Connected Pasts

Chapter 8

Katsuki waits nervously, fixing his hair in the mirror and making sure his outfit looks good. He knows it's just a study session but it's with his CRUSH. There's a knock on his door. Katsuki gives himself a silent pep talk, "you got this, Katsuki. Don't ruin this."

He takes a deep breath and opens the door. On the other side is Todoroki with pastel brown tracksuit pants, a white long sleeve shirt that hangs out from underneath a maroon hood. He brought a black backpack with him. He looks adorable. I shuffle to the side and he walks in.

"Thanks for having me over to study," Todoroki says.

"Shut up. I need to learn how you do it so I can beat you in the next exams." Katsuki wear his signature 'you don't stand a chance against me' smile.

Todoroki sits on the floor and pulls out his exercise books and textbooks. Katsuki follows his lead. They study away in silence until Katsuki notices Todoroki struggling with a question.

"Dumbass!" Katsuki teases. Todoroki stares at him. Katsuki sighs and crawls over to beside Todoroki. He can feel the heat radiating off him. "What question?"

Todoroki points at the math question. Katsuki reads it over and snatches the pencil from his hand and his exercise book. He writes it out as he explains. "You need to find the square root first then divide it by..." (I'm not smart)

When Katsuki finishes he looks up at Todoroki's face that is only centimetres away. His lips are gently parted and his eyes are glistening. His skin looks soft and gentle. He can feel the nervous breath leaving Todoroki's mouth. They inch closer to each other and soon their lips touch. Todoroki's taste like mint. His lips are as soft as a baby's bum. They hold the kiss for a second more before parting. The realisation sets in and Katsuki scrambles away slightly. Todoroki has his fingers on his lips in surprise and almost as if he's reliving the kiss.

"Sorry," Todoroki says nonchalant.

"Y-yeah... whatever," Katsuki mumbles.

They fall back into an awkward silence. "Bakugou. I liked it," Todoroki said after a while. He looks up at the hetero(never)chromatic boy. His hands grip his pants tightly and his face is flushed red.

Katsuki can taste his heart in his mouth as he slowly shuffles over to the other who's giving side glances. They're close but yet they don't do anything. Todoroki places his hand in between both of them, suggesting to Katsuki what he should do. Carefully, Katsuki creeps his hand over his. It's warm and his fingers feel slender but strong underneath. He squeezes his hand softly before both rearrange their grip, intertwining fingers.

"So does this mean we're together?" Katsuki asks quietly.

"If you want to be, then yes."

"Ok.."

They fall back into silence. Both not being used to a relationship. "That was my first kiss," katsuki admits.

Todoroki nods. "Do you want to try it again?"

Katsuki stays silent with nerves. Todoroki swivels around to be in front of Katsuki. They intertwine both hands and Todoroki leans in for another kiss. This one lasts longer, sending electric sparks through Katsuki's body. His body tingles with pleasure.

They pull away and rest their heads against each other's. Katsuki tries to contain his smile, contrary to Todoroki who lets it crease his eyes and let dimples become known on his face. He's so cute...

Katsuki pulls away roughly and looks back at the work. "We've had our moment. Now back to work." He just wants to cuddle with Todoroki but he would never admit it.

"Ok," he replies simply. What Todoroki does next catches Katsuki by surprise. He crawls onto his lap and wraps Katsuki's arms around him. He falls back into his chest and looks up with a small smile.

Katsuki growls lowly and looks away but doesn't fight back against the touch. Todoroki grabs the pencil off the ground and begins working on math study. After a minute, Katsuki becomes pissed off. "Get off me! I need to study too, dumbass!"

After a little hesitation, Todoroki removes himself from Bakugou and lets him go back to his area of the room. Both men study away, with small comments to each other.

As Katsuki watches Todoroki's shrinking figure, he realises something. I don't have his number. He runs up to Todoroki and grabs his shoulder, catching him by surprise. "Bakugou?" He asks.

"I don't have your number," Katsuki says.

"Alright. Let's do a phone exchange." Both pull out their phones and give them to the other. Katsuki punches in his number and stares at the empty contact name. He glances up at Todoroki and smirks Evily.

He enters: Your Bitch 🥵❤️‍🔥

And hands the phone back just as Todoroki does the same. His contact name is sweet and cute. "Todobear🐻"

They head off to their dorms without questioning the names. Almost directly after Katsuki lies down in bed, he gets a text.

Todobear🐻

Hello.

Why r u so formal?

Why'd you put my contact name as that?

Oh. Do u not like it, Todobear?😏

There's a pause before Todoroki replies

I don't mind it.

Wow. Ok

?

I didn't expect someone like u to like a name so inappropriate

Well, I knew what I was getting into when I kissed you. You are... a weird guy.

Hey! I'm not weird! You're weird!

But I'm your weird todobear hehehehe

Idiot...

There's almost a minute break before another text comes through and during that time, Bakugou stared at the screen, anticipating another text.

Can you call me Shoto? I want to change my first thoughts about that name. My father uses it very aggressively.

Katsuki is curious but doesn't decide to push it.

Ok fine yeah whatever. Call me Katsuki then.

And we need boundaries. So no coming over without warning unless it's serious. No telling anyone about the relationship until we are both ready. You got that?

Yes. Are we allowed to show public affection?

What part about not telling anyone don't you understand?

Sorry.

When we tell people, we can show affection maybe

Ok.

Now that that's been sorted I'm gonna go

Oh alright. Talk later?

Yes, idiot

Katsuki feels happier than he's ever felt before. He's got a boyfriend, access to lots of food, knows that Eri is still alive – wait, he needs to sort out a time to talk about it with Midoriya. Ew. Grimly Katsuki takes his phone out again and texts the dumbass

Deku we need to talk about the stupid Eri thing

Oh yeah. Come over tomorrow then at midday.

Ok yeah whatever.