When Kaminari is finally let out of the medical ward, it's nearly dark, so Recovery Girl offers to drive Kaminari back to the dorms.

Obviously, Kaminari accepts. Why would he walk all the way there when he can get driven?

He walks into the dorms, excited to talk to his friends, because he's barely done that since school ended, but he barely manages to step through the door before he's swarmed with his peers.

"Are you ok?!"

"We heard you were in the med ward!"

"A quirk relapse!?"

"Did something happen to trigger it?!"

Kaminari laughed, pushing through the crowd to get further into the common room.

"Guys I'm completely fine! No need to worry about me!" He kept it vague, not really being bothered to explain it properly. Instead, he went over and flopped onto the couch.

"Let's watch a movie!" He announced, leaping off the couch again to find the remote.

"But its a Thursday!" Ururaka exclaimed.

"So?! I'm bored. Well just watch one, we won't have a marathon." At that moment he found the remote, and with an "aha!" he fell back onto the couch and turned on the tv.

Although reluctantly, a majority of the class sat down on the various couches and beanbags around the room, to watch.

Kaminari grinned. He often found that he was pretty good at roping the class into doing stuff. He almost considered it a special skill.

Almost.

Because no matter what he did, he couldn't get Bakugo to join. The movie started playing, and he could see Bakugo slinking out of the room.

"Come on Kacchan!" He called out in a last ditch effort to get him to join. "Loosen up a little!"

"And end up like you? Barely passing school? No thanks," he grumbled back, which was actually a pretty tame response, if Kaminari ignored the hit to his ego.

"It's ok Kami, he'll fall in love with you one day," Jirou chuckles at her own sarcastic comment.

Kaminari rolls his eyes, hiding his blush.

"He'll be head over heels, just you wait," he laughs back, ignoring the urge to say- well, a lot of things that would get him in trouble.

"Oi!" Kirishima calls over the tv. "Stop tryna steal my soulmate!"

"You wish," Kaminari pokes his tongue out, and they all start laughing.

"Kaminari, you were the one who suggested we all watch a movie, it would be greatly appreciated if you stayed quiet while we watched it," iida expresses, chopping movement excentuating his phrases.

Kaminari just rolls his eyes again, stifling another giggle. It's a good excuse as to why his cheeks are flushing.

~~~~

Detention. Again.

But at least now, things were back to normal. And since Aizawa could give literally two shits what they did during detention, they started to interact.

If Kaminari was really being honest, 'interacting' really just meant Bakugo scolding him over how bad he was at math. Which led to Bakugo helping him at math. Which led to Bakugo silently watching him over his shoulder, breathing down his neck.

Which led Kami to continue to be bad at math.

"You really are a dumbass. 7x6 is 42, not 48!" He growled, right into Kaminaris ear, he might add.

"Mhm!" He squeaked.

Brain empty. No think. Hot man.

Finally, Bakugo moved away, and Kaminari could come back to some form of coherency. All of a sudden he was much better at maths. But was it better enough to pass?

He passed his sheet over to Bakugo, who quickly looked over it, before heaving a sigh.

Not a good sign.

"I mean... it's a start right?" Kaminari asked hopefully, feeling a cheeky grin creep into his face.

Bakugo gave him a strained look, before sighing again.

"Yeah, I guess its a start."

"Yessss! Ok now that I don't have to do anymore maths," he said, "what do you say about booking it out of here?"

Bakugo glared at him. Not an angry glare, not a challenging glare, not an exasperated glare. It was the glare that said "you're the dumbest person I know".

Bakugo used it a lot.

"And how the hell are you planning on that?" He asked, deciding against his disapproval of "not having to do maths anymore", to have a chance at the inner workings of Kaminari's mind, that led him to that conclusion.

"We still have a whole hour left," He added, just in case Kaminari hadn't noticed.

Instead of answering, he instead pointed at the roof.

Bakugo looked up, seeing the vent on the ceiling. His gaze fell back to Kaminari, as he sent him another "You're the dumbest person I know" glare.

"I'm not crawling through an air vent."

Kaminari shrugged.

"Maybe not. But I am. Cover for me, 'Kay?"

And with that, he stood up on his desk, pulled a screwdriver out of his pocket, and started to take off the screws.

"Why the fuck do you have a screwdriver?!" Bakugo said, exasperated.

"I planned ahead. If it turns out the quirk is on the entire room, well then I guess I wasted an entire 10 minutes in this boring prison cell that I have to share with you."

Instead of answering, Bakugo watched in silence.

He laughed when the thin metal barrier vent fell and hit Kaminari on the head.

"It's not funny," Kaminari whined, but he couldn't help but smile with his friend.

Before Bakugo could notice his expression, he heaved himself up and into the vent. He was lucky it was big. Nice and human sized.

"I told you!" He called down through he hole, hearing his voice echo around him.

He crawled down the vent, opening his mouth slightly and sending electricity between his lips, a trick that he'd learnt as a kid that sent light all the way up the vent.

He crawled down the vent, searching for the entrance to the barrier of the classroom next door.

Earlier that day, he'd loosened the screws, so that all he had to do was completely unscrew them so that they'd fall out.

The barrier made a very loud crash when it fell.

He quickly hopped down, his heart thumping even though he knew there was no one around. Then he grinned to himself.

Guess who's not doing detention anymore, he thought smugly to himself.

He loosely screwed the barrier back on, and quickly made his way next door, and saw Bakugo staring at the wall blankly.

"Having fun? Writhing in your emotions?"

Bakugo's face formed a smile.

"Shut the fuck up!"

Kaminari sighed.

"Come on, we're leaving now, I'm getting you out."

"I am not crawling through a fucking vent."

"Come on Bakugo! You don't have to! I thought you were smart."

Bakugo gave him a look.

"Remember when you threw your pencil at the barrier?"

Bakugo started at him blankly. Bakugo had thrown multiple pencils at the barrier. Doesn't mean any of them got through.

"Do you also remember when Mr Aizawa left his coffee in here after getting the barrier activated, and he just reached in and grabbed it."

A look of realisation flashed across Bakugo's face, before it quickly became cold and guarded again. He stood up, and stomped his way over to the doorway.

"Give me your hand," he barked, and Kaminari grinned, complying to Bakugo's demand.

Bakugo took the hand and walked straight into the barrier.

"Fuck! It didn't work! Why didn't it work shitty dunce face!"

Kaminari just continued to grin, and when Bakugo tried to struggle out of his grip, he instead tugged on his arm. His hand came through, then his arm, then his head, and the rest of his body followed quickly after.

Bakugo frowned at him.

"How did you do that," he growled.

"Magic," he grinned, letting go of Bakugo and wiggling his fingers next to his face like sparkles.

"Think I deserve some afternoon tea for that. Your treat."

"I'm not buying you anything."

Kaminari shrugged. "Consider it buying your pass to not having to do detention for the rest of the month!"

"You're the reason I have so much detention in the first place dumbass," Bakugo recalled, referencing to how Kaminari just couldn't keep his mouth shut.

"And you're the reason we have any detention in the first place," Kaminari countered. "I think we're pretty even."

Bakugo sighed aggressively.

"I didn't even do anything! Raccoon eyes had the shitty idea for everyone to get taped together! Tape face was the one who carried it out! You were the one who encouraged them! All I did was-"

"-try and blow me up while my limbs were all taped to together," Kaminari finished his sentence for him. "And I got detention because I just so happened to look Aizawa in the eyes and look guilty."

"You were a part of the problem."

"I know. That's why I looked guilty," Kaminari grinned. "What can I say, I'm an open book."

Seeing an opportunity to tease Bakugo even more, Kaminari grabbed it with both hands.

"My emotions are out to the world. It's unhealthy to sit and writhe in them."

"WOULD YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THAT. ITS NOT FUNNY. I WILL BLOW YOU UP."

"Ok geez man, didn't realise it would get you so riled up," he said, raising his arms defensively. He did know it would get him riled up. That's why he did it. It was funny.

Bakugo decided not to answer, and continued to stride forward silently. Kaminari wasn't quite sure where Bakugo was planning on going, but decided he was gonna follow him anyway.

They ended up at a weird little cafe down the street. Kaminari has seen it before, but had never been inside.

"Why did you chose here?" Kaminari asked. He wasn't mad, it was ok, it was just a bit out of the way. Bakugo shrugged.

"We don't want any students or teachers seeing us while we're supposed to be in detention," he said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. It probably was, Kaminari was just an idiot.

"Oh," he replied dumbly, not really knowing what else to say.

They sat down, and Kaminari started chatting away with Bakugo, or rather, at Bakugo. Bakugo was about as engaged in he conversation as a brick wall. The only time he actually spoke was when he ordered his food.

(Which Kaminari made a mental note of, was scrambled eggs with extra chilli. He never took Bakugo for a breakfast-in-the-afternoon kinda guy, but it made sense in hindsight.)

As soon as the waiter left, he went back to boring holes into Kaminari's skull with his gaze. Kaminari had to resist the urge to wave his hand in front of his face and see if he was still awake.

He would certainly get blown up for that.

The food took a while to come, so when it did arrive, Kaminari made sure to point out that they were running out of time, and should probably eat quickly. Bakugo just glared at him again.

Kaminari are his own food as fast as he could. It was pancakes, so it was pretty easy for him to just cut it up and stuff it into his mouth. He didn't dare look up because he knew that Bakugo would be looking at him disappointedly.

What surprised him, however, was when he was only 2/3rds of the way through his meal, when he heard the cutlery in front of him clatter.

"I'm done," Bakugo announces, seemingly bored already.

Kaminari pauses eating to stare.

"Dude what the fuck. How."

Bakugo rolled his eyes.

"We need to hurry up. So hurry up."

That wasn't an actual answer Bakugo.

Kaminari turned back to his food and started eating with a new gusto. He didn't want Bakugo to be bored for too long. When Bakugo was bored, he tended to blow things up.

And it would be a real shame if Bakugo blew his place up. It was really small and gave kinda rustic vibes, and obviously survived off of regulars. It also didn't hurt that the food was fantastic. So it would be pretty sad if Bakugo blew it up.

Kaminari finished his food in record time, and when he was done, he immediately stood up and grabbed Bakugo's arm.

"Come on, were gonna get caught," he hissed when Bakugo resisted.

It occurred to Kaminari only later that Bakugo's fragile pride was probably getting bruised from all the tugging around he was doing.

But Bakugo did comply (eventually), and they went over to the register to pay.

"That's $38.60, will that be a split check?"

"Yes ple-"

"I'm paying," Bakugo interrupted, holding out a credit card for the waitress to scan.

Kaminari gaped at him. The lack of response from the normally talkative teen made Bakugo feel nervous, like he needed to explain himself.

"What?!" He sneered defensively. "You said I was paying you to get me out of detention. No way am I taking that dumb vent every day."

Kaminari shut his mouth, but was definitely still astounded.

"It my parents money anyway, it's not like I care," Bakugo continued looking away, still feeling as if he needed to give reasons why this was reasonable.

Kaminari just couldn't get over the fact that Bakugo had talked more to the one waitress during this one hour than he had to Kaminari.