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Your friends cheered as you blew out the candle to your birthday cupcake, clinking glasses together. They made every birthday seem important, even something as small as your 23rd.
"So what did you wish for?" One of your friends chirped and another quickly elbowed them in the stomach playfully.
"If they say it it won't come true, dumbass!! You want to ruin their birthday?"
You laughed, already taking a bite of your cupcake.
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"Traveler?" Kirishimas voice brought you back to reality. You blinked up a him and smiled, eyes tired as you held in the tears. Everyone was already going through so much because of you, you couldn't make the burden worse.
"Sorry, Kirishima. I was just.. thinking? Yea..thinking." You patted the spot next to you and he eagerly went to sit down.
"Thinking? What about?" He pried, crossing his legs and leaning towards you.
"I just..I think my birthdays soon. It's not a big deal, not really a big birthday."
"Really?! Your birthday?! We've got to do something!" The Crimson Dragon immediately jumped up and ran off to find the Barbarian Prince. "Katsuki!! Travelers birthday is soon!"
Bakugo looked up from where he was sharpening his sword, an annoyed 'tch' leaving his mouth.
"Outsiders birthday, huh? And how's that my problem?"
"Oh come on!! They've been pulled away from their home and dropped in this completely new world! The least we could do is celebrate their birthday!!"
"The least we could do?! We're taking them across the entire fucking world to the Stryhorn Mountains!!"
Kirishima pouted and out on his best puppy dog eyes.
"I know.. but it would make them feel so much better! Plus, we all need a break!"
Bakugo groaned and finally relented, somehow Kirishima always melting through the cold barriers of his heart.
"Fine! But you're doing everything, shitty scales. Got it?"
"Yes!" Kirshima purred and immediately got to work.
It took a bit and it was clumsy, not at all like a birthday cupcake you were used to but Kirishima managed. He made you a fruit bowl and proudly presented it to you, a stick sticking up in the middle and he gently blew on it so a small flame sparked at the top.
"Here! It's not much but I hope you like it!" He beamed happily and you couldn't help but smile at how hard he tried for you. An outsider. "Make a wish!" And with that you took the bowl and blew out to makeshift candle. Kirshima grinned and Bakugo let out a scoff, begrudgingly pouring you a cup of some of his mead.
"What did you wish for?" He asked half-heartedly.
"If I tell you it won't come true."
He stared at you for a moment before rolling his eyes and grumbling about your 'otherworldly ways'. The rest of the night went by normally except for Kirishima constantly asking questions about you and your world. Mostly about what you normally did on your birthdays. You answered him happily, glad you could talk about your world with him. Soon after Bakugo called it a night which usually meant you and Kirishima had to too. You excused yourself to the washroom and the both nodded, Bakugo warning you not to go to far. You walked through the trees until you finally thought you were far enough to which they couldn't hear you and hopefully Kirishima couldn't smell the salt of your tears. You practically fell down on the ground, hugging your knees tightly as you finally let the tears you'd been holding in all day spill. Soft hiccups escaping your mouth as you whispered just under your breath.
"I wish to go home.."