The Date 🌹

This is literal garbage, but it's all I have for now so enjoy I guess.


Kirishima POV


For the first time, I was about to go on a date. With my close friend from middle school.


I hadn't spoken to him since I started going to UA, but about a month ago he texted me and said he wanted to reconnect, which I was really happy about. We were very close back then and he was kind of like my role model back then.


After a month of talking over text and on the phone, he told me that he wanted to talk in person, but not just as friends. He said he wanted it to be a date, just the two of us.


I was nervous when he'd first asked. I'd never been on a date before and I didn't really know what to say, but I decided to trust him and said yes. After all, this would just be one date and I would see afterwards if I wanted to go on another one.


I texted him back and told him that I was in, but I felt weird about it. Something seemed off, but I also didn't want to upset him. He responded almost immediately, telling me how happy he was that I agreed, so I ignored my doubts and decided that I would just go through with it.


We agreed to go out to a nice restaurant for dinner in a week. As each day passed, bringing me closer to the date, I felt myself becoming more and more tired. Like, I wasn't really interested in anything because I'd spent so much time thinking about my feelings and this date that I'd completely drained myself of all energy.


Something was stopping me from enjoying this. Deep in my heart, I knew what it was; I had feelings for someone else. But that someone didn't like me that way and probably never would. It hurt, but I needed to accept reality.


When I first told the Bakusquad, they seemed really excited, especially Mina. She went to the same middle school as me, so she knew the guy I was going out with. She said it would be fun and that I would enjoy it. "This will be great! You're finally gonna get a man!" I smiled and played along as best as I could.


Sero also congratulated me, saying that he was happy for me. Denki seemed a bit surprised because he'd already figured out about my crush on my best friend, but he said that if I was happy then it's all good.


I didn't know if I was happy, but I assumed I'd figure that out eventually.


Bakugou didn't seem to give a shit. He barely even looked up from his phone. That didn't surprise me, but it still hurt. The only reason I told the Bakusquad in the first place was so that he would hear it.


I don't know why I thought he would care. In my head, I imagined him jumping up and saying that I couldn't go out with this guy because it wasn't meant to be. I wanted him to fight with me about it, tell me that he was the right one for me, but nothing happened. He just sat there.


"Bakugou did you hear what I said?" I tried to get some kind of response from him, anything that showed he cared.


"Hm. Good for you."


I walked out of the room and didn't look back, even when I heard Mina chasing after me. I went up to my dorm and locked the door behind me. When I heard knocking on my door, I put my headphones on and played some music on full volume.


Of course, when I shuffled my playlist, the first thing that came on was a sad song. I did my best not to cry, but it didn't work. For some reason, I didn't want to skip the song. I just listened to it and let the sadness take over my whole body.


After I'd listened to a few more songs, I decided that I was finished crying. I also decided that I wouldn't care about Bakugou anymore. I was going to go out on this date and have an awesome time. Then, when I got back, I would tell him about how much fun I had.


If he didn't want to care about me, he was at least going to be jealous of me.


The next morning, when I went downstairs to get breakfast, my usual seat next to Bakugou was open, but I didn't sit in it. Instead, I sat with Midoriya and Todoroki. They looked surprised to have me sitting with them, but the were always welcoming.


During breakfast, I saw Bakugou looking over at me. Nobody sat it my spot, it was still empty. Nobody else wanted to sit there because he was so moody and rude. Well, that wasn't my problem, it was his.


"So, Kirishima, is something wrong? Are you and Kacchan mad at each other?"


I shrugged nonchalantly. "I guess. Whatever."


Todoroki looked at me weirdly. "Why are you acting like you don't care?"


"Because I don't. He can be as grumpy as he wants, it's fine by me. I'm still going to do what I want."


"He may be grumpy, but I don't think he would try to stop you from doing something you want to do. In fact, I think he would do whatever he could to get you what you want. He really cares about you, in a way that he's never cared about anyone before. Maybe you guys just aren't communicating that well and you're both not really listening to each other."


I rolled my eyes. "He's not really the caring type, in case you haven't noticed."


"Kirishima, you're not acting like your normal self. What started this anyways?"


"Well, I got a date and Bakugou decided to be his usual moody self and not give a shit about what makes me happy."


Todoroki, who usually remained calm, almost choked on his water. "You're going on a date with someone? And it's not Bakugou?"


"Why would I want to go out with him?" I said that a bit louder than intended, but it didn't seem like anyone noticed.


Midoriya had his thinking face on. "Ok, I take back what I said, he definitely wants to stop you from doing what you want. He probably doesn't want you to go on this date because he wants you to go out with him."


I scoffed. "Really? And he can't just say that?"


"No."


"Probably not," piped in Todoroki.


I just sighed in annoyance, but Midoriya kept pressing. "Maybe you should just talk with him about how you feel. I know Kacchan can be a bit mean, but he'll listen to what you have to say because you really matter to him."


As I ate the last bite of my breakfast, I stood up. "Thanks for the advice, but let's not pretend he actually cares about me." I put my dishes away and went up to my room to get ready for class.


I thought about my conversation with Midoriya and Todoroki. All I could think about was how rude I was being to them. I didn't know why, but I was just angry. I knew I had to apologize to them, so I decided it would just do it during class.


I thought a bit more about what they said and about this date, that was happening tomorrow. The fact of the matter was that I liked Bakugou as much more than a friend. Even I had to admit that. But, he made no indication that he thought about me the same way. Even as if told him that I was going out with someone else, he had nothing to say but "good for you."


And the way he said it was even worse. It was so cold and nonchalant. Like I was just some 'extra' that wouldn't stop bothering him. I knew he didn't like me in a romantic way, but I thought we were at least friends.


In the back of my mind, there was the slightest bit of hope that Midoriya was right and that he actually was just jealous, but I shook off that thought. Bakugou would never like me that much. I guess that was why I was so angry. I wanted him to like me the way that I liked him, but I knew that it wasn't going to happen and I hated that.


For the rest of the day and the majority of the day after, I ignored Bakugou completely. I didn't want to talk to him, didn't even want to see his face. I mostly just locked myself in my room so that nobody would come near me.


Finally, it was time for me to get ready for my date. Mina insisted that she help me get ready, so I reluctantly let her into my room.


"Kiri, are you okay? You don't seem really excited about this." She was right, of course. I had no desire to go on this date. At first, I planned on making Bakugou jealous, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that he wouldn't care no matter what I told him. "Kiri, if this isn't going to make you happy, don't do it. A relationship should be something that brings you joy."


Hearing her say that made me freeze for a moment. A relationship. I never really thought about it like that. I just thought about it as a single date. It never occurred to me that this was going to be the start of something.


It seemed obvious now that I was looking back, but when I first got that text saying that he wanted to go out with me, I never even considered a relationship being the end goal of that. Somewhere in my stupid little brain, I thought it would just be the one date.


I got a bit nervous, but I'd already agreed to the date, which was in about half an hour. It would be rude to decline now and stand him up, so I didn't really have much of a choice.


I wanted to cry. Again. This whole date situation had made me act so unmanly, but I couldn't help it. Everything about it was making me miserable. I'd ruined things between me and Bakugou, and now to fill that gap I got a date with a guy who I don't really care for? It was hell. I should've declined that invite when I first got it. But no, because of one lousy date, I'd fucked up my relationship with my best friend and was going to be stuck dating someone else.


That was the breaking point. I just started crying, not caring that Mina was standing right there. She wrapped her arms around me and let me cry onto her shoulder for a bit. Thankfully, she didn't ask me to say anything.


After a few minutes she released me from the hug and held me face so that I was looking at her. "Kiri, give me your phone. I'm texting this guy and we're cancelling this date."


I shook my head. "No, I can't do that. It's not fair to him, he hasn't done anything wrong. It'll be fine." She looked at me with doubt, but I just grabbed the outfit that I was going to wear. I also put away my usual hair gel. I almost always had my hair styled up, but I just didn't have the energy to do that today.


Mina gave me one last hug, which I gladly returned. Then, she left me to get changed, which I did.


When I left the dorm, a few of my classmates looked at me and saw my nice outfit, probably wondering where I was going, but none of them said anything.


I walked out and Mina poked her head out her window, waving goodbye to me. "Call me if you need anything!" I waved back at her. As she got further and further from me, I saw her make a phone call and tried to listen in, wondering who she'd be calling so soon after I'd left, but I was too far to hear anything, so I just forgot about it.


The restaurant was about a five minute walk away, but it took me eight minutes to get there because, at least twice, I'd stopped walking and considered turning back. I never did, though, and I eventually made it to the restaurant. The reservation was in his name, is when I got there, I told the woman at the front and she laid me to a table with two menus laid out on it.


"Is he not here yet?"


She shook her head. "Not yet. Would you like a drink while you wait?"


I just asked her for a glass of water and sat down, waiting. She brought me my water and I just waited some more.


I'd finished about half of my water and he still hadn't shown up. I could see people looking at me with pity, but I tired to ignore them. I was sure that there was a perfectly reasonable explanation for him being late.


I looked at my menu and tried to hide my face. Even the waitress who'd given me the water stared at me. I finished my water and she came back, offering me another one, which I accepted.


After about 25 minutes of sitting there by myself, I put my head in my hands and looked down at the floor. After all my worrying about doing the right thing and being fair to him, he'd stood me up and every person in the restaurant knew it. For the second time today, I felt tears coming to my eyes as I silently cursed at myself for being so stupid.


Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a figure coming towards me. I assumed it was the waitress, so I kept my head down, not wanting to look at her, but the figure got closer and sat down on the other seat at the table.


I was about to start screaming, until I looked up. It wasn't my date. It was Bakugou.


"Oi, do you know if this penne alfredo shit is any good? I'm not spending money if it tastes like crap."


"Bakugou? I don't understand, what are you doing here?"


"Your 'date' stood you up? Bit of a dick if you ask me. But, based on what I hear, rude narcissistic assholes are kind of your type."


I laughed a little bit. "I guess so. Seriously though, why are you here? I didn't even tell you where my date was?"


He shrugged a bit. "Mina called me, said she was worried about this date. Although, I at least expected the dude to show up and make you miserable, but he opted to go with just the misery."


"Okay, but why did you actually show up? Sure, Mina told you I was upset, but why did you actually follow me all the way here just to make sure I was okay?"


"Because, dipshit, I actually care about you. Deku told me about your conversation at breakfast yesterday, how you think I don't care about you. Well, I do. Enough to shut up and let myself be unhappy when you said you were going on a date with some other guy because it was supposed to make you happy."


I reached across the table and held his hand, not caring who might see. He continued. "I've been trying to be a better person for you and I figured ruining the date you seemed excited for was really selfish, so I did my best to pretend that I didn't care. I wanted to pretend that I was happy about it, but I couldn't do that."


The waitress came back to take our order and I saw her glaring at Bakugou, which prompted him to glare back. "Uh, this sign the guy that I was expecting, he didn't stand me up."


She looked back to him and bowed apologetically. "Sorry, my mistake. So, what can I get for the two of you?"


We ordered something to eat and the waitress left us alone again. "Bakugou, I owe you an apology."


"Huh? What for?"


"I've been ignoring you for no reason. And if Midoriya told you about our conversation, then you know that I said some rude things about you and I'm sorry. It's just that I thought you didn't care and when I told you I was going on a date I was hoping you'd tell me not to."


He looked at me softly and lovingly. He wasn't making any ugly faces, no yelling or screaming, this was the real Bakugou that I was looking at and he was so, so perfect. "Kirishima, if I think something will make you happy, no matter how miserable it makes me, I will let you do it. Every time. Shit, I'll even help you, but don't ever think that I don't care about you, got it? I've never cared about anyone like this. You mean a lot to me and I'll always have your back."


He brought my hand up and laid a gentle kiss on the back of it. His face was flushed bright red and, though I couldn't see my own face, I knew it looked about the same colour as my hair.


When I walked into that restaurant, I was expecting the worst date ever, but instead, I got the best date I could've hoped for. Bakugou was incredible company and he had me smiling the entire time we were there, which was about an hour and a half.


When it was finally time to go, I grabbed my wallet to pay for the food, but he stopped me. "Bakugou, this was supposed to be my date, you don't have to pay for it."


"Well, your date was supposed to pay for you, so that's what I'm doing."


He paid for the food and I made a mental note of how much my food costed so I could pay him back. We walked out of the restaurant and down the street, not saying anything.


I paused for a moment, debating whether or not I wanted to break the silence. "So, does this make you my date?" It was a long shot, but I had hope this time.


I got no answer, and his back was to me, so I couldn't see his face, but I saw his ears turning a bit red. I waited patiently for an answer, my hands shaking from the nerves. "Bakug-"


He cut me off by holding my face in his hands and kissing me. Before I could even think, my arms had snaked their way around his waist, pulling him closer as if it was what they were made for. I kissed him back, tilting my head a bit more to deepen the kiss.


I knew we were in the middle of the street and there had to be at least one person who was staring, but it didn't occur to me in the moment. All I could focus on was how soft his lips were as they glided against mine.


We pulled away breathing heavily and holding onto each other. I gave him one last quick peck on the lips before he said, "you're damn right I'm your date."


Hand in hand, we walked back to UA, never once thinking of letting go. Even as we got back to the dorm, my fingers were intertwined with his.


"Ooh, looks like you had a fun date!" Mina was sitting on a chair in the common room, staring at us.


"Shut it raccoon eyes!"


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Word count: 3311
I have no idea what I was doing when I wrote this, but meh, they kissed and that's what you're all here for.

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