9. Non date

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*** some bizarre reason chap 8 didn't publish so yea if this didn't make sense sorry

Holy fuck doesn't she own a watch its 11:15 already. Damn cheeks wasting my time. 

Bakugo shuffles on his feet, impatiently waiting at the station. He looks up and sees our brunette heroine running to the station, his annoyance seems to disappear immediately.

"Sorry I'm late!" She apologises.

"Whatever. The next train to Asakusa is in 2 mins." Bakugo mumbles.

Ochako looks up at Bakugo while they ride the train and feels slightly self conscious. 

"Is there something on my face? You keep staring at me." She asks while wiping her cheek and mouth area for any remnants of food. 

"What? NO! You look different today." He mummers back and purposely looks out the window.  DAMMIT stop being weird!!  but she looks so cute in her denim shorts and loose pink T shirt, calm down this is a normal reaction anyone would feel this way. 

Their shopping trip is a success, they end up getting more than enough props. Bakugo is trudging on the street towards his home holding multiple shopping bag. Despite being the start of autumn it is still super hot, which is making him grumpier than usual. Ochako spots a Kakigori shop and just runs towards it without any warming. Bakugo  doesn't follow her, he just stops walking and waits for her to return. In the past four hours he's learnt that Ochako is like a magpie with a shiny object, when it comes to shopping. He lost his mind the first few times, he'd looked down and she was just not there. He always found her a few meters away admiring something from one of the stall vendors. A part from the props she didn't buy anything for herself. He tried to stop this behaviour by making her hold onto his arm, then he tried to hold her arm, but she was like a sneaky ninja. So now this is what he does, just stops and waits like a statue, while trying to scan and  locate her. If he couldn't see where she went, he would just bellows her name until she returned.

Ochako skips back, happily holding a blueberry Kakigori. She looks up at Katsukis irritated face and offers him a spoonful of the shaved ice. He accepts being fed,  the frozen dessert was nice on a hot day.

"Taste good?" She asks. He nods and they continue walking to his house; Ochako feeding him spoons of shaved ice periodically. When they enter the house Mitsuki makes a beeline to Ochako.

"Oh sweety! Its so nice to see you again!" Beams Mitsuki as she hugs Ochako. "You look so nice today! has my son told you that you look nice today?" 

"Haha your to nice. My outfit is pretty plain but its so comfortable when it's hot." She answers  hugging Mitsuki back. Bakugo's mum has really grown fond of her in the past few visits to his house. "I'm just going to use the bathroom real quick, then I'll show you what we bought today."

Mitsuki nods at her sweetly. She watches Ochako get out of earshot, before she turns towards her son.  

"You idiot, don't you dare FUCK things up with my future daughter in law." She takes off one of her house slippers and throws it at him. "Also it's your turn to cook dinner today. I'm going to relax and talk to Ochako more."

Bakugo responds by just groaning as he puts the bags of shopping on the coffee table. Ochako returns and begins showing Mitsuki all the things they bought and chatting in general. Once Bakugo feels like his mum won't say anything crazy he sulks off to the kitchen to prepare dinner. 

"Oagariyo!" He announces as he puts down a big family size dish of Spicy Mapo tofu on the dining table. He also made a few non spicy items like lotus root chips, tamagoyaki, miso grilled fish and steamed leafy greens. Ochako is so excited by seeing the food she takes a photo of it.

"You know sweety, Katsuki is a great cook. You can look forward to dinner like this every day in the future." Mitsuki teases.

"OLD HAG STOP IT!" Yells lord explosion murder. 

Masaru tries to diffuse the situation, because he is hungry and just wants to eat diner. "Yes Katsuki has a natural talent for cooking. If he didn't want to be a Hero, he would have probably have gone to Totsuki and become a chef."

It seems to do the trick since the rest of the meal was rather non explosive. Except when Bakugo started adding Wasabi to the dishes since they weren't spicy enough. Ochako was glad she was basically full, she has still sworn off wasabi since that mochi incident.  When it's time for Ochako to go home, Mitsuki jabs Bakugo in his side so he would walk her home.  She not so quietly whispered in his ear, "Here's your chance." 

They walk back to Ochakos' and stand in front of her house awkwardly. Bakugo doesn't know what to say, his mums' advice was just swirling in his mind. He looks at the garden which is bursting with flowers.

"Nice garden... lots of flowers." He says awkwardly, mentally he's hitting his forehead. 

"Yea my mum and I love flowers, they are so pretty and smell nice." She literally stops to smell the roses before snapping one off.

"Katsuki you know just because your mum ships us, doesn't mean you have to like me.  I really value our friendship, I wouldn't want to jeopardize it because you felt obligated to like me back. I don't want things to get weird between us." Ochako abruptly says while looking into his eyes. She hands him the crimson rose which is the exact match for his eye colour. She stands on her tip toes and gives him quick peck on the cheek,  before running off into her house. Leaving him there looking dumbfounded holding a rose. He looks up at the night sky for a bit.

"AH FUCK " 



a/n sorry I am excited about new dates for food wars so had to throw in a reference or two.

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