Chapter 3: Pillow talk
"I tell you right now, because I am assaulted with phone calls, there will be no mission to catch back the puppeteer! The agency was suspended by the committee."
These were Momo's first words, thrown without a prior greeting to a Midoriya who was in the middle of taking off a cloak and a Bakugou who was squeezing out a soaked umbrella. The couple had tore themselves out from bed that morning to come to work at the scheduled time.
Suspended. Their agency. The agency of the symbol of peace. At this point it was like suspending All Might. All this for a villain (no more naughty than other villains) they had let slip. It was a serious mistake but being suspended for that and prevented from being there for the good of the city...Midoriya didn't understand.
"I told you that would probably happen" Bakugou simply threw, taking off his own raincoat.
"But...suspend us for what purpose? To punish us? It was certainly a big mistake but...I don't know, the world needs us ... especially now! And what happened doesn't erase all the things we have done so far" complained the symbol of peace.
"I think they don't want us to pursue him ourselves" Todoroki echoed as he dropped a pile of files noisily on a desk which gave a micro heart attack on the sidekick who was sitting there.
"What do you mean?" asked Izuku frowning.
"We weren't suspended at first, I was there when Momo received the call from the committee, we gave them our report and they said that we had to wiggle our asses and get the guy back. We gave them some details about the incident after that and when we began to explain that he claimed to be innocent, they turn around, called us incompetent and suspended us" Todoroki explained.
"What ?!" Midoriya exclaimed.
"It must be true then, what the guy said" Bakugou commented as he poured himself a tea.
A general exclamation greeted his words.
"You're a bit too hasty in thinking that, Bakugou!" Ochaco said, handing Deku a coffee, "It's not because we were suspended at that moment that what the guy said is true. That the government is trapping innocent civilians and treating them like villains when they have done nothing, just because of their birth, sounds crazy. The committee is here to protect the city!"
"Exactly" the blond insisted, taking a sip of his mint green tea. "Look Round Face, isn't it "protecting the city" to put away people who wander with great powers and who could potentially be a great danger?"
"What?! Do you condone this way of thinking?" Uravity indignantly said.
"I don't, but maybe the committee does, that's all I say. We surely have an agency filled with a very powerful bunch of heroes, but we are considered, even after 10 years, like rookies in the way the committee sees us. People must think of us as the most important heroes of today, but we are like a nice showcase for the committee, and I would not be surprised if we were kept out of dirty tricks."
"...We have no evidence" Deku reasoned as he sat down at his desk. "Argh...I need to see All Might..."
"Maybe he's in it too..." Mina added, trying to remove a spot from Bakugou's sweater.
"Mina!" Izuku was indignant.
"I'm kidding Deku, you have to stop dramatize, I'm sure that's all bullshit."
It was in a noisy fast food, accompanied by his husband, her two daughters, the parents of Bakugou and his mother, that Izuku told everything to All Might. He explained every event of the night, despite the wide-eyed eyes of their parents, sipping on his virgin Mojito between explanations.
"... and now we're suspended, kind of completely, we don't have the right to work until further notice..." Midoriya conclude.
"Katsuki!" began Mitsuki Bakugou angrily. "How dare you let our adorable granddaughters get caught in a hostage situation ?!"
"Shut up old hag! You say that as if it's only my fault! I don't see you say that to Deku!" answered the blond, not far from crushing his beer can.
"My lovely Izuku surely did all he could to avoid them danger, I'm sure!"
"You're so biased…"
"All Might!" interjected Izuku, ignoring the conflict, "I need you to tell me that you know nothing about that crazy story or that guy who thinks he's a vigilante."
All Might glanced at him and took way too much time in Izuku's point of view to answer him.
"I do not know anything about that."
Deku didn't believe a word.
"You make the face Erina does when she tries to lie" said Bakugou, raising an eyebrow.
"Hey, does that mean you see when I'm lying?" The girl asked.
"No I ... I really do not know anything!" All Might insisted, taking a sip of water.
"Toshinori ... is that really the truth?" Izuku asked, staring into his eyes with his big green one.
There was a timeout.
"Yes, I don't know anything my boy" he answered finally.
"Okay."
Izuku relaxed.
"Besides that, Momo advised us to go on a vacation" he added, wiping Rika's mouth with a towel.
"Is it true?" Inko asked. "It will not hurt you after all..."
"Since we don't have the right to work until the incident is solved... and we make the headlines ... people say good things about us, bad things about us, they sure say loads, and Momo advised us to leave a few days to stay away from the hype. "
"That's why we decided to go on a road trip for a few days with the girls and some members of the agency, they have nothing better to do either way. A ban of the committee, you don't discuss it" said Bakugou dryly.
"I'm surprised to see you so reasonable, the son I know would have destroyed everything until he was allowed to work again" said Mitsuki nudging her husband.
"The son you know feels that something's wrong" Bakugou replied, suspiciously looking at All Might, "and he won't do anything stupid, I'm waiting to see."
"You have matured well."
"That's a matter of opinion" Izuku said before taking a meatball shot in his face by his husband.
That's how they found themselves the next morning riding their Harley-Davidson, their two daughters in their sidecar. Fuck school for a week, Bakugou had said. They were leaving with all the Bakusquad (of which Eri was the new official member since she joined the agency in parallel to her studies at UA to become a pro hero) plus Todoroki. "But he's my best friend!" Izuku insisted when Katsuki made face. Ochaco and Lida preferred to rest from their previous accident and the others simply didn't want to come.
All in single file, either by motorcycle or by car, they went to a more rural part of Japan to enjoy a bit of mountains and change of air.
At full speed, Midoriya and Bakugou used the intercom of their helmet to communicate:
"You know Kacchan, we're off on a road trip and all, but I don't know if I'll be able to have fun," Midoriya said to the blond, squeezing his torso harder so as not to fall off the machine.
"We can't do anything more, you think it's not frustrating for me to have to leave this guy, who made us looks like failures, in freedom? Not to mention the fact that someone opened his cell. The more I think about it, the less I can see who could have betrayed us or why in the agency."
"Mh..."
"Going away for a few days will allow us to have a clearer mind, so stop sulking and take advantage of this rare opportunity to go on vacation with our girls."
"Ok…"
After a few hours of driving, the group arrived at its first destination. It was a very cozy and typical little mountain spa with big hot springs and lots of greenery. The atmosphere smelled different and it brought a breath of fresh air into Midoriya's overheated brain. The place also had a nightclub and a lot of outdoor attractions. A real resort.
At the first gurgling of Rika's belly, they took place in a family restaurant to have a good meal after this big trip. Nori-kun was also in the party but not his mother. Kirishima was not in a relationship with her. In truth, if for Midoriya and Bakugou their daughters were a deep desire, Nori was not a desired child but the result of a torn condom. That said when he was born, Kirishima loved him from the first second and took all his responsibilities to be present for him. They were working with his mother like a divorced couple. Eijirou today was in a relationship with Denki. They realized their feelings when Nori was born, when he was there for him in times of distress. Bakugou had been there too. Fortunately. He would not have succeeded without both at his side.
The atmosphere at the restaurant wasn't about difficult memories however, it was warm. The yellow light and the decoration only accentuated the feeling of sweetness of the place.
Beers and large portions of several dishes of the menu were ordered and they all had the feeling of really having a good time with friends after a long time without taking a break from their hero job.
When Izuku hit the first on the katsudon, Bakugou couldn't suppress a knowing laugh. Conversation was animate.
"... Well, you're all laughing about me but it was not easy in the beginning Bakubro between you and Izuku if I remember well!" Mina said after the story of her own love disasters was conclude.
"Yeah, I remember Midoriya crying all the time at first!" Denki laughed, serving himself some noodles.
"Especially in second year," Sero added.
"You really were a shitty boyfriend!" added Eijirou.
"Oh, what's with the trial?" Bakugou snapped, kicking the table.
"The worst part is that you both knew that you loved each other, that you had made it official and all, but you did everything to make sure it didn't work Bakugou!" Denki declared, ignoring Bakugou.
"He made up for his mistakes later" Izuku said with a smile as he watched Bakugou lovingly.
"It's Stockholm Syndrome," Denki laughed before Bakugou put his head on his plate.
"And you Shoto?" Midoriya asked to change the subject because he knew it was a sensitive one for Bakugou.
"Me? "
"That's right, Momo is crazy about you, did you know?" Denki confessed as a noodle dangled from his nose.
"Hey Pikachu, if you're giving everybody's secrets at the slightest opportunity, I'm never telling you anything ever again, Bakugou said.
"Oh it's not really a secret that Momo is crazy for Todoroki! She blushes like a tomato as soon as they're alone!"
"I don't have that kind of relationship with Yaoyorozu," Todoroki simply said while pourring himself some beer.
"Come on, she's super hot too with her big pair of..." Denki started but Sero put his blond head back on his plate.
"Respect women! And she's your boss!"
"I don't know how you cope with Pikachu Shitty Hair."
"He has times brighter than others," Kirishima replied simply.
"Dad, can we go play with Nori in the hotel room?" Erina suddenly asked, pulling her father's sleeve, which made his gyoza fall to the floor.
"Ah shit!"
"Daddy language!" Rika shouted.
"I can give you a ride when we finish our meals ok?" Said the blond.
"What?! But when will you finish? It will be like in... 3000 hours!" complained the little girl, shaking Bakugou's arm that dropped a second gyoza.
"You're not an easy child you know?" Katsuki said.
"And go to the hotel after eating?" complained Mina this time. "I wanted us all to go to the night club!"
"Do you want to take the kids to the nightclub?" Kirishima asked her incredulously.
"If you want I can bring them back and take care of them!" Eri said with a big smile. "It's true that with all that has just happened it would do you good to have fun."
"Oh Eri-chan, you're an angel, it's true, you don't mind?" Eijirou asked anxiously.
"Not at all, I love playing with them, we'll take a taxi to the hotel and play there! Just give me the keys to the rooms!"
"Let's do like that then!"
The meal dragged on a bit after the children had left and they were starting to be a little drunk. They paid and got up however with the aim of reaching the night club of the area which was not too far from the restaurant.
Izuku was walking with Todoroki and the two seemed wrapped in an intense conversation about a new type of hero gear that was coming out soon.
Denki, Mina and Sero walked arm in arm while singing songs and Kirishima and Bakugou brought up the rear and had a too serious conversation.
"You know it's true that I was a big jerk in my youth, but I really love him..." Bakugou told his friend.
"I know Bakubro, don't worry, everyone knows" Kirishima replied.
"But I always feel like it's not enough, like I want even more with him."
"..."
"You know, I moved in with him, I married him, I have children with him, and I always want more, but I don't know how to be even more for him. I feel like I want to be everything to him."
"You already are everything for Midoriya-bro Bakugou."
"I'm thinking of opening a hero agency with him, you know to be really free."
"Would you leave the Mighty agency?"
"Would you follow me?"
"I will follow you, but Momo would be sad."
"I don't know, it's just an idea.. not like I'm going to open anything anytime soon..."
"You know I think you're overthinking, Midoriya he loves you, he's always loved you all his life, it's not going to change tomorrow" Kirishima said.
"... Thank you Shitty Hair."
"No problem bro."
They arrived at the night club when the evening was already in full swing and they drank as if they were in a heat wave episode. After two hours of dancing like idiots together, groups had formed all over the room.
Music was loud, penetrated the body and resonated in the bones. It was a very rhythmic African beat. They were in the mountains but inside this place, it was Ibiza. It was hot, cocktails were flowing, people were over-excited and dancing like it was the last time.
It was an atmosphere to transgress the forbidden. Mina swayed her body like never with Sero glued to her but also to several other people. She evacuated all the pressure from the day before, or even the pressure of the year. Denki and Kirishima were kissing in a corner.
But those who attracted the most attention on them were necessary Midoriya and Bakugou who danced against eachother under the epileptic lights of the room. Some could have thought that with their excellent results at school and their seriousness that they were not the type to know how to dance in parties, but it was knowing them bad, and the Baksquad knew them well.
Since high school they had proved during lots of evening to be quite capable of dancing, even more with a little bit of alcohol in the blood.
But that night their dance might have become a bit too hot for a public eye. Their crotch were glued to each other and they stirred to the rhythm of the music. From time to time Midoriya let him go to do a step more technical but not less sexy. He rolled his hips showing Bakugou his behind in a more than suggestive way, the whole sprinkled with a 10 million dollars smile plastered on his face. They dripped with sweat and under the electrifying lights their skin seemed illuminated. Everything seemed to light up.
Todoroki watched it all from far away, sitting at the bar, a glass of vodka in hand.
Bakugou seemed to be enjoying himself like never before, he smiled with the same smile as when he caught a villain and he laughed even from time to time when Izuku made a new or funny move. Hands on the burning hips of the symbol of peace, mouth ajar to try to get the little oxygen that remained on the dancefloor, he plunged his gaze into his with a mixture of so many different emotions that it made Shoto's heart squeeze.
There was desire, malice, questions, but also love and admiration. On his side Midoriya looked at Bakugou with only one emotion: worship.
There were lots of people supporting their couple in their group of friends, but there were also some to criticize. And those who criticized were always making the same arguments.
Possessiveness, obsessional, too fusional, abusive.
Not healthy.
It was bound to happen, words like that, when you were in a relationship with your childhood bully.
Many didn't understand how one could be with Bakugou and love him as Midoriya loved him after what he'd done him as a child.
Todoroki didn't think their relationship was unhealthy though. On the contrary, and that's what bothered him. It would have been easier if they were not in his eyes the example of the healthy couple, who pulls themselves up and does things together with good communication.
"Another drink," he asked the waiter.
He knew he couldn't go on like that indefinitely, he had to get over it. And maybe it was the time. Maybe he had to move away from Midoriya to move on. It was a piece of advice he had been given a lot and had always carefully ignored.
One thing was sure, the two were going at it like rabbits, he said to himself, seeing them suddenly leave the room to go somewhere else.
Bakugou put Izuku on the car seat and had him take off his shirt. He had stolen the keys of Kirishima's car with the sole purpose of having a relatively private place to have sex with his husband. One can not give consent while being a little drunk, Bakugou knew it, but he was drunk too so...
He kissed Izuku in a dirty way, leaving saliva on his chin and already sliding his hands on his cock. Izuku moaned with ecstasy.
"You want my cock Deku? I know you want it! That you dream of it!"
"Mhh! Yes please! Give me your big cock! "
"Fuck, I just remembered, we have no lube, again!"
"I have it in my back pocket."
"You have? And people think you're innocent..."
Bakugou grabbed the little bottle and sent his husband to heaven.
Deku limped again when he resurfaced in the lobby of the nightclub. Looking tipsy, he kept beating his hip to Bakugou's, walking and giggling stupidly.
"At least I could never complain about being dissatisfied in bed" he said, smiling innocently.
"I give you back the compliment, stupid nerd, but you're hard to please, you're so demanding" Bakugou replied, putting his arm around his shoulders.
They were interrupted by Todoroki wandering in a corridor.
"Izuku, can I talk to you for a moment?"
"…"
"Alone," he added.
Midoriya kissed Bakugou's cheek and told him to go ahead. Bakugou uttered an exclamation of annoyance but did what he was told.
Midoriya smiled at Shoto and approached, still limping.
"Is your leg hurting you?" Todoroki asked.
"Ah! uh...yes a little bit, it's because uh...I've been dancing too much, but it'll heal don't worry Shoto!"
"Can I...massage it to relieve pain? I know a technique that works well."
"Oh uh ...you don't have to..."
"I insist, I feel responsible."
"If you insist then ok."
They settled on one of the sofa in one of the empty VIP squares of the disco and Midoriya put lay his leg on the thighs of Shoto. Eyes misted with alcohol the latter began his massage but was very quickly limited by the thickness of Midoriya's pants.
"Can you take off your jeans?"
"What?!"
"I can not massage, it's in the way."
"Oh, uh..."
"Come on it's just me, I won't eat you."
"...okay I guess."
Midoriya, who had not totally sober up, did not seem to be ashamed to take off his pants in public, he removed only one leg however, the one that needed to be massaged.
He put it back on Shoto whose breathing quickened. He massaged conscientiously until Midoriya could not help but let out a groan of relief.
"You're good ..." he commented.
"My mother often has back pain so I learned to massage."
"You'll have to teach me."
"For you to do it on Bakugou?"
"To do it on me!"
"I don't know if I'll have the chance."
"Mh? "
But Shoto did not explain that sentence any further. He continued to massage until he reached the top of the thigh, near Midoriya's underpants. He lingered a little too much on this area to the taste of the smallest man. Still massaging, Shoto looked up to look Midoriya in the eye. The latter, in view of his position, could not help but blush.
"Stop it!" He complained. "You're making me feel weird."
"I'm making you feel weird?"
"Uncomfortable."
"Oh. "
He continued to massage the top of his thigh however and after a while he slid his hands up under the light brief. Midoriya removed his leg instantly.
"What are you doing?! "
"Sorry, I thought you would appreciate it."
"How am I supposed to appreciate that, do you think I'm that kind of person?"
"I know you think I'm hot."
"Ok, you're drunk!" Midoriya said, putting on his pants back on.
"Maybe, but you think I'm hot right?"
"You're hot Shoto! It's like a world fact! EVERYBODY thinks you're hot not just me! But I don't do one night stand behind Kacchan's back!"
"You love your Kacchan."
"Yes I love my kacchan, what is your problem?"
"About your Kacchan, that's what I need to talk to you about."
"..."
"I'm in love with you."
Midoriya opened his mouth in amazement. Katsuki was right.
"I'm in love with you and it's unbearable."
"Shoto I..."
"I don't expect anything from you, I know you love Bakugou, you have your family, but I tell you so that you understand."
"So that I understand what?"
"Why you and I cannot keep seeing eachother, as friends."
"What?"
Izuku already felt tears come to his eyes.
"I tried to quench that feeling, to just be the good guy who is happy that you're happy even if it's not with me, but I can't, I'm not that strong."
"..."
"Don't cry" he asked Midoriya, taking his cheek with one hand to wipe his tears with his thumb.
"But...you said you didn't want us to be friends...anymore."
"Because it hurts me too much, if you love me let me go."
"...but you are my best friend."
"I know, but I can't be."
Izuku was crying hot tears now.
"But...since when do you feel that way about me?"
"Since UA."
Midoriya gasped in surprise.
"You suffered all this time?"
"Do you understand?"
"But what will I do without you?"
"You have your family and you have other friends."
"But you are unique."
"Not enough for you to choose to be with me."
"..."
Shoto pressed his forehead to Izuku's before continuing to speak:
"Give me a good kiss bye."
"What?" Asked Izuku with a little trembling voice.
"A good bye kiss, just once, just this once."
"I'm...Kacchan..."
"I KNOW YOU LOVE BAKUGOU, Todoroki cried, slamming him violently on the sofa. Izuku was paralyzed.
"Just once, so I can move on" Todoroki said, stooping to put his lips on Izuku's. The latter as their lips were about to touch pushed him wildly and gave him a slap in the face.
"SHOTO YOU'RE DRUNK!"
Todoroki started crying too and stood up, leaving Midoriya shocked and tearful on the sofa.
"Good bye Izuku."
A gleam of pain appeared in Midoriya's eyes and the latter stood and ran outside the club in tears.
It had been a while that Bakugou was watching the door of the dance hall and he still could not see his husband coming back. He was beginning to worry that this nerd got lost somewhere half drunk. He went out and it was Todoroki he met in the corridor, Todoroki completely upset and in tears. A vision of hell.
"I did something wrong" said Todoroki, "to Izuku, but I had to."
Bakugou felt the rage mount in him.
"WHAT DID YOU DO ASSHOLE? WHERE IS HE?" Bakugou asked, pinning him by the collar against the wall of the hallway.
"I don't know...I told him how I feel about him and that…I was going to go away from him. Because it's too hard. He was very upset, and he ran outside…I think you should go after him. "
"Damn, I'm not done with you" the blonde said as he headed for the exit as he grabbed his cell phone. He sent a message to Izuku who answered right away.
"I am going to the hotel." was the text.
Bakugou wondered what was best between using his quirk in a state of intoxication to reach him quicker or use his motorcycle drunk.
He decided that he had more control over his quirk and went there with explosions.
When he arrived at his hotel room he found the green haired boy sitting in front of his sleeping girls' bed. Eri must have been leaving them to go to her own room once they had fallen asleep. He was crying silently.
"Deku ..." Bakugou began and Deku turned sharply and threw himself into his arms, doing an audible sob that woke the little girls.
"Daddy, are you crying?" Erina asked, rubbing her eyes.
"Are you sad daddy?" Rika asked in turn.
Izuku did not answer but changed arms to give his daughters a big hug in apologize for waking them up.
"A stupid man made your daddy upset" Bakugou explained while sitting on the bed.
"I'm going to melt the guy!" exclaimed Erina.
"It's uncle Shoto" Izuku said.
"Oh ... I don't want to melt uncle Shoto, he's nice."
"But he made daddy upset" reasoned Rika.
"It's just that...you know how your papa and I love each other?" Izuku tried to explain.
"Yes!"
"Uncle Shoto loves me a lot like that, but I told him I liked only your papa, so he was upset."
"Oh…"
"That's sad" said Rika.
"yes, and he said he decided to go away from me a bit and it made me cry..."
He cried in a jolt after that sentence and Bakugou took him in his arms, squeezing him hard.
"It's not your fault, if it's someone's fault it's mine, I spent years bragging about you, knowing how he felt."
"It's not your fault, I should have known, you told me."
"Shh, calm down, it'll be okay..."
"I feel like those 10 years of friendship did not count."
"He was drunk, maybe he wasn't serious, if you want I can talk to him."
"You? talking to Shoto?"
"If it can make you stop sniffing like a 4 year old, yes."
"I love you" he said, giving a little wet laugh.
"yeah I know nerd."
"I wasn't even sure he was gay."
"Must say he never came out the closet even if everyone knew."
"Uncle Shoto was in a closet? he came out like when we got out of the cellar?"
"So you went out of the cellar alone!"
"No! it's Eri who took us out and told us to follow her because we heard everything anyway!"
"Erina, she said it was a secret" Rika said.
In front of the prospect of being scolded by her parents Erina had to reveal everything.
The couple frowned.
"What did you heard, and no lies girls!" Izuku asked harshly.
"Eri, she's friends with the gentleman who controls the bodies of the people! She said he was nice and she pulled him out of the cell, she said it was a secret and that we should not tell you" Erina explained crying while Rika looked guilty.
Bakugou and Midoriya looked at each other.
End of chapter 3
