28th Oct : Fallling in Love
At first it was just petals of red lilies. Even so, Bakugou knew it was not a matter to take lightly of.
Passionate love and desire. Those were the feelings he had for Kirishima Eijirou, one of the few friends that he acknowledged in his life. Those feelings gave him joy, comfort, and butterflies in his stomach. The best thing that ever happened to him, yet also the worst. Bakugou felt as if his world's crumbling when he was diagnosed with something called a "Hanahaki" disease.
Soon, he started coughing up smaller, also red petals of primroses along with the lilies. Bakugou knew it was critical already.
Long-lasting love and desperation. He had fallen in love too deeply, it was almost beyond salvation. He then grew greedy. Enduring his unfulfilled desire and pain in the chest, he tried to fight the disease, yet refusing to accept medical treatments. He wanted to live. He wanted to achieve his dream. But he didn't want to forever lose his feelings for Kirishima. He didn't want to leave Kirishima's side.
Of all people, Midoriya Izuku, his childhood friend was the only one to be able to blow his cover despite Bakugou's excessive effort in hiding about the disease. He tried hard to convince Bakugou and somehow managed to force him into picking his choice.
"Kacchan… are you really fine with this?"
"Shut up, nerd. Weren't you the one who told me to pick? I'll get this fucking surgery done quickly and become the number one hero… that dumbass shitty hair deserves better than me."
Midoriya took a deep breath and exhaled. "Actually, Kacchan, I told Kirishima-kun about you."
Bakugou's red orbs widened in surprise. He stood up from his wheelchair so fast that he almost stumbled. Raising his raspy voice—due to the frequent coughing. He grabbed Midoriya's collar, but wasn't as intimidating as he usually is with his now weakened body. "DEKU! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? WHAT HAVE YOU FUCKING DONE? WHY DO YOU ALWAYS DO THIS? DO YOU ENJOY MOCKING ME THAT MUCH, ASSHOLE?!"
"No, Kacchan! Calm down, that's not my intention!"
"…why the hell do you have to tell me now?"
A nurse came in the waiting room and took Bakugou to the operation room right after that. They couldn't finish their conversations, but it didn't matter. Various things then went through Bakugou's mind. Starting from the first time he met Kirishima, how they fought together during the cavalry battle at the sport festival, the times they spend studying together, the moment he held Kirishima's hand in the Kamino incident, and so on.
"I want to see Kirishima."
In that instant, Bakugou threw away all his reasoning, determination, ambition, and everything that was shackling him. He stood up, left his wheelchair again and hastily ran down the hallway, the stairs, while constantly leaving behind red petals with every fit of cough along his way. His chest was pounding really hard, he started feeling suffocated, but it didn't stop his feet from running.
Bakugou finally came to a halt when he saw a certain redhead dashing towards him from the opposite direction.
"Bakugou!"
"Kiri… shima?" He could feel his cheeks heating up, from all the running and the bliss he felt for seeing the one he'd been longing for.
"Don't forget about me! And I don't want to forget about you either, Bakugou! I'm sorry for being an idiot all these time. Sorry for making you suffer. That's why, stop shouldering everything by yourself! From now on, share it with me, let's face it together! Because I love you!"
Bakugou's tears, which had dried up since quite some time ago, started flowing again and dampening his cheeks. Gradually, the pain in his chest withered away. The amount of red petals of lilies and primroses that'd been filling Bakugou's room slowly decreased until they're completely gone.
Well? First, I did my best. Then screw word counts. And now, screw drabbles lmao
This ended up so long because i cannot. It became a short fic XD
Btw if you guys don't know what hanahaki disease is, it's an AU frequently used in fanworks uhh something like Omegaverse AU?
I had always wanted to try writing stuff like this but I can't write no shit of nsfw so I gave up on omegaverse lol
Then this idea struck me this morning. I thought it's a perfect chance for my birthday.
So yeahh happy birthday me!
I read various theories about this AU but I didn't find any that says one could cough up more than 1 kind of flower but I had a hard time deciding which flower I should choose for KiriBaku so I made up the hc haha
Thanks for reading~