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Denki and Jiro arrived back at the dorms, but everyone, sadly including Mineta, was there. And it was chill for once.
They could smell pastries being made over the next hall, must be Sato. And they heard the tea kettle whistling, and saw Todoroki whip his head around in pure fear. Poor guy. Tsuyu found a chessboard and was playing with Bakugo, and whooping his ass.
He threw the board across the room when she took his queen, hitting Uraraka on the back of her head, who dropped all her papers, as she was calculating her bills with Midoriya, when Mina and Kirishima glanced over, while they were crashing out over the homework, trying to remember what happened last week. Average Class 1-A.
The two walked over to the second set of tables, where they left their guitars. Jiro looked at hers, but then frowned. Someone, and she already knew who, had messed with its tuning pegs, and the same with Denki’s, but he didn’t notice until he played it and it sounded goddamn awful, like something dying. Jiro stomped over to the table where Tsu was picking up scattered chess pieces from Bakugo’s crashout.
“Bakugo, are you sure you know how to play chess, ribbit?” “What the hell are you talking about? I’m awesome at everything! Hey, DEKU! Come over here, dummy!” Jiro, who was gonna beat the shyt out of Bakugo, just gave up on confronting him. Izuku got up from his seat, and walked over, looking at the board, now back in place from their last moves. The freckled guy took one look at the play and started laughing!
“What’s so funny, damn nerd?!” He shouted. “Kacchan, you're going to lose with this setup. I can't figure out how you messed this up so badly!” He said in between giggles. Katsuki legit started fuming, like a grenade someone pulled the pin out of. “Well, if you’re so good at it, then why don’t YOU PLAY ME?!” He said so the whole room could hear. “You know what, you’re on!”
Everyone stared as the board was reset. Izuku started. Tsuyu, who had played him before, knew that Izuku was going to kick that Pomeranian’s ass, HARD. She noted each of their moves, seeing what went wrong and who had the upper hand. Izuku definitely had it.
Wait, how do you even write a chess match?!
Katsuki was ashamed, he was good at almost everything, but chess, and if he failed, Izuku would never let him live it down. Like NEVER. He always held on to everything that he could use against Bakugo.
“Ok, Katsuki, lock the F IN! You can do this, just be aware, think, and… I’m already in check, GODDAMNIT-“ were his thoughts.
Izuku noticed his dismay and gave him a smirk, which according to Katsuki, was the devious, heart stopping, cheek flushing, toe curling, hey-who-turned-up-the-thermostatinating smirk. Katsuki didn’t get how the entire room didn’t see him evolve into a tomato. Deku then dropped the bomb. Like the most EVIL F-ING VILLAIN EVER. “Checkmate, Katsuki.”
Everyone erupted in screams and cheers as Deku sat up and put his hands on Katsuki’s shoulder and said with venom on his tongue, “In other words, don’t even try to test me again, Kacchan.” The realization hit Katsuki like a freight train. The same look he had. The same clenching of his fists. That same line. The roles were just reversed.
Katsuki was internally screaming, how did that happen? He sucked it up and walked away calmly, totally not stomping the entire way to the kitchen. Izuku just sat there, menacingly, but also like a cute little awkward bean, content with his revenge. He suppressed a giggle at how mad he was, he loved every second of this, and maybe, just maybe, he saw a tinge of blush on his cheeks. “Wait, Kacchan! Please, I wanna talk!” He pleaded, running after him.
Back to Jiro and Kaminari, they were both in shock over what just happened. “Did Midoriya just verbally clock Bakugo?!” Jiro practically screamed. “I- I don’t get what happened so I can’t answer that,” He replied. “Me neither, let’s go help Uraraka with her bills, Denki.”
The rest of the afternoon was very calm, which was normally, not normal, if you get what I mean. Well, except for Uraraka having a breakdown over her infamous credit score. Oh, and the overwhelming romantic feelings between Jiro and Denki. That’ll certainly be more overwhelming in a while.