Nyctophilia (KamiDeku)

Chapter 2

Izuku breathed out a sigh when the bell rang. There were more notes he wanted to take but he'd have to do that later at his dorm. He carefully placed his books back into his backpack in a neat order.

When he looked up, Kaminari was beaming down at him.

He gulped.

"Need something?"  

This was the first time Kaminari had ever been at his desk, usually he was on the other side of the classroom with Kirishima and Sero.

"We're partners. Also, I don't know what the project was about.." Kaminari spoke in embarrassment, averting his eyes to the floor tiles. Izuku was oddly intimidating. 

Izuku's eyes widened. He'd forgotten they were partners now. He had been too engulfed in his note-taking earlier; he barely caught his name slipping from Aizawa's mouth.

"Well, it's just a presentation on a topic of our own interest." Izuku explained, starting to walk out the door with Kaminari in tow.

"Oh cool, cool, so your place or mine?"

Izuku couldn't help but flinch at that. He expected Kaminari to leave him to do all the work while he went off with his friends. The last time Izuku had a partner for school it was in Middle School. His 'friends' had coerced him to stay behind and work on the group project while they went off together doing Almight-knows-what.

"Uh mine should be fine."

"Alright, what time should I come over?" Kaminari asked excitedly, bouncing beside the hunched green haired boy on the balls of his feet.

"Anytime."

"How about right now? I'm free now."

"That works."

They were already at the commons area by now. Kirishima and Sero were throwing grapes into each other's mouths while Mineta jumped in the middle, trying to catch them. It was apparently a game called "Mineta in the middle".

Bakugo was cooking bacon using his explosions, a strip of burnt bacon shooting out of his hands and getting lodged into the ceiling among others. 

Tokoyami was sitting around in a chair while Ojiro spun him around using his tail. 

Izuku could see Kaminari out of the corner of his eye waving his arms about and shouting at his friends. 

Izuku had tuned him out to start thinking about the project.

"Izuku where you going?" Kaminari's voice called behind him.

Izuku perked his head up from his chin and looked to see he had passed his dorm room. He gave a wry smile in embarrassment and walked back a few steps and opened his door.

He braced himself for judgment for his choice of décor but none came. He set his backpack down on his Almight covers and looked back to see Kaminari looking around his room like it was a museum.

"Woah! You're a diehard fanboy. Respect." 

He walked over to some of his Almight figurines that were neatly placed on his desk and bent over to stare at them. He then walked over to some of his posters. 

Izuku chuckled to himself and reached into his backpack for a notebook. When he sat down on his bed again, Kaminari was sitting at his desk with an Almight stuffed animal in his arms.

Izuku's first thought was that it was a cute sight; he had the plush neatly placed on his lap with his arms secured around it. Usually Izuku didn't like people touching his things but he was alright with this.

"So. Project ideas." Izuku already had a few in mind but he was open for any other ideas his partner had to offer.

Kaminari stared at one of his posters for a few seconds while he thought. A little 'hmm' sound vibrating from his throat. Izuku stared at the bobbing of his Adam's apple.

"What was the project again?" Kaminari questioned with his head tilted.

Izuku's lips pulled up at the corners into a small grin.

"We have to present a topic that interests us. It's mostly just for fun. I already have a few ideas-"

"I have one. If that's alright?" Kaminari interjected.

Izuku closed his mouth and nodded.

Kaminari fiddled with the tiny hands on the Almight stuffed plush.

"Well I don't know if it's a good idea or not. I know I don't have a lot of great ideas-"

"Stop that. What's your idea?" 

Kaminari looked up at Izuku's serious face. His stomach twisted.

"What about the stars?"

"The stars?"

"Yeah! It's interesting and I'm certain no one knows more about stars than me. We could write about the stars."

"Stars?" Izuku was skeptical and Kaminari could tell.

The blonde sighed and beamed up at him.

"I'm going to brighten your world. Just give me one night. Tomorrow! There's a full moon."

Izuku nodded. "Okay."