Next in Line | ShinKami

XIX - "Ex"

Third Person

2-A and 2-B stood in front of one another yet again. This time, their teachers nearby.

Bakugou read out the rules and made his way back to the group as Aizawa started splitting the classes into pairs.

Kaminari stood in front of Shiozaki. He tried to look at Bakugou to complain to him, but inevitably failed, Bakugou nowhere to be seen.

Shiozaki bowed to Kaminari, smiling softly. Kaminari bowed back, both of them waiting for the bell to ring up.

"You know, if you're still up for that date, I'm happy to oblige," she said with her soft voice, blushing a bit.

"Sorry," Kaminari responded, the bell ringing, "I'm taken."

Kaminari charged towards Shiozaki, the girl not having much time to react as she thought over what Kaminari had said.

Kaminari placed a small disk under her foot as he ran away from her, Shiozaki's respond delayed as she put up a wall of vines in his direction.

She shook her head and got her head back in the game, pulling the vines away. Kaminari threw out a disk, Shiozaki blocking and breaking it.

He looked at the broken disk shards and at her. She took a stance, ready to fight hand in hand if needed.

But there wasn't a need.

Kaminari looked around him. They had a wall but them. He looked around it and saw an outlet.

Good.

He shot the disk between her feet, causing her to go off balance from the shock.

Kaminari ran up to the wall and activated his quirk, letting the electricity coming from his feet to make him be able to walk of the wall with it connecting to the electricity from the in-wall wires.

He jumped out towards Shiozaki, tackling her before she could respond. He sent out a shock wave and she called it quits.

Kaminari got off of her and bowed as a way to say 'good fight.'

"Glad to have had this re-match," he smiled at her a wide smile and went on to write how their battle went on his phone, sending it to Bakugou. "If you'll excuse me," he waved his hand and walked off, going to go look for his friends' battles.

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Bakugou announced the winners and thanked everyone for their participation.

"Don't forget the sports festival is in a few weeks," he made sure to notice, "it is advised that this year we let the other courses shine as well. Though if you still want to win, go for it."

He got off of the small stage and jogged towards Kirishima, Aizawa, and Kan telling the students to go back to the dorms.

The Bakusquad all walked closely back to the dorms, the Dekusquad following behind them as Sero and Iida were walking hand in hand, like the other couples.

Ashido walked behind the group as she looked over the couples, frowning. She turned to look at the class 1-B students, her frown becoming more intense as she watched the couples there be even cuter.

"I hate this," she whispered, crossing her arms as she quickened her feet to catch up with the others.

"Hate what?" Kaminari asked as Mina walked by his side, Shinsou and Bakugou talking about training exercises in front of them.

"Being single," she answered, huffing in anger, "I keep seeing all of you have your perfect relationships with no issues and I'm jealous."

Kaminari stopped in his tracks, "no issues?" he asked, Mina turning to look at him and stopping as well, "have you ever noticed how Sero questions his sexuality because of the way he feels about Iida?"

"Yeah but-"

"How about when Tsu and Uraraka broke up for a week because of Uraraka's parents and Tsu didn't come out of her room for that entire week?" Kaminari added, Mina now furrowing her eyebrows as she thought it over. "Oh, and that time you and I had to stay by Jirou's side for a whole two days because Yaomomo had to go with her parents for a small business trip?"

Mina looked away and sighed, "but it always worked out in the end," she whispered, turning to look at her ex-girlfriend, who was flirting with an uninterested lion boy, "I thought we were just going through a rough patch but it's been two months."

Kaminari softened his angry look and dropped his shoulders as he sighed, turning to Mina's side and wrapping his arm around her, "not every relationship works out. To be honest, there were quite a bit of red flags with Hagakure," Kaminari said, starting to walk alongside Mina.

"How come?" she asked, looking up at Kaminari as they walked.

"She was always by your side," he replied, starting to list down things he and Sero noticed about Hagakure, "she didn't want for you to hang out with us because she thought we were going to steal you away from her until she realized we weren't that bad and have no romantic feelings towards you," he kept going, Mina's expression becoming more and more distraught, "she hated Kirishima only because you had a crush on him in middle school before you realized you were gay-"

"Okay, okay, I get it," Mina cut Kaminari off before he could continue listing the stuff Hagakure has done, "if we could see her face I'm sure she would always have been glaring at Eiji," she joked, chuckling as she started to feel better about being single.

Kaminari smiled, happy that his friend was happy.