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“If you don't kiss him, you'll have bad luck for the rest of your life.” Kaminari says with a straight face. He holds Todoroki by his shoulders, his gaze never faltering. The poor boy had unknowingly fallen into one of Kaminari’s traps: a classic mistletoe hanging from an archway in Class 1-A’s dorm building.
Todoroki’s eyes widened slightly; the most he could do to display his emotion of shock. “For the rest of my life?” He turns his head to look at Bakugou, who is also standing under the archway, busy shouting at Mina for forcing him to wear matching Santa hats with the rest of the class. Todoroki turns the idea over in his head. His luck was bad enough as is, he didn’t need it to become even worse.
“Bakugou.” Todoroki says sternly.
“Hah?” The blonde’s attention was suddenly diverted. Mina takes this as her chance to escape from his wrath. She runs to get behind the other Bakusquad members, who were all watching their plan fall into place. Meanwhile, heterochromatic eyes fix onto Bakugou.
“We have to kiss, or we will have bad luck for the rest of our lives.” Todoroki explains, trying to communicate the urgency of the situation.
Bakugou takes a step away from the duel-haired boy, clearly bewildered. He hoped he just heard wrong, that he was actually becoming hard of hearing due to his explosive quirk. “What the fuck are you talking about?!”
“The mistletoe. We have to kiss.” Todoroki looks up and points a finger above them. The other's gaze follows and sure enough, there was a mistletoe hanging down from the archway. His jaw gapes and his eyebrows furrow.
“Are you fucking dumb, Icyhot?” He questions rhetorically. Todoroki goes back to staring at him.
“I don't think so.” Todoroki replies, deadpan.
“You really believe in this superstitious bullshit?” A fairly judging tone could be heard in his voice.
“Yes, we have to kiss. Now.” Bakugou opens his mouth to protest but Todoroki speaks up first.
“Why are you so hesitant? Are you a bad kisser?” He asks with genuine curiosity and concern. A bunch of ‘ooohs’ could be heard from their classmates, who were now surrounding the pair.
Steam practically seeps out of Bakugou’s ears as he raises a hand to grab the collar of Todoroki’s ugly Christmas sweater, pulling the boy towards him. Their lips smash together for a rough closed-mouth kiss that very much to their pleasure, only lasts for about a second.
“How was that, huh?” The blonde says with a smug look on his face. “Still think I'm a bad kisser?”
There was a long pause.
“Your lips are dry.” Todoroki comments while staring absentmindedly and brushing his fingers against his own lips. Off to the side, Sero fails to hide his snicker.
“Go to hell, you Icyhot bastard!” Shouts of profanity were the last that Todoroki heard before being tackled to the ground. They wrestle and roll around the floor for a bit before Bakugou finally pins down the other. The duel-haired boy attempts to pull the heavy body off of him by yanking a handful of blonde spikes, but to no avail. Sparks set off in the blonde’s palm; the crackling sound being an indicator of what was next to come. Half of the class encouraged the fight while the other half prayed for Todoroki, and of course there was Iida who was shouting above the cheers, about how quirks aren’t allowed in the dorms.
“You motherfucker! I’ll kill you!” Bakugou screams.
“Put some chapstick on before you do please.” Todoroki nonchalantly comments, to which the other responds with a piercing scream of rage as redness creeps up his neck and face. He was about to blow his classmate's ass into pieces when buff arms wrapped around his waist. Whoever they were, they were quick to carry Bakugou up and away.
The man who came to the rescue, the one and only Red Riot, continues to hold back the ticking time bomb. Todoroki finally stands up, with the help of Deku grabbing hold of his arm. However, the boy’s safety was quickly seized when the beast got loose again.
They both ended up in Recovery Girl’s office that night.
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The class never let that kiss down. For several days, Kaminari and a few other classmates brought mistletoes with them to bring out whenever Todoroki and Bakugou were together. They stopped when the affair almost always ended with Bakugou blowing up the plants and the people responsible. Though, that didn’t stop them from constantly bringing up the mistletoe incident.
On the last day of winter break, Aizawa reluctantly agreed to let Class 1-A go sledding on a nearby hill. Bakugou and Deku were competing against each other in an intense race down the snowy slope. The hothead, unwilling to lose, shoots a strong blast from his palms for a speed boost. The explosion wins him the race but also propels him far past the finish line before his sled hits a stray rock and sends him plummeting into a snow bank. The class collectively gasps, putting a pause on their snowball fight.
“Kacchan, are you okay?!” Deku runs to aid him while the Bakusquad was busy peeing themselves after witnessing their friend's crazy stunt.
Bakugou quickly pops his head out of the snow. He was struggling to climb out of the snow bank on his own, about to tell Deku that he didn't need his help when he winced.
“Fuck!” He shouts. Todoroki slides into the scene on an ice wave and wastes no time in melting away the snow that trapped the boy, revealing a very mangled leg. Mineta pukes from the sight of it.
“Bakugou. You clearly can’t walk, let me carry you to Recovery Girl’s office.” The boy says, gesturing to Bakugou’s broken leg.
“You have a lot of nerve, Icyhot bastard.” Bakugou growls, scowling at Todoroki. “Like hell I'll let you carry me.” He states defiantly. To prove his point, Bakugou attempts to take a couple steps. He grimaces and stumbles, but continues to limp forward.
“Kacchan, you’re only going to make it worse!” Deku exclaims, rushing forward to help Bakugou. He offers a hand which is immediately pushed away, but it seems the effort of the movement causes Bakugou to stumble, before he is caught by Todoroki’s firm grip.
“Midoriya's right. The more you walk on that leg, the worse it’ll get. Just let me carry you.” Bakugou grumbles at Todoroki’s words but nonetheless complies. He doesn’t want to make his leg worse. Before he realizes it, he's being lifted into a bridal style carry by Todoroki. Like today couldn’t get any more humiliating.
The class watches as Todoroki carries Bakugou over the hill until the pair can no longer be seen. Within seconds, Mina starts gushing about how cute their exchange was and the class resumes their snowball fight.
Bakugou was having considerably less fun, grumbling about how stupid this was and how he was never hanging out with the class ever again. Todoroki hums absentmindedly, letting Bakugou complain.
A couple minutes later, the pair reach the doorway of UA. As the door opens, a soft jingle can be heard from above. Todoroki looks up and to nobody's surprise, a mistletoe. A mistletoe was hanging from the doorway. Bakugou glances up as well and huffs in amusement. He had thought he turned all of those forsaken evergreen plants into ashes.
“Just our bad luck huh, Icyhot?” He snarks. When he receives no response from Todoroki, whose gaze remains frozen on the mistletoe, he raises a brow. “Well, what are you waiting for? Bring me to the old hag’s office alrea-”
Bakugou’s breath hitches as he’s cut off by Todoroki leaning in and placing a quick, chaste kiss to his cheek. A flush takes over Bakugou’s face and he's rendered silent. Todoroki continues carrying Bakugou towards Recovery Girl’s office, but not before muttering a quick explanation.
“Wouldn’t want to give you any more bad luck.”