' Knock knock knock '
Shouta, who had been on his way to the couch with a fresh mug of coffee, paused before heading for the door.
"Uhh Hi, Mr. Aizawa, Sir. Umm, I don't know if it's like against the rules or anything just knocking on a teacher's door but I know Bakugou's been staying here rather than at the dorms. Is he uh, is he here?"
Kirishima.
Shouta had to hold back a smirk as he nodded.
"I'll go get him for you, you wanna' wait inside?"
"Nah, it's okay, I'll just wait out here. Actually, could you ask him if he wants to come to the dorms, I thought we could hang out, Hitoshi's welcome too, you might have more luck trying than I would."
"I'll try my best."
"Thanks, Sir. I'll uh, see you in class tomorrow."
"Bye, Kirishima."
"Your boyfriend wants you to come over." Shouta teased with a grin as he walked into Toshi's room.
"HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND!" Kacchan practically erupted, cheeks turning bright red in seconds.
Hitoshi laughed.
"You sure about that, he wants you to go to his dorm room?"
"Oh my god, just end me..." He grabbed the pillow and buried himself against it. Maybe smothering himself to death wasn't a bad way to go.
"Well as long as you're being safe."
Within seconds Kacchan launched the pillow at Shouta.
"You are the worst big brother!"
"Aww you don't mean that Kat Kat."
Hitoshi noticed something and walked to the balcony.
"Hey, Kirishima!" He shouted before waving.
"Hey!" Their friend replied.
"I. Hate. Everyone in this family." Kacchan turned to his cousin. "And stop waving!"
He smirked.
His cousin climbed off the bed, grabbed his jacket and walked out the room.
"Fucking idiots..." They heard Kacchan mutter under his breath on his way downstairs.
Kacchan took hold of the latch, pausing for a few seconds and taking a deep breath before pulling open the door to Kirishima.
"Hey du-..."
He watched as his friend's eyes went wide as they travelled over him, taking in the deep bruises, dark black patches around his eye, the stitches on his temple and lip. Anger came to his expression in seconds as he closed the gap between the two of them.
"Who did it, they're fucking dead!"
Kacchan threw on his jacket, wincing a little as he did so thanks to the stinging pain in his shoulder that was still persisting.
"No one you need to worry about."
"Katsuki..."
He offered a soft smile.
"I'm okay."
Kirishima sighed.
"If you won't tell me who will you at least tell me what happened?"
"I can't, I'm sorry; but trust me, there's nothing to worry about."
His friend still didn't look convinced but let it go.
"Come on, let's go to the dorms."
Lying against the wall on the bed in Kirishima's room, Kacchan smiled as his friend joined him.
"I've really missed you these past few weeks. I know I've seen you more recently but…" He sighed. "I don't know; it's too quiet without you screaming all the time."
Kacchan laughed.
Kirishima smiled.
"How have you guys been doing, I can't imagine it's been easy."
He shrugged.
"I'm fine, Toshi's the main priority."
"Bakugou…"
"I said I'm fine." He repeated sternly.
Kirishima decided to leave that conversation there.
"Kaminari's been asking after you too, everyone has, like I said it's been strange having the two of you missing from classes, the place seems empty. You don't always notice someone's personality until it's gone. And I mean like, you're loud and explosive so yeah, that was always going to make a difference, but even someone as quiet as Hitoshi not being there really changes things, we all miss him."
Kacchan smiled.
"You guys should tell him that, it would probably make his day to know he has friends waiting for him back in class; he's a little hard on himself so I doubt he'd even consider you guys would miss him."
"Of course we do, our JSL has probably got so rusty with him not being there to teach us, and it's been too long since I've seen my hero name sign used."
"You really like it don't you?"
"Hell yeah I do, it looks so manly! Hitoshi was awesome at coming up with them all."
"He's been slowly working his way through those Crimson Riot manga you gave him; I think he really likes them if the beaming smile when he reads them is anything to go by."
"YES! My education is working. The more people I convert to the religion of understanding how friggin' awesome the Crimson Riot is the better. He's so cool!"
Kacchan smirked.
"So uhh… did you think some more about what I asked you last time?"
Oh right.
That.
His lack of reply led to his friend's eyes to downcast to the ground as he awkwardly and sadly tried to look anywhere else but him.
"Sorry dude, just forget it, I was clearly just being stupid and-."
"Hey Dumb Hair, chill will ya'?" Kacchan interrupted. "I did think about it, and my answer is yeah, I would like that." He paused. "I mean, my brother, my uncle and my cousins already think we're dating anyway, and so does half the class so you know… as much as I don't wanna' prove them right, I do like you."
Kirishima broke into a soft smile and shuffled a little down the bed so that he could wrap his arm around him and pull his close to rest against him.
In the arms of his friend, and now boyfriend, he felt warm and safe, a smile coming to his face. He soon found himself struggling to keep his eyes open as his exhaustion from the previous night seemed to finally catch up with him.
"Don't stay awake on my account. Here."
Kirishima gently guided his arms out of the hoodie he was wearing before throwing it carefully to land on the chair by the desk.
"Better?"
He nodded, eyes closed as he snuggled closer, finding his fellow classmate to be a very comfortable pillow. He heard a smirk.
"You comfy there?" The voice teased.
"I will be if you stop moving around." He retorted with a smirk.
A soft hand came to stroke through his hair, the motion only making him drift away faster.
"I got you, Katsuki…" His friend's soft voice was the last sound he heard before everything was peaceful.
"Oh my goodnesssssssss."
"They're so cute!"
"Awwwwwwwwwww!"
"He actually looks less feral when he's asleep."
Zuku furrowed an eyebrow.
What the hell was going on?
Walking over to Kirishima's dorm he came across Ashido, Hagakure, Uraraka, Jiro, and Kaminari. He peered round the door to see what they had been discussing.
Kacchan and Kirishima were both asleep, his cousin wrapped in the arms of the red-haired hero.
He reached around the door to click the latch before pulling it closed softly to not wake them.
"Ohhhh, you're no fun."
He scowled before corralling them down the hallway to the common room, his friends slumping down onto the couches as they arrived; the whole class was spread around the large, bright space.
"Look, it's not my place to say anything about it, and I'm not going to, but after everything that's happened, the last thing Kacchan needs is to feel self-conscious about even going to sleep. And even if nothing had happened you guys shouldn't be doing that to anyone, it's gross."
Uraraka seemed to agree with him, her expression changing to guilt.
"You're right, I'm sorry, Deku."
"Does that mean they're dating?" Kaminari piped up.
Jiro groaned.
"What don't you understand about butting out of shit that doesn't concern you?"
"Hey they're my friends, I have friend rights."
"And I have cousin rights, just let them work stuff out on their own, I'm sure they'll let us know if they want to say anything, right?"
Yaoyorozu and Uraraka nodded, both smiling.
"Ohh it's still cute though, even the thought of the two of them together is very sweet." The creation hero smiled.
"They've been close since we started here; Kirishima's always been able to calm him down when he's upset or angry; Hitoshi's usually the main one to do that."
"Speaking of sweetness, we need Shin Shin back ASAP." Hagakure announced animatedly.
"Are you still calling him Shin Shin? He already told you just how much he loved the use of that nickname…" Jiro replied.
"Nahhhh, he loves it, he just expresses it in a different way to most people."
"What by saying he hates it?"
"I saw him smile when I said it once, he likes it really."
Tenya, who had been sat at the island in the kitchen, looked over.
"I must admit I'm a little worried about him, that fight in Kamino was a nasty one and Shinsou took the brunt of it. It was most heroic of him to save Bakugou like that at the expense of his own safety and an eye. Not only that but he also helped All Might defeat All For One, the picture was all over the news, my parents were most impressed when they heard what had happened, he is most certainly going to be an amazing hero one day, he would be an asset to any agency that took him on."
"Oh that's right, you guys were there." Sero commented. "How did you manage to get away with it, I thought Mr. Aizawa would've expelled you all on the spot."
The four of them who were there that night stilled.
"They saved his brother and his son." Uraraka answered simply. "As angry as he would have been about them breaking school rules, the law, and risking their own lives to do what they ultimately did, I doubt he would be able to overlook the good they actually did. Like you said, Hitoshi was able to get Kacchan out of there and up to you guys and even having one person less on the battlefield gave All Might the space he needed to unleash a heavier attack. Despite it all they were heroes even up against the most evil man this country has ever seen."
Asui sighed.
"We should have all gone with you that night, we have strength in numbers and we work well under pressure, we proved that at the USJ. Regardless of the law we should have acted rather than hiding away and hoping for the best."
"Tsu… like Uraraka said, All Might needed space to fight and having our whole class there would've caused problems. You guys were right to not risk your hero licenses; we need some of us to be responsible so the board doesn't close the school down." He spoke up.
His classmates smirked.
"It's true; it's our civic duty to stop you idiots from toppling UA." Tokoyami quipped.
"Well in our defence you took the class rep with you so we didn't have any supervision." Kaminari grinned.
"I apologise for my behaviour it will not happen again." Tenya bowed.
"You actually went against your coding robo boy, did it feel nice?" Sero teased.
"I feel ashamed for letting down Mr. Aizawa and the teachers of this fine establishment, but… I would not change the actions I took that night, not knowing that we managed to bring Bakugou and Shinsou back to us because of them."
"Good, I'm glad to hear it."
"We should do something nice, you know, for the two of them as a 'please come back soon, we're dying of boredom without you' sort of thing." Ashido smiled.
"Sounds good to me."
"We could make cupcakes." Sato suggested.
"Oooh yesss!" The girls agreed.
"What flavour does he like?"
"Uhh, I don't even know if he's had cupcakes before." Zuku answered truthfully.
The horrified expressions of his classmates said it all before they rushed into the kitchen and began grabbing ingredients and utensils they would need.
"Then screw just cupcakes, we're baking everything we can think of, Hitoshi needs educated on the wonders of baked goods."
He smiled.
He had the best friends.
Walking down the driveway to the house Kacchan took the key from his pocket... to find the door already open.
He furrowed an eyebrow and made his way inside, pushing it closed behind him he headed upstairs.
"You didn't close the door idiots, do you want people to just w-."
A gasp burst from his lips as his eyes widened in fear.
Shouta and Hizashi lay still on the floor, his brother's body positioned as if he'd tried to act as a shield to protect his husband.
There was so much blood.
"No... no..."
Hitoshi.
"HITOSHI!" He screamed, his throat protesting the pitch of his cry as he sprinted out the room and up to the next floor. Each step felt like climbing a mountain, his throat burning, head pounding as he forced himself to keep going, desperately hoping for the safety of his cousin, praying that he hadn't met the same fate as Shouza and Hizashi.
Please be okay, please, you have to be.
He would've heard the commotion from the floor down and surely had time to escape. Maybe he found somewhere to hide, or maybe they didn't even come this far up.
Maybe he's alive.
Throwing open the door his breathing stopped, collapsing to the floor he threw up violently right then and there before tears burst from him, wrecking every part of his being as he whimpered and wailed, sobbing harshly.
"No…"
Someone grabbed his arm causing him to jump.
"Bakugou?"
"Ahhhhh!"
His eyes flew open to find Kirishima looking down at him in concern, still holding him tight in his arms.
Right, they were at the dorms.
"Hey, you're good; the only scary monster's me I'm afraid." Kirishima teased with a soft smile.
He smiled too before taking a deep breath as he scrubbed a hand down his face.
"Fuck me..." He grumbled. "I never thought it would be too much to ask to get some sleep."
"We can try again later, how about we get you some food?"
He nodded.
"Come on then."
As the two of them walked into the common room, Kirishima's face lit up.
"Hey, Hitoshi, long time no see."
Toshi was sat on the couch with Ashido styling his hair, he didn't look too thrilled about the situation but clearly didn't mind too much.
"Shin Shin's back!" She cried with a beaming smile. "Oh we've missed you so much!"
The girls all bundled him into a squishy hug.
"I've missed you all too but stop waving around those straighteners I'd quite like to not have a burn to also add to my collection of face adornments." Hitoshi smirked.
"Does your hair even straighten?" Kacchan asked.
"Apparently it does."
"Would it kill you to style it every once in a while?" Hagakure questioned.
"Do I look like I know how to braid hair?" His cousin retorted.
"Momo just made dinner if you want some." Denki offered.
"Awesome, thanks." Kirishima smiled as he walked over to the kitchen and took two bowls, filling the first with the green curry in the pot and handing it to him before dishing up one for himself.
Hitoshi was still being fawned over by the girls as they took a seat at the table and began eating; he heard the occasional swat to a fussing hand accompanied by a grumble from his cousin.
"Aww it's like the Wild Wild Pussycats styling head I had as a kid."
"I'm not a styling toy!"
He couldn't help but laugh at that.
"Oh quiet you're gonna' look fine."
"'Fine' doesn't fill me with confidence."
Ashido put down the straighteners.
"There, all ready for you Momo."
Yaoyorozu gently pulled his now straightened hair back behind him, gathering it all together before beginning to braid it into a ponytail. It only took her a minute or so before she was securing it with a bobble.
"There we go."
"HE LOOKS LIKE EDWARD ELRIC!" Hagakure squealed.
"I- I don't know who that is."
The class looked horrified.
"Well that needs rectified…" Ashido grumbled.
"You look amazing!" Uraraka commented. "It really suits you."
Hitoshi, clearly not trusting the word of the girls, walked over to him.
"Be honest, does it look terrible?"
He shook his head.
"She's right, you do suit it." Kacchan smiled.
"You better not just be saying that." His cousin nervously replied, clearly unsure of whether he was being made fun of.
"Hey." He began softly. "I wouldn't let them embarrass you. Genuinely, it looks good."
He noticed the smile peeking out.
"Thanks."
"This curry is amazing Momo!" Kirishima complemented.
"Thank you; it's my mother's recipe."
Zuku walked into the common room, expression turning to a smile once he saw the two of them.
"Hey Toshi! Woah, nice hair!"
His cousin took a seat beside Toshi.
"Did you find more All Might Adventures episodes?"
Zuku nodded excitedly.
"I found them all."
Hitoshi's face lit up.
"Woah, that's awesome, Zuku!"
"All Might Adventures, oh my god I haven't seen that in years!" Sero stated.
"Oh yeahhhhh, I used to watch that all the time when I was a kid." Denki jumped onto the couch beside them.
"We should watch some."
"Movie night!" Ashido exclaimed.
"I'll make some popcorn." Yaoyorozu nodded.
"I'll go see if anyone else wants to come and watch with us." Zuku walked off towards the dorm rooms.
"Hey…" Kirishima spoke up softly. "If you wanna' just go relax without as many people around we can."
He looked over to Toshi who in that moment seemed to fit so naturally into the picture, sat on the couch surrounded by people who cared about him, carefree and not having to worry about any of that League crap. He smiled and shook his head.
"Nah, have you seen any of these, we were watching them yesterday, they're cheesy as fuck."
Kirishima smiled too.
"Sounds good to me, he's not a scratch on Crimson Riot though." He teased with a wink.
He rolled his eyes with smirk.
"Whatever you say…"
As night fell the numbers in the common room began to dwindle as everyone began to head off to their own dorms.
"Hey Tosh?" He called softly.
"Shh, he's sleeping." Tsu whispered before motioning to the sleeping form of his cousin on the couch across from her.
Kacchan smiled.
"Oh that's so sweet." Yaoyorozu spoke up before producing a blanket with her quirk. She gently draped it over him. "Can't have him getting cold."
"Thanks."
"Well I think I should probably go and get some sleep too, it was really nice seeing you guys again." Tsu gave a wave before walking off down the corridor.
"You too."
Kacchan took her recently vacated seat, relaxing back against it with a deep exhale.
"You coming?" Kirishima asked.
"Nah, you just go to bed, I don't wanna' leave him on his own out here, I doubt he'll know where he is if he wakes up, he's barely been in the dorms."
"Then you got room for one more?" His friend walked over.
Kacchan smiled, budging along.
"Goodnight you two." Yaoyorozu called.
"Night." They replied in unison.
And then it was just the three of them.
"So much has changed it's almost scary. Toshi and I being taken by the League, and the fight that went down at Kamino, that's the kind of crap you read about on the news and never think could happen to you. Nah you could be the nicest person alive and still subconsciously count your blessings that it happened to someone else rather than you. But it did happen and it's crazy to me that this wasn't even the first thing we faced this year. The USJ, Zuku, Todoroki, and Iida fighting the hero killer, the raid at the camp, this shit doesn't happen to normal people but we seem to attract it so easily."
"There's always another way of looking at stuff like that though, I mean, yeah the USJ was a mess and our teachers nearly died, but we became stronger because of it. We realised that we couldn't just screw around for three years and expect to become heroes after it. It was terrifying, and tough, and we nearly didn't make it out with our lives, but we survived. We beat them." Kirishima paused. "And the USJ also brought us Hitoshi and I think we all would've endured anything if it meant having him with us."
Kacchan's gaze travelled to his cousin. The braid Yaoyorozu had put in before had fallen out a little in places from lounging on the couch for the past few hours but the majority remained intact. He wondered how long it would be before his hair began to protest being straightened and pop back up into its usual, natural style.
He seemed peaceful as he slept; his arms wrapped around one of the pillows.
A manga novel lay beside him on the couch. He furrowed an eyebrow and picked it up to inspect the cover.
"'Fruits Basket', who the hell gave you that?"
"I think Uraraka gave it to him to borrow."
"But it's some chick shōjo."
"Hey if he likes it he likes it, who cares what genre it is." Kirishima defended. "From what I've pieced together about him the guy is just starting to discover things that all of us would take for granted. I can't imagine what it's like to be so cut off and then find yourself in a world where everything is brand new, must be pretty scary."
"I need a job so I can buy him proper manga."
"Could you do me a favour then and take back the money you gave me."
His eyes downcast.
"What do you mean the laughable amount that wasn't even anywhere close to what you paid for the goggles?"
"Hey…" Kirishima began softly. "I bought those goggles because I wanted to help my friends, and I did so it was money well spent in my opinion; in your case however, I never expected you to pay me back and I don't ever want you to. You should use the money to take Hitoshi places, or buy him stuff you think he'll enjoy; it's much better spent that way." He paused. "Please don't feel bad about the amount, as much as I don't want the money, the fact that you thought you had to and managed to get even what you did give shows me how much you care and I appreciate that."
He looked at the green and white coloured manga novel and smiled, replacing it back by Hitoshi.
"I wonder if he knows there's an anime of it."
"There's two actually."
Kacchan furrowed an eyebrow.
"Don't tell me you watch it too?"
"I have a sister you know. Just make sure if he does wanna' see it he watches the second one, it's better apparently."
He smirked.
"Of all the conversations I thought I'd be having today I didn't think this would be one of them. And I didn't know you had siblings."
"Yeah, I have a brother too; I haven't seen my sister in a while though."
"That's a shame."
"It's okay, it was my fault."
"Did you guys just lose contact with each other?"
"Not really, it's kinda' a long and complicated story." Kirishima rubbed the back of his neck. "I uhhh… how do I put this? Let's just say that UA was sorta' a fresh start for me too. Well, Mina knew about everything because we went to the same schools before here but she's not a blabbermouth so she's kept my secret."
"Secret?"
"I don't want to scare you or anything."
Kacchan reached out and gently took hold of his friend's hands offering them a reassuring squeeze.
"Hey, you don't have to tell me jack shit if you don't want to, dude. Don't feel like you have to."
"I want to, it's probably time for me to be a little more open about it all, who knows, it might even do me some good."
Kirishima took a deep breath.
"So basically, there was me, my Dad, my Mom, my older brother, and my twin sister. Dad was involved in some shady crap but he didn't tell my Mom. I still don't know everything he was tangled up in but I know it wasn't good. He usually kept to himself in his office when he was actually home but one night was different. I was thirteen and he came into my room to ask me something, long story short he needed me for a job he was doing. He obviously didn't come out and say it like that; he was a friggin' conman so he knew how to swing it to make it sound like it wasn't something deeply shady and illegal. Me being an idiot and stupidly seeing it as an opportunity to actually spend time with my Dad went along with it."
"So we went, the whole thing backfired, I ended up getting a bullet in the shoulder for my troubles, my fuckface of a Dad scattered the second things went south, and I spent the next five minutes bleeding out in some fucking place he'd tried to steal from. After that the police came, I was arrested, I spent the next god knows how many hours being grilled by the cops, my Dad's people purposely planted shit to frame me so I didn't stand a chance and ended up getting sent to some juvenile detention centre for a year."
He sighed.
"They used to let families visit and my Mom came the first week I was in there. She basically told me to never come near her or my sister ever again and then stopped showing up. When I got out my brother came to get me. He couldn't even look me in the eye, he was so ashamed. I remember he had to pull over just so I could throw up, I just felt so…" Kirishima shook his head. "Disgusting, because even though they framed me, even though they turned it all on me, I was still there, I still agreed to it, I still knew exactly what we were going to do, I had no one to blame but myself, and that made it so much worse to come to terms with. I couldn't look myself in the mirror because I hated what I saw, I hated whoever the hell it was that would ever think about doing what we did. I was just thankful that I was the only one who got hurt because I don't know what I would've done if there had been people caught in the crossfire of my stupidity."
"My brother let me stay at his place; I met his wife and their kid. She was rightfully worried about having me in the house with Osamu there; she didn't want me screwing him up. Haru had already told me straight on the car ride back that if I ever did anything like that again then I was on my own, family or not. Couldn't blame him and I totally agreed, I didn't deserve any more chances, I barely deserved the one I was given. So I lived with them, dyed my hair so people wouldn't recognise me from the news, and went back for what was left of my last year of middle school with… interesting results."
"In the end I became friends with Mina and her group, she saw me looking like some sad loner out in the grounds during lunch and we got talking that way. She was the one who first compared my quirk to the Crimson Riot's. After using it in the way I did back with my Dad I was ashamed of it. I saw it as a curse, something I would never use again for any purpose, so hearing her talk about it like it could be used for good, in the same way the Crimson Riot used his as a ranked pro lit a fire within me. She was the one who pushed me to apply with her to UA too, and I'm glad she did otherwise I don't know where I would've ended up, and then you know the rest."
Kacchan was speechless.
"I told you it was long and complicated. Kirishima smiled softly. "Thank you."
"For what, I didn't do anything?"
"You did exactly what I needed you to do just by letting me tell you all that. You're the first person I've ever opened up about my past to, I've always been scared that if people knew they wouldn't see the person I am now, just the stupid idiot from back then. They would have every right to leave after they found out and I refuse to give any excuses for what I did, but I'm different now. The hero commission might still be a little hesitant on me and that's fine, it just means I have to work even harder to prove to them I'm someone they can trust to help save people and no matter how long it takes I will get my hero license and make a difference."
"You sound just like Toshi." He smiled, huddling in closer to Kirishima's chest, the hero's arms coming to wrap around him. "You should be proud of yourself, what you've done over the years can't have been easy, especially not with people trying to drag you down and constantly holding your past against you." Kacchan looked up at his friend. "And I'll say this too because you need to hear it. I don't think any less of you after hearing all that. What you did was fucking stupid and I know you can't be excused for being a part of it, but thirteen is still young, your Dad is supposed to look after you not groom you to fucking commit crimes and shit. He shouldn't ever have made you do something like that, you're his damn kid, it's disgusting. You probably did know better but that still wasn't up to you, he could've twisted anything to make it sound like what you were doing wasn't illegal. Make it sound like you had to do it to deserve his love. People like that are the scum of the earth and they don't deserve to ever have kids, not when they treat them like garbage or just something they can use."
"Well he got arrested two months or so back on numerous charges. I snuck off campus to go to the trial. Sat in the public gallery it was the first time I'd seen him since that night and… I just couldn't breathe. I couldn't make myself take breaths, my shoulder throbbed where the bullet had gone through, and I felt sick to the pit of my stomach. I nearly chickened out and left but I forced myself to stay. He ended up getting sent down for five years and… I smiled. I was happy because his victims finally had justice. I felt partially responsible for him getting away that night, for the people we indirectly hurt not getting the chance to see both of us punished for what we did, but with the clunk of the judge's gavel it was finally over. I walked out of the court and I just collapsed. I sat there and I cried and they were tears of joy. People must have thought I was some kind of freak sitting there laughing and crying sat on the wall. When Haru arrived he was terrified, he thought I'd snapped or something. Apparently UA had called him to say I'd ran off earlier so he'd spent the day looking for me thinking I'd finally decided to skip town. He wasn't alone though, Eiko was with him."
He smiled.
"She your twin sis?"
Kirishima nodded.
"I was so scared to even be near her, I was afraid that even touching her would taint her somehow but she just called me an idiot and pulled me into this crushing hug. Apparently Mom knew nothing about it but she didn't care. It was so good to see her after so much time and it only spurred me on more." He took a breath. "I've been a terrible brother so I'm going to become a hero to give her someone she can be proud of. I want that more than anything in the world."
"Your sister loves you regardless, Shitty Hair."
"Maybe she does, but I still have a lot I need to make up for. I wasn't there for her but I will be now."
Kacchan reached a hand up to his friend's face.
"Come here a sec."
He leant down.
Taking the opportunity Kacchan pressed a kiss to his cheek.
Kirishima smiled before following it with a kiss of his own.
"I think that's enough storytime for one night, don't you? We should get some sleep."
Kacchan allowed himself to be wrapped up close, resting against his boyfriend's chest as they shared the space on the couch together.
"Goodnight."
"Night."
