Chasing Tinkerbelle (BakuDeku)

65 - Breaking Hearts

Oh gosh, he was going to be sick.

"I'm really sorry, Izuku, but Momo shouldn't have told you that we'd be able to get you set up on direct deposit. We don't do direct deposit. We should, but we don't."

"I understand," Izuku said hollowly as the implications of what was about to happen hit him.

"I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip," Kyoka said, sounding cheerful as Izuku struggled to hold it together.

"Thank you," he mumbled, hanging up the phone as he sat down.

His entire body felt numb. His head was spinning and his breaths were coming fast.

He couldn't believe this was happening. It couldn't be happening.

Not after everything that he'd been through. Not after everything that he'd sacrificed so that he could fix his life.

"Deku?" Katsuki said as he stepped out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his hips. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," he said, turning around and taking his time picking up his phone, needing a moment to pull it together.

"Are you sure?" Katsuki asked after a pause.

Izuku nodded, keeping his back to Katsuki. "Yeah, I'm fine."

Katsuki came up behind him and wrapped his arms around his waist. "You wouldn't be lying to me now, would you?"

"Of course not," he said, pasting a fake smile on his face as he turned around in Katsuki's arms. "I'm fine."

Katsuki tilted his head to the side, studying him for a long moment.

"Now, why don't I believe you?" the man murmured thoughtfully.

"Because you're paranoid," he teased, standing on his toes so that he could press a kiss against Katsuki's chin.

"Everything's fine," Izuku lied.

*****

"So, I was thinking that once we're home, I'd take Izuku out to a movie or something," Eijiro said as they stood infront of the main alligator pit.

"And why's that?" Katsuki asked, not really paying attention to his brother or the hundreds of alligators roaming freely in the large pit below.

All of his attention was on the small green-haired man siting on the bench, staring at the ground and looking a little lost.

Something was wrong.

He wasn't sure what had happened between the time that he'd dropped to his knees and buried his head between Izuku's legs and the time that he'd finished his shower, but he was going to find out.

"Because he's clearly done with you," his brother said, confirming his fears that he was the reason why Izuku looked so upset.

"Clearly," Katsuki murmured absently, running everything that he'd said and done in the last forty-eight hours through his head and although he'd fucked up a lot, he had a pretty good idea where he'd truly fucked up.

He'd not only assumed that Izuku was in love with him without actually hearing the words, but he'd fucked up by telling the boy that he not only wanted to marry him, but that he didn't love him.

He should have never opened his mouth and told Izuku anything. He'd rushed his tactical plan and now..

He was paying for it.

Izuku was pulling away from him and he had absolutely no idea what to do to stop the boy.

"Good. So, you're fine if I ask him out?" his brother asked, already pushing away from the wall to do just that.

"Sure," Katsuki said, facing his brother as he pulled back his fist and let it fly.

Because if there was one thing that brothers were good for, it was beating the shit out of them when he was pissed.

*****

"Get him off! Get him off!"

The hysterical scream disrupted Izuku's self-pitying thoughts and had him looking up in time to see most of Katsuki's brothers grabbing him by the arms and carefully pulling him off Eijiro, but not before he got in another punch.

"I'm telling on you, you unmanly bastard!" Eijiro yelled while he got to his feet as Katsuki struggled to break free and go back after his brother.

"Go ahead, you little shit!" Katsuki said, pulling free from his brothers' hold.

"Oh, I will!" Eijiro said, glaring at his brother as he stormed off, heading towards the gift shop where their parents had disappeared twenty minutes ago.

When Eijiro saw Izuku, he stopped, grinned smugly and headed straight for him, which was when Katsuki came after him for a second time.

Really not in the mood to watch this and needing sometime to himself while he tried to figure out how he was going to handle this, Izuku got up and walked towards the exit, jumping out of the way when Katsuki tackled Eijiro to the ground, nearly colliding with him.

Shaking his head and managing a small smile when Eijiro screeched like a girl and yelled for his mother, Izuku left the reptile park and headed for the bench he'd spotted earlier.

He sat down, leaned forward and closed his eyes as he soaked in the warm Mecresh sun, hoping that it would help him figure a way out of this mess.

"Are you about to break my son's heart?" Dr. Bakugo asked, startling him... a bit.