A/N: DabiBaku centric chapter! The next few chapters will be that way as well just to take a break from the angst and focus more on the main pairing.

"...Baby?" 

Katsuki's eyes flicker up from the half eaten slice of pizza on his plate to meet Touya's worried gaze. He doesn't seem to be enjoying himself and Katsuki can't help but feel like he's the one at fault. He wishes that he could pay more attention to his love on this date of theirs; he'd taken his time to plan this out for them, after all. It's just that he can't stop thinking about Keigo's bloodstained hands and the way that he towered over Rei's limp body---about the knife that had clattered to his feet. He knows that Touya is trying to do his best to cheer him up but he can't help but wonder about the horror that would have unfolded had Keigo not come home when he did. Even a moment later and…

Well. Thinking about it makes his stomach turn. He's made himself lose his appetite. 

"I-I am sorry…" he says to the raven who offers a soft and understanding smile as he reaches out to take Katsuki's hand in his own. "No, that's okay, baby. I know today was a little more stressful than we'd planned for it to be. I don't have much of an appetite, either. I was just hoping I could get you to smile a little." He says, squeezing Katsuki's delicate hand in his. "I can take you home if you'd like and we can just cuddle. I dunno about you but holding you always makes me feel better." He adds. Katsuki is quite grateful to have an alpha in his life that is so gentle and understanding with him. Patient. Unwavering. 

"Being so close to you brings me great joy. When you hold me and when you kiss me. Holding my hand. Even when you do small things for me, listening to me ramble about nothing for hours and holding on to every word that I say because, to you, it is important. I often feel I am the luckiest boy in the world because of you, Touya." 

The alpha blooms bright red, right up to the tips of his ears as he sheepishly rubs at the back of his head.

"Baby, you're making me blush, here. Cut that out." 

"Oh? I think that it is quite a charming look for you, my love." Katsuki giggles as Touya pulls away to wipe at his face with his tattooed hand. It's not often that Katsuki gets to see Touya so flustered. In fact, he can't actually recall a time he's ever seen him flustered. A little awkward, maybe, but never flustered like this. He flashes Katsuki that million dollar smile, though the color has yet to retreat from his cheeks. "C'mon now. I've got a reputation to maintain here." He jokes and Katsuki snorts at him with a roll of his eyes. "Is that so? Are you worried about your several admirers finding out that the infamous bad boy Touya Todoroki is...what is it that Shouto calls you? Oh yes, I remember. A big softie ?" Katsuki teases, watching Touya stand from his chair and shrugs his jacket on. He walks around the table to pull Katsuki's chair out for him and help him up from his seat. He pulls him impossibly close, flush against his own body as he leans down to ghost his lips against his forehead. 

"Not a bad boy. Just a troubled soul with good intentions." He murmurs, trailing down until he's kissing at Katsuki's jaw. "Besides, I ain't worried about catching anyone else's eye as long as both of those beautiful eyes of yours are on me." Katsuki shivers unbidden and Touya raises up to give him a curious look in his eyes. Their relationship isn't one that's sexual in nature; Touya hasn't even ever used his tongue when he kisses Katsuki. He doesn't grope or tease him. He doesn't make any moves to be provocative or suggestive. He doesn't want to feel as though he's influencing Katsuki to do anything that he's not ready for. If that means that he's got to use his hand for the next year or so, well…

That's a misery he's willing to put up with. 

But he's never gotten such a reaction to his kisses before. Maybe he's come across a sensitive spot…

Something to exploit whenever Katsuki is ready to go further. He locks that away in his memory. 

"Ready to go, baby?" 

Katsuki blinks up at him in a bit of a daze. 

"...That depends. Are you spending the night with me?" 

Touya's smile broadens. "I know you can't sleep without me next to you, angel. Of course I'll sleep over with you." And Katsuki's thousand watt smile comes back into full effect as he squeezes around Touya's middle, his chin against Touya's abdomen as he looks up at his boyfriend with glittering eyes. "Okay. I am ready to go, then." He agrees and Touya dutifully escorts him out. There are a few wandering eyes---alphas that seem to have been enraptured by Katsuki's soft beauty. Touya doesn't want to make a scene lest he upset his darling little lover, but it doesn't go unchecked. 

"Gorgeous, isn't he?" He asks them casually and they all scramble to make themselves look disinterested. Touya chuckles, fully expecting the confused expression Katsuki sports as he pauses in his gait. "It's okay, angel. These gentlemen here were just admiring how pretty you are." Touya explains, reveling in the cute little blush that powders Katsuki's cheeks. He's so pretty when he's all flattered like that. 

Touya doesn't need a mirror to see how smug he must look right about now. How absolutely pleased with himself he must seem. "I don't mind that you're checking him out, you know. It's so much better watching you thirst over someone you'd never have a snowball's chance in hell with. Really fans my ego to see you drooling over my baby when I know that he sleeps next to me every night instead." He says rather casually, pleased to see their faces drop to the floor and shatter into a million pieces. 

"S-Sorry, dude." 

"I know you are." Touya chuckles. 

Katsuki's skin feels so hot that he has to fan himself. 

"O-Oh…" 

Touya tightens his arm around Katsuki's waist, opening the door of the restaurant for him. "Let's go, angel. I know you're exhausted." 

And it feels so good, putting bastards like that in their places. Katsuki could have anyone---honestly, if they don't think his angel is absolutely stunning, then they're obviously brain dead---but Katsuki chose him. He chose Touya. 

Damn it all if Touya isn't proud of that. 

"What's the matter, sweetheart? You look like you're about to faint. Did watching me show you off to all of those B-class losers make you feel that good?" It's a joke, obviously, but Katsuki's face grows impossibly more red and Touya pauses just before he reaches out to open the passenger door for Katsuki, head slanted curiously. "Baby?" 

"I-It was... certainly very attractive. I did not think watching you be so proud of me would make me feel so oddly out of sorts." Katsuki admits under his breath, eyes glued to the door. Touya bites into his lip as he catches the sweet smell of Katsuki's scent wafting right into his nose, opening the door and waiting for Katsuki to climb in before he closes it behind him and around the car to get into the driver's seat. "Yeah? What do you mean by that? Did I embarrass you?" He asks, wanting to clarify in case he's made the mistake of making Katsuki uncomfortable like that in public but the longer they sit there, the more potent his scent becomes and he's starting to think that he's done quite the opposite. 

Touya rolls the windows down before he begins the drive. He doesn't want to run the risk of driving himself absolutely insane. 

Or...you know. Accidentally driving the car off of the road.

"N-No, not that. I am unsure of how to describe it but I feel a bit...winded? I am... tingling in certain places." He adds in a whisper and Touya nearly swallows his own tongue. 

Katsuki's trying to tell him that he's turned on. 

"O-Oh, okay." It comes out a bit squeaky and Touya curses himself under his breath. Why is he the one acting like a teenage virgin? 

The ride home is unintentionally awkward after that, mostly because Touya is trying his damnedest to be decent and stomp those intrusively perverse thoughts out of his mind lest he make the mistake of popping a boner right there in front of his cute, innocent little angel. 

There's little but the droning of the radio to keep the silence from being unbearable. 

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Touya feels a lot better after a shower. He's able to think a bit clearer without his brain being fogged by his own insufferable perversions and the addictingly sugary scent that belonged to the object of his wettest dreams. 

That being said, he's able to focus more on his previous objective, which was to help Katsuki feel better after the stressful day he's had. Touya knows that Katsuki can't help but be a slave to his emotions---easily overwhelmed and overtaken by them no matter how hard he tries to be indifferent to them. While Touya had been scared and worried for his mother, he couldn't understand the trauma that he'd been going through in the same way that Katsuki did. Touya could rest a little easier knowing that his mother would be safe from Rei now that she's finally behind bars. Katsuki, however, cannot turn away from the fact that Enji, emotionally, is exhausted. 

He loves that about him. How loving and considerate he is. But it is a double edged sword and tonight, Touya needs to at least be able to distract him from those icky feelings that he's managed to accumulate over the day. 

What better way to cheer him up than with his favorite---a plate of gooey chocolate cookies and a glass of milk? 

Almond, because the Yagi's don't drink the regular stuff. 

"Here you go, sweetheart. Are you sure you don't need help carrying those up?" Inko insists as she hands him the plate, having just taken the freshly baked cookies off of their pan for him. She was more than happy to bake the cookies for him after hearing about the day they'd had. He smiles and nods, reaching down to wrap his free arm around her in a hug. "I'm sure. You've done more than enough; I really can't thank you enough. If I'd have tried to make them myself, I'd probably have ruined them." He chuckles. Katsuki still thinks that Touya is in the shower so these cookies will be a nice surprise for him when he comes back up. 

Inko squeezes him right back, patting him on the shoulder. "You know that I don't mind, honey. This is such a very sweet thing to do for him. You take such good care of our Katsuki. Toshinori may not have said it to you but he's very grateful for all you've done." 

Touya's chest swells proudly. 

"I'm grateful to him for allowing me into Katsuki's life. I've never been happy like this before. I think...that Katsuki has become the best part of me." 

Inko hums, absolutely swooning about the way that Touya talks about Katsuki. 

"That's lovely, dear. I hope that the two of you are together for a long time." 

Touya doesn't think he'd be able to handle it if Katsuki ever dumped him. He'd never get over him, cry every day wondering what he did wrong and praying that Katsuki would give him another chance to be better. He can't live that way. 

So he has to make sure he never gives Katsuki a reason to want to  leave. 

"Yeah...me too. Thanks, Mrs. M."

"Anytime, dear! Have a good night." 

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Touya has to pause a bit at Katsuki's bedroom door to adjust the glass in his hand, freeing it up to knock before he goes in. He taps against the door gently, waiting for Katsuki to respond before he actually goes to open the door. 

"You may enter!" He hears Katsuki's slightly muffled voice through the door and Touya chuckles a bit. He still can't get over the way that Katsuki talks but he also thinks that it's the most adorable thing ever. He cracks the door open, taking the glass of milk in his hand again and tapping it the rest of the way open with his foot. 

"Hey, kitty. Got something for...you…" 

Touya trails off, having to quickly tighten his grip on the glass when it nearly slips out of his hand as his jaw goes slack. 

Katsuki's choice of sleepwear is…

Ehem. 

A bit scanty. 

For starters, he's in his fucking underwear. 

It's nothing at all promiscuous; just some cute, pink little panties adorned in red bows but for some reason they still make Touya's heart beat right out his chest as they hug around Katsuki's hips. He's paired them with a unicorn t-shirt that rides a little high on his middle, showing pale, creamy skin to Touya's hungry eyes. He's primping himself in the mirror, lotioning his arms and legs. 

"Lord have mercy on me…" Touya breathes out, aggressively clearing his throat as Katsuki turns to face him. He looks a bit concerned, probably due to the absolutely cowed expression on Touya's face. 

Touya feels incredibly intimidated. 

Katsuki's face brightens when he sees the plate in Touya's hand, eyes wide and glittering. 

"A-Are those cookies?" 

Touya snaps out of his trance. 

"O-Oh, yeah. Fresh out of the oven, baby boy. Got you a cold glass of milk too, was hopin' it would help make you a little happier after today." He says, sliding the plate onto the dresser along with the glass before he manages to drop it with his shaky hands. He smiles when Katsuki does his little happy wiggle, honing in on the plate of cookies and sinking into them with a sway of his hips. Touya sits down on the bed, feeling his heart swell with content. It's such a simple thing, but it makes Katsuki so completely filled with joy and Touya is, admittedly, obsessed with it. 

"Don't eat too fast, angel, I don't want you gettin' a tummy ache." He says but Katsuki's already eaten all four cookies and is well on his way to chugging the glass of milk down. Touya sighs with a fond shake of his head as Katsuki turns around to face him again, wiping the milk from his top lip. 

"Oh, I'm sorry! Did you want a cookie, too?" 

"No, baby, that's okay. Feel better?" 

"Mhm~" Katsuki purrs, falling into Touya's arms as he extends them for a hug. Their noses are touching against one another, foreheads pressed together and Touya can't resist catching cherry plump lips in a kiss with his own. 

It's gentle and sweet, just as they always are but Katsuki pulls away prematurely and Touya's brows pinch together in confusion. 

"What's the matter, baby?" 

"Nothing, just...why do you not ever kiss me the way that...the way that lovers do?" 

...huh?

"I-I...don't understand what you mean, kit. Am I a bad kisser or somethin'?" Touya's a little embarrassed. Does Katsuki not like the way he kisses? Does he have bad breath or something? He pulls back a bit to check when Katsuki's small and dainty hands take his face into their palms to redirect Touya's focus onto him. "Darling, I think you misunderstand me. I am...what I am asking is that…"

He's a little nervous, red up to the tips of his ears as he huffs and drops his hands to mess with the hem of his shirt. He averts his gaze, frustrated with his inability to find the proper words to convey how he feels. 

"Touya. Are you...a-are you attracted to me? Physically?" 

Touya's mind blanks a moment. 

"...huh?" 

Katsuki folds his arms over his chest, becoming increasingly irate. 

"Honestly! Why must I repeat myself when I am certain that you have heard me the first time that I had asked?" 

"I-I---baby, hold on a sec. I'm just tryna understand what you mean. Of course I'm attracted to you, babe, I tell you how absolutely beautiful you are every chance I get---" 

"It is one thing to hear but I do not...I do not feel it. The passion when you kiss me...does it simply not exist?" 

Oh.

Oh.  

fuck. 

"Babe." Touya starts, breathing out a sharp sigh after he leans in to kiss Katsuki's cheek and the omega leans away. He firmly grips the blonde by the waist to lift him onto his lap and bring him closer even though Katsuki seems to be rather offended. He leans back once more when Touya goes to kiss him again, turning his head in the opposite direction. 

He's pouting.

"Baby, c'mere. Can you just let me explain, please?" 

A shrug. 

"I just wanted to respect boundaries as much as I could. I didn't want you to think I was just some horny bastard tryna get into your panties; I really care about you, you know. If you knew how hard it is tryna be decent and keep my hands to myself then you'd probably be ashamed of me." 

Katsuki slowly turns to look up at Touya through the fringe of his lashes. 

"W-What do you mean?" 

"I mean, I'm---God, I feel like such a fuckin' perv." He groans, carding his fingers through his hair. "There are just so many things about you that drive me crazy, you know? Cute little lips and those thighs in those fucking thigh highs. Fuck, your scent. " He admits, squeezing Katsuki by the hips. "You don't know how many days I've spent wanting to kiss you breathless and squeeze a hand full of that plush little ass---to leave love marks on that pretty neck. But I wanna wait for you---wait 'til you're ready. I don't want you to feel pressured or nervous or---" 

"Touya." 

"Huh?" 

"...how naive are you, exactly?" 

Confusion hits Touya like a ton of bricks. 

"...I'm sorry?" 

Katsuki's blushing but he begins to bubble into laughter and Touya becomes increasingly more confused with each passing moment. 

"Touya. I have purposely been trying to provoke you, my love. Subtle things, surely, but I thought you would at least have caught onto them even a tiny bit." Katsuki admits, finally looping his arms around Touya's neck to pull himself closer. He can't help but giggle at the absolutely awestruck expression slapped onto the alpha's face.

"Are you---you're obviously fucking with me." 

"I am not. I would like to be desired sometimes. Not lusted after, of course, but...to be wanted. To feel…"

"Sexy?" 

"Yes." 

"Well, darlin', I got news for you." Touya snorts, fingers going to tangle into Katsuki's soft hair to take claim of his lips again but he's not as gentle---still careful not to overwhelm him. He nibbles at Katsuki's bottom lip, swiping at his bottom lip and coaxing him to let him in. It's a clumsy dance of teeth and tongue, Touya's hand daring to reach down and grope a hand full of Katsuki's backside that had the teen gasping into his mouth. 

There's a dazed look in his eyes when Touya pulls away. 

The alpha trails open mouthed kisses down to Katsuki's neck, nearly blanking out when the scenting of burning caramel floods him so thickly that he can taste it. A low growl rumbles low in his chest and he buries his nose into it, kissing against his mating gland. He's quite satisfied with the shuddering purr that he receives. 

"Always thought you were fuckin' sexy, baby." He whispers against Katsuki's collarbone and the blonde nuzzles against the unruly bed of Touya's hair. "Guess I was just doin' a shit job at showin' it. Sorry I didn't notice any of the hints you were givin' me; I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes." 

"I...was not very direct, either." Katsuki admits, humming his satisfaction. "But thank you for indulging me." Touya chuckles. "If I'm bein' honest, kitty, I was indulging myself too. Couldn't really help it after you gave me permission to worship those beautiful lips and this perfect little body. I'll behave though. That's a promise." 

"Mmm. I trust you. When...when I am prepared to try other things, I promise that I will do more than simply hint at them. I will do my best to be more expressive." 

"Thank you. But don't feel like you have to rush, okay? I'll masturbate until my dick falls off if I have to." 

Katsuki pauses. 

"That is---" 

"No, angel, it's not possible for me to beat my dick off." Touya laughs but it's quickly followed up by a pause. 

"Well, shit, hold on." 

"Please do not go any further. That is not imagery that I would appreciate my brain conjuring into my head before bed." 

Katsuki punctuated his request with a bit of a yawn. Touya guesses that having a tummy full of milk and cookies is beginning to take a toll on him. He presses one last kiss to Katsuki's collarbone, reaching over to turn off the bedside lamp. "Alright, that's enough excitement for the night. What do we say we get some shut-eye, huh?" He does have class in the morning. 

Katsuki seems to have absolutely no qualms about crawling underneath the covers with Touya, curling up against his chest. He's sleeping not long after his head hits the pillow. Touya mutely wonders, for a moment, if listening to the sound of Katsuki's soft snores makes him a creep. He loves those too, thinks they're such cute little noises. He just feels so enamored. 

So in love. 

"You have no idea how much you mean to me." 

He'll do whatever it takes to make sure that he sees.