http://alchemicink.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] alchemicink.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] writetomyheart2020-09-13 10:37 pm

[Team three] card castle

Not exactly what I had in mind when I started writing this, but here we are. I'm having fun coming up with random hobbies for Iida and Bakugou to (eventually?) share.

bnha, g-rated, couple hundred words


"Get the hell out of here!" Bakugou punctuates his command with several rapid blasts from his hands. He assumes his most intimidating pose as well for emphasis: arms spread wide, knees bent, fingers half-curled into threatening fists.

"It's my apartment," Iida points out, not even bothering to glance up from his book as he flips the page.

"Fine then," Bakugou snarls, nostrils flaring wide. "I'll get the hell out of here."

"But it's raining today," Iida responds. This does actually earn him a glance of concern, somehow magnified through Iida's glasses.

Bakugou scoffs. "I don't melt in the rain."

Iida has the audacity to nod, as if that had been anything more serious than a random sarcastic comment. "Still, it's not fun to get rained on."

Bakugou's had enough of this dumb conversation, so he just angrily plops down in a chair and glowers at his roommate. After a few moments, Iida carefully marks his place in his book, and sets it down.

"Perhaps we could do something together," Iida suggests to fill the awkward silence. With some quick arm movements, suddenly he has a deck of cards in his hands.

Bakugou blinks and tries not to even think about where they'd been hiding before.

"I don't want to play cards," he complains.

Iida readjusts his glasses and then shuffles the deck with robotic hand motions, so fast it's all a blur. Then he splits the deck in half, sliding a chunk of cards across the coffee table towards Bakugou.

"Have you ever built a house of cards?" Iida asks.

"Why would I?" he scoffs, eyeing the cards with suspicion. Iida's already absorbed in his task, moving his hands in careful precise movements to build the precarious base.

"It's good training in concentration," Iida murmurs, clearly concentrating more on the cards than continuing the conversation now.

Normally this is when Bakugou would proceed with his earlier plan to storm out of the apartment, but he spends a moment too long side-eying the cards. He watches Iida's technique as he balances each card against each other. He's already thinking of his own design he could build.

"Fine," he finally barks out, drawing closer to the table.

Iida looks up briefly with wide concerned eyes as the motion gives the structure a tiny wobble.

Bakugou grabs his stack of cards with a determined grin. "Forget a house of cards. We're going to build a whole castle of cards, and it's going to be awesome."


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[identity profile] kurosaki-ami.livejournal.com 2020-09-17 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I love this! Bakugou is so irritated by having nothing to do, and then of course he's super competitive once he decides that Iida's idea has some merit xD Go, you angry pomeranian! Go and build the most ridiculous impossible castle of cards ever. I can imagine the end result posted on insta or whatever: Bakugou grinning his murder grin in front of his huge impossibility and Iida at the back still staring in bewildered astonishment at the thing. But also, pride. And the comments. Oh, the comments that post would get!