VARIANT (For The First Time, I Don't Mind Losing)

Chapter XII - Perplexity

The fire made faint crackling sounds once again, casting shadows as Katsuki tossed more set of dried twigs on it. 

The little flame dancing on the center of the gathered pieces of assorted things they managed to pick on the way was in a constant state of dying, and he had been feeding it branches, twigs and dried leaves continually to avoid that from actually happening. 

He's been doing it for a while now, and hadn't move an inch from his seat, right infront of it. 

A silent sigh escaped him.

Truth of the matter is, it was fucking foolish.

The daemon didn't actually have to put up with this jarring task if he could just simply use his goddamn powers.

Katsuki controls fire for crying out loud!

He can just command it to keep going, and it will go on forever if he pleases to. It'll be problem fucking solved, as easy as a snap of a finger.

And in all honesty?

If he really, really chose to be the rational one right now (or if he pay attention to that stupid nagging voice at the back of his mind, whatever), he could just stop all together simply for the fact that; he didn't need it.

He didn't need to keep himself warm.

The cold wind that's enveloping the whole place every night never really bothers him anyway for him to worry about such a pathetic thing.

But.. then again, Katsuki wasn't doing this for himself.

He was doing this for the idiot beside him right now, who's in a middle of mumbling incoherent words while munching his peach.

Seriously though, this nerd just never shuts the fuck up, even while eating.. 

It was already dark when they both managed to find a place to settle in.

Deku was already wondering if they'd actually end up staying in the woods tonight and was even going as far as already planning ways to make it bearable and what kind of fucking trees they should be choosing (undoubtedly based on his life experiences), when finally.. they both came across this little shabby cabin isolated outside a wide lawn (or backyard, call it what you want). 

The place was obviously meager, but still can be cozy. Clearly built only just to be some sort of food storage —and currently almost empty too at the moment, by the way.

After seeing how it has good and comfortable space for the two of them, they have decided to stay there for the night, (it was actually Katsuki who decided it, Deku was just dragged along) sneaking in easily by prying (destroying) open the shitty chains used to lock the equally shitty wooden door.

Yeah, sure there was some protests coming from the fucking nerd at the process, but still.. here they are. Inside. 

It was a win for Katsuki. 

Heh. Who's fucking keeping score? 

They were really fortunate, because the cabin was a good distant away from the house of whoever it is that owns it, and judging by the amount of grains still left on a very few sacks inside, it looks like no one would be worrying much about the place anyway.

And it's not like the two of them were after those grains after all.

As soon as they were nicely settled, Deku had then put down all the things they have gathered and picked up along the way that he was hugging, and even took those that the daemon was carrying, before flopping down on the dirt floor.