What If I Jumped? (Kiribaku)

• Chapter Twenty-three •

Kirishima's pov

When I woke up, I was in a hospital bed in what looked like recovery girls' room for the kids like Midoriya. My body didn't hurt anymore, she must've fixed it. I was glad that she didn't ask what happened though, I wasn't really ready to talk about it.

It looked to be about twelve in the afternoon when someone came in. My emotions were lifted greatly when I saw it was Bakugo, holding some flowers. He went round to the chair next to the bed I was in and sat in it, smiling at me.

"Hey~" I croaked out, smiling back at him.

"Hey, Kiri." He spoke softly, "It's just us in here, I asked recovery girl to let me spend some time alone."

"Oh okay, thanks." He nodded.

"I uh-I have something to give to you." He stuttered as he handed me the bouquet of flowers and blushed.

I took it gladly from him, "They look gorgeous."

"T-thanks.. There's also a note on there, by the way. I wrote it because I'm not good at verbally expressing things." He rubbed the back of his neck.

I untied the red ribbon that held the letter in place, wanting to see what it said. As I unfolded it, Bakugo's face flushed.

I started reading the letter. My heart was beating abnormally fast. One of the lines that stuck out to me most was when he said he liked me, and he wanted to be with me.

I want to be with you.

I read that part over and over, taking deep breaths to calm my excitement.

"You..you really mean that?" I asked, hopefully, looking into his eyes.

"...Yeah, I do. I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier, I wanted to make it special but then I realized that it doesn't matter when or where I do it, because anywhere and anytime I'm with you, it's always special. That sounds so cheesy-"

"No, it sounds sweet. I'm really lucky to have you." I took his hand in mine and intertwined out fingers like many times before, still feeling butterflies in my stomach.

"So, I have something important to ask." He looked at me, seriously.

"Yeah?" It was like time slowed down, and it was only me and him, no one else in the world.

"Kirishima Eijiro, will you be my boyfriend?"

I shot upright, sitting now. I grabbed Bakugo's head with my free hand and kissed him. It was a long and passionate kiss, one where I couldn't quite breathe correctly as we pulled away.

I put on the biggest smile ever, blushing worse than the boy next to me, "Yes! Yes, I'll date you."

Baku looked at me and pressed our foreheads together, "I promise, I'll do everything to protect you in the future. Nothing like what happened the other day will ever happen again."

"You're more than I could've ever asked for."

We quickly pulled away, hiding the note, and tried to act natural as I heard the door open for the second time today.

Luckily it was just recovery girl.

"Kirishima, you are free to go now, I've checked everything and it's all healing quickly."

I thanked her and Bakugo helped me out of the bed, putting his arm around my waist as he walked me to his dorm room.

When we reached the common room, there wasn't anyone there, no doubt because of school, but Mina, Sero and Kaminari weren't there either. They were probably going out somewhere.