Heartbreaker | BNHA x Reader

[36] Brief Respite

There was a lot on your mind, but then again, that was pretty standard. Your life was an endless shitstorm, after all.

You were nervous, and understandably so. It was bad enough having to know that asshole villains were keeping their eye on you from wherever the hell they were lurking about, but your very first opponent for the tournament was Katsuki? Fucking seriously?

"I'm going to get my ass beat," you sighed.

"Really? On top of your chest, Bakugou's going to target your butt too?" Shouto frowned.

You facepalmed. "It's a figure of speech..."

"Oh," Shouto blinked, looking remarkably unconvinced. "But this is Bakugou we're talking about, so I wouldn't put it past him to try something like that."

How nice. He clearly thought that Katsuki was the biggest pervert he'd ever laid eyes on, and quite frankly, you didn't care enough to bother correcting him.

Anyways, back to the matter at hand. You were sweating bullets right now. You knew all too well that Katsuki was incredibly strong, and even though you were discovering more and more when it came to your abilities, the odds of winning against him seemed abysmally low. You were doing your best not to be overly pessimistic, but still. You couldn't deny the facts.

Perhaps the upcoming recreational activities were exactly what you needed to take some of the edge off. You were craving a distraction, however brief it might be. Between having to fight Katsuki and knowing that Dabi was targeting Shouto, it would be nice to just forget for a little while.

The tournament brackets were up for everyone to see, and Midnight was done with her debriefing. It was now time to move onto the recreational activities, or take a quick breather, for those that were choosing not to participate.

You'd suspected as much, but Shouto had no desire to take part in such a thing. He seldom joined in on any classroom activities. You were pretty much the only person in the class he even spoke to. Well, unless you counted all of the times he'd declared war against Izuku today.

"Okay, I'm gonna head over with the rest of the girls for the cheer battle, so I guess we'll see each other later," you said.

Shouto nodded. "Alright. I was wondering why you were wearing that outfit. Have you done cheerleading before?"

"Nope, never. So, I'm probably going to embarrass myself." You let out a nervous chuckle. "But I guess that's really nothing out of the ordinary... haha..."

"Oh. You're referring to when I caught you eavesdropping earlier."

"Well, I was referring to a bunch of different incidents as well, but did you really have to state the obvious?"

"Sorry," he said, sounding anything but.

You shook your head in disbelief. At least he wasn't upset with you anymore. You honestly thought you'd never be able to recover from that.

"Are you going to watch?" you asked hopefully. "You can cheer me on while I'm doing the cheer battle. It'll be like cheer-ception!"

Shouto blinked repeatedly. "I don't understand."

"...yeah, that figures."

"Sorry. A lot of what you say doesn't always make sense. I guess I'll just have to try harder to keep up with you."

This poor, adorable fool. He didn't have a single funny bone in his body, and he always took things so literally that most of it went over his head. One of these days, you were really going to have to help him brush up on memes and internet culture. And maybe teach him a few jokes.