You Can't Have the Light Without the Dark

Chapter 3: Quiet as a Mouse

A/N

Kaminari is stealthy af and his friends take notice.

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Kaminari was stationed on the ground floor, hidden in the shadows of a stairwell, patiently waiting for the arrival of a group of unfortunate souls.

The atmosphere was deathly quiet, as if the world was at a standstill. A familiar ding snapped the blonde's attention to the elevator only mere feet away and he gripped his gun in preparation.

He spotted his targets as they dawdled in the elevator doorway, but in an instant they were on the move. Kaminari eyes were glued onto them, like a predator stalking his prey. They walked down the hall, oblivious to what their fate would soon be.

Could he even do this? The blonde internally shook his head, he had to do this, he needed to do this. After all it was his duty.

Kaminari cautiously tip-toed behind them, waiting for the perfect moment to pounce.

Then his soon to be victims lingered for just a moment and Kaminari raised his gun.

"Hands up!" The blonde yelled and watched as his marks quickly turned around, their expressions ranging from confused, to scared, and one simultaneously angry and annoyed. He then shot all four of them dead-on in quick succession.

"Bro, Kaminari!"

"Come on, man!"

"I just bought this shirt!"

"Dunce-face!"

"Guys relax, it's just good ol' H2O." Kaminari laughed and shot the water gun into his own mouth, taking in a small gulp. He watched his friends head to the kitchen to grab paper towels to try absorb the water off their shirts. "It'll dry in like a minute."

Kaminari was an absolute fiend for pranks and consequently pulled them all the time. There were some instances where he joined forces with Sero or Mina, but more often than not he performed them by himself.

Besides, he could pull off bigger and better stunts if he worked solo. This water gun prank was by far nowhere near his true potential.

Like there was this one time when he rented out a snake, yes a snake. Don't ask how, he has those underground connections, y'know? It was a look alike for some other venomous breed, and it scared his classmates shitless, well except Kouda, because.. obviously. There was this other instance where he acquired a spider, but the catch was that it was actually poisonous. And he had almost lost it too until- okay, he was getting off track. But to keep things concise, Kaminari adored pranks.

It was most likely a means to expel the childish energy he was forced to suppress for years. The organization loathed such youthful antics so he hid his fun loving nature in order to avoid disciplinary action. Locking up a kid in a pitch black room for hours on end, and dubbing it "time out", really puts a damper on their tomfoolery. But now that he was free from those restraints, he let himself mess around from time to time.

"Bro, how do you do that?" Sero walked up to Kaminari and pried the water gun out of his hands.

"Do what?" The blonde asked in a "innocent" manner, but then yelped when his own shirt got soaked with water. "Hey! What was that for?"

"'It'll dry in like a minute.'" Sero smirked as he pointed the weapon up to the ceiling in front of his face and pretended to blow smoke off the gun. "And I mean, you pull pranks on us all the time, right? But somehow you still manage to give us fucking heart attacks. How? What's your secret?"

Well, when you've spent over a decade training in the art of assassination, stealth just becomes a part of you.

"I dunno." The blonde shrugged, grabbing his gun back from Sero's grasp and spinning it around his pointer finger. "I guess I just get really into the prank."