Not A Bad Idea

The Holiday Party

"You're telling me the reason I've been getting random congratulations, and people telling me I'm brave. As well as piss-poor glares from people," Katsuki said slowly as he laid down in Shouto's living room. "Is because most of the school and our friends think we're dating."

"Uh-huh," Todoroki agreed as started wrapping the last present he had.

"The reasoning the school knows is because you ticked-off ponytail enough to blurt out what she thought was happening."

"Yep."

"Bullshit, why didn't you just say we're not dating?"

"You're saying as if they would believe me," Shouto argued back, pointing a pair of scissors at him. "You were an accomplice in making them come up with that fact, also they were spying on us when we went to Walmart."

"First of all, told you so. Second of all, how am I an accomplice?"

"You called me darling, also implied you tolerate me to a degree in class. Not to mention, ruffled my hair," Todoroki countered, grabbing the tape off the table.

"Shit, I did that?" Bakugou asked, clearly confused, propping himself on his elbows to look at Shouto.

"Do you have amnesia or something?"

"Guess I forgot," Katsuki shrugged as flopped back down onto the couch.

"You're so used to flirting with me, it's a part of your day and you don't think twice."

"I would say banter, flirting is too rom-com-y," Katsuki debated. "Banter on the other hand is used to disguise flirting in a romcom tv show labelled under buddy-cop named after a bird and fictional assassin since Disney is a coward."

"That's," Todoroki was slightly speechless from the random rant. "Very specific."

"I watched it cause I was bored, and I feel robbed of something."

"So what are we gonna do?"

"Scream at the evil mouse till we get what we want."

"About the school, not your show," Shouto put the label and card on the present and shoved it into the bag with the rest.

"It seems like denying it wouldn't work, why don't we just tell them about the podcast?"

"Do you want to die? First of all, Midoriya would steal my goddamn kneecaps, now think what your friends would do. Also, you think that'll change their minds?" Todoroki asked as he got up to the front door.

"Yes, I mean now we have a reason for everything, however, the wrath of raccoon eyes will be worse and I really don't want to fucking deal with it, I saw what happened to shitty hair and Deku when she found out. Wasn't too pretty."

"How about we don't deny it or confirm it? That way we can blame the whole thing on them when it blows over," Shouto said half-heartedly, then he tossed Katsuki's coat at him as walked to join. "Which might be fairly quickly if Yaomomo's confession goes well."

"What confession? I haven't heard shit from Mina about that."

"That's because it was my doing, the pinning was physically hurting me. The fewer people who knew it the better," Todoroki explained as he got the bags together. "Mina's isn't too far if I remember, just a ten-ish minute walk."

"Your sweater is hideous by the way," Bakugou snarked as he left the house, not waiting for Shouto.

"I was going for that asshole," Todoroki shot back as he closed and locked the door.