This time I will protect them I won't be a coward

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Kaminari!

Kaminari-kun

Kaminari

Denki!!

Denki's eyes snap open and he stares right into the overly concerned scarlet eyes of Kirishima who is in his UA uniform and says the first thing that comes to his mind, "If you rub a lollipop stick with your both hands by holding it between and throw its tip downward  very hard across on the hard surface, it spins like an actual beyblade!".

Denki grins after he finishes speaking and says with his eyes lightening up with joy, "Dragoon will always be my favourite Beyblade and what is yours?".

Kirishima Erijiou with a perplexed look stares at his friend's rambling.

Kirishima Erijiou blinks his eyes in confusion and asks Kaminari with a serious face, "Dude how long have you been sitting here on this park bench?".

"Park bench?" repeats Denki in confusion.

His brain felt muddled.

Denki carefully looks around his surroundings.

Yes he was indeed in a park. Did Overhaul's minion dump him outside on a random bench!?.

Denki seethes in rage. But he could use this valuable information about the underground bunker to taunt someone about it later. He just needs to find the right moment to do it.

Denki smirks internally to himself and starts cackling while devil horns could be seen growing above his head.

He stops cackling when he feels his bangs being pushed back by Kirishima's calloused hands.

"Hey stop it! just what are you doing?" asks Denki  in a slightly raised panicked voice.

He felt kind of deranged from waking up and his brain still felt foggy and too much thinking was hurting his brain at the moment.

Kirishima silently pushes Denki's front hair bangs back slightly and frowns with worry clearly etched on his face and says, "Why do you have stitches on your temple?".

Denki winces as the cold air brushes against the four stitches.

"I-I can't tell you" stammers Denki as he feels his head throbbing again.

What was this?. Was he having concussion?.

Kirishima Erijiou frowns once again and folds his hands and asks, "Then, care to explain why your white jumper is covered in blood?".

Kirishima raised his one eyebrow in an expected way hoping to get an honest answer.

Denki with a guilty look stares down at his hands like they were the most beautiful thing at that moment and whispers softly, "Slipped while doing my internship duty at the hospital".

Kirishima Erijiou knew Kaminari was lying to him and ran his hands wildly through his hair while exhaling and murmuring under his breath, "What am I going to do with you? Haaah".

Kirishima Erijiou looks at Denki's sad face and extends his hand for the fragile boy to grab and says, "Let's get to the metro station. Before we miss our last train".

Denki with a bewildered look takes Kirishima Erijiou's hand and walks towards the metro station in silence.

Luckily it was the weekend tomorrow which meant no classes for Denki but he had to go on a dreaded date with Overhaul to get back his Provisional Hero license card. Till then he can't keep his nerves calm.

His head hurts to think just about how he will get his licence card back.

And the awkward silence walk was killing Denki. So, he was the first to speak, "So how was your internship at Fat gum's?".

Kirishima Erijiou looked pensive for a moment and then, frowns as he continues to type on his phone with one hand while his other hand held Denki's, "Good but Tamaki senpai got shot by a bullet while protecting the civilians".

Then, Kirishima Erijiou goes quiet again.

Deep inside his heart Denki wanted to continue talking with Kirishima. He wanted to talk about memes, reels and the new gummy flavour candy which he has been dying to buy.

Denki  felt something was off with his friend so he kept his mouth shut till they reached the metro station.

...

The train ride back to UA was very tiring.

They had taken the last 4:00 am train   back to UA.

All the commuters riding in the train looked like Zombies to Denki in the dim lighting.

Denki's head was literally throbbing and the rhythmic movement of the train compartment and the dim lights had lulled Denki to sleep and he was feeling cold too.

He regretted throwing his jumper earlier in a nearby trash can because it was stained with blood before entering the train.

Denki immediately opens his eyes when he feels someone is watching him.

Denki tiredly moved his head discreetly left and right to see who it was but he could identify anyone staring at him among the commuters

Denki head was throbbing very badly now.

His mind was conjuring up creepy memories. Denki shuts his eyes right as he feels his emotions go lose.

He felt a type of drowsiness numbness taking over his senses now.

Everything started to B
                                           L
                                                U
                                                     R

The emergency red lights above the opposite seat facing Denki cast an eerie glow on a skull masked figure sitting in front of Denki.

Oddly, the masked figure looked out of place. Denki blinks his exhausted eyes in hopes that  his vision would become clear which was once again  going blurry and when he blinks his eyes the seat is empty in front of him.

Was he hallucinating?.

The colourful lights flashing by the outside window morphed into grey colour slowly merge with black.

Denki did not know when he fell asleep on Kirishima Erijiou's shoulder and did not even feel his friend draping his   jacket over him.

He was lost in a dream-less world.

Not being aware of what was happening around him nor how Kirishima Erijiou carried him on his back to the Height Alliance.

Denki just wanted sleep.

Maybe a good 7 hours of sleep might fix his brain. But it seems fate liked to play games with him.

Denki hears the soft whispering voices  maybe of three people speaking with Kirishima.

Denki groans and tries to bury his face into someone's neck. And that someone was Kirishima Erijiou

Kirishima Erijiou laughs at Denki's cute action.

As Erijiou feels Denki rubbing his face  the back of his neck again. He still continues speaking to the three unknown people back in the same happy tone.

"Bakubro I did not know you and Todoroki do morning runs together now  and even Midoriya is joining you? Midoriya do you have your hero work studies today? What really even today? asks Kirishima in ecstatic tone

Denki tries to drone out his friends speaking voices but it does not help.

Denki gets a sniff of someone with an ocean scent cologne passing by and immediately grabs the sleeve of that person's clothes.

That person yelps in surprise.