His Little Fox(Kirishima x reader)

19

"I don't know." I scrambled for something to say. "It seems weird that a fox would be in a tree. Do you think it just climbed?"

"I guess so. I didn't really think about it," Kirishima said. "It looked really peaceful sleeping in the tree, I would've hated to have it fall."

"Would you have kept it, like as a pet or something?" Denki sniggered. 

"Totally, there is nothing cooler than having a fox as your best friend."

"We know what that's like, already," Mina said, pulling me into a hug. "Isn't that right, L/n?"

I mumbled a response, keeping my eyes on the floor. Mina was not helping. When I looked up again, I saw Kirishima studying me but he looked away when he noticed that I'd caught him.

Not good. This was not good at all. I needed some sort of distraction. 

Just then, Aoyama walked over. Waltzed was probably a better word. He was wearing a silver, sparkling suit that you couldn't look at if he was standing in the light. I could have hugged him. All I needed was for him to bring up himself, or talk about the party, anything. Just talk about something else.

"Well, well," he said, taking a drink from the table. "What's going on here?"

"Kirishima tried to adopt a stray fox," Mina said.

Nooo! Talk about something else, for goodness sake!

"Well," Aoyama took a sip of his drink, "was it cute?"

I could have punched him. 

I escaped as soon as I could. The topic didn't change and more and more people seemed to be interested in a fox sleeping in trees. Honestly. Did high schoolers with superpowers have nothing better to talk about? 

I leaned against the sink. It shouldn't have been this hard to hide the fact that I can turn into a fox and have some little, secret double life as a fox. 

I splashed some water on my face. I didn't realize how hot it had gotten in the gym. I closed my eyes. This wasn't good. Kirishima seemed to suspect me, Mina wasn't helping anything—scratch that, no was helping. It was almost as if the world was against me and this little secret of mine. Weren't high school girls supposed to have some secrets?

I dried my face off and looked at myself in the mirror. I didn't want this. I didn't ask for this. This was why alone was good. This and a thousand other reasons. I could keep my secrets, my privacy, I didn't have to hide because I didn't have anyone to hide anything from. 

There wasn't an easy way out of this, was there? Either they found out or I lived the rest of my high school life hiding things from them and paranoid about every little thing. Both sounded exhausting. I wanted to go back to my homeschooled life before everything got so complicated. Tonight would be a good night to sleep under the bushes. Maybe I could stay there...forever.

Soon enough, Tsu walked into the bathroom. 

"Oh, L/n. Are you alright?"

"Uh, yeah." I stuttered for an excuse. "Just...hot. Needed a little break."

"Okay. I think Mina was looking for you out there." 

I closed my eyes, trying not to groan. I didn't want to go back out there. I was ready to go home now.

"Okay, thanks," I said.

The gym was a lot hotter than the bathroom. A lot stuffier too. The music was pounding nails into my skull and the way it shook the room, along with everything else, made me want to throw up. I was definitely ready to go home. 

But Mina found me first.

She didn't look tired in the least. In fact, she looked in her element. I made a mental note to never go to a party with Mina again. 

"L/n! Where were you? Uraraka passed out, Denki threw up on the floor, and Bakugo tried to kill Midoriya about three times."

"Uh, wow. Sounds like a lot happened."

"Oh, for sure. Anyways, come over here. You haven't said 'hi' to Yaoyorozu and Jirou yet, have you? No? Great!"

She tried to drag me over to them but I stopped her. There was no way I could survive another round of that.

"Sorry, Mina, um, I not feeling too well. I should probably go home."

"Oh, are you sure?" I nodded. "Well, alright then. Do you want someone to walk with you?"

"No, I'm good."

She smiled. "See you later."

Outside was nice. A refreshing breeze played with my hair and cooled off my face. I breathed deeply.

"Nice night."

I choked on my breath. To my left, Kirishima was leaning against the gym building, hands in his pockets.

"I can feel the music shaking the walls," he said, smiling.

"Uh, yeah." No one really knows how bad awkward silences are until they have to live through them, and this was an especially terrible one.

"So, are you going home?" Kirishima asked.

"Yeah. I'm not feeling well." He pushed off the wall.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I'll walk you home." It wasn't a question. Why couldn't it have been a question?

"No, no," I held up my hand. "It's fine. I can get home alone just fine."

"Well," he said, smiling now, "it just so happens that we're neighbors and I'm heading home too. So there's no reason I can't walk you home. In fact, it would be kinda weird if I didn't."

I hesitated. He was right. but that would mean even more awkward silences. Plus, I liked walking alone. It gave me time to think. Though, in all honesty, that probably wasn't what I needed right now.

"Alright, then," I said. 

Something flickered over his face. It was too quick for me to tell what it was. I hesitated, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. Did I trust him? No, of course not. I shouldn't trust anybody. But it was only a little way to home. It couldn't be that bad...right?