(Kirishima)

Literally everything burned.

That was all that he could think about to be honest. He forced himself to sit up, clenching his jaw as he did. The room was pitch black, the only light was the small amount of moonlight in the window. He stood up carefully, wincing harshly. His back seemed to be the main place that hurt. Which was understandable. He wasn't just cut, he was stabbed.

He looked in the mirror on the bathroom door, taking off the stupid hospital gown to see himself in just boxers. His chest was absolutely covered in bandages from his neck to his waist,only his right shoulder and arm not wrapped in the white fabric. His hair dangled in front of his eyes, obviously having lost it's geled spike.

"Bet they used that stupid antibiotic stuff on both of us. F*cking burns like a motherf*cking-" Kirishima looked over his shoulder in a hurry as Bakugou continued to say something extremely inappropriate. Bakugou's voice was extremely quiet, he wondered if that was intentional or not.

"Oh they put us in a room together-" Kirishima mumbled aloud. Bakugou was sitting up on his bed, head against the wall, he had already taken off the gown, he was covered in bandages as well, though he had sweat pants on.

The blonde motioned over to a chair on the far wall, another pair of sweatpants on it.

"Don't worry dumba*s. I still don't have another pair of glasses, all I know is you're not wearing pants, chill. I can't see your d*ck." He smirked. Kirishima scoffed and moved to grab the sweatpants and slipped them on. He stepped over to Bakugou's bed and sat down on the end of it, wincing once more.

Bakugou leaned over and grabbed their phones from the end table that sat in between their beds.

'you asked for us to be put in the same room ~B'

'I did~K'

'?~B'

'Figures that the one time you use punctuation is the one time it's legit the only thing you send.~K'

'something wrong with that f*cko ~B'

'Not at all.~K'

'answer ~B'

'I didn't want you to wake up confused again. Last time you woke up in a hospital alone... ~K'

The two boys looked at each other, Bakugou being the first to break eye contact with a grunt.

"I didn't ask for that."

"I know." Kirishima replied.

"I'm deaf you can't reply out loud dumba*s." Bakugou scolded, reaching up and running his fingers through his own hair.

'This is why you need to learn sign language. My battery is nearly dead, I won't be able to talk to you anymore.~K'

Bakugou glanced over the message and grunted once more. "Then f*cking go to bed. Either that or f*cking teach it to me dumba*s. No f*cking point in running down my battery." He spoke as he leaned forwards a bit, shifting so there was more room for Kirishima to sit in front of him.

Kirishima grinned brightly, moving to sit in front of Bakugou. "That's the man." He spoke excitedly, finally getting him to at least try this.

'Alright so I thought it would be cool for you to learn the words you use a lot.~K'

Bakugou smirked. "Kirishima, I swear if you do not show me the sign for 'die' and 'nerd' right now-" Kirishima cut him off as he held up his hands, the blonde raised a brow and huffed, motioning for Kirishima to do it.

He made the motions for the two words, repeating them both three or four times before he motioned for Bakugou to do it.

Kirishima had taken the time to learn a lot of signs that he figured Bakugou might like to know. Simply for the fact of; he was worried Bakugou would learn them and would tell everyone else they were nice things while they really weren't.

"And I'm assuming this is still suitable for f*ck you?" The blonde asked as he flipped Kirishima off, seemingly glad to have his new ability to insult people without them even knowing what he meant. Kirishima nodded and rubbed the back of his neck.

'Yeah, that works. Do you want to know the alphabet? It helps a lot when you don't know a sign for something and just need to write out the word.~K'

Bakugou frowned a bit at his phone as he set it to the side once more. "Fine." He grumbled quietly as he motioned for Kirishima to start.

And so that's what they did for hours, just sit, texting one another and Kirishima teaching Bakugou the signs he had learned over the past few weeks, only taking a break when someone came in to check on how they were doing.

~

"Goodmorning!" The nurse chirped as she stepped into the room with a tray of food, two plates sitting by one another.

Kirishima shifted on the bed and rubbed his eyes, sitting up to see Bakugou in front of him. The blonde raised a brow as Kirishima stared at him.

"D*mn right you fell asleep on my bed a*shole, apparently went into a f*cking coma because I couldn't f*cking wake you up." Bakugou grumbled before he looked to the nurse, eyeing the food she had.

Kirishima ignored that, waving his hand a bit at it and looking at the nurse. "Goodmorning." He greeted her warmly.

The nurse placed the tray on a small table on wheels, placing it in between the two beds. "Mhm! After you boys eat we'll go ahead and run tests, then we'll change your bandages. And Katsuki will be able to discuss what he wants for his hearing aids with the doctors." She smiled at them both and made her way to the door. "I'll be right outside if you two need anything." She offered before she disappeared.

Kirishima looked to the food and moved back over to his own bed, grabbing his phone and plugging it in on his way, plugging in Bakugou's as well while he was at it.

"What was she talking about? Fill me in f*cko." Bakugou said as he reached and took his plate, shoving a piece of toast in his mouth.

'H-e-a-r-i-n-g...a-i-d-s...~K'

Kirishima signed the two words out and motioned to his ears to further show it. Bakugou stared at him blankly. "Again..." He started simply, watching as Kirishima signed out the letters once more. "The f*cking hearing aids?" Bakugou questioned. Kirishima nodded.

The blonde frowned and nodded, eating a strawberry.

Kirishima shrugged and ate a spoonful of eggs before he looked up at a sudden question from Bakugou. "How the f*ck do you eat with teeth like those?" He questioned. Kirishima covered his mouth as he chuckled lightly. He motioned for Bakugou to wait a moment before he reached for his phone, Bakugou doing the same.

'Not that hard actually. Worst thing about the teeth is going through three toothbrushes a week.~K'

Kirishima moved his hand to his lips, hooking the wall of his mouth and showing that now all of his teeth were sharp, his molars were actually normal like everyone else's. Bakugou chuckled a bit and looked back to his phone. "I actually go through four. My mom absolutely f*cking despises me for it." He spoke without looking up again. He smiled ever so slightly.

It was a sight that the students of the school rarely ever got to see, yet Kirishima got to quite often.

"I remember how much that h*g used to yell at me for that back before we lived at the dorms. Now that we're at the dorms they just send me a new box full of toothbrushes every other week." Bakugou continued. He finally looked up from his phone and began to eat once more, seemingly pushing the memories away.

The boys then ate silently until the nurse returned and took their plates with a smile so soft and welcoming that even Bakugou seemed to use a little less language with her.

"Alright! We're going to change your bandages, who wants to go first?" She asked gently as she moved to go retrieve the bandaged from a cabinet in the corner of the room.

Kirishima motioned to Bakugou, pointing at his bandages and then showing '1 or 2'? Bakugou motioned for two and then went back to scrolling through his phone.

"I guess I'll be going first then." Kirishima moved forwards towards her, gently slamming his fists together.

"Alright! It's going to sting, so tell me if I need to stop and let you have a second." She told him gently. She took a pair of scissors from her little tray of medical supplies and began to cut through the bandages.

The sudden rush of cold air against his slightly damp skin wasn't pleasant, but otherwise it was almost refreshing to be able to breathe again. The bandages had been tighter than he had even realized.

"Oh.. looks like I forgot to grab the antibiotics and extra towels. I'm sorry, I'll be right back." She apologized, bowing her head to him before she quickly stepped out of the room.

Kirishima's red gaze trailed after her before he walked to stand in front of the mirror and examine himself. His back had a massive, deep, ugly cut right below his shoulder blades, then he had multiple bad burns on his arms.

He took a sharp breath as he felt warm hands on his back. Not touching the cut, but fingers tracing near to it.

"I'm sorry. I didn't realize- I couldn't hear anything. I f*cking f*cked up and made a sh*tty last minute decision that could have ended better if I hadn't of f*cked up." Bakugou said from behind him, taking his hands off of the boy's back.

There wasn't much point in saying anything to him, not when he couldn't hear any of it. Though this was the second time he'd apologized for something. Or at least the second time within the past while.

Kirishima turned around to look at him, just standing there, slouched over with a frown written across his face. The redhead moved over to where his phone was and picked it up, moving back over to where he was supposed to be standing for having his new bandages put on.

'Bakubro, dude, there's no need to apologize. I'm good. You got beat up worse than I did. But you better start smiling again, cause that nurse is really cute, and she looked like she's just interning here; meaning she's probably around our age. And the way she looks at you, you better perk up.~K'

"My g*d the novels never end..." Bakugou mumbled as he began reading, squinting a bit, frown deepening as he did. "Nothing about being manly and having to smile like All-Might? I'm going to smile for a girl I don't even know instead. That's great advice Sh*tty hair. That's a great way to f*cking feel better about f*cking letting my f*ckiNG BEST FRIEND GET F*CKING HURT. G*d d*mn piece of f*cking bullsh*t. Best way to get over the fact that it seems like Villains target me specifically and everyone else just f*cking happens to get involved in my sh*t to a point where we repeatedly end up being stuck in this f*cking hospital and can't f*cking have a normal life. But yeah I'll smile and flirt with a f*cking girl I'm not even interested in."

Kirishima winced as he began yelling furiously, tears welling up in his eyes. Bakugou had thrown his phone in the middle of when he was shouting and had flipped him off.

Now he was standing there, breathing furiously as tears welled up in his own eyes.

The nurse stood in the doorway. "I'm just going to go and come back later...." She said quietly. Kirishima nodded, but Bakugou looked over his shoulder to see where Kirishima's gaze had gone and walked over to her, both boys could see the fear in her eyes just at that.

"I'll take those. Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. I mean no offense to you. You are beautiful, and kind. I'm not mad at you." Bakugou told her softly. He took the medical equipment from her as she nodded softly and walked away.

That was the most out of character thing that Kirishima had ever heard. Then again, Bakugou said things that surprised people a lot.

The blonde moved back over and opened the packaging for the medicine. "Stop crying and let me fix you." He scolded, though it sounded more like growling in a way that was supposed to be nice but wasn't.

Kirishima turned towards the mirror and watched as Bakugou began to spread a cold medicine across his back. Kirishima winced. Bakugou hesitated and glared into the mirror at Kirishima.

Then he continued silently, spreading the medicine over the cut on his back and then over his arms. He took the bandages from the packaging and moved to stand in front of Kirishima.

"Bakugou." Kirishima said. Bakugou glanced up at him.

"Don't talk. Your breath is gross and I'm deaf dumba*s." Bakugou spoke in a dead serious tone. Kirishima nearly choked. Of course he wasn't able to brush his teeth that morning! He didn't have his stuff! And he would feel bad if he used what the hospital offered, they were really nice and he didn't want to ruin what they had.

Either way, he didn't open his mouth again. He simply let Bakugou wrap the bandages around him until he was once again covered up and then watched as he walked away, back to where he'd thrown his phone.

It was worse than broken, the screen was shattered and the screen was glitching out wildly. "G*d my parents are going to f*cking destroy me." He growled aloud. Kirishima remained silent and sat down on his own bed until the nurse returned.

"The doctors are ready to look at Katsuki's ears." She told them, looking at where Bakugou was trying to get his phone to work. "...do you guys still need a bit? I wouldn't want to get in the middle of a couples thing-" She cut off at the look on Kirishima's face.

"We're not a couple. Best friends. I'll tell him about the doctors." Kirishima wheezed out, about as red as his hair. He awkwardly stepped over to Bakugou and tapped his shoulder.

"The f*ck you want Sh*tty Hair..?" Bakugou grumbled quietly without looking up from his phone.

Kirishima tapped Bakugou's chin to get him to look up, making both boy actually turn a deep red as they met eyes.

Oh g*d.

Kirishima cleared his throat and motioned to where the nurse stood in the doorway and tapped his ears. "Time for your hearing aid tests." Kirishima told him, trying to say all the words clearly.

"Your breath still smells bad." Bakugou commented, gaze lingering on Kirishima's lips.

At this point Kirishima lost it and grabbed his shoulders, pushing him towards the door to go with the nurse.

"I swear we're both straight." Kirishima assured the nurse as she smiled at both of them. The only reason Kirishima was so flustered was because of what she'd said. He had never considered Bakugou to be anything more than a friend.

"Get him a mint or something when you can." Bakugou grumbled to her as he motioned to Kirishima and shoved his hands in his pockets again.

The nurse smiled and nodded, a caring look moving between both boys before she led Bakugou away.

Kirishima sat down and died inside a little bit.