Bakugou's P.O.V

The nerd paled and began backing up as I stomped towards him, cracking knuckles and letting off a few small explosions. Shoto followed silently behind me, if the movement of the nerd's eyes was any indication.

"Wait. Wait, wait, wait!" He wallowed as he was backed into a wall, his arms raised to cover his face.

A few passerbys stared, but ultimately went about their day as I raised a sparking hand to the nerds face, "How in the wide wide fucking world did you know!" I growled as he let out a pathetic sounding 'eep!'. "Explain it to me, and maybe I'll let you live." Shoto laid his hand on my shoulder and shot me a disapproving gaze. I sighed and reiterated, "Ugh, fine. I definitely will let you live."

The nerd slowly began to lower his arms, glancing at Shoto ever so often, pah - probably waiting for the 'all clear' from him.

Shoto pulled me back and instantly Deku's shoulders dropped, arms returned to his side. He refused to look me in the eye as he muttered, "Well, you see. I, um… well."

"Spit it out!" I yelled, almost out of patience.

Three short words came crashing out of his mouth, "It was obvious!" He instantly covered his mouth and shrunk down to the floor, cowering with his knees to his chest.

I stood in horror. Mouth agape, ears ringing. But how? There is no way it was fucking obvious, I kept my distance from Shoto, I yelled at him, I even called him 'the unwanted child of Fireboy and Watergirl' I did everything I could think of. So how in the hell was it obvious to oblivious - 'I can't even tell my best friend has a crush on me' - Deku?!

My throat was not working, my mouth was dry and words were not forming correctly.

Shoto, however, probably has some secret-ass mind reading ability, for he took over the interrogation without me saying anything. He moved in front, just a bit closer to the nerd, and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Well, Kacchan wasn't yelling as much as he usually does, his nicknames were more creative than usual, he's been letting you breathe near him, and you said you were at his home earlier - not even Kirishima's been to his house." I… this damned nerd. I swear one day imma punch him dead.

Shoto visibly relaxed, having been won over by the nerds batshit crazy stalking, I fucking hate to admit it, but the nerd had a point. Surly, I could have tried harder to hide it, especially since we were dealing with the overripe broccoli.

We collectively agreed that those were in fact good enough reasons and therefore should be allowed to live another day (dammit). We both stepped back and let the nerd calm down. Just then the alarm rang signaling that I could theoretically murder him for fun. I pulled my phone out and turned the alarm off but made no move of walking away.

"Uh, Kacchan? You can leave now," Deku stated but I just stood and crossed my arms over my chest.

They both looked at me confused and terrified - on Deku's part. "Katsuki, are you feeling alright?" Shoto had the nerve to ask.

I snapped back, "Of course I am, why wouldn't I be?!"

"You're willingly standing by Midoriya-"

"-Without yelling 'die!'"

"-even though you don't have to anymore. What's going on?"

"Nothing's going on, you half-dipped cherry ice cream cone!"

I watched as the nerd looked up at Shoto and exclaimed, "That's the most interesting nickname I've ever heard from Kacchan!"

Shoto gave him back a shrug and replied, "I've grown used to it. You should hear some of the other ones he's called me." Deku lit up and I knew it was time to separate them.

I walked up to Shoto and forcibly took his hand and dragged away from the nerd, "Fuck no. There will be none of that," I decreed as they both stared fucking pouting (what are they, six?)

"C'mon Kacchan, just one, please?" The nerd cried, dragging out the 'please'.

"No, now come on or I'm leaving you both here to die." There's one place I want to go before we leave, if not just to check the price and mourn the fact that I'll never get what I want.

For some reason they both decided to follow - even though technically my threat wouldn't work. I led them to the Hero merch store that me and Katy Perry visited just a couple days ago, intent on getting my hands on a certain item.

Like clockwork the minute we stepped foot inside the store the nerd was freaking out like the loser he is. I let him do his own fuckass thing, not caring if he comes back or not.

I scanned around the store, focusing for the life of me, "Katsuki?"

No I did not jump, and no I did not yelp in surprise (no matter what anyone tells you). "What the fuck, bastard?" In my haste of searching, and walking to the place, I forgot that I was still holding onto Shoto's hand. Somehow never dropping it the entire walk here.

"Sorry, just wondering what you were looking for."

I went back to searching as I responded, "Wall scrolls… Found 'em!" I called and started pulling Shoto along with me to the specific section of the store.

I praised every single deity I could remember existed when I found exactly what I was looking for; a ridiculously large wall scroll of the Rabbit hero: Mirko. I let it go once, and that was the biggest mistake I've ever made. Checking the price my heart broke a tiny bit, sure it was within my price range but it'll take a while to earn that amount back (it'll be worth it though).

Before grabbing the right container I patted my pockets to grab my wallet, hoping that I hadn't miscalculated how much I had. I felt nothing, in any of the pockets. I tried again, and again, pulled them inside out, checked and rechecked. It wasn't there, at all.

I stood and looked stupid, so much so that Shoto was concerned, "What's wrong?"

I groaned, "I left my fucking wallet at home," and dropped my head in defeat.

Next thing I knew Shoto was awkwardly patting my back, "Here." He said as I looked up.

In his hand was a fiery red credit card, "The fuck is this for?"

"Whatever you came here for, I'll pay for it. Or well, my father will. Natsuo nabbed this from the old man awhile back and bought a yacht - unfortunately Fuyumi made us return it before he found out - but he hasn't deactivated it at all, I doubt he remembers he has it. So come on, which of these did you want."

Shocked, and not in the right mindset, I let out, "Holy fuck, marry me." And grabbed a scroll, holding it like it was a priceless artifact (and it gosh-damned is).

I turned back to my idiot boyfriend to find him staring off into space, flushed but luckily not on fire. Gosh-damn it, what did I do now?

"Hey, dumbass?" No response.

A kick to the shin, and still nothing.

I moved to his right side - where I'm less likely to be killed if something goes wrong - and tucked the scroll under my arm, then raised myself on my toes until I was the right height. Holding onto his arm for stability I leaned in and released a breathy whisper right into his ear, "Hey." And immediately two things happened. 1: His head shook violently. And 2: My hands were frozen in place.

"What the heck?" Hah, he's alive!

His head tilted to the right as the responding shoulder (and arm - the one I am currently frozen to!) lifted to meet his ear, wiping away the remaining feeling of warm air. "Nice of you to join the land of the living. Now c'mon I've got to get this baby up in my room," motioning to the scroll currently held in place by my arm, "Also, could you fucking unfreeze me or some shit? My hands are turning an ugly shade of blue."

He brought his other hand over and a wave of heat passed over his arm melting the ice, freeing me from my icy prison. "Thank fuck," I wined as I started rubbing my hands together, trying to warm them up.

"So, shall we go?" He asked as I grabbed the scroll from my arm and held it down by my legs.

"Hold up," I started, having thought of a genius idea, "is there anything you want while we're here? I mean while we have a surplus of funds shouldn't we make the most of it? Maybe we could pull a Heather Chandler and max the card? Anonymously send Endeavor an All Might body pillow?"

His eyes slanted as the gears in his brain started turning. He was seriously considering at least one of my ingenious options. "Do they have anything of Hawks?"

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I love the idea of Todoroki having a celebrity crush on Hawks