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Consistency is needed in this time of his life. With the impactful first year and busy second year, consistency is the only thing keeping Eijirou sane before he’s inevitably tossed into Working Hero World.
With a simple schedule like Train, eat, school, occasional internship, and goofing around until he passes out, there’s no reason to mess up a mostly perfect schedule.
Expect here he is, fucking up his schedule by hiding his room like a coward. Again. For the third day in the row. Eijirou didn’t have much sanity left anyways.
He doesn’t know what time it is but based on these past few days, it’s most likely a few minutes before his alarm goes off at 5am.
He rolls over to grab his phone, lightly tapping the smartphone to see the time he had left to ponder the thoughts that he avoided during school.
‘4:53’ flashes on his face as he looked at his home screen. It was a picture of the Bakusquad hanging out with their current recruitment, Uraraka. As much as Bakugou hated the name when Ashido and Kaminari mentioned last year... it just sorta stuck. Sorta like how Uraraka is stuck to the Bakusquad now.
She was always close to Ashido and vibed enough with Bakugou to join the group in their shenanigans. She finally accepted the invitations to join the group at the beginning of year 3.
Apparently through the grape creature (where does he get his sources from?!) that Uraraka isn’t on good terms with Midoriya AND Iida? Eijirou doesn’t like to believe gossip spreaded by Mineta but the obvious sad glances by Midoriya and Iida proves that there’s some truth to the short boy’s whisper.
Though Eijirou liked to believe that Uraraka just couldn’t get enough of the group.
The squad celebrated the new edition by hanging out in Bakugou’s room where this picture took place. It’s was a surprise selfie picture from Kaminari. While his face taking up half of the screen, the other half is filled with everyone else laughing at the typical Bakurage.
The screen dimmed slightly and before Eijirou realized what he was doing, he had unlocked his phone and went into the gallery to gaze at the picture without the numbers getting in the way.
Eijirou thought that he kept the picture on his home screen to look at Bakugou’s face. There’s something hilarious yet mesmerizing about Bakugou’s face before he fully goes into Bakurage. Whether it be his thick dark eyebrows scrunches up or how he chews on his bottom lip before bursting out in his usually aggressive language…
It’s no wonder he tries to push Bakugou into his rage fit daily. Though it doesn’t explain Kaminari’s reasoning. But Eijirou doesn’t try to think too hard about that…
Eijirou groaned and locked his phone. Gentle place somewhere along the bed, he lay his head against his hands and stared at his ceiling.
Somewhere between winter break 2 years ago to Bakugou’s 18th birthday, Eijirou slammed head first into his feelings for the explosive porcupine. And instead of freaking out about his feelings like any sane person who has a crush on their best friend would, he just went with the flow.
Eijirou didn’t see a harm with it. It wasn’t like he was actually going to ask Bakugou out. This is the same Bakugou who has declared, on multiple occasions, that relationships are a ‘shitty distraction from his goal of being number 1 hero’. Eijirou can see his reasoning even though the wording was kind of harsh...
Besides these feelings motivate him enough to get up to train with that angry ball of fire. Nothing like ignoring explosive feelings by blocking literal explosions. It certainly didn’t have anything to do with the gleam in Bakugou’s eye that excites him or the calm collected side that others hardly get to experience. It especially didn’t--
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ
Eijirou looked at his phone to stop the alarm, realizing now that it’s 5:10.
‘Strange…’ he thought as he began to lift himself up. ‘It’s usually set to 5am.’
Enough time to laze around in the bed before barely making it to his training session with Bakugou. And Uraraka.
She joined their training session around the start of the school year. In which she completely threw off their dynamic and in a great- no amazing way. Uraraka was able to provide what each boy felt their training sessions was lacking.
For Bakugou, he was missing an extra challenge. It seemed like she constantly surprise the blond with new techniques and sneak attacks. Coupled with Eijirou, they have been actually able to win some of their sparring sessions against the explosive teen.
Bakugou was right when he states that there’s nothing fragile about her. Her round sparkling eyes can get downright scary when she’s determined, it sometimes rival Bakugou’s intense look when he fights. Her chubby cheeks, while cute, are one of her greatest strengths. Although she was squishy, there was a firmness that even Eijirou can attest to. He’s been slammed to the ground enough times by her in their no quirks session. She use her cuteness as a way to undermine her opponents before sneaking in her final blow. Eijirou puts his focusing on her strengths and combat abilities to aid him in ignoring his feelings for the spikey haired teen.
The atmosphere has gotten a lot more lively with her there. Conversation tends to flow well with Uraraka around. Not that he had trouble speaking with Bakugou (even when the teen isn’t in the mood to chat)! It’s just easier when the other person is just as chatty as he is. Bonus points when he’s not (the only one) being yelled at 5am by the explosive teen.
Yep, that’s the only reason way she makes their sparring sessions amazing. Only to distract him from Bakugou as well as be a good friend. And a good sparring partner when Bakugou is in his moods.
Eijirou glanced back at his home screen and scrolling through his gallery again. There’s loads of photo with Bakugou raging that he could pick as the face to wake up to in the morning. But this is the only picture of her in his phone.
PING!
And speak of the angel, Eijirou received a message from Uraraka.
Ura: ‘Will u be joining us?’ *sent at 5:17*
Maybe if he didn’t reply, he could fake that he had simply overslept and didn’t hear his alarm go off.
Me: ‘Ill be running kinda late’
Me: ‘yall can start without me!’
And… it sent. He sent this to her. Not even a whole minute later.
Apparently his guilt had other things in mind. Why else would he text her back immediately… probably because he lost his sanity after breaking his schedule.
Yeah, that explains it.
Eijirou glared at the offending hand before casting the phone away as he began to prepare himself. Although he’s unsure if he’s preparing himself for training, Bakugou, or the awkwardness that’s going to happen as he gets there. Maybe preparing for all three is better.
He had prepared himself for a brawl. He made sure to provide multiple awkward excuses as to why he didn’t attend the previous days. But what he stumbled into wasn’t what he was expecting at all.
It seemed like they were waiting around for him, which made his heart flutter a little faster than usual. And instead of informing them that he was here so that they can begin the training, he decided to watch them for a bit.
‘Only to see how they interact without him in the between,’ Eijirou tried to convince himself. Yeah, that’s the only reason for this borderline creepy observation.
They were on the floor, facing away from him. Shoulders touching, it seems like they were watching a video on Bakugou’s phone. Which doesn’t seem out of the ordinary, Kaminari tends to send her memes that she can’t view on her own phone. So she usually looks at them for Eijirou’s phone. It’s a pleasant sight to see her chocolate eyes shine up at the inside jokes from the quick video.
After a few seconds, she tapped Bakugou on the shoulder and he paused the video. As soon as he turned his head in her direction, she leaned in quickly and gave him a peck on the lips.
On the lips…
Uraraka kissed Bakugou
on the lips…
Oh.
Well, that answered his question on how they interact without him in the way…
But that didn’t stop the nausea from building up in his stomach like it did whenever Uraraka floats him. He sorta wish she would touch him now, only so that he could float off of the scene he infringed upon.
The blond gave Uraraka a smile before turning back to the phone. Bakugou didn’t even act shocked that she had kissed him. It was like they had done this multiple times.
Did this happen when he decided to skip on the previous sessions? Or has the been happening behind the scene the whole time and Eijirou has been too deep into his crush that he hasn’t been paying attention?
Bakugou told Eijirou that he didn’t plan on having romance distracting him from being number 1. And Eijirou believed it!
To be completely truthful, Eijirou had suspected that Bakugou was aromantic or at least on the ace spectrum. The genuine look of content on Bakugou’s face convince Eijirou that the blond just might not be Aromantic.
He shouldn’t had witness this scene. It was supposed to be a private moment between those two and Eijirou was intruding on it. He probably has been since she joined in on their training session…
This was probably what he was avoiding. Maybe he subconsciously knew this was happening and his brain tried to spare him for this scene. He should just walk away now and save himself from anymore hurt. So Eijirou does the exact opposite and started walking towards them.
Maybe he’s feeling remorseful for skipping training or it could even be the need to confront them on why they felt the need to hide this from him.
“Kiri, I know you said that you wanted us to go on without you…” Uraraka started once she realized that he was nearby. Bakugou had already put his phone up and began to pick himself up off the ground. “But I convinced Bakugou that we couldn’t start without you!”
That kiss suggest otherwise…
“If I had known this was the make out spot, I woulda came a lot later.” Teasing came easy for Eijirou. So it made sense for him to focus on teasing…
The alternative was too painful to deal with outside his room.
Uraraka face started to turn red and started flailing her arms, “Um, wh-what?? I don’t… like? Huh?!”
It’s clear that she’s the only one who’s concerned about it because Bakugou didn’t respond to the taunt. “There’s no time to focus on distractions. We’ve got training to do.”
And with that, Bakugou rush to Eijirou with a right hook. Instinctively, he harden his arm to block the blow.
Yeah, sparring session was manageable.
Something had to be.