This Means War [Bakugo x Chubby Reader]

Chapter 30

A/N: Hey everyone! I saw your lovely comments and I swear I'll get to them my life is just bananas on all fronts at the moment. Publishing this chapter early mainly because it's not a particularly exciting chapter. It's mainly for the peeps who like to put the pieces together before I reveal it at the end. For those who just like to vibe don't worry I do in fact just say it at the end. I hope everyone's week is going well!

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"I mean that I don't want to hear a peep about what we're about to talk about." She said. "And if I do, I'll know it's you."

"...Alright?"

Shiori seems...different.

"Good let's head over-"

"Shiori!"

Her face instantly reconstructed itself into the friendly persona I've come to know. A chill ran down my spine.

"Yea?" She said, her voice the tone of sunshine.

"We have a meeting in a few minutes. The Team Leader booked it during lunch." The girl said rolling her eyes.

Shiori pouted, looking disappointed.

"I guess he can technically do that..." She said a little ruefully.

The other girl laughed then came over and wrapped her arm around Shiori's.

"We'll survive together. Pinch me if I sleep."

I watched them walk away.

What was that?

My phone buzzed.

Shiori:

We'll talk tomorrow. In the meantime just talk to the others.

Separately.

I looked up from my phone. What's the difference if I talk to them together or not?

I might as well though, nothing better to do.

I booked a meeting with Akira on his calendar and headed to the meeting room. Surprisingly he accepted and was in there 10 minutes later.

"Hey." He said.

"Hey." I said.

We've never been alone before.

"Can you tell me what happened? From your perspective?" I asked. "I just...I just have a lot of questions."

"Sure. Honestly, I've been meaning to talk to you anyway." He said.

"Why?"

"I feel guilty for potentially ruining the whole time. You should've been able to celebrate but it turned out like this."

"I don't understand."

"Well...after she left I kept in contact with her. We'd send memes and stuff to each other. She'd ask about how everything was going and we'd even get coffee occasionally. I told her about how Dynamight finally met his match...I feel like that led to this."

"I don't understand."

"Well...I sent her a screenshot of the ticket when I was talking about how you practically turned him into a new man. And I didn't think she would believe me if I said that he bought first class for the whole crew without evidence."

...So that's how she knew where we were.

"If he's cheating, I'd rather know than not." I said.