Kirishima always pushed Bakugou's buttons, but he had gone too far with you, apparently. The whole class of 1-A seen how tense things were between you two, even though you never seemed to interact. It was even worse than Midoriya, because at least those two talked sometimes. With you, no one, not even the greenbean, knew what had happened between you, or how you knew each other in the first place. Kirishima had been looking for things to bug the blond about and settled on bringing you up. See, the redhead had figured the reason that Bakugou didn't talk to you was because he had a crush on you- which then led into a comment that Kirishima probably didn't mean to make in a bad way, but slipped out like it. Immediately, Katsuki's whole demeanor changed. Everyone had seen the boy angry, but this anger was different. It wasn't explosive and funny like a tiny dog on the end of a leash, and it wasn't jealousy and rivalry compacted into a yell like how he did at Midoriya, no, it was a cold, silent type of anger that had Kirishima crying on the inside. It both scared and intrigued the redhead. Why was the boy protective over someone he supposedly hated?

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"Do you know what's with Ash's quirk? I wouldn't of thought a weak quirk like that would get someone into UA."

"Hey! If you ever say that again, I'll kill you. I mean it. Keep her name out of your mouth."

[REQUESTED]