A Love That Blossoms (BakuKiriKami)

Chapter Nine: We're Losing The Race

Kirishima's POV

I raced towards Recovery Girl's office and opened the door. I was met with Sero and Denki lying in separate hospital beds. My eyes widened.

"What...?" 

Katsuki was sitting in between them, and Mina was talking to Recovery Girl in hushed tones. Bakugou glanced up at me, his eyes were slightly red, as if he'd been....crying.

I slowly moved over to them, my body moving on it's own. My mind couldn't process what was happening. 

"Denki passed out in his room...lack of nutrition, dehydration," Katsuki murmured in a weakened tone, he sounded so...so defeated that I felt pieces of my heart breaking.

"And...Sero?" I asked hesitantly.

He closed his eyes and his head dropped, fresh tears rolling off his unnaturally pale skin, his body quivering.

"He's....." his voice was so shaky I could barely make out what he was saying.

Bakugou was speechless from the sheer amount of grief. But what could be so bad? Hanta looked pale, yes, but...

"Eijirou....he's dying." he choked out, a sob overtaking him at least, he buried his head into his knees and let out a small but still the most heart wrenching cry of pure despair and sadness that I had ever heard him, or anyone emit.

I couldn't process this information, I stared at him, my feet seemed like they were frozen. I felt myself falling and the harsh concrete floor against my knees as I collapsed. I sat there on my knees in dumbfounded horror.

"B-but h-how...? From what? He seemed fine...I thought he had a cold...but..." I heard myself say, I felt like I was watching everything from a tv screen, I saw everything, but I didn't feel like I was in control of my body or my voice anymore.

Katsuki took a few long minutes to regain his composure enough to get out the one word I had NEVER expected him to say.

"Hanahaki" 

At that moment I felt like everything I knew had crumbled. I felt nothing but pain. I had felt numb but now it was like an icy cold ocean wave of misery washed over me. The tears finally began falling, I felt them, warm and hot against my cheeks. My eyes burned and I rubbed them furiously with my arm, I could feel my lips trembling and my stomach was twisting and revolting against me.

My lungs burned more than ever and I hunched over and held my chest, my forehead meeting the ground as tears poured down my grief stricken face.

"H-how long?" I managed to get out.

He looked at me before looking over at Sero. "Recovery Girl d-doesn't expect him to live th-through the night." He said.

I felt my body beginning to convulse with the sobs I'd been holding back as much as I could. I felt an overwhelming itch at the back of my throat but god I held it back with all my remaining strength. 

I wasn't looking at Tsuki, so I flinched as I felt warm, strong, protective arms wrap around me and pull me into an embrace. I clung to his shirt and buried my face into his shoulder and he buried his own face into my hair, I felt his tears dampening my hair and I held onto him tighter.

How could this be happening.

"W-who?" I asked.

He didn't respond for a long time before he said.

"Us".

I pulled away to look at him, "wh-what?!" not believing it "but then....can't we save him??"

Bakugou looked at me and then looked down, "he's too far gone...even if....even if we did something about it...we can't fix the damage that's already been done...Recovery girl said the thorns have already punctured both his lungs...and even if the thorns and things disappeared, she can't use her quirk on him due to how weak he already is."

I pulled at my hair, "how do you even know its us...?"

He looked at me dead in the eyes. "Because I have it too....I think Denki does as well and...." he looked down. "You do too....don't you Ei...."

I felt my chest tighten and I looked down, but didn't try to deny it. I felt anger well up inside my chest.

"THIS IS SO STUPID!" I heard myself yelling, making Recovery girl and Mina, who I now noticed was crying, turn to us. "SO FUCKING STUPID!!!" I pulled at my hair harder, "ALL WE HAD TO DO WAS CONFESS GODDAMNIT!!! EVEN IF IT WAS JUST ONE OF US!" I put my head into my knees as I curled up, "I failed to save someone again....this time someone I truly cared about....I didn't even notice....I was so caught up in my own self-pity I didn't even...I....." I couldn't see from the amount of tears the constantly poured out of my eyes to no end.

Katsuki just looked down, anger twisted his features, "Don't you think I know that you idiot! Don't you think I'm going through the exact same fucking thing!" he clenched his fists before harshly grabbing me by the shoulders and forcing me to look into his grief stricken eyes.

"Get out of your fucking shell, Eijirou! Don't you see we're all having to deal with this guilt?! Me, Denki, you....we're all responsible, not just you, goddamnit!" his shoulders shook from emotion, and those vermillion eyes I loved so much were filled with so much self-hatred and sadness that I wanted to cry even more.

I looked down, ashamed at my outburst. I hugged him tightly and he hugged me back.

"What are we going to tell, Denki...?" I asked, assuming he didn't know.

Bakugou just rested his cheek against the top of my head, "I don't know, Ei....I just don't know anything anymore...."

"Wanna know something, Tsuki...?" I asked with a wry miserable smile.

He looked at me slightly, "What?"

"I sure fucking hate  tulips now..." 

He gave me a mere hint of a smile and looked down, "yea..."

Just then our heads turned to Denki, who was shifting around and sitting up, "g-guys? Where am I? What happened....why are you guys all crying...?" he glanced over and frowned, "did Hanta-chan get hurt during training?"

That's when we all instantly knew.

We still had to tell him.

And we just had to hope  he took it half as good as we did.

((Just saying, but didn't y'all wonder why it said BakuKiriKami in the title instead of BakuKiriSeroKami? 

*insert maniac Ray laughing*

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