The Hands At My Throat - kiribakukami soulmate AU

The escape

When Kaminari is finally let out of the medical ward, it's nearly dark, so Recovery Girl offers to drive Kaminari back to the dorms.

Obviously, Kaminari accepts. Why would he walk all the way there when he can get driven?

He walks into the dorms, excited to talk to his friends, because he's barely done that since school ended, but he barely manages to step through the door before he's swarmed with his peers.

"Are you ok?!"

"We heard you were in the med ward!"

"A quirk relapse!?"

"Did something happen to trigger it?!"

Kaminari laughed, pushing through the crowd to get further into the common room.

"Guys I'm completely fine! No need to worry about me!" He kept it vague, not really being bothered to explain it properly. Instead, he went over and flopped onto the couch.

"Let's watch a movie!" He announced, leaping off the couch again to find the remote.

"But its a Thursday!" Ururaka exclaimed.

"So?! I'm bored. Well just watch one, we won't have a marathon." At that moment he found the remote, and with an "aha!" he fell back onto the couch and turned on the tv.

Although reluctantly, a majority of the class sat down on the various couches and beanbags around the room, to watch.

Kaminari grinned. He often found that he was pretty good at roping the class into doing stuff. He almost considered it a special skill.

Almost.

Because no matter what he did, he couldn't get Bakugo to join. The movie started playing, and he could see Bakugo slinking out of the room.

"Come on Kacchan!" He called out in a last ditch effort to get him to join. "Loosen up a little!"

"And end up like you? Barely passing school? No thanks," he grumbled back, which was actually a pretty tame response, if Kaminari ignored the hit to his ego.

"It's ok Kami, he'll fall in love with you one day," Jirou chuckles at her own sarcastic comment.

Kaminari rolls his eyes, hiding his blush.

"He'll be head over heels, just you wait," he laughs back, ignoring the urge to say- well, a lot of things that would get him in trouble.

"Oi!" Kirishima calls over the tv. "Stop tryna steal my soulmate!"

"You wish," Kaminari pokes his tongue out, and they all start laughing.

"Kaminari, you were the one who suggested we all watch a movie, it would be greatly appreciated if you stayed quiet while we watched it," iida expresses, chopping movement excentuating his phrases.

Kaminari just rolls his eyes again, stifling another giggle. It's a good excuse as to why his cheeks are flushing.

~~~~

Detention. Again.

But at least now, things were back to normal. And since Aizawa could give literally two shits what they did during detention, they started to interact.

If Kaminari was really being honest, 'interacting' really just meant Bakugo scolding him over how bad he was at math. Which led to Bakugo helping him at math. Which led to Bakugo silently watching him over his shoulder, breathing down his neck.

Which led Kami to continue to be bad at math.

"You really are a dumbass. 7x6 is 42, not 48!" He growled, right into Kaminaris ear, he might add.