《The Bookstore》Chapter 16
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"Ugh I swear the fucking media is full of shit, they find one little thing that happens in someone important's life and everyone goes crazy," Katsuki bitched taking one of his hands off the steering wheel.
"I know right, like with that shit with me and Kirishima. It's not like we kissed or anything, why is there a bunch of hashtags called Izushima???" Midoriya groans, "People keep dming me asking if Kirishima has a big dick or not."
"Last year I got in a scandal were fucking Camie kissed me on the cheek and everyone lost their fucking shit," Katsuki huffed.
"Camie? Like that one chick who has that illusion quirk?"
"Yeah that's her, I'm not even sure why she did it though, but anyways they kept shipping us together and stuff like that. Like I understand shipping fictional characters but when it comes to real people it makes people uncomfortable. You don't know how many times I've been sent lewd fanart of whatever the hell Bakucamie is."
"Ha! I heard about that one, Akio lost his shit when he read the stupid article, he sent me the link but I was too busy to look at it. I do remember him mentioning that you weren't single."
Like hell I wasn't single. I dont have time to date or have sex. I have to get past that tool Shindou first on the hero charts. I'll make an exception with Izuku though.
"He's a real fan isn't he? I saw one of my limited edition posters on his side of the room, I think there were only 100 copies made."
"Yes, I had to wait in line for 4 fucking hours to save his spot. I don't even know why I agreed to that."
Katsuki chuckles.
He was trying to imagine poor little Izuku standing out in the middle of the night just to save Akio a spot.
God he wished he was Akio.
From what he hears they are best friends and they spend a lot of time together.
Izuku must really care about him.
Ugh, there he goes again feeling jealous of a guy that wears knee high Dynamight socks.
"You know you have the horniest fan base," Izuku says.
Katsuki turns red, "What?" He asks.
"You have the horniest fucking fan base. Those fucking 30 year old women who have nothing else to do with their lives love posting weird drawings of you just in your boxers or stuff like that. Fucking Akio always forwards that shit to me on instagram."
"God really? I never really check those things out," grumbled Katsuki as he waited for the light to turn colors.
"How was it when All Might died?" Izuku randomly asked Katsuki.
The blond stopped and thought about it for a little, "I don't know, it wasn't that much different. As a hero I was scared to see who would take his place and become the next symbol of peace. As a teacher I didn't really give a shit. He might have been the number one hero but he couldn't teach for his life."
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Izuku slightly laughs.
Katsuki quickly looked away, his face flushed once again.
Something about that laugh was magical, it actually seemed genuine.
They were stopped at a red light and Katsuki was paying full attention to the green haired man.
"Oh really," Izuku says, still slightly chuckling, "I guess you can't be good at everything."
"I felt as if he really didn't give a shit about any of us 1a students. All he cared about was that big blond guy in class 3a," Katsuki slightly frowns, "What about you?"
"What about me?" Izuku asks, mimicking his question.
"You used to love All Might, you spent all your time in elementary and middle school gushing about how cool he was. I actually mean the both of us. I just showed it less," Katsukis says.
"I don't really know, I guess it was kind of a phase, well that's what my mom calls it. I still have all the All Might merchandise in a box back at my mom's place but I never really use it," Izuku starts, "All Might was awesome and I wanted to be just like him, a hero, I mean who doesn't? But unlike what they say, all men aren't created equal. I was born quirkless, you and all your shitty little followers made sure to remind me that every single day. I wasnt until after I lost my hearing when I realized that it was all a stupid little dream and it was never going to come true. I mean, how could a deaf and quirkless kid become a hero? It sounds totally unrealistic and it is..."
Katsuki was quiet, he didn't really say anything.
He opened his mouth a couple times but no words came out.
"Hey... Im sorry, really," Izuku is now facing away from Katsuki and towards a window, "I didn't mean to say all of that. I don't know why I even brought that up in the first place. You achieved the dream that we both wanted and I cant help to admit that you're awesome."
Katsukis eyes widened, he was definitely not expecting that one.
Izuku may have accepted his apology but Katsuki wasn't entirely sure if he had forgiven him all the way, even if he had already said it.
"Stop looking at me like that. I'm serious when I say you're awesome. I mean it was already a great achievement getting into UA right? I just can't help but to be jealous of you."
"Jealous?"
"Yes jealous, you're so cool and you can do all that shit on your own. Why else did you think I followed your ignorant ass around all the time. You were everything I wanted to be and more!" Izuku was almost shouting at this point, he quickly covered his hand over his mouth.
After that he silently asked, "When are we going to get there?"
"About 15 more minutes," Katsuki says, still trying to process this information.
If this was Katsuki Bakugou about 4 years ago he would have replied with something along the lines of "Well of course you should be jealous, I'm me after all. Who wouldn't want to be me?"
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That was a big no though, he's not like that anymore.
He's changed.
And it was for the better.
"Ha, never in a million years would I think that I would be sitting here, next to you, in a car, talking about our past and super heroes," Izuku says slightly smiling, "I guess I assumed when we saw each other again you wouldn't even remember me. You know, cuz you're all famous and all that. You even remembered that stupid nickname you gave me when we were kids."
"You mean Deku?" Katsuki asks.
"What other nickname did you call me? No- wait you also called me shitty nerd too."
He pulled into the parking lot of an apartment complex.
"Um yeah, we're here, this is Kirishima's apartment," Katsuki says carefully parking the car.
"Alright," Izuku says unbuckling his seat belt and getting out of the vehicle.
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Katsuki knocks on the door waiting for someone to let them in.
There was the sound of a door unlocking and someone slowly opened the door.
There stands Mina Ashido with a drink in her hand, "Hey Bakugou! You made it!" She cheers, she turns towards Izuku and smiles, "Hi, Im Mina! And you are?"
"You can just call me Izuku," He says.
The two guys hear a loud "WHO'S AT THE DOOR?"
Mina moves to the side and lets the two of them in, "ITS JUST BAKUGOU AND HIS FRIEND!"
Right past the door and into the other room was the living room.
Sitting on the couch was Kaminari, that one tape hero, the chick who can make things float, Kirishima, and Froppy.
Froppy was the only hero name he remembered in the group other than Katsuki's and Kirishima's because Izuku could always reconize her unique look and she had a cute hero name.
"Hey Bakugou! Hey Izuku," Kirishima says once he laid eyes on the two of them.
Out of the corner of Izuku's eye he could see Kaminari giving him a look, "Hey Izuku... Thats your name right?" He says turning slightly red out of embarrassment thinking back to the last time they met.
"Hey Charge Bolt," Izuku says, "Im still sorry about last time."
"Woah woah, what do you mean last time?" The guy with the black hair asked looking between the two smirking.
"Oh um I sort of punched him the first time we met," Izuku says, now it was his turn to turn red.
"Ohhhh you're the one who gave Kaminari those bruises on his nose," the black haired man said again, "I thought he was flirting with another girl and ended up getting punched."
"SERO!" Kaminari yells, "And yes he's the one who punched me."
"You assaulted a hero?" Uraraka asked.
Izuku stopped, he completely forgot that they were all pro heroes and that he could have gotten fined or thrown into jail for that kind of shit.
"Oh, it's ok Uraraka," Kaminari says quickly, "It was a misunderstanding."
"Ok, whatever you say," She said slightly eyeing Izuku.
Everyone heard laughing in the background, they looked back to see Mina coming back from the kitchen with another drink in her hand, "HAHAHA, IZUKU YOU SERIOUSLY PUNCHED KAMINARI? THAT SHITS HALARIOUS!"
"Anyways wheres Kirishima?" Izuku asks looking around.
"Oh, he just went out with Bakugou to talk about something," Sero says.
Izuku looked around and realized the only two people he knew were gone.
Now he was stuck in a room full of strangers, well kind of.
All except the guy with the bruises around his nose.
"Where's the drinks?" He asksed Mina.
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"Soooo, did my plan work?" Kirishima asks after taking a swig of his drink.
"What? Your shitty plan? No Kiri, that didnt fucking work!" Katsuki says with his eyebrows furrowed.
"Aw, I was really hoping it was," Kirishima pouts.
"Did you really think that making me pick him up will magically make him want me to fuck him???" Katsuki asked.
The two of them were out in front of Kirishima's apartment when Kirishima randomly told him that he didn't actually need help picking Izuku up.
He was actually just trying to get Katsuki laid.
"You are the worst fucking wingman ever," Katsuki huffs.
"Oh yeah, cuz your plan was so much better," Kirishima says sarcastically, "cAn yOu hElP mE fInD a BoOk, like shut up. That one was five times worse. You're lucky Izuku's oblivious as fuck."
"Hey hey, watch your mouth," Katsuki says glaring at him, "That actually worked out great. We had one of those cliche moments where I walked him home with an umbrella."
"I walk him home all the time," Kirishima says, "And almost everytime his roommate fuckin licked me."
"Ha! Izuku told me about that," They start laughing.
"We should head back inside, everyone's probably wondering where the hell we are," Katsuki says.
As soon as they opened the door they heard a loud, "HOLY SHIT IZUKU, THAT'S EIGHT SHOTS ALREADY."
"MMMMH NO IT'S NOT MUCH," Izuku was loud, that's not really good, "I CAN DO MORE KAMIIIIII."
"THAT'S NOTHING, YOU AREN'T BEATING ME!"
Both guys looked at each other in fear.
"Oh no," whispered Katsuki.
When they entered the room the first thing they noticed was Izuku on top of the couch with his shirt off.
He must have spilt some of the vodka because the skin on his chest was slightly shiny.
He was looking around as if he was looking for something or someone.
Izuku said something around the words of "Blond hair or blond", grabbed Kaminari by the shirt and smashed their lips together.
There were gone for 30 fucking minutes...
Kirishima groaned and Katsuki's eye twitched.
i love fucking with you readers so you get a bit of kamideku (keyword a bit)
dont kill me
i made a longer chapter because im cool and the last two chapters were pretty bad and something needed to make up for it
um yeah so
have a nice day and i promise you there will be more bakudeku
for now bear with me and my writers block
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