They're Together

It doesn't really work like that, it doesn't.

Izuku tried his hardest to not let out any single protest while the blond spiked hair guy messing up his new All Might's figure. Collection is one of his hobbies in life that couldn't be shrugged off even after 20 years; it's already a part of his personality. Loving the guy in front of him who keep on gushing the pieces without any care too, already been with him for years, he barely remember when the last time he was not in love with the guy.

"Tsk," Katsuki finally threw the piece on his hand angrily and glared to Izuku. "This thing doesn't work. You buy shit for 100.000 yen!?" he shouted.

"It does, Kacchan.. You done it wrong," Izuku just cried internally when he picked up the piece that Katsuki threw. Gladly it looks fine.

"So? How's the right way?" Katsuki still looked pissed but he still sits there. Izuku knows, if the guy really wasn't interested, he won't be sitting there. In fact, he wouldn't even touch the box at all.

Izuku sighs and smiles. "I need to put the wires inside, and some glue for the joints. It's kinda like a puzzle."

"Hmm," Katsuki keeps staring at Izuku. Izuku feels embarrassed to be watched by Katsuki, but he tries hard to not show it.

After a couple of minutes, Katsuki understands what Izuku meant by 'put wires in' and 'glue'. It was made to be built like that. It is a pain, but it looks fun and the result is actually good. When Izuku done with the right leg, Katsuki grabs some left leg's pieces and tries to do it himself. Izuku watches him done some pieces and actually impressed by the result.

"Whoa, you are great Kacchan.. it's not fair, you just learn how to do it!" Izuku whimpered when he saw the neat result from Katsuki while touching the joints Katsuki glued together neatly. Katsuki snickered. "You might be just not talented; that's all."

Izuku rested his chin on the table, looked dejected. "Yeah, I know, I'm different from oh-so-great Ground Zero-sama."

"How lucky you are to have me here," Katsuki looked pleased with his piece and put in on the table. The leg looks stable, it can stand by itself. After a couple seconds of admiring the piece together, Katsuki opens his phone and focused on it for a couple minutes. Izuku raises his eyebrows, a little bit curious about what Katsuki typed and scrolled, but he decided to brush it off and go back on his figure. Even though he himself thought that, he couldn't help but to glance. After a good hour, Katsuki finally looked pleased and put back his phone on the table. Izuku takes the chance to sneak a peek at the phone.

All Might – Build up yourself the figure! Only 80.000 yen!

Izuku squinted his eyes.

"Kacchan… did you just buy a figure for eighty thousand yen?"

"Shut up! It's different from yours," Katsuki tried to dodge.

"Yeah sure, different," Izuku sighed then smiled. What a stubborn person.

Katsuki felt the sarcasm inside Izuku's tone and he frowned harder. "It's different!" he shouted louder, insisted.

"Yes, yes." Izuku is not even care about the conversation anymore. This kind of thing happened too often, Izuku doesn't even bothered to look at Katsuki when he furiously glared at the green haired boy. Looking at how Izuku concentrated at the figure made Katsuki angry. It's not about the figure. It's about that nerd's personality itself! Doing thing for hours without caring his surrounding, what is he thinking? That's exactly the reason why he was bullied! He is too dense, for God sake, too dense! Making people angry all the time! Katsuki stood up harshly; making the whole table shook and walked away without saying anything. Silently, he opens the door into his room, walks in hurriedly and closes the door.

After ten minutes, Katsuki walks out just to see the green haired hero still focusing on his figure. Katsuki crosses his hands in front of his chest and leans on his room's door, still looking at the boy playing with some red pieces. Some flashbacks came to him; the time when he bought Izuku his first present ever. It was before they're living together, the time before they graduated from UA, like the first silent week before the UA exam. Somehow Iida could convince the whole class to do the 'last study time together', and of course Kirishima was the one who succeed bringing Katsuki to the library with him. Katsuki actually didn't really mind to spend some time with his classmates, he didn't want to admit it, but he actually pretty fond of his class. They sure were annoying as fuck, but they also understand him better than all friends he had before. The last three years was fun. Really fun. But he rather die than admitting it vocally.

So he went in the library with Kirishima. One section in the library was full with faces he recognized. Katsuki rolled his eyes when Tsuyu said something about 'It's rare to see Bakugou-chan here', and Uraraka was actually glared at him when their eyes met. It was only a second, but Katsuki ignored her and walked to the empty chair crossed Uraraka while Kirishima dashed to Yaoyorozu's side and begged her to make a copy of her notes. Yaoyorozu was about to make a copy, but Mineta suddenly kneeled under her chair and begged to with red face and steam from his nose, which was followed by a kick from Jiro.

"And the phi should be added here.. with some of the…"

Katsuki looked at his side, the guy he knew well since childhood sat there, with full concentration on his book. Katsuki looked at the equation he wrote. He silently followed Izuku's handwriting while leaning on his chair, not even opening his bag, just leaned there and focused on Izuku's hand.

"…and divide it with three…"

"Wrong, divide it by four, shitty nerd."

"Huh?" Izuku surprised his train of thoughts distracted by a sound he knew really well. He couldn't hide his confused and surprised face. "K-Kacchan!"

Katsuki straighten his posture and put his hand on Izuku's book. He purposed to lean closer and closer when he reasoning why Izuku's equation was wrong. His left hand was on the back of Izuku's chair, while his right hand was on Izuku's book, Izuku could smell his scent, and he trembled a little bit when he felt Katsuki's breath on his cheek. Katsuki leaned on Izuku's right shoulder, so Izuku could felt Katsuki's body heat, slowly became more and more conscious by it. Katsuki purposely let out the word by word, slowly, with his voice lower than before. Izuku tried his hardest to not daze off and stayed focused. It was already hard as it was to stay on the topic with Bakugou's low voice near his ear, now he moved his head in front of Izuku's hand and asked, "you understand?"

Izuku bit his lip and nodded.

Katsuki looked at Izuku's bright red face and smirked. He moved away after he was pleased with Izuku's reaction. Just when he was ready to open his own book, Uraraka suddenly kicked him under the table. Katsuki jolted, more surprised than pained. He frowned and glared furiously at the brown haired girl, while the round faced girl looked more angry than he was, turned away her face from him.

"What are you thinking about, you fucking round face! Kicking people around like that!" Katsuki snapped at her. Uraraka stole a glance at him, but she closed her eyes and showed her hostility. "Hmph!"

"What!?" Katsuki was ready to explode when he felt Izuku's hand on his own.

"Kacchan, stop! We're in the library! Don't make any scene, you promised All Might that you will graduate without any problem, right?" Izuku said, worriedly while shaking his head.

"Ochako-chan is also making scene. Why are you like that?" Tsuyu who noticed the whole scene looked at Uraraka. Uraraka didn't say anything, but it was clear as day that she didn't feel wrong or has any intention to apologize. Katsuki got calmer in one second and rolled his eyes.

"Whatever." Katsuki noticed the reason why Uraraka got so mad, so he was able to calm down quick. He knew. He just didn't really care. Katsuki leaned on his chair and took out his book from his bag. He did have thing he wanted to review, so he decided to do that. Katsuki threw his book on the table lazily, and then he opened the page he was already marked before. Izuku glanced at the book and smiled.

"You are reviewing our history class," Izuku opened the conversation.

"Hm," Katsuki didn't really respond. Izuku felt kinda sad that Katsuki didn't say anything again and went back to his math book. Izuku was ready to write again when the low voice suddenly said,

"This thing is damn hard to remember."

Izuku smiled and looked at him again. "Yeah, I agree. But I'm more in problem with math."

"Hm. You did great job last time in math though, you won't be having that much problem this time too," Katsuki said. Izuku brightened up when he heard Katsuki's compliment.

"You think so?" Izuku grinned.

"Anyone who works that hard will pass dumbass nerd. You are a nerd, you should be fine with tests."

"It's a stigma, Kacchan. And only you call me that," Izuku shook his head.

"Oh, really?" Katsuki put his right elbow on the table while resting his chin on his right palm and looked at Izuku with a grin. "It's only me?"

Izuku blinked at the sight and hurriedly went back to his book. "Y-yeah. Only you."

Katsuki didn't say anything and went back to his book. After a few minutes of silence, a couple of junior girls walked to their aisle and stopped at Izuku's seat. Katsuki and Uraraka glanced at them as soon as they stopped walking while Izuku didn't notice them at all. When he let his guard down, Izuku could be really defenseless. He was way more relaxed because of their peaceful winter week before preparing for exam.

"U-um, Midoriya-senpai!" a girl who stood in front of the other girls was the one who talked with him. She was small, with light pink skin. She had horns, maybe her quirk had something to do with her body shape. Izuku startled and looked at their direction.

"Uh, yeah?"

"T-this is a birthday present!" she bowed hard and gave Izuku a medium sized box.

"Eh? Birthday present? But it is not my birthday, though?" Izuku a little bit confused.

"Um, Midoriya-senpai's nineteenth birthday is in July so you won't be here anymore… We want to express ourselves to you so we want to give it even if it's early," she said, embarrassed. Her pink face was flushing. "You helped me two years ago when I was still in middle school. I'm really grateful."

"You helped my grandmother a year ago when villains attacked the city, thank you very much," a girl who stood behind the pink skinned girl bowed.

"And you helped my father when his company hijacked by some theft. Thank you very much," the other girl bowed too.

Izuku stared at the box intensely, making the girl with pink skin looked worried.

"I'm sorry, we don't know you personally so we don't know about things that you need.. maybe we are bothering you?" the girl looked sad.

"No, no, no, it's not like that!" Izuku waved his hand fast, quite in panic. He didn't mean to make her sad like that.

"Whatever you give to me will be a precious gift, thank you so much! I don't really need or want anything particularly after all, so it's completely fine! Seeing you guys smile like this is all I need." Izuku smiled kindly, and the three juniors are blushing at the same time. They bowed and ran away from their aisle. A whistle blew from a far.

"Someone is getting all the attention~" Kaminari snickered after said that.

"What!? So now Midoriya is the one that the girls like!? Really!? Gimme your secret! Gimme your secret, goddamn it!" Mineta lose control and tried to climbed the desk to Izuku, which was stopped by Tsuyu's deadly tongue slap. Izuku put the box under the table with his bag so then he will remember to bring it to his room later.

"It's not like that, they're just grateful for things that they saw I done. But you guys are always there to help me, that's the reason we could save all the civilians," Izuku smiled.

"Wow, that's some fine pickup line there," Kirishima chuckled.

"It is not… I really mean it," Izuku waved his hand.

"At least Midoriya knows what make girls happy to hear," Jiro shrugged. She boldly looked at Kaminari. "What an opposite of certain someone."

"Wait, what? Are you looking at me!?" Kaminari actually frowned and felt wronged. Jiro rolled her eyes.

"Please keep it together, guys. We're studying! Let's gather our concentration again! The exam is near!" Iida tried to lead his friends with his stiff hands movement.

"Yes, yes, class president," the whole class started to study again. Izuku was ready to continue struggle with math, but suddenly he looked around.

"What are you looking for?" Uraraka was the one who asked.

"Hm? I don't see Todoroki-kun anywhere," Izuku said.

"Oh, he left. He always go somewhere every Tuesdays since our first year," Uraraka recalled her memories of Todoroki's behavior the last three years. "It's not rare."

"Hmm.. Is that so," Izuku looked around once again. Katsuki felt tiny anger inside his heart.

"So you don't want anything for your birthday?" Katsuki said, tried to not acknowledging the anger inside his heart. Izuku turned his head fast when he heard the line. His face looked surprised.

"You will give me something?"

"You said you want nothing," Katsuki shrugged. Izuku turned his face again, this time his freckled cheeks were flushed red.

"If-if it's from you, I will like everything," he muttered. Katsuki crossed his arms on the table and rested the left side of right side of his head on them, making him comfortably looked up to Izuku.

"Do you really want nothing from me?" Katsuki asked with low voice. There was a frozen second there when their eyes met. Izuku called it a 'frozen second', when you look at someone and time suddenly felt slower than before, like the whole world moved slower and only you and the other person are moving. Izuku blushed harder when he asked that. He ruffled his head, tried to hide his embarrassment. He looked at Katsuki once again for a couple seconds. He looked at his book once again, looked like contemplating. He sighed and hold the book, tried to hide half of his face with the book.

"I don't want anything…" Izuku muttered after hiding himself from Katsuki's gaze. Katsuki grinned. He felt contented looking at how Izuku react.

"What a lousy liar." Katsuki closed his eyelids slow. "If it's not now, maybe you won't get anything from me at all."

Izuku a little bit surprised by the sentence. He pulled the book back and looked at Katsuki whom eyes still closed. Yes, Katsuki was right. There was no 'next time'. There was no 'later'. After April, it will be good bye. Good bye to UA, good bye to his class, good bye to the teachers, good bye to his dorm, good bye to Kacchan….

Izuku gripped his right fist hard.

It's now or never.

"Can I really ask for something?" Izuku said with low voice. Katsuki didn't open his eyes.

"Try asking."

"Will you give it to me?" Izuku asked again.

"Try asking."

"Will you really give it to me?" Izuku asked once again.

Katsuki opened his eyes, ready to burst, but he surprised to see how red Izuku's eyes were. He was on the edge of crying. It made Katsuki held his voice back and swallow it. He straightened his posture but he looked straight to Izuku.

"Try asking."

"Can you… give me half of you?" Izuku said. His face was red, his eyes were teary and his voice trembled. "I won't be greedy, I'll try my best to assist you, and I'll try my hardest to do things and not to be needy. So can you give me half of you?"

Both of them didn't notice, but the whole desk was silent. When Izuku started to look like about to cry, a lot of them noticed and they thought that the two of them were fighting about something, but after Izuku's last statement, the whole desk was on anticipation. What will Katsuki say?

"What.. so you only want half?" Katsuki grinned. "I'll give you half if you want it. But for me, I need all of you."

Izuku couldn't stop his tears from falling.

"Ka-"

A sound of snort made the both of them startled and realized where they were at.

Yaoyorozu, Uraraka and Hagakure were crying, and surprisingly Iida, Kaminari and Jiro were teary.

"That's the way a man proposed!" Kirishima gave a thumb from across the table.

"I never knew… I never knew!" Hagakure was sobbing.

"Yes, the beauty of being rivals and lover," Iida nodded to himself.

"I kinda could guess though," Tsuyu was the only one who were not that affected by the sight. Tsuyu looked at Uraraka who was crying. "Are you okay, Ochako-chan?" she whispered. Uraraka shook her head.

"It's fine. If Deku-kun happy, I'm happy too," Uraraka said while wiping her tears.

"SHUT IT! You guys are too damn noisy. I'm leaving, and you," Katsuki stood up and looked at Izuku. "You comin' with me, shitty nerd. I'll give you a little."

Izuku blushed hard when he heard that while the whole class gradually became noisier. "Kacchan, stop saying things like that in public!"

Fast forward to 3 years later after that, Katsuki couldn't believe that shitty nerd who cried over asking for 'half of him' now ignoring him completely and immersed in some weird shit.

Well that shit was kinda fun but still.

Katsuki ruffled his hair. Whatever. He felt that he somehow turned into 'someone else'. Care about little things Izuku done, getting mad over small things that's not even important, get jealous by figurines… What a fine man Bakugou Katsuki has become. He couldn't even laugh. Katsuki just sighs and walks away.

"I'm outta drinking tonight," Katsuki said while walked away to the front door.

"Eh? You won't be home tonight?" Izuku's voice made him stop on the way to the door.

"You have your own shit to do, why should I stay?" Katsuki said with irritation, but he walked back to see Izuku's face. Izuku was stopped from whatever he was doing, his eyes now locked with Katsuki's.

"But-but… I will be done in 30 minutes, can you stay? So you can see the finishing… and well, you will have one too, aren't you? You can learn or.. or m-maybe…" Izuku stuttered at his last words. He took a deep breath, his cheeks flushed red. He looks straight at Katsuki, try to be more honest. It's something that he learnt after three years living with him; being honest unexpectedly leads on good end; at least for them. Especially with both of them being stubborn and prideful.

"Our schedule didn't really match this past two months so it's rare for us to stay home together.. I want to spend tonight with you…" Izuku said with low voice and red face.

Katsuki grins.

"What, you want to fuck? Just say that from the start."

Izuku blushed harder. "It's not only about that! I-I mean… half of that was about that…" his voice became softer.

Katsuki laughed.

"Come here."