Chapter 2: It's Beginning To Look a lot like Christmas
"Wake up mopey", Mina busts into Y/Ns room. "We're going shopping with everyone,"
"Mina-" Y/N groans, but shes already left. Y/N hops out of bed, she completely forgot about christmas shopping. Gift giving was way harder than it should be. She tried asking everyone for specifics, but Shinso said he didn't care what she got her, and she doesn't know where to find Kaminari a hat that he doesn't already have.
All she could think about last night, was her terrifying encounter. Surely it was a one time thing, Bakugo has better things to do, and Y/N was pretty sure she's the last person he'd want to hang out with, and vice versa for herself. After quickly getting ready. Y/N, Kami, Shinso and Mina all leave for the mall.
"I invited Kiri too! He said he's bringing a plus one but he wouldn't tell me who" Mina says to Y/N as they walk through the entrance. "Sounds great but-",
"Well would ya look at this shit" Shinso cuts Y/N off. The building was busy as hell with last minute shoppers. It was probably a bad idea to wait so long. "So, we're part of the idiots who waited until almost a week before Christmas to buy anything" He says, "Theres probably nothing good left".
"Well, good thing its the thought that counts" Y/N replies laughing nervously.
"Ugh come on guys, I said I'd meet Kirishima in the food court 8 minutes ago" Mina hurried everyone.
Everyone finally gets to the court after fighting they're way though crowds of raging moms trying to get to every store in the building. There in the distance they see a waving Kirishima, with a blinding smile on his face. They made their way over.
"Hey guys! Its hectic in here, I didn't think you would make it" He laughs. "Yeah I know, almost had to fight some middle aged woman" says Kaminari. Y/N looks around for a second, "Mina said you brought someone?" She asks. Before she could get an answer, Y/N is bumped to floor by a passer by.
She sits up, "Hey asshole, watch where you're going!" She yells.
"Watch where you're standing- Oh."
Kirishima looks at the scene and scratches the back of his neck. "Oh yeah... I brought Bakugo. Surprise..."
He says laughing nervously. Y/N looks at Kirishima, then looks up to see the piercing red eyes staring at her. She gets up, really god? really? she thinks to herself. "Hey." She says trying to compose herself. "Hey", Bakugo replies.
"Bakugo's actually staying with me for the entire break!" Kiri says. Y/N looks back at Mina and Kaminari as they give her a nervous smile. "No need for the introduction shitty hair, we've already seen each other." Bakugo says to Kiri who looked confused. "Oh! Cool". The red head replies.
Everyone stands awkwardly for a minute, not knowing how to react. They all knew the Two's history and how this time of year was especially significant to it, Kirishima thought pushing Y/N and Bakugo to talk to each other would be a great way to close the distance and get the gang back together.
Ever since they broken up, its been hard to hang out again because of the tension between the two. Y/N and Bakugo used to be inseparable, it's amazing how a couple of broken hearts can change everything.
"...Lets get shopping before everyone wakes up to a lump of coal Christmas morning" Kaminari breaks the silence.
As the day goes on, the gang looked desperately for the things on their lists, checking almost every store in the mall. Thankfully they crossed a lot of things off, Y/N even found Kaminari a royal blue sequinned fedora. It was hideous.
So he'll definitely wear it
Throughout the day Y/N and Bakugo barely interacted, the rare discourse was fairly awkward, as aspected.
Later, everyone split up in a department store to browse, Y/N and Bakugo happened to end up in the same section. Bakugo doesn't notice until she speaks up.
"Are we gonna act like this all day?"They were in the christmas card aisle, and Y/N tried to start a conversation.
"You haven't attempted to talk to me until now." He replies looking still looking down at the card in his hand.
"Ditto for you" Y/N said.
There's silence for a moment. Y/N walked over to the section Bakugo was looking at, standing beside him.
"So. How've you been?" She asked, not making eye contact. Well I'm not gonna be the pussy, she thought. He looked over at her and sighed,
"Great actually." Y/N replies
"Why are you here anyways?" She blurted, she sounded slightly annoyed. Bakugo gave a confused look, "Is there a problem?", He replies putting down the cards he was browsing.
"No." She stiffens at the feeling of his gaze. "It's just, you haven't come back in years, why now?"
"Well I didn't get to make it last year so, here I am now." He replies firmly.
"Right." Y/N laughs nervously
Is he just gonna ignore everything that's happened?
Before the tension could grow any quicker, Kirishima came walking into the aisle. "There you guys are, we've been looking all over." He said making his way over to them, "Heeeey, you guys are actually communicating? Wild". Y/N and Bakugo looked at each other, then looked away.
"Yeah..." They replied in unison.
"Ha, right uh if you guys are done, we're gonna head back to Mina's", Kiri says gesturing his head to the exit, they all leave the store together.
"YOU CAN'T STACK PLUS FOURS." Bakugo yells. "I DO WHAT I WANT." Kaminari says as he drops 3 'plus 4' cards on the deck.
The uno game has been going on for about 15 minutes and everyone was going absolutely apeshit. "ILL KILL YOU BASTARD." Bakugo shouted almost, standing up. Kirishima grabs his arm and stops him before things got out of hand "Dude it's just a game it's fine." He says trying to calm him down.
"Let's just stop now. i'm not cleaning up any unnecessary mess that might come out of a fight." Mina says dropping her deck and heading to the kitchen where Y/N and Shinso were, Kirishima and Kaminari packing up the cards, Bakugo pressed as hell.
"How did you put up with that for all of 15 minutes" Shinso asked as she walked over. "If I can't survive a game of uno with a couple of guys i'll be a dead man on the streets my guy." She replies confidently. "The streets? This is suburban Japan." Y/N says and continues to sip her drink. "Fuck you." Mina says.
Kirishima looks at the time on his phone, "Aw man its already 12? Me and Bakugo should get going before you're neighbours complain." He laughed. "Right" Shinso said dryly.
"Hey wait!" Kami piped up, "You guys comin' tomorrow?". Y/N chokes on her drink, "Tomorrow?" She manages to get out.
"Yeah we're going to Y/Ns Parent's dinner! I'm sure they'd be happy to see Bakugo."
He could've just sat there and ate his food
"AW MAN YOU'RE RIGHT! I forgot! How's that sound Baku-Bro?" Kirishima turns to Bakugo. He's frozen for a second and looks over to see Y/N starting at him, awaiting a response. "I mean- maybe I shouldn't-"
"No! Come! It's totally fine." Y/N says without realizing. I-Its the right thing to do. She thought
"You're sure" He asks. No. "Yeah." She sighs.
"Awesome! See you guys then!" He said rushing out the door. Mina waved and closed the door,
"Character development." Kaminari added, laughing.
This is gonna be a shit show.
A/N: okay okay this one was a bit longer. We love some tension now don't we 😀! Thanks so much for reading :)))