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Kaminari is perched on Bakugo’s bed bored out of his mind. He has watched Kirishima and Bakugo attempt Legendary Mode on Halo 2 every single day since he unearthed the original XBOX console from his shelf.
He had stupidly exclaimed, “I know what we’re gonna do today.”
He had stupidly let Bakugo play Halo 2.
He had stupidly let Bakugo buy his original XBOX console for probably twice what it was worth.
Now he was paying for it.
Bakugo and Kirishima were cross legged on the floor in front of the TV, eyes intent on the screen as the Warthog they were in nearly careened off an edge because of a banshee attack.
“WATCH WHERE YOU’RE DRIVING!” Bakugo hollered and Kirishima just grunted an affirmative. It was the only thing that had been said for the past hour and Kaminari had enough.
“Guys. You’ve been playing Halo 2 co-op for months since I found that XBOX. I’m begging you. Let’s do literally anything else.”
“No!” Kirishima protested, “Yesterday we...Last...On the weekend...Okay maybe all we’ve been doing is play Halo 2 but we only have Legendary Mode to beat!”
“And I like Halo 2!” Kirishima chirped after a long beat and Bakugo grunted, then needlessly added, “He likes Halo 2.”
Their eyes hadn’t even left the screen and Kaminari went on, “I’m serious. Let’s do something else!”
Bakugo grinned, pausing the game to turn and sneer at him, “You saying you wanna 2v1 me scrub? After your last humiliating defeat? I’ll fucking crush you!”
“I SAID SOMETHING NOT HALO 2!”
Bakugo turned back to the game and unpaused it with a scoff, “Thought so. Go bother Tape Face if you wanna do something else.”
Frustrated, and at his wit’s end, he shouted back, “I DON’T WANNA BOTHER SERO I WANNA BOTHER YOU!”
“If that’s what you’re going for the job is done. You can go now.”
“Dude!”
“I’m serious. If you can’t appreciate Halo motherfucking 2 then you can get the fuck out.”
“Hey guys? If we’re playing Halo 2, what happened to Halo 1? Is it just Halo?” Kirishima asked and Bakugo’s eyes widened.
“You think there’s more?”
“OH MY GOD I JUST WANT TO HANG OUT WITH MY BROS! I NEED VARIETY!”
“You...you’re right.” Kirishima pauses the game and turned to Bakugo, smile soft, “Hey Bakugo...”
“What.”
“You wanna be Arbiter?”
“No.”
Kirishima shrugged and Bakugo went on, “I’m ALWAYS Master Chief! The fuck I look like Kirishima?”
“I dunno I just-wait. Dude. You...um.”
Kirishima fidgeted with his controller before asking, “Maybe...did you want to drive next time?”
He looked up from his hands, eyes wide and hopeful and Bakugo looked stricken, “But you love driving...”
“Well I just thought-“
Kaminari groaned but Bakugo went on, grin fierce, “You know what? Fuck yeah! Let’s fucking go!”
They unpaused the game and Kaminari knew at least this. In the day to day routine that was playing Halo 2 after school they had forgotten when they were still figuring out how to cooperate with Bakugo at all.
The days of “plasma grenades only!”
“Pistol whips only!” and “Rocket Launchers only!”
And the seemingly endless Halo 2 narrator’s support of Bakugo with the announcement of “killing spree” every PvP match.
The days of “BAKUGO STOP!”
Kirishima only drove all the time because Bakugo couldn’t drive for shit.
Bakugo seemed to have forgotten this.
Kaminari sighed and sank back down onto the bed. They may not have stopped playing Halo 2, but things were about to get interesting.