Splash Green

9

  "Hey you know we could talk to Monoma, we don't have to just immediately go to Kendo."
  "Kiri, you know if we talk to Monoma, he'll bite us and give us rabies, then he'll go to jail for attempted manslaughter." Mina puts her hand on my shoulder continuing to egg me forward. "You don't want that do you?"
  "No," I plant my foot down, "Wait, what do you mean 'manslaughter'?"
"It's like someone tries to bite you and they have aids, there's no cure," she rattles, "So eventually you will die of aids. That person had the intent to bite you, so they were trying to kill you no matter how long it takes."
"Hey Mina what is the name of the mountain with the president's faces?"
"Man I don't fucking know."
"What does Anemic mean?"
"Well Anemic relates to a person suffering from Anemia, normally this includes light headedness, tiredness, and weakness, all coming from an inability to produce enough red blood cells." Oh god I deserve the look I shoot at Bakugo.
"Can it shitty hair." Mina gives me a hard shove forward,
"Why do you ask anyway?" She plants her elbow in my back.
"No reason," Bakugo walks past me flicking the back of my neck, I shoot a sheepish grin his way.
  "Shut up Shitty Hair."
  "I didn't say anything,"
  "Shut your whore mouth." Mina cackles before shoving me forward again.

"What are you going on about?" We found Kendo by the cheerleaders, she was explaining how she wanted Tsu thrown,
"Well, some of the football players keep throwing Kirishima, and Bakugo's clothes into the jockstrap pile."
"Ok, what do you want me to do about it Mina?"
"Kick them off the team!"
"Whoa Mina no," I put my hand on her shoulder, "That's too harsh, Monoma, and Tetsu are Juniors, they won't be able to play again."
"Wait, Monoma?"
"Yeah?"
"That little-" she slaps a hand to her face, "-ugh! That idiot, he started cutting up books in the library too, fucking psycho." I look back at Bakugo, his lips are pinched together, he looks like he has to take a shit. "Look, I'll talk to the coach about Monoma getting suspended from the first few games. Tetsu and the Freshman will just have to sit out the mock one."
  "Thank you Kendo." Mina gruffs, The redhead looks down at her feet,
  "No problem, justice'll be served."
I look at Bakugo only to see he's not looking, his nose is almost in the air his shirt wrinkles in his fist.
  "Bakugo?" His eyes open, swallowing he relaxes his hand.
  "I'm okay, just a bad smell." Bad smell, what the hell? Who inhaled deeper at a bad smell, whatever, I don't push it. Mina looks at me, she sighs,
"Hey Kendo,"
"Yeah?"
"I was thinking about joining the team, wanna show me what you all can do?" Kendo's eyes light up,
"Yeah! It'd be great if you were on the team, we could use a dance coordinator, and," Kendo starts to hide behind her bangs as she lets loose an incoherent jumble of letters,
"I'm sorry what?"
"I think you'd be perfect for the job!" She pops,
" Well then we'll leave you to it, have fun Mina!" I grab Bakugo's hand and practically drag him behind me full sprint.
"And why can't you run like that during practice?"
"Embarrassment moves mountains." We walk in silence to my car,
he seems distant
He's not okay, you should ask about it.
Wait, you should wait, he should trust you enough to tell you on his own terms, for fucks sake you know he's a merman.
"Kirishima," Bakugo pauses after he opens the car door, "Why am I getting in your car?" He looks genuinely confused when he meets my eyes. "Did, we agree to go somewhere together? I don't remember."
"No, I don't think so."
He steps back and shuts the door, "I'm sorry, something must be distracting me." He shoves his hands into his pockets, he won't meet my eyes.
"Are you okay to drive? Do you need to talk?" He looks at me, eyes wide,
"Yeah, I'm fine, it's just this smell, it's, confusing."
"What smell?"
"I don't know what it is, must be a mermaid thing."
"Why don't we go find out together bro?" His face softens, I almost see a smile.
"Right, you're my bro, which means we're going to figure this smell out together."
"Hell yeah let's go on a quest!"

Skip to ten minutes later when Bakugo's leaning halfway out my window, nostrils flaring, going thirty on a dirt road.
"Are we getting closer?" He nods, I glance back at the road and try to prevent us going into a ditch. The gravel kicks up against my car, and with it a froggy smell seeps into my nostrils.
"Stop at the turn ahead!" I obey pulling the car as far over as it'll go. We get out, and Bakugo pauses as I go over to his side,
"What's wrong?"
"Kiri," his face looks uneasy, "I, honestly didn't take you for a Scion guy."
"What the fuck Bakugo?" He laughs, "I! It was the only one I could afford!" Bakugo laughs harder clutching at his gut before leaning forward into a loping walk.
"I'm just messing with you Bro," holy shit did my heart just skip a beat?
I'm sure that bro was just in my head,
What if it was?
"Oh my god, no." Bakugo smiles at me,
  "Somethin bothering you Shitty-Hair?"
Is it little old me?

I act perfectly rationally, more rational that the average person. But at this moment, I just started screaming. I can barely hear his devilish cackles as he looks at me with those demon eyes.
  "HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT!?"
"Since before ya met me why?" I deflate a hand covers my mouth and I just about cower.
How much has he heard?
  Not too much, I just listen in when I'm bored in class
  HE'S HEARD TOO MUCH
"Please get out of my head," I clap my hands over my ears, y'know, like it'll help.
  "You're brains boring anyways, I just thought I'd let you know that can happen."
  "Why?"
  "Reasons, buzz off about it shitty hair." He stomps forward, into the ditch then out on the other side, I follow.
"What reasons?!" He looks back at me,
"Why's your face so red?"
"I ASKED YOU FIRST." He chuckles before grabbing my arm and pulling me away from a hole.
"Ya don't like me in your lewd thoughts shitty hair?" In response I let out a squeak.
His head shoots up, "What?"
"Somethings close." The hairs rise up on the back of my neck as we push through the tall grass to the small tree line. Bakugo creeps forward, he shoves some cattails out of the way to reveal a murky pond, I can hear a small run off.
"What's in the middle?" I whisper, his eyes trail to the boil infested flower.
"No, that's impossible."
"What?" His eyes are wide, he almost looks like he's about to break his teeth the way his jaw is clenched.
"It's an egg, a siren egg."
"You mean the things that come out at the winter solstice egg?"
"Yeah, exactly." He pushes farther forward,
"Wait Bakugo!" I hiss, he stops stone still, a head pokes through the surface, it's a child, with silver hair, and a horn poking just before her hairline. She puts both hands on the egg and presses her forehead to it, "Is that a-"
"Yeah, how did she get here?"
"KA-CHAN?!" We hear the distant yell, the girl jumps and looks straight at us stone still.
"Ka-Chan," the second yell is duller, the second one causes the girl to disappear.
"Wait!" I shout, Bakugo rips off after her, I have to sprint to even try to catch up, but a flash of green passes me. I in true horror girl fashion catch my foot on a tree root.
A loud boom catches me off guard and shakes the ground, my second wind comes, I'm off in a second. When I finally find them Bakugo is pacing the area around the cornered girl, her back against a boulder Midorya slowly creeps forward hand extended.
"It's okay, we won't hurt you." The girl puts her hands over her face, only her eyes flashing around wildly. I pause, her entire body is almost a sickly pale, moss seems to cover her shoulders to fin. Midorya pauses, within clawing distance and sits hand still extended. "My names Deku, what's yours?" Her hands slide to her neck,
"Eri." Her voice is surprisingly clear, not a single wobble.
"Hi Eri, what are you doing here?"
"I watch the egg while the others are away."
"Others?"
"Meanies."
"Ah."
"Midorya get away from her." I jump at the sudden appearance of Todoroki, Midorya looks back,
"No," Eri slowly shakes his hand,
"Nice to meet you Deku." Bakugo stops pacing.
"We need to go." Midorya looks back at him before turning to Eri with a warm smile.
"Wanna come with us?"
"No thanks, not right now," she flicks her tail
"You sure, we have food." As if on cue her stomach growls.
"Okay." She grabs Midorya's hand, I look to Todoroki and he's seething. Bakugo stomps up to me,
"Go home,"
"No."
"I mean it shitty hair, somethings not right, she shouldn't be here."
"I know, but I'm not going home." He shoves me back.
"Go the fuck over to Mina's then, just go." I look down, but notice Midorya picking up Eri.
"Okay." Bakugo nods before pointing.
"Let's move Icy hot." Like a kicked puppy I go back to my car, Midorya is parked behind me, but they were still behind, following the creek. I get in and grab my emergency joint out of the glovebox. This is stupid.

God I'm worried, no amount of weed could take that off my shoulders, Mina has just gotten back.
"So he ditched you?"
"Yeah, I'm nervous." She puts her hand on my shoulder,
"It's okay dude, they'll just end up at the lake anyways."
"The lake?"
"Yeah, I know that pond, we dared Sero to jump in remember?" I jump up,
"That's right!"
"Yeah, too bad nobody goes to the lake round this time except to fish, they could have scared the hell out of someone creeping out of the bushes like that."
"Wait there's no one?"
"Sept creepy swimmers why?" I snatch my jacket off the couch.
"I have to go."
"I'm coming."
"No."
"I'm bored and going with you."
"Mina no."
"Mina yes." Shit, I have to warn Bakugo, but Mina can't know.
"You tell anyone about anything you see there or even tell anyone we went to the lake, and no one will find your body until it's rotten." Her eyes widen, she extends her pinky, I grip it loosely with mine.
"I pinky swear."