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Everytime Katsuki gets on Eijirou for his hair “being shitty”, seeing the redheads reaction honestly just gets more and more funny even if it’s the same everytime.
That’s why Katsuki’s currently pouting while Eijirou’s gawking and laughing at him.
“No way.. this CANNOT be real!”
“Get over yourself, it’s not that serious!”
“This is insane though! Like literally everyone would go crazy seeing you like this!”
It’s not like Eijirou wanted to intrude on anything. All he was trying to achieve was steal the blonds—or maybe brunettes now?—charger before he heard the other come back from his walk. Unfortunately, Eijirou’s also a bit impatient and didn’t wait long at all to listen out for the older and just barged in which now leads him to standing in front of the others bathroom and staring at him while Katsuki stares back, eyebrows covered in bleach and his roots almost matching their state.
“Do you do the rest of your hair?”
Katsuki glares when Eijirou comes in but rolls his eyes and closes the door, leaving only a bit of space so it’s not fully shut.
“Nah, don’t need to. Those are naturally blonde, ‘s just my roots and brows that aren’t.”
Eijirou nods and watches in the mirror as Katsuki applies the rest of the bleach to his head.
“Why didn’t you tell anyone?”
Katsuki shrugs and hums.
“Didn’t think it was important. I mean they weren’t always brown, I was born all blonde. I guess because my dad’s a brunette and some people born blonde grow up with their hair turning brown that’s just what's happening to me.. though it kinda took longer because my hair color didn’t start changing til I was maybe thirteen?
‘So four years ago..’ the redhead thinks to himself. He nods and smiles.
“Well you sure do a good job. Had I not walked in, I don’t think I would’ve ever noticed unless you told me!”
“Yeah well that's the whole point.”
Katsuki snorts and shakes his head. He walks over to his bed and lays on his stomach.
“What’d you come here for?”
“O-oh! Nothing important, don’t worry about it!”
When Katsuki raises a bleached eyebrow, it takes every single ounce of Eijirou’s willpower to not go over to him and jump on him. In general, Eijirou’s always liked Katsuki’s eyebrows no matter what color they are but in general he also has a thing for every part of Katsuki anyway, the eyebrows are just a bonus. Maybe he needs to get that checked out because that shouldn’t be normal and-
“-hello?! Are you even listening?”
Eijirou blinks and kneels down in front of Katsuki.
“Now I am.”
Katsuki groans but smiles softly.
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A whole month passes before the bleach job becomes noticeable. Katsuki’s roots are brown again while his brows look like they can’t decide if all the hairs want to be brown or want to stay blond.
While he’s getting ready for school, Katsuki looks at himself in the mirror and grimaces. One option he has is going for a quick walk down to a store and finding spray to make his hair look more.. normal. The second option is to just not be super early to class for once and quickly bleach everything.
He weighs out both ideas but eventually says “fuck it”, leaves the dorms and goes to school.
When he walks into the classroom, Tenya’s the first one to see him and can’t even get his greeting out before his jaw is dropping. Following his reaction are Momo and Tokoyami.
Nobody says anything until the rest of the idiot circus, or that’s at least what Katsuki calls them, comes in and fills into their seats.
Katsuki sighs heavily when he feels the presence of the ring leaders—also known as Denki, Mina and Hanta—come up behind him. He turns to face them, prepared to be bombarded with stupid questions and jokes but all he’s met with is silence.
“Hello? If you’re gonna say shit then say it.”
“The fuck happened to your hair?!”
“What is going on with your face?!”
“Holy fuck!”
He rolls his eyes at their reactions.
“I’m shocked you guys have gotten this far in life. Genetics are a thing, look into ‘em.”
Denki and Mina start babbling about “how smart they all are” and how “this is just shocking” while Hanta just stares at him like a dumbass.
“Listen elbows, I don’t have ti-”
“-you would look so fucking good with an eyebrow piercing.”
Surprisingly, that gets the whole room to shut up and immediately directs everyone’s attention to Katsuki. Everyone finally notices the difference and rushes over to gush over him.
Eijirou walks into the classroom feeling like he’s something important but when he catches a glimpse of the others head, he smiles. He walks over to everyone and stands next to Mina, his big toothy smile never leaving his face.
“Hey man!”
“Hey shitty hair.”
“Oh, come on!!”
Katsuki smirks and turns back to Hanta.
“Eyebrow piercing, why?”
The tape user blinks himself back to reality and suddenly sputters, his mouth opening and closing like a fish out of water.
“W-why?! What do you mean why?! Have you seen yourself bro? You’re like ten times more attractive and don’t get me wrong, you’ve always been attractive but dude, your brows are seriously one of your BEST features and with this new look? Holy shit bro, if I already didn’t have a crush on someone I’d go for you!”
Eijirou gives a small glare at the last part of his friend's comment but nods his head to agree.
“He’s so right bro! You’d look like really really good! Plus you already have your ears pierced, what’s the harm in accessorizing yourself a bit more?”
“Hanta wants everyone to have piercings, don’t encourage him.”
The two younger boys shrug.
“I mean maybe but I’m serious. I’m not just saying this because we joke about your hotness or whatever, we genuinely mean our compliments and this is one of the times where I mean mine. Just think about it, yeah? And and! If you decide you want to, I can give it to you-”
“No the hell you won’t.”
Everyone almost breaks their necks turning to the direction of Aizawa walking in.
“There won’t be any needles unprofessionally going through anyone’s faces.”
There’s a collective groan throughout the room but everyone goes back to their seats. Hanta winks at Katsuki before going back to his seat and if Katsuki swears he saw a hint of jealousy on Eijirou’s face, he won’t comment on it.
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“Dude fucking relax!”
“Don’t get me in the fucking eye!”
“I won’t! I pierce myself all the time and I haven’t lost any part of me yet.”
“He’s lying, he almost cut his tongue in half.”
Katsuki rolls his eyes when Hanta throws a tissue box at Kyouka, her cackling filling the room.
“Stop trying to scare my client! Sorry Blasty, people can be so stupid sometimes.”
‘Tell me about it.’ he thinks to himself. He closes his eyes and digs his fingers into the taller boys blanket preparing for the impact.
“Three, two, and breathe..”
“Holy shit.”
“Told ya.”
“Oh my god..”
Both boys shoot a confused look at the purplenette laying on Hanta’s floor.
“I’m lesbian, not blind.”
Hanta shrugs while Katsuki nods in agreement.
Not even ten minutes later is Katsuki opening his Instagram and taking a picture of his face. Of course he’s hesitant to post it, not usually posting online and not exactly in the mood to get shit on if others think he looks bad but with the almost begging looks of the other two, he sucks it up and posts the picture.
Not even five seconds later, likes and comments are flooding his notifications.
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“Ouch..”
“Sorry.”
“No you’re not.”
“I’m not.”
Katsuki snorts and cuddles closer to the redhead. It’s not like they’re dating—though not entirely just best friends either—but cuddling isn’t foreign to them. After Kamino, the two would have sleepovers and cuddle for comfort if either one had a nightmare. Now that the war is over, cuddles became a whenever in the day kind of thing and they’re both happy with their system.
“Stop flicking it.”
“But it looks so cool!”
“Yeah but it still fucking stings!”
“Oh.. right.”
Eijirou thinks to himself for a second before shifting to lean over the others face and kiss his brow.
“Does that help?”
“I.. what are we five? Kissing wounds don’t make them go away.”
“Nope! Not five anymore but I’d spend all my days trying to kiss everywhere I can to heal you.”
Eijirou doesn’t entirely grasp what he’s said until Katsuki’s looking at him like he just asked him to bring him the moon and the younger succeeded.
“Shit Kat, I’m so sor-”
“Suddenly I think my mouth kinda hurts.. y’know my jaw always being open from yelling n everything..”
Eijirou blinks before chuckling and leaning in knowing he could definitely fix that.
“If I knew you’d react this way over me, I would’ve stopped bleaching and gotten more piercings sooner.”
“I think a lot of other things contributed to this though, no?”
“Tell me about ‘em after?”
“Of course.”