My Hero Acadamia Short Stories (Volume 1)

Blindness is Key: Part 14 (Bakugo)

"What you don't think I can do a puzzle?" I asked Kiri while he sat on the floor.

"I mean . . . ." He said and I felt him shrug. I then got off the bed and picked him off the floor.

"Alright then you're on." I told him and dragged him downstairs. We found some puzzles on a shelf and I handed Kiri one and got on the floor. "You and me, lets go shark boy."

"This isn't even fair." He said.

"Is it? Or are you just not manly enough to fight me?" I asked him and I Denki and Sero laughed.

"That's it." He said and sat on the floor a couple of feet away from me.

"You want an assistant?" I asked him, and spread my pieces out on the floor a bit.

"That cocky?" He asked me.

"Yeah." I said, and he was quiet for a couple of seconds.

"Bakugo?" He asked, and Bakugo scoffed at him.

"You got yourself in this mess, you deal with it." He said and sat near me on the couch

"I'll help you Kiri." Denki said and got on the floor next to him.

"Alright, ready?" Mina asked, and we nodded. "Go!" She said, and I drummed my fingers on the ground in a timely manner and started grabbing pieces and putting them together.

I started like a normal person making the outside first, before I started going around and slowly making my way to the middle.

"How is this even possible?" Sero asked and he was watching me.

"I can see every single piece at once." I said. "And I can see the difference of each piece."

I tried putting a piece on the puzzle, but it got a little stuck and didn't want to stick right away. So I used both hands to line it up, but before I could snap it in place. And I froze for a second before I went to start drumming on the floor again. Bakugo was bouncing the heel of his foot on the floor lightly, causing just enough vibration for me to see the pieces.

I smiled and started putting the puzzle together two at a time, and got down to only a few pieces for the center.

"This is impossible!" Kiri said and Denki was struggling with a small section of the puzzle.

"Is it?" I asked him and snapped the last couple of pieces together on my puzzle. "Ta-da." I said and gestured to the puzzle.

"That's . . . ." Kiri said, and stopped before flopping onto the floor. "I give up." He said into the floor and I scooted over to him and Denki and started grabbing pieces.

"Come on Kiri, it's not very manly to give up on something as silly as a puzzle." I told him and started snapping pieces in place. He whined into the floor, before he sat back up and we started working on the puzzles together.

Mina and Sero joined us and we all took turns placing pieces together.

"Come on Bakugo, join the fun." Sero said.

"That doesn't look like much fun." He said, and I laughed. "What are you laughing at?"

"Lying." I sang quietly to myself.

"What do you mean I'm lying?" He asked.

"I can see your heartbeat numb nuts." I told him. "Your heart rate changes when you lie."

"So you'd be great at two truths and a lie." Mina said and laughed.

"No I wouldn't cheat. Bakugo get your ass down here." I told him and he reluctantly got on the floor. We all did the puzzle together.

"Looks like everything is back to normal?" Mr. Aizawa asked as he walked into the living room.

"Normal?" I asked.

"Yes, everything is fine." Bakugo said in an annoyed tone, and everyone else snickered to themselves.

"Am I missing something?" I asked.

"Well-." Sero said and Bakugo covered his mouth.

"No." He told me, and we kept going on the puzzle.

"Okay?" I questioned and Denki placed the last section that he had been working on by himself on the puzzle and it was finished.

"Alright, now clean this up and get to bed." Mr. Aizawa said and went to his room. 

"Wait lets get a picture." Mina said and pulled her phone out of her pocket. Sero scooted my puzzle a little closer to Kiri's and everyone lined behind them. I laughed and Bakugo wrapped his arm around my shoulders. "Ready?" Mina asked and she got ready to take a selfie with us and the puzzles in the background.

"Oh wait." I said and put my glasses on with my mustache. We laughed and faced towards Mina. 

"Say 'cheese'!" She said.

"Cheese!" We said and she took a couple of pictures.

"Okay, now we can clean up." She said and we broke the puzzles and put them back in the boxes. I took the boxes and put them back on the shelf as everyone headed up stairs to bed. As I was putting them away I heard a slight argument on the stairs, but it was just quiet enough that I couldn't hear it.

I walked towards the stairs, and started walking up the stairs before a pair of hands wrapped grabbed my hips. I jumped, and if it wasn't for the hands on my sides I would have fallen back down the stairs.

"Bakugo, you scared the crap out of me." I said and put my hand over my heart. He was sitting on the steps, right were I was going to be walking. "Why couldn't you just wait at the top of the stairs, so I could see you?" I asked him.

But he didn't answer me. But his hands did trail up my sides and gently pulled my glasses off my face. I heard them click as he folded them, and he stuck them on my shirt. And he grabbed my shirt and pulled until I fell into him.

"Bakugo?" I asked quietly, his heart was racing under my fingertips as they rested on his shoulders.

"Shut up." He whispered to me. "Close your eyes."