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Chapter 10: Sold

Midoriya sat right back on the bed, wondering what to do with the cloth and string. Do they throw these away or something? He'll probably be bored out his mind while waiting so he grabbed the string and played around with it. Thankfully, it was long so he could do more things with it. He twisted and held them between his fingers, looping them through each other and making a strange design. It didn't look like much, like anything, more like a bunch of tangled string. Hey, I never said he was any good at this. His mom taught him a little when he was younger, forgot most of it obviously.

"Damn, you must be pretty bored."

A voice chuckled, startling Midoriya. He quickly looked up to see Bakugou. His face turned red with embarrassment, being caught doing childish tricks. He was 19 for crying out loud! It was embarrassing.. he set down the jumbled string as the man continued.

"Cute. But I guess you'll have to socialize a bit more so you're not that bored. Anyways, I'll go ahead and answer some of your questions." Bakugou walked over and sat down at the bed.

Midoriya gulped, nervous suddenly now that he has to ask questions. Don't get him wrong he really wants to know but, it just made him feel nervous..

"Oh um o-okay.." He nodded, thinking of which question to ask first.
"So-"
"You should know this comes at a price. Nothing is free around here." The man smirked, seemingly teasing the boy. What price? It was curious as to why he thought all of a sudden that this place was for free. Of course, it had to be at some price.. it only made sense, because he was being taken care of.

"What price exactly..?" Midoriya asked cautiously. To gather supplies like he did back at home? Clean up?

(CUT OUT)

"Just a little stuff here and there." There was that cocky smile, not caring at all that Midoriya was internally panicking. He didn't say anything to Bakugou, just staring at him panicked.

It was kind of cute to watch him react to things. Everytime there was anything that made him panicked he would cling to his shirt.

Bakugou liked that, especially since it told him there was some brains up there. He knew Bakugou was likely the only person he could depend on and protect him.
"So, ask your questions." He continued.

Ha ha. No thanks! He'd rather go blindly into this situation. Right..? But what if he needed to know something? Well, he could lie about his answers.. Maybe it's better to just learn as he went.
"N-Nevermind..." He mumbled.
"Ah? Come on, you can't take it back! Just ask some damn questions."

He couldn't even reply, I mean he knew what it meant to be mates but-
He just didn't know this man and he definitely did in not want to mate with him.

"I-I don't want to." He spat out. He felt the man's grip tighten slightly before speaking.
"Well that's too bad, I already paid for you and you fucking agreed." He growled back, shoving the him into the bed and hopping off in anger. What the hell did he mean by 'pay'?

Oh..
Of-Of course. That's why Hisashi was happy.. he got money for agreeing to selling his son. His face fell as he realised the reason why he was unwilling then so happy to oblige.
"Look, I get it you don't like it. All this is new and you're scared. But you can't back out of this, you don't have a fucking choice, got it?" Midoriya looked down in shame, hoisting himself up with his arms.

Of course he knew that..
"I-I know.. I j-just don't feel comfortable being married w-with a stranger..." He hung his head low, starting to twiddle with his fingers out of a nervous habit. He didn't really want to talk anymore but it'd be rude to just ignore him.. Bakugou sighed and lifted a hand to his face, rubbing it like he was stressed out.

"Whatever, call me Katsuki and I'll answer the damn questions, okay? I was just teasing anyways." The smaller male blushed a little by the request. Well, he can just call him Katsuki, better than the option before..

"Okay.. um K-Katsuki." He stuttered. It felt weird to pronounce somehow, a very foreign name but Bakugou wasn't all that hard.
"Alright. Ask me some and I'm asking you some, shoot away." He encouraged, sitting back in the bed.

"Ah.. can you tell me about yourself then?" He lifted his head a little towads where he sat.
"My name is Bakugou Katsuki, I'm a Duke of the kingdom next door. I've been sent by my king to do diplomatic shit with the other guy. I also have an old hag, and no siblings or Father. Tell me about yourself too." He nonchalantly skimmed over facts about himself without care. He kinda sounded bored. And a duke? That's pretty powerful.. what's a duke doing taking foreign peasants and attempting to mate them?

"O-Oh. Well, I'm Midoriya Izuku. You know my mom and dad, I don't have any siblings. I just gather supplies around the forest to help feed my family." As soon as the words blurted out of his mouth he realised how small he was.

It was on of the most average things to do as a peasant but, this man was a duke. He was powerful. It only led him to his most burning question, but he hesitated to speak up. Midoriya furrowed his brows, contemplating if he should go ahead.
"Um... So, why did you take me of all people..?"

Author:
Lmao gonna end that here!
You know, I have so many stories I can't keep track of them! I literally only work on them when I have the modivation, and the ones that are published are the ones I'm most motivated for.
Oh! Today marks the first release of chapter 1!! Thank you for reading so far!

Words: 1089
Finished: 1/31/21
Published: 4/12/21