Hey, guys! It's been a little while!

So, school's been kicking my butt for the past few weeks and I just haven't had time to write, but you don't have to worry.

Why?

BECAUSE I AM HERE!

Anyway, we've had plenty of angst for the last few chapters, so here's a super fluffy one. I had a lot of fun writing it, so I hope you guys enjoy! :D


Kouda could safely say that Kaminari started it. Kirishima joined in soon after.

Of course, Kouda wasn't sure what Present Mic was expecting, letting them all sit wherever they wanted for a class period. Apparently, the majority of his classmates had been doing particularly well in English when working in certain groups, so Present Mic had decided to change the seating arrangement in order to cater to the different friend groups. Aizawa had been heavily against the idea from the beginning, being a bit more familiar with surviving a school day with them, but Present Mic was insistent, even going so far as to call it a 'social experiment'.

Aizawa eventually relented, but only after Present Mic promised to keep the 'Bakusquad' mostly separated. Honestly, Kouda couldn't blame them.

Then again, by separate, Present Mic meant in two groups, and in all honesty, Kouda was still slightly concerned with that. Between the two groups were Sero and Ashido on one side of the room and Kirishima, Kaminari, and Bakugou on the other. Yaoyorozu would later argue that even though keeping Ashido, Kaminari, and Sero completely apart and allowing Kirishima to work close with Bakugou, given how efficient they are as a team, would have been the most effective, the two teams that they were split into was probably the safest bet for that particular arrangement, keeping Ashido and Sero away from Kaminari and Kaminari under Bakugou's watchful eye.

What Present Mic failed to take into account was what the students of class 1-A so lovingly described as the Kirishima factor.

As fate would have it, poor Kouda just so happened to be seated in Todoroki's usual seat, with Hagakure on his left and Kaminari to his direct right. At least he could count his lucky stars that it was Kaminari and not, say, Bakugou, seated in Uraraka's usual spot, giving Ashido very pointed, dangerous looks as she seemed to make herself particularly comfortable at his own desk, swinging her feet up onto it despite Iida's protests and blatantly slapping a wad of chewing gum underneath it with a cheshire grin. Kouda couldn't even imagine the balls she must have.

It would be about a fourth of the way through class, when the normal classroom shenanigans were starting to die down, that Kouda heard rustling to his right. Glancing down next to him towards Kaminari, the lightning quirk user appeared to be folding a paper airplane, a harmless activity that somewhat surprised Kouda, though he wasn't sure what he was expecting. With a little more enthusiasm than necessary, Kaminari excitedly folded the piece of paper together until it came to a somewhat deformed version of something akin to a paper airplane. It was when he appeared to be trying to aim that Kouda realized that this could still potentially end in disaster.

Much to his relief, the poorly constructed plane immediately nosedived to Kaminari's feet, causing him to sulk like a toddler. Kouda suppressed the urge to giggle.

More rustling was heard, and Kouda peered over to the person seated next to Kaminari. With the same level of intensity, it appeared that Kirishima was attempting to do origami, though Kouda wasn't entirely sure what he was trying to make. As it stood, it looked like what it was: a wad of paper.

Kirishima carefully set the wad of paper down, beaming, while Kaminari cocked an eyebrow. "Dude, what is that?" he whispered.

Kirishima pouted at his friend. "It's a swan."

Kouda looked at the catastrophe of a piece of origami, and... Well, if you looked at it from an angle and squinted a bit, it kinda looked like a swan. Sort of. Just from Kaminari's muffled laughter, Kirishima seemed to get the idea, looking back down at his creation with sad eyes, his shoulders slumping in disappointment. It would be about this point that Kouda would look over a little further, noticing Bakugou looking the two with an unreadable expression.

And this is where the Kirishima factor comes into play.

As it stands, due to how recently the term was coined, the best definition for the Kirishima factor that the class had at the moment is that despite his quirk, Kirishima has the unexplainable ability to soften the people he interacts with emotionally. The how and why are unknown at this point. The only known variables of this phenomenon are what it does and that it has a stronger affect the more time the person spends with him.

And so, it wasn't quite as surprising to Kouda as it might have been when Bakugou wordlessly reached over and took one of Kirishima's sheets of paper.

It happened faster than Kouda could comprehend, but ten seconds later, Bakugou had in his hands the most beautifully crafted origami swan that Kouda had ever seen in his entire life. The ash blonde then carefully slid the delicate paper sculpture onto Kirishima's desk, said boy picking it up with the gentleness of a mother and cradling it in his hands with his eyes sparkling with literal sunshine.

Without missing a beat, Bakugou quickly grabbed another sheet of paper, quickly putting together a nice little boat/hat as if it were second nature. With a quick look at Present Mic, who was busy writing something on the board, Bakugou smoothly threw the boat like a frisbee, the little paper boat/hat swerving around Kirishima and landing seamlessly onto Kaminari's desk, the boy looking as if Santa Claus had just personally handed him a brand new bike as he immediately placed it on his head with pride and a bright grin.

By the time class was halfway over, Bakugou had already crafted several swans and cranes, a car, a daffodil, a couple trees, including a pine and a palm tree, and an octopus. Kirishima and Kaminari were both red in the face, trying in vain to keep control of their laughter as to not alert Present Mic of their antics. Kouda, despite himself, was also trying to hide his amusement, earning somewhat confused looks from Ojiro and Hagakure(or at least he assumed).

It seemed, however, that Jirou, lucky enough to be able to stay at her own desk, was well aware that something stupid was happening, her ear jack lifted behind her head in order to try and get an idea of what was going on. The people behind or to the right of Jirou could obviously see that she was eavesdropping on something, but somehow, Ashido noticed too, craning her neck in order to get a reading on whatever Jirou was listening in on. Sero, seated in Hagakure's desk, seemed to notice the movement from Ashido, but didn't make any moves other than that.

Of course, it just so happened to be that very moment that Bakugou had finished crafting another flower and, with an expressionless face that would even make Todoroki proud, stuck it right into Kirishima's hair.

Kaminari finally lost it, releasing an ugly wheeze before slamming his face into the desk and hiding it with his arms. Kirishima wasn't much better, letting out a loud snrrrrrrrk as his shoulders shook with mirth. Closer to the front, Ashido had immediately turned back around and slammed her fist into her current desk before covering her mouth to stifle her own laughter.

"HEY, LISTENERS!" Present Mic suddenly yelled, startling most of the class and leaving those in the first two tows wincing. "You are listening, right? Someone from the back!"

Kouda realized with dread that he'd been far too preoccupied with what was happening to his right than the lesson and hoped dearly that he wasn't about to pay for it. From Mineta's desk, Ojiro glanced at him apologetically while Kaminari and Kirishima attempted to calm down and get their face back to their regular color.

Present Mic continued. "Can one of you tell me what is wrong with the sentence on the board?"

"The adjective and subject at the beginning are in the wrong order. It should be 'the brown dog' and not 'the dog brown'." Bakugou answered smoothly, as if he'd been paying attention the entire time.

"COOOOOOOOORRECT!" Present Mic cheered just a little too loudly. "Great job, listener!"

"Came through clutch." Kaminari whispered somewhat breathlessly in Bakugou's direction, earning a snort. Kouda couldn't help but be impressed. Throughout the entire ordeal, Bakugou kept up a literally perfect poker face, as if there was nothing going on at all, while the other two's faces were still beet red. On top of that, it appeared that Bakugou had still been doing origami in the process of all that, because suddenly, there were three more origami flowers in his hands, all of which he unceremoniously dumped into Kirishima's hair.

Kouda shook his head as Kaminari starting coughing from his breathless laughter, looking back over at Ojiro, who let out a sigh and shrugged. From Yaoyorozu's desk, Kouda could barely make out muffled giggling. From across the way, Jirou was still listening, though he couldn't see her face, and Ashido and Sero were trying to be as inconspicuous as possible, being in the front rows and all. From the other side of the room, it appeared as if Iida had just about had it with whatever antics were happening in the back, though his friend group was trying to keep him from worrying too much about it.

There was more rustling, and Kouda suddenly heard Kaminari start wheezing again, causing Kouda to glance back at them in curiosity. He immediately blanched.

Bakugou had made a paper airplane.

It was the most symmetrical, smooth, well-made paper airplane that Kouda had ever seen, and there was no way that it wasn't about to be thrown.

With careful aim, Bakugou tossed it a moment later, Kirishima and Kaminari holding their collective breaths as it sailed through the air high above the classroom floor. Jirou whipped her head upwards as it passed her row, and all of them watched-

-as it landed right in Present Mic's hair.

Half of the class immediately erupted with laughter, Present Mic pausing and slowly pulling the piece of paper out of his hair and staring at it with light amusement before turning back to the class and giving them all looks.

"Alright, that's it!" Iida hollered over the chaos, particularly eying Kaminari. "Which one of you have been disrupting class?! You are distracting your peers!"

"Why are you looking at me!?" Kaminari yelled. "That was totally Bakugou!"

"The F*** are you spouting, Sparky!?" Bakugou screamed in response, and Kouda had to once again commend him on his poker face.

"Nah, it was Kirishima! I saw it!" Ashido shouted.

"What!? No!"

"How'd you see it if you were supposedly paying attention?" Sero asked playfully, causing Ashido to freeze up.

The class never got back on track after that, Present Mic sighing in defeat and resigning himself to admitting to Aizawa that he was right. This was a terrible idea.

In the midst of the chaos, Kouda noticed Midoriya looking back at them, giving Bakugou an amused look as if he saw right through his act, the latter teen simply flipping him off in response.

The very next class, all of class 1-A was back in their proper assigned seats, the mess that was English class that day already floating to the back of their minds. The only reminder was Kirishima and Kaminari constantly giggling like school girls for the rest of the day.

It would be back in the dorms that Kouda would come across the five troublemakers talking in the common room, Ashido with one of the paper flowers in her own hair and the other three still in Kirishima's. Kaminari was also still proudly sporting his new hat.

"Dude, where'd you learn how to do origami of all things?" Sero asked with a smirk.

Bakugou scoffed. "That s***'s just from another of my old hag's 'family bonding time' schemes from a while back." He rolled his eyes as the others laughed. "I'll give her this, though. The look on her face when I was able to fold an octopus my first try while she couldn't even make a crane was priceless."

"Can you teach me, Blasty? Teach me, teach me!" Ashido begged.

"And why the h*** would I do that?"

"Because we're friends, obviously!"

Bakugou gave her an extremely incredulous look. "Friends, my a**. Scrape that gum out from under my desk and then we'll talk."

Ashido groaned, rolling off the couch and onto the floor for no known reason while the other three boys watched as if they'd seen it a million times. They probably had, now that he thought about it. Kouda moved along after that, leaving as Bakugou took another piece of paper, crumbled it up into a ball, and tossed it at Ashido's face. She sulked at him for the rest of the night.

The next day, there was a huge stack of pink construction paper left on Bakugou's still-gum-covered desk. It was promptly set on fire.


I got the idea for this chapter from this funny little SnK/AoT fic I read a while back called Paper Birds by Song of the Black Wolf. If you're a fan of Eren and/or Levi, I highly recommend it. XD

Anyways, only a few chapters left, you guys! Thanks for sticking with me for so long and I'll see you all in the next one! ^^