Emotionless Confessions (Todobaku)

21. Obvious secrets

3rd POV

Bakugou wakes up to something tickling his nose. He grunts and rubs his face, looking down at the cause of the tickling. Todoroki is laying on top of him, clenching onto him like his life depended on it. His hair is sticking up in all places, including in Bakugou's face. The blond smiles and rubs the others cheek. Todoroki's cheeks are warm and soft. The other makes a noise as the other caresses his cheek and snuggles deeper into the blonde. Bakugou gives Todoroki a quick peck on his head and continues rubbing his cheeks in a gentle way.

Bakugou remembers them falling asleep next to each other, only holding hands under the sheets. But Todoroki must have rolled on top of him in his sleep and continued staying like that until this very moment. The blonde looks at his alarm clock on his bedside table. It reads 9 am. His parents are leaving in an hour for work, he guesses that would be enough time to tell them about Todoroki.

He gently nudges Todoroki off him and gets off the bed to put on some clean clothes. Before heading downstairs he leaves a note for the dual haired boy to let him know he's downstairs, seeming as the other would probably panic and overthink if he woke up with Bakugou not there. After leaving the note, the blonde makes his way downstairs and finds his parents there. His dad looks up from his breakfast and the paper he's reading "Good morning, Katsuki. Did you sleep well?" Katsuki sits down at the table and shrugs "I guess, I slept fine." That's a lie. He slept perfect with the dual haired boy laying in his arms the way he did.

His mom now looks up as well "Brat, you better leave this house standing and clean when we go to work. No weird training inside the house with your friend."

Bakugou sighs "Yea yea. We won't do anything stupid." He was weirdly calm this morning and his parents exchanged glances with each other. Normally the blonde would shout at them and use at least one swear word in each sentence. The blonde spoke up again "Actually, I wanted to talk about Todoroki." At this Mitsuki puts her coffee down "Let me guess, you two are dating?" Bakugou nods "Yes and I-" Wait a damn minute. "Wait, WHAT?! HOW DO YOU KNOW?!" How did his mother already find out? Was it really that obvious? Mitsuki shrugs "That boy is practically clenching onto you. You wouldn't allow your other friends to stay that close to you, not even Kirishima. So I figured you might just be really good friends. But when you grabbed his hand yesterday to pull him up the stairs I knew you were dating."

The blonde just sits there, mouth agape. Damn that icy-hot bastard always clenching onto him like his life depends on it. After a few minutes of sitting there and processing everything in his brain, he opens his mouth again "You- You're okay with it?" It's a question he didn't dare ask, but still did. He hadn't even properly come out yet so how did they even know he was gay in the first place? "With me being gay and all?" His dad smiles at him "Why wouldn't we be? If you're happy, we're happy." His mom nods "You might be a brat but I still love you. You're still my son." Katsuki didn't know what to say or how to react. He was sure his dad would be okay with it, but his mom? With the way she always treated him? Oh, he was sure he'd get one hell of a beating once he came out. "How.. How did you know I'm gay?"

She snorts at that question "Katsuki, please. When you were a kid you would always tell us you'd marry Izuku. If anything I'm more surprised it's not him. Your childhood crush was Loki and you went to last years pride with your friends. Even if you said it was just to support them I called that bullshit from the start. Another thing, you're my son. I can read you like a book." Well that's one way to relive awkward memories from his past. Bakugou just sat there, speechless. How in the actual FUCK?! "And you didn't bother to tell me you already had your suspicions? To lessen the anxiety in my head?" She puts down her coffee "I wanted to leave that up to you. I didn't want to confront you with it. I wanted it to go just like this, for you to come to us and tell us." What a bitch. He didn't tell them, she just chewed out everything for him and let him confirm her suspicion. He grits his teeth, anger now building inside of him. This is not the coming out he wanted. He wanted to tell them about Todoroki, how he feels special and calm when he's around him. How he's the world to him and wants to rid the dual haired boy of his own demons. But his mom had to go ahead and ruin that again. Yes, she accepted it and not a lot of people got acceptance from their parents. Like Todoroki for example. He realized that. But she still ruined it in her own way like she always ruined everything for him.

He was boiling with anger at this point and he opened his mouth to insult his mother when he suddenly got interrupted and pulled out of his anger by a soft voice "M-morning.. Am I.. disturbing something?.." Todoroki was standing at the bottom of the stairs, wearing one of Katsuki's hoodies and ripped jeans. Bakugou's eyes landed on the dual haired boy and he immediately felt his anger disappear. His dad smiled at the boy "No, no, not at all. We were just about to leave for work." He got up and signalled to Mitsuki to do the same. Todoroki sat down in front of Bakugou and the two watched the couple leave, silence filling the room once the door to the outside world closed.