A/N: Hey! I decided to go with Kirishima for this one since I haven’t gotten the chance to write for him yet, and I thought this might fit nicely. I really hope you like this and I hope I was able to write these reptiles well! It was a fun challenge! (There are like 20 videos of angry iguanas in my youtube history now)
Also if the ending feels a bit rushed I’m sorry 😥 it was late
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School had just ended and you were standing in the hallway outside your classroom talking to one of our friends.
Kirishima watched you nervously from afar.
“Tch, what are you waiting for, shitty hair? Ogling at her all day isn’t going to get you anywhere.” A gruff voice spoke from behind him,Bakugou giving him a swift pat on the back that came out more like a push towards you than the normal friendly encouraging pat.
Kirishima stumbled forward a bit, and looked back at Bakugou who just looked at him expectantly.
Kirishima nodded to himself and straightened up before walking towards you.
Your friend-noticing spiky red hair approaching with determination-wrapped up the conversation she was having with you and said her goodbyes as soon as Kirishima arrived next to you.
“Oh! Kirishima! Hi, how are you?” you said with a warm smile.
“I’m really great actually, thanks!” He grinned at you and you laughed a little at his naturally cheerful behavior. “How about you?”
“I’m good, thanks for asking. How was class for you, today?” you attempted some small talk, anxiously shifting your weight between your feet, which went unnoticed by Kirishima.
“Uh- good! Yeah, we had some really cool hero lessons today.” There was a short pause in his words and you watched as his expression changed from eager, to more serious, before he spoke again.”But listen, I actually came over here because I wanted to ask you something.”
“Oh, okay, what’s up?” you tilted your head slightly, radiating curiosity.
“I was wondering if you wanted to go on a date with me sometime.” He asked in a single breath of confidence, pointing a thumb at himself when he said the word “me”.
You stood kind of shocked for a hot second, before you blinked a few times, snapping out of it.
“A date….?” you nodded your head “yeah! A date! I would really like to go on a date with you Kirishima.” you gave him a smile so bright that it could rival one of his.
“Great! How does tomorrow night sound?” there was more eagerness in his voice that before.
“ Tomorrow?” You tapped your chin a couple times, trying to remember if you had plans the next day.”Oh, y’know what? I have work tomorrow, but do you want to do something after? My shift ends around 5.”
“Yeah! That’ll still give us plenty of time to do something after. How about I meet you at your workplace, and we can go right after your shift ends? Is that okay?” Kirishima spoke rather quickly and he hoped he wasn’t being too much.
“Yes, that’s perfectly fine with me, I-” you were interrupted as your phone beeped with a text from one of your parents who seemingly needed you to pick something up on your way home.”oops, that’s my cue, I gotta go. I’ll send you the address as soon as I get home, I’ll see you tomorrow, Kirishima!” You started to walk backwards in the direction of the exit, still smiling at him.
“I’ll see you tomorrow then” he waved at you, and one you were out of sight, let out a big breath.
“I can’t believe that just happened, oh man.” He was honestly in such shock that his crush, his perfect, cool, strong, amazing crush, said yes to go on a date with him.
He walked home that day with the biggest smile on his face, and couldn’t stop thinking about the day to come.
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Kirishima looked up at a big sign with big green letters that read “Reptile Emporium”.
He double checked-no-triple checked the address that you had sent him the night before, half expecting that he got lost and ended up at the wrong pace, but everything matched up.
“Well….this is it I guess.”
With a shrug of his shoulders, he pushed open the door-a bell signaling his entrance-and looked around. It seemed a bit empty…..
Well, empty of humans. There was no lack of reptiles in there. There were rows and rows that contained different sizes of terrariums, all containing different reptiles in them.
“Hello?”
When no one answered, Kirishima started walking down the rows, in search of your familiar h/c hair.
Kirishima approached one of the last rows and when he looked down the aisle, he saw a big iguana turn the corner from an area he hadn’t been yet.
“Woah” he gaped, slowly approaching, but keeping his distance, trying to get a better look at the scaled creature.
He didn’t get very far before it started slowly bobbing its head at him.
“Huh???” Kirishima raised an eyebrow, confused as to what it was doing.
“Kirishima! I didn’t hear you come in!”
At the sound of your voice, Kirishima’s eyes immediately shifted from the iguana before him, up towards you, standing behind it.
“y/n! There you are, I was looking everywhere for you, man. I was worried I showed up to the wrong place” he chuckled nervously, and took a step forward, a hand scratching at the back of his neck, but promptly backed up when he heard the iguana hiss at him.
Scarlet eyes widening, he looked back down at the iguana to see it bobbing its head significantly faster than it had been, and now hissing at him too.
“Curry!! Oh my god, I’m so sorry about him, Kirishima, hold on let me get him back in his cage.”
You disappeared for a minute with the iguana and came back to where Kirishima was standing, inspecting a chameleon in one of the terrariums.
“Hey, sorry about that, again. Male iguanas tend to get a bit territorial over female keepers, but I’ve never seen him do that.” You took off the pair of gloves that you were using while handling your iguana friend-whos name was Curry apparently-, and set them down on a counter, leaning on it afterwards.
“Ah. no worries, I probably should have been a bit more cautious haha.” he chuckled out, kind of awkwardly, which you returned with a soft smile.
The two of you sort of just stayed like that for a minute, with Kirishima looking around at different reptiles, and you watching him, making comments every now and then about the creature he was looking at at the moment.
“Hey,” you spoke up as Kirishima looked at a python. “I’m gonna go get my stuff from the back and change so we can head out before it gets too late okay?”
Kirishima nodded his head and shot you two thumbs up and flashed you with big grin.
“Sounds good!”
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Bonus:
When you walked back out, you noticed Kirishima looking into the biggest cage that you guys had in store. Inside was an alligator snapping turtle.
You stopped a little ways behind him and looked back and forth between Kirishima and the turtle.
“Hey! Look at all those spikes! You guys could be twins Kiri!!” you gripped onto the straps of your bag and let out a hearty laugh and Kirishima’s heart was set on fire at that very moment.
Can you do a thing for Bakugo or Kirishima falling for/asking out a reader who works at an exotic reptile pet shop part time, with them having to navigate “wildlife” to get to the reader? (Fun Fact: Iguanas get territorial over female owners because they think their lady owners are their iguana mates. They hiss and spit at people they’re mad at. They throw tantrums sometimes.) Bonus points if you include a huge reptile i.e. Argentinian tegu (lizard puppy), alligator snapping turtle, python, etc.
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