Katsuki POV

What I am doing?

The words he said keep repeating in my head over and over.

I'm kissing my best friend.

I'm touching my rival.

I'm falling hard for the person I have bullied and picked on most of my life.

I don't know how to express how I feel. Of course he is confused. I'm confused too.

I came up with a plan a few weeks ago about how I wanted to confess to him about how I have been feeling. It would start with his birthday. I would give him a gift I bought months ago. A gift I saved up for, for a really long time. Yeah, it's been a really long time since I've had these feelings for him.

Nothing is going the way that I planned it. I was supposed to give him his gift, and as the tears I know would come from his eyes start, I would walk over to him and give him a hug. He would probably be embarrassed. There would be a lot of people watching. We were having a party after all. He would probably stutter and thank me, and shyly return the hug. Before pulling away I would whisper in his ear that I want him to come by later so I can give him another gift. He would get really embarrassed, but he would come. People in our class would be looking at me weird, and Kirishima would give me a clap on the back. He helped me plan this after all. Denki, Sero, Jiro, and Mina would be teasing me, and Ochaco would be crying. Everyone would look at the gift I gave him, and the personal touch I added to it, and would be in awe.

Later that night when he would come over, he'd be nervous. But I would be confident. I would have practiced what I was going to say over and over, making it perfect. There would be no way he would reject me. I would ask him what he thought of the gift, tell him why I got it, and then confess my feelings for him.

I would tell him that my feeling for him started when we were kids, and that I didn't realize that the excited feeling in my stomach, and nervousness I felt around him, was my bodies way of telling me that I.. that I loved him.

Damn. I love that nerd.

But that's not how things will go now. Everything changed when we went to the mall.. and I set my plans aside and kissed him goodnight.

I'm so angry at myself. He needs to know how I feel, but I don't know how to do it anymore.

I walked into the common room and over to the kitchen. Jiro and Denki were cuddled up on the couch watching a show, Icyhot was at a table eating some Soba, and Eijiro was playing a video game with Sero on another tv in the corner. The rest of the class were either watching the show with Jiro and Denki, eating, watching Kiri and Sero play, or were somewhere else. But a lot of people were in the common space. Thankfully no one was in the kitchen.

It was Icyhot who saw me walk in.

"Good afternoon Bakugo.. what are you up to?" He said with his eyes on his Soba.

As soon as he greeted me Kiri paused the game and turned around on the couch.

"Hey man! We were in the middle of a game! Why'd ya pause it!?" Sero says in protest. He turns around and locks eyes with me for a second before slumping back down on the couch. "Never mind" he mumbles.

At this point Hair for Brains has jumped over the couch and is walking towards me.

"Bakubro!! You're alive! I thought after we ran together at 6:30 this morning that something happened! I haven't seen you since!"

Dammit Shitty hair, you know damn well where I have been, and why I have been in my room.

—flashback to 6:30 am—-

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[Kirishima 6:30 am] You ready to go man! I'm outside your room!

[Kirishima 6:30 am] You're not asleep are ya!! We gotta

Shit

Katsuki almost forgot about his morning run with Kirishima. They go almost every morning.. he can't turn him down.. but he has a bit of a problem.

He has the half naked body of Izuku on his bed and laying on his chest. He had just gotten to sleep a few hours ago and was out cold. He didn't want to wake him.. but also didn't want to leave him.. but he also really needed to run. Unlike Izuku, he went to sleep shortly after he dropped him off at his room around 10. He was well rested.

[Bakugo Bro 6:31 am] be right out. Getting dressed.

Kirishima looked down at his phone and smiled.

Good.

Katsuki unplugged his phone, and slowly made his way out of the bed, thankfully not disturbing the sleeping boy next to him. Izuku's blanket must have fallen off him, because he was on his back and his entire body was exposed. It was too dark to notice last night, but he's only wearing a shirt and boxer briefs. And not an oversized one he normally wears. He must have been too tired to get dressed.

He quickly, but gently put the blanket back over him, and quickly changed into workout clothes and did a quick brush of his teeth making sure to swish extra long with the mouth wash. He didn't want to keep Kirishima waiting any longer than he needed to, so he couldn't brush with the same passion that he normally does.

Grabbing his keys and shoes, he quietly made it out the door. As soon as he was out of the room he very slowly closed his door, and locked it. He didn't want to make any noise this morning.

Kirishima gave him a perplexed look. Bakugo normally didn't take as much care when closing his door in the morning. Never cared about making noise and disturbing others. But today he did.

"YO! You ready to run!" He said with excitement.

"Keep it down!!" Bakugo gave Kirishima a death stare.

"Sorry man, why are we being so quite today?" He whispered and started to make his way to the elevator.

Bakugo gave him a side eye and got into the elevator. "Later, lets get outside."

The walk out to the track was done in silence, which was normal for them. Bakugo wasn't a man of many words first thing in the morning. So Kirishima wasn't bothered.

They normally run 6 miles. On the start of their third mile both boys are warmed up, and Kiri knows it's safe to start talking and asking questions.

"Sooo why were we whispering this morning? You gotta headache or something?"

Bakugo looked at him with a bit of an embarrassed expression. "I can trust you.. right?"

"Of course man! You're my best friend! You know I'll never tell your secrets" he says with his signature sunshiny smile.

"Because I swear to God Eijiro.. if this gets out.." He creates sparks with his palm slightly threatening him with it.

"Okay, Okay, I get it. Jeeze Bakubro, what's up?"

He sighs. "I have a half naked sleeping Deku in my bed."

Thank god Bakugo was looking straight ahead and not at him at that moment. Or he would seen the sadness in Kirishima's eyes. A small pang of jealousy rushed over Kirishima as he processed what he just said.

Wish a small smile, trying not to let his feeling show in his voice he responded simply with "Oh?"

Kirishima has had a crush on Bakugo since the USJ incident. He got the courage to confess to him after they rescued him from the League of Villans. It was how he found out that Bakugo was gay, and had a thing for Midoriya.

—short flashback within a flash back.. INCEPTION!! Lolz—-

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Kiri and Katsuki were in the crowd watching All Might on the big screen fighting All for One. They had gotten temporarily separated from the others. They were still holding hands. Kiri didn't want to lose him again... and Katsuki wasn't letting go either.

"Hey.. Bakugo?" Kiri leans close to his ear.

"Can we ah.. get out of the crowd for a moment?"

"Sure." Katsuki looks down at their hands.. and before he could let go, Kiri is dragging him over to an alley way.

"Oi?! What's with the rush?!" Katsuki spats taking his hand away when they got to the alley.

"S-sorry" Kiri nervously puts one of his hands behind his head.

"So what do you want to talk about? We need find the others."

Kiri takes a deep breath and walks closer to Bakugo and looks him straight in the eyes.

"I..I need to tell you that I like you. You got kidnapped and I was terrified. I was afraid that I wasn't going to see you ever again. If you died tonight... I didn't know what I would do with myself. When we rescued you, and I got you back, I knew that I needed to swallow my doubts, and tell you how I felt about you.. because I didn't want to go another day asking myself why I didn't tell you sooner. Because life goes so fast! One moment we are here, and the next we're not. I really, really like you Bakugo."

Tears were starting to form in his eyes. But he refused to look away. That would be really unmanly.

Katsuki was silent. He didn't say a word for a good 2 minutes. But it felt like much longer.

"Eijiro... I.. Thank you for saving me.. but.. I.. You're my best friend..I don't see you that way."

Kirishima couldn't bare to look at him any longer. The tears and sobs he was choking back started to come out.

"I-is it because.. because I'm a guy? I-I thought.. Y-you... you w-were h-holding my hand.. w-why???!"

Katsuki felt terrible.

"No.. your gender has nothing to do with it Eijiro.." he said in a small voice.

"T-then why!?!" Kirishima was staring to get hysterical.

"I LIKE SOMEONE ELSE OKAY!!?!" That came out a lot angrier and he anticipated.

Kirishima looked at him with a shocked face and was silent. He was stifling his sobs and trying to compose himself before he said his next words.

"It's Midoriya.. isn't it"

Bakugo was silent. So Kirishima spoke again.

"I spend more time than I would like to admit right now, watching you in class. I see the looks that you give him. And the way that you act around him. I've been trying to tell myself for weeks that I was imagining things. But it's him.. isn't it... He's the one that gets to have you.. isn't he?"

"Yes."

There was no way after all that, that Katsuki was going to lie to him. Although he doesn't think of him romantically, he still thinks of him as his best friend. And he doesn't want to destroy that friendship. He doesn't want them to stop being friends.

"Thank you.. I'm going to need some time to process everything.. but.. lets go find the others.."

Eijiro wipes away his tears, and turns around and walks back into the crowd.

It took a few weeks for them to speak again. But eventually, although he knew he couldn't have him as his boyfriend, he could still have him as his best friend.. and they began speaking again.

—-inception flash back over—

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"Hey..Don't be like that Eijiro" they were close, Bakugo could tell that it bothered him. He's not stupid. A slight wave of guilt rushed over him.

"What?? I'm fine.. so.. Midoriya is in your bed?? Did you guys have sex?"

He said in a partially teasing tone. He let his smile return to his face. He was happy for his friend. His ship sailed a long time ago. He knew as soon as Bakugo mentioned wanting to buy that birthday gift for him all those months ago, that he had zero chance left. His best friend was in love. Although he hadn't admitted it to himself yet.. he knew.

"What?!? No!! He couldn't sleep last night.. so I told him he could sleep with me.. that's all".

Kiri laughed. "Hey that's cool man! So you gunna have sex with him??"

"WHY YOU!!" Katsuki let off a little explosion. Causing Kiri to laugh and run faster around the track away from Mr. King Explosion Murder.

——flashback over—-

Katsuki POV

"Ive been busy. Get back to your game Hair for Brains, I want to make lunch."

Today was going to be another long day.