Traitor 63 “Well, I wasn't expecting that!” Eijiro grins at his king and friend, sitting on the throne. They watch as the music slowly begins to pick up pace. “Midoriya is pretty manly! I wanna challenge him too!” Katsuki scoffs. He nods his head to the crowd of dancers swirling around the green haired man. “Go on then.” “Really? But-” he's technically supposed to be guarding their king. “If you lose you're cleaning out the dragon pits for a week,” Katsuki glares. Eijiro grins at the challenge, stomping his way down the dais cheerful as can be and joining the crowd of dancers. Deku spins on, dodging as his current dance partner makes a swipe for his crown. He's quick to flit away into the arms of Sero who gives him a saucy wink before dipping him surprisingly low, but manages to keep his crown to his head before falling into a quick step. “Ooohh, looks like the prince might make a move,” Mina says having gone to fetch herself a drink, before resuming guard duties. Katsuki grunts, following her eye to the far end of the hall where said Prince of Endeavor is no longer standing off to the side, quietly content to watch the party, but instead moving towards the edge of the whirling crowd, his female knight following close behind. Katsuki grins. Mina would dare call it feral even. “Mina,” he says. “On it!” she already set her drink behind the throne, rolled her neck to help loosen up and begins walking the steps down to the dance floor. She stops on the first step tilting her head at him with a cheeky grin. “Though if you really wanna give the guy a run for his money…” The cheers rise again, this time Eijiro having made it to the center of the dancing circle and picked up Deku with a grin. The kitchen boy turned knight only laughs, his head thrown back, arms wide. “...maybe you might wanna take a spin on the floor yourself?” He narrows his eyes at her. Her grin gets wider, unbothered. “Unless you're too rusty to keep up? Wouldn't blame you, it's Izuku after all!” With that Mina runs off to do as ordered, leaving him to watch over his guests and their idiocy. He hates parties. Hates dancing. Katsuki remembers late afternoons, running through the same set of steps over and over, his mother hounding him to stop scaring off the royal dance instructor and learn to play nice with the other noble children. How stupid, he'd thought. How they liked to simper and talk like they knew him, as if they could get close to power through compliments and proximity, even at so young an age. What a pain it all was. Deku had been… tolerable. Even with his early stumbles and clumsy feet, the son of one of the royal cooks had been the only one to be bullheaded enough to keep returning to the practice room and learn to dance alongside Katsuki. Even when Katsuki yelled at him or called him Deku, he would always come back. That is until… Stupid Deku. The idiot shouldn't have said what he did, should have known better than offer to be his dance partner for life, all wide innocent smiles and oblivious to his lot in life. There was an order to things. The strong at the top and the weak below. Izuku was too- too everything. Too soft, too forgiving. Too stubborn in his concern and quick to reach out even when he's not wanted. Deku just didn't get it. As if to irritate him more, the freckled man laughs a high manic sound, fleeing a sudden ambush by Mina and Uraraka, the crown of flowers still firmly on his head. The prince of Endeavor draws closer. Katsuki grits his teeth.
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