Three days.

Three f*cking days.

They kept him in the hospital foR THREE DAYS.

G*d he was so f*cking bored.

He was going insane.

He hadn't seen Kirishima, or anyone from school yet. He had just been sitting in a hospital while they took care of his ears. Which apparently had gotten infected. His hearing aids had been too big for him, and they didn't know until they checked it when he came in that night.

So they had to keep him until they got the new ones and his infection went away.

Which was supposedly going to be three /more/ days.

G*d he hated it. They didn't even give him his normal doctor, and Sura wasn't there because they were still trying to figure out how she had gotten into her accident.

He was losing his mind.

He had spent the last two days learning sign language. That's how bored he was. None of the doctors or anyone could talk to him. Because obviously he couldn't have his hearing aids in. He was left in silence with everyone just looking at him with looks of pity when they couldn't include him into the conversation.

He had texted Kirishima a lot. But he couldn't text too often, since he still had to go to the work studies the day after he was brought to the hospital, and apparently he had gotten to talk to the 'villains' more, learning their stories and what was really going on.

He hated it, but the people that took his hearing and partially his sight were starting to look less and less like they were villains.

They were supposed to go to court. To see if they should remain in custody or if they were to be let go. It was starting to look like he was going to have to lean towards letting them go.

He hated that. He wanted to hate them. The only reason he was in the hospital learning sign language right now was because of them.

He wanted to scream. He could. He wouldn't even hear it. But everyone else would. So he remained silent.

His phone vibrated in his lap. He stared at it for a long moment, examining the case and sighing again. He picked it up and glanced at the message, a slight smile tugging at his lips that he quickly covered with his hand.

'Just got back to the dorms from work studies. You want me to bring our books over there so you can catch up on school? I've gotta catch up too so it'll be new for both of us. Hope the hospital was less boring today. ~ Kiri'

'get your a*s over here - im bored as f*ck ~Baku'

'I'll be there soon then. 3 ~Kiri'

"G*d he's so f*cking gay." He mumbled aloud. Though he was one to talk, he couldn't stop f*cking smiling. He carefully tossed his phone to the foot of the bed again, making sure he left it face-down so he would see his flashlight go off when he got a message. He glanced at the door to his room, being sure it was still shut before he continued practicing the signs he'd learned.

It was stupid. It was so stupid. But they said they might not be able to get a smaller pair for a while, and that his ears would need a lot of time to heal before he could consider having them again.

So it was going to be back to silence for a while.

That and his parents had started learning it. He kind of felt like he had to now. It was one thing to ignore his classmates, it was another to ignore his parents doing it.

He only knew the basics, but he had figured that would be all he needed for now.

After a while, his door opened to reveal a grinning shark boy. The first thing he noticed was that the other boy's hair was down. G*d he loved it when it was like that. The redhead placed his backpack on the floor, and then Bakugou's on the bed before taking his phone out and starting to type.

Bakugou leaned forwards and tapped the top of his head to get his attention.

'I learned some. Sign to me to help me practice.'

The amount of surprise on Kirishima's face nearly made him upset. It shouldn't have been /that/ surprising that he finally learned some of the language.

(Words Bakugou doesn't know marked with - and words spelled like T.h.i.s. Indicates that they spelled the word out because they didn't know the sign for it)

'That's -. Also, is S.u.r.a here? I couldn't - her.'

'She was the driver in the a.c.c.i.d.e.n.t. A few days a.g.o. R.e.m.e.m.b.e.r?'

Kirishima nodded understandingly and then sat on the bed by him.

Turned out it was f*cking hard to sign conversations. He didn't know two of the words Kiri had said and he had to sign out half of what he said, it took forever. It was annoying. He already wanted to go back to texting.

"Signing sucks. Being deaf sucks. Wearing glasses sucks. This hospital sucks." He huffed as he leaned against the other boy for a moment.

'I know. It'll get easier, the signing - at least.'

"Still sucks." He mumbled before he reached forwards and grabbed his backpack. He opened it and pulled out the worksheets for the schoolwork he had missed.

His chin was taken a moment later, Kirishima turning his head to face him. Bakugou didn't even pay attention to what he signed, he had found that the action of taking his chin had been cute so he leaned forwards and pecked the redhead's lips roughly. He smirked when the other lit up a red hue and forgot what he was going to say.

'Uh… Your ears. What did the doctors say?'

Kirishima signed after him taking a moment to calm down and remember what he was going to ask.

"I'm not signing it fully because it's a lot. And I don't know half the words." He started, he signed the words as he spoke, leaving out the ones he simply didn't know. Waiting until the other nodded before continuing. "I have an infection in my ears, because the hearing aids were too big. They were making the headaches more frequent than normal hearing aids would have, and were extremely uncomfortable. Since I didn't f*cking know what normal ones were supposed to feel like, I just thought it was normal. Until my ears started bleeding. F*ckos messed my sh*t up and now my parents could sue them. They're not going to but we could. I have to stay here for a few more days until my ears heal. I won't have new hearing aids for a long while. F*cking sucks." He huffed. Kirishima nodded and leaned against him, smiling and saying something out loud that he obviously couldn't hear.

"I can't read lips yet dumba*s." He blew air at the other, watching as he crinkled his nose and pulled away.

G*d that was so f*cking cute. The boy pulled his phone out, beginning to scroll through random things Bakugou wasn't really paying attention to. He was more focused on the fact that the boy was still talking out loud and that he could hear anything. "Oi, Kiri. If you wanna f*ckin' tell me something then tell me. Be a man or whatever sh*t gets you hyped." He nudged the other boy.

The redhead signed something to him. The blonde stared at him silently.

'You know what that means?'

The boy continued. Bakugou shook his head slowly. He knew d*mn well what it meant but he had no idea how to reply to it. They had barely been together for two weeks.

"I don't. Text it to me." He mumbled aloud, hoping to whatever f*cking g*d was out there that he didn't. Luckily he shook his head.

'You'll learn it later then.'

He grunted and grabbed his bag to start their homework, moving on from that subject, even though he knew he was a flaming red at the moment. G*d he was f*cked up right now.

'You won't have to worry about anything anymore. Because I'll be with you no matter what happens. With your hearing, your sight, with your training, with your silly frustration at Midoriya, with your pretending that you hate everyone, and with your adventures, good or bad. I'll be with you bro. I love you man.'

That was what he had said. Bakugou had filled in some of the blanks of the words he didn't understand. But he knew. He knew what it meant.