chapter 5
In Shinsou's eyes Denki was the most beautiful person alive. He had these pretty golden eyes that were shaped a little bit like cats eyes and dark freckles all over his face. His cheeks were puffy and it made him look very cute but he also knew that it was the effect of not eating properly. He loved Denki and wanted the best for him and was very aware that he had problems he knew he never went home if he didn’t have to and was scared of loud sudden noises and that he struggled with eating and always comes back from going home even thinner than before and bruised and he always looked so tired, he often slept on their way to school, but always smiling and happy to be back in school he knew that hair that he loved so much were damaged and falling out because of lack of nutrition and needed vitamins and how he always felt cold and it was way more likely for him to get sick and he wanted to help him so much but didn’t know how because everytime he tried to bring it up Denki would shut off or deflect and he wanted to tell someone- one of the teachers, his dads, someone that Denki trust- but it was too much risk of losing blond’s trust and he didn’t want to lose him but if he just let that continue he just might lose him because it's not getting any better and the bullying that Denki is getting for literal nothing is not helping he wants Denki to have at least one safe place to be and if he could he’d took Denki to his home and never let him go back to his parents because he just see the fear in Denki when someone ask him about his parents and he hated that. He hated the fact that someone would intentionally hurt Denki. Right now the blond was sleeping. He was sleeping a lot lately and seemed to struggle with eating more but that might be caused by how stressed he was lately because of all the things that happened. And then was the whole stuttering thing he remembered that it was hard to understand Denki when they first met but it wasn’t that bad and he was really worried about him.
“‘Toshi?” he didn’t notice when Denki woke up but going by the fact that his voice was still very sleepy and slurred it couldn’t be long ago
“yeah?”
“wh-what are you thi-inking abo-o-out?”
“Nothing important. How’s your throat?”
“Be-et-tte-er. Wha-at t-ti-ime is it?”
“6pm. we still have 2 hours untill dinner so you can go back to sleep”
“b-but i sti-ill have to g-go t-to ho-osp-pital wi-ing”
“Why do you have to go there? is something wrong?”
“N-no n-no-othing wrong b-but i w-wa-anted to see if i can g-get some sl-lip so I wo-on’t have to talk in cl-la-ass for a while…”
“i think she’ll give you one” Shinsou said hugging the boy tighter
“Y-ou nee-ed to le-et me g-go for me to go a-and ask”
“No” He started nuzzling Denki’s hair and maybe kissing his head once or twice “you can go in a moment now it’s still cuddle time”
“...O-okay” Denki said practically melting in a hug “b-but o-on-nly for te-en mi-inu-utes”
“okay. Ten minutes”
“I lo-ove yo-ou” It was quiet barely a whisper and Shinsou might’ve not heard it if he wasn’t paying so much attention but it still caught him by surprise and left him speechless for a moment not able to gather his thoughts enough to make a good response his brain just stopped for a moment “I-I’m so-o-orr-ory I-i sho-ou-ldn-n’t-t ha-ave sa-ai-id th-tha-a-at-t I ju-ust-”
“No no no no don’t apologize for that. I love you too. You just surprised me with that but surprised in a good way. I love you very much” The next thing he knew that happened after that was that Denki got up and the moment after that he had lips pressed to his. Denki’s lips were chapped and clumsy in a kiss but it was the sweetest kiss they ever shared. It was quick and over way too soon in Shinsou’s opinion and yet he couldn’t get himself to complain. Not when he had Denki’s face all red and with a shy smile not looking directly in his eyes but looking very happy
“Wa-as th-ath o-ok-kay t-too?”
“yeah… yeah it was it was very okay now you still owe at least 5 minutes of cuddles” and at that Denki started laughing and just hugged Shinsou once aga
two hours later and they were already in Great hall dinner where Kirishima asked Denki if they could talk
“su-ure wha-at’s u-up?”
“I wanted to apologize for the whole situation with Bakugou… I have no idea why he did what he did but i do know that he is sorry for that” Denki was quiet for a second after that
“I a-apprica-at-te it b-bu-ut i-it’s n-no-ot y-yo-our ap-polog-gy to make I-if Ba-aku-ugo is re-ea-ally so-orry the-en I want to he-ear it fr-rom him”
“That’s okay… It’s understable really and I understand if you don’t want to talk to him for some time I wouldn’t want to either if someone did something like that to me”
“I r-rea-ally don’t wa-an-nt t-to… or be ne-ear him in ge-ener-ral ju-ust no-ot now or so-on”
“That’s okay bro i’ll let him know that”
“Tha-anks”