Chockolate Peanut Butter Cake

Chapter 18: I Like You Too

It was quite an eventful few days off. Inko ended up coming over again after work and played a few card games with Kurogiri, Jin and Dabi. She even took some time to look over wedding magazines with Himiko who started talking about getting married at some point in her life now. Maybe it was because there was another woman in her life since all she had was the guys.

"Bye! Have a good day!" Inko called and they all waved to her as she left.

"Looks like we are leaving too!" Himiko grabbed Jin's hand.

Izuku looked lost.

"Oh.... Why?"

"We have things to do! Right Dabi?"

"But-

"Now," she said with a weird grin on her face.

Deku arched an eyebrow at her as they left through the warp.

"What? What do we have to do?" Shigaraki asked walking towards the warp.

She placed her hand on his chest and pushed her leader back.

"You are staying. We don't need you right now."

Tomura made a face as the warp disappeared. He looked confused and a little pissed off.

"What do you want to do?" Izuku asked.

"What?"

"Want to play some video games? Dabi isn't here to hog the TV."

"You know this is your apartment and you could just kick him off or kick his ass."

Izuku smiled, "I know but that would be rude."

There's no point in arguing with him, he thought.

"What do you want to play?" Shigaraki asked walking over to Izuku's video game collection.

"Want to play Halo?"

"Isn't that game old?" Tenko said frowning at the thought.

"Oh.... You suck at it?"

"What?" he snapped.

"You can't play Halo and that's exactly why you're trying to get out of playing it."

Izuku stood up, face to face with the villain. Shigaraki grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him closer.

"Just you wait. I'm going to wipe the floor with you," Tomura threatened.

The hero leaned in and kissed the tip of his nose. Izuku plopped down onto the couch leaving Tenko dumbfounded.

I just got tricked into playing a fucking game.

They jumped into a few rounds against each other and Tenko kept up with his threat. He did extremely well for not having his pinkies taped back. Izuku wondered how he didn't get hand cramps. They decided to jump online and give it a shot. Neither one of them had a headset on but they could hear all the stuff being said after each round.

Once in a while Izuku would take a peek over at the villain and see a child like smile on his face. For whatever reason, it warmed his heart to see it. Part of him couldn't even see how Tenko managed to push on living like he had. To lose his family by his own hands... The man was truly braver than he would ever be.

"What happened?"

Tomura snapped his fingers in front of Izuku's face. He jumped a little looking at him.

"Huh? What?"

"Are you ok? Why are you staring at me like that?"

"I spaced out looking at your cute face."