Kirishima's P.O.V

I walked out of my dorm and towards the classroom. It was like a normal day, that was what I thought. Boy, was I wrong! I heard a door slam and footsteps. I turned around and saw Bakugo. "Hey Bakugo!"

He tched and I slowed my pace to walk next to him. "What do you want?"

"To walk with you." I shot him a toothy grin but he looked away. I wish that he liked me back... I've liked Bakugo since we both got into UA and now I'll be able to see him every day due to our dorms being right next to each other. I kept giving him side glances until he caught me.

"Why do you keep looking at me Spiky Hair?!" He yelled.

"Nothing Bakubro." I chuckled and put my elbow on him.

"Wow, what an amazing pun." His voice was laced with sarcasm as he rolled his red eyes.

"Thanks." I smiled even bigger. I thought it was going to be a good day. I thought I wouldn't be puking up flower petals but if a book didn't have plot twists, it wouldn't be worth reading. I felt a scratch in my throat. My smile quickly faded as I put my free hand over my mouth. I felt like I was going to puke or cough or something. I started to cough violently. I took my arm off of Bakugo's shoulder and looked around for somewhere to empty whatever I was going to cough up. I could feel something rise in my throat with every second and I wasn't planning on puking in front of my crush. It isn't very manly.

"Are you alright?" Bakugo's voice was the same as always but his expression said otherwise. It only made things worse.

At that moment, Ashido walked out of her dorm. "Hey guys! Wanna w-" I pushed her out of the way as gently as I could, even though it was still unmanly of me to push a lady, and ran to her bathroom before shutting the door. I coughed and hacked. My throat felt like it was on fire and my lungs were dying for air. Then they started to spill. Rose flower petals rushed out of my mouth and into the toilet. There were around ten to fifteen petals. For what seemed like days, I just sat on the floor and tried to catch my breath while I stared at the petals.

I heard knocking on the bathroom door. "Kirishima? Are you alright?" It was Ashido's voice.

I nodded before realizing that she couldn't see me. "Yea, I'm okay." I flushed the toilet to get rid of the petals and opened the door. I rubbed the back of my neck nervously and smiled to seem like I wasn't questioning why I was puking petals. "Sorry for pushing you. It was an unmanly thing to do."

"It's fine. Do you need to go to Recovery Girl?" She asked worriedly.

"Nah, I'll be okay. Thanks for letting me use the bathroom even though I was the one who barged in." I said.

"No worries." She smiled.

"If you two are done chit-chatting, I would like to go to class." Bakugo's voice carried out through the room. I looked at him happily. He waited for me! I felt like I was going to puke up petals any second again so I nodded.

"Yea, let's go."

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We got to class three minutes late. "Sorry Mr. Aizawa. It's my fault we are late. I felt sick but I'm fine now." I explained without going into too much detail.

"I don't care. Just take a seat." He pointed to our empty desks and we sat without another word.

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I didn't have another incident until a few days later at lunch. I wanted someone to talk to about this but then I saw Sero and Kaminari. "Hey guys! Come in line with me!" A few people grumbled because there were two new people in the big line but nobody objected. "I need to speak to you two." I knew that I could trust them.

"Hey man, what is it?" Sero asked with Kaminari behind him.

"Promise me that you won't tell anyone?" I asked, my tone dropping down to a serious whisper. They nodded. "Alright, this may soind crazy but I'm not lying. A few days ago, I coughed up petals."

"Petals?!" Kaminari said a little too loud for my liking. I shhed him and he repeated the word quieter. "Petals?" I nodded.

"Don't tell anyone please. I don't want the entire school to know that I'm coughing petals. That isn't very manly." I chuckled a little. I knew that I could confide in them. I knew that they wouldn't tell anyone if I asked.

"Well... There is this disease going around. It's kind of new. I can't remember the name of it though. You get it when you fall deeply in love with someone but I can't remember anything else." Sero informed me.

Kaminari smirked and nudged his elbow into my side. "So who's the lucky person?"

Sero's eyebrows started to wiggle and they both smirked. I chuckled and pushed them lightly. "Like I would tell you two!" I started to blush. One thing led to another and I started to think about Bakugo. I felt it. My eyes widened and I could feel mt throat get scratchy again and my lungs started to clog up. I started to cough fiercely. Sero's eyes grew wide too.

"S-Sorry for bringing it up! Kaminari, keep our spot in line! I'll take him to the bathroom." Sero grabbed my wrist and ran towards the bathroom. I used my free hand to try to keep petals from coming out of my mouth. I couldn't breath. My throat ached. I had to cough but I tried to hold it down until we reached the bathroom.

When we did eventually get there, Sero shoved me into a stall and stood in front of the stall. I quickly spat out the petals into the toilet and coughed up a few more. Everything hurt and my mind was whirling around. I felt dizzy and light-headed from not having that much air but it was a relieve when I stopped coughing. My throat and lips were really dry and all I could do was sit on the ground and pant.

"Are you okay?" Sero knocked on the door liked Ashido did that morning but this time it was from someone who knew about this darn disease.

"Yea, I'm fine now. I just need air." Te door opened and Sero helped me off of the floor before flushing the toilet.

"Are you still hungry? Kaminari probably already has our food waiting for us." Sero asked. I nodded and he helped me back to the lunch room. Kaminari was sitting down with three lunch trays. He waved his arms for our attention and we walked over.

"Hey, are you alright Kirishima?" He asked. I nodded and plopped down in front of a tray and started eating. I was tired but still hungry. "Sorry for bringing up whoever you like." He apologized.

"Denki, you're bringing it up again." Sero slapped the back of his head with the weird part of his elbow.

"Sorry." He muttered as he rubbed his head.

I chuckled and we continued eating. But things went downhill when Baguko, Todoroki, and Deku sat down right in front of us.

"Hey guys!" Sero smiled. "Welcome to the table." His arms extended into a grand gesture and he hit me in the face in the process. I laughed and pushed his hand away.

"Hey guys. I hope yoy don't mind us intruding like this." Deku sais while stuffing his face. "Kacchan wanted to come over but he didn't want to show up alone." SMACK! Bakugo slapped Midoriya in his face.

"Shut up Nerd!" He growled. Why did he want to come here? I thought. I looked at him and tilted my head a little. His face was tinted with pink. Was he blushing from embarrasment and nervousness or because of something else?

"No big deal. We need the company anyways." Kaminari chuckled.

"The real reason why we came was because we were a little conserned. Sero and Kirishima made a big scene, running out of the room like that." Todoroki flat out said. At least he's straoght forward. Then he smiled. "Well, Bakugo was."

"Shut up Half and Half!" He stared at Todoroki with hatred in his eyes. His hands were making small warning explosions but all Midoriya and Todoroki could do was smile and hold in laughs. Wha- My thought was interupted by harsh coughing. I quickly covered my mouth and looked at Sero and Kaminari. They understood.

"One minute." Kaminari grabbed my wrist and we started to run away from the lunch table.

"Where are they going?" I heard Midoriya ask.

"They are going to do something really quick. They'll be fine." Sero is trying to make sure they don't pursue us.

"They obviously aren't fine." I heard explosions go off then something that sounded like a tape dispenser. Then fighting. I didn't look back. I was mad that I couldn't even sit at the same table as Bakugo without coughing. I wanted to stay but the petals were probably like, 'Haha nope! Time for round 2.' I should see the doctor about this.

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After a few minutes of hacking up petals, Kaminari took me to see Recovery Girl.

We told her about the petals and she nodded. "Kirishima, you have Hanahaki. It's when yo-"

"-When you cough up petals when you are deeply in love with someone." Kaminari finished.

"Well, yes. It's a new disease but there are multiple types. The types we know of are you cough up petals when it's one-sided love, when you haven't confessed, and another where you have to have surgery to remove it but they all sprout the same way; a flower in your system. The type depends on where the flower is. Sometimes it's in the lung, others it's in the heart. There has been a case somewhere that the flower was in the throat, obviosly not here but you aren't the first case at UA." She explained.

"Who are the first cases?" I asked.

"Well, there are a few going on right now actually." As soon at Recovery Girl said that, I could tell that she regretted it.

"Who are the other cases?" I wondered. I wanted to talk to someone who can relate to what I'm going through.

"A few third year students. I'm not saying their identities though so if you want to know who they are you'll have to ask around and I don't think that they would appreciate a couple of first years bothering them about their personal problems. Now shoo. I'll talk to your parents about this Kirishima. Let me know if things get worse." She shooed us out of the office and shut the door.

"I'm glad I'm not the only one." I chuckled as I started walking with Kaminari.

"Yea..." He looked down as if he was deep in thought, which is weird for him. Then his head shot up and he stared at me smugly. "It's Bakugo, isn't it." It wasn't a question, more like a statement.

"Whaat? Nononono. You got me all wrong! It is-" As if he called upon them, I started to cough up more petals.

Kaminari laughed and pulled a few tissues out of his pocket. "I knew it!"

"Uhhh, I didn't know that you had tissues in your pocket. Where did you get them?" I asked curiously.

"I took them from the nurse's office just in case." He picked up the few petals that came out of my throat with a napkin then threw it away as we headed back to lunch.

We came back to most of the students in a circle around our table. Oh no... I heard yelling so I ran over to see Bakugo tied up on the table covered in ice.

"What happened?" I whispered to Sero.

"Bakugo tried to go after you guys so I taped him up. He started to go wild though and I may have had to tell Deku and Todoroki about you so they could help hold him down." Sero said truthfully.

My mouth dropped and I could feel fear creeping into my eyes. I looked at Todoroki and Midoriya and they looked at me then nodded as if saying that they were going to keep my secret. I exhaled. "You guys should probably release him." I said loud enough for Todoroki and Sero to hear.

I could hear students awwing in the background from disappointment before walking away as Todoroki unfreezed him and Sero tried to help take the tape off but he thrashed around.

"I don't need your help Sero! You've done enough!" He bursted through the tape and sat in his seat, shaking with rage.

"Are you alright man?" I asked him over the table.

"I'm fine." He looked away and I could see anger burning in his eyes. I sighed. I guess he'll never like me back.