Lightning Serenade

Chapter 71: Graduated to Pros

A/N: I started taking topiramate for migraine prevention, and WHOA BOY. So, if my writing seems terribly different (or just plain terrible), my mind is foggy from trying to acclimate to this new drug. I'm going to go over these chapters multiple times to try to minimize any confusion my writing under this fog might cause, but it's still foggy. Even writing this damn A/N is very hard and I keep pausing in my typing. The words just aren't coming to me, and I keep losing my train of thought, and it's all very frustrating, as you can all probably imagine. Please take that into consideration for this and future chapters! Many thanks! <3

"Shouto found his soulmate," Denki said into the phone that was held strategically between his shoulder and ear as he lied on the floor, books spread around him as he prepared for final exams. "You'll never guess who!"

"Well, he's always around Midoriya," Shigaraki said. "But since you said I'd never guess, it's probably not him."

"Yaoyorozu!" Denki said excitedly into the phone, hands pushing the books away to dig his fingernails into the carpet at his excitement.

"You didn't let any of us guess!" Toga complained.

Denki laughed and apologized before going into the details. "So, Shouto finds out that Yaoyorozu is his soulmate. They speak alone for like five minutes before they have already decided that it's a platonic soulmate situation because Yaoyorozu is already head-over-heels for Jirou, and Shouto is obviously gay for Midoriya. So, Shouto tells Endeavor that he found his soulmate, and Endeavor is so pleased that it's Yaoyorozu. Then Shouto absolutely destroys this man's plans for the future by saying that they will only be friends because he, and I quote, has chosen to take Midoriya as his partner instead."

Denki smiled as he moved to pull the phone away from his ear as laughter burst through.

"What if Midoriya finds his own soulmate later on?" Mr. Compress asks. "Have they planned for that?"

"They really doubt that Midoriya has a soulmate out there because of his... questionable lineage."

"That makes sense," Shigaraki agreed, recalling his research when Denki was only known to him as P05itiv3R3v0lt, and knowing that it's the same reason that he doesn't have a soulmate of his own out there, either.

"But even then, Midoriya is so enraptured with Shouto that I think it would also just be a platonic thing if he did happen to have a soulmate show up. I didn't realize how messy soulmate situations could be until I found myself causing a mess of my own."

Dabi, Shigaraki, and Hawks had all verbally expressed their agreement at the same time. There was a pause, and then spirited arguing over who was the one who was the mess of the group. Shigaraki said it was obviously him because he was the one who wasn't destined. Hawks argued that Shigaraki and Dabi would have been perfectly fine if he hadn't come along to make everything more complicated. Dabi argued that if he could have just decided instead of selfishly wanting them both, then it wouldn't have gotten as far as it did.

By the end of the debate, they all agreed that whoever's fault it was who caused the mess had done everyone a huge favor because none of them would have had it any other way.

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Even Endeavor would admit that Denki was endlessly useful, even before he graduated and joined full-time ranks. He was the calming voice for the panicking victims of disasters. He was the one who chose his words carefully, giving the press wordy nothingness with a bright smile that no one dared argue with. He was the one who could teleport to the top of a building to get a good look or act as impromptu surveillance (even when he would argue that it wasn't really teleportation, and the rest of the team would roll their eyes at his insistence on the importance of semantics. To be fair, they had never experienced Kurogiri's warp gates. Denki's lightning quick transportation wasn't nearly the same as that, not that he could force that argument from his throat to make his point).