AN: Don't really have much to say about this prompt just that no matter what I brainstormed for this – I always came back to this one idea: camping!
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Day Four: Supernova
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"So, you gonna let me use the shitty pick-up truck or not, Old Hag?" Katsuki storms into his house, duffle bag slung over his left shoulder. He cuts to the chase on his first official start of summer vacation, not wanting to waste any more time than he needs to.
His mom, Mitsuki, was sitting on the couch reading a magazine when she flips the page over and ignores her son's rude entrance. "Is that any way to greet me after being gone a whole semester? You Lil' Shit" she licks the tip of her index finger to flip through another page.
Katsuki groans, dropping his bag to his side as he plops down on the couch opposite of her. "C'mon! We already talked about this," he impatiently reminds, "I asked you and the Uraraka's if…"
He doesn't get the chance to finish his sentence when his mom sets her magazine down and looks him dead in the eyes, "If you and Ochako can ditch our joint family vacation to go camping alone for three whole days" she finishes his sentence for him with a bit of annoyance in her tone at how much of a broken record he's been about it all week.
"Yeah and they agreed, even dad did! But you're the only one acting like you have a major stick up your ass about it" Katsuki pointedly glares at her, annoyed that she's giving him such a hard time to allow him to use the two-seater rust bucket of a truck they currently have.
They were technically car-sitting for his grandparents that drove to the city from the rural countryside to take a plane. Going on their much deserved month long wedding anniversary trip and asking them to make sure to use the truck at least once or twice every three days. They hadn't, leaving the truck to leak oil on the pavement.
When his mom doesn't reply right away, he pushes to gain her approval, "I'll fix the leak myself, check the oil and tires and all that shit. I'll make sure the truck is in top condition to handle the trip" he hates how he's practically begging at this point to be able to take this trip with his girlfriend.
"The truck isn't my concern, what is, is you" Mitsuki eyes him up and down. Her son is not a little boy anymore, he's a young man – tall, with rugged good looks, a healthy physique that she isn't blind to see gains females' attention. She knows her son, he's a good kid. He may give her a headache from time to time but he's never ended up in the back of a cop's car. But she's also seen the way he and Ochako look at each other, sneaking off, thinking no one has noticed when they disappear, to go make out whenever their families have joint vacations together.
"What the fuck!" he nearly jumps out of his seat, "You can't except Ochako and I to keep wanting to take family trips together!" he's at his breaking point now, "I'm seventeen!"
Mitsuki nods taking in his frustrated words. "Yeah you are and Ochako's sixteen. I'm not about to be responsible if my dumbass kid can't keep it in his fuckin' pants! You two out alone in the woods doing who knows what without adult supervision and sharing a tent… shall I go on?"
Katsuki pinches the bridge of his nose, if he breathed any harder, steam would spout out of his nostrils. "Why does everything have to be about unprotected sex with you! We're just going camping, dammit!" he doesn't want to get fired up over this because then he'd lose his argument for sure with his mom.
"Are you and Ochako…" she asks, raising a curious brow to get her implication across.
Katsuki scoffs, trying to keep his cool composure from giving him away, "like hell I'm telling you shit"
As a mother, Mitsuki knows. It's not like she hasn't seen the condoms stashed away in his nightstand. She's hesitant to agree right away. "Let me talk to your dad first when he gets home and then I'll decide if I'll give you the keys or not"
He gives her a hard, "fine" taking his bag and stomping his way upstairs to his abandoned room.
The following day, Katsuki has never felt more grateful to have his dad, Masaru, take his side. His mom was giving him a hard time by being such a concerned parent and secretly having a hard time of letting go. He's seventeen. He's reaching that point where he wants to be able to do his own thing and go wherever he pleases with whomever he wishes to.
"I'm glad that your parents agreed, Katsuki" Ochako's sweet voice pleasantly rings in his ears, sitting right next to his side. He's driving with one hand on the wheel, snaking his other with hers to hold her hand. Lifting their held hand to his lips, he kisses the top of her hand tenderly. "It wasn't fuckin' easy, my mom can be a psycho" he chuckles. He loves his mom dearly and knows where she's coming from truly but sometimes, sometimes she just needs to trust him a bit more, have more faith.
They converse to drown out the static noise coming from the radio. Ochako tells him how she's honestly surprised that it'd be his mom of all people to question the two teens motives. If anything, she was convinced that her own parents would be the harder ones to convince, especially her overprotective dad. But she has a feeling they gave her permission just for the fact that they had recently gifted her a telescope for her last birthday and still hasn't gotten the chance to use it. A camping trip with her boyfriend would be the perfect place to finally see what it was capable of.
After an almost two-hour drive to the Chiba prefecture, they arrive to the campgrounds. Katsuki knows he could've chosen a closer camping area to where they live around the Tokyo area but wanted to put some distance between him and his nagging parents. Setting up doesn't take too long, the only real hassle was pitching the tent and that was all on Ochako.
Fits of giggles take over her body as she collapses right on top of the tent, crushing it with her weight. Katsuki gives her a look, having taken a good thirty minutes to figure out how the hell it needs to be built. "I'm-I'm s-s-sorry!" she guffaws, clasping her hands to her mouth so she doesn't spit-laugh at their misfortune.
"You're lucky you're cute, Angel Face" he rolls his eyes, shooing her off the tent so he can pitch it up again.
The summer setting sun paints itself in hues of pink and orange, cicadas make themselves known with their loud buzzing chirps, the humid air starts to grow chilly as the day steadily grows dark.
Katsuki dumped sturdy pieces of wood on the dirt ground and made a fire while Ochako went around their campgrounds to collect twigs they can use for s'mores – an American camping tradition that All Might had taught them a few days prior to the start of their summer vacation.
She had been bouncing off the walls, excitedly looking forward to buying the ingredients for the sticky treats. At the time, he couldn't pretend to show the same amount of enthusiasm as she, still unsure if they even could go on their planned trip.
Luckily, here they are now.
Ochako brought her own pillow to put on a log, complaining that she didn't want to deal with getting splinters on the back of her legs. Katsuki thought her fears were a bit ridiculous but then again, he wasn't the one wearing short shorts that reached mid-thigh. He was comfortable in his own baggy basketball shorts.
They ready the s'mores, sticking the jumbo squishy marshmallows on the tips of the twigs and wait for them to roast. Ochako had used up all the air in her lungs to blow a powerful burst of air to her first marshmallow, having charred it completely. Frowning, she wipes it on a napkin and determinedly cooks another, and another, and another.
"Wooooow," he drags the word in a drawl, "you really suck at this" he tells her, perfectly toasting his marshmallow a nice golden brown color.
"They're not completely…" she looks down to her fifth burnt marshmallow, "inedible" a disappointed sigh escapes her lips. She doesn't bother to pluck it off from her twig, opting to use another twig instead and see if that'll miraculously make a difference. It doesn't.
"Quit wasting our bag of marshmallows!" he snatches the bag from her side, watching the way her eyes squint in a glare, lips turning pouty. It's more adorable than intimidating to him. "Here" he lifts up a plastic plate he had to his side hidden from her view, stacked with s'mores to offer as a peace treaty for taking the bag away from her.
"You made all these… for me?" her face softens, no longer annoyed at him. She knows that he isn't the biggest fan of sweets and figured that's why she hadn't seen him take a bite out of the completed s'mores. She had only seen him take a small piece of their graham crackers but that's about it.
"Who else are they supposed to be for? The woodland creatures?" he sarcastically says, avoiding her touched chocolate brown eyes. He knows that if he looks at her, he'll start to blush.
Ochako takes the plate being offered to her and sets it to her side on the shared log she's sitting on. She knows that Katsuki knows exactly how much getting to try s'mores meant to her. After struggling to cook them herself, in his sweet silent gesture, he made her an entire plate.
Her eyes light up as she squeals when the warm gooey marshmallow, melted milk chocolate, and the crunch of the graham cracker all combine and tingle her taste buds. "This is amazing! Oh, Katsuki, you gotta try this!" she urges, scooting from her spot to close the gap on his side.
Normally, he'd refuse but the content look on her face is hard to say 'no' to. She keeps her hand extended out as he gently takes hold of her wrist, pulling the treat closer to his mouth and lets her feed him. "Well, what did you think?" she patiently asks, waiting for him to fully swallow down his bite.
"Eh" he shrugs, lips curling into an amused smirk when she rolls her eyes at him. "I'd much rather," he tugs her arm down, bringing her closer to his face, "taste this" he whispers, lips brushing against her own as he closes the gap between them by capturing her lips in a chaste kiss. He can taste the lingering sweetness of the s'mores on her lips.
Pulling away, she sticks her tongue out at him, "good thing you don't like them" she scoots back to her seat to grab another off the plate, "that just means more for me"
He snorts at the comment, "whatever you say, Sweet Cheeks"
An hour later once the stars are visible in the night sky, Katsuki gets up to go unload her telescope from the bed of the truck so they can stargaze. The set up doesn't take too long compared to the struggle of the tent to his relief. He has some knowledge on how to properly adjust the settings so they can get a clear image on the telescope's glass screen.
There was a time when he was actually fascinated with Greek myths and studied up on the constellations just to impress a – at the time, twelve-year-old Ochako with how smart he can be about any subject when she was obsessed with outer space due to her quirk. Space Hero Thirteen might've had an influence on the both of them then and now was a teacher who they've personally gotten to meet and study under.
Ochako softly requests for him to tell her the story of the Andromeda constellation and that of Perseus and Hercules. She loves hearing him explain and pinpoint the locations of the romantic constellations, the myths of warriors, and those that make up the zodiac. He's a feisty Aries and she's a zealous Capricorn. Their own constellations are distances apart and appear at different times of the year. She asks to hear more and he has to think for a second on what other facts he can inform her on about the eighty-eight official constellations that make up the night sky. One constellation that he keeps his eyes out for is Ophiuchus, once he finds it – he shows her as she gasps, trying to picture in her head the image of a man wielding serpents in his bare hands. He tells her that this constellation is opposite of Orion and goes on to list what he can remember of the stars that make up the celestial equator.
By now, it's late into the night, well past an hour that they're used to staying up. Katsuki puts more wood for their fire while Ochako, to his surprise, asks him if they can sleep under the starry skies. He glances over to their tent and agrees, not wanting his mom's exaggerated worry to haunt him if they share a tent. She thanks him with a quick peck to his lips and sets up a bundle of blankets to cushion the back of the truck.
He makes sure that their food is securely packed back inside the truck, fire lit in a strong controlled flame, and goes to jump onto the bed of the truck to lay down next to her. She snuggles up to his side, placing her head against his chest to hear his heart beating. There was just something about hearing the steady rhythm that easily lulls her to sleep but she's currently trying to fight off sleep for a bit longer so they can talk.
"You know you remind me of a Supernova?" she begins, looking up at him with sleepy eyes.
Katsuki could laugh if he weren't slowly slipping to the clutches of sleep, "how so?"
"Because you're the brightest star in my life" she kisses his clothed chest, nuzzling her cheek deeper into his warm body.
"Now I know you're really delirious with sleep" he yawns, instinctively pressing her closer to him.
"Let me be cheesy for once" she lifts herself over him to playfully pinch his free arm.
He gestures for her to go on, mildly curious anyways.
"Thank you" she dramatically coughs to clear her throat and starts over, "as I was saying" she smiles, "Supernova's are kinda like huge majestic fireworks in the sky," she elaborates by shuffling around his side to extend both her arms out, spreading them wide as she can, "like you, they're a grand spectacle that hold so much power in its wonder and shine bright before exploding" she teases.
"You calling me a dead chunk of space rock, Woman?"
"Pfft, what! No!"
Katsuki hums, not believing her for a second, "you do know that a Supernova occurs when a star dies right?"
Ochako nods, "yes but that's not what I'm saying, I'm just saying that with your quirk and personality – you'd totally be a Supernova"
"And they can sometimes leave behind a Black Hole" he gives her a rare wink.
She shakes her head while giggling. It's rare but he can be pretty cheesy in his own way. "Yes, because I'm totally sucked into your orbit"
Ochako will take full responsibility for giving him an opening, allowing him to sneakily tease her this time. "Not yet you're not" he simply replies, avoiding her widened eyes by looking up to the dark starry night.
She's fighting off a vibrant blush, speechless, mentally cursing herself for the innuendo. Both of their parents have trusted them to behave so that hopefully in the future, they'll be allowed to go on trips alone again.
"Hey, did you ever wanna do it in the back of a truck?" he speaks up, putting it out there like an afterthought. Not fully serious but amused all the same by her reactions.
Ochako bites the inside of her cheek hard to stop herself from truthfully commenting. Suddenly, she's not as sleepy as before but forces a yawn to act like she is. "Noooope" she quickly says with a pop on the 'p.' "Oh, look! It's past our bedtime! Goodnight!" she takes out her sleeping mittens out of her pocket and readjusts her position on his side. Cuddling into him, she shakily pats his chest to let him know she's going to bed now.
"You're the one who said I'm like a Supernova" he reminds her, an evident chuckle rumbling in his throat.
Yes, Katsuki is like a Supernova.
Bright, powerful, gorgeous, and wildly unpredictable.
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Done! To be continued.
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