Yeahh, I know for some people it's still the 31st but for me it's officially 2023!! WHOOO!! It's currently 2:53am but eehh

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Katsuki didn't normally celebrate things. He just felt weird celebrating some random day. Besides, the hag didn't really encourage celebrating shit when he was a dumbass lil kid, so what's the difference?

Growing up, Katsuki was told that Santa was fake and that the Tooth Fairy was just a tall tale. Obviously. He wouldn't want to celebrate something fake..so he just didn't celebrate at all. When you say it like that, it really does sound sad, pathetic and that made him feel weak.

He had a.. A hard relationship with the term 'weak'. Anyone with ears or eyes could see that. To Katsuki, being weak was unacceptable. That's really the only way he could put it. It's hard to smush all his feelings into some logical sentence for extras (like you, dear reader), just so they could understand. Fuck them, nobody needed to understand Katsuki but Katsuki.

But all of that changed when he met Kariage.

Yeah, yeah, give him crap for sounding like some moron in a high school romance. It's true!

Kariage was the one who actually tried to understand where he was coming from. He was the one who actually cared. He was the one who helped Katsuki change.
More importantly, he was the one who started getting Katsuki to celebrate holidays and shit.

No, it's not that important, but to him? To him, it felt like someone was lifting him out of some dark abyss. No, he's not emo.

They started off small, with shit like Easter. Slowly, but surely, they reached Christmas and Katsuki was actually getting gifts for people and for once, he was also getting gifts! He felt and sounded like a little bitch, but can you blame him?

Now, all that's left was New Year's Day. Scratch that. It is New Year's Day.

It's literally New Year's Day.

It hit Kasuki like cold water on his face at 11pm (he knew how that felt because of the fucking hag). It was actually going to be the new year in less than an hour - less than ten minutes. Ten fucking minutes.

Wow.

That felt...oddly overwhelming. And he wasn't even doing anything that special. All Katsuki was doing was sitting on some dumbass roof with his boyfriend in hand. Waiting for the big fireworks. A bunch of idiots had already set off their own fireworks early, clearly impatient bitches.

That didn't really matter, because what mattered was the pace his own heartbeat was going. No way was Katsuki panicking over New Year's. Right..?

A hand gripped his own, lacing their fingers tightly, "I know you're nervous, Kat. It'll be okay, got it?"

Damn, he thought he was discreet. Well, it's hard to be discreet when you're literally halfway to a panic attack because you're panicking over panicking. That made sense, yeah?

"I know, Kari. I ain't fucking stupid." Nonetheless, Katsuki still left their fingers intertwined. A soft blush may or may not have appeared on his face. Nobody noticed, or nobody said anything about it, so it's fine.

"Never said you were!" A light tease comes out of Kariage. Fighting the urge to shove his bloody ass off the roof, Katsuki simply rolled his eyes. "Y'know.. You're really sexy in this lighting."

Katsuki really wanted to shove that bastard off the roof now. Maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't. Who knows?

He glanced at his watch and inhaled sharper than he would've liked. Two minutes already? Never-fucking-mind, one minute? How had time gone by so fast? He swore it had only been a few seconds.

Kariage seemed to notice something and squeezed Kasuki's hand. Just a simple squeeze made him feel so much fucking better. Weird shit, huh.

"10!"

Ten seconds already? Another hand squeeze.

"9!"
"8!!"

"7"

"6"
"5"

Fucking five seconds-

"4"

"3"

3, Katsuki counted inside his head.

"2!!"

2..

"1!!!!!!"
1-

A blast of hundreds of fireworks set the sky ablaze, scattering the black with purple, red, green, blue and so much fucking more. Embers, hot pokers and cheers were all round and Katsuki was just floating.

He was just floating in the pure beauty and joy of the moment. Not really in character for someone like him, but whatever. You can't sue someone for being happy [you can't sue a fictional character either..].

"I told you it'd be okay, darling." A soft voice murmured in Katsuki's ear. The stupid asshole-

Rolling his eyes for what happened to the millionth time, he turned to face the dark haired dick. "Shut the goddamn fuck up and kiss me, you moron-" His last words were interrupted by a pair of lips smashing into his own.

Yeah, maybe New Year's Day wasn't so bad after all.

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wholesome? Welp I tried for fluff :D
Happy New Years/Happy New Years Eve!! CHEERS  FOR 2023 <33