"SINCE when did crusty become an item?", dabi questioned, majorly confused that two girls were fighting over him.

"shut it dabi! we've got to help hoshimi!!", toga said.

"why not the other one? she's rich", dabi said.

"god, money doesn't mean everything okay? and plus, my shipping senses are tingling".

"what does that—"

"it doesn't matter!! just help me okay?"

"sheesh! fine, what do you need?", dabi asked, not really wanting to participate at all.

"okay, so we're gonna..."

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"sis, are you sure?", ashido asked as hoshimi got dressed up.

hoshimi wore a classy dark blue dress with heels and dangling earrings. she applied some lipgloss and grabbed her phone.

"you seriously asked shigaraki to go on a date just to spite her?", ashido asked, lightly spraying hoshimi with some vanilla perfume.

"no. I'm going on a date with him because I figured out that I like him. and then I'll be posting a picture of us on my insta story to spite her", hoshimi smiled.

"god, you're like a cod liver", ashido laughed.

"what's that suppose to mean?"

"you're salty like one", ashido replied while hurrying hoshimi out the door.

"thanks for taking care of tomi by the way!"

"yeah yeah, now hurry up and go. spill everything when you get back!!"

"will do!", hoshimi said as she made her way towards shigaraki and dabi's dorm.

hoshimi knocked on their door, nervously anticipating shigaraki. they were going out on a dinner date at ginza kojyu and it was hella fancy.

she soaked up all her pride so that she could ask shigaraki out on a date. it surprised him nevertheless, but he agreed.

dabi opened the door, whistling.

"damn. if things don't work out between you two, do come find me after the date", dabi said, grinning.

"she's not for you", toga exclaimed as she ushered shigaraki to the door.

shigaraki was now in a full on suit with a dark blue tie to match hoshimi's dress.

"l-let's go", shigaraki awkwardly said he was once again stunned by how well hoshimi looked.

"good luck!!", exclaimed toga.

"use protection", dabi reminded.

shigaraki went beat red, shooting dabi a mean glare. hoshimi just pretended that she didn't hear that and got in the car.

"sorry about him", shigaraki said.

"nah. I'm sure he was just joking anyways", hoshimi said as she started parking.

"you won't....actually....", shigaraki started mumbling.

"what?", hoshimi asked. shigaraki was talking more quietly than normal and she couldn't hear past the clicking of her heels.

shigaraki held the door open for her, following behind.

"you won't...actually leave me for dabi if the date doesn't go well...will you?", shigaraki asked a little louder.

hoshimi stopped walking and turned around to look at the male.

"of course I wouldn't! and plus, I'm certain that our date's going to be fantastic", hoshimi smiled, offering her hand.

shigaraki gave her a small smile and held her hand. instead of sitting across from her, shigaraki decided to sit next to hoshimi as he wanted to keep holding her hand.

the waitress thought it was super cute and gave them  a free drink.

"we'll take the tempura sushi roll and two udon noddles", hoshimi ordered.

"alright! it'll be right out", the waitress said as she left them with water and green tea.

shigaraki looked at their hands. he felt warm and happy. he could get used to holding hands with hoshimi.

"so...how was your day?", hoshimi asked.

"it was fine", shigaraki replied. he wasn't really good at conversations. in fact, this was his first real date, so he didn't know what happened during one.

"oh!! I just remembered something!! let's take a picture for my instagram!!", hoshimi smiled, taking out her phone.

"a picture?? a-are you sure??", shigaraki asked. another thing he was not used to. taking pictures of himself.

"of course!! we both look so good, it's be a waste if we didn't take one. and plus, you look really good smiling", hoshimi said, getting the camera ready.

shigaraki started blushing even more. he thought he was going to pass out from the hand-holding and compliments.

"now smileeeee~"

hoshimi gave her signature smile while shigaraki slightly lifted up the corner of his lips.

"beautiful!!", hoshimi exclaimed as she posted it on her insta story.

"here's yalls food", the waitress said, presenting them with two bowls of udon and a plate of tempura sushi. "enjoy!"

"shigaraki was holding hoshimi's hand with his right hand. and since he didn't want to let go, he tried using chopsticks with his left.

he successfully picked up the sushi until it splashed into his bowl of noodles.

both of them flinched.

"are you okay??", hoshimi quickly asked, taking a napkin and wiping some of the soup off shigaraki.

"yeah, sorry", shigaraki grumbled.

hoshimi just laughed, much to shigaraki's surprise. he thought he had already ruined the date by splashing spicy noodle soup onto his date.

hoshimi picked up shigaraki's chopsticks and grabbed the sushi.

"open wide~", hoshimi teased.

shigaraki blushed even more, reluctantly opening his mouth. hoshimi fed shigaraki the sushi while also feeding herself some noodles.

"do you like it?"

shigaraki just nodded as he chewed on the tempura sushi. hoshimi would feed shigaraki once he was done, and thus, they ate in comfortable silence.

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"where are we going?", shigaraki asked as hoshimi was driving.

hoshimi parked on a cliff, getting out. shigaraki followed suit. shigaraki paid for dinner as he strongly insisted and now, they were here.

"I wanted to bring you to see the sunset", hoshimi said, leaning against the steel fence.

shigaraki stood next to her, enjoying the view. the sunset was indeed pretty. the many warm colors of the sky mixed in with a dark purple.

"I like you", hoshimi blurted out. she felt a sudden burst of confidence and it just, came out.

the past month she spent with shigaraki everyday really helped deepen their bond.

"I...I like you too", shigaraki said, although it was more of a whisper.

hoshimi smiled at shigaraki, who was already looking at her. she leaned in and placed a soft kiss on his cheek.

shigaraki.exe has completely stopped working.