A real Date

I've never felt more like it took longer for someone to answer a phone than I did waiting for Amanda to finally pick up my video call. "OMG Y/N, you look different somehow." I rolled my eyes at her. "Whatever, I look the same. Anyway, you told me if I didn't call to let you see me and talk up my confidence before we go out that you would fly to Japan and stab me, so here I am bitch." I prop my phone up on the dresser against the wall and do a slow turn for her.

"Oh my god, you look so cute. That dress suits you so well, you've always looked great in lighter colors and the yellow and white is amazing. You look like a fresh spring day. So is he like there or?"

"No, he's picking me up in eight minutes."

"Why not just say 10?"

"Because the man takes punctuality way more seriously than you ever have. He will be here at the exact time he said he would."

"What if he's there in seven minutes."

"Knowing him he'll stand down the hall and wait."

"Wow, he sounds boring. Your mom won't stop talking about how hot he is. She probably didn't tell you, but she ran into Jason's mom a couple weeks ago and told her that you were working in Japan with a super-hot hero and that it was only a matter of time before you were a couple."

"I don't miss living in a small town at all. Katsuki grew up here in Musutafu and hardly anyone remembers him personally, just things they saw him in the news for over the years."

"Wait, so you're on fist name basis now? No more Bakugo?"

"Shut up."

"Is he calling you Y/N now? In that video that took me forever to find of him telling the world he was in love with you he called you Miss L/N all proper like."

"First of all, that's just typical in Japan. Second if we're still allowed to work together in settings like that he will still call me Miss L/N and I'll still call him DynaMight. Second he does call me Y/N, but also teddy bear."

"Stop it ohmygod, that's so fucking cute. I'm so happy for you. Seriously though when I said you look different I see what it is now, you're so damn happy. Have a great date hoe. I love you."

"I love you too slut."

Just as predicted there was a knock on the door while I put my shoes on. When I opened the door it took me a moment to breathe again from seeing him standing there hands in his pocket wearing a pair of dark jeans and a white button down shirt. Holy shit he looks good in white, why does he not wear it more often? "Wow teddy bear, you look amazing. I love being able to see you in the clothes you would pick for yourself instead of work stuff." I blush at the compliment. "I've never seen you wear white before except under a suit jacket, it looks um really nice." He just kinda chuckles and holds out his hand to me. "You ready to go then?" I nod stepping out then locking the door. "It's awesome you're not one of those girls who can't get ready on time." I chuckle thinking about how much he will hate Amanda when they meet one day. I follow along with him not asking any questions, not even when we get in the car. When we claim a parking spot at park he leans over and kisses my cheek. "Just give me a minute to get some things from the trunk" I nod smiling at him as he hops out. There seems to be some kind of activity planned here for the day, there are a lot of people carrying blankets and chairs heading into the park. When he opens the door for me he's holding a black blanket over his arm and a tote bag that looks to hold pillows. He notices me watching everyone with interest and gives me a smile. "They do this when the weather turns warm, mom used to bring me. I pretended to hate it of course, but I'm happy to be sharing it with you now. We'll find a place to set our stuff down first then we can walk around and look at the vendors, try food from the different food trucks. When it starts to get dark we'll head back over to our spot and watch the movie." I just smile at him too surprised to say anything, the timing for this event couldn't be more perfect. Tomorrow we face whatever fate Jeanist has for us, tonight we can just be a couple on their first official date.

Walking around enjoying the atmosphere turned out not to be as simple as we thought it might be. Whispers followed us nearly everywhere we went. "Hey isn't that DynaMight." "Oh wait, that's the girl from Good Morning Japan." "They are so cute together." He ignored the whispers until one caught his ear and pissed him off. "I guess confessing your feelings on live TV can get you the girl even if you're a monster." His whole face went red and he turned to face the person who said it bellowing at them. "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY?" The poor guy who said it was not bright enough to realize he should just apologize. "I said you don't deserve to be out with a nice girl because you're a monster. We all know you used to follow Endeavor back in the day. Are you forcing her to be with you? The way Endeavor forced his wife to be with him? Do you plan to make her give you kids so you can abuse them?" My grip on him was getting harder and harder to maintain the more the man spoke, I decided to step in before Katsuki said something he would later regret. "I'm here with him because I want to be, he's been nothing but a perfect gentlemen." He scoffs at me eyeing Katsuki with judgement. "Then why does he look like he's on the verge of going on a rampage?" I stepped closer to position myself between the stranger and my more than angry boyfriend. "Because sir, one of his biggest pet peeves is people who make assumptions about others as you did. He especially hates is when those assumptions involve me." He sucked his teeth to answer when another voice rang from the crowd. "Yeah, if anyone is out of line here it's you. Any man would be mad if you told his date she shouldn't be with him, even more so to say it right in front of him. It's rude." "Yeah, leave DynaMight and Miss L/N alone, everyone deserves happiness, they were smiling a lot before you opened your mouth." Katsuki finally relaxed to be defended by myself and the others. "It doesn't matter what you think of me, I know who I am and so does she. Go find something better to do loser." The guy walked away as others booed after him.

When the sun started to set we made our way back over to the blanket and tote we brought in, Katsuki spread the blanket already before we walked around, so I kicked off my shoes before stepping on and taking a seated position taking the snacks he was carrying so he could join me. He pulled out several throw pillows and a small blanket spreading them along the opposite side we were sitting on. Even though we'd tasted something from every food truck, I was looking forward to trying the snacks we collected from the vendors. The movie turned out to be the animated version of The Lion King. There was nothing better than sitting there propped up against him with the smaller blanket covering my legs singing all the songs with him. Even more so since they didn't dub the songs to Japanese which was great for me because I mess up trying to sing in Japanese. He didn't laugh at me when I cried when Mufasa died, I feel like such a child still crying every time, even though I know it's gonna happen. Instead he just kissed my head and hugged me a little tighter, when I looked up at him I felt calm yet my heart was beating so fast you'd think I just left the gym from a workout. Will I ever get used to the contradictory ways my emotions and body react to him? In any case, I don't think I could have asked for a better night out.