In Which Bakugou Makes an Ass Out of Himself

Chapter Eleven

A few days had passed since then, Izuku looking around at all the decorations in the common room of the dorm and nodded with a big grin. It looked perfect! He glanced over at Jirou setting up the music station. She looked to be almost done. Over by the TV were all of the gaming consoles everyone brought down along with all their games. Kaminari was setting that up with a little help from Sero because they were determined to show Todoroki how to game. It was going to happen somehow, some way. When better than on his birthday? Along one of the walls, Iida and Uraraka were setting up the table for presents and arranging the ones that had been brought down so far. And in the kitchens...

He could smell all the scents wafting from within. Bakugou had been cooking since school ended for the day. It was... impressive, really, Izuku had to admit. And it was endearing that he'd go through such lengths for his boyfriend. It reaffirmed Izuku's thoughts of there being a softer side to the explosive blond than he let on. Even if he was still an ass.

Izuku couldn't help but feel bad for Todoroki, however. This whole week everyone had been mildly jumpy around him. Since the whole class was in on it, and they couldn't say anything, most just chose to avoid him. The green-haired teen even noticed Bakugou drifting a bit. He really hoped the fire and ice user wouldn't think something was wrong, although, he probably did if Izuku knew anything about him. He just hoped the party would make up for it.

Bakugou was determined to make this birthday the best Todoroki Shouto had ever had. It had to be perfect which meant he had to be in charge of everything or at least supervising the dumbasses in charge of certain things. He put Seppuku in charge of keeping Todoroki out of the common room. Kirishima had volunteered but Bakugou shot that idea as soon as it was suggested. The dumb hair couldn't keep a secret to save his fucking ass so he gave him a task he knew he could do without fucking up: getting the booze. He needed alcohol to get through today surrounded by everyone.

A part of him felt really shitty for closing out Todoroki and not letting him stay the night in his dorm, he could see it eating away at his boyfriend as the days went by so he tried his best to make up for it with lunches and dinner. God, he felt like a shitty boyfriend for doing this, he just hoped he could make it up to him tonight.

He was in the middle of mixing the sauce for the risotto when his phone went off.

[ Seppuku : Katsuki, I hope this party goes smoothly, Shouto is really upset.
Seppuku : He thinks you're going to break up with him. ]

Fucking great. Wonderful.

[ Bakugou : change of plans]
[ Bakugou : I'll bring him dwn 4 the party. You're the only other person I trust to not fuck this food up so get dwn here. Bring him to my room. ]

He needed to patch things up before getting him to the party, at least he could give him one of the gifts. "Deku. Watch this. If you fucking screw up anything before Seppuku gets here, I will punch you in the throat."

He didn't wait for a response, he left the common room so fast. Bakugou wanted his boyfriend to be in a good mood. He caught Yaoyorozu going into the other elevator when he got off on his floor. His heart dropped seeing Todoroki leaning against his door. At least he looked cute in that dark blue sweater. Well here goes the patchwork.

"Hey cutie." He kissed his cheek. "Happy birthday, by the way, come on, I want to give you one of your gifts before we go down to have dinner." He started opening his dorm, he noticed Todoroki's hands shaking.

Over the last few days, Shouto was not so unobservant that he didn't notice how everyone was avoiding him. He'd tried talking to Izuku several times only for the anxious boy to stutter out an excuse and dart away. Iida and Uraraka had been much the same, making excuses to leave instead of talking to him. Kirishima, Kaminari, Ashido, and Sero had all been rather tight-lipped and not really talking either. Even Yaomomo had been oddly quiet around him the last several days.