"I'm sorry again for ruining your get together with your friends, dad..." [____] sadly looked outside the car's tinted window. "I know tonight meant a lot to you..."

"Sweetie, don't worry about it." [____]'s father reassured her as he drove home after an odd ending to the dinner they had attended.

After a few seconds of silence, her dad cleared his throat. "I mean, listen honey, if it really bothers you maybe we can come back some other time to properly apologize to Masaru & Mitsuki. I'm sure they'll understand that it was all just a big misunderstanding."

'As if I'll ever be able to step inside that home again after tonight...'

💥🌸flashback 🌸💥

"Do you like me or what?"

After a while of letting his question sink in, [____] dry heaved.

She had already eaten more spicy food than she could handle in one day so she was starting to feel some sort of blockage on her throat.

To her, it was just a symptom of a mild case of acid reflux. However, to Katsuki, it looked like she was gagging at the thought of her liking him.

"You could just use your damn words, you know!"

She swallowed her own saliva and shook her head lightly. "Sorry. I ... I'm just a little weirded out, like, why would you ask me that? Why would I like you? You have no manners!"

"You always look like if you got something to say but you just stand there looking like an idiot instead. You annoy me."

[____] fake gasped. "I annoy you? But you're the one always challenging me to fight like if we're still little kids!"

"It's because your folks are probably always praising you like if you're something special. You know, whenever I see you....I see nothing but a stupid little crybaby."

"Wha— a crybaby?" She visibly frowned at the childish insult as he stood up. "I don't have time for this. I'll finish cleaning and then I'm out of here."

Once she was finally done picking up most of the mess; she locked eyes with him again.

He was sitting on his bed, holding on to a clean t-shirt he had reached from his closet. "So? You don't like me?"

"I don't. Quit asking."

"Then what the fuck are you still doing in my room?"

His obnoxious behavior was almost incredible. How could a person be such a jerk and at the same time be so...

'Hot. He is hot.'

[____] had to take a second just so she could catch her breath after watching Katsuki take off his shirt right in front of her.

'Does he not care?! That I am still standing here?! How much more indecent can he be?!'

"I'm going to go shower. Make sure you close the door when you're done staring and take everything downstairs." He gave instructions as he walked towards her in an attempt to make [____] feel more nervous.

He noticed how red her cheeks looked even when she kept her eyes shut tightly. It made him feel a little reluctant to his scheme.

Katsuki took a chance and licked his lips before lightly planting a kiss on hers for the first time.

He had never kissed a girl before, but somehow always imagined it would come naturally to him and he would be great at it, much like anything he believes he does. & Even if it was just a simple peck.

'It's sticky...And a little spicy...but they're very soft.'

He had his eyes opened the entire time though it was only because he couldn't wait to see her reaction and make fun of it.

Anticipating for new feelings to become apparent, Katsuki waited for [____] to respond.

Even after he backed away, her eyes remained closed. "W-Why did you do that for?! Are you still half naked?!"

"Lighten up, you prude. It's just muscles."

Out of anger, she managed to finally open her eyes to face the blond. "You kissed me!!"

"You noticed?" He sarcastically asked. "How impressive."

Drowning in an endless amount of emotions, [____] dropped the tray again, this time on purpose. Making the carpet dirtier than before.

"Hey! Pick that up!"

"No! You do it this time!"

"What the hell is your problem?!"

[____] lightly gasped. This guy was acting as if stealing someone's first kiss wasn't a big deal. "You can't just do that to others and expect no sort of reaction coming from them!!"

"You didn't have to drop that shit again, now my room is gonna smell like curry 'cause of you."

"You are missing my point!"

"Your point is fucking stupid. A peck. It was just a peck, alright? So get over it because I'm leaving."

"Where are you going?!"

"To take a shower. I got food all over me thanks to you." He walked off but stopped right in front of his bedroom door just to mess around one last time. "By the way, that was my first kiss and you owe me for making it suck real bad."

"I— I don't owe you anything! I didn't ask for it!" Angry with herself, [____] turned her hands into fists and dwelled on how disappointing her plan on having Katsuki apologize to her had ended.

Abruptly, she used her quirk to bring her grade school bully back into his room through a portal. "You should at least apologize!"

"I'm not doing shit." He scoffed, unamused that he was transported back into his previous position in a blink of an eye. "Neither of us liked the kiss, so you should forget it."

"I'm talking about grade school! You should apologize for tormenting me!"

"Ahh?!" He mockingly smiled. "I don't know what you're talking about. Now, move."

He was able to take a single step away from her until [____] would bring him back again. They followed these steps about three or four times before he got annoyed and aimed a small explosion at her.

In a reflex, she dodged the strike by sending it off to another place she didn't care much about. She would normally be able to control where she can open these doors but due to her emotions stirring out of control whenever the blond was around, she had no idea where Katsuki's attack ended up.

That was until she heard a loud burst and her father's squawks from downstairs. "It burns!!"

'Damn, I couldn't think fast enough! I didn't know where to send it to, though! I don't know any vacant places around here!'

Forgetting about Katsuki for a moment, [____] hurried downstairs to view the scene she had accidentally created. Her father's red hair was on fire.

"Honey, help me get the bucket from the garage! We need to put it out!" Mr. Bakugo was freaking out while his wife searched the cupboards for something.

[____] walked towards the kitchen's sink to open a portal under the faucet, letting all the running water fall down onto her dad.

"I found it!" Mitsuki finally pulled out one of the many fire extinguishers she hides around her home but noticed there was no need for it anymore. "Oh?"

"Aaaah, sweet relief!" The red haired man sighed in almost pleasure.

"I'm sorry, Manato! I don't know how it happened but I know for a fact that was my son's explosion that showed up from the roof and on your head!" Mr. Bakugo bowed to his old friend in an apologizing manner.

"Katsuki's?" The guy's blonde mother raised an eyebrow. "How did it come from there, though?"

"No it's okay, I'm sure my daughter had something to do with it as well if it appeared out of nowhere. Maybe they were trying to pull a prank on this old man." [____]'s dad laughed it off before he touched the back of his head. "Eh? Is this a bald spot?"

The girl, after letting her dad worry about his new hair-do, finally spoke up. "Not a prank. Although...It is my fault. It was an accident, but I sincerely apologize for the trouble!"

She knelt down and got ready to bow, but Mitsuki stopped her from doing so, "[____], please stand."

"How was it able to expand as it fell, though? It looked so much smaller when I first saw it." Mr. Bakugo wondered aloud about something nobody else witnessed.

"Who cares about that! My hair, Masaru! My hair it's gone!" Manato kept touching his scalp, almost crying. "[____]-chan! Don't look at me right now! Daddy's hair is ugly!"

'Out of all things my dad could say in a situation like this...this is what he's worried about...'

"So it Katsuki did it; I'll have no choice but to ground him for months, then! Hey, idiot son! Come over here!" Mitsuki didn't wait for his response, she walked upstairs as she yelled it out. "You are grounded, mister! Here I am, thinking you're too old to be pulling pranks like these! Hey! Do you hear me!?"

"Manato...[____]....I'm really sorry if my son has caused you two any trouble but I think it's best if we call it a night, for now..."

💥🌸end of flashback💥🌸

"Your mother is going to cry when she sees my hair..." Manato shivered in fear as he thought about his beautiful wife being disgusted by him. "But still...Masaru's son is really something. Isn't he?"

"He is something, alright..." [____] grit her teeth while she said it. "Really irritating."

"What was that?" Her father asked, "I couldn't hear you."

"Nothing, dad...Also, you shouldn't worry about mom....In her mind, there's nothing money and a shopping spree can't fix..."

"Aha, that's true."

[____] searched her dark blue purse for her favorite tube of lip gloss & as she applied a layer of it, she remembered what Katsuki's lips felt like.

'For such a loud guy....He kissed very gently...'

'Why did he do it?'