Bitter Sweet

*knock knock* Who's There?

"DIE YOU BASTARDS!!" The spiky blonde screams as he fiddles with the joint sticks and triggers of his Xbox controller. The volume of the video game totally washing out the noise of someone knocking on the door to his dorm room.

Bakugou gets distracted from his phone vibrating in his pocket, and puts the game on pause to see who's calling. It was Kaminari. "What do you want?!" He screams into the phone while cracking open a can of read bull, and balancing the phone between his cheek and his shoulder.

"Would you come open your door?" Kaminari says in a friendly, but irritated tone. "Tch- yeah, fine.. Whatever." The blonde grunts into the phone, just before hanging up, and throwing his phone to the bed.

He walks over the door, opening it half way and leaning into the door frame not exposing the room at all. "Can I come in?" Kaminari says while trying to look over Bakugou's shoulder. "Now why the hell would I let you in?" Bakugou takes a sip of his red bull as Kaminari pushes into him, forcing himself into the room.

"Come on you asshole, I know what you're playing with out me!!" Kaminari says while running straight to the tv, turning on the second controller.

"You know that I have to do this for a job as well, right? It's Not just fun and games and waiting for your dumb ass to get out of class before playing it?" The blonde snares with a laugh, sitting next to the electric boy.

"No, I know that. But you know how badly I have been waiting for Borderlands 3 to come out and I cannot wait a second more! Who have you started playing? I really wanna test play Amara!" Kaminari couldn't speak any faster.

"I chose playing Vault Hunter Zane." Bakugou says while turning his phones ringer on. "That makes a lot of sense." Kaminari says with a snare and a laugh. "Hey, fuck you, you're no better! Explosives are explosives. Take em when you can!" Bakugou raises his voice, finishing off his can of red bull.

"Oh yeah, by the way! Since I am designated hall monitor this week while Iida is away on that mission for his brother's hero agency, I have some news for you!" Kaminari says while going through his character designs and moves. "Oh yeah, how great of news huh?" sarcasm written all over Bakugou's face.

"There is a student transferring from New York tomorrow and-" suddenly he's interrupted by Bakugou's grunting. "Hell no."

"Well, you see Bakugou, you don't really have a choice. You're the only guy in the male halls that has a vacancy since you and Kirishima had a falling out. He's lucky Midoriya even had extra space in his dorm to bunk him in." Kaminari rambles on. "I don't care dumb ass, his fault he's transferring in the middle of the semester. What'd he expect? There to just be a room open for him?" Bakugou spits off in irritation.

"Yes. And that room is this one." Kaminari says with a smart-ass look on his face. "Fuck off." Bakugou pushes the boy off the bed hitting the floor. "Hey! You made me step in my own toxic waste... Look, Bakugou, I know you don't want another room mate, or any for that matter. But I have to say you don't really have a choice. I don't know who he is, but I know the Dean allowed it because apparently his Dad is loaded with cash!! Hey!! Maybe we can become friends with him and convince him to like- you know.. buy us things!?" Kaminari says all while trying to revive himself in the game.

"I don't want to be friends with someone I practically live with. You know how that turned out last time. And I sure as hell don't give a shit about this guys' money." Bakugou continues to play the run throughs of his game. "Yeah, no you're probably right. He's probably a total loser who doesn't even give a shit about school, just does it for the parties and the chicks because his dad has the money to send him to University." Kaminari says while laughing under his breath.

"Let's fucking hope so.. maybe him being off at parties means he'll be gone a lot and stay at chicks houses and leave me the hell alone. He probably doesn't even speak Japanese that well since he's from New York." The blonde starts to over think the situation the more he talks about it. He can't accidentally fall for someone again just because they're room mates. Kirishima broke his heart last time, and he doesn't want to go through anything like that ever again.

"Yeah, you're probably right! Shit- that means he'll be the 'hot foreign exchange student' to all the chicks on campus! No fair, man!" Kaminari whines while banging his fingers into the the controller.

"Yeah, no fair. Hey, I think I'm gonna go grab some coffee. Feel free to stay and play solo if you want. I haven't started a Siren story line yet so, tell me how it goes. I'll be back later." Bakugou says as he stands from the bed and walks over to his coat rack, grabbing his leather jacket and lacing up his boots.

"You sure man? I can totally head out too if you want me to leave?" Kaminari says so hesitantly, as you can tell he really wants to stay and continue playing.

"Nah, you're good. If you do leave before I show up, just be sure to lock the door." The blonde says, grabbing his helmet, keys, and his wallet. "Sounds good, Bakugou!" Kaminari says confidently.

Bakugou shuts the door behind him, shoving his wallet in his coat pocket, and grabbing a cigarette from the breast pocket, placing in between his teeth. As he walks down the hallway, voices from that night when Kirishima left start to replay and take over his train of thought. He still hasn't gotten over it, even though it's been almost 6 months since the blonde confessed his feelings.

That was all in the past, and he was moving on from it. But the hateful words that Kirishima called him, dug a little deeper than any other insults ever had before. It was his vulnerable spot. Love made him vulnerable. Never again.

As he left the buildings doors, he had a ways to walk to the parking garage, so he lit his cigarette and started walking down the street to grab his bike. It wasn't very often that Bakugou got out for a ride. So even when he could take a train downtown for some coffee at his favorite coffee shop, he still loves to pull out his bike. Most everything he needs is either next door to the University or already on campus, so getting a ride in a couple times a month was therapeutic to say the least.

The blonde pinched the last bit of burning ash to the ground and ran his boot over the hot tobacco into the pavement, tossing the cigarette butt into the trash. He walked over to his bike and sat down on the leather seat, kicking up the kick stand letting his weight balance out the bike between his legs. He strapped on his helmet and started the ignition. The muffler was so loud in the parking garage it echoed between the near by buildings. He backed the bike up and out of the garage pulling onto the main highway, the breeze flowing through his helmet. As he sped up, the wind made his eyes water, so he flipped down his mirrored helmet visor and took off. Trying to clear his mind of all thoughts regarding Kirishima.

As for Kaminari, he stays at Bakugou's dorm starting a new story line for Bakugou's Beta run through review.