#/ basically k.atsuki eating his own words and admiring s.ho nvlkcdm

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TRANSMISSION FROM @deibreak : ❝ I don't think I'm going to stay awake for the whole night. I never have, but I'll try. ❞ To watch the first sunrise of the new year. A hint of a smile, he offered at Katsuki, moving on the side a bit, to make space so he could sit next to him. ❝ I've heard the first sunrise is different. Is that true? ❞ In his honesty, he relied, his company, as they'd wait for the dark of the night to give place to lighter tones, to the beginning of something new and exciting. To memories they'd make together in the days to come. Happy New Year! TRANSMISSION ENDED / UNPROMPTED , ACCEPTING .

it is fair to assume that katsuki had no plans to stay awake for an entire night . he , who doesn't like to stay up until ungodly hours of the night , who doesn't see a point in such trivial rumours and baseless assumptions , had - true to him - no plan to pull through the new year's night to see a sunrise . why would he be awake at dawn just to see a new day in a new year ? the earth doesn't stop spinning .

but shouto asks . maybe he is asking for some truth , or maybe he is asking for honesty , or both - whichever suits the blond more / katsuki sits in the space offered to him with crossed arms . it must seem like he is thinking of a response , the way his brows furrow and his jaw tenses a fraction and his gaze never quite lifts to meet heterochromatic gaze , but perhaps it is more accurate to say he is debating on whether he should invoke the full honesty of his reply . weaving opinions in with the fact he hadn't experienced it before , or omitting a truth to make way for the sharp judgement behind a sentiment of a new year's sunrise .

❛ dunno , ❜ katsuki finally admits . ❛ never bothered to stay up for the first sunrise before . sounds like some weird-ass superstition to me . ❜

but how could he prove it as superstition if he's never seen it before ? he finally glances at shouto , observes , bites his tongue ... [ because if he stays up and the sunrise is exactly what he expects , he can prove his point , that it is just another morning . but if it meets this expectation that it is different - perhaps more beautiful - then katsuki would have at least spent that first sunrise by shouto's side . ] ... and he huffs . ❛ i'll prove it . ❜

the night will be filled with bouts of light and broken sleep , but he will stay awake before dawn creeps across the horizon , and he will wake shouto up to see it , and then he can reveal the truth - whatever it might be . and either way , there would be a sense of success / he would be right , or this first sunrise would meet shouto's expectations , and katsuki would've shared it with him .

how could he lose ?

❛ i'll wake you up to see it , and i'll show you it's just another day . ❜ katsuki shifts to lay down where he can fit , using one of the young todoroki's legs as a headrest / he glances up with a glint of determination in his gaze . ❛ so hurry the hell up 'n sleep . you'll see what the hell i mean . ❜

and in the end , katsuki will wake shouto minutes before the sun rises , and he will drag the boy outside to see it from one of their dorm balconies , and he will find that he doesn't have the words for the view he sees . because , even though he may still believe it as a rumour , that morning's dawn was mesmerising / the rays bleed through the scattered clouds on the horizon , tint them various colours of yellow and orange and pink , further brightening the sky to showcase its never-ending bright blue .

[ and it is worth it , to see the way it shines back in shouto's eyes ; a reveal of something he wasn't sure was true . a good omen that the new year would be a good one for them both . ]