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Shouto stared at the video camera he now held in his hand, squinting at the multitude of buttons and switches he didn’t know how to operate.   

“I’m sorry, you want me to what?” he questioned again, as if hearing it a second time would make it any less shocking. 

“Express yourself!” Present Mic grinned, “Aizawa mentioned to me last night how he was worried about how secluded you were. As a result, you will be creating a youtube channel and post weekly, I will be your first subscriber!”

Shouto turned the camera around in his hands, this wasn’t what he had expected when his teacher told him to come into his office after school.

He was ready to confess that he was the one who had snuck off last night to purchase convenience ramen, but instead, Present Mic started going on about how he should express his emotions. His school’s priorities never made sense to him. 

In the household he grew up in, showing your emotions meant pain. So he wasn’t used to such a… healthy dynamic.

“Is it for a grade?” He asked, looking up at Present Mic curiously.

“Well, if that helps you get started then yeah!”

He brought that onto himself.

__________

It was quite hard to hide the camera as he walked back into the dorms, the moment he stepped foot inside he spotted quite a few of his classmates lounging around in the common area, but he quickened his pace and received no questions.

He made it to his dorm room and slid inside, shutting the door behind him as he made his way towards his desk. He plopped the camera down gently and flipped open his laptop, immediately seeing an email notification pop up so he hovered his cursor over it, an icon with none other than Present Mic came up, along with an email attachment.

To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Subject: Youtube Channel

 

Hey Shouto!

Present Mic here, just sending this to let you know about the details. I already created a channel for you, but feel free to edit it since the password is in the pdf I linked. I named it “Hot n Cold”

Get it? Cus of your quirk? Hilarious right, feel free to keep it I know it’s pretty clever.

Wishing you the best of luck, and if you have any questions shoot me an email or come visit me during office hours. 

Oh! Before I forget, I linked an editing tutorial for ya, looking forward to seeing your videos!

 

Peace out,
Present Mic

 

Shouto clicked on the pdf below, and sure enough, it entailed all the details to his account. 

He pulled up youtube and logged in, clicking on settings to view it. The banner and icon were empty and other than the name it hadn’t been touched.

He stared hopelessly, this seemed impossible. How did people do this for a living?

“Shouto?” a tentative voice called out, pushing his door open.

He turned to come face to face with none other than Midoriya, who stood at the entrance to his bedroom quite awkwardly until Shouto beckoned him closer. Of course! Midoriya could help him with this, he would surely know how to youtube.

“I cut up fruit for you,” Midoriya smiled, setting down a bowl of apple slices. He could see some of them were shaped like hearts since Yaoyorozu had recently purchased a set of cookie cutters for their kitchen.

“You have my thanks,” Shouto smiled, before getting up and pulling a chair to his desk, and pushing Midoriya down on it. “I require your help.”

“Oh? With what?”

Shouto pointed to his laptop and showed Midoriya the email Present Mic sent him, staring at him intensely until Midoriya pinched his cheek and told him to calm down.

“Let me set this up for you,” Midoriya hummed, opening up another tab and pulling up his Instagram, the one Midoriya told him to create. He scrolled down and saved an older picture of him, one where he was at the beach during the summer, and made it his icon.

“What should we do for your channel banner,” Midoriya mumbled, typing up something on Shouto’s keyboard, “We should make it red and blue, or wait red and white. Is that too cliché? It fits, it’ll be fine. Oh! This font is cute, or wait this is better–,” the green-haired boy talked to himself furiously as he pulled up a photo-editing software and fumbled around for a while as Shouto watched.

A couple of minutes later, Midoriya moved away from the screen so Shouto could take a look. Before him was a pretty channel banner, with tiny doodles of him in the corner that Midoriya drew quickly.

“It’s perfect,” Shouto smiled, turned to Midoriya, “Thank you.”

“It was no big deal!” Midoriya laughed, cheeks flushed as he wore a sheepish smile. “I can teach you later.”

Shouto nodded and bit into an apple slice, staring fervently at the camera sitting on his desk.

“What should I make my first video be?” He asked, chewing thoughtfully, his first video needed to please Present Mic.

“Just talk about yourself,” Midoriya shrugged, “let people get to know you and introduce the people around you?”

“Would you ever like to be in a video?” Shouto asked, tilting his head.

“Oh! If you want me to!” Midoriya squeaked, almost choking on the apple slice he was chewing, leading Shouto to smack his back a couple of times to calm him down.

“Okay, I will keep that in mind.”

“Great,” Midoriya smiled and stood up, letting out a cute yawn as he did so. “I’m heading to bed, my legs are sore from training today. I’ll see you tomorrow?”

Shouto nodded and stood up, patting Midoriya’s fluffy head in response as the other male left his room. 

Shouto frowned at the loss of presence, but made his way back to the desk and picked up the camera. It would be better to record something now to get it over with, Present Mic would be proud of him.

He heard his laptop ping, he looked up and squinted at it to see a youtube notification pop up.

Izuku Midoriya has subscribed to your channel along with 1 other!

Shouto smiled and closed his tabs, making his way to his door. He could do this, he would make his teacher proud.

He could not do this.

Shouto thought recording in the common room would be the most convenient since it had the best lighting. He had assumed he would be left alone. But, carrying a bulky camera would only obviously draw attention towards himself.

The moment he descended the stairs Kaminari skipped right up to him, snatching the device from his hands despite Shouto doing his best to take it back.

“What’s this?” The boy asked, flipping it over in his hands, and in fear of the clumsy blonde dropping it, he quickly took it from him.

“Present Mic wants me to start a youtube channel,” Shouto answered, making his way towards the coffee table and setting it down, “He’s going to grade me on it.”

“Sweet! I’ll subscribe for sure, imagine if he made Bakugou do the assignment!” Kaminari laughed, in a fit of giggles before a palm clasped over his mouth and pushed him down. The hand belonging to none other than Bakugou.

“Shut up you damn extra!” Bakugou yelled, while Kaminari merely grinned below him.

Shouto ignored them and fumbled around with the camera, he didn’t quite understand any of the switches. It was a game of trial and error. Present Mic should have sent him a tutorial. 

He flicked on the bulky camera once more before the light finally turned red, signaling it was recording as the little screen, which showed him sitting on the dorm’s couch, turned on. 

“Hello Internet,” he greeted, adding a wave as an afterthought, “Please ignore the children behind me, I am not associated with them.”

He adjusted the camera to not show Bakugou wrestling Kaminari to the ground.

“I’m Shouto Todoroki and I’m making this channel because Present Mic told me I need to be more outgoing,” he points to himself, “I’d like to think I’m pretty outgoing, just this morning I said hello to Bakugou on my way to the showers, that isn't something a lot of people are brave enough to do.”

Bakugou grunted from behind him in response.

“He did attempt to strangle me with his towel, but our relationship is making progress I dare say,” Shouto added as an afterthought.

“Originally I planned on exploiting All Might’s presence at our school to garner views then realized that wouldn’t be very nice, so instead I will be exploiting my father.”

“Now, I know what you’re thinking.” he pitched his voice a little higher, “Who could possibly be his father that would get him a lot of views.”

“It’s the worst pro hero on the charts, Endeavor.”

My Dad is Endeavor (NOT CLICKBAIT!!!)

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PresentMic: Good job kid! Shared this with the pro hero groupchat, hope you don’t mind, was a hit!

Izuku Midoriya: Great job shouto! 

DENKI: WOO FIRST COMMENT LETSGETIT

AllMight: Exploit me all you want kid, this is great

monochro: ayo ain't this the kid from the ua festival? 

kittykat: kid's hilarious xd

Enjitdrk: ???

Chapter Text

“Are you sure this will make a good video?” Shouto asked Kaminari, who was smiling as he held up his laptop for him to see. The blonde had taken a real liking to his channel and had self hired himself as Shouto’s producer. If it meant less work for Shouto then he was in. 

He had just shown Shouto a video of celebrity heroes reading comments about themselves from the internet, it seemed a little narcissistic to Shouto but the number of views made his heart stop. 

“Yes, I’ll set everything up. I’m so excited!” Kaminari clapped, shutting the laptop shut, “You’re famous so people will have a lot to say,” he assured, a pleading look in his eyes. 

Shouto shrugged, “Go for it I guess?”

Kaminari let out a cheer of victory, raising his laptop above his head and running off. He was scared the boy was going to trip over his own feet and electrocute himself, but Kaminari shot him a thumbs up and slid into his room. 

If it made Kaminari this happy to be a part of his channel, Shouto would let him take charge of this video. 

__________

“Hello,” Shouto waved, Kaminari grinning from where he stood behind the camera. The light turned red as soon as Shouto gave him the signal.

Instead of the common room, Kaminari had advised him to film in his bedroom. Making his videos more personal would cause more of an attraction.

“My friend Kaminari created this video idea for me,” Shouto explained as Kaminari peeked his head into the frame to wave. Shouto picked up the upturned top hat from the table they had asked Yaoyorozu to create it for them. She gave them a peculiar look as they begged her for it, and after assuring her it wasn’t for anything weird she caved in.

“Inside this hat is slips of paper containing … what was it Kaminari?”

“Thirst comments!”

“Yes, if you are thirsty I recommend water.” Shouto mused, not noticing the snicker Kaminari let out as he pulled out the first slip.

“Kaminari hand-picked these for me, let me read the first one,” Shouto cleared his throat, flipping open the first sheet of paper.

@midorino

I have the urge to bite todoroki’s head off THAT MAN IS SO FINEEE 

“You want to…bite me?” Shouto inquired, setting the paper down and looking deadpan into the camera. He didn’t know it yet but that clip would soon become a meme amongst twitter.

“You should get that checked out,” Shouto advised, “I recommend Recovery Girl, it is not normal to crave to eat humans.”

Shouto stuck his hand into the hat once more, moving his hand around, and picked up the next one that touched his fingers and pulled it out, reading it aloud. 

@bisexualtrash

I would pay you to shoot flames at me

“I like the username, but you aren’t trash.” Shouto observed, “But why would you want me to burn you? My quirk is extremely powerful and that would harm you, I will not take your money.” Shouto put aside that paper as Kaminari was doubling over in laughter behind the camera. “You all need medical attention it seems.”

He pulled out another one.

@L77Vrain

Do you have a fire quirk? Cus ur smokin ;)

Shouto patted himself down, “I’m not on fire. My body is resistant to my quirk, so I will never catch on fire from my own doing.” He set aside that piece of paper, “Most people with quirks have bodies that don’t react negatively to it.”

“Alright, let’s keep going,” Shouto mumbled, reaching his hand in once again.

@GlossGlossyGlossary

HELLO PLS STEP ON ME OH MY GOD

Shouto had to reread that one, head tilting in confusion. “Why would you want me to step on you? This is similar to the burn one, you two should become friends.”

@FroggyTheFrog

You didn’t win the sports festival but u won my heart <33

“Thank you for reminding me of my failures,” Shouto deadpanned.

@aizawascatcalledbastard

Are you hurt? Cus you look like you fell from heaven :)

“I’m okay, thank you for asking. And if you are implying I am a ghost, then you are wrong.” Shouto answered, “Also why do you have my teacher’s name in your user?”

@DENKI

I SAVE DICK BY GIVING IT CPR 

“Kaminari is this your comment?” Shouto questioned, holding up the paper. “I don’t understand, but I am proud of you for learning Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, it is a very useful skill to have in the hero field,” Shouto complimented, tossing the slip aside.

@IzukuMidoriya

You look very handsome :)

Kaminari zoomed in on Shouto’s face, he had asked Midoriya to leave a compliment via a comment on Shouto’s youtube channel earlier that day to include it in the video. Midoriya had just grinned and promised he would, going on a ramble about how saying compliments can raise everyone’s self-confidence. Kaminari nodded along for an hour, enduring it to get this for the video.

Playing matchmaker behind the scenes was exhausting, but it made great content.

“Oh, it is Midoriya,” Shouto gulped, reading the slip once more. “Thank you Midoriya, I am thankful you find my features visually appealing. Especially with this scar,” Shouto added, pointing to his left eye.

Instead of moving the piece of paper along with the others, he slides this one into his pocket. Kaminari didn’t miss this action and zoomed in on it.

“You are very handsome too,” Shouto hummed, picking up the hat and turning it upside down.

“It looks like we’ve run out of comments. This concludes the video, thank you for watching. Special thanks to Kaminari.” Shouto smiled, waving with both of his hands as Kaminari cut the camera.

“And that’s a wrap!”

Reading Thirst Comments (FEAT. KAMINARI)

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Comments (5,389)

PresentMic: well job son!

Enjitdrk: shouto what is this nonsense

sugarbloodprincess: omg this kid is so blunt

Heythere_imbarbie_wassup: CONGRATS ON 100K!

Souka_Ikuso: YALL BE FORGETTING DIGITAL FOOTPRINTS EXIST LMAO

Mild_Lemon: gay

IzukuMidoriya: oh my comment made it haha! and thank you shouto :3 

Hot n Cold (creator) @ IzukuMidoriya: np 

Chapter Text

“Are you sure this is safe?” Shouto questioned as Kaminari tried to get the tripod to stand properly.

“Yes,” he grunted, finally patting himself on the back as he got it to stand on its own, Shouto giving him a clap.

They were currently in the dorm’s kitchen at 7 am, which was the only time that the kitchen would be completely void of any of his classmates, making it easier to film. Shouto had no problem getting up this early, he’d done it back when he lived at home to train with his father, so it was ingrained into him. Kaminari on the other hand could barely peel his eyes open when Shouto had to go over to his dorm to wake him up, and only after five cups of coffee had him brisk enough to turn the camera on. Now he was way too hyper.  

“If you say so,” Shouto shrugged, trusting Kaminari’s judgment. 

“Are you ready?” Kaminari questioned, standing back to admire the set he had produced. 

Shouto was in fact, not ready. Kaminari had told him that he should film a cooking video for his next youtube video. Shouto immediately shut down the idea. He could not cook. 

When he lived at home, his older sister had done all the cooking. And at the dorm, they all helped to make dinner by keeping out of Bakugou’s way as he prepared enough food to feed the entire class. They always offered to lend a hand and help, but the angry blonde always pushed them away. Shouto assumed he treated it as some sort of stress relief. 

“Not in the slightest,” he sighed, “But I will try my best.”

“That’s the spirit!” Kaminari cheered, his index finger switching on the camera, his hair obscuring his vision as he jumped around in excitement.

Shouto gave the camera a wave.

“Hello everyone, today we are doing something quite frightening. I do not use that phrase lightly, since I have fought numerous villains before.” 

Shouto gestures around him with his arms, “Today I will be cooking, but the catch is I am only allowed to use my quirk.”

Shouto holds out both his palms and within a second a flame shot up from his left and ice cubes from his right.

“This is my quirk, it allows me to create flames and ice freely, which is useful for cooking,” Shouto vanished the elements and picked up the large silver bowl.

“Kaminari insisted I do this without a recipe, so with that, all this is from memory. We are going to make soba.”

Shouto picked up a box package of noodles, tearing it open and dumping it into the bowl. Kaminari had laid out most of the items for him, making it easier, but he still had no clue on what the exact measurements were. 

“I have to boil them now,” Shouto mused, turning around to grab a cup of water before Kaminari shrieked at him to stop.

“You should create ice and then melt it!” The excited blonde clapped.

Shouto stared, “Wouldn’t that be unsanitary?”

“Your ice isn’t your body fluid or something, right?”

“Are you asking me if my ice is made out of my urine?”

“Hey! You said it, not me!”

Shouto sighed, before obliging and creating little ice cubes with his right hand, letting them fall into a separate bowl. He then lifted it and held it above his left hand, a tiny flame sprouting up and melting them into water.

“I’m going to transfer the noodles now,” Shouto explained, setting the scalding bowl onto the table, cringing at the burn mark it left, and dumping the dry noodles into the bowl. He reached beside him and picked up a wooden spoon to stir the noodles until they cooked.

“Perhaps it would have been easier if I let you just boil a kettle or something,” Kaminari mused, adjusting the camera to show the inside of the bowl.

“Kettles bring me trauma,” Shouto shuddered, before looking into the camera. “If Endeavor is watching this, fuck you.”

Kaminari snorted out laughter as Shouto poked the noodles, claiming they were fully cooked.

“Alright, now the sauce,” Shouto thought aloud, pulling out another bowl and began dumping ingredients in. He didn’t know  exactly  what was in the sauce, but he could simply guess. 

“Maybe maple syrup?” Shouto asked no one in particular, before dumping half the bottle in, “And Ketchup too,” he added, squirting some of the red condiment inside.

“Salt is always good,” he muttered, picking up a container and puncturing it open, dumping it inside. “Measuring ingredients is too much work.”

“That should be enough,” Shouto deemed, scraping the sauce into the bowl containing the noodles quickly, stirring it all together once again.

“Oh, we need an onion,” Shouto paused, dropping the spoon and turning around to open the fridge, finally finding an onion shoved into the back. He picked up a knife and cutting board, setting it down on the granite island he was working on before frowning.

“I do not know how to cut an onion,” Shouto pouted, stabbing the vegetable with the knife. “Kaminari, do you know how?”

“Just slice it,” Kaminari offered, shrugging.

Shouto pursed his lips at it, before bringing the knife down on the onion harshly, and repeatedly. All the chopped-up pieces came out unevenly, the acid making his eyes water.

“Seems that I am crying,” Shouto sniffed, trying to wipe his eyes, but since her fingers were covered in onion juice it had made it worse.

“Will make a great thumbnail,” Kaminari commented, hurrying behind Shouto to grab a towel and run it under the faucet, handing it to Shouto, before rushing back to his spot behind the camera.

“You have my thanks,” Shouto said, letting out a sigh of relief as he cleaned his face and eyes off. “Maybe onions aren’t the way to go,” Shouto mumbled, shoving the cut-up onions into the trashcan off to the side.

Just then, the front door which resided only a little ways from the kitchen pried open, Midoriya walking in drenched in sweat. 

Shouto found himself staring shamelessly as Midoriya kicked off his shoes and ran his hands through his hair, trying to keep it tidy despite it being frizzy from his long morning run.

Another reason that Shouto wanted to use the kitchen at 7 am.

To ogle at Midoriya.

“Oh, Hey Shouto and Kaminari!” Midoriya called out, making his way over and opening the fridge, grabbing a bottle of water and draining it down in one swing, eyes widening as he noticed the camera.

“Are you guys filming? I didn’t mean to interrupt!” Midoriya rushed out, already trying to move out of frame, but Shouto reached out and latched onto his arm, tugging him closer. 

“I’m sorry for ruining your video,” Midoriya apologized, a sheepish smile on his face as Shouto let go of his arm and rummaged around for a fork, holding it out to the frazzled boy. 

“You didn’t ruin anything, we need someone to try my soba,” Shouto explained as Midoriya took the fork from him, eyeing him then peering into the bowl that held the soba.

“Really?” Midoriya perked up, “You want me to be in your video?”

“Yes,” Shouto answered, turning to the camera, “Say hello.”

Midoriya beamed, “Hi guys!”

“Ok, now try it,” Shouto said, an anxious look written on his face, he didn’t want to disappoint Midoriya.

“Alright,” Midoriya answered, sticking his fork into the comically large bowl and twirling it around before bringing it to his lips. His body’s first reaction was to grimace before he hid it with a well-practiced smile, he didn’t wish to blow out the spark that had ignited behind Shouto’s eyes.

“It’s amazing!” Midoriya gushed, forcing himself to swallow as he went in for another one, shoving it down.

“Really?” Shouto asked, taking the fork from Midoriya and getting himself a forkful, bringing it to his mouth. Thoughts of indirect kisses raced through both of their heads before Shouto nodded thoughtfully.

“It is rather good, Kaminari have a bite,” Shouto offered, getting another forkful and holding it out. 

Kaminari left the side of the camera and squeezed into the frame, taking the fork from him and shoving it into his mouth, chewing loudly before he gagged.

“This shit sucks!”

“I knew it,” Shouto solemnly said, turning back to Midoriya, “I knew you were lying.”

“I’m sorry!” Midoriya frowned, waving his hands in front of him, a sheepish look on his face. “I didn’t wanna hurt your feelings, Shouto.”

“Oh,” Shouto replied, dumbfounded as Kaminari rushed back to zoom the camera on the two.

“It is alright, just tell me the truth next time so I can improve,” Shouto smiled while placing saran wrap over the bowl and chucking it into the fridge with little care, “Someone will surely eat it.”

Midoriya laughed, they all knew it would get thrown out by Bakugou, but one could hope.

“Looks like that’s a wrap,” Shouto said, “A saran wrap,” he added, proud of himself for the pun.

Midoriya chuckled while Kaminari rolled his eyes, but the fond smile adorning his face gave him away.

Shouto gave a wave at the camera, “Midoriya, you can say the outro," he offered. 

“Oh, I,” Midoriya stuttered, not sure what to do before collecting himself, “Thanks for watching, and make sure to check out Shouto’s other videos!”

“And Cut!” Kaminari called, shutting off the camera, “Good job bros,” he saluted, packing away the camera as Shouto washed his hands.

“Shouto, why is the island burnt?”

“I used my quirk to cook.”

“I’m sorry you WHAT?”

Cooking Soba But I Can Only Use my Quirk (FEAT. DEKU)

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ParleyParkner: now THIS is quality content

Queeroid.Catboy: can someone pls teach this poor boy how to make soba?? 

SleepY_TortoisE: this video is like a train wreck that I can’t look away from

Pastel_Mint: ayo why they both kinda cute together tho

mycrimsonhazel: this took five years off my lifespan and i am okay with that

PresentMic: SENT THIS TO THE GC, THE HEROES ALL LOVED IT KIDDO but Aizawa watched over my shoulder and saw u burn the table, prepare urself for his wrath my pupil

DENKI: we all indirectly kissed ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 

Hot n Cold (creator) @ DENKI no comment

IzukuMidoriya: @ DENKI @ Hot n Cold : HaHa! I guess we did 

Hot n Cold  (creator)  has loved @ IzukuMidoriya’s comment

DENKI has laughed @ Hot n Cold

Chapter Text

Shouto was conflicted.

He had been scrolling through every single comment on his previous video for almost an hour now, and a majority of them alluded to the fact that Midoriya and he were flirting.

Which obviously wasn’t the case.

Shouto didn’t know how to flirt. He would if he could and he most certainly could not. So why were all these comments insisting he was? 

It was one of his greatest insecurities, the fact that he was terrible with words, and the person of his objections may never know he held feelings for him. Although, the comments picked up on it. Maybe Midoriya was just oblivious?

He wanted to flirt with Midoriya, so he pulled up google and decided to try his luck.

Google Search results for ‘How to flirt with Midoriya’

 

https://wattpad.com 

Midoriya has his first kiss! (tododeku)

 

https://wattpad.com

Todoroki confesses to Midoriya 21+ (Adults only!)

 

https://wattpad.com

Todoroki x Y/N 18+

 

https://wattpad.com 

Y/N goes into heat, Todoroki helps ;)

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Shouto stared at his screen, what in the world was a Wattpad? He clicked on the first link and was taken to another site and to a poorly edited picture of him and Midoriya kissing. He sat up in bed and clicked on the title, scrolling through as his mouth slowly fell agape.

He immediately exited the site and pulled up the chat he had with Kaminari.

New Conversation

DENKI + ME

:Me

.Kaminari

[Attachment: 1 Image]

?What is this

Seen 

DENKI:

OH MY GOD THIS IS GOLD

[DENKI has saved 1 Image from ME]

u have stumbled onto the wonderful world of fanfiction my dear friend

:Me

?Fanfiction

DENKI:

ok so basically people write stories about you and other people or themselves 

:Me

?Who is y/n? Do I know them

DENKI:

y/n stands for your name

so basically whoever is reading 

:Me

?How do you know so much about this

DENKI:

no comment hehe…

anyways this will make a killer video 

:Me

?How

.It is quite weird

DENKI:

bc people will be happy ur reading their work! 

and im assuming itll be terribly written so it'll be funny asf

:Me

If you say so

.But u will pick them out I'm traumatized already

DENKI:

Wait i fr can?

THIS WILL BE SM FUN

Ur gonna get more traumatized 

Meet me in my room in an hour ill be ready by then

:Me

.Ok

...What have i agreed to

DENKI:

>:)

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Shouto made his way towards Kaminari’s dorm room a little over an hour later, his nerves only worsening when Kaminari let him in with a shit eating grin on his face.

“I can’t wait to see you read these, I know I had a blast,” Kaminari snickered as he ushered Shouto onto the blonde’s bed, pulling out the tripod from his closet, which looked like the door was about to fall off due to the amount of stuff Kaminari had in there.

“Can’t wait,” Shouto deadpanned as Kaminari handed him his laptop and set up the camera.

“I opened a couple of tabs with my favorites, read whichever ones you can stomach,” Kaminari explained as he adjusted the camera’s height and hit record, eagerly sitting on his desk chair behind the tripod, beckoning him to start.

“Hello to everyone,” Shouto started, waving at the camera, “I am quite scared to do today’s video, but Kaminari has assured me that it would make good entertainment.”

Shouto sighed as he clicked on the first tab, “I’m going to be reading fanfiction you guys wrote handpicked out by Kaminari.”

“This first one is called ‘Todoroki and Y/N kiss’ written by user Toadgamer197,” Shouto squinted as he scrolled down the page, mentally preparing himself as he started to read.

“ Y/N–,”

“Give Y/N a name!” Kaminari shouted behind the camera, shaking his head as Shouto looked up at him.

“I refuse, that makes it too real,” Shouto replied as Kaminari laughed behind the camera.

“Anyways, Y/N was nervous, she was– why is Y/N a girl?” Shouto asked, not even halfway done with the first sentence, “You guys know I’m gay, right?”

“Keep going!” Kaminari encouraged, stifling his giggles.

“Fine, but you guys need to take notes if you’re going to write things about me,” he chastised before starting again, “ Y/N was nervous, she was going to be in a collab with her favorite youtuber ever. Shouto from Hot n Cold. She was waiting for him to start the camera, he was currently setting up the set as she caught her breath. ‘Alright, I’m done.’ Shouto said, sitting next to her. She nodded her head, gesturing for him to start the camera. ‘Do you know what video we’re filming today?’ Shouto smirked as Y/N shook her head. Shouto leaned in to say, ‘We’re filming a sex tape– What?!” Shouto gasped, pushing the laptop away from him as Kaminari started to cackle.

“That’s enough of that one, moving on,” Shouto mumbled, pulling the laptop back and closing that tab. “This one is called Midoriya has his first kiss by user Hohohoyourahoe, so this one is with me and Midoriya?” Shouto questioned, looking up to see Kaminari nodding.

“I skipped to chapter three, that’s where it gets juicy,” Kaminari laughed, explaining why the next tab was open on a later chapter.

“Okay,” Shouto shrugged, clearing his throat before he began reading again, “ Shouto was nervous, Midoriya had been staring at him with his brown orbs for almost–, Orbs?” Shouto sputtered, “Just call them eyes… anyways,  for almost a minute now, a hopeful look on his face as Shouto processed. Midoriya had just confessed to him and was awaiting his response. Shouto had never been good with words so instead he smashed his lips against Midoriya’s. Both of their tongues fought for dominance as– . Yeah, I’m done” Shouto stated, quickly exiting out of that tab.

“That one was steamy!” Kaminari exclaimed as Shouto shook his head in distaste.

“Smashing lips sounds unromantic,” Shouto reprimanded, “It’s clear none of you guys have ever been kissed.” 

“Like you have!” Kaminari snickered as Shouto glared at him.

“Even I know that’s not how you do it,” Shouto sighed, moving to the next one.

“This one is called Going into Heat with Y/N x Tododeku by user LadySunami, so it’s three of us?” Shouto asked, furrowing his eyebrows as he opened the tab, “What does going into heat mean? Does Y/N have a heat related quirk?”

“You’ll see,” Kaminari replied, a mischievous glint in his eyes as Shouto scanned the page.

“ Y/N bent down and  ———— as Midoriya let his — enter, Shouto grinned and ———— HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK?” Shouto yelled, a look of distaste on his face as Kaminari fell off his chair laughing, not used to seeing Shouto lose his composure.

“You need to edit all that out,” Shouto instructed, calming himself down and shutting the laptop shut, “I’m done.”

“You made it through three of them at least,” Kaminari commented, giving him a round of applause as Shouto let out an exasperated sigh.

“Thanks for watching and adding on to my trauma,” Shouto huffed, glaring at the camera, “Goodbye, that’s all for today.”

Kaminari got up from the floor and shut the camera off, wiping the tears off his eyes as he took the memory card out and he clambered onto his bed beside Shouto, taking the laptop from him as he opened it to go into an editing software.

“Kaminari, can I ask you something?” Shouto mused as he looked over to see Kaminari edit the video they just filmed  on his laptop, Kaminari humming in response, silently telling him to continue.

“Do you think me and Midoriya flirted on camera during the last video?”

Kaminari froze, turning towards him slowly, “You being for real?”

Shouto nodded earnestly as Kaminari sighed.

“Honestly, I thought you guys were already dating,” Kaminari replied.

“You did?” Shouto questioned as Kaminari nodded.

“Yes, you would have to be blind to think that he wasn’t into you as well. Even my dumbass can see that he totally is,” Kaminari reprimanded, shaking Shouto by the shoulders vigorously. 

“What should I do then?” Shouto asked, leaning his head on the wall as the blonde continued to click away on his laptop.

“Confess to him, duh!”

“I could never,” Shouto frowned, “I don’t know how.”

“Make it into a video,” Kaminari grinned, “Just sneak it in there.”

“You think that would work?” Shouto repeated, a thoughtful look on his face as he tried to envision it.

“Definitely, just let me know when you wanna do it and I’ll plan it out.”

“Thank you, Kaminari.”

“Anytime dude!”

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Live_like_the_Wind: Who else is looking up that fanfic to see what caused him to yell like that 

midorino: SHOUTO KNOWS WE WRITE FICS NOW EVERYONE STAY CALM

Loud_sunshine: kaminari laughing behind the camera is so cute

aria_xqz: petition to have him make a part 2

Toadgamer197: FUCK HE FOUND MY FIC I SWEAR I WROTE IT AS A JOKE…

Gnapoy: the way i immediately recognized the titles T-T

PresentMic: reminds me of the time i found aizawa x me fanfiction

DENKI @ PresentMic: ?? U CAN’T JUST DROP THAT AND LEAVE LINK PLS

IzukuMidoriya: (⊙︿⊙✿) this was an interesting video

Hot n Cold (creator) @ IzukuMidoriya: i apologize 

IzukuMidoriya @ Hot n Cold: don’t! I enjoyed it :D

Hot n Cold (creator) @ IzukuMidoriya: oh :)

DENKI @ Hot n Cold @IzukuMidoriya : GAY

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