Snapdragon - A BNHA Fanfic

:Chapter Four:

Hikari's POV

It's been 4 years since I made that snapdragon flower without even realizing until I came back up after lunch. Ever since then I always keep snapdragons in my room. I never really knew why but the thought of them being there comforted me. My relationship with the boys have become really close but mainly with Sai and Kuroo, they were the best.

I had just woken up and begrudgingly dragged myself out of bed to get dressed in my school uniform, before breakfast. I'm in my first year of Junior High and Kuroo is the year above. We all go to the same set of schools to make it easier until we reach High School and at that point, we have a choice of where we want to go depending on career paths. Personally, I want to go towards being a Hero or well at least in that sort of career branch even if it ends up being in the support ranks. You see I've been training my quirk alongside the other older boys to gain better control over both parts.

Getting back to the day, I ended in the kitchen with a piece of toast hanging out of my mouth as I packed my bag with my books for the day.  Finishing the task, I took my toast out of my mouth and ate it properly as I waited for Kuroo so we could leave. I ended up humming a song that I heard Kuroo sing and listen to a lot. Like all the time. None of us found it annoying but as his quirk is music-based we can't really blame him.

I saw the typical pink and brown hair and grabbed his sleeve, dragging him out of the house.

"Come on or we'll be late!"

"Okay, okay." 

We chuckled and I let go of his jacket and fell into stride beside him.
We were walking in silence but neither of us minded as this was what happened a lot anyways.
My mind ended up wandering to some thoughts I've had over the past few months and I didn't really know how to express them to someone. To break it down, there was this guy that I had seen when we were in town one day and he looked to be the same age as me. I don't really remember what he looked like but let's just say that he was a legit 'God' everything about him screamed to me and I realised it was like the feeling that the other people at school would talk about when they talked about their crush, boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever. I knew all about the LGBT community as there was someone in my year that was transgender female to male and he was interested in both guys and girls. Being honest here I spoke to him about how he found out who he was and it made me come to the realisation that I was gay. I didn't have any sexual attraction towards any girl of the sort so when he asked me why I just said 'Oh, a friend of mine is having trouble with their feelings.' and we left it at that.

I looked up at my brother of sorts and saw the smile that he wore as he hummed to his beloved song. I didn't know how they would react but I knew I had to tell someone before I had a relapse of my really bad panic attacks from stress and they all knew how that would end.

I took a deep breath and faced Kuroo, "Kuroo?"

"Yeah, what's up Hikari."

"Ummm... uhhh... I'm.... ummmm." I started to panic as the image of me being shunned by the family I had created filled my thoughts. I fiddled with my fingers as I tried to settle my breathing.

A weight was placed on either of my shoulders and it snapped me out of whatever would I was in, "Hikari, what's wrong?"

There was worry laced in his tone and I saw that we had stopped in the middle of the pavement.
I took another deep breath as a wave of confidence surged through me.

"I'm gay."

Silence. I could see the cogs turn in the older male's head and I began to panic as to what he would do or say next. What surprised me was when he pressed me into his chest, his arms wrapped around my waist. I was stiff at first but my own arms found themselves around Kuroo's own waist. The only thing was was that that wasn't the biggest surprise to come yet, it would be the next few words that left his mouth.

"Same, but that's okay."

My eyes went wide but they shrunk and I smiled knowing that I wouldn't be alone in this period of realization.

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We ended up having to run to school after the emotional moment. Luckily, we made it just in time and reached our homerooms before the late bell went and we promised that we would talk more about this after school.

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The school day was boring once again as nothing really happened and now I was laughing alongside Kuroo as we left the school grounds and headed to one of the local coffee shops. It didn't take us long, maybe around 10 minutes, but that didn't really matter as we were now sat down with a hot chocolate and an iced latte. We spoke about how we both came to the conclusion that we were sexually attracted to guys and then spoke about some of the cute guys in our years. I swear I say this a lot but it was nice, being able to express my feelings like this.

We went home with smiles on our faces, being able to finish our homework before dinner. It was a good night and I was the one to put the 6-year-old Sai to bed. I sat with him in his room as he got his pyjamas on. He was probably the best little brother I could ask for.

"Why are you smiling?" The little boy asked as he came and sat next to me, leaning on my side.

"I'm smiling because I've had a really good day and that I'm so lucky to have all of you as my brothers." I wrapped an arm around the silver-haired boy and gave him a little squeeze.

"Can you lay beside me until I fall asleep?" He asked me shyly.

"Are you having nightmares again, Sai?" He only nodded and I exhaled a long breath and told him to hang on for a few minutes.

I headed back to my room and changed into my own set of pyjamas, which consisted of a large, black hoodie and some black cotton trousers. I grabbed my sketchbook and a few drawing supplies before leaving to go back to Sai's room.

I re-entered to see Sai hugging his knees to his chest on the far corner of his bed. I shook my head at this and climbed onto his bed, placing my things on the end and picked up the boy and putting him in my lap so his legs wrapped themselves around my waist. I rubbed his small back as he fisted the front of my jumper and I found myself humming the song that had become so familiar to all of us. It seemed to calm him down and eventually, he turned himself around so his back was flush against my chest.

I knew what he wanted before he slept so I grabbed my sketchbook and pencil and brought them to my lap and started to draw. I know I wasn't sketching for too long but I felt a thump against my chest as I looked and saw that Sai had fallen asleep so I picked him up with one hand and moved my utensils to a small table in the corner. I brought him back to his bed and led him down, tucking him in but as I was about to leave I felt a tug against my hoodie.

"Please don't leave me alone with them.." His words became quieter as he fell into a deeper slumber but I knew he was talking about the 'demons' that caused his nightmares so I pulled back his cover and moved his frail body over so there was enough room for me to slide in next to him. 

I brought the boy into my chest and sighed contently as I felt his small breaths against my neck and soon enough I was asleep as well.