Mami couldn't help but feel a bit flustered as she stood in front of the U.A. dorm building. She then quickly shook her head for being so ridiculous, clutching the strap of her book bag just a bit tighter she made her way inside. She's already had to pass through a security check at the entrance but she still had to check in at a sign up desk in the lobby, according to Todoroki ever since the villain incident at the training camp the school had been beefing up on security, this included asking all of the students to move into on campus dorms, honestly Mami didn't have such a problem with that last one, Todoroki was incredibly defensive about Mami coming to his house or meeting his family, usually this lead to him spending a lot of time out of the house so it didn't affect him outwardly, but she couldn't help but notice a subtle change ever since he moved on campus, like he was a little bit more relaxed.

And if it meant they could spend a little more time together, well, she wasn't going to start complaining. That being said free time was becoming rarer and rarer of a luxury these days, between school, patrols, magic practice and working with her friends, she barely had time to do her homework.

...speaking of which.

A few brief knocks on the door and Todoroki was there to let her inside. The dorm was the size of a hotel room and sparsely decorated. He had a work desk but the two of them sat on the floor and spread their books over the low table.

15 minutes later and Todoroki was half way done with his homework and Mami had just finished the essay she had been putting off all week and was now asking her boyfriend for help with her biology exercise. Making sure you could be in all the right places at the right times was easier than her disciples gave her credit for, it was all a matter of organising, keeping your mind focused on the task at hand like listening to your teachers... that was a bit harder.

"Wouldn't it be easier to get help from your classmates?" he asked her while sliding closer to her so he could get a better look at her textbook.

Mami let out a little sigh, "If they saw how behind I actually am in our classwork they'd start asking questions about why and how, they already think it's weird enough that I never hang out with them after classes."

"What about your other friends?"

At that suggestion Mami dotted the 'i' in her last sentence a little harder than was probably necessary. The slip in her composure made her re-grip her pencil and puff out her cheeks. "Well- you know I am in the class above them, they probably wouldn't be fair to ask them for help with my work."

Todoroki didn't say anything, he just looked at her like he was waiting for the next part of her explanation.

"Besides," she continued "I'm their leader, I have appearances to keep up."

Todoroki sighed and placed a hand on her back, "It can't be healthy to be so worried about how others see you." He said simply.

"But it's not that different from you!" Mami protested, though she didn't shake off his hand, "a hero never lets the public see them get worried. They always make sure everyone sees them handling the situation with confidence and control, like All Might."

"I know that's what the pro's do for the public, but your friends are different, you don't have to hide things from them because they don't see you as their hero, they just see you as you are." His face softened at the end there, no doubt thinking about his classmates.

Mami clenched her hands into fists on the table and bit the inside of her lip, "But they don't..." she whispered "when they met me, they were scared and new to everything and I already had my footing, I was a veteran to them and so they relied on me, and at first I was just so happy to not be alone anymore that I didn't mind at all... actually I think I let it go to my head a little." Mami laughed a little but her thoughts were starting to spiral.

She could still remember the day she had first met Kyoko, Mami had helped her fight of a what?. And when she'd first met Madoka and Sayaka, one of her happiest memories, the day Madoka had taken her hand and said that she would fight beside her, when Madoka had promised Mami she wouldn't be alone anymore, she'd been so happy she had run head first through the where? to rescue Sayaka from what?!. Why could did certain parts of her memories keep slipping away from her? And why was that happy memory with Madoka twinged with foreboding... had something happened that she forgot about?

Mami was pulled from her inner reflection by a sudden cool sensation on her skin, she blinked a few times and saw that Todoroki was tracing circles along her collar bone with his right index finger. He didn't say anything right away, giving her the chance to save her dignity.

"Huh? Oh, I'm sorry, guess I spaced out a little there." Mami had giggled a little while she spoke, but once she finished speaking she couldn't stop giggling, she pressed her hands over her mouth but that just muffled the sound. After a moment of trying to figure it out on his own Todoroki eventually asked,

"Um, what is so funny?" He was starting to get a little worried for his girlfriend.

Mami tried taking a few deep breaths to calm herself down but she just ended up hiccuping, "N-nothing it's *hic* just-" she could feel her eyes watering, "I only came over here to do my homework!" And once she'd said it out loud she descended into full on laughter, wrapping her arms around her middle.

Todoroki still didn't fully understand what was so funny about that, but the way Mami looked when she was laughing so hard was a priceless sight, how tightly her eyes screwed shut, the way her twin tails bobbed like jack-in-the-box springs, he couldn't help it he found himself chuckling along with her.

Mami started leaning against him at some point and soon she was leaning on him so much that he found himself falling onto his back, on instinct his hands grabbed onto her arms so she ended up on top of his chest. Mami went quiet for a heartbeat when she noticed their position, but then just started laughing at that. For his part Todoroki managed to resist grumbling that 'it wasn't that funny.'

Mami's laughter vibrated through his chest and he felt as her breathing slowly returned to normal, he felt her hair nestled under his chin, the table seemed so far away at this point.

"So you've given up on that biology I take it?" He asked her.

In lieu of an answer Mami slid forward and pressed a soft kiss to his lips, his arms wrapped around her middle to hold her in place as he kissed her back. "Just this once," she said to him once she broke off the kiss, "to hell with the work."

What he wouldn't give to see her smile like that more often.

"And what about you?" She asked, "I'm pretty sure we're breaking some kind of rules right now." She giggled a little but this time it quickly died down.

Todoroki smirked and pulled the blonde in his arms closer, "Just this once?" He asked, "To hell with the rules."