i don't date extras (kiribakukami)

I knew I was falling for you

Bakugo stood up from the couch and stretched. He saw Denki not-look at his body while he was doing so. He was sure about that. Hah, busted, Pikachu. That was one more reason he was shocked when he said he was going to bed and Kiri moved, but Kami didn't. Good thing Kirishima was back to do something he would NEVER do in front of the gang. Kiri stopped, smiled and asked.
"Ey, Denks, you coming?", oh, so that was why Kachan had the 'Denks' stuck on his head, thought Denki. It was cute in both of their lips, he had to say.
"No".
"No?".
"Yes. I mean... No".
"No". Kirishima was confused, but Bakugo had frozen mid-way to the elevator, too shocked not to try and listen.
"Ehm, well, no, but yes", at that point, Sero and Mina turned to look at Kaminari too, which made him stand up, he didn't want to have this conversation here. "I'll come back in a sec".
As soon as they couldn't hear them, Mina and Sero looked at each other.
"He's not coming back".
"So not coming back"

Kaminari stopped before Bakugo's door, not crossing the line. Well, that was it. He had promised himself he would just say no. He had promised himself he wouldn't get up from the floor. He had promised himself he would not follow them. He had promised himself he wouldn't get to Bakugo's room... And he had to stand by at least one of his self-promises.
"So, yeah, no, I'm not coming tonight".
"Oh,... Are you OK?"
"Yeah, no, I'm fine", Bakugo was awfully quiet, Denki thought. That was never a good sign. It was probably better that way, he was probably pissed at him for having to share Kiri with him every night. "Yeah, so have fun!", he turned on the hill of a foot and the toes of the other one and started walking towards the elevator. Kirishima looked at Bakugo, surprised, then looked back at Denki and ran after him.
"Denks, are you OK?"
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"I don't know... You seem in a rush to leave", it wasn't like he HAD to hang out with them, it was just... Weird that he didn't want to.
"Oh, no, just giving you guys some space", and you're making it pretty hard, I have to say.
"Us? Space...? Why?"
"Oh, yeah, no, you didn't see each other yesterday and all that", and Kachan felt so bad about it he skipped class for the first time ever...
"So...?"
"So have a fun night?", he was getting nervous with this interaction. He didn't know how it was hard to understand... At this point, Kirishima wasn't sure about what to do. He wanted Denki to be there... But he wanted him to be because he enjoyed it... So if he wasn't enjoying it... Katsuki reached the same conclusion, not as accepting as Kirishima was about it, pissed, but if he didn't want to come, he could go fuck himself.
"Let Dunce Face leave, Shark boy. Who cares?", Kaminari smiled at Kiri, convinced by that sentence that he was absolutely right. Kirishima looked back, looked at Kami and smiled, saying bye with his hand.

"Did something happen last night that you haven't told me?"
"What? What the fuck, Ei? Are you suggesting I cheated on you while you were fucking missing?"
"Eh... I was thinking more in the lines of you being a dick to him, to be honest..."
"Oh", yeah, that made way more sense. "Not more than usual".
"OK... Well, OK, he might not feel like it or something, that's OK".

Bakugo had fallen asleep, even though Kiri had definitely had to tiptoe around him, he seemed quite pissed, even though he refused to talk about it. Kiri was fully awake, no sign of any sleep in the horizon. He couldn't just stop thinking about Denki being all weird, he was harder to read than Bakugo in general, but this... He couldn't have changed his mind this fast and not tell them, he was a blabbermouth, he would just say what he thought even if he thought it might hurt you. He picked his phone. He opened his conversation with Denki. He might regret it later, but he couldn't just ignore it.
"Ey, you still up?".
"Of course. Kachan's ZzZ?".
"Yeah, exactly". The next answer from Kaminari's side had been way slower than normal, he didn't know it, but he had been writing and erasing. Kirishima was surprised when he saw such a short answer, and that specific answer.
"Cool. You can come over if you're bored".
"Cool". And now, he was intrigued. Kirishima went out of the room as quietly as possible, trying not to wake Katsuki up. He knocked in Denki's door and didn't get an answer... Which was to be expected, because he was always listening to music on his headphones quite loudly.
"Ey... Are you OK?"
"Oh, hey. Didn't you already ask me that like a thousand times today?"
"Sorry, I... There's something I don't understand and I don't know how to word it. Is everything OK with Katsuki and you?", he directed a worried smile towards him.
"What? Yeah, I mean, as usual", well, it wasn't actually a lie, between them everything was as usual. He felt something, but that didn't mean their relationship had changed at all. It was a really fine thread to hold on to, but he was answering what he was told.
"Sorry you had to put up with him yesterday, I know he can be quite mean when he's stressed". 'Like tonight'.
"Oh, no, he was actually quite cute, and it was fun annoying him enough so he would watch Twilight with me".
"Cute...", cute was not a word he was expecting to hear about his boyfriend from any other lips than his. And he didn't use it unless he was trying to make him blush. Denki seemed to get nervous with the pause in the conversation. Kiri was worried about something, he didn't want him to worry.
"Is this because I didn't go play with you to his room?", it had to be that, right?
"Yeah, and you invited me over as soon as he fell asleep, so I assumed he had messed up, you know him, he can be... A lot", Denki laughed.
"Oh, tomato, you are the only one who is not a lot". Between the three of them. No. Stop. That was not something he could think about. He shouldn't be thinking about the three of them as a thing. As any thing. Those two were a couple, he should stop forgetting it.
"T... Tomato?", even Kirishima had a limit of how many randomness he could ignore before asking Denki.
"I was going to call you blueberry, but nothing in you says 'blue'" he gestured. "Although Blueberry Riot would be a great name if you drop being a hero to become a magical girl". Kirishima burst in laughter wholeheartedly before answering something to try and get the blondie back on track.
"So... Why didn't you come with us tonight? Did you need some time to yourself?"
"Me? No. But I guessed you two would need it".
"Denki...", Kirishima planted both of his hands in his shoulders, trying to get his undivided attention. "We wanted you to come tonight. Both of us".
"Why?". Kirishima looked confused over that question. Caught off guard, he answered as he could, still trying to order the pieces of what was going on.
"Why wouldn't we?" Denki always joked that he had no filter and he just spouted what he thought, and it was usually true, but now he seemed to be intentionally avoiding being clear.
"Well, I could make you a list, but it's going to take a while", he joked. Kirishima fell silent, turning to his 'patient father' face as a last resort. Denki started to feel visibly uncomfortable. He tried to avoid his stare, he started fidgeting more with his hands and moving his feet as a sign of tension. He took less than a minute to crumble, words falling out of his mouth while he looked everywhere but at the redhead.
"Look, I started hanging out with you and making sex related comments as a joke", he had in fact started doing less, now that Kiri thought about it. "And then with Kachan too, and I didn't mean anything about it, not that anything I said was a lie, because you are both so hot and I mean, I was bi before I met you hadn't I been already? Damn, I would have gone bi for you. For any of you", he was digressing, but Kirishima was just trying to be sure he understood correctly, so he let him rumble a little more to see if he had to redirect. "But, yeah, I mean, I wasn't expecting anything from that... And then well... I mean, who wouldn't fall for you, Kiri? Come on, you have eyes and a mirror and you're also dating him, of course even if I said it as a joke I would start having Ideas". The word 'ideas' had weight in his mouth. "And yesterday,... Well, yesterday existed. Look, I bought a new game, we could try that". And that was it, he was NOT able to keep listening to Kiri's silence. Kiri didn't know yet how Denki worked internally, but it seemed more like he didn't know what else to say, not like he needed to stop this conversation. So he pushed a little, with a soft smile.
"No, no, back to the topic... You... You just said you like me?"
"Dude, it's fucking You" He had probably started liking him before they were even friends. The way Bakugo told him not to swear had gotten under his skin enough to show back now, making his smile grow less tense for a second. Kiri's smile grew softer and happier. This made him so happy.
"I like you too"
"Oh, thanks". Kirishima looked at him in disbelief, then chuckled. "In a like like kind of way, Denki. Like romantically like", he clarified.
"OH". Yeah, he hadn't understood it like that. "Yeah, Bakugo is not going to like that", the change from Kachan or Blasty or Bakubro to Bakugo didn't go past Kiri.
"So that's why? You realized you like me and you don't like him and that is why you are trying to distance yourself from us?", from him?
"What? No, I fell hard for Kachan. Like, hard HARD, I knew I was falling for you, but his thing? What a shock", well, Kiri couldn't blame him, right? He was a hot cinnamon roll when you got to know him.
"Oh", Kiri got speechless for the honesty and the lack of doubts and then smiled as the sun he was, illuminating the room. "So this is all because you realized you like him?", is that it? We can work with that! We can all be happy!
"What? No. I mean, it's related, but I don't have a problem with liking any of you. I'm fine with liking people. But also I didn't know that you were dating dating. I mean, I kinda knew but also forgot", it was hard to explain. He could remember and not remember at the same time. "Mina reminded me this morning. I mean, it was pretty obvious I guess. Anyway, yeah, but good for you! I'm happy for you! Totally happy, I swear", Kirishima felt like kissing him right now, he wanted to stop his rumbling so much, he wanted to just make his brain stop in a good way. "So yeah, I am rooting for you guys, you wanted something manly and you understood the assignment, good for you! RedMurder Dinamight is quite too long for a ship hashtag to use... Redmight sounds bad. DinaRiot? Yeah, I think I'm going with DinaRiot". Kirishima realized Denki was not going to stop talking, so he opted for the easiest way, the one with the less words to process. He took Denki's hand in his, so tiny if you compared them. That made him stop. Kirishima smiled with all of his teeth, like a kid on Christmas morning. He pulled and started walking down the hall. He could hear a really confused Denki just following him. He opened Katsuki's door way too happily, making noise. Bakugo looked at the door, confused and forgetting for a second Denki wasn't there with them until now and he was personally hurt by that.
"Could you fucking extras stop it with the fucking noise and get into bed already? It's getting old". Kirishima pushed a very lost Denki towards the bed, a half asleep Bakugo just made more space, relinquishing the middle of the bed (just for tonight) and getting into one of the sides. Denki didn't try to resist it, even though he was fairly lost. Kirishima made him get in bed near Bakugo and just came into bed himself, by his side.
"Sorry, Katsuki, I was fishing Denki here".
"Fucking electric eel", he muttered, his arm and leg over the electric hero just a second after closing his eyes. Before Denki could even process that amount of Katsuki over him, Kirishima picked his face with his thumb and his middle finger and gave him a kiss in the cheek.
"Stop thinking. Everything's fine. We are fine. I love that both my boys took care of each other yesterday and I love that you two are..." he cut his sentence short before saying 'falling for each other', it wasn't his place to talk about those two's feelings for each other, they'll had to do it on their own, even if that might take them weeks or months. And also, it was going to be hilarious seeing that conversation being spurt out of Denki at some point while Katsuki wanted to hide under a rock. He couldn't wait. "Sleep tight, sleeping booty", Kirishima chuckled happily.
"Ehm, sleep tight, ehm..." something very red... Blood? That sounded awful as a term of endearment... Tongue? Tongues were red... "red blueberry?", Kirishima laughed, he loved him so much.
"I swear to fucking God, Pikachu, either you shut up or I'm gonna kill you".
"Oh, sorry"
"Should fucking be me in the middle" he complained lightly, not to Kiri's surprise, he was probably the one who needed the most attention between the three of them.
"Katsuki, say good night to Denks".
"Good night, Denks". 90% asleep Bakugo accommodated himself even more in contact with his body. Denki got completely lost in the las three minutes, his mind empty with just all that warm and fuzzy feelings provoked by them and the tact of both their bodies under the duvet. Damn, this felt good...