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Nicknames make the best contacts

Summary:

Sometimes class 1a forgot that Midoriya and Bakugo grew up together. To be fair to them, it was an easy thing to do – after all its not like they acted much like childhood friends, but like with everything, the duo had a way of surprising even the most serious of their class.

They just didn't expect to be reminded with the words 'wiggle' and 'Japtain Cack Sparrow' but that's just how life works sometimes.

Notes:

(See the end of the work for notes.)

Chapter 1: An Easy Task to Screw Up

Chapter Text

Sometimes class 1a forgot that Midoriya and Bakugo grew up together. To be fair to them, it was an easy thing to do – after all its not like they acted much like childhood friends, but like with everything, the duo had a way of surprising even the most serious of their class.

    The whole class had taken a trip out to the shopping centre, there was no particular reason or objective like there had been with shopping for the camping trip from hell, but rather this trip served as a nice way for the class to bond without villans, adrenaline and injuries.

    The weather was nice enough that they had decided to get lunch as a takeaway and sit in the park across the road, that way they could soak up the sun and be as loud as they wanted without having to worry that they would get kicked out. It had definitely happened before – how could it not when their class included the infamous 'Bakusquad'. Most of the class was between either the park or the in one of the many lines to get food with a few stood by the line for the bathroom. This is where the class, or at least a few members of the class, got the reminder that the two problem children had a history and probably more than one embarrassing story on the other.

“Has anyone seen Bakugo?” it was Kirishima who started the chain of events but it was Iida who really resulted in the stories about both Midoriya and Bakugo being revealed.

“Perhaps we should call him. After all nothing good has ever come about us being separated” Iida's hand chopped the air even as the group assembled – Midoriya, Iida, Kirishima and Kaminari – shuffled forward as the line moved. “Who here has his number?”

“I mean we do,” Kaminari gestured widely at Kirishima and themself, “but Mina's holding our bags while we queue. We could always wait 'til we get them back, I guess, y'know, call him on our way to the park”

“Uhm, I have my phone. We could use that.” Midoriya turned to face his friends, shuffling back a step until he was right by the door, the next to go in – Denki cast their eyes to the gender-neutral toilet, no line so he was waiting until the last of their friends – minus Iida who was just there to supervise and make sure they didn’t get kidnapped or start a riot - entered the mens, but if someone tried to enter before them, they were willing to fight, or at least walk very quickly in front of them – they were a little, just a little scared of Aizawa sensei’s wrath.

“Wait, you-you have Bakubro’s number” Kirishima's head snapped back from where he had been looking for Mina waiting with their bags stood somewhere behind them. “I mean, no offence bro, I just-it’s a bit of a shock y’know?”

“Nonono that’s, that’s fine I get it, I guess it’s a bit of a habit to have the others number, our mums used to insist when we were younger.” Midoriya pulled his phone and All Might case – because of course he had one – out of his back pocket and put unlocked it before a pointed cough behind him had him fumbling for the phone as he blushed and realised it was his turn to enter. Shoving the phone at the remaining three and a mumbled ‘call Kacchan then’ and he was gone.

    Fairly easy task, or so the group thought. The phone was unlocked and all they had to do was go to the contacts. When there, the task turned out to be a bit harder than anticipated, and as Kirishima left Kaminari and Iida to enter the toilets, the two stepped aside and tried to find Bakugos number.

“I have to admit that I never thought Midoriya was the type to have people under nicknames in his contacts.”

“Same dude, but some of these are pretty funny – I mean that has to be Uraraka” the contact Kaminari had jabbed at was the eyes emoji next to ‘newton who’ before they also left Iida to look by himself. As the teen scrolled, he soon realised that nicknames, cute or not, were to be his downfall as no contact was listed as Kacchan, Katsuki, Bakugo or any other variation he thought it might have been under. He was still there scrolling when Kaminari and Midoriya joined him and when Kirishima was out a few seconds later.

“So, where is he?”

“Oh, Midoriya, I haven’t called him.”

“Uhm, why not?” Midoriya reached for his phone as confusion clouded his features and he scrolled mindlessly to the bottom half of his contacts.

“Dude, they're all nicknames we had no idea who he was – actually what am I under?” Kaminari leaned on Kirishima's shoulder and reached out for the phone as if to take it back and work out who was.

“Oh yeah, sorry I forgot about that, it-your down as ‘best Pikachu' after your handle in the group chat, I can, I'll change it if you don’t like, oh -” Midoriya's mumbling was stopped as Kamianri reached around Kirishima to hug the green-haired teen

“No need, I love it man and – wait who are you calling?”

“Ahh, that’s good then. And ..Kacchan I thought we were gonna call him..”

“That, that contact says ‘wiggle’ Midoriya what the actual hell?”

Midoriya brought the phone to his ear as it rang and the others stood by wondering what they were missing to explain Bakugo’s seemingly nonsensical contact listing.

“He’s on his way to the park, he was with Sero getting lunch from somewhere and, why, uhm guys are you good, you're staring at me?”

“Man, you gotta explain that contact, c’mon I’m dying here, it's not manly to keep these things secret.” The redhead whined and hung off of Kaminari much like the blonde had with him moments prior.

“Well, there’s not much story to tell but I suppose I could tell you while we head to the park, I bet Minas left too by now and we really should head over or else everyone else will be done. so, um, it was when we were in primary school together, we used to walk together sometimes. I, I don’t actually remember why or what happened but Kacchan was having a, a polo I think and I think I said something that made him choke on it a bit and when he coughed it sounded like he, well it sounded like he said wiggle and I just, didn’t really ever let him forget it, I signed his birthday cards for years as to wiggle and his contact has been that ever since”

By this point, the teens were close enough to the park that they could see their class and the impromptu picnic as well as the blonde they, or rather Midoriya had been discussing. For Kaminari and Kirishima that had been the last straw as they both let out snort laughter, quickly dissolving into a laughing fit as they picked their way across the grass, Iida chuckled before smiling at his green-haired friend –

“Sometimes I forget, I think we all do, that the two of you know each other very well even if neither of you likes to admit just how well.”

The last remaining teens joined the class, with Iida and Midoriya choosing to sit down carefully next to Uraraka and Asui, whilst Kaminari and Kirishima dropped like a sack of bricks next to Bakugo and Sero. Kaminari, having never possessed any self-preservation larger than that belonging to a dodo near a cliff, immediately threw their arm over Bbakugo’s shoulder, announcing a “heeey, wiggle nice to ya again”  fond teasing soaking his words as they made eye contact with Kirishima and the two resumed their laughing fit whilst a glaring Bakugo slid his gaze to a Midoriya who had suddenly found the sight of his bento very interesting as he seeming examined it in high detail.

“Deku you did not –“ “Did not what Kacchan?”

“Nerd don’t you dare.”

“Ahh, Bakubro whatcha so embarrassed about,” Kirishima wiped his eyes, “actually, has Midoriya got a nickname as his contact?”

At this Midoriya's head whipped up that fast that Kaminari was actually worried he might have given himself whiplash, however, they were more concerned with the smirk that was slowly taking over the ash blonde’s face that screamed ‘revenge’ to even those who couldn’t read the teen like his friends could.

“Well, the nerd was obsessed with these pre-quirk films,” Bakugo carried on over Midoriya's interruption to remind the teen, or perhaps reveal to the class that Bakugo was as big of a nerd as he was even if the blonde often hid it well, that Kacchan had also loved the films as much as he had, it wasn't just me, “and one day, when he was mumbling about it, he went too quick and stumbled on the main character’s name”

“Kacchaaan”

“Shut up nerd, this is only fair after you told them about wiggle,” this got rightfully confused looks and mutterings from the rest of the class who had not been privileged with the knowledge of that particular story, “anyway, I never let him forget it, signed his birthday cards and any notes to him addressed as such and shit, ain't that right Japtain Cack Sparrow.”

“........you’re the worst.”

"Uh huh, suuure"

Midoriya went back to his bento and Bakugo turned to face his still laughing friends who were now telling Sero and Mina about their latest knowledge on Bakubro. The rest of the class were left to wonder what had just happened as neither boy seemed willing to divulge any other context to the story given, well Midoriya wasn’t and no one wanted to ask Bakugo as the teen was relaxed for once and no one was going to be the cause of potentially causing an end to the quiet just for some gossip on the problem children. The problem children who they were all forced to remember probably had ample amount of blackmail on each other. The calmer of class 1a hoped that for the same of their sanity and dorm furniture that the blackmail and embarrassing stories wouldn’t need to be told, whilst the chaotic minds that made up 1a were already trying to work out how to draw these stories out of the powerful problem pair.

Chapter 2: A study in nicknames

Summary:

For Jaymis, thanks for the idea - hope I've lived up to expectations!! :)))

Chapter Text

actual angel

---Koji Koda

 

arms™

---Mezzo Shoji

 

best pikachu

---Denki Kaminari

 

class mom(o)

---Momo Yaoyorozu

 

class step mum

---Kyoka Jiro

 

dadzawa

---Shota Aizawa 

 

fuck endewhore

---Shoto Todoroki

 

tail™

---Mashirao Ojiro

 

has the only braincell

---Tsuyu Asui

 

he’s baked

---Rikido Sato

 

Insomnicat

---Hitoshi Shinso

 

is hard™

---Eijiro Kirishima

 

is nakey

---Toru Hagakure

 

My chemical crowmance

---Fumikage Tokoyami

 

👀 Newton who?? 👀 

---Ochaco Uraraka

 

no.

---Minoru Mineta

 

papamic

---Hizashi Yamada

 

sanic

---Tenya Iida

 

go to for gossip

---Mina Ashido

 

the glitter factory ain't got shit

---Yuga Aoyama

 

swings all the ways

---Hanta Sero

 

wiggle

---Katsuki Bakugo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes:

The contact names are based on names that me and a couple of childhood friends have for each other, as are the stories behind them.