Caged Bird - BNHA Band AU

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-feel free to listen to the music while you read-

Shinso and Kaminari stood outside of Izuku's room nervously, they had made the ball of happiness angry and their punishment was to confront him. Before they knocked, the two made a mental note about Izuku's social cues and when to stop. "Ok, you can knock now," Kaminari muttered, not missing the glare the lilac haired teen sent him, "no, you knock," he ordered, crossing his arms defiantly. Kaminari sighed, not wanting to argue about useless things, he knocked softly on the door, tensing up as he heard footsteps and meowing.

Izuku opened the door, a feint smile on his face. As soon as he made eye contact with the two boys, he frowned. "Are you two ok?" He asked worriedly, Izuku held his hands behind his back, picking at his fingers subconsciously. Maybe he'd over reacted, what if they were here to kick him out, he shouldn't have blown up like that. "W-well, we're here to see if you're ok, y'know, after this morning and all, we didn't mean to over step any boundaries," Izuku's face softened into a smile. "It's fine, I wasn't angry with you guys, just irritated, I overreact when I don't have a morning coffee," Izuku rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly, hesitating as Shinso gave him a stern look, practically screaming 'if you so much as scratch the healing scab I will punt you'. "I-is that all?" Izuku rushed out, Lumine between his feet, peering up at the three love sick teens mockingly. "Uh, no, actually- we have a meeting with WKMI this evening, just discussing the details of the band and debut song," Kaminari explained, waving his hands around wildly, nearly hitting Shinso in the face multiple times. "O-ok, I'll be out in a second," Izuku stuttered, an unnoticeable shade of pink dusting his face. They said they're goodbyes before Izuku hid back in his room, Lumine jumping onto his bed and curling into a ball.

"That was so gosh darn awkward, what the heck's happening lately..." Izuku felt such a foreign emotion swirling in his gut whenever he was talking to those two. It had only started a few days ago, specifically the second last day he was in the hospital. He'd brushed it off as friendship, but it didn't happen around Bakugo, Todoroki or Kirishima. He had no idea what it was, he only knew it was nice. He could tell it was a positive, comforting emotion that he wanted to feel more often. "Hey Lumine... do you know what I'm feeling? is it weird I'm talking to a cat... probably," Izuku sighs as Lumine raised his head at the sound of his name. Meowing before nudging Izuku in the direction of his cupboard, telling him to get ready for the meeting.

Izuku decided to wear casual clothes. He had on a white tshirt that was labeled 'shirt' in Japanese characters, he had on his usual jumper unzipped and his usual black jean shorts. He attempted to tame his wild hair, but gave up after about five minutes of trying to get the comb out of his hair. 'Guess I'll just stay in my bush form' he sighed sadly, wiping a fake tear from his face and idly walking out of his room, Lumine close behind. "You ready Deku?" Bakugo asked, looking Izuku up and down before relaxing his shoulders, relief slipping into his posture. "Yup! Are you?" He watched as Bakugo regained his usual 'I'm better than you' smirk, "I was ready like, ten fucking minutes ago," he huffed, getting a light knock on the back of the head from a calm faced Todorok. "It was actually five minutes ago," he corrected, receiving a light hearted glare from his angry boyfriend. "I was still finished before you!" Bakugo growled, pointing an accusing finger at the shortest boy. "That you were, good job Kacchan!" Izuku smiled up at the boy before skipping off down the hall to check on the others.

"Hey Kiri, we're gonna leave soon!" Izuku shouted out to the red haired male, there was a series of footsteps before the door was thrown open. Izuku flinched back as Kirishima slammed right into him, ending in both boys being on the floor. "S-Sorry, about t-that," Kirishima panted, regaining his breath, "I thought you were gonna l-leave me," he  stood up, reaching a hand out for Izuku before brushing himself off. "Its okay, you can wait in the living room while I get Kaminari and Shinso," Izuku put a reassuring hand on Kirishima's shoulder before whisking away towards Shinso's room.

He knocked once, "hey Shinso, we're about to leave!" Izuku called, a sudden loud thud followed by curse words sounded from the insomniacs room. "Are you ok?" Izuku opened the door immediately, finding Shinso lying on the floor with a book in hand, he flinched back for the second time that afternoon as something hit him in the face and fell to the ground. "God dammit, are you okay Midoriya?" Izuku stood there stunned, staring at the pencil on floor. "W-wha...?" Izuku shook his head, rushing to help Shinso off the floor. Shinso stumbled forward, placing his hands on Izuku's chest to stabilise himself, "you didn't get hurt, right?" Shinso looked down at the shorter boy, examining Izuku's face. "I...I'm o-okay, Uh..." Izuku flushed at the closeness, Shinso was right up against him and that feeling came gunning back like a punch to the face. "Good, how long do we have?" Shinso asked, seemingly unfazed but secretly loving every second of it. "I- oh sugar, two minutes!" Izuku hesitantly stepped back, smiling to Shinso before rushing towards Kaminari's room.

"Denki-" the door opened to show a smirking Kaminari, "I know, let's get going," Kaminari grabbed Izuku's hand and dragged him into the lounge room, where everyone else was. "Let's go," Kirishima smiled, directing his attention towards the romantic tension Shinso, Kaminari and Izuku were emitting. It made him giggle slightly before heading over to the door, watching in the corner of his eye as Izuku put in a single ear plug for music, having Kaminari blabbering into his free ear and Shinso with the other ear plug. Kirishima will make sure they never live this down.