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Footsteps (足跡): PART 2!

[THIS IS PART TWO TO THE CHAPTER BEFORE! IT MAY BE LONG AND WILL HAVE POINTS WITH NARRATION IN SOMEONE ELSES POV, YOU WILL KNOW WHEN IT HAPPENS. ALSO, KIRIBAKU WILL BE FEATURED IN THIS CHAPTER. HOPE YOU ENJOY!]

It really shocked me how well this plan ended up in the long run. We had two days, two days to pick out everything while keeping Kirishima completely in the dark. "Hmmm well, I'm sure he's already got a lot of Crimson Riot stuff- Hey Bakugou!" Bakugou looked up from his phone, seemingly annoyed. "Do you know if Kiri already has this?" He rolled his eyes and leaned towards Mina's computer screen. "Yep, he does."

Mina groaned, "Ughhhh, this is almost as hard as finding something for Deku around his birthday!" Midoriya just laughed as he heard her comment, "Sorry!"

A few of us were back in the common room, Jirou, Kaminari and Sero were all keeping Kirishima busy upstairs. We were all sitting in a group, on the couches. Mina and Hagakure were in charge of looking for Kirishima's presents. Bakugou was scrolling through his phone, helping get them ideas. Then that left Midoriya and I to help search for red and black decorations, the two of us squished together on a small blue couch. If this wasn't already close enough, we both had to lean into the small laptop screen. I'm honestly surprised he didn't see the red in my face sooner.

"How about this one?" Mina quickly showed Bakugou another gift before he shook his head. "Has it, it's hanging up in his room over by his bed." Mina smirked, "Glad to know you're very observant Baku! Especially when it comes to rocks-"

"SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH!" If it wasn't for the sudden alert of an incoming Kirishima via Jirou's text, we would have blown our cover easily from Mina's relentless teasing. "Hey guys! What are you up to?" Kirishima asked. Even though he was aware Kirishima was coming, Bakugou still jumped when he heard the red head's voice behind him. "Woah! Blasty, you good?" Bakugou snarled at him, maybe for show. "I'm fucking fine, Shit Hair." Kirishima just laughed at the nickname, but it also took a second to process that he had used his own. If it was anyone else calling him 'Blasty', I'm sure they would be dead in the span of seconds. But in this case, Bakugou had just replied with his usual snarky comments.

We had to stop our hunt for now, since Kirishima had decided to sit down here and talk with us for a while. By the time we were done, the sun had gone down and all of us were exhausted. Except however, Midoriya. I feel like he was too energized considering what time it was and having been in that conversation for over 3 hours. "You seem happy," I told him, "What's on your mind?" We were walking back to the dorm rooms when he turned to me and just smiled, holding a spare notebook yet to have a title. "I was listening to what Kirishima~Kun said when he was talking to them and secretly wrote stuff down." Wow, he really was sneaky about it. I didn't notice, yet I had been sitting right next to him.

"So what type of information did you get?"

"Come with me, I'll show ya!"

So that's how I ended up in Midoriya's room, flipping through our new study sheet for this much easier quiz. "Well, I feel like present hunting will be difficult. But if we find some shark stuff and things with puns, I'm sure he'll enjoy it. He seems to care about friends more then anything." Makes a lot of sense, he seems to be that type of person. "Mhm, our suspicions of him loving Crimson Riot was correct. But that might be hard to do because he seems to already have a lot of his stuff."

"Well, what about this? May I?" Midoriya nodded and handed me the laptop. "A while back, I was walking home when I saw this painting store. You give them a picture and you're able to get it painted, maybe framed if you want too. So, I was thinking..."

I pulled up Midoriya's photo album, mainly covered in pictures of All Might, which embarrassed him quite a bit. I smiled and chuckled to myself, then clicked the school album. "Maybe this one?"