Bakugou, Kirishima, Ashido, and Sero are lounging in Kaminari’s room for a binge session. They spent the whole day watching movie after movie. The only thing they could all agree on, Disney. When they finally finished the last movie, Encanto, they were all silent for a moment, still trapped in their collective world of fiction. Still feeling all the emotions that the movie stirred in them. Bakugou was the first to break the silence.
“I’m going to bed.” he stated before storming out of the room. Denki was pretty sure he just didn’t want to cry in front of the others.
Sero was the next to leave, announcing that he, “needs his rest, so he can have enough energy to deal with bakugou tomorrow.” Because he’d be cranky from going to bed late.
Mina and Eijirou hung around for a while, they talked about the movie. Analyzing the characters, and plot lines. Revealing which characters they relate to, and which characters they hated.
“I’m sorry, I just cannot get behind Isabela! She might be hot, but she’s a bitch! “For the family” my ass. Her gay awakening doesn’t make up for anything!” Mina shouted.
“Well yeah, but imagine the pressure she was under. She was the oldest of their generation! She had to set an example for the rest, can you think about how she felt?” Eijirou argued back, decidedly calmer.
And before Mina could start her rebuttal, Denki interrupted, “Can we just agree that it was great that she went from perfect and bitchy to a cottege core bisexual in one song?”
“Definitely,” Eijirou responded as he put an arm around Denki, who was leaning on his shoulder.
“I mean, yeah, that was pretty cool for a Disney movie but still, I didn’t like her.” Mina grumbled.
“I noticed,” Denki replied.
“Well,” Mina dropped her hands onto her criss-crossed legs with a loud slap, “I’m going back to my dorm before Aizawa catches all of us in here and expels us for goofing off.”
“Party pooper!” Denki shouted as she got up.
“Goodnight, Ashido!” Kirishima smiled, ever so kind.
After she walked out the door Denki turned to swing his legs over Eijirou’s lap and bury his head in his shoulder, while eijirou wrapped his other arm around him to hold him up. “Let’s just cuddle forever,” Denki mumbles.
He could feel Eijirou’s chest rumble before he could hear his chuckle. “I don’t know about forever, but i’m down to stay the night?”
Denki nodded rapidly against Eijirou.
“Alright,” Eijirou laughed, before patting Denki’s leg, “But you gotta get up so i can take off these jeans. Who wants to sleep in Denim?”
Denki lifts his face from Eijirou’s shoulder to look at his face, “You see, i really don’t want to move,” denki smirks, “But i like the idea of you taking your clothes off.”
Eijriou rolled his eyes, “Jesus Christ, Denki, get off me.”
“Fine, Fine, but only because i get to look at that ass,”
“You make me want to change my mind.”
Denki gasped dramatically, “you wouldn’t”
“No i wouldn’t,” Eijirou said as he pushed Denki off of him, and proceeded to get undressed, while Denki wolf whistled at him, because he’s a child.
He pulled back the covers and laid on his back, and Denki immediately curled up into his side. “Now, can we cuddle forever?”
“Mmmhmm” Eijirou hummed.
They laid there like that for a long while, before Denki interrupted the silence, “Do you really relate to Isabel Madrigal that much?”
Eijirou turned to look at Denki who was positioned with his head on his chest, and his leg thrown over his hips, “I never said I related to her?”
“No, but I could tell, man.” Denki shifted to look at Eijirou’s face, “I knew you mask, alot, but is it really that much, Eiji?”
Eijirou was shocked. He really thought hard about her character and realized he really did. He spent so much time trying to better himself, that he buried a whole aspect of himself. He was a people pleaser, and that’s pretty much Isabel's main concept. “Holy shit, I do relate to her.”
“You didn’t realize?”
Kirishima laughed, “No, not really.”
“Do you feel like that? Like you have to hide, for the sake of others.” Denki seemed genuinely concerned.
“I-” Eijirous started, before thinking better of it and changing his wording, “Not entirely.” He sighed and sat up, guiding denki to sit across from him. “When I was younger, I had some pretty serious self esteem issues. I used to hate my quirk. When it first manifested, I had no clue what was going on and cut my eye.”
Denki reached up to cup his face and rub a thumb over the scar. “That’s what that’s from?”
“Yeah. I resented using it for a long time. But eventually I learned to control it. I looked up to Crimson Riot a lot, and he inspired me to become a hero.” he laughed, “A chivalrous hero. I wanted to be just like him. There were two moments that I'll never forget.
“The first was in my third year, when i saw a few kids in my school bullying an underclassmen. My first thought was, ‘I should help,’ and I tried, but I failed.
“I wasn’t the only one to step in. Mina and I went to the same middle school. She stepped in and stopped the bullies by somehow getting them to breakdance. It was amazing. But all i could think about was how even though i tried, i couldn’t stop them.
“Later the day, a villain singled out a group of girls from my school, and I wanted so badly to help but my legs just froze I-” Eijirou takes a shaky breath, and Denki squeezes his hand.
“I couldn’t do anything. But then Mina showed up again. She got rid of the villain while I just stood there dumbstruck. Mina was always so outgoing and happy, and i just couldn’t do that. I wished I could so badly, and I was so jealous. I just wanted to be strong, and worth something.
“That day i decided i was going to be. I was going to be outgoing, and happy, and I was going to be a Hero. I was going to be Many. I was going to save people. So I dyed my hair, and spiked it up in horns, like Mina’s. I saw her the day of the entrance exams you know.” He felt Denki’s other hand leave his and cup his face to wipe away tears he didn’t even know he had shed.
“She told me that i shouldn’t pressure myself, and i should let it happen naturally. I obviously didn’t listen, but i’m working on it. Plus this persona isn’t too much of a stretch, it’s just a little braver than I was.”
“Ei, you need to be careful, push yourself too hard and lose yourself, okay? I Looooooooovvveee you eijirou~” Denki said, climbing onto his lap and pushing him over so that he can lay on top of him in the most uncomfortable way possible. “Which is exactly why I'm going to cuddle you forever!”
Eijirou tries to speak, but is cut off with a kiss.
Maybe he’d dye his hair back soon. He has a feeling Denki would like it.
Eijirou knots a hand in Denki’s hair and deepens the kiss, eliciting a small whimper from the other boy. So much for just cuddling tonight.
“I love you too.”
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