★Katsuki Bakugou x Reader One Shots★

❦Pool, the Cue Stick Kind

(Y/N) sipped her soda on the sidelines, only watching as Mina engaged in an intense game of pool against Kirishima. She smiled as Mina cheered at her successful hit. Kaminari saw her lining up her next shot, almost unable to hold down his giggling. Just as she went to hit the blue striped ball, he let out a loud shout and her cue stick barely tapped the ball.

"What!!" Mina shouted. She jumped up, eyes glaring at Kaminari who scrambled to the far side of the table, "Shut up Kaminari!!" The rest of their classmates let out noises of amusement at the ongoing feud.

Class 1A decided to throw a party in the dormitories, inviting a few other classes to join them. With much begging from Kaminari, Mina, Kirishima, and Sero, they'd all managed to convince Aizawa to let them have a small smidge of alcohol even. Everybody drank responsibly, having promised their teacher they'd do so.

They figured, after everything Aizawa has done for them, there was no reason they would go back on their promise to be as responsible as possible. Iida even did just as much convincing, promising Aizawa he would watch over each of his classmates as closely as possible and keep everybody safe. Aizawa trusted him the most with that responsibility.

"Yes!!!" Kirishima lifted his cue stick above his head, celebrating his victory as cheers erupted from his classmates around him. He dropped the stick on the table and turned to catch Sero who was celebrating as if he'd won.

Mina groaned, "That's so not fair!! Kaminari kept messing me up!" She handed off her cue stick to somebody else, "This game is rigged!"

Bakugo glared at the screen as he had been for the past five minutes. His fists squeezed together at the awful gameplay Monoma was doing. He bit the inside of his cheek, trying not to 'backseat drive' as Monoma said he was. He didn't even know why they invited the jealous loudmouth that was Monoma.

(Y/N) looked at him from across the room, grinning at how serious he was about super mario cart. He'd beaten her at that game many times before, always being the winner when she, Kaminari, Kirishima, Sero, and Mina played with him. It's easy to say he's the reigning champion of the game. She wondered if he would be any good at pool. She glanced at the new duo stepping up to play pool before making her way to Bakugo.

She stopped next to him, looking at the screen just as Monoma died. Again. She looked up at Bakugo, "He's not very good."

"No shit," Bakugo glared harder, glad somebody noticed and he wasn't just being dramatic.

"You could go play pool," (Y/N) suggested, though it was merely out of her own curiosity. Plus, she thinks he would look good doing it. She laughed at her own thoughts.

"I hate pool," Bakugo answered shortly, crossing his arms and taking an almost unnoticeable step closer to (Y/N). He looked at the screen still before noticing a very frantic waving of arms. His gaze shifted to Kirishima who then began to motion for Bakugo to make a move. Bakugo glared at him for thinking he could tell him what to do.

Bakugo looked away with a regret that left a pit in his stomach. Just before the party, when Kirishima came to tell Bakugo the news of how much their begging worked on Aizawa, Bakugo made the mistake of telling Kirishima he hoped (Y/N) would go.

Kirishima, being all-too aware of emotions, put two together and figured out the long lasting secret that was Bakugo's crush. He'd hid the secret for at least two years, now, having come to that realization just the night before. The first thing he thought when he realized this was just how 'pathetic' he's become for being interested in anybody in any way other than who to beat to become number one.

"Have you ever tried it?" (Y/N) asked, hoping she could convince him to try.

Bakugo nodded, "Yeah."

"Ah," (Y/N) awed in understanding. "You were just bad at it, huh?" She didn't mean for her tone to sound so teasing, for she truly thought he for once wasn't good at something.