Listening to Kirishima babble on and on about acting techniques was oddly soothing. He was allowed to turn off his brain and just relax for once. This wasn't the safety he expected, here, next to some idiot he barely knew who just couldn't manage to stop talking about his work.
"And roleplaying is really helpful too. Hey! You should totally roleplay with our D&D group!"
"You're asking me to play a fucking nerd game?" Bakugou raised his eyebrow. "You play a nerd game?"
"It's not a nerd game. Well...it is...but that's not wrong."
"It seems lame."
"Well, it's good acting practise. We have a game tomorrow night if you wanna join?"
Bakugou sighed. He didn't want to play a nerd game with a bunch of nerds, but it was his job to protect this loser and he was going to have to spend as much time as possible with him. "Sure,  I guess so."
"Great! I can help you make a character! What class do you want to be?"
"What?"
"You're an assassin in real life so you'd probably be good as a rogue. But your personality is so barbarian..."
"And what are those exactly?"
Kirishima chuckled as if not knowing how to play a nerd game was cute or something.
"A rogue is all sneaky and a barbarian fights up front and centre."
"Fights? You can fight people in this game?"
"Yeah. And our party could use more force since we've mostly been using sneaking up until this point."
"You losers are playing a game where you can kill people and you're choosing not to kill people? That's insane."
"Well, I play a Ranger, so I've been fighting from afar, and our Bard, Kaminari, has some fighting attacks but he'd  rather seduce us out of danger. Mina is supposed to be our cleric but she's bad at it, so usually Kaminari just heals us."
"Your party seems like a mess."
"Yeah, But we're just starting out so we have a long way to go."
"Wait...how long do these games usually last?"
"I dunno. Years maybe."
"Years? That's an awful long time?"
"Oh yeah..." Kirishima looked way more shocked than he had any business being. "Well, you can always come on for one or two games and then leave when you're done with this job."
"I could do that, I guess."
After that, the pair got right into character creation. They ended up making Bakugou an orc barbarian who earned money by killing people for the king. Kirishima got their Dungeon Master on the phone at some point during the backstory to make sure the details would align with the story he was crafting. It was weirdly entertaining, using imagination instead of logic for once. Having those barely used brain muscles at work was an interesting change of pace.
Eventually, the conversation lulled into something gentle and the spaces between his words grew more and more. 
He hadn't planned to fall asleep on Kirishima's couch, but he had stayed up late the night before and 8pm was already his bedtime to begin with. But there was something else; something about the warmth of the room, the softness of the couch, that pulled him in like a lullaby. It wasn't always easy for him to let his guard down, but right now...it was just so...easy?
Was this what home was like?