Chasing Tinkerbelle (BakuDeku)

86 - The Birth Of Tradition

"So, you're a victim in all this?" Izuku asked, barely resisting the urge to roll his eyes as Katsuki looked him in the eye, letting his bottom lip tremble and said with heavy, tortured sigh, "Yes."

"I see," he said, forced to look away before he started laughing, because there was just something so unbelievably cute about a large man like his husband trying to pout his way out of trouble.

It was definitely the Bakugo pout, Izuku thought even as he couldn't help but compare it to Denki's, who'd most likely perfected the pout before he'd left the womb.

Denki could probably pout his way out of anything, but not Katsuki.

For some reason ,the large ex-marine just couldn't pull it off. It was adorable even if he couldn't pull it off.

"They made me do it," Katsuki said in a mock whisper that had Izuku biting his lip and struggling not to laugh. "I've never felt so stupid and dirty before... so used..."

"And this, um, ban?" he asked, relaxing his hold around Katsuki as he settled more comfortably on his lap as he managed to keep a straight face and looked him in the eye.

All humor vaporized from Katsuki's expression as he bit out, "Political bullshit meant to keep us down."

He couldn't help but frown at that as he slowly said, "From a buffet?"

"Yes," his Kacchan said without any hesitation.

"And from Drueb?" he asked, unable to hide the doubt in his voice, because really, how did an entire family manage to get themselves banned from a city?

"A simple misunderstanding," Katsuki murmured as he looked away.

"I see," he said with a frown, trying to figure out how that was even legally possible.

"Besides," Katsuki said, bringing his attention back to him and away from all the terrifying possibilities running through his head, "it's not important."

Since that ban apparently applied to himself now, Izuku thought it was kind of important, but since it was also something that was probably going to terrify him, he decided that it was probably a conversation left for a later time.

Right now they had other things to focus on.

"Okay, so how exactly would that explain you ignoring me and refusing to touch me since you left the hospital?" he asked, not realizing how much Katsuki's disinterest had really hurt until that moment.

Kacchan sighed heavily as he wrapped his arms around Izuku and hugged him properly for the first time in days.

"The curse," Katsuki said unhappily as though that explained it all.

He waited for more, a better explanation, something that started off with, 'We're not fucking crazy, but...', however, nothing else followed except for a sigh of relief that told him that Katsuki was not only done, but that a huge weight had been lifted off his chest by telling him.

Unfortunately for Izuku, having Katsuki wrap all the bullshit over the last couple of days with the phrase, 'The Curse', really wasn't all that enlightening.

It definitely didn't explain things like the kidnapping, the quick elopement that he really couldn't remember, why they were all stuck sharing the same hotel room with his cousins and father or why Katsuki did everything that he could to make sure that they were never within touching distance.

On top of that, they'd been forced to flee the state like criminals, surviving on whatever stale junk food they could find in vending machines, out of the way convenient stores and fast food joints that should have been condemned years ago, which sadly, Izuku was pretty sure that a few actually had been.