He sat on that stupid hospital chair thingie that seemed like it was a chair but also seemed like a bed.

He had no f*cking clue what it was called.

All he knew was that he was bored as f*ck waiting for his parents to talk to the doctors.

Today was the day he was supposed to get his hearing aids.

Or at least test them. He would only be able to keep them if he could actually hear, if he couldn't then they were going to need to do a whole bunch more tests and figure out what was wrong.

D*mn science nerds better not f*ck up his sh*t.

He had obviously dragged Kirishima along, wanting to have his translator there for all of it, he didn't really want to sit and text his parents everything, plus they would leave a whole bunch of stuff out, and he wanted to know every word that was said.

He still hadn't talked to Kirishima about the whole gay thing. Though did he really need to? As long as the redhead didn't make a move then they'd be fine. Bakugou didn't need a relationship. He had his own goals and things he wanted.

So Kirishima was sitting in one of the normal chairs, watching as Bakugou's parents talked to the doctor. Same one as always. He didn't even bother learning his name, or even glancing at his nametag.

For once his red gaze trailed down. 'Pinlet'. He raised a brow. That was a weak-a*s name.

The doctor turned to Kirishima a few moments later and said things, Bakugou grunted quietly as he watched Kirishima turn red once more, smirking ever so slightly. Doc must have asked if he was his boyfriend.

Bakugou wanted to say yes just to see his reaction, though he didn't want his parents to freak out either. He could already hear them; 'You came out to us in a f*cking doctor's office!? Katsuki I swear to f*cking g*d-'. He shivered slightly at the thought. She was so annoying sometimes.

'He wants to show you how to put in Hearing Aids, and how to turn them on, along with how to take care of them.~Kiri'

'he asked if you were my boyfriend didnt he~B'

'Mhm~Kiri'

'Pinlet: "You're going to put these in your ears every morning and take them out every night. It isn't too big of a deal to sleep with them in, it's just not recommended, don't do it often. They aren't allowed in water, at least the ones you're getting aren't. So don't try to shower with them on. It's alright if they get wet just- don't fully submerge them in water ok?" Not exactly what he said but pretty close.~Kiri'

"What are side effects? Will it have a big effect on hero work?" Bakugou questioned, gaze moving between all the people in the room. Doc nodded, obviously sighing a little bit and looking to Kirishima to make sure he was ready.

'Pinlet: "There are many side effects that you should be aware of. It's going to be a large change for you and it'll take some time to get used to.You may end up with frequent headaches, high pitched ringing sounds from time to time, the aids may cause you to be itchy, and your ears may grow uncomfortable from time to time, feeling like they're clogged and achy. Though the biggest differences are going to be your internal sounds, such as your chewing, talking, and sneezing, coughing, etc. You're used to hearing your voice right away, but the hearing aids might have a slight delay. It's going to be a lot to get used to. As for your hero work, we'll have to discuss that more when you're being placed in real hero situations more. But loud sounds are going to hurt, your quirk is explosions? Be absolutely sure to turn your hearing aids down before times where you know things are going to be loud." ~Kiri'

Bakugou sighed at that, looking over to his parents. They had mentioned it when he first went deaf that there was the possibility that he would have to drop out of the hero course if it came down to it.

That was the last thing he wanted. It would be giving up. It would be letting his deafness win. He refused to let that happen.

Though now, he was somewhat concerned about his future at U.A. He was going to have trouble using his own quirk.

"That's ok. I can live with that. It's not going to be a big problem as long as I'm smart with it, and if I f*ck up then it'll be bad. Otherwise it's just f*ckin' annoying right?" Bakugou questioned, seeing his mother turn a furious shade of red as the doctor chuckled at his use of language.

The man nodded to him and then looked to Kirishima again.

'Pinlet: "You're correct. You should be fine. I'm going to go get them now, did you have any other questions?" I personally want to know what will happen if you forget to turn them down or take them out.~Kiri'

"Then ask dumba*s..." Bakugou grunted and looked to the doctor. "The dimwit wants to know what happens if I leave them in for a few days without taking them out, or if I take a shower or two with them on." He droned out. He assumed it was about the same things.

'Pinlet; "Headaches, echos, could cause the hearing aids to stop working, or could cause them to be pushed too far into your ear and hurt yourself. Might give you an electric shock. Things like that. I trust that you'll be able to handle it. In emergency situations where you don't have time to pull them out -and pull them out properly- then I just would say turn them all the way down so they at least aren't echoing the noises around you." So in other words, pay attention.~Kiri'

Bakugou nodded once more and motioned to the door for the doctor to go get the hearing aids, his parents following him out to ask more questions he supposed. So he turned to look back at Kirishima instead.

"I'm not going to be stupid with them Sh*tty-" He paused and grunted. "-why the f*ck did you stop wearing your hair Sh*tty?" He questioned as he leaned back in his chair, placing his arms behind his head as he waited for his phone to vibrate.

'Just didn't think to spike it up this morning is all. Spent most of the morning talking to Sero, Iida and Todoroki. You kind of asked me to come to this last minute.~Kiri'

"I did. Didn't think you'd actually come to be honest. You always seem to f*ckin end up showing up though. D*mn nerd." Bakugou chuckled softly, looking to Kirishima in the corner of his vision, showing off his sharp teeth once more.

Both boys sat up and straightened themselves out, looking to the doctor.

He clicked open a small box, looking over the green hearing aids. The blonde's gaze snapped to his parents, who were both smiling at him. They had gotten his hearing aids to look like his grenades from his hero uniform.

He felt his lips tug up into the smallest of smiles as he looked back to the doctor.

'He said he's gonna put them in for you the first time and then explain it to you once you can hear with some example ones.~Kiri'

"That's fine." Bakugou said as he turned his head to let the doctor put them in. He hissed a bit at the touch but didn't move. He felt a small sting and then that was it. They were both in his ears.

His parents and Kirishima grew close, smiling at him as though this was some huge deal.

"G*d. Calm down dimwits. It's not like I've been f*cking deaf my whole life. I'm not going to cry or some sh*t. Unless it's over f*cking being able to hear your annoying a*s voices again.." he grumbled as he stared at them blankly.

His mother obviously hissed at him and then looked to the doctor for permission. She reached for the hearing aids after the doctor nodded to show she could turn them on.

"Katsuki f*cking Bakugou I swear to f*cking g*d if you ever pull sh*t like this again you're going to make me have a heart attack." His mother spoke, so gently, yet tears welled up in her eyes and it was obvious that she was dead serious.

Oh f*ck he lied.

Oh f*ck he was crying.

F*ck.

He pulled his mother into a tight hug, listening to every sound it caused as she cried. "Stop crying you h*g." He growled as he cried just as much as she did. It was weird, the slight delay on his voice. And how it f*cking sounded different from what he was used to.

He eventually pulled away, gently fist bumping his father before he rubbed his hands over his eyes, wiping away the tears. He looked to Kirishima and smirked. "Oi Kiri~ You best f*ckin' laugh right now or I f*ckin' swear to g*d." Bakugou said as he slid from the chair and moved towards the slightly red shark boy.

Kirishima shook his head with a grin.

Bakugou grunted and looked back to his parents and the doctor. "Give me a minute?" Bakugou asked for, watching as they all nodded and left the room.

He reached forwards and grabbed Kirishima, one hand on his jaw and the other on his waist.

He nearly laughed when Kirishima squeaked. "G*d you're such a bottom but I'm f*cking so glad I can hear your pitiful noises now. You're really not going to talk to me? You just gonna keep sending novel sized texts forever?" Bakugou questioned. Kirishima shook his head.

"I'm not a bottom." He grumbled.

Bakugou scoffed. "The first words I hear from you have to be 'I'm not a bottom', that's f*ckin great. But if you're not a bottom what the f*ck does that make me? A bottom? F*ck no. I'm a f*ckin top dumba*s." He joked, chuckling as Kirishima shoved him away.

"You guys can come in and explain it to him now!" Kirishima called, Bakugou wincing at the slightly loud noise. That was weird. That was f*cked up. He didn't like that.

The doctors and his parents returned while Kirishima stated he was going to go get a drink and disappeared down the hallway.

"So you can hear well?" The doctor questioned. Bakugou nodded. "Alright well I'm going to do a few tests to see how much it's helping, raise your hand each time you can hear it. And while I do that, I'll explain how to put them in and take them out properly." He spoke, moving on to continue showing him how to take them out using example hearing aids, from time to time he would snap his fingers or drum his fingers on the counter, subtle things. Each time, Bakugou would raise his hand with a tired sigh.

"And that should be it, if you all have any problems you can contact me and we'll make an appointment, should you have any problems with the hearing aids not working at all, we can look into more serious- and unfortunately more expensive solutions. Aside from that, you all should be able to go home." The doctor said as he began to make his way out after offering a wide smile. He paused and turned around once more. "Oh and I'll send in a nurse, we received your new glasses yesterday morning, so you should be able to take those home as well." He added before leaving.

His parents moved back over to him after the doctor was gone, smiling at him. "G*d you guys are f*cking cry babies. I haven't been able to hear for what? Two months? It was sh*t but g*d. You guys act like I've never heard before." Bakugou grumbled at their looks.

His dad simply reached out and ruffled his hair, making Bakugou hiss. "One day you'll stop pretending you don't care, Katsuki." He said tiredly. Bakugou went to open his mouth again but stopped as his mother showed him a picture on her phone. It was the one that he'd sent her a few days ago.

"Why the f*ck are you showing this to me? I've already seen it- f*ck, I'm in it." He asked her confusedly. She smiled gently.

"What are their names?" She asked. Bakugou grunted and looked to the picture.

"I f*cking barely know them. That's Pikachu, or Sparky- oh or Dunce Face." Bakugou chuckled a slight bit as he pointed at the yellow-haired boy. "They all always call him 'Kam', so I think his name is Kaminari. I have to check my phone... The Pink one is Alien Chick, or Acid, pretty sure her name is Mina. F*ckin, I only know that because it's such a f*ckin' stupid-a*s name. That one's Tape Freak, Soy Sauce, or uh.. sh*t.. Sero? Maybe. I don't f*cking know." He grumbled as he shoved his hands in his pockets. His mother looked to the picture again.

"And the redhead? The one with his arm around you taking the picture? The wonderful young man who came to help you today?" His mother asked with a raised brow.

"That's Sh*tty Hair." Bakugou grinned, red eyes lingering on the boy in the picture. "Sharky, Teeth, Red, Red Riot, Rock. He's a dumba*s I swear to g*d. But his name is Kirishima. He's the moron that dragged me around to meet all those other idiots. I've been tutoring him for months, cause his f*cking dumb a*s can't keep up with his classes. Bullsh*t too be honest. He's my f*cing best friend though. Absolutely hate him- can't stand him. But he's saved my a*s a few times. He's a manly little f*ck." He shrugged, gaze moving back to his smiling parents. "WHY THE F*CK ARE YOU GUYS CRYING?" He shouted as he looked at them confusedly. They were all teary eyed!

He scoffed as they spoke. "Our baby has friends and a boyfriend."

"He's not my boyfriend. They're barely even my friends. They're just my idiots..." His words didn't seem to have much effect on his parents.

He grumbled and slid off the chair, making his way towards the door to leave his weepy parents in the room to cry by themselves.

"Katsuki!" A woman's voice called his name, his gaze snapped over to where Kirishima was talking to the nurse they had both gotten to know so well.

"Purple." Bakugou grumbled as he made his way over to them.

"Wait, you heard me? Oh! You got your hearing aids today!" The small woman leaned towards him to look at the small devices in his ears. "Grenades? That's fancy. Do they work well?" She asked.

"Your voice is much higher pitched than I thought it was going to be...." Bakugou mumbled, motioning for her to take a step back and not be so close. His gaze moved to Kirishima. "My parents think we're on our way to getting married now." He informed him before he looked back to the pouting girl.

"Well I get that a lot. It's my quirk! Soothing voice! That's why I mainly work in the pediatric areas of the hospital! Kids are usually really scared when they come here so hearing a voice like mine calms them down! I can slightly alter it to be more pleasing to adults but it mainly works with kids since I wasn't professionally trained!" She exclaimed. Bakugou kind of tuned her out halfway through her talking.

"You talk as much as Kiri texts..." He huffed. It was- admittedly very weird. Hearing again.

He could hear the commotion of the room, the voice speaking through the speaker, requesting that doctors go to the emergency room. He could hear footsteps, his own breathing, Kirishima taking a sip from his drink, the small hum of a pout Sura gave out.

He almost wanted to turn it all back off, return to the calming silence he had almost begun to enjoy. Not yet... He'd try to adjust back to it for now.

Instead of focusing on the noise around him, he focused on the way Sura talked with her hands, making stupid motions every time she spoke. He watched how Kirishima had grown flustered at his comment of them being married but had quickly recovered and continued on his conversation with the nurse, showing off his sharp teeth and pounding his fists together.

"Sura to Surgery room three, Sura to surgery room three." The overhead voice thingie spoke, causing the short woman to jump up, remembering that she was on the clock.

"That's right! I have surgery with Heyan!" She yipped, quickly apologizing to both of them before running off, only to return a moment later, take Bakugou's hand and put a box on it, muttering a line of sorry's as she ran off again.

The two boys looked to the box as he opened it.

"Ah, f*ck yeah. Time to f*cking clean these every ten minutes. Piece of sh*t.." Bakugou muttered as he examined the glasses and slid them on. "Oh f*ck I forgot what it was like to see." He huffed as he looked around the room, his gaze landing on Kirishima, brows furrowing together.

"Bakubro?" Kirishima questioned confusedly.

"Your scar. How did you get it?" Bakugou questioned, motioning above his eye to show what scar he was talking about.

"Oh!" Kirishima began, confusion melting away as he rubbed the back of his neck and grinned. "It's how I discovered my quirk when I was a kid. I was little and was rubbing my eye, my hand hardened and I cut my eye up real bad." He explained happily. Bakugou nodded slowly.

"Katsuki! You boys ready to head back to school?" The Old Man called from behind them.

"We'll be there in a second Old Man!" Bakugou snapped back at him, watching as the calm man swiftly nodded and walked away with Bakugou's mother. The blonde boy grunted and looked back to Kirishima.

"Your parents are really cool bro. Your dad is really chill and your mom is just like you in literally every single way." Kirishima chuckled once more. Bakugou stared at him and looked down at his own chest, motioning slightly. "Oh! You're obviously more manly though!" Kirishima quickly slid in.

Bakugou rolled his eyes at him as he shoved his hands in his pockets. "Let's go, Shark." Bakugou ordered, turning on his heel to follow in the direction his parents had gone in.

"Aye Bakubro!" Kirishima called, Bakugou glanced over his shoulder with a slight scowl.

"The f*ck you want Kirishima!?" He growled. Kirishima simply smiled.

"That's nice. Been a long time since I got to do that." The redhead chuckled as he moved to catch up to the blonde.

"Such a stupid nerd.." Bakugou muttered, even though he smiled.

~

The moment they walked into their dorms Bakugou was hit with a headache.

He hissed in pain as everyone ran up to greet them.

"Kirishima! Kachaan!" Oh g*d. Just when he thought he never had to hear that voice again. Sh*tty Deku just had to ruin his good day.

"How was the doctor's appointment!?" The invisible one asked.

"How did you know he had an appointment today- Kam." Kirishima's gaze moved to Pikachu, who was slowly sliding away.

"Sorry, couldn't help it. How did it go though? Did you get to see his parents!? Or that hot nurse you mentioned?" Pikachu asked excitedly from a few steps away.

Kirishima chuckled softly, Bakugou standing behind him quietly. His head was throbbing. The car ride had been so full of noise, and now everyone was talking everywhere. His brain had adjusted to silence. So much noise all at once was more than f*ckin painful.

"It was good! He obviously got new glasses. I did get to meet his parents. Heckin great people. And I did see Sura today." Kirishima explained, easily making it to where Bakugou didn't have to talk. Which he was more than happy not to. He wanted to go to sleep. Or at least turn these d*mn hearing aids off or take them out. F*cking things hurt.

"Are his parents anything like... him?" Floaty girl asked. Kirishima nodded.

"Mhm. He's the opposite of his dad. But him and his mom are exactly the same. Honestly scary." The redhead chuckled once more, continuing to answer any questions that they had, never mentioning that he had gotten his hearing aids. Which was good.

Bakugou would prefer that they didn't speak directly to him anyways. It was better to have Kirishima anyways. The people in the class were all so annoying anyway.

"There's two of them.. That's literally one of the most terrifying things we've had the pleasure of learning about Bakubro." Sero chuckled, the other joining it. Bakugou scoffed but didn't say anything, closing his eyes at the loud laughter, practically hiding behind Kirishima now. He reached up and turned down his hearing aids slightly.

Kirishima noticed that and looked back to the others. "Yeah. I think we're going to go study though. We have another test coming up right? Plus the homework on our quirks weaknesses? Going to have to study." He chuckled and pumped his fists together, looking back to Bakugou with a knowing smile.

"Took you long enough F*cko..." Bakugou muttered as he moved past everyone to follow Kirishima upstairs, flopping on his bed the very second he got to his room. "Text me. I can't f*cking stand these things right now." Bakugou told the redhead as he took the hearing aids and put them in a small box on his nightstand.

'What happened? You alright bro?~Kiri'

"F*cking head hurts... too much noise." He spoke. G*d it was sh*tty that he couldn't hear himself speak again but he was more than grateful for the silence. "Massive headache. It's like my ears are exploding."

'Oh. D*mn bro. Guess you got used to it being quiet huh?~Kiri'

Bakugou nodded slightly as Kirishima sat on the bed, scooting to lean against the headboard next to where Bakugou's head was, eyes drifting closed as he sighed. "Probably just going to f*cking go to sleep early... You didn't need to actually study right?" He questioned, opening his eyes slowly as he took his phone back out to look at the texts.

It was stupid, texting a boy who was literally sitting so close that Bakugou could touch him. He just couldn't handle the stupid a*s hearing aids right now.

'I do, but I can just study while you take a nap. You can correct me on everything tomorrow.~Kiri'

Bakugou huffed at that. "You take the worst f*cking notes I've ever seen. It's a wonder you're even writing stuff that has something to do with the class." He chuckled, reaching up to shove Sharky's jaw playfully.

'Man, that stuff is hard! I'm mostly just good with physical training, but actual classes bro, that stuff hits hard. Thank g*d I've got you and the others in the class. If I didn't I'd have failed forever ago.~Kiri'

"You're failing even with our help dumba*s. Gotta push harder than you are, go plus ultra and all that stupid sh*t. Be a man. Whatever phrase works for you." Bakugou shrugged, blinking his eyes closed once more. Kirishima shifted on the bed a few moments later, making Bakugou open his eyes again. The redhead was just staring at the window. "Go study." Bakugou grumbled, nudging the other boy as the blonde shifted to lay on his side, facing Kirishima.

The redhead shifted once more, slouching on the bed so far it was nearly laying down.

Bakugou groaned as Kirishima sent another text, opening his eyes and checking his phone as it vibrated.

'I will. Sleep well bro. I'll make sure they save a plate of dinner for you to have tomorrow.~Kiri'

Sharky moved to get off the bed, giving Bakugou a smile as he did.

The blonde grabbed the other by the shirt and tugged him back down to lay next to him, being nose to nose at this point. Kirishima flared up red, though Bakugou just seemed as calm as ever.

"Make sure when you take notes that you don't just write about how bored you are dumba*s. Take notes on what you know you're going to need to know. Don't study for too long because I already know we're just going to go over it again. And don't save me any food if one of our idiots make it. Those morons can't cook for sh*t." He said calmly before gently letting Kirishima go, allowing him to go off and do what he pleased.

The boy didn't move though. "You're in a gay panic aren't you?" Bakugou questioned as he raised a brow and smirked. Kirishima made the motion for 'little bit' and Bakugou shook his head, rolling his eyes as he rolled over to go to sleep, feeling the bed shift as Kirishima finally climbed out a little while later.