Stygian Seduction (Hanta Sero x OC)

Chapter 14- Kaminari

🕷️🕸️

"Thank you," the shaken hero mumbled as he accepted the steaming cup of coffee, not from his girlfriend who was nervously chewing on her thumbnail but rather from Kirishima's wife.

Like the wonderful mother she is, Ahri kissed the top of his head tenderly. "No worries, honey. Is there anything else I can get for you? I know how hard worrying about Kaminari is for you."

"No, I'm fine. Thank you."

After Bakugo had picked Sero up, the entire Bakusquad, minus their missing heart and soul, conglomerated at Kirishima's home. Sero's midnight black eyes zoned out into his coffee as he asked, "Has anyone seen him yet?"

"Fuck'n nothing," Bakugo huffed before punching one of the heavyweight sandbags Kiri kept in his basement for training. "I don't understand how that electric rat scored so badly at undercover training back in school, but now he's disappeared without a single fuck'n trace!"

"It's because that was just training," Kirishima murmured as his red eyes looked as fractured as Sero's. "Denki never liked school, but this is real life- the real possibility of losing Shinso for good has probably scared him half to death."

"As long as it doesn't scare him fully to death," Bakugo grumbled. "I'll never forgive that purple fucker if Kaminari gets his dumbass killed over him."

"Can we stop talking about Denki dying!??!" Mina exploded from her place beside Sero.

"Min, we're jus-"

Mina's shrill voice cut Sero off as she snapped, "No! You're all being morbid party poopers! D-Denki is fine! He's probably just out there being hyper-fixated on something and that's why he can't pick up his phone. I'm sure he's just b-b-buying some more," her pink nose crinkled as she sniffled, "more useless anime stuff."

There was a night and day difference between Mina's tender yet immature heart and Elise's unwavering strength that had been forged in the darkest depths of death. On that very night, Elise had been able to not only calm Sero down in the face of blinding rage but also hold him gently as she stitched him back together. Yet now...Sero pushed aside his own need for comfort and wrapped one of his long arms around one of his best friend's shoulders despite his own fragile state. "Come here, Mina. We didn't mean to upset you."

"But you did!! He's not dead! He's alive, so stop talking about him like that," Mina sobbed into his chest.

Sero shut down his needs and kissed the top of her head. "Okay, I'm sorry."

Kirishima and Bakugo's red eyes both housed the same level of concern over Sero's selfless act.

"Han-"

Bakugo kicked Kirishima's ankle, and when the redhead looked up at him Bakugo shook his head. Under his breath, he murmured, "It's his shitty life. Let him make his own choices."

As Sero held Mina's crying form, his mind wandered off in concern for Kaminari. There were millions of places the lightning-fast blonde male could go. He was chaotic, unpredictable, and hands down a pain in the neck, yet Sero realized how unfair all of those assessments were. Kaminari was also empathetic, kind, overly affectionate, and would give his life to take care of and make his loved ones happy.

Just like that, while thinking about how Kaminari will go through the moon and back for someone he loves, a lightbulb illuminated the darkness in Sero's mind.

"I know where he is."

🕸️

Sero climbed out of his car and jogged up the back steps of the pleasant-looking apartment building quicker than any of his friends could keep up with. He slung himself to the 8th floor and landed nearly silently beside the open window. He folded his long frame in half and stepped into the darkened apartment.