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"Who's this Kaminari?"
Kaminari twisted his body around to look at him from his bed.
"Is that your sister? How many siblings do you have?" Mina asked as Sero showed Kaminari which photo he was referring to. As he passed it to him Kirishima also moved in to see, Bakugo even peeking over Kaminaris shoulder to look but he tried to hide his clear curiosity.
In the photo was a kid around the age of 6 with long tousled blonde hair sitting on their shoulders, sitting on a couch and smiling a toothy smile up at the camera, their top row of teeth missing one tooth. In their hands was a game, the contents too blurry to make out.
"Aw, she looks just like you Kaminari!" Kirishima cooed, "Is she your younger sister?"
"That's me dipshit." Kaminari frowned at all of them and they all gave him shocked looks. Bakugo snorted from behind him, Mina tilted her head with wide eyes and Sero and Kirshima leaned in further to take a better look at the kid.
"Oh," Kirshima said, "it is?"
"Yes it is!" Kaminari said with a questioning tone, offended that none of his friends recognised him.
"Why do you have long hair?" Bakugo asked, snorting again.
"Is there a problem with it?" Kaminari looked at him over his shoulder, staring at him. "No." Bakugo kicked his tone down a notch - he may be an asshole but he's not a narrow minded one. "I'm just fuckin asking."
"I just never had many hair cuts as a kid." Kaminari shrugged and stood up, going to sit at his desk to where his photo album layed, his photo album that Sero and Mina opened and flicked through minutes before. "And when I did, it'd just be to trim it from being too long."
"Did you like it long?" Kirishima asked.
"Yeah. I told my mum and dad that and they took it into account I guess." Kaminari flicked through the album's pages and pulled out a picture. "But in middle school I really grew it out, check it."
The other four all leaned in to look at the picture Kaminari held out. It was of Kaminari, of course. He looked slightly younger than he did now, probably 14 and his was in his middle school uniform. He was sitting on a chair outside a cafe, leaning back and smiling at the camera with his thumbs up. His hair was down and flowed down his body, stopping just above his breast.
His hair looked clean and healthy, luscious if you will. It wasn't curly but it wasn't stringy either. It was in between straight and wavy.
"Wow," Mina giggled in awe. "Why does it look cool?"
"Right?" Kamimari grinned, looking at the photo with nostalgia written all over his face.
"Why'd ya cut it?" Sero asked.
"Meh," Kaminari shrugged as he put the picture back into the album. "No reason really. Something different I guess."
"Are you gonna grow it out again?" Kirshima asked.
"Maybe.. I like it short though. It's way easier to handle."
"So this is why you were so good at helping Momo put her hair into a ponytail." Mina said.
"These hands do more than look pretty and get me A's in English." Kaminari grinned while wiggling his fingers.
"Your hands are sausage-like and ugly though." Bakugo said and Sero threw his head back as he barked out a laugh.
"Wha'bout now?" Kamimari said as he faced his hand to Bakugo and gave him the finger. Bakugo grabbed Kaminari's water bottle off of his desk and threw it at the boy, who laughed and almost fell off his chair. Mina grabbed the album before she could be caught in their crossfire, looking at more photos of long hair Kaminari. There was one where he stood in a pool, his hair heavy and sticking to the skin of shoulders and covering half his face. He looked around the same age as the Cafe picture.
"Oh shit.." Sero said as he pointed at a photo of Kaminari smiling at the camera with half of his hair up in a ponytail. He sat in what looked like a bathroom and he was holding scissors. "Don't tell Kaminari I said this," Sero said, glancing at the boy who was too busy dodging things that Bakugo was throwing. "But he looks cute as hell with long hair."
Kirishima and Mina shared looks before looking back at Sero. "Same." They said in unison.