Noble and Pride [Katsuki Bakugo x Shoto Todoroki]

Chapter 31 : Yamari

The routine goes on for them. Meeting Inasa and discussed their current alliance, letting the alpha prince meet Katsuki's friends, including Ochako and Izuku. Inasa often invited Shoto to eat udon together. Yeah, the stall he went to before apparently beef broth udon noodles. Inasa even offered he can bring some soba from his kingdom to Shoto but the omega prince refused. Getting his beloved soba that way maybe, not be so worth it. Kazerashi wasn't so close with Yamari after all. 

As Shoto was always seen inside Ochako's hut, working on his mother's medicine, Katsuki was always seen with his friends training in the forest. They went to look for the best metal and weapon material for Eijiro to work on, and Ochako can cast the last work with her spells. 

Shoto was wearing a pair of gloves and a mask, injecting some liquid to the copy of his mother's body on the bed. Every time he finished his newest medicine, he would try them on his mother and stayed watching her for hours. Katsuki would enter and brought some meals, when Shoto proclaimed he wasn't hungry Katsuki simply shoved the meal into his mouth forcefully. 

Ah yes. What a romantic and gentle alpha. 

"Eat this shit unless you want something else to be shoved down your throat..." 

Katsuki can be extremely embarrassing whenever he wanted. Shoto also remembered the first time Katsuki saw the copy of his mother's body lying unconscious on the bed. During that time, Shoto was placing his hand on her neck and forehead to check her temperature but Katsuki got the wrong idea. 

"Fuck, never knew your interest is like this. I won't bother ya," 

"What?" Shoto blinked and looked at his mother, then quickly stepped back. "No! It's not like that. She's my mother. Not really my mother but-" the prince explained and Katsuki approached, an eyebrow rose as he stared at the unconscious female. "She looked like a female version of you," 

Shoto's expression softened. He always loved it when someone said he looked like his mother. "Well, she's my mother. I look like her, to be precise," the prince slightly smiled and sat on a chair. His hand slowly reached for the hand of his 'fake' mother and gripped it close. "I wish I can go see her," he hummed. 

"She doesn't look so bad. But you're better," Katsuki shrugged Shoto nudged his shoulder. "I recommend you to not say that once you're in front of her. She is beautiful, stunning. Once called the Queen of Beauty," Shoto spoke proudly and Katsuki snorted. "You're planning to bring me to her already? Damn Shoto, you're so impatient," 

"What do you-" Shoto blinked and blushed afterward while Katsuki was smirking. Katsuki has always enjoyed teasing him like this, didn't matter if his friends were around. Though, the teasings went extreme when Inasa was around. As long as it wasn't skin-contact teasing...

"Get out, get out, you're distracting me," Shoto huffed, pushing the alpha out of the room and Katsuki guffawed. "Get enough fucking sleep, dipshit!" Katsuki half yelled before Shoto closed the door in front of him. A small sigh left the omega and he smiled to himself. 

There's the time where Inasa waited in front of the house entrance and smiled brightly after seeing Shoto. The omega prince approached, asked what does he need and a bouquet of flowers was handed to Shoto. The prince was startled but he seemed to be delighted seeing these beautiful flowers. He loved flowers after all. "Thank you," he spoke his gratitude. "You really don't have to," 

"It's alright! I passed by a flower shop and these peppermint roses reminded me of you," Inasa spoke cheerfully, eyes fell on Katsuki from far who was carrying some metal stick. His cheerful grin turned to smug and Katsuki's brows twitched in annoyance, bent the metal stick in his hands. You can hear his friend's panicked voices after seeing Katsuki ruined their hard work. 

These constant greetings and gifts reminded Shoto of the times where they were at Doryoku or Kazerashi. Most people said Inasa was like Shoto's personal knight due to the attention Shoto received. He was an omega prince, beautiful too. It's strange after so many trying to woo Shoto the omega prince still called himself unsightly. "It's just because I'm King Enji's son," Shoto would say that every time people asked how did he get so many admirers. 

Inasa and Shoto would study in the library together, train their magic together, walking around the kingdom together. To be honest, those were the only moment Shoto found peace and delight. Inasa supplied him with friendly attention and never treated him like he was King Enji's son. Even though their first meet wasn't so pleasant. The first time he met Inasa, Shoto was the aloof and stone-cold prince he was and Inasa has always disliked King Enji. The alpha would get on his nerve just because of his hatred of King Enji. Regardless, as time passed by, they shared the same interest. Well, the only shared interest they had was their detention towards King Enji. 

On a chilling evening, while Inasa was looking for Shoto, he stumbled upon the prince watching Momo making a flower crown in the garden. The female knight placed the flower crown on top of Shoto's head and Inasa felt as if his whole self became frozen. Under the maroonish sunlight, Shoto's hair gently moved from the breeze and his stunning beauty was so appealing. The colorful flower crown seemed to suit the dual-color of Shoto's hair. 

Inasa believed in the existence of a fairy for the first time and he insisted on Shoto as one. 

He found out he had been falling hard for Shoto ever since then. 

Just to finally meet the prince in Yamari again to offer safety, and he found out Shoto had another alpha fallen for him and by Shoto's side all the time. He had never raged this much. 

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Shoto placed the bouquet of roses aside on the table, thought of buying a vase to put them in. That was when he smelt something sweet from the kitchen. Shoto remembered this scent. It was the sweet scent of mochi he and Katsuki bought previously. Entering, he saw the alpha covering the sweet glutinous rice cake with fruit powder. Shoto went over curiously. 

Izuku entered as well and beamed upon seeing the dessert. "That looks so good Kacchan! May I have one?" he asked and Katsuki growled. "No, not for a stupid nerd like you. Fuck off," Katsuki snarled and Izuku pouted. Shoto watched Katsuki's doing and frowned upon seeing Katsuki treating Izuku like that. "What are you so stingy for? It's not like you like sweets anyway," the prince asked. 

Katsuki seemed to be in thought before suddenly shoved a tray of the finished sweets to Shoto's chest. "They're for you, fucktard. Shitty Deku don't deserve it," 

Shoto was surprised Katsuki made these for him, kind of tickled by the sudden kindness. He brushed it off and smiled. "Thank you and oh. You made my favorite flavor too. You're so sweet, Katsuki," 

Katsuki was blushing, averted his gaze and lips grumbling curses while Izuku snickered to Katsuki. "Shouchan made Kacchan blush~" he cooed and made Katsuki snapped, threatened to throw the pan straight on Izuku's face. The greenette yelped and hide behind Shoto, chuckled from amusement. 

Shoto looked over and reached for one. He gave the cinnamon-flavored to the greenette. Izuku squealed in happiness and quickly slipped away from the kitchen. Katsuki who planned to chase and beat the fuck out of Izuku halted his steps when Shoto grabbed his wrist. 

"Accompany me eat?" Shoto asked. 

Katsuki seemed to be reconsidering that and huffed, sitting next to the prince. Shoto was pleased by that and began eating the sweets. "This is so good. So much better than the ones we ate before. How did you learn to make these?" 

"I found an old hag selling these in a basket while I headed to the forest. I bought her shit and asked her for the fucking recipe. As easy as that," Katsuki sneered. 

"When was that?" Shoto inquired. 

"Yesterday," Katsuki replied. "That quick?" Shoto's mouth formed a small 'o' from awe. "How did you learn this fast? Even after I take a cooking class for the whole year, still can't guarantee if I'll be decent at it," Shoto mumbled. Kind of envious. Katsuki laughed and simply ruffled Shoto's hair. Then he spotted some powder by the corner of Shoto's lips.

He brushed it with his thumb, licking it off his finger with a naughty smirk. That made Shoto immediately turned red and chided him for his inappropriate behavior. The ash-blond casually shrugged with a loud chortle. He was so not going to stop doing this in the future. Seeing Shoto's embarrassed face amused him so damn much.