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Ryu took a deep breath, then another one. Then he opened the door to his door room again, only to slam it shut with one of his feathers after getting another look at the shit show happening inside.
Why was he friends with two lunatics again? Actually no, wait, why on earth was one of those menaces to society confused as his boyfriend all the time when, clearly, Ryu had much better standards?
(Because yes, Ryu was certain this was caused by the pink haired gremlin and the tall asshole he had as two of his best friends, Yurei would never do anything like this. But it had been Ryu's mistake to leave him alone with Mori and Kendo for more than 15 minutes, the poor ghost boy had surely tried his best to stop them and succumbed to the terror that those two were).
Finally mustering enough strength, Ryu pushed the door open again, only to come face to face with the absolute chaos waiting inside his dorm room.
Now, let's review- the self proclaimed 'Dragon squad', aka Mori, Kendo, Yurei and Ryu, were having a study session in Ryu's dorm room that turned into a sleepover and then deciding to watch a movie.
So Ryu, ever the one who liked to help others, offered to go down to get popcorn while they picked the movie. First mistake.
The second had been when he saw one of his classmates struggling with their homework and, obviously, he went over to them and asked them if he could help them. Not that it had been a bad thing by itself, the bad decision came when he somehow thought that Yurei could handle Mori and Kendo while he calmly explained to his classmate the thing they were struggling with.
And almost 20 minutes later, he was finally going back up to his dorm room carrying two bowls of popcorn as his classmate told him a last 'Thanks Takami, you're amazing!' to which Ryu gave them one of his trademark kind smiles.
And that brings us back to the present, to Ryu opening the door by the third time in the spawn of two minutes, finding the poor Yurei semi-visible and hugging Ryu's stuffed dragon as if his life depended on it, his eyebrows furrowed and eyes focused on Mori.
Speaking of which, the pink haired gremlin, as Ryu called him, had somehow gotten on top of his bookcase and was not sitting there, like a king watching his kingdom from his throne, the look completed by a crooked crown that, judging by the purple glow and slight transparency of it, had been done with Kendo's Quirk.
And as for Kendo, the crown didn't seem like the only thing he'd used his energy manipulation Quirk to create, considering he had a white-ish shield and sword clearly made of energy too on his hands, and he was kneeling before Mori as if he was some sort of knight.
"... What the fuck?" he finally asked, using two of his feathers to leave the popcorn bowls next to Yurei.
Mori and Kendo ignored him, and instead, Kendo continued with whatever it was he was saying before. "... We need a miracle, my king."
Mori clicked his tongue.
"I need you to stop being a bunch of incompetents. How hard can it be to kill one single fairy!?"
Ryu arched an eyebrow, sending a questioning look at Yurei, who was still looking at Mori, but answered either way, whispering "Mori convinced Kendo to help him practice for his next role. I'm glad you're here, they said they would practice the battle next. I tried to stop them, but-"
"It's okay, I know you tried your best." Ryu sighed, sneaking one of his feathers behind Mori and knocking the crown out of his head and spinning it in the air, out of Mori's reach.
"I don't care if the forest is-! Ryu what the fuck, give me back my crown, you clown!"
"Oh I'm the clown? After I walked in to find the circus was in my room?"
Kendo whined. "Dude! We were getting into it!"
"Don't fucking say that while you're on my room ever again, please."
Mori audibly gagged.
"As if I'd ever fuck Kendo! I have a boyfriend, you know."
"Yeah, and I have taste." Kendo said, disappearing the sword, shield and crown and returning the energy to the respective crystals he'd taken it from. Mori gasped.
"I'm the best you could do out of everyone in this school, Katsuryoku!"
"Sorry to break it to you, but if I were to sleep with anyone here it would be Ryu. Come on Mori, he's handsome, rich, and technically famous. How can your short ass compete with that?"
"Wrong choice of words, you two already sleep together! In the literal sense, I've walked in on you cuddling more than once!"
"Well sorry—Have you ever heard of cuddling with the homies, Mori!?"
Ryu decided to tune them out, instead turning to Yurei again. "Tell me at least they picked a movie."
Yurei nodded, instead also opting to ignore them as he pointed to Ryu which movie they had settled on. Ryu proceeded to calmly put the movie on, pass Yurei a bowl of popcorn, turn the lights off, and finally turn to look at Kendo and Mori again, who were still arguing, and throw a pillow at the both of them with enough force to almost smack Mori's head on the wall behind him. He had it coming.
"Shut up, the movie is about to start."
"You almost bashed my head into the wall!"
"Good, maybe that would shut you up."
Mori mumbled something under his breath, glaring daggers at Ryu and tugging at Yurei to sit next to him on the floor, only to proceed to crawl his way into Yurei's lap and fill his mouth with popcorn.
Kendo also glared at him, but crawled into the bed and next to Ryu, worming his way under his arm and settling there, laying into him like the needy cat he was. Rolling his eyes, Ryu laid his wing over Kendo's shoulder.
Mori eyed them suspiciously, but didn't say anything and turned to actually start watching the movie.
And that was exactly why everyone always thought Ryu and Kendo were 'a thing'. Which, they definitely weren't. They were at each other's throats constantly (or, more accurately, Kendo liked to tease Ryu until he managed to drive him insane), but the next second they would see Kendo laying his head on Ryu's lap as he played with his hair or the other way around.
They had lost count of how many times they had been asked whether they were dating or not, even by Ryu's parents. The answer was always the same: they were just best friends, maybe a tad more affectionate than your regular best friend duo, but really they did not have romantic feelings towards one another. Still, no one seemed to believe them, but it's not like they cared either way.
But getting back on track— Ryu's friends were going to drive him insane with their nonsense, he was sure of it (or at least, Kendo and Mori were, Yurei at least shared his pain). But they were his best friends for a reason, no matter how much they pushed his buttons sometimes, he would always end up forgiving them.