Breathing space | todobaku

Chapter 5

It has been  five days since shoto and bakugou had been given their punishment and the two males seemed to have gone through the week without much of a hassle. They were both really trying not to get on their teacher's nerve another time for the fear of him making this punishment last even longer than what he had initially planned. 

They did have the usual quarrels but it wasn't anything extreme. It was decided that they will have alternate turns sleeping on the bed. The unfortunate one had to sleep on the floor. Each had their own half of the closet and everything was fine. Shoto didn't linger in the room for more than he had to and so spent most of the time in the living room or with Midoriya. 

It was Friday night. After everyone had done their night time routines, they all went back to their dorm rooms to retire for the night - everyone except a certain dual haired male, who was quietly lingering at the living room. According to their deal, it was bakugou's turn on the bed but the night before, he couldn't get a wink of sleep, either it was mental stress of the upcoming exams or bakugou's scent that came from the pillows, whatever it was, it wouldn't let shoto sleep. He was staggering to school and couldn't focus on anything his teacher's were telling him as a result of how heavy he felt his head and the constant piercing headache in his head. 

All of the above factors made him yearn for a good night's sleep making him not want to sleep on the floor. But, knowing how much of a hot head bakugou is, he knew the blonde wouldn't agree to give him the bed so he let a soft sigh escape past his lips before going up to their room and slowly creeping in. 

To his surprise, the blonde was still awake and was sitting on the bed and reading something on his phone. When he  heard the door open, the male shifted his gaze to shoto before giving a slight frown and continuing what he was doing,. Shoto found himself grazing his lower lip with his teeth before fluffing up his pillow and laying down. He couldn't sleep and heard Bakugou's shuffling after he has closed his eyes. The blonde fell asleep shortly after turning the lights off. 

Shoto didn't know when or how he fell asleep but the next thing he knew, he had woken up from a nightmare, his eyes bloodshot and darting around the room. His chest was rising and falling at an accelerated pace and he could feel sweat beading his forehead and then trickling down to his jaw - despite him shivering. But that didn't surprise him, what surprised him was that bakugou was sitting next to him, holding his hand which made him jump. 

The blonde could only narrow his gaze at him before huffing, "don't get any fucking ideas half n half. I wanted to check why the bloody hell you starting screaming all at once.  The hell's wrong with you."  bakugou's Crimson gaze all of a sudden felt too heavy on shoto who whined softly. It was so unlike him to do something  like that but shoto was so tired and now this nightmare thing, it was really draining his energy. 

After a long pause of getting himself together, shoto drew in a shaky breath before replying, "sorry, i-it's....." he paused, earning an arched eyebrow from the male beside him, "well? Cough it up, would you?" Bakugou's reply came. 

"It's nothing important. Sorry for waking you up, you should go to bed, It won't happen again."  Shoto confirmed to which bakugou chucked bitterly, "you're fucking kidding. Don't you dare so you don't know you've been doing this for the past whole week! This is the first time you actually woke up." He muttered. It was true, whenever shoto fell asleep, he'd writhe and turn over and over before finally giving out a choked sob. When bakugou first heard it, he was concerned and contemplated on waking him up but then, he'd just try to stop shoto. He knew about shoto's insomnia, everyone fucking knew by the way he tried to hide it, so he wanted to help. Yeah, he didn't care if people gasped or rolled their eyes, damn them. He  really couldn't care less. 

This raised shoto's eyebrows and he looked down, "I didn't know, I apologise for that, it won't happen again-" 

"How? Will you stop yourself from sleeping?" Shoto nodded, that was the only way he knew. Bakugou rolled his eyes, "you're fucking ridiculous. Get on the bed, you need sleep, dammit." Shoto gaped at him before arching an eyebrow, "it only happens on the floor, half n half." Bakugou muttered out through gritted teeth. And shoto couldn't say no. He quickly scrambled to the bed and buried himself in the comforter. It wasn't long until he was snoring softly In bed and bakugou sat beside him.

 Why was the blonde being so soft? Bakugou knew this was only going to hurt him in the end. He wasn't doing this just to get his heart broken in the end. But....it did feel nice to see and hear shoto sleep after so long. 

Time skip to the morning! 

When shoto woke up the next morning, he found bakugou propped up next to him in the small bed, he was sleep but it seemed like he didn't want to disturb shoto so he has just sat at the edge and was leaning against the bed frame. Shoto couldn't help the smile that danced on his lips. 

So katsuki bakugou, the hothead of UA did have a soft side. 

Yea aa! Almost 1000 words. I know this seems to be slow but I have something planned, hopefully it'll go well!! 

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