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EXPLOSIVE GAMING

Izuku face palmed as he moved his white rook three steps away to checkmate his partner's queen. Unfortunately for him, the black pawn got in his way and his white queen was checkmated, making him lose instantly.

He had never been so happy to lose a game of chess in his entire life, now at last he could finally eat…

"Not yet!" his partners voice boomed. "I'm not done yet! Fuck! You're letting me win on purpose, aren't you?"

Izuku could swear he'd sighed over a hundred times in the past ten minutes. It was lunch break and he decided to go out to eat in a popular cafe near his agency, somewhere along the line he met Bakugou who was also on lunch break, and for some reason he had a chess board in his suitcase and demanded that Izuku would play with him. Of course, he said yes even though he wasn't too fond of chess and he usually lost when he played with his wife.

Bakugou and Izuku sat in one of the outside tables of the café, luckily there weren't too many people around to start swooning over them but they had gotten a lot of looks from the small crowd, murmurs here and there, and of course people had taken pictures too.

Izuku had fun playing the first round and losing, but apparently Bakugou thought Izuku was letting him win on purpose, so he wanted to do another round, after he won again he still wasn't satisfied and he demanded another one and another one. The two had already played five rounds in the past twenty minutes.

"I already told you Kacchan… I'm not doing this on—"

"Quiet Deku!"

"Can I just order something please?"
"Not until we're finished!"

"You said that five rounds ago…"

It's not like Izuku didn't enjoy spending time with Bakugou, he really did. But it was times like this where he wished he could just get a needle and pop the over inflated ball of pride in Bakugou's head.

'I wonder if he'll let me go if I actually lose on purpose this time…'

Izuku moved his queen directly in front of Bakugou's, hoping he wouldn't notice how dumb his move was.

"What? Are you trying to take me on without a plan or something?" he snarled while using his queen to push Izuku's to the side. About two minutes later, Bakugou had conquered Izuku's side of the chess board and won.

"Yes! I won! I fucking beat you Deku!" he yelled.

"Kacchan not so loud… there are people here…" Izuku whispered. 'can't believe he bought it…'

As he was loudly gloating in victory, Bakugou accidentally slammed his palm on the chess board, creating a small explosion which destroyed the board and made the pieces fly everywhere.

The two, extremely speechless, sat in silence as they felt the stares of the small crowd intensifying, fortunately there was no property damage.

"Well… I'm going to go get something to eat… I only have about ten minutes left of my break so…"

"Wait"

Izuku gulped as Bakugou's cold stare sent shivers down his body. He couldn't quite understand what Bakugou wanted to say but he could tell really wanted to say something by the look on his face. Izuku cocked his head sideways in confusion as he watched Bakugou grit his teeth with a small blush creeping in his face. Then it finally clicked.

'Wait! don't tell me…. does he want to…hang out?!' Izuku accidentally said out loud.

"Like…like hell I do!" he snarled with his blush spreading across his face.

'I just wanted to eat…' Izuku scratched his head nervously as he thought of an idea.

"Ummm… Kacchan…there's um… there's an arcade…"

"I'm not going to an arcade Deku"

'Ah. So he does want to hang out'

"…around here that has a game where some of us pro heroes are in it"

Bakugou raised an eyebrow in curiosity. "So we're like, characters in the game?" he couldn't deny the fact that being a playable character in a video game sounded pretty awesome.

Izuku nodded with a smile. "Yeah! It's pretty fun actually, Shouto and I go there sometimes"

Bakugou was super skeptical about going to an arcade, because well, it was an arcade, a loud place where irritating kids gathered. But his curiosity had gotten the better of him.

"Let's go"

"sure, I'll lead you there!"

The arcade wasn't too far from where they were but it was still a hell of a walk. By the time they had finally reached the arcade, Bakugou pinched his nose in disgust as the smell of grody, sweaty teenagers entered his nostrils, he was pretty surprised that there weren't really any little kids.

"Shit, this place stinks dammit"

"haha… you'll get used to it" Izuku said.

"Whatever, at least there aren't any little kids around"

"Ah! I need to refill my card Kacchan! We can't play any game without it"

As the two walked in, fully dressed in their costumes, Izuku felt very uncomfortable with the number of eyes that landed on him, he's come to the arcade more than three times but he could never get used to the millions of stares he'd always received, it just made him feel too embarrassed.

"It's Deku…"

"He's the real deal…."

"isn't that the king of explodo kills too?"

"I didn't know his agency was nearby"

"Holy shit I'm getting a picture"
"This is so cool!"

As the two walked around looking for the game, Izuku tried to muster up a conversation. "You know I actually kind of helped in making the game, and everyone else too"

Bakugou glared at him and scoffed "yeah right".

"It's true" Izuku said in a defensive tone.

The more the two walked around, the more pairs of eyes fell on them.

Izuku internally sighed in relief as the hoard of preteens and teenagers decided to keep their distance and stick to muttering in the background. After a little walk around the arcade the two finally found the game, it was in the center of the arcade and it was popular so there was usually a long line for it during the late afternoons, luckily Izuku came early so there were only two young boys who were playing.

He fished out the arcade card from his wallet and put them in front of the screen. "We got next game" he said nicely.

The two boys stopped playing and turned around to look at the smiling Izuku and the irritated Bakugou.

"Y-You! Y-You're!" One of the boys who looked a little older than the other boy said.

"So cool!" the younger boy shouted.

Izuku scratched his head nervously.

"U-um, we're almost d-done! We'll be out of your way in no time!"

"no need to rush!" Izuku said.

Bakugou couldn't help but snicker as he watched the boys play, the older one used Uravity to mercilessly defeat the younger boy who was using Shouto, seeing Shouto get knocked down always put a smile on his face, unless if it was a really dangerous situation of course. A big K.O! appeared on the screen and the older boy cheered in victory, Izuku smiled as the boy went on and on about how amazing Uravity was.

"No fair you always use Uravity! Lemme play her too!" the younger one whined.

"No way! She's my ultimate trump card!" the older one said proudly. "And I'm gonna marry her one day" he whispered the last part of the sentence while turning away from Izuku, the green haired hero couldn't help but chuckle at the boy's admiration.

The younger boy tugged on Izuku's arm "It's your turn now Mr. deku!" he said giving him a warm smile.

Bakugou noticed how the older child seemed a little paranoid at the fact the younger one was holding onto Izuku like that, he reluctantly turned to face Bakugou and tugged on his gantlets to bring him closer. "I-It's your turn too!"

Bakugou snickered at the design of the arcade game, above the screen there was the logo that said, 'My Hero Academia', at the right side there a bunch of pro heroes splattered all over the place. Izuku had the biggest spot of course, with his huge ass picture being the only pro hero on the left side of the game. There were two joysticks and two buttons for both players.

"Alright Kacchan, the controls are pretty simple, the red button is for basic attacks, the blue button is for special attacks, and the joystick is for basic movements" Izuku said inserting two tokens in the slots.

"Got it"

'BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA!' the game shouted (if that even makes sense lol) in a voice even more annoying than the retired hero Present Mic.

'Choose your Characters, Players!'

There weren't a lot of characters to choose from despite so many pro heroes having their pictures showing all over the game. The only playable characters were Izuku, Bakugou, Shouto, Iida, Ochako, Kirishima, and Kaminari.

"There aren't really a lot of us in this game" Izuku said.

"Yeah, I can see that, it doesn't matter as long as I'm here" Bakugou said.

Izuku and Bakugou both chose to play as themselves.

'Deku vs Kacchan!' the game shouted as it went into a loading screen.

"K-Kacchan?!"

Izuku froze in fear and Bakugou's jaw dropped in shock. "Oh shoot I forgot!" Izuku accidentally said out loud.

"You forgot what?!" he yelled.

"Ah, well you see… they wanted a short name for you, and I told them that Kacchan would be okay… I didn't think they'd actually end up using it haha…"

"You fucking nerd! You're fucking dead!" Bakugou shouted.

"Kacchan not so loud please, and they're kids here so watch your language alright?"

"Shut up Deku!"

"Never fear! For the one who does his best is here!" The 3D Izuku said stretching and exercising with a bright smile on his face.

Bakugou was surprised at how similar the game sounded to Izuku's voice.

"Deku my good man, I will not go easy on you, even if we are good friends!" The 3D Bakugou said in a rather odd high pitched voice.

"What the hell is this supposed to be?! ME?! I DON'T SOUND ANYTHING LIKE THIS! How come yours sounds like you and mind sounds like some stupid ass cringey dumbass?!"

"Calm down Kacchan! It's your fault anyway, I asked if you wanted to have them record voice samples from you but you said no"

"I—" now that he thought about it, he actually did remember Izuku saying something like that.

"Plus, the game developers wanted to see if they could make your character a little less brash, because this just was supposed to be a proto type game but it ended up getting really popular! But don't worry, a new one is in production and they'll be sure to get you right this time… or they'll look for someone with a voice mimicking quirk or something… haha"

"…..whatever" Bakugou mumbled. "Let's just start already"

A small crowd started to surround the two heroes as they started to play. Izuku wasted no time in using Uravity to K.O Bakugou using her special move. Bakugou didn't really mind losing at first, he'd win the next round… or so he thought.

The next round Izuku chose himself, Bakugou actually managed to put up a fight this time around until the 3D Deku unleashed a powerful Delaware Smash.

"Fuuuccccckkkkk!" Bakugou yelled.

"Language please!" Izuku said putting his hand over Bakugou's mouth

Bakugou swatted his hand away "Shut up we're playing again! I can't stand losing to you in this damn game!"

"You can always use your special attack you know" Izuku said.

"I don't need to go full power to beat you"

Izuku rolled his eyes. "well, your loss Kacchan"

They played again, and the people around them went wild with excitement, some of them bet on Bakugou while most of them bet their cards on Izuku since it was obvious that he was gonna keep winning. About five more rounds passed and Bakugou still didn't win any of them.

"Damn it!" Bakugou snarled as he saw the huge 'K.O!' displayed on the screen again.

"One more time Deku!" Bakugou demanded.

"Actually Kacchan… my card's out of chips…

"Are you kidding me?!" Bakugou yelled.

He slammed his palm on the screen and created a huge explosion causing the whole game to blow up in smithereens.

Izuku used his quirk to blow some of the glass pieces away from the crowd behind them.

There was a long silence after that. Izuku closed his eyes and put his index finger and thumb on the bridge of his nose, Bakugou had a large scowl on his face.

"Kacchan…why…why did you that?"

"…."

"Oh yeah I just remembered, my break ended fifteen minutes ago…"

Izuku sighed and pulled out a check book from his wallet. He scribbled a bunch of stuff on one of the sheets before tearing it and giving it to one of the employees standing behind him and giving them both a questioning look.

"Will… this be enough?"

END

As always thanks for reading this far!

Special thanks to the people who recently left nice comments on this fic too 😊 This got really long though...

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