Walls and Stars (Kacchako)

Part 4 (Goodnight)

I wake up feeling very refreshed, looking out my balcony window doors I notice that it is dark out. I roll over to look at my clock and see it is 2AM!!! I guess this is what I get for going to sleep as soon as I get to my dorm.

Knowing I won't be able to go back to sleep I slide on a big hoodie that goes halfway down my thighs and just leave on my short shorts. Having nothing better to do I decide to go look at the stars.

I leave my room and head for the elevator, I take it to the top floor I get off and then proceed to the stairs that lead to the roof. As I get to the top of the stairs I notice that the door leading to the roof isn't closed completely that's weird I thought.

Opening the door fully I am hit with the night air that instantly makes me shiver. As I take a step out onto the roof I am surprised to see someone sitting on the edge of the roof legs hanging off the side back towards me. It was to dark to tell who it was. They were just sitting there looking up at the sky deep in thought by the looks of it.

Why was someone up here at 2 in the morning!?!? Who ever it was must of noticed my presence because they began to speak.

"Kirishima... I told you to stop coming up here to check on me, you need your sleep idiot." says the voice of Bakugo very calmly, and quiet almost like a whisper, never turning his gaze from the stars.

Of course me not being Kirishima I didn't say anything, what was I supposed to say!?!? I felt like a deer in head lights I didn't know what to do.

With no response Bakugo finally turned to face me. All I see through the darkness is his red crimson eyes staring at me, almost putting me in a trance. I expected him to start screaming at me once he noticed I wasn't Kirishima, but to my surprise he didn't. He just simply looked at me for a second then turned his back to me and looked up at the stars once again.

Thinking back to the week and everything that I had seen Bakugo do (or the things I thought he was actually doing) I decided to brave the waters and go seat by him.

I walk up and seat beside him letting my legs hang off the side just like him. Neither of us say a word we just seat there in silence, staring up at the starry night. Until he finally breaks the silence.

"Why are you up here"

"I fell asleep this afternoon and I just woke up so I decided to come look at the stars since I knew I wouldn't be able to go back to sleep" I say while sneaking a peak at the boy sitting beside me.

I notice he Is in sweat pants and a muscle shirt his usual attire, how is he not freezing I wondered. Now that I looked at his face he looked..... calm, not his usual angry loud self.... he actually looked really.... handsome.

WAIT WHAT AM I THINKING STOP IT!!!

"What about you, why are you up?" I ask trying to change my thoughts but continuing to look at him.

"I couldn't sleep" he says with an expressionless face his eyes never looking away from the stars.... what was he thinking.... what was he searching for up there?

Thinking back to when he thought I was Kirishima I put two and two together and asked "do you not sleep often? is that why you assumed it was Kirishima checking on you again and not someone else?"

Silence... for a moment I thought he was so lost in his mind that he didn't hear me, but then Bakugo lets out a short sigh and finally turns from the starry night sky to look at me.

"Why didn't you go back inside when you saw it was me?"

His face still held no expression but his eyes told a different story. They looked curious, like he actually wanted to know why I stayed. His question caught me off guard though... Why didn't I go back inside.... wait, did he actually want to know or was this his way of avoiding my question? Maybe it was both I thought.

"I'll answer your question when you answer mine."

Wait what did I say!?!

My bluntness surprised me, apparently it surprised Bakugo as well because for a brief second his eyes got wide, and I thought for sure he was going to yell at me for not just answering him like most people do when he ask something. A small smirk comes to his face like he was amused by my response.

"No... I don't sleep very often, haven't really slept good for awhile now"

I felt my mouth drop open for a second, astonished that he actually answered me and didn't get angry. Why hasn't he slept good for so long I wondered?

"Your turn cheeks" he says after a couple of seconds go by of silence, his crimson eyes never leaving me.... almost like I was one of the stars he was so lost in just moments ago.

I look down not able to take his intense stare anymore, and start to fiddle with my hands like I always do when I'm nervous, I didn't know what to say.

"I-I don't really k-know, I guess I just wanted to see if something was true or not." I finally stammer out.

After a couple of seconds of silence I feel his rough callused hand gently, so gently lift the bottom of my chin up until I'm looking directly into those intense crimson eyes once again except now he was leaned over towards me his massive muscular body threating to consume my tiny petty one. His face only inches away from mine, finally held what his eyes had showed me earlier.... curiosity.

"What is it you want to know is true or not?"

Even though we were only inches apart I had to struggle to hear him, like his hand he spoke so gently to me, so softly. This was the complete opposite of the Bakugo I had come to know.

I felt my face turning the color of his eyes and I felt myself struggle to breath, I couldn't take him being this close to me... what was happening, why was my body reacting this way?!?!

"I-I wanted to know if there is another side to you that people don't see, besides your friends" I say breathlessly.

A couple of minutes go by until he slowly lets go of my chin and his intense eyes leave me to look back up at the stars. I instantly miss his touch and crimson eyes on me, I couldn't help but feel these things, yet I don't know why I felt them.

After a moment of silence he responds "You should go back to your room, you haven't stopped shivering since you got out here cheeks."

Now that he said it I realized that my whole body was shaking, I must of been so caught up in the moment that I didn't even feel my body freezing. He was right I couldn't stay out here any longer, but looking at him he still looked unfazed by the cold. I would have to remember to find out why that was later.

I swing my legs around and make my way back towards the roof door. When I get there I stop and take one last look at the boy who was so confusing to me. He was just sitting there looking up at the stars just like he had been when I first got to the roof, he hadn't even looked back at me as I walked away. I still didn't have a defiant answer to my question, but I was starting to lean more towards there was another side of him. Before turning towards the door and walking back to my room I call out to him.

"Goodnight, Bakugo."

I never heard a response, it kind of made me sad, but with that I made my way back to my room to try and fall back to sleep even though I knew I wouldn't be able to.

Bakugos POV

When I hear the door finally close I know we are once again alone, and even though I know he will hear me no matter my volume I still whisper my response.

"Goodnight, Uraraka."