Are You Reading My Lips or Are You Just Staring? || Kiribaku AU

Two

Kirishima never had the chance to answer, Bakugou had stormed off before he could completely gather his thoughts.

The rest of the redhead's day was spent trying to find him in breaks, trying to talk to him in class, but it was all to no avail.

He had racked his brain many times over for a reason why Bakugou would act like that. Of course Kirishima knew he'd never intentionally mock anyone but Bakugou didn't know that and no matter what, he was going to make sure he did one way or another.

It was the third day. Third day of being completely and totally ignored, when he decided to reach out to other people in class for any kind of help. Kirishima considered himself friendly enough and he had definitely already made some friends so it wasn't too much of a task.

First, he asked the person who sat to his right in class, who's name he'd learned as Sero.

"Do you know where Bakugou lives, by any chance?" It was out of the blue at the lunch break, Sero cocking a brow as he tried to understand what the intent was.

"I know he's a bit of an asshole but you better not plan on hunting him down or something."

"I'm not! It's for a good cause, okay? I think it's been pretty obvious that I'm trying to befriend him." Eijirou insisted, unable to help the little chuckle that escaped at Sero's comment.

"Well I don't, but if you really wanna know then you're better asking Midoriya. Him and Bakugou are like, childhood friends. More like 'friends?' really but you get the point."

"I'll do that! Thanks, dude."

The way Kirishima visibly perked up was noticeably strange, Sero didn't even bother actually questioning it. He had his fair share of attempts at getting on Bakugou's good side but eventually gave up.

"I'm not covering for you if his body is found."

Kirishima rolled his eyes, jumping slightly as someone took a seat next to him.

"I will." Kaminari inserted himself without actually knowing who or what they were talking about, causing the other two to laugh.

Kirishima wasted no time. From what he knew of Midoriya, he was really nice. They got along quite well so it was really a surprise that him and Bakugou grew up together, since the latter was so... absolutely nothing like the former in every conceivable way possible.

But also, Midoriya didn't have the exact tinges in his accent that Bakugou did. Slowly but surely Kirishima had began piecing things together, noting multiple different things as strange that started connecting into a conclusion, it was just a fuzzy one at the moment.

"Hey, Midoriya! I was just wondering something about Bakugou. You guys are childhood friends, yeah?"

It was after school had ended and the class had slightly emptied. Midoriya waited for Uraraka and Iida so they could walk home together every night so as soon as Bakugou had left the room Kirishima made his move.

"Oh, yeah! I've known Kacchan pretty much since I was born. It's not often people ask me about him," his reaction was extremely similar to Sero's, suspicious rising on his face and in his tone, "so what's up?"

"Great, so, I was just wondering if you know where he lives. Before you ask, no, I'm not planning on hurting anyone." After the way Midoriya looked, he just wanted to make sure that seemingly obvious point was stated considering how Sero had responded earlier. Honestly, even if worst came to worst and this failed, Kirishima could still drop to the level of 'accidentally' following him. He really didn't want to have to reach that point, though.