As the sun slowly started going down, they made their way down the mountain and through the forest. Already exhausted Uraraka was glad that she had decided to pack a hoodie since with the sun slowly disappearing so did its warmth. Watching the guys up ahead she could feel her cheeks warm up again and frowned. Every time she thought about what had happened earlier, she would get this weird feeling in her stomach like butterflies.
"Shouldn't we start looking for a place to stop for the night?" Mina yawned.
"Yeah, I'm with Mina. It is getting late after all." Uraraka says rubbing her eyes.
"I think Bakugo said that a little further ahead was a good place to rest." Kirishima yelled over his shoulder watching Bakugo checking his watch every so often to make sure they were on the right path.
Half an hour later they came upon a small clearing in the forest before Bakugo took off his backpack and rolled his shoulders. "This should do."
"Nice!" Kirishima says looking at their surroundings.
"Alright help me get this shit unpacked." Bakugo says as he starts to remove one of the tents he was carrying.
"Alright I'm on it."
Letting out a sigh of relief the girls walk over to the two while scanning their surroundings "Not bad." Mina grins before placing their bags down. "Do you mind? We will be right back."
Glancing up for a second Kirishima just grins "No worries. Go on. We got this."
"Thanks." Mina turns around and starts making her way into the forest.
Uraraka nervously rubs her arm taking a peek at Bakugo who was kneeling down focused on getting the tents up and not really caring what's going on.
"Come on Ochaco!" Mina yells over her shoulder. Biting her lip, she quickly stares at her feet for a second before dismissively shaking her head and running to catch up with Mina not realizing Bakugo watching her run off from the corner of his eye before refocusing silently on his work.
Clearing his throat Kirishima casually stretches his arms above his head grinning. "So…. this is a nice place you found bro."
Rolling his eyes Bakugo just continued inserting the tent poles through the frame not bothering to reply. Looking down at his best friend Kirishima just frowns for a minute before helping to raise the tent. After a few more minutes of silence Kirishima just groans frustratingly standing up "Alright dude talk to me."
Not bothering to look up Bakugo just continues hammering the spikes into the ground with a rock "Tch, talk about what?"
"Well…how about what happened earlier."
"What the hell are you talking about? We got the first flags, didn't we?"
"Yeah but-"
Having enough Bakugo abruptly stood up staring him straight in the eye with a stern face. "Kirishima! Let's focus on getting this shit done, ok?"
Frowning he slowly watches Bakugo before nodding his head "Alright." Kneeling down he continues to place the spikes into the ground "So, what do you think the other teams are doing?"
Shrugging his shoulders Bakugo scowls "Who the fuck knows. Not like I care as long as we make it back first."
Chuckling Kirishima shakes his head "right."
Looking towards the red head Bakugo hesitantly opens his mouth but immediately closes it scoffing. "Anyways let's finish up the other tent already." Walking over to unpack the other tent.
"Hey guys we're back!" Mina says skipping over.
"Tch, took you long enough."
"Yeah, sorry about that. But we did gather some things for a fire." Uraraka smiled as both girls lifted their arms to show what they found.
"Great! Nice thinking girls. Wanna help us finish this one." Kirishima points to where Bakugo was already working on the second tent.
"Sure! What you need help with?" Mina says standing next to them as Kirishima explains to her what to do.
X
While they were finishing building the tent Uraraka in the meantime decided to work on making the fire for everyone. After trying and failing for a few minutes she started getting frustrated and let out a small growl. Another few minutes went by before she saw a small flame appear and proudly grinning from ear to ear before it slowly started fading away along with her smile. "Noooo" she pouted. "Not again…come back."
"Didn't anyone ever teach you how to make a damn fire round-face?" she hears Bakugo huff before kneeling next to her lifting an amused eyebrow.
Feeling annoyed and embarrassed she quickly looks the other way puffing out her cheek. "Not really."
Feeling the corners of his mouth twitch he discreetly covers it by scratching his cheek and looking down. Hearing him slowly exhaling she looks over watching as he lifts his palm up and sees small sparks appear. "Woah…"
Mesmerized by the small firework like display she lets out a small giggle. As she continues watching in amazement, not realizing the giant smile on her face nor noticing Bakugos soft gaze on her. Turning his palm facing the ground he lets off a tiny explosion. Immediately, feeling the warmth of the fire, she smiles at him as he stands up dusting himself off and walking back to the others.
She sat there for a little while longer before deciding to get up and get their bags into the girls' tent. A few minutes later Mina walked in. "Hey Ochaco! The guys are about to start on dinner."
"Oh ok. Do they need any help?"
"Nah," Mina waved off "I wouldn't bother. You know how Bakugo can be when his cooking." Grinning Uraraka nodded.
"Whatcha doing anyways?"
"Oh, I was just getting ready for the night and decided to do a little bit of reading." she said as she pulled out a book from her bag while something fell out.
Picking it up Mina examined the white envelope before handing it to her. "What's this?"
Curiously looking at what Mina was holding she smiled "Oh wow I completely forgot about this. It's from a friend back home."
"OH?" Mina lifted a curious brow waiting for her to continue.
"Yeah." She stared fondly at the envelope before slowly opening it. Reaching in, she pulled out what looked like an old picture. It was of a little brown-haired girl with big brown eyes and big puffy cheeks standing next to a little boy with black hair and ocean blue eyes both smiling at the camera as the little girl stood on her tip toes with her arms around his neck.
"Oh, that's adorable! Who is that?" Mina smiled.
Laughing Uraraka placed her hand over her mouth "Oh that was my friend Ichiro and I when we were little kids."
"Ichiro?"
"Yeah, my childhood friend from back home." Urarakas smile grew. "I can't believe he still had this."
"That's sweet." Minas' grin grew as she stood up. "Alright I'm going to try and attempt cooking with the guys while you read your little love letter. Just don't blame me if the forest burns down." She says while walking away.
Letting out a small chuckle she shakes her head as Mina pokes her head back inside "you can fill me in later!" With that she winks and disappears.
Sitting down next to her bag she unfolds the letter and starts reading it. After a few minutes her eyes widen in shock as her hands tremble. Feeling her eyes watering she covers her mouth with one hand. "Oh…"
X
"Alright almost done." Bakugo wipes his hands on a towel as he proudly looks at the steaming pot.
"Yay! I can't wait until it's done, I'm starving." Mina pouts.
"Of course you are raccoon eyes you've been practically drooling over there this whole damn time."
"Well, I can't help that it smells so good."
Chuckling while looking around Kirishima looks at Mina. "Uh hey where's Uraraka?"
Wiping the drool from her mouth while not losing eye contact with the food she points towards the tent "Oh she's still in our tent reading some love letter she got."
Lifting an eyebrow Kirishima nervously laughs "Eh…love letter?"
"Yeah. It's really cute."
Squinting his eye, Kirishima discreetly looks at the blond trying to catch his reaction, but he just calmly continued to stir the food letting his hair fall over his eyes.
"You sure that's what it was?"
Nodding Mina smiles "Definitely."
Just then Uraraka emerges from their tent not bothering to make eye contact with anyone as she quickly walks into the forest.
"Oh, hey Ochaco we were just talking-" Mina cuts herself off watching as Uraraka disappears while she hurriedly runs after her. "Hey Ochaco hang on!"
Stopping, Uraraka takes a deep breath before turning around showing her usual smile. "Oh, hey Mina. What's up?"
Studying her for a minute Mina just walks up to her worriedly "Everything ok?"
Sheepishly scratching the back of her head, she just chuckles "Yeah of course why wouldn't it be?"
"I don't know you just seemed upset."
"Oh no I'm fine. It's just I really have to use the bathroom and couldn't hold it anymore." She giggles.
"Oh ok. Did you look at the letter?"
Shaking her head "No... not really but I'll get around to it." She smiles.
Grinning back Mina hugs her "Ok well let me know if you need anything. The food is almost done."
"Alright I'll be right there." With that Mina makes her way back to their campsite.
Uraraka slowly exhales before sitting down on a large rock. Closing her eyes, she feels a tear drop down her cheek before wiping it away. Taking a deep breath, she continues to watch the night sky.
X
Back at the campsite Mina walks back up to the guys. "Hey so Ochaco will be back in a minute."
"Everything ok?" Kirishima asks concerned.
"Yeah, she's fine." Mina says not looking convinced before looking at Kirishima. "So, when will the food be done?"
"I don't know. Hey Bakugo! When is the food done?" He looks over seeing him with his hands in his pockets looking at the clouds before walking back towards the pot.
"It's ready." He mumbles as he stirs it one more time holding his hand up. "Alright hand me those bowls."
Mina happily skips over to him with her bowl already in hand. Laughing Kirishima walks up with his own standing next to the blond.
"Hey! No cutting! Get back in line!" Mina nudges him playfully. Making sure Kirishima stands behind her.
Rolling his eyes Bakugo starts filling Minas' bowl just as Uraraka comes back.
"Hey! Right on time. Come grab a bowl Uraraka the foods done." Kirishima grins.
"Oh, it's ok I'm fine Kirishima."
Waving his free hand towards them "Nonsense there's plenty, plus it's Bakugos cooking."
She couldn't deny how great of a cook he was, so she grabbed a bowl before walking towards them.
"Oh, and where in the hell did you get another bowl from?!" Bakugo rolls his eyes annoyed as Mina smiles sheepishly waiting for him to fill up her second bowl.
"Oh, come on I'm hungry! Feed me oh fearless leader!"
"DIDN'T YOUR MOM TEACH YOU TO EAT YOUR DAMN FOOD FIRST BEFORE ASKING FOR MORE!"
"Fine…but I will have more." She stares daggers at him before walking to sit by the fire.
Kirishima lets out a small laugh before giving Bakugo his bowl. Watching Kirishima fondly stare after Mina, Bakugo lifts skeptical eyebrow at him "Really?
Kirishima just shrugs grinning "Heck yeah." Before making his way to sit by the fire.
Watching Kirishima jogging away like a little kid holding his bowl. Uraraka looks back at Bakugo. "What was that about?"
"Nothing. He's just being an idiot as usual." He mumbles as she gives him her bowl. Noticing her nervously playing with her finger pads he lifts his chin up looking at her. "You alright?"
Startled she looks up at him "Yeah I'm fine just a little tired."
Giving her a dubious look, he didn't say anything else just handed her back the bowl.
"Thanks for the food." She smiled at him as he nodded. "Aren't you going to eat?"
"In a minute-" he starts but was cut off by her.
"Here hold this for a second." She places her bowl back in his hand and walks off grabbing another bowl and walking back towards him. Taking her bowl back she hands him his. "Here."
Looking down at his hand he stares back at her widening his eyes for a second before scowling "Tch." Realizing she was still standing there while he filled his bowl, he started getting annoyed. "What the hell are you waiting for now?"
Blinking up at him she just grinned. "You."
"HAH?!"
"I'm waiting for you to finish so we can all eat together."
"Tch. Well, no one asked you to idiot." He mumbled as he made his way next to Kirishima as everyone started eating except for Uraraka.
"What the hell's wrong now?"
"No-Nothing it's just…is this spicy?" she asked fidgeting in her seat.
"No, it's not fuckin spicy. Why the hell would I make it spicy round-face?"
"W-well…it's just that…I know you usually like eating spicy stuff…" she places her hair behind her ear.
"That is true." Kirishima says with a mouth full of food while Mina grins.
Running his hand through his hair he just scoffs "Just eat the damn thing or stave I don't fuckin care."
Taking a bite her eyes widen "Oh wow it's sooo yummy!"
Chuckling Mina looks at Kirishima before finishing off her bowl and making her way to get more.
"I fuckin told you." Bakugo mumbles before eating.
"Alright guys! What say we continued our little game from before?"
"Really?" Kirishima groans.
"Why you're not up for it anymore?" Mina asks sticking her tongue out.
"No. No it's not that it's just…well what about Bakugo? He's not playing!" Kirishima points out.
"HA! and I'm not going to shitty hair."
"Well why not?' he asked.
"Because I don't want to."
"Lame!" Mina pouts
Smirking at him Uraraka just shrugs "It's ok guys if he doesn't want to play then he doesn't have to."
"Tch" scowling he just continues eating.
"I don't blame him if he didn't want to. I mean…it's not like there would be any other reason, right?"
Dropping his spoon he crosses his arms "And what the hell's that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing at all. Like I said…it's fine if you don't want to play Bakugo. Nobody expects you to anyways…"
"Watch it round-face." narrowing his eyes dangerously at her.
"And why would you think that is Ochaco?" Mina grins
"Well, I don't know…I wouldn't really use the word...scared…but-"
Standing up now "SCARED?! WHAT THE FUCK ARE TALKING ABOUT SCARED. I'LL FUCKIN ANSWER ANY DAMN QUESTIONS YOU THROW AT ME!"
"That is also true." Kirishima points with his spoon before eating more.
"Ok than its settled Bakugo will play too." Mina jumps in her seat clapping her hands.
Bakugo just glares at her while Uraraka just smiles innocently at him. "What?
