I Provide Protection || BNHA OC

Ch. 61 - No Risks

A/N: According to Procreate, I created the file for this chapter's art way back... near the end of May? Which means it took me more than two months to actually spend enough time working on it to finish it 🤡 I remember working on the majority of it over the course of like a week and then not touching it for more than a month straight lmao (I blame getting into other fandoms and wanting to work on old and new non-MHA OCs)

Anyways, enjoy Hitomi being a dumb fuckin bitch. (And by this I mean she's thinking about the worst possible outcome and making semi-questionable decisions. I love her. I adore her very much. But she is very much her own special brand of dumbass™)

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Hitomi had come to a decision after hearing that confession in the hallway.

She was gonna stomp her stupid romantic feelings into the ground.

Okay... maybe that was being a little melodramatic. And maybe she was being just a tad bit silly. After all, you could have a crush on someone and still be friends with them, right?

But... all Hitomi could think was: what if Bakugou found out...?

There were certain feelings Hitomi had been good at hiding, but embarrassment had never been one of them. And romantic love... like? Infatuation...? Whatever this was... she doubted she could hide that either.

It seemed like Bakugou finding out would be inevitable. After all, he sort of had a knack for reading people.

So... well, dammit, getting rid of this dumb crush seemed like the solution...!

...Probably.

If she didn't have these romantic feelings, she wouldn't be constantly worrying about embarrassing herself in front of him, for one thing. She wouldn't be hyper aware of every move she made around him, wouldn't be overthinking her every action. She could get along with him like normal...! Like she did before all of... this.

Another benefit was that she wouldn't risk rejection. If she was able to erase this whole I-kinda-sorta-might-just-like-you-as-more-than-a-friend thing like it had never even happened, Bakugou would never find out. He would never get put off by the idea of her being in love with him because she wasn't going to be in love with him.

Woah woah woah, slow down.

Hitomi shook her head, completely inattentive to Cementoss's lesson.

I'm getting ahead of myself by calling it love, Hitomi thought as she stared down at her class notes blankly.

It's just infatuation, she tried to reassure herself. It's not love, no way...! You're gonna shut it down before it can even reach that point.

Yeah... Yeah.

She looked up slowly, her gaze falling on spiky blonde hair four seats ahead.

...I can't believe I like him.

Honestly, when she thought about it, the fact that she liked Bakugou was what made this whole thing feel like a fucking dumpster fire.

If it had been Kirishima? Man, her life would have been so much easier. Kiri was nice! Super friendly, kind-hearted, just an overall really sweet guy. If Hitomi had liked him, the person she playfully called her bestie, this would've made things 10 times less difficult.

If she had liked him instead, Hitomi wouldn't have felt as self-conscious or worried about having feelings for him. She was pretty sure that if Kirishima found out about her supposed crush on him in this make-believe scenario, he would've let her down gently. He definitely would try his best not to make the rejection too painful, and Hitomi doubted their friendship would end just because of something like that.