Chapter 32

"What happened this time?" His Social Skills Tutor clearly new that something was up if Bakugou was coming in on his own.

"Rin's being a fucking pain in my ass! We haven't fucking had sex in a week and when I tricked her into seeing me she got upset. I basically told her I'd be a gentleman if she backs off of Izuku and now I'm the shitty person." Bakugou lounged in on the couch. "You sure you're not a therapist? This feels like therapy."

Shin sighed and rubbed his temples, "No. I am not a certified therapist. I went to University for Social Sciences." And if Shin was 100% honest Bakugou was the primary reason he even had a job here.

"Bakugou, could you reword your statement with a filter." He's had to ask his student to do this numerous times.

Katsuki heavy sighed, "Rin's been avoiding our friends with benefits and I purposely ruined a

report so that she'd have to see me. And then I told her how I wanted to have gentle sex with her if it meant that she'd keep sleeping with me. Also that I didn't want her to be with Izuku because I wanted her."

"Do you have feelings for her?"

Bakugou snorted, "No."

"So you only want to be with her because your friend wants to."

Bakugou hissed. He used the F word. Being close friends with Izuku was still new.

"Tell me how things have been going with you and Izuku. He has recently been back to field work. You two partner up often. How has that dynamic been working?"

Shin saw the boy think it through for a moment. "Deku and I are an amazing team. We just click. Sometimes it feels like we don't even need to fucking talk to get our point across. We make a point to play video games a few times. The nights that we do I know it's definitely more for me then him. He's never been much into them. And I always whoop his ass too. We've been talking a bit less since I started sleeping with Rin though."

"Would you say that's because he had asked you to not sleep with her?"

Instead of answering Bakugou crosses his arms and mumbled something along the lines of 'No one tells me what to do.'

"Is it possible that you started sleeping with Rin to self sabotage the good relationship you have with Izuku?"

"No! I'm actually fucking happy that we're friends and that he doesn't tremble when I'm near him anymore. His mom doesn't look at me like a monster anymore either. Not that I've seen her since she moved in with All Might."

The room was silent.

"I'm not a therapist."

"No shit."

Shin heavy sighed again, "BUT I'm pretty sure All Might getting closer to Ms. Midoriya had been a self distinctive trigger for you. My advice is to apologize-"

"I don't need to sorry to any-"

"Let me finish please. You need to say sorry to Rin for making more of your relationship then it was. That perhaps instead of friends with benefits maybe JUST friends."

Grumbling Katsuki agreed.

"You also need to apologize to Izuku for betraying his trust by sleeping with Rin and also for causing a snag in your friendship."

"Fine. Whatever. You are right." Bakugou sat up on the couch and did his own heavy sigh.

Shin could see that he had greatly relaxed since entering the room.

"Oh, and you should visit Ms. Midoriya and All Might."

"Eeeehhh?"

"Yes. You're looking at the picture all wrong. In your eyes the hero you've always looked up to is favoring your rival. But instead it's your retired hero who is living the rest of his days happily with the woman he loves. And I've met Ms. Midoriya. She's a really nice lady and she speaks highly of you."

They made eye contact for a moment more. "You should visit her."

Without saying a word Bakugou raised and headed for the door.

"You're really good at your job. You are always helping me see through shit. Maybe you should go back and get that certification."

He left and Shin knew that it was supposed to be a compliment.

Izuku had been busy during the week with petty theft crimes, figuring out what the Villain Group Circus wanted and he was also helping plan the Class 1-A Reunion.

Talking to Ochaco and Tenya was both rewarding and disheartening at the same time. When I had mentioned bringing a potential girlfriend they advised against it. Things with Tsuyu were civil but it definitely still had it's awkward moments.

The notable silence when relationships or things outside of hero work came up. Which meant it WAS going to get weird at a class reunion when that's the sort of thing people normally brought up.

He hadn't talked to or seen Rin in a week. They made out and Midoriya had hoped that meant they were going to start dating. Maybe not boyfriend and girlfriend just yet but dates that involved going places and really getting to know each other and kissing and sliding his hand up her back and charishing-.

"Izuku." His face flushed thinking about how he had been caught. Turning he saw Bakugou out of uniform approach him. If he was out of uniform he was probably on his way out. "We need to talk."

Deku's stomach dropped. Why were those the universal words for something bad is about to go down. But still Bakugou was his friend and he'd always stand by him. He'd even stood by him while he got bullied.

"Yeah. Is everything okay?"

Katsuki hated how even through it all Izuku was still worried about him. Even when HE was the one who came to apologize. He had been the one to lie and betray him. Deku knew all of that and he still was being his nice selfless self.

"No. Everything isn't okay. I've been lying to you and I'm-" Midoriya watched his friend struggle to say the words, "I'm sorry that I've been fucking Rin. I'm not going to anymore. My stupid not therapist helped me understand. I've been sabotaging our friendship and honestly I've worked too damn hard for it to go to waste now."

Izuku sat there in silence and took in what his friend was saying. He hadn't expected an apology from his friend. It wasn't like him to say sorry. Katsuki was more likely to just hope that it would be forgotten.

"Say something." Midoriya noticed that Bakugou was watching him impatiently and maybe also a bit of nervousness.

"Thank you. I know that that couldn't have been easy. I'm surprised that you admitted to Rin." He rubbed the back of his head.

"Well, I knew that you had to have known. You're not stupid. And she hasn't agreed to meet up since your thing on Thursday. So I assume that means something happened."

Bakugou noticed the cheeky smile spread across Izuku's face and how he started to giggle to himself.

'She didn't. That's sick.'

"She didn't have sex with you after having just fucked me did she?"

Midoriya's heart sank. Even though he had already known he didn't want to hear it. And even though Kacchan had just said it's officially over he couldn't help but feel uneasy about it.

During their coworkers retreat that All Might had sent them away on this was something the counselors discussed with them. Bakugou had to work on talking and Midoriya needed to understand that Bakugou didn't have a filter. One of the things that sucked about the retreat was that his friend Katsuki needed more work then he did.

And he had honestly come a reallly long was since then. And an even longer way since their bullying days.

A year ago they wouldn't have even been able to have this type of conversation.

Taking a deep breath in and letting it out he started to speak. "That's not what happened. And from here on out if you two are done, I don't want to talk about it anymore."

Izuku saw Katsuki's teasing grin and knew that this wouldn't be the end of it. "Alright. Alright. I won't mention banging your woman."

"Kaccccchan!" Midoriya whined.

"Stop acting like a fucking baby. If you can't take my teasing how you gonna deal with your girlfriends."

"Well, she's not my girlfriend yet. We haven't made it official."

Bakugou watched his friends face get bright red and he couldn't hold in his frustration.

"Idiot, I told you before that you need to grow a pair and take what you want."

"And I did. I made her a home cooked meal and we made out. But then I got the hero call and had to leave. It's been a busy week. We haven't been able to talk about it since."

As much as Katsuki wanted to snort and poke fun of his friend for his 'home cooking' swooning methods he couldn't. If he had really wanted to win a person's heart he supposed he would try the same thing. He also didn't poke fun because he was here apologizing and working things out with his friend.

His not-therapist had informed him that good relationship building meant not tearing someone down every other sentence. Even if you did find it amusing.

"You'll get the chance to make it official soon." Short, sweet And very tame of him.

Another silence washed over them.

"You reeeally wanted to make fun of my cooing didn't you?" Izuku blurted.

"Fuck yeah. Domestic Deku." And with that they both started laughing.

Genuine laughter that you'd only hear them share on old home videos before their quirks.

"All Might needs to give Shin a raise." Midoriya was catching his breath.

"Yeah. And Shin could use the money to become a real fucking therapist."

It was moments like this that both of them were happy that All Might forced them on the retreat.

Rin was still pretty mad about the Ground Zero situation and although her day went pretty smoothly after that the only thing she was looking forward to was to have her Thursday Dinner with Izuku. They could finally talk and hopefully he would officially ask her out. And if he didn't Rin had decided that she'd wear the pants in the relationship and ask him instead.

That's what she thought was going to happen till her phone buzzed.

Izuku

-I can't do dinner tonight. I traded a patrol shift to have the weekend evenings available. I really want to see you though. We're still good in Sunday Morning?

Rin's first thought was that her day was a roller coaster. The second thought was that if he was switching shifts to have the weekend off then why did she have to wait till Sunday MORNING to see him.

She didn't like the feeling it sprang in her stomach. She wanted to trust Izuku. That's why she sent:

-Kk. See you Sunday.

The truth though was that she kinda sorta didn't trust it. How much did she really know about him? He had a really messy breakup with his last girlfriend and he was a hero. What was his quirk? He was strong. That's it?

While walking out the buildings doors Rin tried to think of it as a metaphor for moving on from all thoughts of the 2 guys but that wasn't easy when one of them was standing there.

She was about to turn and go back into the office. But it was too late when Bakugou eyes locked to hers. Eyes that made Rin hear Scorpions 'Get Over Here!' in her head.

And as if Scorpions Kunai Knife sprang from his palm I found myself being pulled to him.

"I'm still mad about before." She announced when she was next to him.

His head tilted as if to inspect her. And then he heavy sighed. "Yeah. I would be pissed off to if I was in your shoes."

Rin was a bit taken back by that. "Heh?"

Bakugou shuffled and tried to figure if his words that best that he could. He also found it difficult to turn off the switch in his head that saw her as a benefit. Realizing that he hadn't really talked to her much outside of the bedroom he wasn't sure how to talk to her. He'd have to wing it.

"I'm done fucking around and sorry for not taking a hint." Katsuki felt like it wasn't a bad way to say it considering he had said some worse wording to her in the bed before. But that didn't explain the stubborn look on her face.

"Literal fucking around? Yeah. I'm happy you finally got the memo." She crossed her arms.

"Damn it. I'm trying to say sorry here and you're making it really difficult. If Izuku can fucking forgive me when why can't you?" Bakugou felt his explosions twitching.

Wide eyed now, "You talked to Izuku about us having sex?"

"Yeah. And we've moved on. You were next on my apology list." He rested his hands in his pocket. He knew that she wasn't going to be easy. Izuku and himself had a past and knew how each other interacted better than anyone else.

He hardly knew Rin. Though he probably knew all her sweet spots by now. As he thought the words his eyes couldn't help but scan her body. Suddenly he wished that he took his time and enjoyed that woman a bit more the last time they had sex. Then again he didn't know that it was going to be their last.

"Okay. Well. I guess I can accept your apology. No more benefits. But could we be friends." She lifted her hand out so they could shake on it.

He stared at the hand and thought about how the slim fingers were beating him off a week ago.

"We'll see."

He turned and left, but she noticed it wasn't towards the apartment building.