My Hero Academia: Overcoming Fear

The Shocking Truth

Hikari

I didn't remember how long we stay like that. Eventually I fell asleep against him wrapped tightly in his arms. When I woke up, the room was dark and moonlight shone faintly through a window I hadn't noticed before.

Bakugo was still awake next to me, holding me against him. It felt so nice, so I closed my eyes again and pretended to be asleep.

After a few minutes I sighed and slowly sat up. He instantly let go of me.

"A-apologies," I whispered, not wanting to look at him. "We should get going."

Bakugo huffed. "Took you long enough to wake up, idiot."

When I glanced up at him, I saw his face was flushed. We both stood up and made our way outside. It was unusually quiet, and there were few cars driving around.

Bakugo hailed down a taxi and we eventually made it to the dorms, where I went to my room and immediately fell asleep, despite the fact I had been sleeping most of the day.

The next day was Saturday, which meant we had no school until Monday. Usually we would just hang out in the dormitory, but some of us would go home for the weekend. When I came downstairs, drowsy, Mina grinned and leaned into me.

"I heard Bakugo stayed back to make sure you got back to the dorms," she said in a sing-song voice.

I sat down at a table and she sat down next to me. I poured a bowl of cereal and mumbled, "Yeah, he did."

She tilted her head, still smiling. "Did anything happen?"

I felt my face get red as I thought of sleeping against him last night.

I quickly shook my head. "N-no, I just woke up and we left. That's all."

She raised her eyebrows. "Really?"

"Nothing happened," I said.

She sat back, pouting. "Aw, dang it. I thought maybe you'd give me some romantic juice. But then again, Bakugo's not into loving people, and I'd guess it'd be hard to like him, too."

She sighed and went to go get herself some breakfast. I slowly ate my food and stared off into space at the wall. Thank goodness I convinced her that nothing happened. It would've been bad if I didn't. 

***

"Dude, what happened last night?" Kirishima asked Bakugo. "You've been acting totally weird this morning."

"Nothing happened, idiotic red head," Bakugo snapped.

The truth was, he had told Kirishima about the kiss he and Kazenikura had shared at the training camp, even though she told him not to tell anyone. Now that he knew, he would always pester him with questions about her.

Kirishima stopped him in the hall. "Bro, look, I know you don't really like talking about it, but you're not acting like you usually do."

Bakugo growled, then looked down. "She-she woke up and I made her cry and then we hugged and she fell asleep against me," he muttered quickly. 

Kirishima grinned. "See? That wasn't so hard."

"Shut up, pointy teeth nerd," he said.

Kirishima elbowed him and they kept walking. "Hey, you might even be at the point where you can ask her out!"

His temper flared and explosions popped in his hands. "What did you say?! I'll kill you, shark face!"

He ended up chasing Kirishima all the way downstairs, thinking about what he had said to him.