Kaminari sat at the lunch table arguing with Sero on whether milk or cereal went in first when he felt hands rest on his shoulders. He looked up to see his boyfriend standing behind him and he flashed him a smile. "S'up, babe?"

Shinsou pressed a quick kiss to his forehead. "Results are out for the quirk assignment."

"Ooh." Kaminari grabbed his phone to check his emails. "We got a B! Damn, I'll be your partner anytime."

Shinsou scoffed but leaned down to kiss Kaminari's head a second time and the blond heard him say, "Bee puns really sting."

Did he just..?

Kaminari's eyes widened and he swivelled around to face him as Shinsou stood up straight again. "You did not just answer my line with a pun."

Shinsou winked at him as he stepped back, his dimple making an appearance. "I'll come by after class."

Kaminari cradled his head in his palm and watched him leave the cafeteria with a dopey smile on his face.

"I think I'm in love," he said dreamily as he turned back to his friends.

He was met with a mixture of laughs and sighs and Mina's cheery, "Well, duh."

Shinsou let himself in to Kaminari's unlocked dorm later that evening and found the blond reading.

He seated himself on the opposite end of his bed and picked up his stress ball to wait for him to finish his chapter.

Kaminari stuck his bookmark in and dropped it on his bedside table.

"Tell me about your book?"

Kaminari's eyes lit up and he launched into a description of buccaneers and buried gold.

When the conversation drifted into silence for a few minutes, he got the feeling Kaminari wanted to ask something.

He nudged his foot with his own and quirked his eyebrow in question.

Kaminari huffed a laugh. "Okay, so, I shouldn't care and I actually don't think I do but I'm curious," Kaminari said as he fiddled with his sleeve. Hesitant wasn't a look Shinsou was used to seeing on him.

"Denks, just ask. It's only me," he reassured.

Kaminari smiled sheepishly. "Well, I wanted to know why you were able to put the condom on so easily."

Shinsou smiled with a small shake of his head. "Kitten, I didn't even speak to anyone before you but I didn't think a discussion of how the gen ed kids have better sexual health classes than the hero course was really a good choice when you were about to suck my dick."

Kaminari snorted. "We probably didn't need any more interruptions, did we?"

Shinsou threw the yellow stress ball at him and Kaminari fell back on the blankets to dodge it.

"I actually had a question of my own for you." Kaminari was silent so Shinsou continued, "Well, I was wondering if you need a condom too?" He asked. "I mean, will you zap me?"

Kaminari pushed up onto his elbows with a devastating grin as he said, "Are you asking if my dick is a lightning rod?"

Shinsou let out a long suffering sigh. "I honestly don't know why I like you."

Kaminari smirked at him as he sat back up and Shinsou asked, "So you're still good with coming to my place for the weekend?"

Kaminari chewed on his fingernail before answering. Shinsou had told him the day before that they'd have the place to themselves. He'd been overthinking the whole situation and knew he should talk to him about it. When he opened his mouth the words tumbled on out.

"I'm just nervous I guess. Which is dumb because you don't make me nervous. Well, not anymore at least." He looked up at him through his lashes and dropped his eyes just as quickly. The intensity in Shinsou's gaze was too much to handle right now so he rushed on.

"Like, staying over your house is a normal thing to do. And I'm excited. Then there's the fact that we'll be alone the whole time. Which is cool but it also means we could do, you know, whatever we wanted. And I mean, I know sex isn't the pinnacle of a relationship but I've never done it before and I want it to be with you. So I want it to be special which it will be because I love you but I have no idea what I'm doing."

Shinsou tilted his head slightly and a smile lit up his face. His voice was quiet when he spoke but Kaminari could hear his smile in the words. "You love me?"

Kaminari lifted his eyes to look at him again. Oh. Whoops. He hadn't exactly planned for it to come out like that. "Well, yeah." He couldn't help the smile that crossed his face. "That wasn't exactly how I'd pictured saying it but it doesn't make it any less true." He started to laugh. "God, who says it mid virginity rant?"

Shinsou chuckled but gave him a reassuring smile. "The guy I'm in love with, apparently."

Kaminari looked up, eyes searching his face. "You..."

"Yeah, Denks. I love you too."

Kaminari bit his lip to try and suppress the size of his smile but it split his face anyway. "It was my awesome pickup lines, wasn't it?"

Shinsou snorted before answering dryly. "Yeah, of course it was."

"I knew it," Kaminari laughed, continuing the game, "People need to have more faith in my pickup line game."

Shinsou rolled his eyes but he could still feel the smile in his cheeks.

"If you had of let me send you memes, it would have been quicker," Kaminari teased.

Shinsou shook his head with a smile. "It happened quickly enough without them."

Kaminari raised his eyebrow in question and moved into his space.

"You drove me nuts at first," Shinsou answered as he reached up to tuck some blond hair behind an ear, "You were just so hard to look away from. And you never shut up but I always wanted to hear what you had to say. You never pitied me and you made me feel like I was enough. Like I was kind of amazing."

"You are kind of amazing, Tosh." He gave him a sparkling grin. "My kind of amazing."

Shinsou huffed a laugh against his cheek and Kaminari pulled away to look at him properly. Gone was the charming smile, replaced with that fierce sincerity he was all too familiar with. "You will always be enough for me, Hitoshi."

Those words meant more than anything else he could have said and Kaminari hadn't just said them for the sake of saying them. His eyes were so open and honest and Shinsou wanted to drown in them.

More than anything, he wanted to believe him, despite his old fears. He desperately wanted to keep this thing he never thought he'd have.

He wondered, not for the first time, what he'd done to deserve this boy.

"We'll only do whatever feels right. No more than that, okay?" Shinsou tilted his head up to make sure he understood. "The last thing I want you to feel is pressured."

"Man, why are you so perfect?" Kaminari muttered.

He smiled ruefully, "I kind of wanna just jump to the part where I can screw your brains out and skip the awkward first time fumbling."

Shinsou almost choked on his own tongue. Bless his boyfriend's lack of a filter. "If it makes you feel better, I don't know what I'm doing either. But you only get to do the awkward first time once and there's no one I'd rather fumble my way through with."

Then his voice dropped a little, "But if you think we need to practice first, I can think of a few things we can do."

Kaminari felt his breath catch. "What exactly are you proposing, hot stuff?"

Shinsou gave him a wicked looking smile and Kaminari's insides turned to mush.