[Team four] (not so) spontaneous combustion

[alchemicink]

A snippet of a silly tdbk idea I had. Tho it's just Todoroki and Kaminari in this bit.

Bnha; g-rated; around 450ish words

"Again?" Kaminari cackles, barely resisting the urge to double over with laughter. "How do you keep doing this?"

Todoroki ignores the question. Instead, he just stands there, his shirt half incinerated, and makes a face that sort of resembles "exasperated."

"This is the second time you've caught on fire and destroyed your shirt just today," Kaminari continues, his laughter settling down into quieter giggles now. He's not trying to be mean to his friend, after all.

"Have you been keeping track?"

"Oh no," Kaminari shakes his head. "Iida's the one with the spreadsheet."

Which reminds him that he should probably text the class rep later to update the Official Todoroki Shirt Incineration Count.

Todoroki raises one confused eyebrow at him, but doesn't actually voice the question. Kaminari watches as he pulls off the remainder of his shirt -- it's still slightly smoking around the edges -- and then tosses it to the floor.

"So... what keeps making you lose your shit like that?" Kaminari asks.

The rest of the class had been wondering about the cause of Todoroki's sudden increased bouts of spontaneous combustion, but most of them deemed it might be rude to ask. Kaminari thinks they're just cowards.

"I'm not angry," Todoroki replies. "I just... had a temporary lapse in quirk control."

"Really?" Kaminari is a skeptic. "A lapse in quirk control seven times since Tuesday? You set the smoke alarm off in the locker room yesterday, ruined the common room curtains once because you were standing too close, and I think you're starting to run out of spare uniform shirts."

"So you are keeping count," Todoroki accuses.

"Please," he scoffs. "Iida shared access to the spreadsheet with everyone. In read-only mode unfortunately." He shakes his head and offers up a new spare t-shirt that had been donated (sacrificed) by Shouji earlier. "Anyway, I just wanna know what keeps sparking your loss of control."

Todoroki narrows his eyes.

"Pun absolutely intended," Kaminari admits, not backing down. (He's been waiting to make that joke since he thought of it during geometry this morning. He's gonna have to beg Yaomomo for a copy of her notes later.)

"It's..." Todoroki begins and then trails off, hesitant. "Well... I'm not quite sure I know either. It's just that whenever I see Bakugou lately, I lose focus. And the next thing I know, I start feeling really hot and then the fire side of my quirk activates."

Kaminari slaps his hand over his mouth in an attempt to stifle another burst of laughter. His poor friend is so clueless, it's actually adorable. It takes him a moment to regain his composure.

"Oh Todoroki, you sweet summer child."

"...My birthday is in January."

Kaminari ignores that and continues to explain. "You have a crush! You like Bakugou. You've got feelings for him, and it's totally natural to blush whenever you're around him. Lots of people do that. You just... add a bit of flare."

Now Todoroki is definitely frowning at him.

"Seriously, it's nothing to worry about!" Kaminari assures him, waving his hands helpfully. "Aside from the accidental property damage."