Notes: Fact - Everything can be improved with Todoroki and Kaminari.

Surprisingly, Jirou had been the one to come up with this whole plan, including sneaking Kaminari into her dorm with no one spotting him. He'd seen it once before, but it was typically frowned upon when boys went to the girls' dorm and vice versa. However, when Jirou had come up with the idea to spy on Bakugou and Uraraka's...whatever it was, she had told him that her room was next to Uraraka's and she could use her quirk to listen in on them.

Taking a deep breath, Jirou looked back at him, one of her earjacks hovering centimeters away from the wall. "You sure you want to do this? Bakugou will kill us if he finds out."

"We're his friends," Kaminari insisted. "It'll be a quick death at least."

Jirou made a look like she agreed with him, bobbing her head in a nod, and then plugged it into the wall. For what felt like thirty minutes but was probably more like thirty seconds, Kaminari just stood there in silence, staring at her while she listened carefully.

"What are they saying? What are they doing?"

"Sh! You're being too loud! I can't hear anything."

"Well, if you had let me come in earlier, we wouldn't be scrambling so much."

"Shut it, Kaminari!" Jirou's brow was furrowed in concentration until it slowly turned to confusion. The expression made him antsy, but when he opened his mouth to question her further, she pressed a finger against his lips to shut him up. It did an incredible job, but almost fried his brain in the process. "I think… I think they're watching a movie." Her eyes widened. "A chick flick!"

"But Bakugou hates chick flicks," Kaminari said against her finger, which was still pressed against his lips and no longer doing its job. "He refuses to watch them with Kirishima and Ashido."

Jirou frowned. "They're not talking anymore. They're just...watching it together."

"That's bor-"

At that exact moment, the door opened and a voice that sounded like Momo asked, "What are you two doing?"

Both of them startled so badly, losing the precarious balance of Kaminari hanging halfway on Jirou's back that he hadn't even noticed he was doing while she was eavesdropping, and he fell on top of her awkwardly. After she managed to shove him off of her and he rolled onto his butt, they found themselves looking at who was indeed Momo standing in the doorway, a super confused expression on her face.

"Oh, we were…." Jirou cringed when she couldn't think of anything.

"We were making out!" Kaminari exclaimed.

Momo's eyes widened. Jirou smacked him in the arm and gave him a look. He shrugged his shoulders helplessly. One other person knowing this secret about Bakugou was bad enough, but two people was worse. Three people total would not be able to keep a secret, no matter how good of a person Momo was. It was bound to get out faster.

"We were not making out," Jirou corrected.

"It looked like you were listening in on someone…" Momo turned to look at the wall that connected Jirou's room with Uraraka's. Kaminari could see the wheels turning in her head. "Are you spying on Uraraka?"

Kaminari and Jirou looked at each other and then back at Momo before answering simultaneously, "No?"

In a flash, Momo shut the door and stormed into the room, hissing, "You are!" and Kaminari knew without a doubt that they'd been busted. Neither one of them was going to be able to hold it in against the earnestness that made up Momo. She was the vice class rep too. Besides, Kaminari might try to lie to her, but he knew damn well that Jirou wouldn't. This was going to be a disaster. "Why?"

Kaminari's eyes flickered to Jirou's again and he attempted use them to telepathically shout, Don't say a word!

I can't help it, Jirou's eyes said back. Or that was what he assumed they said. Kaminari had realized in that moment that he wasn't really that great at reading people by their eyes. She might've assumed that he was asking her to be the one to talk.

"Well?" Momo prompted, putting her hands on her hips.

"Bakugou is in there," Jirou finally answered.

Momo's jaw dropped. "She snuck Bakugou into her room?"

Kaminari shrugged his shoulders. "To be fair, I think it was more like Bakugou snuck in."

It looked as if Momo had received the kind of news that twisted your whole world on its end. She just stared at them, mouth agape, and then looked at the wall like she might be able to peek through it in order to see whatever was going on in there. That would've been a nice ability, but no, they could only listen and Kaminari wasn't sure that Momo would be down with eavesdropping.

"Are they…?" Momo gathered herself together. "Should I be concerned as vice class rep?"

Kaminari tilted his head. "Huh?"

"Oh, gods, no!" Jirou rushed to jump in. "They're just watching some dumb chick flick."

The words were another blow to Momo's attempt to be collected. This was clearly doing a number on her head, which was trying to jump through hoops in order to come up with a conclusion that made sense. Unfortunately for her, none of this made sense. Bakugou was willingly watching a chick flick in Uraraka's dorm. None of them would've been the wiser had Kaminari not been kind of tuned into any time those two were near each other after walking in on them on two separate occasions.

"Although I didn't really stick around to see what happened after Bakugou took his shirt off and gave it to her," Kaminari continued, "or when she gave it back to him in the laundry room."

Momo brought a hand to her mouth and sat down, as if she could no longer stand after hearing everything. Honestly, Kaminari couldn't blame her. It was a lot to take in. She hadn't even gone to the movies with them last week, so she'd only heard about Uraraka floating Bakugou like a balloon while they'd walked to the theater. She hadn't seen that incredibly weird and fantastic change in Bakugou's temperament the second that he'd let Uraraka grab his hand.

"This is...unexpected," Momo decided on saying.

"Understatement of the year," Jirou put in.

With Momo looking shell-shocked, Kaminari figured this was the best time to bring something else up. "You can't tell anyone."

"Huh?" Momo blinked at him.

"I don't know exactly what's going on," Kaminari explained, "but this all started when I found them playing Mario Kart after everyone went to bed." He bit his lip and hesitated. He'd had a lot of time to think about this on his own and, while he wasn't certain, he thought he was finally close to figuring it out. "I think they've been playing the game after everyone goes to bed - but neither one of them has said anything. Bakugou's pretty private, you know? He's gone out of his way to keep whatever this is with Uraraka...mostly a secret."

"You all said he held hands with Uraraka and even sat by her at the movies though," Momo pointed out.

"Yeah, but he wouldn't tell anyone why," Kaminari said, "and neither would Uraraka."

Momo put a hand to her chin in thought. "Do you think they're secretly dating?"

"When? How long? Why?" There were too many questions for Kaminari to list. Every time he thought that he was getting closer to the truth, more of them popped up. Uraraka was close friends with Deku. He had kind of assumed that she had a crush on Deku too. But it wasn't Deku playing video games with her in the middle of the night. It wasn't Deku who she was swapping shirts with. It wasn't Deku in her dorm right now.

It was Bakugou. It was all Bakugou.

"Then what was up with Bakugou buying Todoroki lunch?" Momo asked.

Kaminari pointed a finger at her. "Aha! See!" He looked over at Jirou. She had also suggested that Bakugou and Uraraka were secretly dating. "It doesn't add up."

While looking both confused and thoughtful about the whole thing, Momo took a breath and fixed Kaminari and Jirou with looks that had them both wilting. "While I'm uncertain if Bakugou being in Uraraka's dorm room is appropriate, if they're just watching a movie, then it should be fine. What is not appropriate is eavesdropping on our neighbors in their private domiciles."

Neither Jirou nor Kaminari could muster any arguments about that, so they mumbled their apologies and nodded their heads in agreement. Besides, if Uraraka and Bakugou really were just watching some chick flick, then it would really make for a boring night. Kaminari wasn't sure what he'd been expecting, but it hadn't been that. At least neither Jirou nor Momo could label him as some sort of pervert since it had been Jirou's idea and he couldn't hear anything anyways.

Momo stood up in her elegant manner. "I'm glad we could come to an understanding."

"Yeah, we won't spy on them anymore," Jirou assured Momo, who smiled appreciatively at them. "Uh, what did you need anyways?"

"Oh! I was wondering if you could give me a few more music suggestions. Certain music helps me concentrate on creating different things."

After Jirou helped Momo out, Momo told Kaminari not to stay in Jirou's dorm for much longer, but then left them to their own devices. While relieved that they hadn't gotten in more trouble and Momo had even seemed like she was uninterested in the whole Bakugou and Uraraka affair. Maybe she wouldn't tell anyone and their secret would be safer for a little longer. They could put this whole thing behind them and pretend they didn't know.

As soon as the door was shut, Jirou turned back to grin at Kaminari, who got a funny and awful feeling in his gut at the same time. "We won't spy on them anymore - at least not tonight. I have a feeling we've hit something big."

Yeah, they were in trouble.

Much like a road in Mario Kart, life had a funny way of twisting on Bakugou and sending him into a tailspin. Just when he thought that he was getting the hang of things, Aizawa threw a banana on the road and didn't even give Bakugou the time to dodge it. Go figure their homeroom teacher would do something like this. Bakugou should have expected it. Things had been too quiet on the class front, which was usually when they would be hit up the head by something in their hero course.

"Next week, we're going to do teams of two combat matches," Aizawa explained as he peeled himself out of his yellow sleeping bag. Many students in the class grinned and knocked hands with each other. "You will need to choose a partner that you have not previously worked with before whose quirk you might not originally consider at first to be compatible with your own."

Well, that took out most of his friends. Bakugou had worked with Kirishima, Mina, and Kaminari multiple times throughout their time at UA. It also took Deku, Icy Hot, and Engine Legs off the table, thank everything. Sometimes it felt like the teachers here went out of their way to stick him with those two, thinking it might give him impart some sort of meaningful life lesson on him. He hated it every single time.

"However, this will be a spur of the moment decision, as I'm making you choose right now and I will be calling on you at random," Aizawa continued, no hint of mercy in his voice. His declaration sent a shockwave through the class, furtive and panicked glances being shot around. They were only being given a minute or two to decide and those at the end would be left at a disadvantage as their choices were potentially taken. "This also means that half of the class will have their decision made for them."

Oh no. Bakugou did not like the sound of that. He hated when his partners were chosen for him. Of course it made sense for Aizawa to do this. More likely than not, when they were pro heroes, they would not be given much choice to decide who they had to work with, especially when it came time to fight a villain. Not everyone's quirks matched up, but it was good practice to come up with creative ways to do so when push came to shove. And their teacher was definitely shoving them.

The first person Aizawa called on was Ashido, who surprisingly had a quick answer: "Midoriya!"

Deku looked like he might choke on his tongue, clearly not expecting to be picked, but then Ashido gave him the thumbs up and a big grin and he beamed right back. It made Bakugou scoff. Why the hell would she pick Deku? Bakugou couldn't see how their quirks would match up, but maybe that was the point. It was all about ingenuity and, as loathe as he was to admit it, Deku had that in spades.

Next up was Ojiro, who picked Shoji. That would be an interesting combo, but it was require both of them to do mostly close combat. Anyone with a long range quirk would be at an advantage. Maybe that was the point. They would have to work on that factor.

Bakugou stopped paying attention, his eyes traveling around the room. Who did he want to be his teammate? Who would best fit the requirements of Aizawa's hero lesson, but also be an interesting and good match to help him win? His gaze landed on the back of Uraraka. She had a very serious expression on her face, her eyes looking down at her desk and her fingers doing that nervous pad ticking thing she did, always careful not to touch all of them together at once.

The pads were what snagged his full attention, the memory of her floating him rocketing to the forefront of his mind. If he closed his eyes, he could still recall what it felt like to be made weightless and tethered to the world by her. It had been more exhilarating than he wanted to admit. She could be his partner. A combination of their quirks would be something really interesting to work with. She had a hard work ethic and would let him push her even further; she could match him swing for swing; she would fight.

Yeah, when Aizawa called his name - and he better call it soon - Bakugou was going to pick Uraraka. It had nothing to do with the fact that he wanted to be around her more. That was absurd. They spent far too much time together as it was.

Bakugou's entire thought process was shattered into a million pieces when, out of everyone in the class, when Todoroki was called on, he simply said, "Uraraka."

She stiffened in surprise, whipping her head around to gawk at Todoroki, while Bakugou's eyes narrowed into a dangerous glare. Even a few others in the class were caught off guard by Todoroki's snap decision. Was Todoroki shitting him? Had he really picked Uraraka? Why had he done that? What was the fucking point? Uraraka was supposed to be Bakugou's partner. This wasn't fair at all. They were trying to leave Todoroki out of this mess and he had dug his way back in. As if people thinking Bakugou had a crush on him or Uraraka wasn't bad enough…

Todoroki's gaze turned to her and, smiling nervously, Uraraka said, "Thanks!"

"It'll be interesting to see how we can pair our quirks together," Todoroki explained coolly, "and you're very good at team match-ups. I figured you were my best choice from the beginning."

The blush that dusted Uraraka's cheeks almost made Bakugou snap his pencil in half. Why the hell was she looking at Todoroki like that? She nodded her head in agreement and then went back to paying attention to the rest of the teams being formed. Bakugou glared at her so hard, like he was trying to scream telepathically until a minute later she turned glanced over at him, a questioning expression on her face. He scowled. She rolled her eyes in what looked like amusement and shrugged her shoulders.

This would be about the time that Aizawa called out, "Bakugou."

Well, shit. Todoroki had taken his first choice. Bakugou looked around the room briefly, taking note of who had already been picked, and settled on, "Sero." It was the next logical choice. They were what most people would call good friends and Sero, he knew, was much more athletic than people gave him credit for. Plus, he was agreeable to work with when he wasn't being a stupid little shit. Sero seemed pleased with being picked, giving Bakugou a look that said he wouldn't regret his choice.

He better not. Bakugou glowered at both Uraraka and Todoroki as they moved desk to sit next to one another. He and Sero were going to crush those two.

"Hey, so I know I wasn't your first choice," Sero said after class, rubbing the back of his neck, "but I appreciate it."

"We're going to kick everyone's ass," Bakugou told him, feeling about twenty degrees hotter as he caught sight of Uraraka and Todoroki waving to one another before splitting up.

Kirishima came up from behind them, elbowing Bakugou in the ribs. "I'd watch out, Sero. Our boy is on a mission here and I think you've been caught in the crosshairs." There was a huge shit-eating grin on his face. Sero nodded like he'd already known that, which irritated the hell out of Bakugou. If they were going to suggest that Bakugou had wanted to be partners with Todoroki, then they were dead wrong. "Did you see him in class when Todoroki picked Uraraka? I thought for sure he was going to explode."

"I was not," Bakugou snapped. He had much better control over himself.

Besides it didn't matter if Todoroki had chosen Uraraka. She fit the requirements. He wasn't sure how her quirk would match up with his, but knowing that bastard, he'd come up with something. That didn't even include Uraraka, who Bakugou now knew damn well was much sneakier and devious than she seemed. Maybe he could get some information out of her when they played Mario Kart on Thursday night. Probably not though. She was very loyal to her partners and friends.

"What?" Kirishima goaded. "Jealous of Uraraka?"

"No," Bakugou ground out.

"Jealous of Todoroki?"

"No!" Bakugou had to resist the urge to stomp away. It would look childish and give the wrong idea. "I'm not jealous of anyone, so shut the hell up."

Kirishima was positively giddy, rubbing his hands together. "The love triangle plot thickens."

"There is no love triangle!"

"You know, I heard that polygamous relationships are in these days," Kirishima offered. "You should see if they're into that."

Okay, that was it. Firecracker explosions went off in Bakugou's hands as he launched towards Kirishima. The redhead dodged at the last second, but then took off down the hall, laughing the whole time, while Bakugou chased after him, both of them leaving Sero to his own devices outside of the classroom.

At that moment, Kaminari poked his head out of the classroom, relieved to see that Bakugou was gone. He had been about to walk out of the class when he had heard Kirishima teasing Bakugou. No way was he going to get in the middle of that, especially after what had gone down. Kaminari had been certain that Bakugou was going to pick Uraraka, what with the way his eyes were locked on her like a missile guidance computer. Then Todoroki had pulled a fast one and picked her first, effectively blowing Kaminari's mind. He and Jirou had connected eyes, both their eyebrows raised, and then he had caught sight of Bakugou.

Oh boy, Bakugou had not looked happy at all.

Slipping fully out of the classroom, Kaminari peered at Bakugou and Kirishima disappearing around the corner, although Bakugou could still be heard. "What was that about?"

"Kirishima is walking on thin ice," Sero sighed. "I don't think Bakugou handles jealousy well."

Last night popped into Kaminari's head. Bakugou and Uraraka watching a romcom in her dorm.

"Really? Who would he be jealous of?" Kaminari's voice was more high pitch than he would've liked. It made him sound like he was hiding something. Sero must have noticed it because he turned to give Kaminari an odd look and Kaminari laughed awkwardly. "Well, hopefully Bakugou isn't too hard on Kirishima! I gotta go!"

Why were they making this so difficult for him to keep his mouth shut? This was not going to end well.