

“Almost a month.” Shinsou says, voice sounding wet as he stares intently at the floor.

Taking a few deep breaths Bakugou asks “How did you know it was me? What made you realize?”

“It was when they mentioned your rejected hero name. Then everything just clicked and there were too many similarities for it to be a coincidence. I just needed time to process everything and then I was worried you’d hate me for not telling you immediately or that you’d be disappointed when you found out it was me. Fuck, I’m so sorry.”

“Fuck okay, shut up. I don’t hate you, this is just a lot right now. I’ve, shit. I’ve gotta go think.”

With that Bakugou rushes back to his room and for the first day since his kidnapping he doesn’t talk to Hito.

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“Alright so I know damn well that your mom told you about my liking two guys.” Bakugou blurted at Midoriya while they were both doing homework in the living room because their parents were out on a date.

“Yeah, the one at school is totally Kirishima right?” Midoriya says with a shit eating grin.

“Ew what the fuck? No fucking way am I into that shitty haired loser.”

“Yeah I know. I’m just messing with you. It’s Shinsou yeah?” Modoriya grins up at Bakugou from his spot on the floor.

Bakugou throws a work packet at Midoriya’s teasing face.

“Mean Kacchan. Now why are you bringing it up? You finally grow a pair and ask them out?” Midoriya teases.

“Not yet fuck off. It’s just that the situation has changed all of the sudden and I’m not sure what to do about it. So, I’m going to chat your ear off as revenge for your muttering.”

“Ooh ooh is there a third guy?” Midoriya guesses.

“No.”

“Did one of them start dating someone?”

“No nerd”

“Did one of them ask you out?”

“No. Now shut up and stop fucking guessing so I can tell you. Fucking hell. So for backstory the other guy is a friend I made online a couple months after the slime villain bullshit. I never wanted to show our faces because I didn’t want him to know and that only got more important for me after Kamino because of the whole ending All Might thing. No. Fuck off. I don’t need you to tell me it’s not my fault for the millionth time shut the fuck up and let me finish.” Bakugou stares intently at Midoriya making sure he will actually stay quiet before he continues.

“Now as of yesterday I found out that this guy I’d been close to online is also Shinsou. Which should by all means make things less complicated but I freaked out when I found out and I think I fucked it up. Also it’s weird to try and put the two existing relationships together as one in my mind. And it’s weird to come to terms with Shinsou knowing me so much better than I thought. And I definitely had a flirty thing going with him online but what if that gets thrown out the window now that he knows it’s me?”

“Alright. That’s a lot to unpack. I am obligated to once again remind you that Kamino wasn’t your fault. You aren’t responsible for someone else's choices. With that out of the way, focus on getting your brain comfortable with the idea that this online guy is also Shinsou then focus on wooing Shinsou I guess. It’s a lot easier to get one boyfriend than to get two guys who’ve never met each other to agree to be poly with you. As for him no longer being into you because you’re you, if that’s the case then he’s not the one for you and he can take his extra ass off the set yeah? Not worth your time?”

“Yeah I guess. Not gonna be as easy as how you wooed icyhot though. You literally just told him his quirk is his quirk and he was ready to worship the ground you walk on. Dumbest gay awakening I’ve ever fucking heard of.”

“Hey! No insulting my boyfriend!”

With that Midoriya jumps up and slams Bakugou down on the couch starting a play wrestling fight that ends with Bakugou trying to suffocate Midoriya with a couch pillow.