Bakugou's PoV

I ran to the arcade from Plistetsky's car because he said he was late on his short trip back to Russia. Every step I took, the more my stomach fluttered, I didn't know whether it was because I was nervous or excited but I hoped it wasn't the second one.

As I got close enough to the arcade I started to notice I recognised a few people already. A group of people from one of my previous schools were there, I shivered and tried to ignore them, I didn't recognise any of the faces too well anyway, I probably never even met them. Instead of paying attention to them for any longer, I looked around for spikey red hair.

It took me a while before I realised that Kirishima and a group of his stupid friends were there, sitting on an arcade machine that looked like it was designed for two year olds. I reluctantly headed over to them.

I stood behind them and they appeared to not notice me, they were so concentrated on the game. It was the blonde one and the dark haired one playing the game, Sero and Kaminari I think their names are. The pink girl was there too, I'm sure her name is Ashido. All of them seemed to be completely focused on the game, despite the game being the shittiest thing I've ever seen.

Finally one of them won and screamed out in triumph, it was the Sero guy. His blonde friend looked heartbroken and betrayed. The rest were cheering for the taller one.

Finally, one of them realised I was there. Unfortunately it was the pink one.

"Ohhhhhhh Kiri your boyfriend is here!" She yelled out it joy. I glared at her, about to blow up the machine or something. She realised she had made me mad and started giggling evilly.

"Mina, he's going to kill you now." The redhead laughed. I turned my glare over to him. "Oh shit." He gulped.

I sighed, attempting to calm myself down, I didn't need to make a scene about nothing, I wasn't 5 years old anymore. I realised that making a scene about nothing is literally what I do all the time and I frowned.

"You okay, dude?" The blond bitch raised his eyebrow. I just realised how weird his hair looked. There was this weird lightning shaped thingy in it. Weird.

"Oh fuck off you cunt." I groaned, rubbing the back of my neck. "Let's just get this over with so I can go home." I yawned. The others grinned.

"You got it Baku!" Kirishima hopped over to where I was and out an arm around my shoulder. I rolled my eyes, pushing his arm off. He shrugged, chuckling and began leading us to a different machine. I was happy to notice that my boots made me an inch taller and for a person who hasn't grown since first year in high school, I was extremely glad. I was now closer to Kirishima's height so I could now kick him in the face easier.

The others were following behind me so I quickened my pace so I didn't have to interact with any of the weirdos. Kirishima probably thought I was walking quicker to be closer to him and he was not correct, entirely at least.

"Yo Baku!" He grinned. "What game do you want to go on next? I don't trust their judgement." He looked over to his friends and they stuck their tongues out at him. It was mildly amusing.

"Uhhh, I don't know." I looked around, my eyes landed on a machine surrounded by that group of people from my previous school again. Now that I was a bit closer it was easier to recognise a few of them. I couldn't see the person in the middle of the group but I had sneaking suspicion on who it might be, and if I was right I was leaving and never coming back.

"Maybe something over there." I pointed to the opposite direction of where that group were, unfortunately it was the furthest place from the exit. I didn't even look to see what was there but just about everything would be better than having to be around those other guys.

"Good choice, I love laser tag." Kirishima grinned. I looked over in confusion, there were laser tags in arcades? Is that a normal thing or have I just not been in enough arcades? Whatever it was, I loved laser tag. You can shoot people without consequences.

Tatsuo's PoV

There he was. It's been so long since I last saw him. Yet here he was, parading around with some redheaded idiot and his group of idiot friends. They walked into the laser tag room. It would be such a waste if I didn't follow him. Then again, would it be more fun just to wait?

Bakugou's PoV

We finally got into these heavy fucking suits that covered us literally head to toe for no good reason. It's going to be pretty fucking difficult to get injured playing laser tag.

We were split into two teams:  me partnered with Kirishima, and Sero partnered with Mina. Kaminari wimped out last second. Instead, he was going to go eat at the snack bar.

We headed into the darkened room and as soon as the signal went off we ran. Since we were all in hero schools and knew the basics, we knew pretty well how to hide in areas such as this. Me and Kirishima were hidden by a small tower, with our backs to it. We had no clue where the others were but damn we were going to find them.

"Should we split up?" He asked. I took a quick peek around the tower. I thought about it for a second. If we stuck together we'd be a bigger target and if we were apart we'd be able to be faster and have more hiding opportunities. I knew that it was definitely best to split up but I didn't really want to. I hate to say it but I'd actually gotten closer to the redhead than I would've wanted.

"What do you think?" I asked. He seemed shocked that I was asking and all I have to say to that is: rude. Understandable though.

"Ummm, we could split up and occasionally meet back at base?" He suggested. I decided it was a better idea and nodded. I rolled did a front flip over to the next tower, luckily it was close enough. Kirishima put thumbs up at me, I nodded back.

I decided to go for the oldest trick in the book and I grabbed an object, the closest thing was the torch on my gun. I didn't want to be spotted anyway and the light could give me a way. I gestured to Kirishima, making sure he was aware of what I was doing. Then I threw it as far away as a I could but still aiming for an area that is pretty well covered so it wouldn't look as suspicious.

Instantly, you could see lasers on that area making a weird and annoying beeping sound as the other team attempted to shoot someone. This gave away their location and Kirishima and I used the opportunity to find them. Kirishima tossed me his torch before he snuck away.

While their guns were still aimed on the torch, we shot at them. I heard a 'shit' as they attempted to scrabble back to their hiding spot. I then tossed the other torch to their base so they were too startled to return to their hiding spot. They attempted to find another one. Unfortunately for them, Kirishima had already made his way over there and shot them both.

The lights turned back on in the room as we had won and I ran over to the redhead and we yelled in victory. We high-fived and laughed at the losers. Sero and Mina looked annoyed but also like they were going to laugh. They eventually burst out cackling hysterically and fell over each other laughing. We stayed like this for a while before it was announced another group wanted to play and we had to leave.

I walked with Kirishima, he had his arm over my shoulder again but despite me complaining he didn't take it off. I didn't really care that much, I was having fun.

I mean, I was having fun until I noticed magenta eyes watching me from beside me. They person the eyes belonged to was standing in a group of his classmates. I felt myself creeping closer to Kirishima. The magenta eyes boy noticed the redhead and scowled.

Kirishima, sensing something was wrong, walked towards the exit of the arcade, gesturing for the others to follow. Kaminari was now with the others, looking high out of his mind. I noticed that the arcade machine he was leaving was broken clearly because of electricity. Perhaps the idiot broke it out because he lost a game or something.

We got outside and Kirishima looked into my eyes. His eyes a bright shade of scarlet and I was startled, despite seeing his eye colour quite often.

"What was that about dude, you okay?" He asked, his red eyes appearing worried. I was going to nod but I felt bad about lying to him, yet I didn't really want to talk about it.

"Just saw an old school friend, we fell out badly." It wasn't exactly a lie. He nodded, deciding it wouldn't be good to question further.

"Wanna go back or hang somewhere else?" The redhead asked, I felt weirdly happy that he cared that I was worried. I asked that we could hang out elsewhere.

"Y'all wanna stay at mine, I've got a new chocolate fountain!" The blonde idiot yelled from behind. I turned to Kirishima who looked at me with a look that showed he wanted to go but also wanted my approval. I rolled my eyes, it's not like I had a ride back since Plisetsky was out of the country until tomorrow.

"No."

Kirishima looked so disappointed it made me want to cry or something.
"That's fine, I'll see you tomorrow I guess!" He said, accepting it was my choice.

"I'm joking please don't cry you bastard." I said quickly. Despite the fact he was very clearly not going to cry.

"Yesss!" He punched the air. "FYI I'm not the one who was going to cry, you literally have tears in your eyes." He pointed out. I glared at him.

"Can I hug you?" He asked. "I'm pretty sure you don't like hugs so that's fine." He smiled nervously. Dammit I want to hug him but my dignity is not going to let me.

"Fuck off." I groaned. I paused for a few seconds before forcing the words out. "Fine you can hug me you dumbass." There goes my dignity.

"Okay!" He hugged me. I literally froze in the spot, not because it was bad but because my body refuses to accept hugs like a normal person.

This chapter is a mess sorry but I'm running low on sleep and the will to live (aren't we all lol). But happy Easter for yesterday or if you don't celebrate it I hope you had a happy day anyway. Stay safe and shiz, don't forget to wash your hands 😡.

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