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The Bakusquad minus Katsuki have a late night call before they go on the USJ field trip

TW: This chapter contains slight Homophobia/Biphobia but honestly not major. More uneducated comments because they're all young and haven't been around queer people. But I still think it's cute and more realistic for a chapter

Denki stares at the unread messages to Dusty that he'd sent him over the course of the weeks. 57. He counted. A range of them asking if he was okay, game invites, and even life updates since he couldn't talk about it over a call. He and Jack still called, so much so that it became routine to play every other day - partly hoping that at least one time that they'd catch Dusty online again. But that was yet to happen. Tonight was one of the nights to play, but some family event had come up for Jack last minute and he'd had to cancel. The blond had planned to just play alone, but he'd been staring at the screen long enough to know that wasn't going to happen.

Instead he stood up, turned off his game and grabbed his phone. Maybe some of the Bakusquad would be free to do something/

Pikachu: anyone wanna call?

It didn't take long for Mina to respond.

Acid Queen: yes please! I need a break from this homework

Pikachu: wait we had homework

Spiderman: I haven't done it either
Spiderman: yeah I can call

The Rock: I can help you guys with it! Bakubro helped me earlier

Pikachu: OUR SAVIOUR

Acid Queen: BOW DOWN

The Rock: just don't cop yeah?

Spiderman: sure sure. So call?

It didn't take long to set up. The four of them agreed that they could watch a film together, which one to be decided on call, Denki had three of his friends' faces staring back at him. "Hey guys!"

"I'm so glad you asked to call, she's been pulling at her hair so much" Mina whines as she adjusts her hair again, adjusting one of the beads that she'd placed on her braids.

Hanta snorts. "The joys of having younger siblings".

"I wish I had one", Ejirou speaks up, only to be immediately told he didnt by Hanta and Mina. "Awe come on isn't it cool having someone there all the time to talk too and stuff?"

"Ya know, conversations with Sakura usually have a translation issue- since I don't speak baby" she deadpans. "I expected it to be fun but she's so... so.."

"A baby?" Denki asks.

Mina nods her head, her phone swaying while she lays down on her bed, holding the device above her head.

Denki grins, "ya knows if you drop that it's gonna be so funny".

"Shut up" she tells him, his grin showing she didn't really mean it.

The discussion of what film to watch starts, eventually leading to a mix of Hanta and Eijirou pleading for an action film, Mina for a romance, and Denki ageing his mind and wanting to watch a Game Play of Bendy and the Ink Machine. As soon as he mentioned the game though Eijirou cut in.

"Oh yeah dude, why aren't you calling your gaming friends?"

"Friend right now, and he's busy with something family related" he sighs, slouching against the wall behind him. "I really wanted to play too".

"We could play after?" Hanta suggests.

Denki grins at the offer, "really?'' It had been so long since he and Hanta had played a game, mainly because Hanta was in his reading phase of manga again and hardly wanted to do anything else. Which was fine, Denk didn't mind, but he needed to play games before he lost his mind.

Mina whines, "guys come on please-"

"Sorry Mina" Eijirou tells her, "actio wins".

A quick debate on what action film left them watching an old film called 'Iron Man. Apparently the man was quirkless, which was the normal for when the film was made, and used his extreme knowledge in robotics and mechanics, as well as chemistry and even more things Denki didn't even know the name of to make a suit. It was a pretty cool film, he even caught Mina enjoying it every now and again.

While he watched the screen his mind wandered to the other friend. To Dusty. To... a possible villain. After a few weeks of not playing Denki figured that he'd just imagined the boy's voice sounded like his. Like, no way right? Why would the League of Villain's leader play games online with random people? Besides, Dusty said he was close to Denki's age, either younger or older the blond couldn't remember but the man, the villain, seemed way older than him and his friends. It can't be him.

Maybe he could ask Jack, ask him to listen to the audio and see what he thinks.

It would be easier to debunk if Dusty showed up. After the USJ and then the attack on Hosu city Denki was worrying that he wasn't playing games because he was busy planning more attacks.

Would he try to attack 1A again?

Hanta speaking catches him off guard. "Still one of the best films ever".

Oh, the film was finished? When did he stop listening? Denki runs a hand through his hair. "

"Boring" Mina denies. "Okay, we're doing something fun now" a smoke falls onto her lips making Denki worry what exactly she was planning. "Truth or Dare?"

Eijirou laughs. "Sounds good, Denks?"

"Yeah sure" he shrugs. "Can we take a toilet break though?"

"Oh yeah I need a leak" Hanta stands up, moving off screen. "Be right back!"

5 minutes later they're all sat ready to play.

"Okay who goes first?" Eijirou asks.

"Me!" Mina giggles as she shifts on her desk chair. "Hanta, truth or dare?"

Denki deflates, wanting to be first, mainly because he had such a good dare for Eijioru.

The black haired boy grins, "dare. No way am I trusting you with a truth".

Mina was ruthless when it came to this game. As a gossip she loved knowing everyone's deep dark secrets. Not that she ever spread them, saying that she liked knowing everyone on a 'deeper' level, but Denki knew it was so she could blackmail them later to let her braid their hair or paint their nails.

"Okay fine. I dare you... to hang from your ceiling till it's your go again".

"That's easy!" he hums as he uses his quirk to stick himself upside down to the ceiling. It was nothing new to see, but Denki loved the way his hair looked upside. The mullet looked more choppy. Maybe cutting his hair at 4 am wasnt the best half asleep idea the boy had had. "Eijirou! Truth or dare?"

"Erm.. truth" he shrugs.

"Who's your best friend out of the Bakusquad?"

The red head runs a hand through his hair nervously. "Awe come on dude I can't-"

"Katsuki"

"Bakubro"

The red head stares eyes wide into the camera, glancing at all three of the knowing looks on his friends faces. Eventually he nods, "sorry I just.. I'm.. we just.. Get on well and.." he struggles to find reasons as to why he's so much closer to Katsuki rather than the rest of them.

"Eioji sweetie don't worry" Mina reassures him. "My best friend isn't even in the Bakusquad"

"Yeah and me and Hanta- wait who is it?" Debnki asks immediately, distracted. "Are they in the Dekusquad?"

"If they are Kat may combust" Hanta snorts.

The girl rolls her eyes. "It's Uruiraka, we have girly nights and stuff. Something you /guys/ Will never be invited to".

"That's sexist," Hanta tells her.

"Sue me. Now- Eiji it's your go" she smiles.

The boy nods and bytes his lip as he thinks of what he could ask. "erm...Mina whose your.. Crush?" he had no idea but that was a common question right?

Her whole face trusna deep shade of red, the colour dusting her cheeks and standing out on her pink skin. "No one. Nope"

Denki can't help the laugh that leaves his lips. "Oh how convincing. Come on Mina, I'll tell you mine!"

"We all know its Jirou"

Oh- well that fell through, he thinks with a small whine. "Just please~ we won't tell anyone"

The other two boys nod their heads in agreement.

Eventually Mina sighs and starts to sort out her bonnet. "Fine, fine you can guess".

And so it commenced. The three of them started off with the more obvious heartthrobs of class 1A. Shoto Todoroki. Izuku Midoriya. Mashirao Ojiro. Ida Teny. even Katsuki which was a hard no. After listing off every male from 1A the boys gave up.

"Are they even in 1A?" Ejirou asks, now laying down with the camera facing the left side of his face.

She slowly nods her head, "yep..."

The other two seemed to take a few seconds but Denki realised first. "It's a girl right/"

The silence that took over the call made Denki panic. Had he assumed wrong? Sure he knew he was Bisexual, had since he was 12 and played a spin the bottle game with some of his friends after they watched it in a movie. A cute boy in his class had to kiss him and after that Denki just.. Knew. Boys and girls were his thing. He had a few crushes on people in 1A, mainly just thinking they were hot, but he liked Jirou more than her looks. She was cool, calm, collected, nervous, had amazing music taste and was Denki's favourite colour - purple. Most people assumed it was yellow but they'd be dead wrong.

Eventually Mina breaks the silence. "Yeah.. it's.. Uraraka"

Hanta speaks first. "Oh.. that's cool. I mean, I like girls too" he grins. "So.. you wanna date her like her?"

"Yeah aren't you just best friends? Can you wanna date your best friend?" Ejirou asks confused, moving to sit up now which causes rustling on his end of the call.

Mina nods her head. "I wanna do couple things. Like hold her hand and cuddle and-"

"Yeah but that's just best friend things too".

Denki frowns at Ejirou's comments. Did he not get it? Would.. God he prayed this helps.

"I wanna do that stuff too... with girls and boys. I like both"

The relief that covers Mina's face makes nearly all his anxiety disappear. It helped, thank god, and he knew at least one person wouldn't judge him.

Hanta and Eijirou don't talk for a few seconds,
"Look" Mina starts. "If you think it's weird we don't have to be friends anymore-"

"No no it's not that, '' Hanta tells her. "It's just.. I dunno you don't seem..."

"Like what? A lesbian?"

"So you're a lesbian?"

Mina was growing more and more frustrated. "Yes. I, Mina Ashido, like girls and only girls and know I'm a lesbian.

Denki couldn't help but admire her a little. Even though she was still nervous about telling people, like he was about being Bisexual, she was speaking confidently about it.

"I'm Bisexual" Denki tells the call. "Plus.. I mean we all must see how Mina likes women, how can you not have seen them?"

This causes two out of three to let out small laughs.

Ejirou still looked confused? Conflicted? Denki couldn't tell, but all he did know was that he didnt wanna lose one of his friends over this. Even if it was accepted nearly everywhere to like the same gender, and most places had marriage rights, a lot of it hadn't moved due to the need to have laws for quirks. It's not that it's moved backwards, just that wasn't the focus of people in the hero based society they lived in now. Denki had watched a whole documentary on it during the summer before UA. As much as people didn't care, most only started caring when people they knew were queer.

"Eiji?" Mina speaks up.

He snaps out of whatever daze he's in. "Yeah sorry I just.. Erm... you remember our teacher? Homeroom one in Middle School?"

She nods.

The red head messed the bandana he'd ended up holding at some point. "He... he used to.. Say how people who were queer were just confused so what if youre just that? What if it goes?"

Denki started to feel sick, his hands wrapping around himself. It being out meant he did not experience much, if any, direct homophobnis but this sucked.. Trying to push it down he figured Ejirou just didn't get it, especially if he'd been told it was wrong so maybe he could.. Tell him that it's okay?

"I like boys how you like girls dude" he starts. "I get all the butterflies and feel happy and wanna hold their hand and kiss them and cuddle, '' Denki tells him. "It's the same just.. I wanna do it with boys and girls. Mina wants to do it with girls, and I really don't blame her. But it's not.. Wrong. Or a phase".

Eijirou nods slowly. "I still don't.. Get it. I don't feel anything towards girls".

They seemed to peak the other three's interest. "You don't?" Hanta asks first.

"No" Eijirou shakes his head. "But it'll come right? Ya know, when I meet the right girl and stuff" he grins, showing his teeth, but it looked too shaky and too forced.

Mina nods."Maybe.. Or.. maybe you don't like girls" she tells him./

"I do," he denies. "I'm just waiting for the right one. Like soulmates".

The way he says it clearly shows he doesn't wanna talk about it anymore.

"So.. we all still cool?" Denki asks, hoping that Ejirou and Hanta didn't care that much about it.

The black haired boy nods, his crooked smile making an appearance on screen that soothed part of denki's heart. "Yeah, just make sure you don't get a crush on me".

"You're not my type" Denki shoots back with a grin. "And anyways... Mina it's your turn for truth or dare".

The game went on for a little while longer. Denki had dared Eijirou to bite into a rock to see if he could break it and attem cannibalism. Mina had made Denki share his most embarrassing story, which ended up being when he was 6 and shocked everyone in the swimming pool at a birthday party. Everyone was okay, but no one dared go in afterwards. Hanta had dared Mina to try a handstand which led to her walking up and down her room on her hands to show off. To end it all Ejirou had dared Hanta to send a pick up line to Bakugou to wake up the next morning.

By the time they all hung up it was close to 3 am. Not the best time but denki would never pass up to call and hang out with his friends. Besides, he hadn't thought about-

Nope.

He wasn't doing that tonight.

Grabbing his Ipad he pulled up a quick gameplay from one of his favourite Youtubers and layed down, phone on charge for tomorrow, or rather a few hours from now, and he triple checked he had his alarm on.

Denki couldn't help but feel a little weight was off his chest at being out to his friends. After all, he wasn't out to anyone really, not even his parents, and Ejirous reaction wasn't.. The best, but knowing Mina knew what it was like to be queer did help. He'd have to thank her another day, knowing that if she hadn't come out neither would he.

Hearing a ping on his phone he squints at the bright light. A message off of the squad, all in private rather than the groupchat.

Acid Queen: Thank you Denks, you didn't have to come out too but you did so thank you! We could arrange to go to Pride together this year!

A smile covers his face.

Pikachu: Hell yeah! We can get loads of gay stuff to dress in!
Pikachu: Also thanks, you coming out helped me do it so thanks

Acid Queen: Now we can use 'I cant im gay' as a reason to not do things

Denki laughs quietly, hugging the blanket tighter as he bids Mina goodnight. Next one was from Hanta, a simple Bi Flag stock image with the writing 'I swing both ways' underneath it. Denki loved the image and then opened Eijirou.

The Rock: I'm sorry if I said anything wrong I just don't really understand it

Pikachu: It's okay bro, you can ask me stuff if you wanna?

The Rock: Maybe another time, but thanks and.. I'm proud of you?

Denki laughs softly at his attempt of comfort about the topic, his anxiety about what the redhead thought going down.

Pikachu: Thanks dude. I'll see you tomorrow when we set off for camp!

The Rock: Yeah! Still seat bros?

Pikachu: 100000000%

The Rock: Goodnight bro

Pikachu: Night bro

It didn't take long for the blond to fall asleep, listening to the commentary in the background.

Hey! I really hope you liked this chapter. I do have some questions if you guys wouldn't mind giving a little feedback?

1) Would you like to see more of Denki and Natsou in the fic rather than me focusing on what's happening with Tomura right now? Maybe one chapter in his POV, and Denki and Natsou together or separately depending what their parts would contain

2) Would you guys like longer winded chapters that take longer than these ones to come out or are these okay chapter lengths?

I may have more questions in other chapters but I'd really appreciate the feedback just to help me plan a little better with what to do.

Also considering writing a ABO AU of Hanta and Hitoshi pairing so if anyone would wanna read that please comment!

Thank you all so much for reading and I appreciate every single one of you!
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