Kaminari was sitting in his room, staring at his maths homework when someone knocked on his door.

"Who is it?" He asked hesitantly.

"It's me," Mina's voice called through the wood.

"Oh, come in then."

She opened the door and peered in, but didn't enter.

"Just here to say that dinner's being made. Since you're better and all-"

"I'm not going."

When Mina gave him a look, he explained further.

"I don't wanna risk it. Just in case being around everyone makes it worse again, I'm gonna stay by myself for tonight."

"Awww Kami baby you must be so lonely."

Kaminari groaned.

"You have no idea Mina. This is the first proper conversation I've had in days I'm going insane!" He laughed forcefully to make it seem less of a deal than it was.

"Hey, how about I spend the evening with you? I could go grab some food and then we could chat."

Kaminari nodded gratefully, and watched as she disappeared from the doorway, closing the door behind her.

She came back with the food, and then started going on about how Todoroki had started hanging out with Midoriya more and so the girls had gotten to spend some more time with Ururaka.

Kaminari enthusiastically joined in the conversation. He was so socially starved, he could talk about anything.

~~~~

"See ya!" Mina waved, before pulling the door shut behind her.

Kaminari waved, even though she wasn't looking. It was only 9:30, but he was bored and didn't really want to go on his phone, so he just started getting ready for bed.

He was just brushing his teeth when he heard a knocking on the door.

"Who is it?" He said through his toothbrush.

"Hey Kami, it's me," Kirishima's voice came through. Kaminari felt his heart jump into his throat.

It's ok, it's fine. It's just Kiri.

"Yeah?"

A silence.

"I was just coming to see how you're doing? Mina said you should be better by tomorrow."

"Yeah. It's calming down. It'll be better by tomorrow."

"Cool. I miss having you around dude."

Kaminari spat out his toothpaste in his sink.

"Yeah. I miss being around."

Another couple moments of quiet.

"Well. I'll see you tomorrow, ok?"

"Yeah. See ya."

He heard Kirishima's footsteps walk away from his dorm, and he let out a puff of relief.

That was sweet of Kirishima to stop by. He didn't have to, but he did anyway.

Kaminari grinned to himself, then caught himself.

Nope, he thought stubbornly, no romantic thoughts about the guys who's already met his soulmate.

He walked over to his bed, continuing to not think about Kirishima's smile, and flopped into his covers.

He rubbed his eyes. He was really tired, this damn quirk was damaging his quality of sleep. Even the days he did get a full night of sleep, he still felt like trash.

~~~~

"FUCK OFF ALREADY KAMINARI,"

Kami opened his eyes, heart hammering, and let out a sigh of relief. He was in his room, it must've been a couple hours since he drifted off.

Instead of rolling over and going back to sleep, he decided to get up, and leave his dorm.

He walked down the shadowy hallway, when he heard a sound. Holding his breath, he peered into the stairwell.

He let out his breath. It was just Kiri.

Kaminari grinned.

"Man I've missed you," he said, leaning into Kiri for a hug. Sure, he'd talked to Mina earlier, but that didn't mean he didn't miss his bro as well.

"Oi, shitty pikachu, what're you doing," Kaminari jumped out of Kiri's arms, recognising Bakugo's voice.

Unfortunately, he jumped in the direction of the stairs, so when he stepped back to steady himself, his foot was met with thin air, and he tumbled down into the darkness of the stairs.

"Ow... that hurt," he panted, picking himself up and rubbing his head.

He looked up at the pair, and although Bakugo's expression wasn't anything out of the ordinary, but what surprised him was Kirishima's scowl.

"Kiri? What's wrong."

He stayed silent. It was Bakugo who instead spoke up.

"How can you save others when you can't even save yourself?"

"What?" Bakugo had said that before, at the camp, but Kami had no idea what it had to do with anything right now.

"You're so weak," he continued, then looked at his hand, before holding it up.

"This yours?"

Dangling from his fingers was Denki's chocker.

"Bakugo give that back," Kaminari said, voice shaking. Whether from fear or anger, even he couldn't tell.

Bakugo shrugged.

"Come get it, idiot."

He dropped the chocker to the floor and started walking away, down the highway.

He started climbing back up the stairs, when suddenly he was surrounded by wraiths and shadows. They stopped him from moving any further.

He reached out his hand.

"Kiri... help me..." he choked out. Red and yellow eyes locked.

Then Kirishima looked away.

"It's all your fault," he sneered.

"What's my fault!" Kami cried out, but Kirishima wouldn't answer. He was already gone.

So all Kaminari could do was scream as he slowly got swallowed up by the shadows.

~~~~

"Well you look like shit," Bakugo commented, surprising Kami and making him flinch.

"Wow thanks Bakugo, I had no idea," Kaminari replied dryly.

"You're in a bad mood too," he grumbled sitting down on the couch with his coffee.

"You would be too, if you kept having nightmares that kept you up all night."

Bakugo raised his eyebrow.

"The quirk still affecting you?"

"No. Yes. Maybe? I don't know. Maybe I'm just too tired to care about whatever you do to me in the future."

"Shitty Pikachu, I'm a great person, I doubt I did anything."

"Oh no you definitely did something. Maybe you turn into a villain or something."

Bakugo sneered.

"DONT GO AROUND MAKING ACCUSATIONS."

Kaminari looked at him tiredly.

"You know what, go ahead, blow me up, I'd willingly accept death at this point."

"Heyyyyy," Sero said, just entering the room. "No accepting death when we just got you back man! Wow you really do look like shit."

Kaminari's eye bags has only deepened since the camp. No one had been able to tell because he'd been busy making himself scarce.

"Feel like it too. Might get some sleeping drugs from recovery girl on Monday. I don't know how much longer I can last."

Sero gave him a pat on the head.

"You'll be ok."