Todoroki had told the others that he'd seen Bakugou with someone who had red, spiky hair and that had been it. He wasn't sure if it was a good idea to spread it around that he and Bakugou kissed. Midoriya knew and was fine with it. And that was enough.

"Oh you look so cute", Fuyumi cooed.

"He's not supposed to be cute, he's supposed to be hot for his date", Natsuo said, giving his brother's cape its final adjustments to make it look just right.

"It's not a date." Although maybe this time next year, he and Midoriya would be doing Halloween as a couple. Tonight was a friend's thing. His mother snapped a picture on her phone.

"Regardless, you make a very handsome vampire dear", she said.

The party was being held at Bakugou's place, since it had plenty of room. Todoroki knocked on the door and was greeted by Bakugou's mother. Her face was made up but less like a monster and more like a woman planning a night on the town.

"Welcome, come on in!"

Todoroki did and saw that Iida and Midoriya were already there. Iida was dressed as a blue sentai ranger and Midoriya's costume was that of a mummy. And what a cute mummy he made. Bakugou came from the kitchen to set up a bowl of chips. He was dressed as a werewolf.

"Okay kiddos, we're off on our date!", Bakugou's mother called out. "Don't wreck the house while we're gone!"

The moment they left, Bakugou turned on the music and set the mood lighting. He turned off the main lights and lit up small lanterns around the living room. Uraraka and Shinsou arrived soon after and then everybody else Bakugou had invited came one after another until the house was filled with costumed teens.

"That's him", Todoroki said to Midoriya, pointing across the room.

Midoriya followed the gesture to Bakugou and the person he was standing next to. He had the red spiky hair that matched the description and a sleeveless red hoodie to match. He was smiling and laughing and Bakugou didn't look like he was about to explode.

"They must really get along", Midoriya said. Then he saw Bakugou smile a little and felt something spark within him. Any introspection was put on hold when someone dressed as a battery shouted "Seven minutes in heaven!"

Soon a small crowd was gathered around a coat closet and Uraraka, dressed as a mermaid, was pulling names out of a hat held by Shinsou, who was wearing a firefighter costume.

"First ones up are...Deku-kun and Todoroki-kun!", she exclaimed.

"What?! Let me see that!", Midoriya demanded, reaching for the slip of paper that supposedly held their names.

"Come on you two, just get in there", Shinsou said, pushing both Midoriya and Todoroki into the closet. The door shut and they were engulfed in darkness. Midoriya let out a sigh and waited for Todoroki to say something. Anything.

"What's the object of this game?", Todoroki asked after a minute went by.

"Well, it's seven minutes in heaven", Midoriya started, not entirely sure how to explain to a sheltered boy the goal of it.

"This hardly seems like heaven", Todoroki said, lighting his index finger on fire to give them a little light, careful to keep it away from the coats hanging beside them.

"You're supposed to make it heaven...by um, kissing a lot. And possibly more..." Midoriya was glad for the low light and the wrappings covering part of his face because it was surely red.

"More...", Todoroki echoed and slowly the fire ran from his finger tip to the rest of his finger as his mind gave him some pretty heady visualizations of what 'more' could mean. 'More' with Midoriya...

"Todoroki-kun, careful!"

Realizing his fire was getting dangerously close to his sleeve, he extinguished it, bringing them back into the darkness. Midoriya let out a sigh of relief. Although the Bakugou family might be used to their items getting burnt or singed they probably wouldn't appreciate it happening during a teenage makeout session.

"So, do we kiss now?", Todoroki asked.

Midoriya let out a small 'meep' and really hoped the object of his affections didn't hear him go 'meep' at the idea of kissing him.

"Um, if you want to. I have a feeling Occhan did this on purpose, so we don't have to if you don't want to and it's not like anyone will know what we do in here anyway-"

"Midoriya." Todoroki could listen to him go on for hours. His voice was cute and it was fun to see what kind of tangents he'd go down. But they only had seven minutes inside the closet.

"Yes?"

"I want to kiss you", Todoroki said.

Both of them were thinking of the first and so far only kiss they'd shared on Midoriya's doorstep, one that had to be cut short considering where they had been. But now they had minutes behind a closed door. Sure, their friends were on the other side, thinking about what they were getting up to. But only the two of them would really know.

Todoroki removed the plastic fangs in his mouth and lit his finger again so that he could find Midoriya. If he tried kissing him in the dark his lips would probably land on his nose or something. Not entirely bad but not what he was going for right now. Midoriya's big eyes shined in the light of his flame and he was never more thankful for that quirk until just now.

But then his eyes closed and he began to lean in. Todoroki did the same, mindful of his fire until their lips met and then he let it go out, having found his mark. He was just getting reacquainted with the softness of Midoriya's mouth when the door opened and someone shouted "Time's up!"

Midoriya pulled away and Todoroki turned to see who had interrupted them. There was no way that had been seven minutes.

"Next up is Mina and Kaminari-kun!", Uraraka announced, ignoring Todoroki's glare.

"This is homophobic!", Ashido said, dressed as a pirate as she was shoved into the closet.

"I'll allow it", Bakugou said, crossing his arms.

"You heard our gay furry overlord", Uraraka grinned.

Bakugou and his mystery man went into the closet after and mystery man came out with a smile on his face. Among the others to go into the closet were Shinsou and Aoyama, Uraraka and Asui, and Shoji and Ojiro, and a few others.

"The name's Kirishima", said Bakugou's red-hooded friend finally, a couple hours into the party.

"It's a pleasure to officially meet you!", Uraraka greeted.

"Likewise. Bakugou's told me so much about you."

Iida, Shinsou, Uraraka, and Midoriya all snuck glances at Bakugou, wondering just what he'd said about them.

"All good things", Kirishima assured them.

"That's the most unbelievable thing I've ever heard", Todoroki said.

"So, he's the guy you've been going off to hang out with?", Midoriya asked Bakugou while Kirishima got to know the rest of his friends.

"I have a social circle outside you guys", Bakugou said.

"You could have just told us. No one was going to stop you from going on dates. Why didn't you tell us?"

"Why didn't you tell us about half'n'half?"

Midoriya didn't have an answer to that really. It was a ton things. He didn't want the secret getting out, it was a little embarrassing, he didn't want anyone to know when he wasn't sure if it was going to work out and oh...

"You know, you lied about not letting your love life bleed into our game", Bakugou reminded him.

Midoriya grinned. "I remember saying no promises. So I didn't lie. Are you going to make that promise now?"

"He doesn't even play the game", Bakugou said.

Midoriya refrained from saying that neither did Todoroki before he started hanging around their group. Time would tell if Kirishima would eventually join them on a quest.