#tokotsuyu

This visualization makes the most sense to me. (Yes, I did make this on Insta 😂)

If it makes more sense this way, I’ll “explain” the diagram

Partners of each character

Monoma: Shinsou

Shinsou: Monoma, Kaminari

Kaminari: Shinsou, Sero

Sero: Kaminari, Todoroki, Iida

Todoroki: Iida, Midoriya, Bakugou, Sero

Iida: Todoroki, Midoriya, Sero, Uraraka, Ashido

Midoriya: Iida, Todoroki

Bakugou: Todoroki, Kirishima

Kirishima: Bakugou

Ashido: Iida

Uraraka: Iida, Toga, Tsu

Toga: Uraraka

Tsu: Uraraka, Tokoyami

Tokoyami: Tsu, Shouji, Kouda

Shouji: Tokoyami, Kouda

*

202) Lee Bakugou, Ler Kaminari

Bakugou really, really wished the threat had been made before he got in the water. He could have avoided this problem altogether.

Kaminari smirked at him from the shore, hands on his hips as he waited his friend out. Everyone else had vacated the water already; it was just the atomic blonde left. He knew they were all waiting on him, but…

“You gotta come out some time!” Kami teased.

Bakugou gritted his teeth. “You’d like that, wouldn’t you?”

Since it was summer break and today was Marine Day, the five of them had decided to make a beach trip and spend some time relaxing and catching up after all having been incredibly busy recently. It had been nice – they’d brought blankets and umbrellas and splurged on beach food, swimming and playing around and generally just being the teenage kids that they all were.

Kaminari had passed on hanging out in the water (since water and electricity don’t mix well), and it was only after the rest of them were in the ocean that he’d said to them, “Hey! Whenever you get out, I want to see if my tickle shocks will work even better since you’re all wet!”

One by one, Bakugou’s friends had been met by Kaminari on the shore, and if their shrieking reactions were anything to go by, the tickle shocks did in fact work much better post-swimming.

Bakugou did not want to find out what that felt like.

“You have to meet your fate at some point, bro!”

“Like hell I do, dunce!”

Kami grinned at him. “If you don’t come out, I’ll stick my hand in the water and test my theory on everyone here, including you. You don’t want that, do you? You’re a hero, right?”

This motherfu—

Bakugou grumbled as he finally began to swim, pausing again when his feet hit the sand. “I swear to All Might, if you taser my worst spot—”

“Just your sides, like everyone else. Come on, man!” Kami teased, raising wiggling fingers at him. “The sooner you get out, the sooner you get it over with. Then we can all have barbeque!”

Fine.

Bakugou surged out of the water, clamping his arms to his sides to cover his worst spot protectively, though Kami kept his word and only grasped his sides, activating his quirk. The action sent shockwaves of ticklishness through the atomic blonde, making him arch his back and shout in surprise, desperately holding back his laughter even as he twisted to get away.

He was alarmed when his friend didn’t let him go.

“F-Fuck off, dunce! W-What are you dohohoing?!” Bakugou growled, a giggle slipping out of him despite his efforts.

Kami began to wiggle his fingers in tandem with his quirk. “Waiting to get a proper laugh out of you, bro.”

“You sohohohon of a—” Then Kaminari slid his fingers up to his friend’s bottom ribs, and Bakugou couldn’t help but shriek and burst into laughter. “Fuhuhuhuhuhuck, stohohohohohop! I’m lahahahahaughing, just lehehehehehehet me go!”

The electric blonde did as he was asked, nudging his classmate before taking off at a full sprint toward the parking lot where the rest of their friends were waiting. “Race you to the car!”

Bakugou wasted no time barreling after him…and maybe getting a little revenge, too.

*

203) Lee Deku, Ler Tokoyami

“TOHOHOHOKOYAHAHAHAMI PLEHEHEHEHEASE!!” Deku squealed with laughter as he writhed on the couch, grasping desperately at Dark Shadow and trying to pull him away from his hips. His game controller was long forgotten at this point, toppled to the floor so that his character wasn’t racing at all. “THIHIHIHIHIS IS CHEHEHEHEHEHEATING!!”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Tokoyami replied calmly, eyes on the screen but a corner of his mouth turned up in a smile.

“TIHIHIHIHIHICKLING IS NOT FAHAHAHAHAHAIR!! DAHAHAHARK SHADOW, PLEHEHEHEHEASE, NOT THE HIHIHIHIHIHIPS!!”

In response, Dark Shadow merely nuzzled his tummy in tandem with clawing at his most ticklish spot, and Deku threw his head back and laughed so hard he wheezed, his face turning redder with every second.

Tokoyami crossed the finish line in second place, but at least he wasn’t behind Deku anymore, and that was enough for him. He recalled Dark Shadow and set his own controller aside as his friend gasped for breath, his face lit up in his signature bright smile.

“Apologies for the drastic measures, Midoriya,” Tokoyami said, “but something had to be done to end your reign of tyranny.”

“T-Tyranny?” Deku gasped, still giggling and clearly not actually mad about the turn of events. “In Mario Kart? Just because you can’t keep up with me doesn’t give you the right to – wait, no, wait, I’m sorry! I take it bahahahahahack!”

Dark Shadow was back in full force, holding Deku’s arms out of the way so that Tokoyami could crawl onto his legs and pin him in place, fingers scribbling at his friend’s ribs and sides, sending him right back into a fit of giggles. “Seems you haven’t learned your lesson, Midoriya. I’m afraid I’ll have to help you see the light.”

“Y-Your dahahahahahaharkness is too strohohohohohong for that – AIEEE!”

Tokoyami smirked, curling his fingers relentlessly into Deku’s hips all over again, sending him right back into fits of pleading hysterics that made the other boy chuckle.

“I’ll have you know I’m going to be a hero, the same as you. And if this is what it will take for you to see that, well, you’ll just have to take it a little longer, won’t you?”

*

204) Lee Kirishima, Ler Mina

Kirishima knew he was done for even as he lifted his slushie to Mina’s neck and pressed the cup into her skin.

As expected, Mina squealed and shot out of her seat, taken by surprise. She whipped her head to stare at Kiri as he took one more sip. It would be his last for quite a bit and he knew it.

“What was that for?!” she cried, sounding more shocked than upset.

He set his drink aside. His hand was almost shaking, his anticipation was so high. “You said you could use some help cooling off. Just trying to help.”

There was a beat of silence. Then Mina grinned at him. “Oh, you shouldn’t have done that.” Then she lifted her hands and wiggled her fingers teasingly.

Kirishima shivered, gripping the bench he was sitting on.

Mina’s grin became an amused smirk. “Oh? You’re not running away?”

“Why should I?”

“Did you want me to tickle you?” She asked it so casually, it was unfair. “Aww, you could have just asked, cutie~”

This time it was the redhead’s turn to be caught off guard when she finally did strike – but not in the way he’d expected. Instead of drilling tickles to his ribs or sides that would make him laugh and curl up defensively, Mina grabbed onto his bare knee – thank goodness for the hot weather making him decide to wear shorts – and began to skitter her fingernails over it.

“W-Whahahat?” he sputtered, too surprised to do anything more than cover his mouth with one hand as he gripped the bench harder in an attempt not to move away. “What are you dohohoing?”

“Meeting you halfway,” Mina replied, smiling. “You decided to provoke me instead of just asking, so fine. I’ll tickle you, but only really gently like this unless you ask me to do it harder.”

That…that was just not fair.

Kirishima whined into his hands as he covered his face, a few giggles slipping out but not nearly as much as he was hoping. “You’ve been tahahahalking to Bahahakugou, haven’t yohohou?”

“Maaaaybe~”

“Ugh, fihihine!” Kirishima could feel the heat of his blush on his cheeks as he mumbled, “Plehehehease tickle me for reheheheheal, Mina – ah!”

His friend wasted no time after that, tackling him to the ground and tickling him like crazy, pulling out all of the harder laughter and squirming he’d been hoping for from the beginning.

His slushie was just a cold drink by the time it was over, but it was totally worth it.

*

205) Switches DabiHawks

“You cahahahahahahan’t tihihihihihihickle me just becahahahahahause I’m in a tahahahahank tohohohohohohohohop! Keheheheheheheigo!”

Hawks grinned down at his boyfriend, holding him down by the elbows so his ability to fight back was limited as he brushed his wings all over the other man’s sensitive collarbone and neck. It wasn’t enough to really get him cackling, but it forced him into adorable giggles, and those were what Hawks was after.

“Of course I can,” he replied. “How can I resist when you look so sexy like this?”

Dabi cursed through his soft snickers, trying to get a good grip on any part of his boyfriend’s body to make him stop. Damn this hot weather, making them both opt for more lightweight clothing today! He’d already been giggling like a child for a few minutes at this point, but he’d die before he let the blonde get the upper hand on him like this again.

“Fuhuhuhuhuhuck off!” he snapped, finally managing to grab part of his partner’s wing. He curled his fingers in, fighting off the tickly feeling of feathers along his palms as he focused on getting Hawks to falter even for a split second.

There!

Dabi kicked a leg into the air, forcing Hawks to topple over. The villain was on him in an instant, sitting on his hips and scribbling into his sides and belly. “Ha! Take this, you damn birdie! Ah-ah!” He snatched the wings that tried to swoop back in for round two and shoved them aside, then dove down to wiggle his hands behind Hawks’ back to the sensitive spots where they connected with skin.

The blonde squealed, making Dabi smirk in triumph. “There now, that’s much better~”

“DAHAHAHAHAHABI!!” Hawks cried, laughing harder than he normally would when this particular spot was targeted. “NO FAHAHAHAHAHAIR!! THIS SHIHIHIHIHIHIRT IS TOO THIHIHIHIHIHIN!! IT TIHIHIHIHIHICKLES MOHOHOHOHOHOHORE!!”

Dabi’s eyes flashed with elation at this new information. It seemed his boyfriend was more sensitive here than he’d previously thought – that tan jacket of his was just always protecting him! Interesting…

“NONONO, I KNOHOHOHOHOHOW THAT LOOHOHOHOHOHOOK!!” Hawks shrieked,. “DOHOHOHOHOHON’T EVEN THIHIHIHIHINK ABOUT IT!!”

Dabi only changed up his pace from digging to that unique massaging technique that always made the blonde howl with laughter even with the jacket. Today, through his thin tank top, he all but wheezed with hysterics, his face turning cherry red in a matter of seconds. Dabi took a moment to admire him, the beautiful bastard. Affection crashed into him even as he leaned into his boyfriend’s ear to chuckle menacingly and tease, “Revenge is so, so sweet, Kegio~”

*

206) Lee Dabi, Ler Hawks

Dabi narrowed his eyes at his boyfriend suspiciously. “Don’t look at me like that.”

Hawks smiled at him from across the table, chin in his hand. “Like what?”

“That’s the look you get when you’re trying to be innocent but are actually about to do something stupid.”

“You know me so well.”

“Keigo…” Dabi trailed off when Hawks got to his feet, which wasn’t something the villain was prepared for. He watched closely as his blonde partner walked around to his side of the table and offered him a hand. “What is this?”

“Come with me,” Hawks replied, still smiling.

Yeah, this wasn’t suspicious at all.

Still, Dabi took his hand and allowed himself to be led from their dining room, down the hall, toward the bedroom.

This was all too…easy. Something had to give here, right? Something…

Something was wiggling its way under his shirt. Dabi snorted on a surprised gasp, trying to pull his hand from Hawks’, but his boyfriend suddenly had him by the wrist, practically wrestling him up against the wall with a triumphant grin.

“Nohohohohoho, you bihihihihihitch! I knehehehehehew sohohohohomething was up!” Dabi half-growled, half-whined, snickering at the soft plumes from Hawks’ wings wiggling and fluttering along his bare skin under his shirt. The next thing he knew he was letting out an embarrassing yelp when his boyfriend’s fingers joined the fray, squeezing and skittering all up and down his torso. “Fuhuhuhuhuhucking stohohohohohop it, Keheheheheheigo!”

“Aww, what’s the matter, babe? Can’t handle a little tickling?” Hawks teased, expertly dodging Dabi’s free hand as he tried to throw a punch in self-defense. In the next moment the blonde had both of his wrists pinned to the wall, and even more feathers were detaching from his wings to assault his partner with gentle tickles.

“Knohohohohohohock it ohohohohohoff!” Dabi tried to demand, but it came out sounding more like a plea. He squirmed against the wall, trying and failing to find any kind of reprieve. “I hahahahahate yohohohohohohou!”

Hawks chuckled, allowing his wings to curl around them both, dozens of plumes swiping over Dabi’s exposed ticklish spots at once, making him buck and bark out a helpless laugh despite his best efforts. The hero grinned. “Yeah, yeah, I can see you’re just soooo mad at me right now. Why don’t you save your breath and tell me all about it after I’m done playing with you for a bit, hmm, Touya?”

*

207 (flirtier version of 206)

Dabi narrowed his eyes at his boyfriend suspiciously. “Don’t look at me like that.”

Hawks smiled at him from across the table, chin in his hand. “Like what?”

“That’s the look you get when you’re trying to be innocent but are actually about to do something stupid.”

“You know me so well.”

“Keigo…” Dabi trailed off when Hawks got to his feet, which wasn’t something the villain was prepared for. He watched closely as his blonde partner walked around to his side of the table and offered him a hand. “What is this?”

“Come with me,” Hawks replied, still smiling.

Yeah, this wasn’t suspicious at all.

Still, Dabi took his hand and allowed himself to be led from their dining room, down the hall, toward the bedroom.

This was all too…easy. Something had to give here, right? Something…

Something was wiggling its way under his shirt. Dabi snorted on a surprised gasp, trying to pull his hand from Hawks’, but his boyfriend suddenly had him by the wrist, practically dragging him the rest of the way.

“Nohohohohoho, you bihihihihihitch! I knehehehehehew sohohohohomething was up!” Dabi half-growled, half-whined, snickering at the soft plumes from Hawks’ wings wiggling and fluttering along his bare skin under his shirt. He wanted to tear the damn thing off and crush the little buggers, but doing that would only walk him further into his partner’s trap. It wasn’t fair. “Fuhuhuhuhuhucking stohohohohohop it, Keheheheheheigo!”

Grinning, Hawks sent one feather to the sweet spot along his boyfriend’s waist, and the instant Dabi’s knees faltered, the blonde pushed him onto the bed and climbed onto his lap, keeping him pinned in place to start using his fingers to tickle as well.

Dabi bucked and barked out a laugh, hands flying down to grip Hawks’ wrists. “Knohohohohock it ohohohohoff! I hahahahahahahate you!”

With a noncommittal hum, Hawks leaned down to kiss him. “Yeah, yeah. Tell me all about it after I’m finished with you, Touya~”

*

208) Switches Todoroki Siblings

“Get his feet! His feeheheheheheheheet!” Natsuo cried at his older sister as she opened the door to their home, coming to a surprised halt on the threshold when she saw her youngest brother tickling the snot out of the middle sibling.

Shoto glanced over his shoulder at her, grinning, then turned his attention back to Nat, whose arms were flailing helplessly as the younger boy dug into his waist and lower belly, having expertly straddled his chest to keep his arms out of the way of his tickling warpath.

“I don’t know,” Fuyumi chuckled, putting her bag down and toeing her shoes off, closing the door behind her. “You probably did something to deserve it. It takes a lot to get Shoto riled up like that.”

“I dihihihihihihihihidn’t!” Natsuo wailed. “Plehehehehehease hehehehehehehelp me!”

Shoto snorted. “You bet me I couldn’t get you to give in for at least five minutes. You broke in thirty seconds.”

Fuyumi smirked as she padded over to observe the spectacle more closely. “Sounds about right.”

Natsuo was cackling like a madman, arms flailing and legs kicking but ultimately unable to escape his youngest brother’s tickly clutches. “I cahahahahahan’t reheheheheheach any goohohohohohohood spots from hehehehehehere! Hehehehehehelp me, sihihihihihihister!”

The older girl hummed, taking in Nat’s red, laughing features and Shoto’s calm, happy ones, then glanced down and noticed her youngest brother was barefoot.

Well, when opportunity presented itself…

“GAH!” Shoto cried, instantly abandoning his own mission in favor of trying to escape his sister, but his visceral reaction to her swiping a nail along his bare foot had caused him to topple over, at which point she descended on him, purposely going for his ribs so Natsuo could have the pleasure of going for the real hot spot.

“Ehehehehehehe! Nohohohohohohoho, I thohohohohohought you wehehehehehere on my sihihihihihide!” Shoto whined, giggling helplessly in the few moments he had before Natsuo snatched up one of his ankles and scribbled mercilessly into his bare foot. The youngest Todoroki sibling arched his back with a shout, then exploded with laughter. “GAHAHAHAHAHAHA NOHOHOHOHOHOHO!! I WAS EHEHEHEHEHEASY ON YOU!!”

“You said yourself you made me break in record time. Just returning the favor, bro!” Nat snickered, clearly enjoying his vengeance.

Fuyumi smiled at the silliness of it all, watching Shoto’s face for any signs of distress. She knew he enjoyed tickling on both sides of the coin, but was still wary to push too hard, just in case.

But his features remained happy, so she kept going, and so did Nat.

“NAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA PLEHEHEHEHEHEHEASE!!” Shoto cried after a minute or so, finally beginning to wriggle and thrash under his siblings’ onslaught, weakly pushing at Fuyumi’s arms. “NO MOHOHOHOHOHOHORE!! I GIHIHIHIHIHIVE!!”

Taking that as her cue, Fuyumi retracted her hands with a smile, leaning down to playfully pinch his cheek as he gasped for breath. Clearly Nat had stopped, too. “Aww, what a cutie you are – GAHK!!” In the next second she was facedown on the floor beside her little brother, and a weight had settled along her hips, tickling fingers beginning to wriggle into her sides. “Whahahahahat are you dohohohohoing?!”

“It’s only fair, sis! Come on, Shoto, help me take her down!” Nat declared with a laugh, and within seconds Fuyumi felt gentle scritches along the backs of her knees, which was still enough of a feeling to make her burst into uncontrollable giggles.

“Nohohohohohoho! Nehehehehehext time I’m leheheheheheaving you to your fahahahahate! Trahahahahahaitor!” she squealed, letting out a shriek when Nat wormed his fingers under her shirt to scribble at her bare skin directly. “Nahahahahahahatsuo! Shoto, plehehehehehehease!”

By the time they’d all gotten their revenge on each other, the three Todoroki siblings lay in an exhausted, giggly heap together right there in the living room. There was nowhere else any of them would rather be.

*

209) Lee Tokoyami, Ler Tsuyu

“A little birdie told me you have ticklish ribs, Tokoyami,” Tsuyu teased, officially pushing into the boy’s personal space, poking and prodding at his ribcage. She’d been gradually scooting closer to him, making “casual” observations about how nervous he seemed, getting him flustered until her true intentions were revealed.

Tokoyami squawked and fell back onto the arm of the couch, looking shocked and betrayed. “W-What?! Dark Shahahahadow!” He tried to roll off the side of his seat, but Tsuyu plopped herself in his lap to keep him pinned, gently skittering her fingers all over his ribs and sides. “Ah! You trahahahahaitor!” Then, to the boy sitting on the loveseat beside them: “Midoriya, hehehehehehelp me!”

Deku just shrugged with a knowing smile, settling back as if to enjoy a good show. “I’ve got no dog in the fight. Don’t look at me.”

“Cohohohohohoward – ah! Ahahahahahasui!”

“That little birdie also told me,” she continued, grinning, kneading ticklish circles into his center set of ribs, “that if I tickle you enough, you’ll start to make adorable noises.”

Tokoyami blushed so hard he was sure she could see it even with the black feathers on his face. “Wait, nohohohohoho! Dohohohohohon’t! It’s embahahahahaharrasing!” He tried to bring his arms in to protect himself, but to his horror, his quirk came out of hiding just enough to pull his arms out of the way, leaving his torso open for Tsuyu to play with. “Nohohohoho, you fiehehehehehend!”

“Come on, Fumi,” Dark Shadow chuckled. “You know you’ve been dying for some time with Asui. You think she’s cute.”

“Shuhuhuhuhuhuhut up!” Tokoyami cried, giggles shifting into something bordering on panicked laughter when said girl drifted even lower, searching for a good spot.

Tsuyu beamed at him. “You do? Aww – I think you’re cute, too, Tokoyami. Especially like this~”

“Bohohohohoth of you, stahahahahahap teheheheheheasing—!” Then he broke off into an adorable birdlike trill, dissolving back into human laughter for several seconds before another avian noise slipped past his lips, completely involuntarily. He whined and squirmed, helpless to stop the giggles and chirps spilling out of him now. “Ahahahahahahasui, plehehehehehease!” He squawked again, this time sounding very much like a duck, blushing furiously at himself. “It’s embahahahahaharrassing! Stahahahahahahap!”

But Tsuyu just smiled at him, looking absolutely smitten. “But I like making you laugh. And it really is an adorable laugh, Tokoyami~”

Deku grinned to himself from the next seat over, watching them through the screen of his phone.

He’d send the video to her later.

*

210) Lee Todoroki, Ler Bakugou

The door opened behind him, letting in a rush of bitterly cold winter air, but per usual, Todoroki didn’t register the chill.

“Is it snowing out there now?” he asked, getting a grunt in response for his efforts. He didn’t mind; he knew Shinsou wasn’t a big talker. It was just as well Aizawa had paired them up for this brief overnight vacation before their holiday break. At least they wouldn’t drive each other crazy or anything.

He thought that, until he felt a presence standing directly behind him and he tensed. Okay, this was odd. He straightened and turned around, ready to ask what was going on…

Until someone who was decidedly not Shinsou was standing there grinning at him.

Todoroki stumbled back a step in surprise, his legs finding the edge of his mattress. “Katsuki?”

“Hell yeah, baby,” Bakugou replied, looking pleased with himself. “Convinced Shinsou to swap rooms with me. Knew it wouldn’t take much.”

Right, Todoroki thought. Because he and Deku are also dating. Convenient.

“I…I’m so happy to see you,” he said, “but are you sure this is okay? Mr. Aizawa probably had the four of us split up for a reason—”

“Screw that,” Bakugou growled, grabbing onto his waist with a possessiveness that thrilled Todoroki to his core. “I’m not wasting an overnight stay in a real-ass log cabin with that nerd. If I only get to do this once, I’m doing it with you. We can have the fire going, and I’ll snuggle the hell out of you, and we can share a bed—mmph!”

Todoroki was kissing him, partly to keep him from saying anything else and partly because he just couldn’t help himself; he’d desperately wanted the same thing, but when Aizawa had paired them up he’d been resigned to only spending time with the blonde around the others in their class.

“Gahk! Hehehehehey, whahahahat are yohohohohou—?!”

Bakugou smirked at him as he began to squeeze his sides. “You didn’t let me finish.” Then he was falling onto the bed with his boyfriend, quick to straddle him so he could let his fingers fly easier than before. “Like I said, we can share the same bed—”

“Thehehehehehehey’re too smahahahahahall!”

“Would you let me talk?” Bakugou laughed, grabbing his arm and pulling it high enough that he could dig into his underarm, drawing out a guffaw and the first giddy squirming. “We both know we’ll be spooning, so a small bed won’t matter. But don’t worry, I won’t make a move on you – unless you want me to, Sho~”

“Kahahahahahahatsuki!” Todoroki squealed, flustered and blushing but elated all the same. He used his free hand to grab onto his partner’s thermal shirt and tug, bringing them closer together. “Quit plahahahahahaying around and kihihihihihihiss me!”

Bakugou chuckled, and did exactly that.