~11~

Midoriya POV

When I woke up I found myself lying on a bed in a recovery room. My hands weren't broken anymore and I didn't feel any pain, so I assumed that Recovery Girl already healed me.  Despite that, I couldn't move my hands because both of them were bandaged.

"You can't keep fighting like this, I won't be able to heal your body every time" said Recovery Girl when she noticed that I came back to conscious."He will learn how to control it" I heard All Might's familiar deep voice replying to Recovery Girl."The question is when. This time his wounds were so bad that I couldn't heal them completely. What will be his condition next time? At this rate..." she shook her head and didn't finish her sentence.

All Might's face became serious, he walked slowly towards me but didn't answer her. He wasn't in his muscular form, but in his thin, small one.

"How do you feel?" He asked me with concern in his voice."I-I'm okay... I'm sorry I lost even after you told me that I need to make people notice me in this festival" I said and looked at the ceiling.

This was supposed to be my chance, but I lost. This was supposed to be my first step towards my goal, becoming a pro hero.But I lost. I disappointed All Might.

"You shouldn't apologize about that!" His words made me look back at him in surprise. "It's not about winning or losing, you did your best and that's what important.Besides, you did make people notice you. When you fought against Todoroki and Shinso, everyone's eyes were focused on you. Not to mention that in the first event, you won the first place" All Might stopped talking for a moment and smiled, "I'm proud of you".

I felt my eyes stinging as tears began to appear in them. I felt so relived and happy at the same time, I couldn't hold my tears back.

"By the way, have you already talked with Bakugo about the light you saw?" he asked me with a curious look in his eyes. "N-Not yet, but I'm planning to talk to him after the festival, why?" "Oh, it's nothing. I was just wondering" All Might said and quickly changed the subject of the conversation.

"Todoroki and Bakugo will compete against each other in the next battle. Do you want to watch it?" All Might asked me and I nodded."Then you better hurry up, the battle will start in a couple of minutes" he said and helped me to get up and sit on the bed, which wasn't an easy task for me - since the bandages prevented my hands from moving.

"Thank you" I said."No problem. I need to go back to the other teachers now, so I will see you again at the end of the festival" he explained.I nodded and watched him walking out of the room.

I should go too. I don't want to miss their battle... Kacchan's battle...Kacchan.

My face heated up immediately.Not because thinking about him made me nervous (okay maybe that too), but mostly because I remembered something.

I remembered what embarrassing thought crossed my mind after the massive explosion that was created by the clash of Todoroki's attack and mine. When I saw that the left side of his shirt was completely burned, revealing his chest and his amazingly muscular stomach.I remembered what I thought about one mere second before I lost my conscious.

I didn't think about Todoroki's father, nor about the fact that he finally attacked me with his left side. I didn't think about the condition of my hands, nor about the battle or the fact that I lost. I didn't think about any of it.

The truth is that my thoughts ran wild, running away to the most stupid and embarrassing places. Just recoiling it made my face turn bright red, and I scolded myself for letting such a weird yet surprisingly pleasant thought cross my mind.

I hoped that instead of Todoroki, I could see Kacchan standing with his shirt burned in an appealing way like that.

What am I thinking!??

I asked myself while trying not to imagine Kacchan's bare chest and muscles.

I hope there was no one in the audience with a quirk that allows him to read other people's mind.

I shook my head and got off the bed.What is wrong with me? I have no time for this kind of thoughts.

While heading back to where the students were supposed to watch the battles from, my rational side tried to explain my dreamy side (who started to imagine things) why I should forget about this. Why those thoughts were worthless.

Unfortunately, my rational side had a lot of arguments. Even if I put aside the fact that he hates me, and the fact that someone as amazing as him will never fall in love with someone like me, it's still leaves me with a very big problem.

What if he isn't gay?

That short sentence alone, was enough to crush all the hope of my dreamy side into little pieces, and made me feel as if hundreds of blades were stabbing my already broken heart.

My rational side was about to win me over, when I suddenly saw Kacchan.Glowing as always, he was walking towards my direction with his hands in his pockets and his usual frowning face, probably on his way to the battle stage.

When he noticed me, I could see his eyes lit up with surprise.

Come on Izuku, I said to myself.Say something!

"Oh, K-Kacchan, good luck!" He stopped walking and raised an eyebrow in confusion "what?""In the battle, I mean, you are going to fight against Todoroki now, right?" I said and hoped that the color of my face isn't bright red.

Why did he appear in such a bad timing? Exactly when I convinced myself that-

"Oh, yeah. Right. Thank you, I guess" he said quietly.

The light around Kacchan became brighter when he talked. It started to fly around us slowly, filling the hallway with a strange orange light which only I could see.

It took me a moment to understand what he was saying, and another moment to make sure that he really was the one saying it.

Am I imagining things again or should I go to check my hearing? Because I think I heard Kacchan saying "thank you"... To me.

Did he THANK ME?

I looked at him in shock, but he avoided my stare.

"In your battle, You..." he started to say, his eyes looking everywhere but me."You fought well. You know, relatively to a weak nerd".

The orange light went crazy. It's speed increased, it was flying and twisting in the air around us, tying us together.

But I didn't care.I didn't pay any attention to it.

It was a compliment, wasn't it?He complimented me.In his own strange way, Kacchan complimented me.

As soon as he finished his sentence, he started to walk again, taking his light away from me. Although, as strange as it sounds, the light seemed like it wanted to stay.

But what shocked me even more, was that before Kacchan disappeared down the hall, I managed to catch a glimpse sight of him.And I swear I saw him blushing.

I don't know how much time I was standing there at the middle of the hallway, too shocked to move.

I had no idea what happened to Kacchan, but it was clear that something was off. I assumed that the light had something to do with his new attitude towards me, but I didn't think much about it.

I couldn't stop myself from smiling, butterflies were flying in my stomach.And no matter what my rational side was saying, I was too happy to listen to him.

——————————————————————-Hello!👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻So now, after Bakugo accepted his feelings, things will start to move a bit :3

And I'm super happy because my school year is about to end in 19 days >~<Summer vacation here I come!

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~~~Well, I hope you liked this chapter and I will see U next week (or maybe in two weeks? idk XD)