Going to bed so early the previous night, he woke up a few hours earlier than normal. He grunted as he sat up, reaching for his glasses and sliding them on. He didn't even remember taking them off the previous night.

He reached for his hearing aids and stared at them tiredly.

"F*ck you. Little rude sh*ts..." He mumbled to them as he took them from the box and carefully put them in, turning them up and snapping his fingers to test the sound. He didn't dare make his little mini explosions. He didn't want to risk another bad headache.

He changed clothes to be in a simple black tank top and baggy pants, similar to the ones he had for his hero uniform.

He shoved his phone in his pocket and brought himself out of his room to go to the room next door. He simply pushed the door open, knowing there was no possible way Kirishima was already awake.

He moved over towards the bed and moved to kick the bed, pausing instead. He smirked and glanced at the door. There was no way anyone else was up at this hour, it was barely even four in the morning.

He looked to the sleeping boy once more and carefully moved over him to be on the bed next to him, slipping his arms around Kirishima's middle.

Bakugou swore he wasn't gay. He just liked to see the stupid redhead get flustered. He took his glasses back off and carefully placed them on Kirishima's nightstand, watching as the objects on the far side of the room became unrecognizable.

"Kiri~" He hummed in the boy's ear, he honestly thought that would be enough to wake the boy up and make him realize what was going on. But instead, Kirishima simply turned his head towards Bakugou's, rolling over to face him, eyes still closed.

"Yeah bro?" He whined out tiredly.

Oh. That wasn't exactly what Bakugou had expected.

"Wake up." Bakugou spoke, at this point not knowing if he was still going along with his little tease or was serious that he wanted the boy in front of him to wake up. "F*ck-" He whispered as Kirishima groaned and instead of getting up, wrapped his arms around Bakugou, burying his head into the blonde's chest.

"Tired. Stayed up late studying." Sharky mumbled.

"G*d you really don't realize- Kirishima. F*cko. Wake up." Bakugou said seriously. Kirishima tilted his head up more, as though he was looking at Bakugou, but his eyes were still closed. His breath gently moved over Bakugou's neck.

By now the blonde was actually turning red.

"Five more minutes-"

"-Kirishima! You f*cking gay a*shole. Get your a*s out of bed." Bakugou shoved him off the bed before quickly scrambling to get himself out of it, grabbing his glasses and quickly sliding them on. "Well I regret that whole f*cking thing.." He muttered to himself.

Kirishima groaned in pain as he sat up and rubbed his head, only then seeming to realize what had just happened.

"Bakubro?" He asked as he pushed himself up to his feet.

"Here to appease your hella f*cking gay fantasy apparently..." Bakugou mumbled as he straightened out his shirt.

"Oh sh*t." Kirishima turned a dark shade of red. Bakugou nodded slowly.

"Yeah you just entirely proved to me that you're a bottom. Get up and get dressed, we're going hiking. I'm going to get the other morons." Bakugou said as he moved back to the door.

"Hiking? Again? Don't we have school today?" Kirishima asked as he looked to his phone, checking the time.

"Yeah, so hurry up dumba*s. We only have a few hours." Bakugou spoke as he moved to go to find the other three's bedrooms. He simply kicked their beds and yelled at them to wake up.

"What the hell man?" Pikachu had groaned when he sat up.

"You just walked into a girl's room with no care!?" Pinky had shouted as she had covered herself with a blanket.

"Dude- it's like three in the morning." Tape had whined.

He didn't give a f*ck.

"Get your a*s out of bed." He'd simply said to each of them.

~

"Wait- you can hear us?" Alien questioned as she rubbed her eyes. Bakugou nodded simply, looking at where his four idiots were leaning against each other in a lazy attempt to sleep standing up.

Bakugou tapped his hearing aids. "Got them yesterday. Don't you f*cking tell another soul. I don't need them talking to me. It was f*cking great to be able to ignore them all." Bakugou ordered as he looked back to his phone, he had ordered a ride for them.

"Do we /have/ to go?" Tape whined like a child. Bakugou nodded.

"I've only ever taken Kirishima hiking, I want you f*cking losers to see my favorite mountain to climb... to repay for all the sh*t you guys did while I couldn't hear.." The blonde mumbled. The light on his door, the learning sign language, the taking notes for him in class and being sure that he never felt left out or unaware of a situation.

They were all f*cking suck-ups but they at least made life pretty f*cking easy for him when it was supposed to be difficult.

"Don't make it all nice and sweet! Now it's hard to be grumpy and tired..." The pink one whined.

Bakugou grunted. "Freaking nerds.. Let's go." He turned on his heel and led the way to the front of the school grounds where they would be picked up.

~

(Kirishima)

The car ride was silent for the most part, aside from when Kam fell asleep and put his head on Bakugou's shoulder and the blonde absolutely lost it. The driver nearly kicked them out due to all their yelling.

Eventually they got there though, it was pitch black outside, and it was a fairly cold morning, leaving Mina and Sero shivering as they didn't have long sleeves on.

Bakugou very quickly took the lead of everyone, seemingly knowing exactly where they were and the exact spot he wanted to go.

"Get your a*ses moving. We have to be back at the school within three hours." He told them sternly, marching forward with his hands shoved in his pockets. Kirishima smiled a small bit.

He had gone hiking with Bakugou a few times, though they had never come to this mountain, it was the closest to the school and supposedly was Bakugou's favorite. It should have felt like a privilege to be there, especially for the three that never got invited to hang out with him.

Though the four that had been dragged out of bed, seemed as though they would all much rather be in bed right now, instead of being here, knowing that their legs would be sore afterwards with a full day of school and training ahead.

The way they were woken up didn't help either. Especially the way Kirishima was woken...

He didn't like to think about that. Ever since Bakugou had made the assumption that he was gay, he was constantly teased and messed with for it. It wasn't too big of a deal, Kirishima didn't take it as bullying, not too much at least. He just didn't see it as manly.

It almost felt out of character for Bakugou to do such things. Teasing was normal yeah, but taking it to such lengths as to actually climb in bed with him and intentionally hold him.

It was weird.

The redhead looked over to where the blonde was walking in the front, the boy was only wearing a tank top, though he showed no signs of being cold at all.

Kirishima moved to the front of the group to walk beside Bakugou, glancing back at the three exhausted people behind them. It was obvious that none of them were paying attention.

"Yo, bro?" Kirishima began, looking at the trail ahead of them. He opened his mouth to continue at the small hum of recognition from the boy next to him. "The stuff that you've been doing lately, like the thing you did this morning. That's gotta stop bro." He reached up and rubbed the back of his neck, running his fingers through his hair.

He hadn't even had time to spike it up. It seemed Bakugou had always dragged him to do something before he got the chance to. It was so often that he almost thought the blonde was doing it on purpose.

"If you don't want people to know your gay that's fine. I don't f*cking care. It's just d*mn hilarious when you get all red n sh*t." Bakugou spoke, voice kind of quiet for him. Kirishima was used to him being quiet when he couldn't hear himself, it made sense. But now that he could hear himself, it felt odd to have him speak so softly.

"Just because I like manly stuff doesn't mean I'm gay. I just like to see things that show manliness. Like when we fought that one time. That stuff gets me pumped and hyped up. It's great. But that still doesn't make me gay, bro." Kirishima tried to explain.

Bakugou grunted with a sigh. "No f*cko, you're gay because you freak out when I do things like this." He said simply as he pulled his hand from his pocket and took Kirishima's, interlacing their fingers for only a moment before letting go and putting his hands back in his pocket. "See, you light up like a christmas tree." He continued as he examined Kirishima's obviously warm features.

"Nah bro, honestly you're starting to seem like you're more gay than me." Kirishima tried to retaliate, but then realized he would then be confirming that he was gay. "Wait.. no. You know what I mean!" Kirishima exclaimed as Bakugou smirked.

"Could you two just like, shut up and kiss so we can move on with life?" Kam offered from behind them. Both boys stopped, Kirishima turning red as Bakugou lifted a fist full of popping noises.

"Shut your pie hole dunce face!" Bakugou called, instantly moving his hand to his ear as he winced. "F*cking hearing aids..." He muttered as he continued to walk on the trail. "No more f*cking talking to me. Just walk." He hissed at them.

Kirishima frowned a bit and moved to walk with Sero, Kam and Mina.

"Wait, this is actually really pretty..." Mina said softly as the looked to the sky. It was a slightly cloudy day so the clouds were lit with a pink and purple hue as the sun was obviously on it's way to being up.

Bakugou turned suddenly to go straight up a steep edge. "We're going to slow, gotta f*cking take a shortcut. Tape, quirk." He ordered, motioning to the tree branches above.

Sero launched tape from his elbow, wrapping it around a tree branch at the top of the steep hill. It seemed that his arms had fully recovered from the injuries and surgery. He simply had a few scars around his dispensers now.

Bakugou gently tugged on the tape to make sure it was secure and then grabbed onto it, using it to stable himself as he climbed up the hill, kind of like rock climbing but not straight up.

The others followed the same, Sero staying in the back just in case something happened to the tape and he had to re secure it.

At the top of the hill was a simple man-made pond with a few fish swimming around in it, cherry blossoms gracefully gliding over the surface as they fell from the tree beside the pond.

There was a bench on the edge of the cliff where one could watch the sunrise and then there was just a spot that hung out over the land below, where the cliff seemingly reached out towards the sunrise and there was where Bakugou made his way over to.

"This is your favorite spot..?" Kam asked as he moved to stand behind Bakugou, being sure to stay further away from the edge.

"In the whole world." Bakugou said as he stared at where the slight orange began to show for the sunrise.

"I can see why..." Mina whispered as she stood next to Kam, not taking her eyes off of the beautiful scene.

Kirishima simply stood there, staring at the whole thing, the pond, the tree, all of it was so serene and beautiful. This was Bakugou's favorite place?

He moved to stand next to Bakugou on the edge of the cliff, red gaze moving over Bakugou's entirely relaxed form. His eyes were closed, mouth slightly open, hands shoved into his pockets as he stood up straight, feeling the cold breeze combined with the warming light of the sun.

The redhead watched as he released a small breath of air and opened his eyes, red meeting red.

In all the time Kirishima had spent with Bakugou, he had never once seen him this calm. The blonde's gaze moved back to the sky, closing once more.

"Oh g*d! We have an hour and a half to get back down the mountain, get back to the dorms, get dressed for school and actually get to school!" Mina exclaimed as she looked at her phone. She grabbed Kam and Sero's arms, gently tugging them to start walking. "Let's go! Aizawa won't let us participate in the school festival if we don't attend classes!" She called.

Kirishima nodded and looked to Bakugou, who seemingly wasn't even listening to anything being said and was just silent. "Bro, we gotta go." He said. Bakugou nodded and began to take a step back to go show 'the idiots' the way back down.

Kirishima looked at the view one last time, smiling slightly before he spun on his heel to turn around.

That's when he felt his footing loosen and one of his feet slip off the edge of the cliff. He let out a shout, barely evening seeing as his friends whirled around to see him.

"Kirishima!" Bakugou called, launching himself towards him with his explosions and reached to take his hand but ever so slightly missing.

"Bakugou!" Sero called as he launched his tape. Kirishima grabbed onto one end as Bakguou grabbed onto the other. Bakugou pulled the redhead up so quickly it was almost like he hadn't even fallen.

"You f*cKING IDIOT!" Bakugou yelled as he pulled Kirishima towards him and wrapped his arms around him. He could feel both of their hearts racing as their chests collided in a hug.

"Kirishima we're on a cliff! You have to be more careful! Thank g*d Sero was here..." Kam called out, all of them clearly shaken up on it. Though Bakugou clung onto him tightly, breath beating heavily against Kirishima's neck.

"I'm ok. I'm fine. I would have been fine either way. I have hardening, I could have made the fall less dangerous. It just looks like a big drop. It's not actually that bad." Kirishima said simply, patting Bakugou to try and calm him down.

"I can't f*cking stand you." Bakugou growled as he pulled away from the hug and then dragged Kirishima away from the cliff by his shirt.

~

They made it down the mountain within half an hour and waited ten or so minutes for a car to come pick them up and take them back to the school.

They rushed back to the dorms, getting dressed for the day and grabbing everything they needed for classes.

Now they were quickly walking with their classmates to the actual school itself.

Bakugou stood in the middle, hands shoved in his pocket as he slouched grumpily, his four 'idiots' talking and laughing behind him, now having turned Kirishima falling off the cliff into a joke.

It almost seemed like it was how it used to be, they all walked to school together, annoying the living hell out of Bakugou until he shouted at them to shut up, and then would continue after two minutes of silence to laugh and joke around.

It was good.

One of the main differences now was that Bakugou yelled at them far less often. He seemed to have accepted them, and only them. Anytime anyone else uttered a single word to him, he threw his normal fit, yelling at them and throwing explosions around.

Only his group of idiots was able to hear civil words from him. Them and maybe Uraraka.

Kirishima nudged Kaminari as Jirou walked past with Yaoyorozu and Hagakure. They all waved and smiled as they walked.

"Why do ya gotta nudge me every time she walks past. Me and her are just friends, dummy." Kaminari gently shoved Kirishima, both of them chuckling ever so slightly.

"Suuure." Mina hummed out. Kam scoffed and hung his head a bit.

"Morons, the teachers don't know I have hearing aids yet, so they'll still expect me to have someone helping me. Who hasn't finished any of their homework for the day?" Bakugou grunted, being the tutor of the five of them.

He stopped walking as every single one of them raised their hands.

"You f*ckos are a living nightmare..." He sighed. "Make sure we're all sitting close together, Sh*tty Hair you're with me, Pinky sit on the right of me and Kirishima, Pikachu in the back, and f*cking tape sit in front. You all better have your phones f*cking charged up...." He hissed as he once again continued walking, trying to figure out how he was supposed to help four people with their homework at the same time while sitting in the middle of a class.

He knew Kaminari and Kirishima would need the most help out of all of them, and was already aware that Mina and Sero at least took decent notes from when they helped him with not being able to hear the teachers speaking.

"What's the first class?" Sero questioned.

"English. So we can do Math homework while we're there, since English isn't too hard." Kirishima offered. Mina nodded. Though Kam frowned.

"I'm not too good with English. But I might be able to get something off of Momo. She's usually willing to help and I think she usually sits close by..." Kaminari mumbled.

"You don't f*cking need her help. I'll f*cking deal with it. If you all pay attention and follow my lead then you'll all be fine.

"Goodmorning!" Uraraka greeted happily by the doors of the school, Iida, Todoroki and Midoriya walking with her.

"Morning!" Kirishima replied, pressing his fists together with a grin. Bakugou remained silent as the two groups interacted, slouching down further and shoving the door to the school open.

"How are you all!?" Midoriya asked gleefully as the two groups began to walk together.

"Tired. Bakugou dragged us all to go hiking really early this morning. It was worth it in the end, just kinda drowsy is all." Sero said as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"Oh yeah! The view is absolutely beautiful. I should take you and the girls one time, Uraraka!" Mina spoke as she smiled brightly at the shorter girl, both of them smiling gleefully.

Kirishima glanced to where Bakugou was frowning. He was obviously still trying to keep up the act that he didn't have hearing aids yet and was simply wearing ear plugs. Pretending he wasn't hearing anything seemed to be getting harder for him by the second.

It probably wasn't best to invite people Bakugou didn't exactly feel comfortable around, to his favorite place in the world.

"Kachaan took you guys hiking? That's cool!" Midoriya said brightly. Kirishima chuckled and nodded, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Yeah! Was fun. Nearly fell off a cliff but g*d it had a great view. It's so clam up there-"

"-you nearly fell!?" Iida interrupted. "I apologize for the interruption but! Kirishima! You must be safer when dealing with such things!" The far taller boy exclaimed.

"Oh yeah. Sorry. Was really distracted and clumsy! I'm alright now though. Sero and Bakugou got me." The redhead chuckled gently.

When they reached their classroom, they moved around, taking their seats, the 'Bakusquad' being sure to take the ones that had been told to take. "Your ears alright?" Kirishima asked Bakugou under his breath.

The blonde grunted under his breath, pulling out his stuff he needed for the class. "I can handle it sh*tty hair. I'm not weak." He grumbled. Kirishima nodded quickly.

"I know you can. I'm just saying, I can text you if you want to turn your hearing aids down." Kirishima offered. Bakugou glanced up to him as he labeled his papers.

"We'll see... I'm fine for now. If it starts acting up like it did last night we'll switch to texting." Bakugou said simply. "But if you start taking sh*tty notes you're swapping seats with Pinky." He added grumpily. Kirishima smiled gently as he too labeled his paper.

~

(Bakugou)

Throughout the class they had taken notes, or at least Bakugou had taken notes, while his f*cking morons were all doing their homework for the next class in a hurry. He helped them all with it, texting them constantly while trying to listen to what the teacher was actually saying at the front of the classroom.

It was a pain in the a*s to deal with all of them at the same time, as they all struggled in different subjects while excelling in others. If they just evened out their studying a little bit better they would probably be ok.

He didn't understand how they were getting it all wrong, he kept doing it for them and they were still messing it up.

'BGC~ alright f*ckos youre all studying in my room tonight~Baku'

'BGC~ Ahh, eww. Are we really going to just study all evening!? Don't we have band practice for the festival???~Kam'

'BGC~ canceled now youre all morons and need to be taught how to do this sh*t~Baku'

He heard a groan from behind him. The blonde rolling his eyes.

'BGC~ none of you idiots are going to fail on my watch~Baku'

Kirishima nudged him with a smile as he turned his phone off, putting it back on the desk. "Look at you, being all nice and caring." He mumbled to him. Bakugou scoffed and continued on with his work.

"Shut up." He muttered.