Not as planned 1.5 - Katsuki and Eijiro von Puraido (A/B/O Verse) ================================================================================ Kapitel 9: Katsuki Bakugo + Eijiro Kirishima: +3 Years - Thailand Week + Rest of the year ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next day Katsuki was getting up early, he still couldn’t believe how big this single room was. They ate breakfast and went out to the city again. Izuku made sure to keep them busy. They met up with the others and they raced over the roofs of the city. They informed Katsuki, that there would be a street race this evening and if he wanted to participate. He looked over to Izuku, and the greenette was immediately on board. Katsuki sighed and nodded. He’d rather spend time with Izuku alone, but he still had the rest of the week. The race was surprisingly fun, he had never thought that. The adrenaline rush was amazing. Street racing like that was forbidden in Japan, so he never participated in something like that. He didn’t win but it was fun anyway. Katsuki kinda hoped that Izuku would initiate something, but he was disappointed in that regard too. Izuku was perfectly friendly, and he never mentioned anything like sex. Did he not want it anymore? Tuesday they spent again time with the others, Robin and Lee joined them and together with Ian and Jesper, they went back to the cliff. They jumped off of it one after the other. Katsuki was very concerned when Robin pushed Ian off the cliff, but then he remembered that he could heal. The day was very stressful and he fell into bed in no time. Wednesday wasn’t much different, he hoped for some alone time, Izuku dragged him with Elsa to walk those damn puppies. They walked through the red light district and Katsuki saw a lot of people who were flirting with Izuku, and he shamelessly flirted back. But Katsuki knew better than to say anything. Seems like Izuku was already in good enough company. Thursday came around and they gathered together again. The activities were all fun and stuff, and Katsuki enjoyed the time, but he still got frustrated. He really hoped that Izuku would start something, after all, he was the one with more experience, but it didn’t look like this would ever happen. They sat in a bar and Katsuki drank out of frustration. He knew that because of that, sex wouldn’t be an option this night. Friday however was when his patience was over. He tried multiple times to initiate something with Deku, but this guy just didn’t get his hints. Katsuki didn’t want to go straight to him and ask him to fuck, but damn, he might have to do that. They were booked the whole Friday but this time, Katsuki made sure to stay sober. He was so frustrated. Did Izuku not want him anymore or something? He was nervous because of that. How could he seduce him? He had no plan how to be seductive! Ian felt that someone had entered his room. “Hey!” the person called out. They were on his bed. His bed was so big that, in order to reach in the middle where he was, one had to climb on it. He felt that someone touched his shoulder. “Wake up!” With that Ian turned over and pressed the person on the mattress, his eyes glowed in the darkness. He had pulled the knife that he hid under his pillow and pressed it against the intruder's throat. “Woah, what the fuck?!” Ian blinked a few times before he could make out some features. He furrowed his eyebrows. “Kacchan?” he let go of him. “PAM turn the light on, please.” The lights flickered on. “What do you fucking want?” “Uh, well, I’m sorry to wake you up, but I need your help!” his voice was breaking a little. “And you need my help at …,” he looked at the clock, “three in the morning?” “Y-Yeah, again, sorry” he looked at him with big eyes. Ian rolled over on his back again and he groaned. “What do you want?” He put an arm over his eyes. “Well, it’s because of Deku, I try the whole week to give him hints that he should sleep with me, but he doesn’t want to, and he constantly does things with the others. Don’t get me wrong, the week is really fun and all, but I kinda want to have him for me. But I don’t want to outright say that he should finally fuck me. But I don’t have an idea how to be seductive and shit. So what the hell should I do?” Ian grumbled. “So you want to get railed by Izuku but you don’t know why, and this is why you get yourself almost killed by entering my room in the middle of the night?” “Yeah, last week he said we can have sex, but now he does anything to not be alone with me!” he sighed. “Well, the only thing you can do is to talk to him. Usually, other people ask him to have sex, not the other way around.” “So I really have to ask him?” “Yep.” Katsuki growled. “Damn, I really don’t know how to ask him now. He’s avoiding this.” “How about ‘Hey, do you want to have sex?’” Ian suggested. “Doesn’t this come off as extremely needy?” “And coming to my room at three fucking am to ask me about that comes not off as needy?” “Right, right, yeah, damn, I am really needy. Damn” he grabbed his hair and ruffled through it. Ian rolled his eyes and got out of his bed. Katsuki’s eyes widened when he saw that Ian was completely naked. “Woah, you’re naked?” “Uh, yeah, this is my room, did you forget? Come on” he winked him over. “What? Where are you going?” Katsuki crawled out of Ian’s bed and followed him. “You want to get laid, you will get laid” he grabbed Katsuki now by the collar of his shirt and dragged him out of his room. “D-Don’t you want to put some clothes on?” “Nah” they went next door where Izuku’s room was and knocked a few times. “Wait, what are you doing? That’s Deku’s room!” “Yeah, I know.” The door opened and a sleepy Izuku was in front of them. “Ian? Kacchan? What’s wrong?” “Your lover boy wants your attention but is too nervous to ask you directly. Could you please take care of him so that he doesn’t come to my room at fucking three am?” He shoved Katsuki in Izuku’s arms. “Ah, sure, will do” Izuku nodded, and with that Ian returned to his room. Izuku sighed. And he took Katsuki into his room. The slight nest from last week was gone. “What are you doing, huh?” “What am I doing? You basically avoid being alone with me!” He was still in Deku’s arms and he looked up. “I just thought you wanted to do funny stuff. Plus I waited for you to come to me, you were the one who wanted sex after all.” Katsuki pouted. “Bad communication I guess” he grumbled. “Very bad.” He leaned over Katsuki. “So, what do you want to do now?” he teased. “You know what I want!” “Yes, but say it!” “I want you to fuck me!” His cheeks were flushed when he said that. Izuku bear-hugged him tighter and lifted him up before he threw him on the bed and pinned his hands down. “Well, then who am I to not fulfill your wish” he leaned down and started to kiss Katsuki. The blonde moaned and he let Izuku do what he wanted. He hadn’t thought that it would go this fast … Izuku wasted no time and he undressed Katsuki quickly. They shared more sloppy kisses, Izuku licked over Katsuki’s throat, Katsuki could feel the roughness of the alpha’s tongue. After a while Izuku managed to get rid of his pants, Katsuki looked down again, blushing, Izuku got hard pretty fast and he was huge. “Are you sure you want this?” Izuku asked again. Katsuki looked up and met Izuku’s eyes. “Yes! I am sure! Just kinda nervous” he mumbled. “Besides, I don’t have slick because I’m not in heat.” “Oh, good thing I got lube then” Izuku leaned over and opened the drawer of his bedside table. He opened the tube and smeared it over his dick and then two fingers of his circled around Katsuki’s entrance, he entered him to stretch him. Katsuki didn’t flinch much, he was always easy to prepare. After a while, Izuku pulled his fingers back and he flipped Katsuki on his stomach. “Oh, please do me a favor and don’t be too loud, otherwise, Ian is here in no time, complaining,” Izuku mumbled. He had one arm under Katsuki’s chest, reaching for his shoulder and the other was on his hip. “I’ll try my best but no promises” Katsuki panted. “Good boy” Izuku whispered in Katsuki’s ear before he nibbled on his earlobe. Katsuki could feel the tip of the huge dick press against his entrance. “Do it!” he pleaded. Izuku clicked his tongue. “So impatient” but he moved his hips and with a smooth motion he sheathed himself into Katsuki. Katsuki was surprised that he went completely in immediately, his breath hitched and he pressed his head into the pillow. Izuku was massive, not just his dick but his whole body, the weight was pressing down on Katsuki and he felt good! But now Izuku waited again, probably that Katsuki could adjust to the dick inside of him. It felt really weird, he never had something shoved up his ass outside of his heat. It was a different feeling when he was clear like now, and his brain wasn’t on sexual overdrive. “Move” Katsuki murmured, he turned his head a little so he didn’t suffocate. And Izuku did, he slowly started to move inside of him. Izuku nibbled a little bit on the skin of Katsuki’s shoulder, not deep enough to do major damage to it, but there would be some love bites in the morning. “Faster!” Katsuki ordered and Izuku obeyed. He accelerated and Katsuki’s finger grabbed the blankets. But suddenly Izuku pulled back and Katsuki could feel how he shifted their bodies. Izuku turned to lay on his back. Katsuki was on his chest now, he could still feel the dick pressing against his ass. “Wha?” he started. Izuku shrugged, and he got a smug smile on his face. “You can work for your pleasure too, do what you want” he crossed his arms behind his head and stared expectantly at Katsuki. “Wait, you let me take charge?” This somehow surprised Katsuki. “Yeah, or is that wrong?” Izuku raised one eyebrow. “Uh, no, just unexpected,” Katsuki answered honestly. “You don’t have to if you don’t want to” Izuku informed him. “No, no, it’s good, like I said, I just didn’t expect it”, he sat up and moved backward, he mounted Izuku’s dick again. He moved at his own pace now, while he admired Izuku’s body, his hands wandered over his chest. Katsuki leaned down and carefully bit into Izuku’s chest a few times. Izuku rumbled approvingly. Katsuki looked up, teeth biting still into Izuku’s flesh. “You can mark me” Izuku allowed. What he meant was not a permanent mating mark but a mark that would stay longer on his skin, at least for a couple of weeks before it would fade away. Omegas marked alphas this way, outside of the mating mark. Katsuki bit down deeper into Izuku’s chest, he could taste the blood on his tongue now. He let go, his teeth and mouth were blood-smeared, he bit down again, and again, he licked over the wounds a few times, before he leaned forward and pressed his bloody lips on Izuku’s. When he broke the kiss, Izuku’s lips were painted red too. The blonde leaned back and concentrated more on his movements, he accelerated his tempo, his hands were now on Izuku’s thighs. Izuku sat up and he kissed Katsuki’s throat before he tilted his head, one hand ran over Katsuki’s chest. “Y-You can bite me too” he allowed. Izuku nodded and then his teeth sunk into Katsuki’s left chest, Katsuki gasped when the sharp teeth penetrated his skin. Katsuki was still riding Deku, his arms were loosely wrapped around the other alphas shoulders and they started kissing again. Now both their blood mixed in their mouths. The irony taste made them both go crazy. Katsuki leaned back and Deku moved his legs, he moved Katsuki now into a missionary position, Katsuki’s head was over the edge of the bed now. Izuku pounded further into him. The blonde's head was spinning, damn this was good! He was so glad, that he wasn’t in heat for this, and that Deku had wanted him sober. They continued for a few more moments before Deku asked. “Do you want to be knotted or not?” Katsuki thought about it for a second. “Yes, knot me, please” he murmured and Izuku obeyed. Katsuki could feel him come inside of him and he also felt the knot swell. Katsuki had his own orgasm and he saw stars because he was so overwhelmed. Deku carefully turned them around on the bed and they had to wait until his knot released. “Do you want to continue after that?” Izuku asked. “Sure, if you still can” Katsuki answered. Izuku scoffed. “Of course I can.” He kissed Katsuki more, while they waited. Katsuki was completely destroyed the next morning. He woke up next to Izuku and he could feel every bone in his body. His ass was massively hurting, even the double dildo penetration from when he was in heat was nothing compared to this. His chest was aching and he remembered the love bites, blood was smeared over his chest. He didn’t want to move so much because it hurt. He felt really full, but he was immensely happy. He turned around and looked at a still sleeping Izuku. A smile appeared on his face and he robbed closer to the alpha, he ran with his fingers over Izuku’s face. Izuku grumbled a little and opened his eyes. “Morning” he murmured. “Good morning” Katsuki answered. He nuzzled his head in the crook of Izuku’s neck. They stayed like this for a while, Izuku was staring at the wall behind Katsuki for the most time, while he listened to his purring. But then, slowly his gaze wandered down his body and he realized how bloated his stomach was. Izuku cringed a little, luckily Katsuki couldn’t see that. “Come, we should get cleaned up, the blood is all crusty …” “Hmmm, I don’t want to get out of the bed” Katsuki grumbled. But Izuku lifted him up bridal style. “Come now, I’ll help you then.” Katsuki still protested but he held onto Izuku. The prime moved over to the intercom in his room and with Blackwhips help he called for a maid. «Yes, Izuku, what can I do for you?» one of the Maids asked. “Hey Lacey, could you please clean up my room?” «Right away, Izuku» it clicked again and she was gone and Izuku proceeded to carry him to the bathroom. The bathtub was really luxurious in his room. While it was filling up, Izuku placed Katsuki in the shower. He did his best to avoid looking at Katsuki's bloated stomach. “We need you to get cleaned up.” He murmured, while water was raining down on them. Damn, this shower was really amazing, Katsuki thought. Katsuki sighed and he kissed Deku again. “Okay, just because you want it.” Katsuki let Izuku wash him, he was a little bit sad when the cum was being washed out, his omega was anyway, it felt good to be bloated. His alpha on the other hand was uncomfortable with that too. And Katsuki had noticed the discomfort on Izuku’s face, even though the prime tried to hide it. They ended up in the tub and they were kissing again, but Katsuki could feel that Izuku wasn’t at all focused on him. “What’s wrong?” Katsuki asked eventually. “Nothing? What do you mean?” Deku furrowed his brows. “You look distracted.” “Oh, no, uhm, well, I uh, just was a bit shocked to see you all bloated up, I hadn’t realized that at first.” Katsuki tilted his head. “Oh? Do you not like that?” “It’s just very unfamiliar to see you like that. And well, no, I don’t really like bloating, to be honest,” Deku confessed. “Fair enough, I mean, I am torn about that. My omega, obviously, loves it, it screams like ‘Babies!’ all the time, while my alpha is like ‘oh shut up!’” he scoffed a little. He turned around in the tub and leaned against Deku. “Babies …” Deku mumbled. “Oh, don’t worry about that, I’m not in heat, so there’s no chance you can get me pregnant if that’s what you’re thinking about.” Deku nodded and placed some kisses on Katsuki’s neck. They sat for a while in the bathtub and Katsuki was thinking about some things. “How was your first time?” suddenly escaped his mouths. He realized what he had just asked and he blushed. “Uh, fuck, sorry, you don’t have to answer that.” Katsuki turned around when he didn’t get an answer from Deku at all. He saw, how Deku stared into nothingness, cheeks bright red, one hand covered his mouth. “I … uh, prefer not to answer that” he mumbled. “It was a mess …” After that, he climbed out of the tub and Katsuki cursed himself. They dried themselves off and left the bathroom. Katsuki flinched when he saw Lacey cleaning the bed when they left the bath. “Good morning, Lacey,” Izuku said. “Good morning Izuku, good morning sir” she greeted Katsuki too. “Morning …” he mumbled. A while later he was in his room, after breakfast he went up there, he was too exhausted to do anything, his ass hurt too, he was writing with Toya at the moment, he told them how it was and Toya teased him a little. The omega told him, that he went on a date with Sougo on Thursday, and it had been great. Katsuki was happy for him. After that, he lay down in the bed and fell asleep. Katsuki grumbled when something moved on the bed, he thought that it might be Deku so he rolled over and wrapped an arm around the person. But wait … something was not right. The smell was different … That wasn’t Deku! He opened his eyes and looked up to see Ian sitting next to him, arms crossed in front of his chest, smirking down at Katsuki. The blonde screamed and sat up. “What the hell?” he exclaimed. “Oh, just a little revenge for you waking me up last night.” Ian chuckled. “Asshole” Katsuki grumbled. “Ha, good that you mention it. How was it?” Ian asked. “Uh … why do you care? I thought you didn’t like sex” Katsuki furrowed his brows. “I got therapy for that, years ago besides, of course, I am curious how it went. Did you get his dick or not?” He wiggled his eyebrows a little. Katsuki blushed a little. “Yes, I got it.” “See, wasn’t that hard, right?” Ian scoffed, he turned his upper body a little around and rested his left arm on the headrest, supporting his head. “Yeah, it wasn’t. He indeed wanted me to do the first step.” Katsuki sat up a bit more so he could rest his head on the headrest too, he stared at the ceiling. “I see you got some love bites” Ian pointed to Katsuki’s chest. “Yeah! I gave him some too!” He smiled happily. Ian whistled. “Damn, he doesn’t let anyone do that, so feel honored.” “Really?” “Yeah, he usually doesn’t allow markings on his body. It can sometimes happen that people don’t want that, after a forced mating bond.” “Understandable” Katsuki murmured. He felt really honored that Izuku had allowed him that. After that, Ian stretched and got off the bed. “Well then, I’ll leave you to it. See you later.” He left the room. Katsuki laid down in the bed again and quickly drifted off. The rest of the Saturday he cuddled up with Deku, he enjoyed the time, even though they didn’t speak for most of it. Deku stayed the night over, but he didn’t touch Katsuki again, they just slept next to each other. Sunday arrived and Katsuki was really sad that he had to leave, twelve pm came way too early! He wondered if he should just stay here … But he shook his head, no, he couldn’t just go. He still had a job and a life. He couldn’t just leave that behind. Deku kissed him goodbye and hugged him again. “We’ll see each other again.” He murmured. When Katsuki arrived at home he slept through the rest of the day. He felt really exhausted. The next morning he went back to work, Toya gave him some looks when he smelled Izuku still all over Katsuki, but he grinned. They talked about it when they were the only people in the office. “How are you feeling?” Toya asked him. “Oh, I feel great so far I didn’t expect it,” Katsuki answered. “Do think, you can move on now?” Blue eyes pierced him. “I have to. I mean, I got what I wanted. I always wished that either Deku or Eijiro be my first time, I got that, maybe I can move on now.” “I hope you can.” “And what about you?” “Oh, my date with Sougo went really well. He’s really nice, and very understanding that I have some issues with certain stuff.” Toya explained. “That’s good!” Katsuki was happy for him. The August had him covered in so much work that he couldn’t really do anything, other than power through it. During September he had finally more free time again. He started to go on Ember to find some people for heat sharing. But it was surprisingly difficult, many people were interested at first, but then they saw that he was an alpha-omega and they backed down, which was frustrating. But he had some good matches, the guys stayed for the time of his heat and left without question, he really liked that. The guy from October was really nice too, he took good care of Katsuki and it was really enjoyable. Toya called him excited one morning, he told him that Hotaru had finally gotten her quirk, it was his fire quirk, no sign of Shigaraki’s decay. He was so relieved that he felt like he could cry. Katsuki congratulated him on that. In November however, some girls, who were Dynamight Fans, tried to catfish him, they used male profile pictures, they were pretty disappointed when he shut them down, he wouldn’t sleep with women. Because of this instance, he didn’t have time to check the next guy thoroughly and he matched with someone very unfortunate. The guy was a sadistic asshole and Katsuki’s heat-ridden brain couldn’t really cope with everything. The first three days of his heat were pretty awful because of that. On the fourth day, he messaged Michiko in a moment of clarity, that she should help him. He didn’t want to stay with this guy. If he were not in heat, he could have dealt with the guy himself, but now his omega had taken over again, and he couldn’t free himself. Michiko and Sougo arrived to help him immediately. He remembered how Michiko ripped the guy off of Katsuki. Sougo helped him, to get dressed and he even brought a collar to cover his in overdrive working scent glands. They guided Katsuki out of there and the guy got a little beaten up by Michiko. For the rest of the heat, he stayed with Sougo and Michiko, they didn’t do sexual stuff with him, but that was okay, Toya eventually joined them too and they made him feel very secure again. In December he matched again, even though he was kinda nervous about that. But the guy he matched with was a very gentle and calm alpha. His name was Hiroto Okuda. He had jet-black hair and blue eyes. He was tall and very muscular, from his physical appearance alone he was very intimidating, but that was so not true for his personality. He was rather shy, he must be the shyest alpha, Katsuki had ever met. Hiroto confessed that he had never done anything like that before, even though he was two years older than Katsuki. He had his reasons why he usually never went out. Katsuki assured him, that he didn’t need to explain himself. Hiroto was however glad, that Katsuki had chosen him. He felt honored that a hero would ever consider him. He even let Katsuki take charge during their nights together. Usually, the other alphas tried to top him and he let them. It was a welcome change to be a power bottom for once. When the heat was over, they stayed in contact, something Katsuki had never done before, he usually moved on, but Hiroto was just so fun to be around. This year on New Year, they went up screaming again. Kuroko screamed the loudest this time, in general, she seemed more on edge lately than usual. He had to grin however when he walked in on Toya and Sougo making out. He sat next to Michiko and Satsuki and talked with them about it. They were just happy that it had clicked between the two. Katsuki got a message at midnight, from Hiroto, he asked if they wanted to meet up these next days, and smiling, he replied with a yes. +++ For Eijiro the year was going well too. They had lots of cases and most of them they figured out pretty easily. His relationship with Hitomi was doing great. However, he tried to tone their noises during sex down, Mina and Tetsutetsu appreciated it. All in all the year was a success, Hitomi’s business boomed and she got more requests than ever. Eijiro met sometimes up with Katsuki, he was kinda curious, what had come out of the second Thailand week. He simply asked him and Katsuki actually told him. On Eijiro’s question, how he was feeling, Katsuki replied that he was feeling absolutely fantastic. He had moved on completely and even started to see other people. Eijiro was happy for Katsuki. In November however, his happy world turned upside down when Hitomi got a job offer to work in America. Eijiro knew that it was Hitomi’s dream, to go to America and design outfits there, she talked about it half of the time. But when she told him, that finally, someone had sent her the offer she had been dreaming for, Eijiro couldn’t do anything else than to freeze. He was happy for her, absolutely, but what would that mean for their relationship? “Well, you could come with me to America. You could become a hero there.” She offered. But Eijiro shook his head, no. “No, I-I can’t just leave now. We are still building up our agency, we’ve gotten so big the past few months, I can’t just give this up!” Hitomi stared at him, she saw it in his mind, that he wouldn’t go. “So, are you not happy for me?” “I am, Hitomi, I am happy for you! But I can’t leave Japan right now!” He told her again. “But I want to go to America, this is my dream!” She continued. “I know! I know that! And I am happy that you finally got the chance. But I can’t come with you … I am so sorry” Eijiro tried to hug her, but she pushed him away. She bit down on her bottom lip. “But you do realize, that a relationship like that won’t work” she looked him in the eye. She saw him brainstorming, how they would do that with their relationship. “What are you saying?” “We will live on different continents! Your schedule is hard and mine will be too. We won’t have time for us.” Eijiro got pale, he didn’t like where this was going. “What are you saying?” Hitomi stared at him. She still gnawed on her lip. “When I go to America and you stay here, we have to break up. It wouldn’t be fair, to keep the other in a relationship that’s not going to work out.” Eijiro’s breathing got faster, all he could think about was, that she wanted to break up with him. He loved her! He didn’t want to let her go! He didn’t want to lose her. Without replying he just stormed out of their apartment, right when Mina and Tetsutetsu entered it. They were confused about what just happened. Eijiro needed some time to calm down, he felt like a total asshole. He knew that Hitomi was right, breaking up was the only solution they had. She wanted to go to America, he wanted to stay in Japan. He wanted her to be happy and fulfill her dream. Yet he wanted to be selfish too, he didn’t want her to go at the same time. He was so torn! Should he go with her? No, he couldn’t! He wanted to be supportive, but what was with his own dream? Sure, there were heroes in America too, but he would have to start all over again. He didn’t want that! He didn’t know what to do. He felt lost. He loved her so much, he wanted her to be happy. He had actually thought about proposing to her on Christmas, but now they were talking about a break-up. Why did this have to come up now all of a sudden? At a loss, he dialed Izuku. He didn’t know why him of all people. To his surprise, Izuku answered. «Hey, Eijiro, what’s up?» “Izuku, I have a huge problem” he started and then he explained the whole situation. Izuku listened to him carefully. “I just don’t know what I am supposed to do now. Should I go with her, should I stay here? I love her, I don’t want to lose her, but when I force her to stay, she understandably will be mad, but she’s right, a long-distance relationship is not going to work under those circumstances.” Izuku took some time to answer. «That is really a difficult decision» he started. «On one side, it is understandable that you don’t want to lose her. You went through all of that previously with our situation, so this must be incredibly tough … But as you said, forcing her to stay, would only make it worse. I think she would never really forgive you if you forced her to stay. You don’t want to give up your dream, so why should she?» While Izuku was talking, Eijiro nodded, even though the other couldn’t see it. “Yeah, exactly. Why does this keep happening? Why do I have to make those decisions constantly?” He had started to cry. He really didn’t know what the best thing was. «Ultimately, I can’t make a decision for you, you have to weigh the pros and cons to the best of your ability,» Izuku answered. “How did you do it? Start a new life and all? I mean, you weren’t a hero when you left. You didn’t have an agency and all, but you started new too.” Eijiro questioned. «I had to make the best decision at that moment too. It was the hard way, leaving all of you behind … but I knew if I hadn’t left, I would have killed someone that night, so I killed my own feelings and decided that it was the best for everyone if I am not around. And then, I just had to do something to get money, the rest followed naturally.» Izuku explained. Eijiro stared on the ground for a moment, he was sitting under a bridge and he observed the snow falling. His eyes and cheeks were blushed. He thought about Izuku’s words. “I know I would regret it if I stop everything here, I have to think of Mina and Tetsutetsu too. So … I really have to let her go …” «I’m sorry that you have to go through something like that again. It must be terrible» Izuku mumbled. “Hey … I- can you stay with me on the phone? I don’t want to be alone” he begged. «Of course. I’m here for you.» Eijiro stayed under the bridge for a long time before he felt ready to go back home. He had thanked Izuku for staying with him, even though they didn’t really speak after that. He had a lump in his stomach the closer he was to his home. He didn’t want to face her but he knew he had to. He opened the door and he found her in the kitchen. She had cried too, he could see that. They sat together on the kitchen table, she looked down in a half-empty coffee mug. They said nothing at first. “I will stay here” she eventually started. “I just tell them I can’t take the offer” she sounded incredibly sad while saying that. His eyes widened. “No” he murmured. “No, Hitomi. You have to take the chance. Who knows if you get another one if you say no now.” He looked up at her. “But … you don’t want me to go. I saw it. You want me to stay. And I want to be with you Eiji, really. If it means so much to you, to be a hero here, then I’m sure I get bigger deals here too.” She tried to explain, her smile was fake. Eijiro stood up and moved closer to her. “You are an incredibly nice person, Hitomi, you would push your dream back, just so that I can fulfill my own. You are so much bigger than me. Yes, I don’t want you to go, but I know how much this dream means to you. And I know that you could probably never really forgive me when I keep you from fulfilling it. Why should I be allowed to live my dream, but you don’t? It wouldn’t be fair at all.” He told her. “So you have to go, Hitomi, you have to go to America and live your dream.” She saw in his mind that he really meant it this time. She saw obviously, that he didn’t want her to go, too, but he really wished for her dream to come true. Tears collected in her eyes and she covered her mouth. “I’m sorry, I’m so sorry for you” she reached out and hugged him. “It’s okay, I will overcome this. I did it once.” He tried to smile for her. For a short moment, Hitomi saw an image of an engagement ring flickering in his head. Of course, she knew that he wanted to propose, she hugged him tighter. They held each other for a long time. “You will be amazing, Hitomi, I know you will beat all their expectations, you’re the best!” He kissed her and their salty tears mixed together. “We will stay in contact, I promise” Hitomi murmured against his lips. “Yes, we will.” They eventually went to bed, they hugged each other the whole night. The next morning wasn’t easy either. Hitomi was expected to fly to America at the end of the month, now that she agreed to the contract. He would be alone on Christmas and New Year too … Which made it incredibly hard for him. The last days they spent as much time together as they could. Eijiro took a break from work to spend time with her and help her pack her stuff. They slept a few times together, he didn’t want to let her go after each time. But he knew he had to … December 1st arrived quickly and it was time for them to say goodbye. Most of Hitomi’s stuff was already brought to America. Eijiro, her, Tetsutetsu, and Mina had all come to say goodbye to her. Eijiro kissed her a long time, he knew it would be the last time in maybe forever. Tears were streaming down his face. “I love you, Hitomi.” “I love you too, Eijiro.” He held her hand while she grabbed her bag and moved to get her flight. Slowly her hand got pulled out of his. He waited until the plane was gone. He bit his bottom lip and turned around tears streaming down his face, she was gone. She was really gone … Mina and Tetsutetsu tried to cheer him up, but he wasn’t in the mood. They brought him home and he went straight to the nest, she had prepared for him as a goodbye. He knew that he couldn’t keep it forever, but for now, it was comforting to have her scent still around. Christmas came and go and he was still in the nest, he had taken a break from going out to work, he would eventually return, but he wanted to stay the December at home. Like Katsuki had taken a break at the beginning of the year … Katsuki … New Year came too and he missed out on the party stuff, by now the scent of Hitomi had faded away. They had exchanged messages every day, but he knew that this would change soon. He decided to get up and get drunk. It was shortly after midnight. New year, new luck. He didn’t stop after one bottle of whiskey though. At about four am, he somehow managed to find his way to a certain apartment. He banged at the door and at first, no one answered but eventually, Katsuki opened his door. “Eijiro? What are you doing here?” He sounded extremely tired and hoarse as if he had screamed all the time. “I don’t know, I wanted to see you” he slurred. “Are you drunk?” Katsuki asked. Eijiro lifted his hand and with thumb and index finger he symbolized a small amount. “Just a little bit” this wasn’t very convincing, since he tumbled a little, even though he stood still. “Yeah, I don’t believe that. Come in, you can’t go back like this.” He let Eijiro in and the redhead followed him. They walked into Katsuki’s guest bedroom. “You can stay here” he offered. Suddenly, Eijiro stumbled against him, and with that, he pushed Katsuki on the bed and came to rest on top of him. Katsuki oofed when the weight was pressing him down. “Eijiro! Hey!” “Sorry” Eijiro murmured, he shifted his weight and looked down on Katsuki. “You’re so pretty” and with that, he leaned down and pressed his lips on Katsuki’s. The blonde's eyes widened and he tried to struggle free but Eijiro was still heavier than he was. He could smell the alcohol in Eijiro’s breath, it was honestly disgusting, he had to get him off. Especially when Eijiro tried to French kiss him. Katsuki used that and bit down on his tongue. “Ouch!” Eijiro mumbled, he grumbled a little. Before he could roll back over Katsuki, the blonde put both hands on Eijiro’s shoulders and kept him at bay. “Eijiro, stop it!” he said clearly. “You’re way too drunk to think straight!” He managed to roll him over and get out under him. “B-but I thought you loved me, you said so last year” Eijiro mumbled. “That was last year. Look, I know what you are doing, you miss Hitomi, and I totally get that, you two just broke up, but you can’t come here in the middle of the night, hella drunk, and expect me to sleep with you.” Katsuki told him. Eijiro looked down and his lip quivered, suddenly he broke down crying again. “I miss her so much!” “I know, I get that feeling. Come, you really should sleep” Katsuki guided Eijiro into the bed and he placed a blanket over him. He wanted to go, but Eijiro grabbed his wrist. “Stay, please!” he begged. Katsuki hesitated for a while. Should he really do that? But he sighed eventually and lay down next to Eijiro, but he was on the blanket and not under it, Eijiro immediately robbed closer and he buried his face into Katsuki’s chest. He slept relatively quickly and Katsuki was relieved that he didn’t try to initiate something else again. He stroked through Eijiro’s soft hair and closed his eyes too. Hosted by Animexx e.V. (http://www.animexx.de)