A/N: Hello! I would like to Thank Starboy6 for writing the Bakugou parts. You really should Check out their fic Bombing King, Lit Queen if you haven't. It's super cute! Thanks friend!

We would both like to dedicate this to Chopper Joe. Thanks for being an awesome friend! Go read Chopper's story The Dance of Darkness. It's so good!

This was a blast to write and I hope you all enjoyed!

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Prompt 8: Secret

It was three in the morning. For the normal members of class 1-A, they were asleep in their beds. For two individuals, sleep was far from them. For Fumikage Tokoyami, the concept of sleep was a skill that he lacked. He easily entertained himself at night, aloof to the idea that he would drift off to sleep when Dark Shadow was so energetic. Wanting to not waste such potential energy, Tokoyami arose from his bed, and got dressed to go to the gym.

Katsuki Bakugou felt differently about the lack of sleep. He was borderline distraught. But in the event of his insomnia, he decided to make the most of it and work out. Leaving his phone—the original reason for his awakening—he made his way to the gym, trying to fully wake up.

Dark Shadow loomed over Tokoyami as the he struggled to bench press the the bar with weights. It wasn't a large amount, but Tokoyami's arms were beginning to tremble under the repetitions. "Come on Fumikage! Is that the most you can do?"

Bakugou opened the doors to the gym and froze when he saw Tokoyami being spotted by Dark Shadow. The sight was altogether one of the weirdest things he'd ever seen, but after a moment's thought, he decided it was actually pretty useful. Heading to the free weights, he picked up two and looked at the pair. "You are the weirdest person I've ever met. First the apple. Now this."

"You're not too normal yourself," the bird headed teen grunted. Tokoyami tried to press the bar up one more time, but his arms collapsed. Dark Shadow caught the bar with one hand and easily lifted it up. "That was fifty- eight," Dark Shadow stated.

"Thank you, Dark Shadow. You can return." The shadow sunk back into Tokoyami's chest as he wiped the sweat from his feathers. "What do you mean about the apple?"

Bakugou started alternating bicep curls, left then right, with the weights. "I walked in on you eating an apple in the dark. And now you are doing this at three a.m."

Tokoyami didn't respond right away. Instead he reached down to his water bottle with a straw and took a drink. "If I recall, you have now walked in on me two times at three in the morning. I'm starting to sense a pattern."

"Shut up," he grumbled. "I don't like this dumb pattern. I didn't choose this."

"You chose to come to the gym," Tokoyami stated. "By all accounts you have held your destiny by a very tight leash."

Bakugou paused what he was doing to let it all process and lost count of which rep he was on. He dropped his head back. "Great. I've lost count. It doesn't matter why I'm here. What matters is you don't sleep. I sleep. You don't."

He started over the reps, hoping he would catch up and not overwork one side.

"You don't host another entity in your body, but I must admit you are not wrong. I do envy your ability to sleep." Tokoyami stretched his arms.

Dark Shadow poked his head out of the teen's chest. "Stop sitting around!"

Tokoyami sighed. "I've been a parent my entire life."

Bakugou raised a brow. "Yeah that must be really fucked." Before he could say more, the lights in the gym cut out. With them, the security lock function on the gym doors engaged, and the two were effectively locked in the gym.

On pure instinct upon losing count of his reps again, Bakugou shouted in a short rage, "Now I'm going to be UNEVEN!"

"Oh no. Whatever shall you do," Tokokyami's dry monotone voice echoed in the darkness. His phone light popped on and was directed at himself. A large Dark Shadow lurked behind him. "Being uneven is the worst problem to have right now. Care to shed some light on the rest of this circumstance?"

Bakugou ignited his palms and breathed out. "Shut up, bird brain. What are you even doing here? Trying to impress a girl or something? It's not like your quirk needs it."

"Ha!" Dark Shadow laughed floating closer to Bakugou. "He said you're too weak for Tsuyu."

Tokoyami blushed at his quirk's remark. "I need to get stronger for circumstances when Dark Shadow can not be used." Tokoyami looked down at his phone. "I'm texting our class so they know where we are. Though It seems rather pointless seeing as they are all asleep."

Bakugou grinned maliciously and let off a few more sparks. "Don't bother. They all sleep like the dead." Deciding it was futile to keep going, he took a seat and leaned against the wall. After a minute or so he asked, "How would that even work with the frog girl?"

Tokoyami tilted his head in confusion. He sat down on the ground next to Bakugou. "What do you mean?"

"You have a fucking beak. How does that, you know, work?"

Tokoyami leaned against the wall and folded his arms across his chest. "You mean… kissing?"

Bakugou closed his eyes but kept a stream of small explosions going off on his palm. There was no way he was letting the shadow fuck destroy the gym. "Yeah. Kissing. Other stuff."

"Well," Tokoyami paused trying to figure out how to word this. "My beak is fairly sensitive. Anything pressed along the outside of it can be an almost intimate sensation."

Bakugou had an almost immediate flashback to their fight at the sports festival, and in response, scooted an inch away from him. "Oh."

"I apologize," Tokoyami said. "I don't mean to make you uncomfortable. But this is also not something I like saying out loud. Especially when Midoriya takes note of every little obscurity."

"I'm not uncomfortable, and I'm not fucking Deku." He stretched his legs out, resting his hands on his legs. "I just didn't know what kind of benefits you'd get out of… it." This was quickly becoming a really awkward conversation.

"It would take more than a firm hand grip to do it more for me," Tokoyami muttered.

Despite himself, Bakugou busted out laughing. "Well, I would hope so, or else it may not be so fun for frog girl."

Tokoyami couldn't help but smirk. "That would have made our final exams quite awkward then."

"Yeah? You two get intimate then? I didn't watch." A coy smile played on his lips.

Tokoyami's cool exterior began to crack. He flinched, unsure of what to say. Dark Shadow didn't hesitate.

"Maybe not in real time, but in his mind they certainly did."

"Dark Shadow!" Tokoyami scolded the beast.

Bakugo wasn't usually one for gossip, he just didn't care, but this peaked his interest. "How long have you been carrying a torch for her?"

Tokoyami sighed. "A while now? Certainly since we fought together."

He grunted. "Huh… have you told her yet?"

Tokoyami shook his head. "I fear if I did, I could lose the relationship we have established." He looked to Bakugou. "Have you been in this circumstance?"

"Have I ever been in the friendzone? Of course, not! I didn't give a fuck about girls until…" He lowered his voice some, having raised it a notch. "Well, I just didn't care until recently. But if you stay friends, you don't get everything else."

Tokoyami raised his eyes with interest. "I take it you get everything else with a certain friend from our provisional license?" He smirked. It was his time to be coy.

Bakugou grit his teeth and looked down at his lap. He didn't talk to anyone about Camie, but Tokoyami had spilled on Tsuyu so… "Well, not everything. But there are things between nothing and everything… And if you fucking talk about this outside this room, I'll fucking kill you."

The feather's on Tokoyami's neck ruffle slightly. "You have my secrecy… as I hope I have yours?"

"Yeah, yeah. I don't talk about this shit with anyone." He nodded to reassure Tokoyami, looking him over. Silence fell between the two. Bakugou cleared his throat. "So… how far have you gone?"

Tokoyami rolled his shoulders. "Well, I've gone far enough to learn how sensitive my beak is."

Bakugou actually smiled, imagining a bird boy with a fucking beak making out with some chick somewhere. "With who?"

"It was before U.A." Tokoyami explained. "I had a friend whose family owned a beach house. He would throw parties there every once and awhile."

"You partied?" Bakugou was surprised by this. Not that he didn't attend the occasional "party", but he never did anything that would jeopardize his future career as a hero.

"It was never anything major. It was mostly shared drinks and spin the bottle." Tokoyami chuckled. "I tried smoking once, but I couldn't hold the stick in my beak."

Bakugou snorted. "You rebel. So you met her at the party?"

"More like shared a moment in a broom closet. Seven minutes doesn't lead to much, but it's enough to make one realize that they don't know how to proceed after a certain point."

"What stupid kid does?" He laughed again. "I didn't either. Had my seven minutes in heaven. Couldn't kiss her though… Just tried to hide my"—he motioned to his crotch—"for all seven minutes."

"The girl i was with… she didn't know how to kiss me. She stroked my beak for most of the time while trying to guide me to her chest. Then when I finally reached, Dark Shadow popped out and scared her." Tokoyami sighed. "It's hard to get a girl to trust you when they assume any move you make is an automatic threesome."

"Well isn't it?" Bakugou said between laughs. "I mean how do you… get off with him always watching?"

Tokoyami flinched. He hadn't expected the frankness. He wasn't sure how to answer. "Well… If I keep the lights on he normally stays away. But," Tokoyami closed his eyes realizing what he was about to admit. "He is one to get emotionally rowdy and has assisted."

The thought alone made Bakugou laugh, and while he didn't think too much of it, he wasn't trying to offend Tokoyami. "Just the thought of frog girl, and the two of you get it done."

"I'm surprised, people don't normally admit that they plan to fantasize about me." Tokoyami smirked.

"Shut up," Bakugou said, though it was mostly in jest. "Don't flatter yourself."

"I must admit, after working with Tsuyu, both my imagination and my curiosity has grown."

Bakugou smirked. "Well now's your time to make a move, just don't let it interfere with your training."

Tokoyami nodded. "Indeed. Being a hero is most important. I couldn't let feelings for someone interfere. Besides, you are a much more enjoyable three A.M. weight lifting partner than Dark Shadow."

The lights turned on again, and the security mechanisms disengaged. Bakugou quit his explosions and flexed his fingers, feeling the ache within his forearms. "Hopefully, this doesn't happen again, but it wasn't unpleasant."

Tokoyami nodded in agreement. "It was the best outcome of a poor situation."

Bakugou stood up and yawned. "Exactly. And again. Say anything about this, and you're dead." Even as he said it, the words lacked his usual conviction; he knew Tokoyami would stay silent. Without another word, he left the gym and went back to his room.

Dark Shadow poked his head out from Tokoyami's back. "You should have been more honest with him. Why the fuck would you make up that you had a friend? You were a complete loner!"

"We earned his trust." Tokoyami smiled. "Besides, I got some solid advice on how to approach Tsuyu." He smiled and turned back towards the free weights to continue his work out.