"To the ends of the earth" (kirishima x reader)

7. Graveyard and a clue

It was the end of the day and the students of class 2-a had dispersed to their homes. Y/n and kirishima on the other hand, had other plans. While the two started to leave the classroom kirishima noticed kaminari waiting by the door.

"Can I borrow kiri for a second y/n" he smiled, but she saw through his facade. He didn't look like himself, he was clearly upset about something.

She nodded and the two boys walked further along the hall. They stopped at a far enough distance for y/n not to hear them.

"Kirishima...I like y/n"

"...what?"

~•••~

Graveyard and a clue

"How long have you liked her?"

"Since we were first years.."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because..I thought it would go away."

It went silent, kirishima stared at kaminari With hurt written all over his face. One of his best friends had been keeping something so crucial to their friendship from him. He was...speechless.

"Listen, I felt like I'd finally tell you how I felt. Because both of you are my friends, but I also was thinking..."

"What is it?" Kirishima asked concerned.

"If really do like her, then I can't just hand her over to you. I'm sorry. But I'm going to give her everything I've got...so I hope there's no hard feelings"

Kirishima nodded and kaminari sighed. They walked back to where y/n was and the dirty blonde said his goodbyes and left the two alone. Y/n had noticed the distressed look on kirishima's face and wondered what the topic of their conversation had been to make him so shaken up.

"Are..you okay?"

"Huh? OH- uh yeah I'm fine, are you ready to go?"

"Mhm"

The duo walked out of the classroom in uncomfortable silence, both of them were distressed and trying to calm themselves down. But for two polar opposite reasons..

~•••~

There they stood at the entrance of the graveyard, y/n stood her hands cold and shaking. She hadn't been to yuuki's a grave in a while, eventually it became too overwhelming for her to visit everyday and she instead kept her distance to keep her own mental sanity in tact.

"I got you...we can go in whenever you're ready"

She looked at the male next to her, and nodded. It's as if she was walking in slow motion as she trudged through the grass over to yuuki's gravestone. She stopped in front of it and kneeled down, kirishima doing the same.

"Yuuki.." she whispered and let her hand softly rest on the stone.

Kirishima sat in silence letting her have a moment without him interrupting her. He wanted so badly to just hold her in his arms and reassure that everything was okay, but restrained himself.

"He was such a nerd...I used to copy off of him in class. But man was he dense. How did he not realize all that time that I had the biggest crush on him" she laughed.