(Warnings: cursing and talks of blood)

SHINKAMI

Denki Kaminari never quite understood his fascination with Hitoshi Shinsou. He never quite understood why he was so mysterious and intriguing either. There was something drawing him to the other boy like a fishing line brings in the fish it's baited.

Shinsou didn't have many friends. He hung out with two people, Tokoyami and Jirou (who Kaminari had a major crush on for two years in middle school). Some days it was three when Jirou brought her girlfriend Momo to hang out with them in the mornings and at lunch time. Other than that, Shinsou was alone most of the time.

People had tried to become his friends, but then rumors about him started going around, and then people stopped trying. His friend group didn't like Shinsou for some reason. He apparently called Bakugou out for something, and no one in his group had liked him since- besides him of course.

He's never told anyone about his enthrallment with Shinsou. Well, no one besides his best friend, Sero. Kaminari tells everything to his best friend, and this was no exception either. Sero had admitted to being confused by the man himself, but he was not fascinated with him like his friend was.

Shinsou had come to their school a year prier in tenth grade, coming in late to first period on the first day. He wore slightly ragged clothing- his jeans had many holes that were not purposefully put there-, but it looked good on him. It fit his certain aesthetic that Kaminari could only assume was "bad boy who doesn't give a fuck" kind of aesthetic. It was always awing to look at though.

At first, Kaminari thought his fascination with the rugged boy was purely that- fascination. But, as time went on, it turned to something more- something that was bound to happen with him.

His fascination turned into a crush.

When Kaminari realized this on a rainy, Friday afternoon in their eleventh year of school when he saw Shinsou changing in the locker rooms, he realized he was majorly fucked. So, who did he go to? Sero.

"I think I'm majorly fucked."

Sero set down his fork which he was using to eat his breakfast and looked at his friend quizzically. "What happened?"

Kaminari went to Sero's house after school and Friday and spent the night. They woke up and decided to have breakfast at one in the afternoon, and this is how the conversation started.

Kamainari sighs, poking at his eggs with his fork. "I kinda figured out yesterday that I might... or might not... like Shinsou."

Sero raises a brow and laughs. "Well... it was kinda obvious, but since you haven't really talked about him in awhile I thought you being intrigued with him was over... guess not. Quite the opposite really," Sero jokes, chuckling a little as well.

Kaminari groans in return. "This is no time to be laughing, Sero!" He whines. "This is a big issue for me."

"Kami, honestly, I think you should just do what you've wanted to do for over a year now." When the blonde beacons for his friend to go on, Sero sighs. "Go and talk to him."

Denki lets out a hearty laugh at that. "That's funny. If our friends find out I'm trying to get close to him, Bakugou will kill me."

"No he won't."

Denki started shaking his head as soon as "no" left his best friend's lips. "Yes, he will."

"Denki, what Shinsou told him was over a year ago. Bakugou probably doesn't even remember him at all. He would forget his own mother's name if she wasn't around him all the time."

"Yeah... but like... I don't want anyone to be mad at me. And who's to say Shinsou will even be my friend? Much less my boyfriend."

Sero sighs and walks around the table to hug his best friend, who returns it. "Listen, if this will make you happy, then the others will want that for you. Sure, Bakugou might be a little grumpy about it, but he wants you to be happy. I don't know if Shinsou would be your friend, but you're friends with Jirou, so maybe ask if you can hang out with her in the mornings and get close to Shinsou."

"Yeah... Yeah! I can do that! Once Monday comes I'll talk to him officially!"

But alas, when Monday did come, Kaminari did not do as he said he would. He was going to go up to Jirou to ask if he could hang out, but Shinsou went up to her as he was walking up to her, and so he ran. He ran far away from them.

"What do you mean you ran away?"

"Sero, I mean I literally ran away from the situation. You could hear my keychains clink together as I ran."

Sero snorts as he looks at his friend. "Well, I guess you'll have to try at lunch."

Oh, Kaminari did try again lunch. Key word: try. He failed yet again, but this time he was actually able to go up to them. He... did talk... but it was a disaster.

He was going to offer Jirou an apple, saying he didn't want it anymore. That plan failed though. He started walking over to them confidently, but once he was about seven feet away he stopped. Jirou looked over at him, and soon everyone else did too. Kaminari's eyes went wide and he screamed "Apple!" and chucked the fruit at Shinsou, hitting him in the nose.

Denki's eyes went wider, and so did everyone else's at the table. He quickly ran over to him apologizing over and over, grabbing napkins to wipe up the blood streaming from his nose.

"Fuck..." Shinsou says in a gruff voice, head leaned back to keep the blood from falling.

"I'm so sorry!" Denki repeated again, holding a bunch of napkins against his nostrils.

"Fuck, Shin are you alright?" Tokoyami asks, his voice full of concern.

Shinsou laughs, though it holds sarcasm. "Just peachy, Yami."

"You should probably go to the nurses office. Kaminari, since you hit him, will you take him?" Jirou questions amusedly.

Jirou and Kaminari were good friends for years, but it ended once they went into their first year of high school (the year Sero came into the picture). They're still friends, but they're not as close.

Denki blushes at the girl's words and nods. "Yeah, yeah I will. C'mon, Shinsou."

He lets go of the napkins and backs up to let Shinsou stand, leading him out of the room to the nurses office.

"For such a short guy, you've got a wicked arm game," Shinsou teases as he keeps his head back still.

"I'm not that short."

"I'm 6'0. You're at least half a foot shorter than me. So you're what? 5'6?" (Shinsou is actually 5'9, but I like height difference so I made him taller lol)

Kaminari pouts as they round the corner to the nurse. "Maybe."

"No shit? Really? I thought I was exaggerating, but you're actually that short."

"I was sorry before for hitting you, but now I'm not so sure."

Kaminari was sure though. He hit his crush in the face with an apple, and now he's bleeding! If Shinsou's eyes weren't cast up at the ceiling, then he would be able to see the blonde's blushing face.

"So mean," the taller teen laughed.

They walked into the office, and the nurse sighed. "Do you need more medicine? How many headaches can a boy have in one day?"

"Nope. My nose is bleeding this time."

"Good heavens. Well, first, sit down and put your head down as well. Lean forward for me and pinch your nostrils." He does as told as Kaminari just stands awkwardly in the corner by the door. "How did this happen?" She asks after a few minutes of very awkward silence.

Shinsou nods his head over at Denki, and the nurse looks at him expectantly. "I, uh... sorta accidentally hit him with my apple..."

She sighs. "You teenagers always doing such clumsy stuff. I know you're awkward, but I feel like there's a limit."

The two boys laugh a little, it going quiet after a couple seconds. "Okay, I think it stopped."

Shinsou holds the napkins under his nose as he releases his fingers. No blood comes out, so he smiles, jumping off of the chair. "All good."

"Not just yet. I need to see if anything broken." She goes up to him and lightly grabs his nose, squeezing and moving it slightly. Shinsou doesn't wince, so Kaminari assumes that he's fine. The nurse smiles. "All good, like you said. Lunch should be ending soon, so you two should better get a move on."

The two boys do as told and leave the room, waking side by side back to the cafeteria for the last few minutes.

"I'm sorry I hit you with the apple."

"You didn't have to wait for me."

They both say their own thing say the same time, lightly blushing at the other from slight embarrassment.

Kaminari's never really been this close to him, and before he was too panicked to notice, but Shinsou really is a lot taller than him. He gives the other boy a quick once over and smiles at his clothes.

They're rugged like always, jeans torn, faded t-shirt of some band or show with a collard shirt underneath since it is fall now, and his worn down high top converse he always wears to top it all off.

"Sorry, what did you say?" Kaminari asks, quickly looking up at the other.

"I said you didn't have to wait for me. You could have gone back."

Kaminari shrugs. "I don't know." He looks down at his feet as he kicks a stray, broken pencil on the ground and wordlessly cheering for himself once the pencil lands in the square he was aiming at. "I couldn't just leave someone with a bloody nose I gave them to be by themselves, now could I?" He asks, looking back up at him.

Shinsou laughs, "So, were you aiming for my nose?"

"No, but I was pretty dead on, huh?"

Shinsou smiles and shakes his head. "I guess you were. Why were you coming up to us anyway?"

"Oh... uh... I had an extra apple and was gonna see if Jirou wanted it."

He hums. "So why did you yell apple and throw it at me instead?"

Kaminari freezes as they enter the cafeteria, Shinsou opening the door for him. "I... don't know. Bad aim?"

"Oh, alright. Well, I guess I'll see you around."

Shinsou starts to walk away, so Denki does what he should have done awhile ago. "Wait!" The purple haired boy turns around. "Can I have your number?"

He lets off a blinding smile and walks back over. "Sure."

Kaminari has never swooned harder in his life.

~~~

After a month of nonstop talking between the two ever growing close friends, Shinsou did something very sudden.

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Hey, look outside your window

Kaminari's eyebrows furrow as he pauses the episode of "Kipo" he's on and walks over to his window and pulls back the curtains, smiling brightly once he's done so. He quickly opens his window, which has no screen, and smirks, cocking his hip in the process. "What are you doing here? It's one in the morning."

Shinsou shrugs. "I thought I'd show you my favorite spot to hang out, but it's only fun at night."

"I would love to, but my parents would kill me. Plus, they have a tracking app on my phone, and they would get a notification if I so much as just went on the driveway."

"Then leave your phone."

His eyebrows shoot up. "What?! What if-" he stops himself, thinking of what he really needs his phone for. "Y'know what, okay. It's not the first time I've snuck out, and I'm sure it won't be my last. Just give me a minute."

He goes back to his bedroom, turns on the TV slightly louder than usual, puts on a new shirt, jeans, and his shoes. He walks back over to the window, crawling on the porch roof that's under him, going to the edge and hesitating.

"Do you want me to catch you?" Shinsou teases, opening up his arms as he goes over to catch him.

"That would be great actually. One... two..." Shinsou prepares himself for the impact, rooting his feet into the ground a little more. "three!" Kaminari jumps, landing sideways in the tall boy's arms. "My hero."

"My princess."

"Damn straight. Now, let me down." Shinsou does as told, walking over to his old Ford and getting in. Kaminari follows his lead, getting in and buckling up before processing what's around him.

The car smells of cigarettes and vanilla, and the seats are lightly stained; the stereo looks like it's been updated so there's an aux cord, which is connected to Shinsou's phone. There's not much inside the car besides some band stickers on the console and a half eaten box of Cheerios.

"It's not much, but it gets me places."

Kaminari relaxes in his seat, looking over at Shinsou and smiling. "It's amazing."

Shinsou smiles back, turning on some music and starting the car, taking them to their destination which Denki has no idea what it is.

"You've taken what you want right from me. Wrapped up in so much life, it's just the way you hold me..."

The blonde leans back and closes his eyes, the street lamps the only think casting light on him as they drive. He feels himself start to doze off fully just as soon as they stop moving, and he realizes the song has changed and so has their location. They're no longer near many people. They're quite far from the looks of it actually.

"Have you brought me here to kill me?" He jokes, looking over at the messy-haired boy.

He laughs. "No, dumb ass. I'm going to show you my favorite place, like I said."

He gets out of the car and goes over to open the door for Kaminari as well, smiling. Once he's out, Shinsou puts an arm around him, walking him to a slightly run down house. It doesn't look bad besides the massive hole in the roof.

"What's so special about this place?" Kaminari softly asks as Shinsou leads him inside, going up the stairs.

He shrugs. "I found it years ago, and no one's ever bought it. It's not worth much because of all the repairs, but I'm going to buy it one day- make it my own. But, it's special because of this."

He stops in the middle of where the hole in the roof is and looks up, smiling lightly, eyes twinkling. Kaminari does the same, looking up, and his eyes shine.

He doesn't know how, but the stars somehow look brighter in the house, shimmering and shining for all the world and galaxy to see. There's so many, more than he could ever count. It's now that Denki realizes that he's never really appreciated the stars, but that sure did change right then.

He doesn't stop looking at the stars even when Shinsou lets go of his hand, which he wasn't even realizing he was holding, and walks into another room. He couldn't care less about what would happen to him. He didn't care about the future or the past. All that mattered was the present- the stars. He was sure they were the most magical thing he's ever encountered.

Shinsou comes back a minute later, carrying a twin mattress and laying it down by Kaminari's feet. He goes back and grabs a couple blankets and pillows as well.

He grabs the blonde's hand and guides him to lay down, Denki's focus never wavering from the sparkling night sky. "It's so... beautiful." He whispers once they're both laying down next to each other.

"Pardon my cheesiness, but it's not as beautiful as you."

"Oh shut up. That's a damn lie, and you know it. No one's prettier than this sky right now."

Shinsou chuckles and moves on his side, looking at Kaminari. "Yes, someone does. It's you."

He finally looks over at the rugged man and giggles. "You're just saying that."

He feels Shinsou scoot in closer, and he softly gasps, looking him in the eyes. "I'm not. You're gorgeous."

Denki smiles bashfully and looks away. "You're... such a charmer."

"I only try to charm you, Kaminari. You're all that matters to me right now. I've shown you my favorite things in the entire world: this house and the stars, but I haven't been able to keep my eyes off you the entire time."

His breathe hitches as he feels tears come into his eyes. "You better not be fucking with me right now."

Shinsou laughs, moving closer. "I would never even think of it."

Kaminari sighs as a tear falls down. "So, are you going to kiss me or not?"

Shinsou grins and then softly pushes his lips against Kaminari's, grabbing his neck gently as the shorter grabs his face. Their lips move in sync after a second of getting used to the other.

Kaminari figures he's found something even more magical than the stars- this fucking kiss.

~~~

And then they lived happily ever after! Yay! I think I've been watching way too many Disney Princess movies lol.

This was requested by @immydoodahh

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