sero pranks denki by spray-coloring denki’s bangs blonde in his sleep, effectively erasing the lightning bolt.

denki runs into eijirou first thing in the morning. he smiles at his boyfriend and prepares to greet him, but startles when eijirou does a double-take.

“babe?” denki furrows his brow.

“um,” eijirou stutters. “your hair, uh, looks nice!”

denki touches his hair in reflex, patting down his bangs. surprisingly, they feel a bit stiff to the touch. “is there something in my hair?” he asks.

“more like something ISN’T there,” eijirou says sadly.

“babe, you’re scaring me.”

eijirou sighs. “I’m sorry. I just—I love your lightning bolt so much! But you got rid of it, s-so, um... I will still absolutely support you—“

“got rid of the WHAT IN THE WHAT—“

“—I’ll really miss seeing that bolt whenever I play with your hair, b-but! I just want you to be happy, so—“

“EIJI, SHH,” denki interrupts. he whips out his phone to open the camera function.

sure enough, his lightning bolt has disappeared.

“IT’S GONE?!” denki howls, frantically zooming in.

“you mean... you mean you DON’T WANT IT GONE?!” eijirou cries.

“NO!” denki wails.

“EIJI,” denki whines, throwing himself into eijirou’s arms. his phone slips from his grip and falls to the floor. “how could this happen?!”

“I don’t know,” eijirou whimpers. “I’m sorry, denki! if—if I just stayed with you last night—“

“ei,” denki sniffs, and looks up to cradle eijirou’s face. “it’s not your fault, okay? how could it be your fault?”

eijirou doesn’t respond, and simply embraces denki again with renewed fierceness.

eijirou desperately tries to offer comfort as denki sniffles into his shoulder, cooing and rubbing his back. even as he does so, eijirou’s own eyes prick.

eventually sero overhears the commotion, and is shocked to find his two friends in near-tears.

sero quickly explains the situation, and, after one roundhouse kick from mina (“you made our friends cry, you goof!”), they all help denki wash away the spray-coloring.

as soon as that black bolt reappears, eijirou wastes no time hugging denki once more, thrilled to see the lightning streak again. denki wraps his arms around eijirou’s shoulders, giggling.

eijirou spends the rest of the day cuddling with denki and playing with his hair

( poor sero didn’t think his small prank would garner such an intense reaction, especially from eijirou

based on hori’s tidbit about how he often forgets to draw denki’s hair streak — I thought, what if that actually happened in the bnha universe? )