Only You

Making Plans

Bakugo's POV:

We leave the diner with the annoying waitress and start our long walk back to the dorms. My mind is still trying to process what he said to me. He told me he was gay. I mean it doesn't matter to me, but I just wasn't expecting it. Not for someone that talks about being manly all the time. I guess he trusts me enough now to tell me. But he was nervous about it and I don't think I trust him again, at least not yet.

Our walk back to campus is filled with his voice and he keeps changing walking positions. First he had his dumb arm around me and then after a while he was walking backwards in front of me. But then he was walking behind after he fell off the curb. And now he is just next to me. It is nice to have Kirishima back to normal and not pretending to be normal.

I enjoy hanging out with him, a lot actually. I kind of hope he stays over in my dorm again tonight, but I don't know to be honest. At least we are going to be talking about him being gay. I think that I should tell him the truth. Not like I am hiding it or anything.

There is a convenience store a few buildings down and an idea pops into my head. I interrupt Kirishima in the middle of his sentence, "Hey. Why don't we go buy some snacks to bring back to the dorms?"

"But I don't have any money!"

I stop walking and just stare at him and his dense head.

"What?" Kirishima asks, his hands motioning to the side.

"Tch. Just come pick out some snacks and quit being an idiot." I start walking again and he runs to catch up to me.

His voice hurts my ears because his mouth is right on my shoulder, "Thanks man! I really appreciate it."

We go into the convenience store and get a bunch of snacks and then after some more walking we get back to my dorm room.

I throw the bag of snacks onto the bed as I hear Kirishima shut the door.

Kirishima's voice starts to echo throughout the room, "Hey man, thanks again. I really appreciate you paying for everything. If you want, I can pay you back, I just have to go get some money from my room-"

"I told you don't worry about it. Anyways." I hear myself start to speak quieter, "Did you want to talk more about...you know?"

I grab the snacks that I just threw onto my bed and move them over to my desk. I then climb onto my bed and move over to the head of it, kind of prompting Kirishima to sit at the foot of the bed. He does so, without saying anything.

As we sit across from each other, both of us criss-crossing our legs, I speak up, "So who knows?" I didn't know how to start the conversation, but I just had a feeling that Kirishima wanted to talk more about it; apart from me just saying I won't tell anyone.

"Well Kaminari and Sero and Mina. And my mom of course."

He loves his mom a lot. He talks about her often and I can tell he cares for her. The other three aren't surprising either, but it does make me a little sad that I am the last to know in our "group."

"And they are all okay with it right?"

"Yeah, they are all awesome."

"You know I am okay with it too, right?"

I see a smile come to his face, "Yeah, you are awesome too."

"I am sorry, I don't completely know what to say." I pause and I see he is looking at me intently, "It is just I have never really looked at anyone...like that. It's just I have been so focused on becoming the best hero that I have never thought about those things, like liking someone. I mean I don't think I have ever really found someone attractive except for when that girl hit me with her quirk." I shut my mouth immediately as all of the memories come rushing back to me. Holy Fuck! I completely forgot about that. I mean I didn't even remember about her quirk until just now!