Kamiko was absolutely stunned by the speed of these professional heroes. Friday Bakugou told them about the trip, and Saturday morning they're already at the train station! They literally take no time to pack!
"The party is on Monday. We go home tomorrow, and Sunday we'll gather at the shitty nerd's place for planning. The time is 10:00 am." Bakugou spoke in code at the Izakaya. Heroes usually refer to their missions as parties when they're out in public to prevent possible villains from overhearing their operation.
Kamiko sat quietly sipping her drink as the heroes and sidekick talked, enjoying the good food. Once the talk about the mission was over, they made a toast with everyone in the agency for the first time. Kaminari got completely wasted. Kamiko was a careful drinker, and Bakugou could really hold his liquor.
The dinner ended with Kirishima carrying Kaminari home, and everyone went back to pack.
Kaminari really impressed Kamiko by actually being on time. With his level of wasted yesterday she was sure he wouldn't make the Shinkansen this early in the morning. "Ugh... My head hurts." Well that was to be expected considering the state he was in yesterday.
"The Shinkansen to Musutafu will now be arriving at..." Once the public announcement announced the arrival of their train, the heroes and Kamiko adjusted their backpacks and headed for the platform.
The six of them on the platform waited for the door of the white train to open, and then they all got on the Shinkansen, and quickly found their seats. Kirishima and Kaminari put their bags on the overhead shelf, but there was more than enough leg room between seats so Kamiko just kept her bag in front of her.
She took the window seat beside Bakugou while Kirishima sat with Kaminari, Clearvo with Inazumari. "Ah, so tired..." Kamiko sighed as she relaxed into her seat.
"Tell me about it," Kaminari groaned from the seat in front, causing Kamiko to chuckle.
"You shouldn't have drank so much yesterday." She tapped the back of his seat.
Kaminari groaned. "I really shouldn't have."
"How long is the ride?" Kirishima asked.
"Four hours," Bakugou replied nonchalantly.
Kamiko bent down and unzipped her backpack, catching the attention of the ash blonde who sat next to her. Bakugou watched her take out her laptop and earbuds. She let the food tray down from the seat in front of her, and placed her laptop on there. After plugging in her earbuds she offered an ear to Bakugou. "Wanna watch anime together? It's a long ride," she asked.
"What do you have?" asked Bakugou as he took the ear piece offered to him.
"Um..." Kamiko felt sweat roll down her temple as her eyes darted sideways awkwardly. "BL..." She wasn't embarrassed, but rather a little guilty since she knew how the genre made Bakugou feel. As expected, Bakugou threw the ear piece at her, the small plastic bud striking her straight into the forehead. "Ow!" She rubbed the place she got hit.
"Disgusting." Bakugou clicked his tongue and looked away in annoyance.
"Oh come on, you had no trouble reading the mangas. It's not smutty at all I swear. It's a really plot heavy mystery anime with BL on the side." Kamiko pushed the earbud in Bakugou's face again. "Come on, maybe you'll like it!"
Behind the two of them sat Clearvo and Inazumari. "I don't really get why Iki-san keeps trying to convert Boss into liking BL," Clearvo whispered to Inazumari.
Inazumari, who was going through some papers, simply replied, "Maybe she just wants someone to share the same interest as her."
Bakugou groaned as Kamiko slid the ear piece in his left ear. She chuckled at his annoyed yet helpless scowl. Cute! Bakugou sat with his brows furrowed while he watched her pull up her files. She had a whole folder of BL anime stored on her laptop! However, by now Bakugou was no longer surprised.
Somehow, her level of dedication to this genre is...impressive, he thought. Kamiko clicked on a certain video. Bakugou sat back as he watched the logo of a certain animation company appear on the screen. Kamiko grinned cheekily as she snuggled into her seat. The logo dimmed, and the episode began. The sound of heavy breathing greeted Bakugou's left ear as the screen showed a shaky camera movement up and down in a dark alleyway.
Bakugou was immediately drawn into the animation and its suspense. Completely forgetting this was a BL anime, he focused on the screen as some sort of villain character attacked whoever the screen was showing the point of view of.
Before Bakugou knew it the episode was over. Bakugou waited for Kamiko to put on the next episode, except she didn't move a muscle. The ash blonde looked down to see her completely passed out in her seat. Her eyes closed, head uncomfortably resting on her own shoulder. Bakugou's jaws dropped. Did this shithead just fall asleep during all of that?! If he remembered correctly she was the one who wanted to watch this in the first place. And here she is, completely knocked out.
It was hard to blame her though, since they woke up so early in the morning to catch the train. Both Kaminari and Kirishima were asleep in the seats in front of them. Most likely Clearvo was playing games behind them and Inazumari was just doing paper work. Bakugou let out a helpless groan before shutting down her laptop and putting it back in her backpack. Fucking dipshit. He gently removed the earbud from her right ear and rolled the wires up neatly before placing it in his pocket. He gently tilted her head towards him, so that she laid her head against his muscular arm. She was sitting too low to reach his shoulder, but at least having her head against something was better for her neck than just resting on her own shoulders.
Sometimes he felt like he had trouble understanding her. Did she want to watch the anime in the first place or not? Or maybe it didn't interest her as much as she thought it would? She is hella cute when she's asleep though, he thought as he gently moved some of her fringe out of her face.
Clearvo smirked when he saw Bakugou fall asleep next to Kamiko. He didn't really get why his boss has continuously denied being in a relationship with her. It was obvious that the two of them liked each other. He didn't even need to use his quirk to see the love aura radiating off of them.
Three hours passed, and they were going to reach Tsukuba in another half an hour. Bakugou woke up first, and Kamiko was still leaning on him. Considering that they would be arriving soon, Bakugou woke her up. "Hey shitty woman, get your fucking head off of me. We're almost there," Bakugou said.
"Mmmm!" Kamiko whined. "Five more minutes..." Crap... She's god damn cute when she wines like that. Bakugou grabbed her face with his right hand, squeezing her cheeks toward the center, scrunching her face up.
"Heh. Ugly."
"Shtawp it!" Kamiko groaned as she lifted her head from his arm. Her eyes were still closed and she swatted at Bakugou's hand on her face. "Wur ugwy!" Bakugou snorted at how she couldn't even talk right with her mouth pushed together like a fish mouth.
Finally undoing his hand on her face, Kamiko rubbed the sleep from her eyes. "Huh? Where's my laptop?"
"I put it away," Bakugou said. "Get ready, we're arriving soon." He then stood up and leaned over Kirishima's seat. "Wake up dumbass!" He gave Kirishima and Kaminari each a smack on the head.
At the Musutafu Station platform, the workers got ready for the arrival of the Shinkansen. "The Shinkansen from Tsukuba City will be arriving at the platform shortly," the public announcer announced.
The station workers watched the white train decelerate into the platform, bringing in a gust of wind. They waited by the doorways to help the passengers. Soon, the door slid open, and people started getting off with their luggage.
A young station worker greeted the passengers as they descended from the train onto the platform. "Please watch your step," he said. His eyes sparkled when he saw a beautiful lock of long silver hair. He's never seen such beautiful hair before. A short young woman rubbed her eyes as she stepped off the shinkansen. "Careful," he grabbed her arm to prevent her from tripping on the platform.
"Hands off."
A chill ran down his spine as he sensed a menacing bloodlust radiating off of a tall, strong man standing behind her. He wore a black baseball cap and a black facemask, but his irises were red as blood. The worker immediately retracted his hands from the silver haired woman.
"S-Sorry," he apologized. Must be her boyfriend.
"Thank you," the young woman said to him in a soft sleepy voice.
"Ah home sweet home! Hey bro we should go back to visit school sometime! I bet Aizawa-sensei is dying to see us!" Another tall mask wearing man with messy red hair hopped down the train and stretched his arms in the air.
Another one of them chimed in, "Yeah totally! I wonder if he misses us!"
"Ugh, you guys go. I'm not interested in seeing that old fart," the man who told the young worker to take his hands off his girlfriend growled whilst rolling his eyes. Their voices sounded familiar, but he couldn't quite put a finger on who they sound like. There were six people in their party, each with a quirky personality. The young worker couldn't help but stare at them as they ascended the escalator towards the exit of the station platform.
Kamiko placed a hand over her stomach as it let out a loud growl. It was past noon. She wasn't sure if she should just endure it and go home, or ask if the rest of the crew wanted to grab lunch together. "Let's get food." Just as she was hesitating, Bakugou nonchalantly brought up the topic of food.
"Yeah! Oh my god I've been craving that hamburger from that family restaurant we used to always go to!" Kaminari exclaimed.
"I'm down!" Kirishima said.
"I'm hungry too!" Clearvo clutched his growling stomach. Kamiko looked up at Bakugou. He looked away as soon as his eyes met hers. A smile made its way to her lips, for she knew he probably mentioned lunch because of her.
The six of them stopped at a large family restaurant called Maggu's a few blocks away from UA. After lunch they all decided to head home first and meet up on Monday for the briefing.
Kamiko didn't tell her parents that she would be going back to Musutafu, since they don't know about her being targeted by villains. She told them she'll be staying at home in Tsukuba to work on her manga. So for tonight and Sunday, she'll be crashing at Bakugou's place.
Wait wait wait... I feel like I didn't think this through well enough, she thought as she followed Bakugou down the streets towards the nearest metro station. Bakugou carried a duffle bag over his shoulder, looking bored as hell while he trotted down the sidewalk, passing by office workers in suits, teenagers as well as children in school uniforms. This situation... Is this what you would normally call meeting the parents? But Bakugou and I aren't even dating! Is this really okay?! Am I mentally even prepared for this? What if they don't like me?
"Bakugou, maybe I should just go home after all... I don't wanna intrude..." Kamiko muttered. She put a hand over her stomach when she felt it churn in discomfort.
"Hah?!" Bakugou looked down at her with a big scowl. "You're the one who said you didn't want to go back home."
"That's because I didn't want my parents knowing about my situation... But going to your place is..."
"What about my place?" Bakugou frowned at her.
"Nothing... Just..." I'm nervous. "I feel bad for intruding."
"I told my old hag I'm bringing someone home so it's fine."
"Ehhhh..." So there's no escape now...
A/N: Special thanks to those who posted reviews! I really appreciate them and I love it when you guys share your thoughts! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and please look forward to the next!