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Here’s my entry for day 25 of @zawavember

Characters : Aizawa Shouta, Yagi Toshinori, Midoriya Izuku, Shinsou Hitoshi, Eri

This is set 9 years from the canon AU, Aizawa and All Might is retired, while Midoriya and Shinsou are pro heroes, Eri is in U.A

Edited and beta read by my wonderful friend @foxichus

Enjoy! :)

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Sunlight seeped in from the closed curtains, painting the once dark room splotches of orange.

A black haired figure stirred from underneath it, the sunlight apparently hitting his face.

He shifted to the other side, snuggling in to another figure with yellow hair, the yellow haired figure chuckled.

"Good morning Shouta, did you sleep well?" Toshinori asked, "Good morning Toshi, the damn sun disturbed my sleep" Shouta said as he snuggled in even deeper to Toshinori.

Toshinori only chuckled, "Well it is already morning, and it is about time we get up, sweetheart" He said back to Shouta, gently stroking his black untameable curls.

"5 more minutes, I was up late yesterday" Shouta said as he didn't try to even leave the bed, his hands above Toshinori's heart, the soft beating of it thrumming underneath his hand.

"Up late because you were watching cat videos again weren't you?" Toshinori asked, catching Shouta on the act, he jolted as if an electricity electrified him.

There was a long pause before Shouta answered, "No I wasn't" He lied, "Trust me, I've known you for more than 10 years now, I know when you're lying love" Toshinori said, his voice teasing with a hint of endearment.

Shouta sighed, giving up from ever lying from his lover, "Fine, yes I was up late watching cat videos again Toshi, they're just so cute I can't just turn off my phone and sleep" He admitted, tracing his finger in circles on top of Toshinori's chest.

Toshinori chuckled again, the sound soothing as it reverberated to Shouta's hand, "We should really wake up, we need to make breakfast for Izuku, Hitoshi and Eri, they have work and school today" Toshinori said back, his hand still tangled between the unruly black curls of Shouta's hair.

Toshinori tracked back to the days that seem close yet so far away, his retirement, Shouta's retirement, Izuku's and Hitoshi’s graduation and them obtaining pro hero licences, and Eri passing the entrance exam for the hero course at U.A.

It all seemed so close, like it happened just yesterday, yet here they were 9 years after, retired, with a little family of their own.

"Come on sweetheart, we need to get up, the kids need us to make breakfast, unless you want another fire in the kitchen?" Toshinori said, urging Shouta to wake up, reminding him of the one time incident the indigo and green haired boy tried to cook, back when the two of them got sick, and couldn't cook.

Shouta flinched at the memory, it took a lot of money to repair the burnt kitchen, and he would do anything to prevent that from ever happening again, reluctantly, he lift of his hand from the warmth of Toshinori's chest, he sighed and sat up, slightly rubbing his eyes.

Toshinori also sat up, knowing he needs to get to work, he stood up, and stretched, beside him Shouta also stood up, stretching his sore muscles.

They stretched in silence, the birds chirping, and the bustling noise of a waking city interrupting the once peaceful morning.

They soon finished their stretching and walked out of their room, to the bathroom, brushing their teeths, then, Toshinori went to the stove while Shouta went to the counter, presumably making coffee and tea.

Toshinori opened the fridge and took out the ingredients, washing them, he then went to the rice cooker and put in some rice, clicking the on button.

Shouta filled the coffee maker and tea maker with water, waiting for them to boil, he then put in the tea and coffee, after letting it steep in for a while, he then poured both coffee and tea to a matching mug.

He made his way to Toshinori who was waiting for the rice to cook, with an unplugged rice cooker, he sighed, he put down the mug, and plugged the rice cooker to it's outlet, restoring power to it.

"Toshi, you forgot to plug the rice cooker again" Shouta said as he passed Toshinori his tea, sipping his own coffee, "Ah, I forgot again, good thing you plugged it in" Toshinori said, his hand scratching the back of his head as pink spread across his cheeks, the tell tale sign of embarrassment.

They stayed silent while the rice cooked in the background enjoying the quite of the morning as they sipped their own preferred beverage

Toshinori placed down his empty mug of once warm tea, and made his way into the cupboard, he then glanced at Shouta, as if sensing Toshinori's glance Shouta said, "Left cupboard section 2 on the right one" He said, as he continue to sip his coffee, all the while gazing at Toshinori's movement.

Toshinori followed Shouta's direction and found a frying pan, he then placed it on top of the turned off stove, he then glanced back to Shouta who handed him a cooking oil.

He then turned on the stove and poured the cooking oil on it, making sure there was not too much and not too little on the pan.

Shouta then pass him 5 eggs, carefully cracking each of them open, making sure to not have an egg shell drop on the egg, he dumped the egg shells on the nearby trash can and turned the fire on a bit more, the eggs sizzling as the temperature of the fire rose

Faint chopping could be heard from the sink as Shouta chopped the vegetables and meat Toshinori once washed, they worked in silence, Shouta slowly chopping the vegetables and meat, while Toshinori cooked the eggs

Shouta took out 5 empty glasses and put it on top of the table along with an empty plate, and brought the empty plate along with his chopped vegetables and meat to Toshinori

Toshinori reached out his hand, as if expecting Shouta to gave him something, he indeed gave him the empty plate he brought over and started scooping up the cooked egg, he than placed the full plate of eggs on top of the table with empty glasses on it

He then took out 5 empty plates and placed them on top of the table, while Shouta pour in enough oil to cook the well minced meat, the rice cooker made a sound, indicating the rice in it was already cooked.

Toshinori went over to the rice cooker, opening the lid, steam emerged from the rice cooker and he scooped the rice from it, putting it in a bowl while Shouta pour in enough oil again to cook the vegetables, Shouta then extended his hand, as he waited for Toshinori

Toshinori than gave him the bowl of rice, pouring the rice in while mixing it along with the meat and vegetables, he then put in the spices as Shouta cooked

After a good 5 minute of stirring the rice along with the vegetables and meat, a door from the right side of the house made a clicking sound, and from the room came out a long haired girl

"Morning Papa, Morning Dad" she said as she yawned and rubbed her eyes and made her way to the table, Toshinori poured milk to the empty glass as he slide the glass over to the sleepy girl that took a sit in the table, instantly drinking the milk passed to her by her Dad

"Morning Eri" Shouta said as he taste test it, checking if the taste is right, he then called over to Toshinori, asking him for his opinion on the taste as he spoonfed him the fried rice, Toshinori giving him a thumbs up

Taking that as a go sign for the fried rice, Shouta turned off the stove and lifted the pan full of cooked rice mixed with vegetables and meat, making his way over to the table

"Morning honey" Toshinori said as he gestured for Shouta to put the steaming hot pan onto a cushion, preventing the heat from touching the table directly

"Could you put in some food for, Ramen, Tamago, and Mochi? I'm still not done yet preparing the table" Shouta said as he asked for Toshinori to go feed their cats

"I'll go, you should finish up around here Papa, Dad" Eri said as she stood up and made her way to the cat food container, filling in food for Ramen, Tamago and Mochi

Shouta poured in the fried rice while Toshinori poured in tea or coffee to the empty glasses, filling each plate and glass full of food and tea or coffee, Shouta made his way to the sink to put away the used pan, as Toshinori placed the cooked eggs on top of the fried rice

The cooking and setting the table was done, and now the hard task came, both Shouta and Toshinori faced each other, grim expression on their faces as they raised up their hands, bringing down their balled fist, Toshinori popped out scissors while Shouta popped out paper

Toshinori cheering while Shouta sighed deeply, "Fine, I'll go wake Izuku up, you wake Hitoshi up" Shouta said as he made his way to Izuku's room, followed by Toshinori, "Of course honey" he said back, a cheeky grin on his lips, while Shouta only sighed and braced himself

Out of the their 3 little midgets, Izuku was surprisingly the hardest to wake up, he would keep whining like a little kid and ask for 5 more minutes until either Shouta gave up, or he called Toshinori in for help

Shouta opened Izuku's door and sucked in a breath, preparing himself for the worst, the room was dark, and it took him a minute for his eyes to adjust with the darkness

He made his way over to Izuku's bed, sitting on the edge of it, gently shaking the boy awake, and as expected the boy didn't budge, he tried again, and Izuku still didn't budge

Meanwhile Toshinori was having it easy, coming up to the indigo haired boy's room, he opened it, eyes slowly adjusting to the darkness as he made his way to the bed, sitting on the edge of it

Seeing a tuft of indigo hair popping out from the blanket, he gently shook awake the boy, Hitoshi stirred and opened his eyes, adjusting to the small brightness coming in from the slightly opened door

"Morning sunshine, it's already 7 am" Toshinori said as he stroke his son's indigo hair, "Morning Dad, do you want me to wake Izuku up?" he asked as he sat up, a yawn following, Toshinori chuckled at his son's cute yawn

"Your Papa may need help getting Izuku up, breakfast is ready and Eri is wating for you as well as me, so don't take to long" Toshinori said as he gave Hitoshi's a hair a soft ruffle and made his way out of the boy's room

Shouta tried a different strategy, slightly patting Izuku's shoulder, and the boy finally budged, "Morning problem child, it's already 7 am" Shouta said, as he finally woke Izuku up

"5 more minutes Papa" Izuku said as he pulled up his covers, covering his entire face, only a tuft of green hair peeking out from it, ah, there it is, Izuku's famous '5 more minutes'

He tried shaking awake the boy again, getting yet the same result, he had no choice but to use his secret technique

"Izuku, Papa made some fried rice, if you don't wake up, it will get cold, so wake up yeah? Please? For Papa?" Shouta cringely said, as he tried to not choke while saying all those cringe worthy things, he was never one to beg, but sometimes the problem child woke up as soon as he heard Shouta beg

And it did work, Izuku threw away the covers, and sat up, "I'm awake Papa, I'll eat your fried rice right now" Izuku said as he stood up and made a bee line to his door

Shouta sighed, even at the ripe age at 25, and even being the new symbol of peace on top of that, Izuku can sometimes be childish, the way he would only wake up after being begged to, and his antics of '5 more minutes' were all not really fitting of the new symbol of peace, though what can he do? He was as much as any other parent, he was also doting, the same way how he was also doting for his other 2 midgets

Shouta stood up, getting ready to make his way out of the door, when he noticed Hitoshi standing near the door way, an amazed expression on his face

"I didn't knew you could coax Izuku to wake up that fast Papa, how did you do it?” Hitoshi asked, curious, Shouta only grinned, feeling smug, “I have my ways, now go join Izuku at the table, Eri and your Dad should already be there too”, he said, Hitoshi pouted, “No fair, but okay” Hitoshi said as he made his way to the table, sulking along the way

Shouta sighed, again, sometimes, being the side kick of the new symbol of peace at the ripe age of 25 doesn’t mean you could stop being childish, Hitoshi may seem more mature than Izuku, but he has his own childish antics, how he pouts or sulks when he didn’t get what he wanted

He than made his way to the table, where his 3 midgets are already sitting, along with his love, chattering away, chuckles and giggles here and there, he saw that Ramen, Tamago, and Mochi were also eating their own food

He took a seat beside his love, joining their early chattering as they ate and talked about their plans for the day

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“Do you have everything you need Izuku?” Shouta asked him again, knowing just how much of a careless kid he was, “I do, I have everything Papa” he said, reassuring his worrywart doting father

"And what about you Hitoshi? Do you have everything that you need?” He asked, his attention diverting to the indigo haired boy, “I do to Papa, I have everything that I need, you don’t need to worry” Hitoshi said, his tone seemingly convincing

“Eri, honey, are you ready?” Toshinori asked as he made his way to the girls room, it was her first day at U.A, “I am Dad” she said, as she emerged from her room, uniform intact.

Immediately all 4 of them took out their phones and snapped a picture of Eri, Izuku and Hitoshi seemed too enthusiastic as the both of them switched to different angles as they took Eri’s photo

“I am so gonna brag about you” Izuku said along with Hitoshi nodding along, “Please don’t” Eri said pointedly, Toshinori chuckled, at the scene unfolding before his eyes, how Izuku and Hitoshi was very doting of their little sister

"Well, let us take you to school” Izuku said along with Hitoshi, “Please nii-chan, I could go there by myself” Eri said as she rolled her eyes

“How could you betray us Eri?! I thought we were family!” Izuku said, a hand over his chest while Hitoshi was down on his knees, playing along with their little drama, “You betrayed us Eri, I feel hurt” Hitoshi said from his position on the floor, while Eri only facepalmed at her brothers antics

“Okay fine, I’ll let you take me to school, only if you promise that you would stop at the bottom of the hill” Eri said, tired of the antics of her brothers, “Of course!” Came the reply from both of them.

Both Toshinori and Shouta knew none of them are gonna stop at the bottom of the hill, but they kept their silence, a look full of love and endearment on their eyes seeing their 3 midgets.

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“We’ll be off now, Dad, Papa” Hitoshi said, Izuku and Eri beside him, “We’ll probably be home at 6 pm if there’s no emergency” Izuku added, “And I’ll be home at 4 or 5 Dad, Papa” Eri said

She was the only student allowed to live separately from the dorm, considering her siblings are the new symbol of peace and the famous side kick of the symbol of peace, along with their parents being the former symbol of peace, and the underground yet famous retired pro hero.

They went their ways, chattering ever so slightly, Shouta closed the door, collecting the dirty bowls of their cats, refilling them with water, while Toshinori silently washed their dirty dishes, Shouta drying them and placing them were they belong on their respective cabinets

They worked silently for sometime, the only sound made was the running water, the squeaking sound of sponge on plate, and the ever so silent clinking of plates, when suddenly Toshinori broke the silence

"They grow up so fast don’t they?” He asked Shouta who hummed approvingly, “It seemed like it was just yesterday when the problem child was breaking bones here and there, but now look at him, the new symbol of peace” Shouta said, his hands not stopping, still drying the plates

“And it seemed like it was just yesterday that he was upset of not improving as fast as the others” Toshinori said

"I still remembered the first time we rescued Eri, how she was trembling so much of fear from Chie Hassaikai" Shouta said, his grip on the plate he's drying tightened, grim expression om his face as the unpleasant memory resurfaced, Toshinori placed a hand on top of his, squeezing it slightly, calming down Shouta

"But look at her now, she's no longer trembeling in fear, she's healthy, happy, safe, and just passed U.A entrance exam, training to be a hero herself, I still remember the many months before the U.A exam, how Izuku and Hitoshi was training her like mad, oh how those days felt so close yet so far away" Toshinori said, reminiscing

"It indeed felt close yet far away, how Hitoshi grumbled about his incompetence in mastering the capture weapon, and now look at him” Shouta said

“I know, it took him only 4 years to master it, I still remember when I saw him in gym gamma, training with the capture weapon, occasionally getting tied up, and Izuku was there, ready to help him” Toshinori said, reminiscing the training and younger days of their kids

“And you would silently watch him from the top of the window!” Toshinori exclaimed, as if remembering something important, pink crept it’s way to Shouta’s cheeks

“You noticed?” Shouta said, as he dried and put away the last piece of utensil they cleaned, Toshinori dried his calloused hand and stroke his love’s cheek

“Of course I do, I am madly in love with you, back then and until now, so I would notice where ever you are” Toshinori said, endearment pouring out of his eyes for the man infront of him

Red made it’s way to Shouta’s cheeks, replacing the once pink hue of it, “S-So all this time you were watching me?" he asked, cheeks red

"Yes I was love, I couldn't take my eyes off you" Toshinori said as his big hands stroke Shouta's cheeks, the touch so gentle, "W-Why didn't you help them train then?" He asked again, changing the topic

"I didn't saw it was necessary, Hitoshi was learning, even though maybe he could improve more if I told him, but I wanted him to learn by himself" Toshinori said, calloused hands still gently stroking Shouta's cheeks

"What about you yourself? Why didn't you help him?" Toshinori asked back, "I saw that Hitoshi wasn't struggling, so I thought I'll let him learn by himself" Shouta said back, his equally calloused hand grasping Toshinori's calloused ones

"We're the same then" Toshinori said, they stared at each other in silence, basking in each other's presence, drowning themselves in each other's eyes on their own little world, an endearing smile tugged on their lips, until Shouta reluctantly broke the silence

"I should go check on our cats" Shouta said, "I should go do the laundry" Toshinori replied, but none of them made a move for it, still lost in each other's eyes

Until finally they broke their stare, Shouta went to check on their cats, and Toshinori went to the dirty basket full of their clothes

Shouta cleaned the cat food container and noticed the container was already dry, he then cleaned it and put the containers back to their respective place and made his way to the counter filling the matching mugs coffee and tea as he made his way to Toshinori

Toshinori picked up the dirty basket and made his way to the washing machine, he put the dirty clothes into the washing machine, pressed the buttons on it, and waited, Shouta soon joined him, mugs on hand, as he gave Toshinori the mug full of tea

They stood there, the rumbling of the washing machine and the occasional chirping of the birds as well as the bustling noise of the busy city were the only sound, silently sipping their tea or coffee

Toshinori took Shouta's hand and made his way to the tv, Shouta following behind him, he turned on the tv and the both of them sat on the couch as they flicked on to the news channel

"Once again, new symbol of peace Deku and his sidekick, Mind Tamper, saved the hostages trapped in the Tokyo Dome, where villains hijacked and trapped the 55,000 civilian's along with the event's organizer, they arrived on the scene and saved the trapped civilian's along with arresting the villains, the following footage is a interview with the new symbol of peace and his sidekick" The news reporter said, as the news quickly switched to another scene, Izuku and Hitoshi on the screen

"Deku how did you manage to save 55,000 civilians?" A reporter asked, "I was able to save them, because of my sidekick here, Mind Tamper, who brainwashed their minds, all I did was apprehended them" Izuku said as he shoved Hitoshi to the reporter

Toshinori laughed at the scene, "Typical of Izuku, shoving the spotlight to Hitoshi" he said followed by Shouta who nodded along, agreeing with him

"Mind Tamper, was it hard to control their minds? Did any of them tried to resist your brainwash?" the reporter asked again

"There was one of them that tried to resist my brainwash, but Deku was there to apprehend them" Hitoshi said as he shoved Izuku back to the reporter

Shouta chuckled, "Typical of Hitoshi, shoving the spotlight back to Izuku" he said, as Toshinori nodded back

The scene switched back to the news caster, "And that is the end of the interview of the new symbol of peace and his sidekick, coming up is news of the upcoming hero Red Riot" The news caster said, as the scene switched to a commercial

The washing machine made a sound as it stopped, Shouta stood up, making his way back to the washing machine, followed by Toshinori

They walked to the washing machine, Shouta opened the washing machine while Toshinori passed him the clothes basket, putting the clean clothes on it, they then carried the basket to the veranda, and hanged the clothes to dry them off

After most of the clothes have been hanged up, Toshinori took the watering can and watered the plants, while Shouta finished hanging the clothes

They then finished their chores, and went inside, the news had ended and Shouta turned the tv off

Toshinori then remembered he wanted to pick up where he left off from the book Izuku bought him, so he went to the bedroom, Shouta following close

Toshinori laid on the bed with Shouta tangled in his arms, the both of them have been reading books together ever since watching tv began to bore them, so they silently read through the early morning

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The air felt warm and the sky dyed sunkissed orange as Shouta snuggled into Toshinori's arm the latter tightening his arms around Shouta's waist as they slept

Somehow, along the lines of reading and flipping of pages, Shouta drifted asleep, soon after, Toshinori noticed he was asleep and decided to join the black haired man, slowly placing the book on the table side of their bed, careful to not wake Shouta up, and tightened his grip on the man's waist as he too drifted of to sleep

Shouta blinked awake as he was met with the sleeping face of Toshinori's, he stared at him, he looked so peaceful, so soft under the sunkissed orange light, and the sight took Shouta's breath away

He brought up a hand to gently tug a yellow strand behind Toshinori's ear, he stared at him again, until Toshinori slowly opened his eyes

"Afternoon Toshi, sorry I slept first" Shouta said, greeting him, "Afternoon Shouta, it's okay, I was sleepy myself" He said back as his hands found it self tangled on Shouta's black locks

"Did you sleep well?" Shouta asked, his hand tugged a stray hair that managed to fell on Toshinori's face, "I did, because I have you" Toshinori replied, stroking his love's hair

"You really do like to spoil me rotten don't you, love?" Shouta said, teasingly, as his hand rested on top of Toshinori's cheek, pink crept it's way to Toshinori, "You caught me off guard sweetheart" he said, surprised Shouta called him love

"Why exactly did I caught you off guard love?" Shouta grinned, knowing full well the blush that slowly turned from pink to red was because of him calling Toshinori love

Toshinori chuckled, and chastely kiss Shouta, his love for him overflowing, "Nothing sweetheart, what do you want for dinner? Do you have an idea?" He asked

"Do we have the ingredients for nabe?" Shouta asked, Toshinori thought for a while, and answered "I think we have ingredients for nabe", he said, "Nabe it is then" Shouta said

"Why nabe though?" Toshinori asked, Shouta shrugged as if the answer was obvious, "Feeling lazy" he replied, Toshinori laughed as if he was expecting the answer, "Of course you are" he said

Toshinori than made his way to the wardrobe to take a change of clothes as he then went to the bathroom, taking a bath, while Shouta waited and entered the bathroom with his own change of clothes as soon Toshinori emerged from it.

Not long after, they heard a click from the door, and an "I'm home!" from Eri, as she came back from U.A, both Shouta and Toshinori got up from their bed and went to their living room

"Welcome back sweetie" Toshinori said as he saw their daughter on the couch, with Ramen curled up in her lap while she was clearly exhausted, "Welcome back" Shouta said as he gave eri a cold water bottle and sat beside her, Toshinori on the other side

Eri happily took the bottle and drank it, "Thankyou Papa" she said as the bottle was emptied out, "How's your first day at school?" Toshinori asked, worried his pumpkin would get bullied, being the sibling of famous heroes meant hushed whispers from everyone, gossips of her going to U.A from connection and so on, he won't stand still if his pumpkin got bullied

"Nii-chan, didn't stop at the bottom of the hill! So everyone saw them!" She huffed, "I was afraid people would start talking about me, getting to U.A because of my connection but surprisingly they didn't!" She said, a smile on her face lit up as she talked about her day at school

“My class was so nice! I thought they would gossip or ignore me because of Nii-chan but they didn’t! The girls actually asked me whether Izu-nii prefer boxers or briefs! They even asked what brand of shampoo Hitoshinii used! While the boys asked what training regiment they use! Oh and my friends! They—” Eri chattered on, her eyes shining with excitement as her voice was filled with enthusiasment, her parents listened to her passionate chatter, all the while an endearing smile tugged on their lips.

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Eri was in the bathroom, while Toshinori cooked the rice, yet again forgetting to plug in the rice cooker, making Shouta check and sigh endearingly at his love, reminding him again that the rice cooker was not plugged in to it’s outlet, while Toshinori grinned sheepishly

Shouta then boiled the broth for their nabe when another click from the door was heard and a tired, “We’re home…” was heard from Izuku and Hitoshi as they entered the house

Izuku collapsed on half of the couch as Hitoshi collapsed on the other half, Ramen and Tamago jumped on top of them, as a means of greeting the tired heroes, Toshinori came to the couch holding 2 cold water bottle on his hands, he tapped it on both of his sons cheeks, “Here, have a drink, you must be tired” he said

Izuku sat up, followed by Hitoshi as they happily took the bottle and drank the contents of it, Ramen and Tamago on their laps “Thankyou Dad” the both of them said in unison, “How’s work?” Shouta asked as he came to the living room, the broth simmering in a low heat behind him

“Tough and tiring, lots of interviews and villains popped up today” Izuku replied, while scratching the back of Ramen's ear as she purred in delight “The reporters were being insistent so we can’t just say no” Hitoshi added, scratching Tamago's belly as he laid on his back

“That’s what you got for not dropping me off at the bottom of the hill!” Eri said, emerging from the bathroom, hair dripping wet as her towel hanged on her shoulder

“Yeah of course, would still totally drop you off infront of U.A again Eri, no doubt about it” Izuku said, “Oh, your hair’s still wet” Hitoshi said as he instantly pulled the towel that hanged on Eri’s shoulder to her hair, drying it gently, “I’ll go get the hair dryer" Izuku said as he ran to where the hair dryer was located

Toshinori chuckled as he saw their 2 sons were instantly energetic again when it came to their sister, Shouta seemed to agree as a smile tugged on his lips

They went back to work on their nabe, Toshinori taking out the ingredients while Shouta stirred the half boiling broth

Toshinori washed the ingredients and chopped the vegetables to bite size, done with his chopping, he placed the bite sized vegetables along with the meatballs and meat to a big sized plate and placed it on the table beside the portable stove where Shouta was currently standing over, the rice cooker made a sound and Shouta went to check on the rice

Steam emerged from the rice cooker, Shouta than reached out his hand to Toshinori, and he gave Shouta a rice ladle along with 5 bowls, he scooped the rice into the bowl, noting how exhausted his sons were, he gave them an extra bit more then their usual portion

He then scooped his own portion of rice, taking note of how little Toshinori ate at the morning, he gave him an extra too, and noting how exhausted Eri also was, he gave an extra to her as well

Shouta then made his way with the bowls of rice, taking 2 each time he went to the table, empty glasses were being filled by Toshinori as he placed the bowls on their respective places

Shouta made his way to the place where they tuck away their cats container, taking it out and filling it with cat food, he then called out to their cats, they soon came and ate from the bowl

“Dinner’s ready!” Toshinori shouted from his place as both the hotpot and rice was cooked, a faint 'okay!' was heard in the distant as chattering soon followed, Izuku, Hitoshi, and Eri made their way to the table, the both of them seemingly have changed from their hero costumes.

“What are we— Oh, we’re having nabe!” Izuku said, excited, as he took a seat, followed by Hitoshi and Eri, “I love a good nabe after work” Hitoshi said, “You always love a good nabe Hitoshi” Izuku teased, “Well maybe I just love nabe in general” Hitoshi said back, as they start to eat from the hotpot

Toshinori broke the silence after a while, “We saw the both of you on the news today” he said, taking a vegetable from the hotpot giving it to Eri, “You were shoving yourselves back and forth when the reporter interviewed you both” Shouta said as he took a meatball and passed it to Izuku

“Well, I was never really good at handling reporters” Izuku said as he scratched the back of his head, “I was never really good at handling reporters too, so I shove the reporter back to Izuku” Hitoshi said as he passed on a meat to Toshinori

“Watching you both is like watching a game of throw and catch” Shouta said as he took a vegetable and passed it to Toshinori, “By the way, Izu-nii, what do you prefer, boxers or briefs?” Eri said out of the blue

“E-Eh w-what? W-Why did you a-ask?” Izuku said, clearly flustered as he stuttered, face flushed red, as his chopsticks were halfway to Shouta’s bowl, dropping off a piece of meat

“My friends asked me today” She said, taking a meatball from the hotpot and passed it over to Shouta, “W-What? What kind of friends do you have at U.A?!” Izuku asked shocked

“Oh, they also ask about which shampoo brand you use Hitoshi-nii” Eri asked, while Hitoshi only blinked once, twice, while his chopsticks were half way down at Izuku’s bowl, passing a piece of meat to him

“W-What? Why would they want to know?” he asked back to his sister, while Eri only shrugged, “U.A is a strange place” Izuku said as he passed on a meatball to Hitoshi, “I never remembered U.A was strange though” Hitoshi said as he passed on a vegetable to Eri, “It isn’t!” Eri protested back

“Then why would your friend ask what kind of u-underwear I use? Or what Hitoshi use as his shampoo” he asked, face still red, Eri only rolled her eyes, “Clearly they’re fans of you both” Eri said, as she ate

"Oh, I didn’t knew” the both of them said in unison, as if that kind of possibility didn’t exist, “Oh, by the way, my other friends also wanted to know what kind of training regimen the both of you used!” Eri said after she swallowed, remembering what her friend asked earlier

Both Izuku and Hitoshi exchanged looks, and soon a grin plastered on their faces, and they turned back to Eri, enthusiasment on their faces

"Good question you got there Eri!” Izuku said as Hitoshi nodded, “So, our training regiment started with—” Izuku and Hitoshi talked about their long training regiment, earning a groan from Eri and a chuckle from both of their parents, they chattered again, chuckles and giggles heard through out their home.

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All of them helped to wash the dishes so it took them no longer than 5 minutes to tuck away the portable stove and washed dishes along with the utensils, Shouta took away the empty cat food container and filled them with water, giving it back to the thirsty cats

Both Izuku and Hitoshi went to their respective bathrooms to take a bath while Eri plopped between Shouta and Toshinori on the couch, Mochi jumped on her lap, waiting to be petted, while they watched the tv, the couch fully occupied, Izuku and Hitoshi soon joined them on the floor, Ramen and Tamago accompanying them

“On tonight news, we bring you Uravity that succeded on capturing the villain behind the recent bank robbings, she successfully captured the villain with the help of Ingenium” the news caster said as the scene flashed to Ochako and Tenya capturing said villain

“Oh, Uraraka-san captured the villain!” Izuku said, hair still dripping wet, Toshinori noticed and took the towel slinged around Izuku’s neck and gently drying his son’s still wet hair

“Next up on tonight news, we bring you the new symbol of peace, Deku and his side kick, Mind Tamper that successfully captured the villains regarding recent bombings on malls, they have apprehended the villains quickly and the police arrived just in time to take them in custody” the news caster said

Shouta took notice of Hitoshi’s wet hair and did the same thing Toshinori did to their other son as he gently drying Hitoshi’s hair

“Are we really just gonna watch news tonight?” Eri asked, bored, “Why don’t you change the channel then sweetie, we turned it off this morning right after watching the news without changing the channel” Toshinori explained while still drying Izuku’s hair

“Okay then, I’m gonna change the channel” Eri said as Hitoshi passed her the remote, she then changed it to a different channel, “What’s up you guys?! Pop☆Step here! Did you miss me?” the idol Pop☆Step asked the audience, “Oh, it’s Pop☆Step!” Eri said enthusiastically

“Pop who?” Toshinori asked again, not catching what the tv or what his daughter said, “It’s the famous idol Pop☆Step Dad” Eri replied, “Oh, so this is what’s famous these days” Toshinori said, sounding his old age, “Yeah it is Dad” Eri replied back as her attention turned back to the tv

Shouta stared at the familiar face of the idol Pop☆Step, reminiscing his old days, when he was snapped back to reality when a weight fell on top of his right thigh

He glanced over and saw Hitoshi had fallen asleep as soon as he finished drying his hair, probably too tired, Izuku noticed his brother had fallen asleep when Toshinori finished drying off his hair

“I’ll go carry Hitoshi back to his room” Izuku said as he gently carried his brother and went to Hitoshi’s room, Shouta following behind him, when they arrived infront of Hitoshi’s room, Shouta opened the door for Izuku as he went inside and placed Hitoshi gently on the bed, tugging him in for the night

They then went back to the living room to watch the tv again, after a while, Eri then yawned, and Izuku was nodding off, Toshinori took notice of the time, and decided to call it a night, turning the tv off

As Izuku and Eri said their goodnights and went to their own rooms, Shouta then turned off the tv's switch while Toshinori turned off the living room light

Shouta cleaned the cat food container and tucked it away at their respective place, and later joined his love

They went to their bed room and changed to pyjamas, they then went to the bathroom to brush their teeths, Shouta returned and flopped down to their bedroom, clearly feeling sleepy, while Toshinori only chuckled at his love

He then turned off the light, leaving only a bit portion of light coming from the night lamp beside their bed, Toshinori than laid down on their bed as Shouta wormed his way to Toshinori, snuggling warmly at his hands, Toshinori laughed at his love’s antics, and tugged him closer, legs tangled

Deep down in their hearts, a warm feeling blossomed in their chest, a familiar feeling they couldn’t recognize

it clearly felt welcoming

it felt warm

it felt endearing

it felt loved

it felt like home.

Thankyou for reading! :)

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rissachen · 4 years

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A wonderful fanfic from my friend @foxichus

Keep Me Close - Shinsoubowl Week Day 5 : Thunderstorm and Scars

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So this is my creation for day 5 of @shinsoubowl

Characters : Shinsou Hitoshi, Original Main Character (Yoshida Kei), Original Side Character (Kimura & others), Aizawa Shouta

Edited and beta reading by my fantastic friends @rissachen and @utinsworld

Enjoy reading ;)

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“Yoshida! Earth to Yoshida!” Said Kimura, the one sitting in front of Yoshida. “Ah, sorry you’re saying?” Yoshida replied back, flustered “I’m saying we’ll be having a math test after this, did you study yet?” “Of course I already did" As if on cue, the bell rings and the math class starts. The teacher entered the class and then started giving the papers to the students and told them to finish it before the period ends. "Good luck!” Said Kimura “Thanks! Good luck to you too” Yoshida replied Yoshida Kei is a first year, even semester college student in Tohoku university the most popular university in his city. His university is really big, it even had their own grounds like UA, but it was located at a more remote area, the grounds were mostly filled with forest. Kei wasn’t the most sociable type of person, more like a wolf who like to watch other people in silent. He has a quirk to read people’s mind and to calm them down, but not many people know his quirk because of his personality. Lately something caught his attention, a student named Shinsou Hitoshi. Apparently someone spread nasty rumors about him because his quirk can control other people’s mind when they answer his question and it really terrifies them, this rumor has been going for almost a year, and its been heard all around the university, to the point that even the seniors knew him. People start calling him a villain or just completely avoided him and ignoring him even when he needed help. But what Yoshida sees in him are different from what other people see in him. He believed that Shinsou is a good and kind person, who never wanted to control people to do something bad or take advantage from controlling people’s mind. Yoshida can be sure of that because he saw what Shinsou did on his way to college this morning, he helped a kid that’s almost got hit by a truck by controlling the drivers mind so the truck stopped before the kid got hit and he even gave his breakfast to a poor kitten on a side road. How can a villain even care about that kind of thing! Yoshida said to himself. Shaking his head to get rid of the thoughts, he tried to focus on the test again. Not too long after that the bell rings again, signaling the end of the period. “The one at the back row, start collecting the paper to the front, please!” Said the teacher. Yoshida start collecting the papers and when he reached the second row Shinsou handed his paper and muttered “Thank you!” Because Yoshida wasn’t cautious like everyone else when they’re around Shinsou, he replied “You’re welcome” with a small smile Shinsou was surprised by the way Yoshida let his guard down around him, he then put his hand over his mouth and look out the window to hid the small smile starting to form on his lips. Around lunch time, Yoshida was planning to eat alone at the back of the building but then he suddenly heard Shinsou’s voice, out of curiosity he peeked around the corner and find Shinsou crouching and talking to a black cat. “Come on.. don’t be afraid, I’m not going to hurt you..” Shinsou cooed He then tried to give his lunch to the cat and continued to coax the cat to come out of the bush. But the cat didn’t move from it’s hiding place, since his bribe didn’t work out Shinsou pouted. Yoshida who saw everything, tried to hold his laughter in and decided to help him coax the cat. When he come out of the corner, Shinsou didn’t notice Yoshida had crouched beside him and took his food to coax the cat. He only noticed Yoshida’s presence when Yoshida tried to call the cat. “Here kitty… don’t be afraid we just want to give you some food” Yoshida cooed The cat responded to Yoshida’s bribe and when he wanted to brag about the cat’s response to Shinsou, he was surprised that their faces were closer than he thought. Yoshida stumbled back and hit the ground with a thud, when they look at each other again they started to laugh a little, somehow, Shinsou’s laughing is actually pretty soothing to hear. Shinsou who just realized that he’s laughing in front of Yoshida, feels bashful and tried to hide a light blush that formed on his cheeks. “Why are you blushing?” Asked Yoshida “I-It’s just that, not everyone likes to hear me laughing…” Said Shinsou, sadness could be heard from his voice “Why not? It doesn’t sound that bad” Yoshida said as Shinsou helped Yoshida to get up, and sit beside each other. The cat suddenly approached Shinsou, purring and finally sleeping on Shinsou’s lap “I… don’t know…” Shinsou trailed off “No one has ever said that my laugh wasn’t annoying, usually when I laugh they told me to quiet down” He continued, as he petted the cat’s head lovingly Guilt washed over him as he saw Shinsou’s solemn expression. “Sorry… I shouldn’t have asked that kind of question” Yoshida apologized “No no.. it’s okay, it’s all in the past..” Shinsou give him a weak smile “You know what? Screw those guys, in fact I think your laugh is actually pretty soothing to hear” Yoshida said, irritated Hearing that statement, Shinsou’s eyes grew wide and he averted his gaze elsewhere, pink dusting his cheeks. “Uh… thanks, that means a lot” Shinsou murmured Yoshida doesn’t want the atmosphere to become too awkward so, he asked “Um… what’s your name? I mean like your full name” “Oh, I’m Shinsou.., Shinsou Hitoshi and you’re…?” “I’m Yoshida! Yoshida Kei..” Suddenly, there is a loud growling sound, both of them were surprised by the sudden noise. Turns out, it was actually Shinsou’s stomach that made that noise, he averted his gaze again for the second time. Even though Yoshida can’t see Shinso’s face right now, his ears and neck can prove that Shinsou is blushing really hard. Yoshida can’t held his laughter anymore, he laughed so loud making Shinsou even more embarrassed. After calming down a little Yoshida said, “S-Sorry for laughing.., here, I can share my lunch with you” he offered half of his lunch to Shinsou Shinsou shake his head and said, “N-No you don’t have to do that” “It’s okay, in fact I was already half full from my breakfast and laughing so much” Yoshida give Shinsou a warm smile and handed half of his lunch to Shinsou “Thank you…” Shinsou hesitantly took Yoshida’s lunch “No problem, eat up!” Yoshida replied, eating his own portion of lunch “Itadakimasu!” Both of them said at the same time After lunch, they continue their small talk until it’s time for them to go back to class. In class, they didn’t talk really much because Shinsou said not to talk to him when they’re in class, he’s afraid that Yoshida might get caught in the rumors. At first, Yoshida didn’t really agree to him because he really doesn’t care about the rumors, but because Shinsou insisted, he had to respect his decision. Even though they didn’t talk that much in class, they still meet up at the back of the building on their break time. Everytime they meet up, Yoshida always smiled sweetly to Shinsou and Shinsou will always return the smile warmly. But one day, after class have been dismissed, Shinsou waited for Yoshida at their meeting place, but Yoshida didn’t came, he then heard some yelling noise nearby, it almost sounds like some bullying. Because the noise was loud enough, Shinsou become curious, so he tried to take a peek and he saw that it was a bullying. At first, he pitied the victim but then he recognized the victim’s face, it was the only person who cared and wasn’t afraid to talk to him, it was Yoshida. Out of rage, Shinsou lashed out to save him, he blocked Yoshida from the bulllies. The bullies were surprised by Shinsou’s sudden action. “Shinsou..? W-what are you doing here?” Yoshida asked, surprised “Well well well, look what do we have here?” Said one of the bullies that seems like their leader “Back off! Don’t you even dare hurt him!” Shinsou glared to the bullies “Ohoho I’m so scared, well isn’t this interesting, I see you got yourself a knight in shining armor huh, Yoshida, even though you were the one at fault here,” joked the leader “Shinsou! You don’t have to do this” Yoshida panicked, as he grabbed Shinsou’s hand Yoshida was worried that he would get into trouble but, Shinsou didn’t answer or waver, he just kept glaring at the bullies. Shinsou squeezed Yoshida’s hand a little, assuring him that he’s ok, even though in reality he is very scared. Yoshida felt giddy when Shinsou hold his hand, even though he knew this wasn’t the right moment for that. “Look, aren’t they cute? Holding hands and saving each other’s ass, it feels like we’re the bad guys now” One of the bullies joked “Do you mean bullies aren’t bad guys?! Are you sick?!” Shinsou yelled, disgust in his voice “Hah, you don’t even know the reason why we scolded him. Listen here buddy, that guy, he got our orders wrong, we wanted yakisoba bread, but he got us the melon bread, for some petty reasons like it’s out of stock, like we care, it is his job to bring us what we wanted, not what’s in stock” The leader spoke with a devilish smile “How can you just talk so casually like that?!” Shinsou triggered “Well he is our bellboy after all” The leader replied and the the bullies started to laugh Shinsou who heard that became even more pissed, but he tried to hold back his rage for Yoshida’s sake. Shinsou tightened his jaw to control his anger and when Yoshida saw it he pressed his body close to Shinsou hoping it would somehow calm him down. The bullies who saw that action snicker, one of them suddenly muttered, “Fucking faggots”, when the words reached Shinsou’s ears the blood in him started to boil. He throw a hard punch to the bullie’s face and a bloody fight started, the gang leader only watch the fight and keep the others to help their friend. On the other side, Yoshida felt the urge to ran and tell the teacher but he was to paralyzed by the scene in front of him, blood splattering everywhere and he can see that Shinsou intended to finish the bully off. Even though he was so scared, Yoshida tried to reach Shinsou, he hugged Shinsou from behind when Shinsou was about the give the bully the final blow. The gesture surprised Shinsou but he was still tense from the rage, his mouth formed a grim line and his eyes bloodshot. “S-Shinsou… p-please…stop this, I’m scared” Yoshida pleaded That one sentence made Shinsou’s body finally relaxed and slowly Yoshida helped him to lower his bloody fist. After he really calmed down from the rage, he then tugged on Yoshida’s wrist and started running away from the bullies. Before they started running, Yoshida accidentally saw the condition of the bully, surprised that the bully was still alive, the bully’s face was so messed up from the fight, blood can be seen on the corner of the bully’s eyes, lips and nose. After a while of running, Yoshida noticed that Shinsou was running without no place in mind, but then Shinsou run to the safetiest place he could think of, his room. When he reached the dorm, Shinsou tugged on Yoshida’s wrist and lead him to his room. After he though it was safe, he let go of Yoshida’s wrist and plopped down on his bed. Yoshida was concerned about Shinsou’s condition, so he approached him and sat down beside him. “Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?” He asked, while scanning Shinsou’s condition. But Shinsou didn’t answer, the only thing that can answer his question was Shinsou’s trembling hands and bloody knuckles. Suddenly he stood up and went to Shinsou’s bathroom, because of the movement Shinsou snapped out from his trance and when he saw Yoshida leaving his side he instanly grabbed his wrist, startling him making Yoshida whipped his head around. “Where are you going?!” Shinsou asked, sounding concerned, he tighten his grip on Yoshida’s wrist making him flinch “I-I just want to borrow your first aid kit” Yoshida replied “Oh.. it’s in the bathroom” Shinsou said, still holding Yoshida “O-okay, um.. can you let me go for a sec?” Yoshida asked, while smiling apologetically “Ah sorry.. ” Shinsou apologized as he reluctantly let Yoshida’s wrist go “I’ll be right back” Yoshida said while giving Shinsou a reasuring smile He then rushed to the bathroom to grab the first aid kit and when he came back, Shinsou seemed to be spacing out again he didn’t even notice Yoshida was kneeling right in front of him. “Shinsou, give me your hands” He asked, as he hold out his hand, waiting for Shinsou “Huh? What?” Shinsou replied, snapping out of his daze “Your hands, let me take a look” Yoshida repeated “Oh you don’t hav–” Shinsou said but he was interupted by Yoshida “I insisted, it’s the least I can do for you” He said, still holding out his hand “T-thank you” Shinsou said while placing his hands on Yoshida’s open one As soon as Shinsou placed his hands, Yoshida’s hand felt a tingling sensation and suddenly his chest start to feel warm and his heart beat a little faster than usual. It’s the same feeling from when he held his hand in front of the bullies. “Yoshida?” Shinsou asked while tilting his head to the side. “Ah sorry…, hm, it seems your wound will need to be bandaged” Yoshida said after snapping out of his daze “Is it… that bad?” Shinsou asked suddenly feeling concerned “Well… you punch the shit out of that guy” Yoshida chuckled, but Shinsou didn’t respond to the statement he only lower his head and sighed heavily. “What’s wrong?” Yoshida asked while carefully begin dabbing alcohol to the wound making Shinsou flinch a little. Shinsou didn’t answer, his head hanging low, it’s seems like he was in a deep thought, Yoshida didn’t press him for answers. Silence filled the room as Yoshida continued his treatment on Shinsou’s injured hands, when all of a sudden, Yoshida broke the silence by lightly patting Shinsou’s hand “All done!” Yoshida said, his voice sounding light, satisfied with his handiwork. When he had to let go of Shinsou’s hand, somehow, his heart felt heavy, his chest felt tight as he let go of Shinsou’s hand, the warmth of his hand lingering, the way their hands perfectly fit together. And he accidentally stole a glance to Shinsou, and dare he say, he looked somewhat… dissapointed? He’ll never know. —— As soon as Yoshida retracted his hand, the lost of warmth hit him like a wave, the way Yoshida’s hand fit his hand perfectly, how gentle his touches were, he instantly missed Yoshida’s hand being wrapped around his hand. When he notice Yoshida’s gaze, he averted his eyes, red creeping on to his ears travelling all the way to the back of his neck. Worried that Yoshida could read his expression, because now he felt dissapointed that Yoshida retracted his hands. “Um.. Shinsou why are you–” Yoshida was interupted by a knock on the door. Shinsou felt relieved but at the same time wondered who was the person behind the door, because no one have ever come up to his door and knock on it. When he opened the door, an unfamiliar man greeted him with an expression that was hard to read. “Are you Shinsou Hitoshi?” The person asked him with a somewhat stern tone. “Yes, can I help you?” Shinsou asked, confused, while stepping out of his room, closing the door behind him “I’m here to represent the Student Affair Department and I would like you to come with me” He declared “Okay, but can you give me about five minutes, I want to take something” Shinsou replied “Be quick” The stern man replied back Shinsou turned his back on the man and entered his room again, when he noticed Yoshida was trying to eavesdrop on the conversation, he felt giddy and a light chuckle escape from his lips. “What are you doing?” Shinsou said, an endearing smile tugging on his lips “N-nothing, who is it?” Yoshida asked, blushing after being caught redhanded “Just some mail man, he said my package got mixed up, so he asked me to come with him to check it” Shinsou said, lying “Oh, would you like me to come with you?” Yoshida offered "No, it’s okay, it’ll only take a few minutes. You should go back to your room and rest, you must be tired" Shinsou denied, even though he really needed someone by his side right now “It’s okay, I can wait, so we can go outside together” Yoshida tried to persuade Shinsou “No, you should go ahead and rest first, cause I have to search for the invoice and it will take a while” Shinsou said while gesturing to a pile of papers on his desk “Oh okay then if you say so” Yoshida said, trying to hide his disappoinment Shinsou notice that Yoshida seemed down. He felt guilty that he can’t tell the real reason why Yoshida have to go back to his room, so he tried to cheer him up. “Hey.. tomorrow, meet me at our secret spot after classes are done, I’ll tell you a secret” Shinsou said, lifting Yoshida’s chin with his thumb and index finger so he can take a good look on Yoshida’s face. After he finished those word, Yoshida’s eyes sparkled, followed by a chirping “okay!” sound, making his heart skip a beat. “Cute… ” Shinsou whispered under his breath, while gazing at Yoshida “H-Huh? D-Did you say something?” Yoshida said playing dumb although he can heard him clearly because of how they are. Hearing that word made his heart race, but he had to keep a straight face, if not, the room will be filled with more awkwardness. “N-nothing, come on I’ll escort you” Shinsou said, letting go of Yoshida’s chin and ruffling Yoshida’s hair hoping Yoshida didn’t realize the red on his cheeks and ears Then Yoshida went out of Shinsou’s room to go to his own room, when he turned his head to the opposite corridor of his room, he noticed that someone was waiting in front of the door all this time but that person didn’t seem like a mail man to him. Although he’s curious and wanted to asked Shinsou about it, he choose not to be bothered by it because he trusted Shinsou and just head to his own room to rest for the night. When Shinsou saw that Yoshida was out of sight, he gestured the man to lead him to where ever they’re going after he closed and locked the door behind him. The man then lead him to the rector’s office, in his mind Shinsou already knew the consequences he had to take from punching a student to a near death condition. But he didn’t really regret his action, because of it, he got to see Yoshida’s soft, caring and cute behavior that made him felt all warm and giddy, and he felt proud from saving Yoshida from those asshole. The man from Student Affair Department opened the office door and Shinsou was greeted by two familiar and one unfamiliar figure, one of them was the principal who sat on his large arm chair and the figure who seat across the principal’s table was none other than his dad, Aizawa Shouta. Shinsou stepped inside the principal’s office and the principal gestured for Shinsou to take a seat on the empty chair that was placed at the left side of his dad. His dad give him a reasuring smile, because he knew Shinsou wouldn’t do something without a good reasoning. When the door behind them closed, the unfamiliar person beside his dad started to grumble lowly to the principal, saying that her son didn’t do anything wrong and saying that he’s always such a good boy and finally point her finger at Shinsou while saying that Shinsou was the bad and unmannered child, and asked to the principal why someone like him can went to a popular university like this. His dad didn’t take the insulting very lightly, and he started to glare daggers to the woman. The mother of the bully didn’t dare to look Aizawa in the eyes because she knew Aizawa was a pro hero and more over, his quirk and ability in combat was beyond her abilities. Shinsou didn’t want his dad to snap, so he ligthly place his hand on top of his dad’s left knee, hoping it would help him calm down, if even for a bit. The principal felt the heavy tension and broke it with a cough, after that, he asked Shinsou to told them the whole true story. His dad noticed that Shinsou was a little tense, so he give Shinsou’s hand a light squeeze, Shinsou knew his dad won’t be taking sides and he knew that he’s not wrong, and he’s ready to defend himself if needed to. So he told them the true story, from the incident when he notice the sounds at the back of the building to the moment he ran to his room, he tried to exclude Yoshida out of this mess by saying he only recognize him as a classmate. After he told them the whole true story, the mother of the bully didn’t seem to accept it, she started to point on the word “faggot” saying that if he was just a classmate why would he have to punch his son until he was on the brink of death. The principal then asked Shinsou, if the person he saved was really a classmate, it seemed suspicious that the one he saved was only a classmate, judging from the lengths he went to defend his so called ‘classmate’. Shinsou can’t really answer that question honestly because he felt different when he was with his friend and when he was with Yoshida. So he give the principal a uncertaint “yes” and the principal seems to notice the sudden change of confidence. The woman, who was the mother’s bully kept on grumbling to the principal. Until Aizawa finally snapped, he sprung up from his chair and slammed his hands on the principal’s wooden table, his quirk activating as his eyes turned red and his hair stood up. The woman flinched and averted her gaze, afraid of meeting Aizawa’s furious glare. The principal sighed, and gave the woman a little warning for spouting too much nonsense. But when the woman wanted to deny the warning, the principal already decided the punishment whether it’s for Shinsou or the bully. He then told them that Shinsou will get a one week suspension for punching a student, while the boy will get a one month suspension for bullying and calling people names. The rector then continued, stating that the suspension will take effect tomorrow. The woman didn’t agree with the decision the rector decided, and when she wanted to protest about it, the rector already dismissed them and said if the fight happened outside of campus grounds, there will be more consequences waiting for them. After being kicked out of the rector’s office, the woman glared daggers to Shinsou and stomped away on her heels. When Aizawa wanted to chase after her, Shinsou held him back, hugging him and burying his face on his dad’s clothes while muttering “Sorry” continously in a loop. Aizawa only hugged his son back, noticing Shinsou was trembling, he whispered to Shinsou “It’s okay, I don’t blame you” constantly reminding him that none of this was his fault, all he did was care for his classmate, or maybe even more than a classmate, Aizawa didn’t pressure him for answers, knowing fully well his son will tell him everything when the time came, he kept reminding him until finally Shinsou fell asleep in his arms, he picked him up, and carried him to the car, driving back to their home. —— When tomorrow came, Yoshida was excited about their promise, the words that Shinsou said yesterday kept repeating inside his head. But when class started he noticed that Shinsou was absent, he start to worry that Shinsou might get in trouble, so as soon as class ends Yoshida ran to Shinsou’s room and knocked on his door. Once.. Twice.. Thrice.. no one answered, he then tried to ask the room beside it. The occupant of the room said that Shinsou’s dad was here this morning to collect somethings and said that he will be back a week later. Yoshida then thanked the person, he was suprised that Shinsou didn’t told him that he had some family matter to take care of. But something, somewhere deep in his heart, Yoshida felt a little throb, he can’t really describe this feeling, it seems like he felt lonely and sad but why? Is it because of Shinsou’s absence? Or was it because Shinsou didn’t told him he will be away for a week? Or is it because he broke their promise?, he really have no idea but his chest felt heavy and suddenly it became really hard to breathe until his vision was a little fogged up. Panicking, Yoshida run back to his room and throw himself on top of his bed. Inhaling and exhaling deeply to calm himself down, he then fell into a deep slumber with a throbbing feeling on his chest. When the sun rised up, Yoshida tried to ignore the distant throbbing feeling by keeping himself busy, he tried to study day and night. —— A week past, and Yoshida finally got to see Shinsou again. He was so happy to finally get to meet him again, but when he came into the classroom, Shinsou kept his eyes locked to the window he didn’t even try to stole a glance to the door like he used to, but Yoshida wasn’t really bothered by it, because they soon will get to meet and chat when it was lunch time. So when the bell rang, Yoshida sprinted to the back of the building waiting for Shinsou to come, he wanted to suprise Shinsou that he arrived at their spot first. But when he waited, Shinsou didn’t come whether it’s lunch break or when classes was dismissed, Shinsou still didn’t come to their secret spot. Yoshida felt the throbbing sensation again and his chest felt tight, he almost passed out because of the pain and he began tearing up a little but he had to hold back the tears because he’s a college student now and he’s a man and mens don’t cry easily. He then ran back to his room and pass out on top of his bed, forgetting the tightness he felt on his chest. The day after that, Yoshida didn’t even try to greet Shinsou because he was afraid he might disturb him, and when it was lunch time he didn’t even try to go to their secret spot because it only will trigger his emotions again. So right now, he’s silently ate his lunch on his seat, even though he saw Shinsou was going out of the classroom he didn’t try to follow him, instead he looked away, fooling and telling himself he didn’t saw it. All of a sudden someone poked his arm, so he whipped his head to the front and found Kimura was facing him on his seat “Hey, hey, did you know that Shinsou got a suspension notice?” Kimura asked “Suspension? From what?” Yoshida asked, taken back by what Kimura said “I don’t know, I just heard from the rumors that was being spread” Kimura shrugged “Oh and did you know that lately he was getting bullied in the back of the gym building?” He added “What?! I didn’t heard any of this” Yoshida said, half-shouting, shock on his voice “I know right, it was suprising, who knew that Shinsou might get himself bullied, even though his quirk was so strong” Kimura said, while he place his hand under his chin, wondering Kimura kept on rambling to Yoshida but he was already deep in his thoughts, he began asking questions, Shinsou was bullied? Why I didn’t heard any of this? Is that why he became so distant to me? More and more questions kept popping out of his head but none of them can be answered by himself unless he asked Shinsou himself, but he didn’t dare to ask or to interfere about this matter. Day after day the bullying became worse, until Yoshida saw it with his own eyes. He was going to throw away his trash when he saw Shinsou, the boy that did nothing wrong, getting beat up and being called as a villain at the back of the dorm, just because his quirk is more suitable for being a villain. There were 4 people that surrounded Shinsou, Yoshida silently gasped, and hide behind a nearby wall, he peeked over and recognizes the bullies faces, surprisingly they were the ones that used to bully him, but a week ago, they stopped bothering him. “You think it’s cool huh? Playing hero?” Said one of the bullies, kicking him in the stomach, that made Shinsou cough, “Not so strong again are you?” One of the bullies said, pulling him up by his hair, after making his point, he dropped Shinsou back, “You think saving that stupid nerd, Yoshida, makes you a hero? Think again!” The same bully kicked him in the shin, Yoshida was shocked, the whole reason, the bully stopped bothering him, was because Shinsou stepped in, and took his place. With the advantage of his quirk, Shinsou actually can fight the bullies without making any effort, but because he’s still afraid from the suspension notice he didn’t try to fight back. The sounds of footsteps startled the bullies, and they finally scurried away. After the incident happened, Shinsou tried to stand up, wobbling back to his dorm, and soon light rain started pouring outside as he entered the dorm, followed by Yoshida. Worried, Yoshida followed him to his room, and when he got to his door a loud thud noise startled Yoshida making him stop in his movement. Not long after that, he heard a shattering noise from the inside, afraid that Shinsou might hurt himself he ran to the door and slammed it open and stepped inside. What Yoshida saw in there made him pale, Shinsou’s hand was bleeding so much from punching the wall and there are broken glasses not too far from his feet where he stood. “Shinsou!! Y-your hand, it’s bleeding!!” Yoshida shouted, panic seeping through his voice “Shut up!! What are you even doing here?! Did you just followed me here?!” Shinsou shouted back, confusion and anger dripping from his voice. “I-I.. I..” Yoshida stuttering, too shocked after Shinsou shouted at him “Get out!! Now!!” Shinsou shouted again followed by a loud thunder outside, his heart pained even more after seeing Yoshida’s even more shocked expression He didn’t meant to raise his voice at Yoshida, he was just feeling on edge lately because of the constant bullying, that’s why he started to distance himself from Yoshida, he didn’t want Yoshida to get involved again or got hurt because of him, he did all of it to protect Yoshida. Shinsou knew he can easily force Yoshida out of his room with his quirk, but the trembling of his lips, tears threatening to spill from his eyes as his hands hestitated to reach out to Shinsou, all made him avert his eyes, guilt visible in it. The downpour and small rumbling of lightning was the only noise that can be heard, it felt like a thuderstorm, the same phrase that can describe Yoshida’s mind at this moment. Many question of ‘what’, 'why’, and 'what if’ started popping out of his head, making him freeze on the spot with his head hanging low. Shinsou was still on edge, so seeing Yoshida didn’t budge from his spot left him no choice but to push him out of his room. “Please Yoshida, just.. get out of my room for now, I don’t want to use my quirk on you,” he said as he approached Yoshida and tried to push him away, but Yoshida suddenly grabbed the hand that pushed him and dragged Shinsou to sit on the bed. Before he can process anything, he was already in a position where he sat on his bed with Yoshida climbing onto his lap, so Yoshida was straddling him in a kneeling position, and he hold onto Shinsou’s shoulders to kept his balance. “W-Wh-What are you doing?!” Shinsou said, flushed and panicking that they were in such a position Yoshida didn’t said anything, he only hanged his head low enough for Shinsou to saw his forehead, Shinsou can’t really read his expression clearly because of how dark the room is, the only source of light was from the now closed door to the corridor. Suddenly, Yoshida started to tremble and sob on Shinsou’s lap, fueling his panic, but before Shinsou can do anything, he moved one of his hand from Shinsou’s shoulder and settled on his chest, and a warm blue light came out of Yoshida’s hand. The blue light made Shinsou instantly relax and calmed down, he finally can think clearly and for once in his life, he felt at peace. He then assumed that it was Yoshida’s quirk that made him at peace. And like the weather outside as if mirroring what Shinsou felt, the downpour started to subside a little. When Shinsou was about to told Yoshida that he have calmed down, the man on his lap suddenly wrapped his arms on Shinsou’s neck. “Y-Yoshida? Are you okay?” He asked softly, but he didn’t get any reply, Shinsou noticed his shoulder started to dampen, making his lurking guilt even bigger. He then tried to get Yoshida out of his shoulder so he can take a good look at him. Yoshida reluctantly let go of the hug and settle his hands back to Shinsou’s shoulders. “Hey, look at me… ” He said softly to Yoshida, cupping Yoshida’s cheeks with his hands He sniffed and looked at Shinsou with red and teary eyes, his cheeks were wet, but because of how dim the room was, Shinsou can’t clearly see Yoshida’s red eyes, the only hint for him was Yoshida’s wet cheeks “Don’t cry… I hate to see you cry” Shinsou said, gently wiping the tears from his eyes, his heart clenched when he heard Yoshida whimper from his touch “It’s all because of me isn’t it?” Yoshida murmured, his tears threatening to fall again, he started to tigthen his hold on Shinsou’s shoulders. “It’s all because of my fault that you got suspension, it’s my fault that you’re being bullied and it’s my fault that you got these scars” He sobbed, he reminded himself of the first time Shinsou got scars on his hands, it’s from the time he protected him from the bullies and now Shinsou protected him again by taking his place. Seeing Yoshida broke down to tears again, made Shinsou’s heart clench even more to the point his eyes started watering, with unshed tears. “Please don’t cry I–” Shinsou plead, but was cut of by Yoshida “B-but you got hurt because of me, all of it were because of my fault. If only I was a stronger person, not like some stupid nerd that always cowered in the corner” Yoshida rambled “It’s not your fault, you know. I do all that because I want to, I want to protect you because you’re important to me, even more than myself” Shinsou explained, he cupped Yoshida’s cheeks again “So Kei, please… don’t cry, it hurts me to see you cry” He continued, then he pull Yoshida’s face down and started to put chaste kisses on Yoshida’s forehead, eyes, nose and cheeks making Yoshida’s tears stop and his heart beats a mile per minute. Shinsou really want to see Yoshida’s reaction, but he could only feel that he was tense on his lap, he almost cursed the weather outside for not giving any source of light. But at least, now that Yoshida has calmed down, he can proceed to confess his feelings. Shinsou took a deep breath and braced himself, he then slowly lowered his hands and grabbed both of Yoshida’s hands. Soon he start to explained what had happened this past few weeks. “It was back then that I didn’t trusted or even cared for anyone not even myself, I was never really interested in what others think of me. I thought as long as they didn’t bothered me, I can live on. People usually come to me when they want to prank or hurt someone. I’ll always told them to fuck off, but everytime I told them to stop bothering me, they always came with more people and threaten me. Thats why, I got scared of society and became a loner in class” He said with a dry chuckle, earning himself a light squeeze from the other person. “And when I first saw you in the class, It felt like I’m looking at myself, you always seem like a loner in class and I only think of you as my classmate. But when I get to know you better, you were actually very kind and so easy to talk to, you weren’t afraid of me or even tried to black mail me. From that point on, you changed me" “I never really thought that you’ll be someone really important to me, someone I want to protect and care for. Until that time I saw you got bullied, that scene made my blood boil and I just want to kept you somewhere save with me. That’s why I switched our place, so you won’t get hurt by the bullies” “B-but why?” Yoshida asked, his heart beating faster as the seconds tick by, making him nervous every passing second. “At first I don’t really know the name of this feelings” He chuckled, “But now I know that I’m actually falling for you, I like you, I love you Kei” Shinsou declared Eventually the rain outside stopped, the sky cleared up after the rain. It’s cloudy now, but it’s clearing up gradually. The moon slowly emerging from behind the clouds accompanied by the stars making it an ethereal night, the moon and stars high up in the sky shining and twinkling brightly in the dark sky. The moonlight crept in from Shinsou’s window, the light touches the dark room and slowly lighting up the room including Yoshida’s face, cheeks streaked with tears, as his nose was red from crying, a faint blush crept up to his bone cheeks, his eyes big as saucers staring down at Shinsou with a gaze that seemed… not distrustful, but hesitant, almost as if not believing what he just heard. “W-what? H-how? Why?” He stuttered “I said I love you as more than a friend, the way you smile to me when our eyes met, the way you talked to me without wary, the way you laugh when we joked around, the way your eyes sparkled when you get interested, the way you blush when I caught you red handed, the way your face lighten up when you got what you want, the way you always know how to calm me down, and the way you always worrried that I got hurt, all of them made me fell in love with you. When our hands intertwined, my heart beats faster and I don’t want to let go, and everytime you got too close to someone other than me I got jealous, I want to always keep you close to me. I don’t want to force you to return my feelings, I just want to–” Shinsou was cut off by a pair of plump lips meeting his chapped one, Yoshida kissed him it was an innocent touch just two lips pressing together. When they pulled away, Yoshida’s face was as red as tomato “S-shut up, I-I love you too” He stuttered while blushing so hard, he had to hide his face with his hands Hearing his love replied back to his feelings made Shinsou’s heart soar to cloud nine, feeling greedy for Yoshida he asked “Can we continue the kiss?” When Yoshida pulled his hands away, he was much more closer than before. He could feel his breathing directly on his face, burning his cheeks along with the blush. He felt a smile he had been holding spill out. Taking it as a confirmation. Shinsou brought his lips to meet the other pair, it was pecked at first but soon escalated to pressing and nibbling. Yoshida hugged his love’s neck and the kiss turned into much more than a kiss from that point onwards. Their tongue slid into each other’s mouth. Their hands gripped each others clothing like they were scared that one of them might leave. The desire to get rid of all space existent between them was growing, but as shy as he was,Yoshida couldn’t bring himself to fix the issue. So Shinsou brought the matter to his own hands like he heard his prayer. He turned the position around so that Yoshida was laying down on his bed with him on top, he then pressed their chest together. They could feel each other’s agitated breathing like they were one. Shinsou felt like his blood boiled like lava, he felt like burning when Yoshida’s fingers started dancing around his neck and nape making him shiver from delight. Shinsou suddenly slid his hands underneath Yoshida’s clothes and started caressing his lower back making him flinched. The skin to skin contact was the last drop, it added to everything they were feeling and a hum escape from the two. They have lost themself in the kiss and nothing can hold them back anymore. They took a moment to breathe by placing their foreheads together and enjoying the moment. Yoshida was drowning in Shinsou’s indigo eyes when he felt his lips ghosting on his own. “I’ve missed you” He said procceding to hug Shinsou, remembering the days when Shinsou wasn’t by his side “I’ve missed you too” Shinsou replied back while nuzzling his nose to Yoshida’s neck, tightening the hug “So… are you like… mine now?” Yoshida trailed off with a slightly teasing tone, pulling away from Shinsou’s neck “Haha, I’m yours as you’re mine” Shinsou chuckled, hearing his love was so possesive for him making him felt truly loved “Oh, oh, can I call you Hitoshi now?” Yoshida asked again as he smile sweetly making him looked so breathtaking for Shinsou “Of course you can, love” Shinsou smirked, earning himself a light slap on the arm “N-not fair” Yoshida blushed, he’s not used to be called by pet names They continued their chattering until they tired themselves out, Yoshida fixed Shinsou bloody hands and slept together holding each other in their arms. ——————– The following morning the two of them got to class together and when they entered the class, Kimura greeted them and told them that the bullies got caught red handed bullying other students as well and they were expelled from the university. All their burden were finally lifted, and they continued on their days with a smile on their faces. It all started with a curious gesture, a “thank you” that brought them all the way to an “I love you”. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone, we find it with another. -Thomas Merton.

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Vanilla Latte - Shinsoubowl Week day 3 : Coffee Shop

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Here’s my entry for day 3 of @shinsoubowl

Characters : Shinsou Hitoshi, Orginal Character (Ren Sakamoto), Aizawa Shouta, Eri

Edited and beta read by my wonderful friend @foxichus and @utinsworld

Enjoy! :)

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It was a rather pleasant afternoon for Sakamoto Ren, a neurology student studying at Tokyo University, the wind was blowing softly as she made her way down to the coffee shop. Ren was reminded that the new coffee shop has already opened, when she made her way back from university, and since her assignment isn't done yet she thought it's a great idea to swing by the new coffee shop.

The bell above the door chimmed as Ren opened the door to the coffee shop. Soft jazz was playing in the background and the air smelled strongly of coffee, and she didn't mind it.

As a kid she hated everything that screams coffee, now, being a medical student that majors in neurologist, she needs caffeine like she needs air, like it's a necessity for her to function properly. So here she is, ordering yet another vanilla latte, she could almost hear uraraka yelling at her to not order yet the same fucking drink every damn hour. But hey, she's doing her assignment, a little caffeine wouldn't hurt a soul.

As Ren was going to pay for her drink, she noticed the unusually unique hair color of the barista. "Cool hair, did you dye it? Or is it your natural hair color?" Ren asked curiosity got the best of her, the barista only blinked, once, twice, thrice, and silence enveloped them.

"Oh shit, Did I offended you? oh my god, why do I keep asking people personal questions, oh my god I'm so sorry I should've just pay my drink and shut up, sorry" Ren apologized as she handed the barista her money with a flushed face and proceed to get even more flushed as the silence suddenly turned to laughter from the barista, even though she's practically a tomato, she didn't mind the sound of his laughter, it's almost soothing to hear him laugh.

"I'm really sorry I offended you, I should've mind my own business" Ren said again apologetically, and the boy only laughed even more, making poor Ren even more red if it's actually possible, which suprisingly it is possible.

"It's been like what, a month? Since I actually got a good laugh" he said, wiping a few tears that managed to escape his eyes, "Again, I'm really sorry" Ren said, "Oh by all means you don't offend me, I was just taken back" the barista said as he finally took the money from Ren, saving her from further embarrassment.

"Why taken back though? I'm sure this isn't the first time you have been asked questions about your unique hair" Ren said as she took her change from the barista "I wouldn't say this is the first time, I do get a lot of people asking about my hair, but they wouldn't describe it as...unique, they usually call it strange or weird since it's an eyecatching color that's hard to miss" he said as he rubbed the back of his neck averting his eyes from Ren.

Hearing that people actually thought the beautifully unique colored hair weird or strange Ren felt irritated "What kind of idiotic people would call a beautiful indigo hair weird? Don't listen to those idiots, your hair color is beautiful" Ren said while admiring the barista's hair even more.

The barista, completely shooked, could only stare at his customer, "T-Thanks, no one have actually said that my hair looks... beautiful" he said with a hint of pink dusting his cheeks, "Well now you got one that will everyday remind you that your hair is awesome" Ren said, a ghost of a smile on her lips, "By the way, it's my natural hair color" he said, answering her question.

"Oh! No wonder it's so pigmented, the human body really is fascinating, but such unique color...how does one reproduce the color? Do they--" Ren droned as she processed more information as the longer she droned on and on, and somehow, the barista didn't stop her, and just let her droned on as he stared at her, his lips slowly twitched upwards, forming a smile.

"Oh God, there it goes again, my stupid ramblings, I'm so sorry" Ren said, cheeks flushing red as she stopped and realised that she just rambled on, probably making the barista bored out of his mind, "Oh no, it's okay, it's actually very analytical of you, it's kind of interesting to see you pour out your thoughts on how you view things" he said.

"Wow, someone that actually doesn't hate me for my annoying weird ramblings, thank you" Ren said as her cheeks turn pink, "Why would people think you're annoying just because you're being analytical? They're just jealous of your sharp skills" it was the barista's turn to get irritated, he said as he huffed.

"Well I do drone on and on until either someone stopped me or I realised myself, that's why they think I'm weird and annoying, hell, even I think I'm weird and annoying" Ren said, "Do not think you are weird just because you're analytical, it's a skill that maybe not everybody has, so don't think it's weird just because other people think it's weird" the barista said as he pointed a sharpie to her, a cup on the other hand, ready to write her name.

"Thankyou ummm...." Ren stopped as she realised she didn't knew the barista's name, "Hitoshi, Shinsou Hitoshi" the barista said putting down the sharpie and extending his hand for Ren to shake, "Ren, Sakamoto Ren", Ren said as she shook his hand, "Thankyou Shinshou, it means a lot to me" Ren said, "And thankyou to you too Sakamoto, it means a lot for me too" the barista, Hitoshi said.

"Just sit wherever you want and I'll bring you your drink later" Hitoshi said as he start to work on Ren's drink "Ok, thanks Shinsou" Ren said as she settled near a window, the afternoon sun colored the sky a sunkissed orange.

Ren was relieved that no one other than herself was inline, if anyone was inline, they probably would have scowled long since she and the barista that she know now as Hitoshi, were taking their pretty time talking, maybe because it's a weekend evening so the line reduce to only her.

As Ren sat down and took out her assignment she noticed that the air conditioning was just the perfect temperature and the soft jazz playing in the background only helped her focus.

So she started doing her assignment. Not long after, Hitoshi came with her latte, but Ren was to immersed on her assignment so he just put the latte on her desk. After about an hour of scribbling sounds, Ren finally put her pen down and stretched her sore muscles, hearing them pop as she stretched.

She finally took notice of the latte on her desk that should have been cold, but when she took a sip of the latte, it was just the perfect temperature. "You like it?" Hitoshi said from behind the cashier counter, apparently the shop's only occupant are the 2 of them.

"Yeah I do, the latte is surprisingly still warm" she said, a bit of amazement on her face, at that he laughed, "Yeah, I took your latte twice to warm it up since, you didn't drink it till now, I guess that assignment is really important if you were so immersed doing it" Ren laughed sheepishly.

"Thanks for warming it up for me, I do tend to get to immersed in my assignments, since I want them to have no mistakes" he nodded along, as if a sign of agreement, "I almost do the same thing everytime I got an assignment" he said, as he peeked over to see her work, "What are you majoring in? Your assignment seems tough" he said.

"I major as a medical student specialising in neurologist at Tokyo University" she said, "The assignment IS tough since my professor gave me a lot of disease cases that are usually rare in neurology" Ren said, Hitoshi laughed at that, "I have a professor like that to, most of the time he gave me projects that is just straight up hard or even impossible to make".

Ren laughed, "Oh you also have it tough then, what are you majoring in?" Ren asked back, curioused, "I major in engineering specialising in mechanical engineering at Tokyo University" Hitoshi said, "Oh wow, I never thought you were a mechanical major" Ren said, genuinely surprised, "I never thought you're majoring in neurologist either".

At that, both of them laughed, "I also wasn't expecting that we go to the same university" Ren said, astonishment in her voice, "I got a scholarship for Tokyo University, so I thought why not going there" Hitoshi said with a shrug, "Oh, me too, I also got a scholarship there, so I decided to go there" Ren replied.

"We have a lot in common don't we?" Hitoshi questioned with a laugh following, "Yeah, we do" Ren replied, Hitoshi glanced at the watch at his wrist, "It's almost time for my shift to end, where is that guy?", Hitoshi said looking around the perimeter of the shop, "I'm gonna go and finish up around the shop" Hitoshi said, "Oh ok, go ahead" Ren said as she continued drinking her latte.

And after a good 5 minutes a brown haired guy came in to take Hitoshi's place, "You wanna go home now?" Ren asked as she tuck away her assignment into her bag, "Yeah, you?" Hitoshi said as he untie the apron on his waist and gave it to the guy that just arrived.

"Me too, my assignment's all finished, all I need is to just turn it in on Monday" Ren said, "Do you live nearby?" Hitoshi asked, a bit curious, "I do live nearby, what about you?" Ren asked back, "I live around here too" He replied, "Wanna walk back together?" Ren asked, "Sure, just give me a sec" He said as he disappeared through a door.

Ren decided to wait outside beside the door to the shop, a minute later and a puff of indigo hair approached her. "Ready?" Hitoshi asked, "Yea, let's go" Ren said, as they walked side by side, the sun set over the horizon dyeing the sky a deep tangerine.

They walked on the side pavement, cool breeze brushing past them as the peripheral view around them dyed a more darker shade of tangerine, they walked in silence. After a while the silence became unbearable so Hitoshi decided to broke it.

"So...um, where do you live?" He asked Ren, "Oh, I live just around this corner" Ren said, "But I think I want to go grocery shopping, so you can go ahead first" Ren continued, "Oh..okay, see you on monday then?" Hitoshi asked, "Yeah, see you on monday", both Ren and Hitoshi, waved goodbye, and went their own separate ways.

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Ren came home, holding 3 huge grocery bags, she was having a bit of difficulty carrying the bags, but she can manage. Turns out there was a flash sale at the store, and she came just in time for the sale to start.

After much struggling, Ren finally arrived at her door, she dropped the grocery bags and winced when they made a loud thud, she started to rumage for her keys, when suddenly the door next to hers, opened.

She was getting ready to apologise for the loud noise, when a familiar face appeared from behind that door, "Shinsou?" Ren asked confused, "Sakamoto?" Hitoshi asked back, "You live here?" Ren asked, "Yeah I do, I didn't knew that you also lived here" Hitoshi said back, still surprise.

"Sorry, I must have disturbed you, from the loud thud" Ren said, apolagizing while she inserted her key, "Oh no, it's fine I didn't came out because of the noise, I was just going to find dinner for myself", he said.

"Say..., do you know any good and cheap restaurants around here? I don't know the area too well, since I just moved yesterday" he asked, "Ohhh so the boxes yesterday was yours" Ren said, as if having a revelation, "Yeah, it was mine" Hitoshi said rubbing the back of his neck while averting his eyes, somehow feeling timid. "Um… so… do you know any good and cheap restaurants?" Hitoshi asked again

"You know what? Specially only for today, I'll cook for you, to celebrate you moving in" Ren said, while unlocking her door, "Oh no, really you don't have to go through the trouble" Hitoshi said, worried he would cause trouble for his new neighbour,

"It's okay, besides I was going to cook fried rice for myself and I bought too many ingredients" Ren said as she opened her door. "You sure it wouldn't be a bother?" Hitoshi asked again, afraid he would be a bother to her.

"No, of course not, I insisted" Ren said while reaching for her grocery bags, but Hitoshi beat her to it, taking 2 of her bags, "This is the least I could do for you, since you're going to cook for me" Hitoshi said.

"Oh, ok thanks" Ren said picking up her remaining grocery bags and entered her apartment, "Come on in", Ren said, gesturing him to come in, "Sorry, for intruding" He said as he took of his shoes, Ren placed her bags on top of the kitchen counter, followed by Hitoshi, "Make yourself at home" Ren said, as she took out the groceries out of the bag.

Hitoshi sat at the floor by the table, and examined Ren's apartment, though it was a rather cramped apartment, it was enough for a person to live in. Ren washed the ingredients in silence, when Hitoshi suddenly asked, breaking the silence.

"How long have you been living here?" he asked, curious, "Since my first semester, the rent is cheap, and it's not far from university, and it even has an air conditioner and heater" Ren said, while washing the ingredients, she then peeled the carrots, and started chopping them along with the leek that was also washed.

Ren then chopped some garlics for their fried rice, she then cut the shrimps into small pieces along with ham, when she remembered something, "Oh, I just remembered, there are some really cheap restaurants around here, like around 5 minutes from here, there is this really cheap ramen shop I think it's around, ouch--" the chopping sounds suddenly stopped and Hitoshi perked up, turns out, Ren wasn't paying attention, and accidentally cut herself.

"What happened? Did you cut yourself?" Hitoshi asked, taking a step closer to Ren, taking her injured hand to have closer look. Having her hand suddenly grabbed, she blushed a bit, Hitoshi not noticing it, asked Ren, "Do you have any first aid kits?" he asked Ren, she didn't respond, too focused on the warm and surprisingly, soft hands of her new (sweet) neighbor.

"Ren?" Hitoshi asked again, snapping her back to reality, "O-Oh! Ah yeah, um first aid kits, y-yeah I have them, let me, uh, let me, take them out real quick!" Ren said, while she ran to what was persumed as the bathroom.

Feeling the lost of warmth from his hands, realization hit Hitoshi like bricks, out of concern for his neighbour, he just accidentally, grabbed her hand, red crept across his face as it fully hits him, that he just grabbed a girl's hand, moreover, his new friend's hand, he looked at his hand, already missing the tiny and soft hand of Ren.

Meanwhile, Ren on the other hand, wasn't doing well either, her face bloomed into a red tomato, as soon as she entered her safe haven, the bathroom, she can feel the heat in her face as she brought up her hands to touch her face, her injured hand long forgotten, she didn't know either what made her so flustered or how her heart started to beat so fast that it aches.

"I don't have heart issues do I?" she asked, to nobody in particular, she only hoped Hitoshi didn't realised her long absent, because she needs time to cool down, a lot of time indeed. After Ren cooled down, she then took the first aid kit, and brought it back to her kitchen.

"Here it is, my first aid kit" Ren said, as she showed Hitoshi her first aid kit, but Hitoshi seemed... dazed, as if his focus is somewhere else, "Shinsou?" Ren called again staring at Hitoshi, trying to get his attention, "Ah? A-Ah yeah, uh, your first aid kit, umm, let's sit first" Hitoshi said, as he snapped back to reality.

He reached out to guide Ren's hand to where she should sit, but then he retracted his hand back, and somehow, her heart felt a pang. At this point, she is seriously considering to ask her friend, Momo, a genius cardiology student whether she had some heart issues, her heart seemed...odd, like how it's beating so fast, or how her heart did somersaults, or the pang that she just experienced.

Ren sat across Hitoshi, "Let me see your hand" Hitoshi asked, as he hold out his hand, Ren slowly placed her injured hand on Hitoshi's hand, ah, there it is again, her heart started doing those stupid somersaults again.

"Hmmm, fortunately, you injury isn't that deep, so rubbing alcohol should do the trick" Hitoshi said as he wetted a cotton pad with rubbing alcohol and lightly dabbed on Ren's injured hand, she hissed, but didn't retracted her hand, Hitoshi gave a little squeeze to her hand, reassuring her, and somehow, the pain of rubbing alcohol suddenly disappeared, because all she could hear was the loud thumping of her heart, she could only hope Hitoshi didn't hear how loud her heart beats.

Noticing that Ren had somehow adjusted to the rubbing alcohol, Hitoshi continued to lightly dab at her injury, all the while, trying to calm his loud beating heart, he should stop consuming too much caffeine, it's not healthy, judging by how hard his heart is beating.

Ren's injury is finally cleansed, and Hitoshi wrapped her hand in a band aid with little cute cat pattern in it, he tried to stiffle his laugh, over the cute pattern of her band aid, but eventually asked her where she bought the band aids, since secretly he was a huge fan of cats, "Since I'm all patched up, I should start cooking now" Ren said, after she came back from putting her first aid kit back in the bathroom, “No you’re not, I’m gonna be the one cooking” Hitoshi said.

“But I was the one that was gonna cook for you, plus you’re the guest here” Ren said, trying to argue with Hitoshi, “All I’m gonna do is cook, you already washed and chopped the vegetables and even the shrimp and ham, plus, I felt a bit guilty, since the whole reason you got injured was because you were telling me about a cheap restaurant that I asked before” Hitoshi said, guilt could be heard in his voice, a bit of a pout on his face

Ren couldn’t help but sucked a breath in when she saw the cute little pout that formed on Hitoshi’s lips, making him seemingly even more cuter, if he wasn’t already cute enough “Oh you, now I’m the one feeling guilty” Ren said, as she laughed a little, “No, you shoudn’t have, I’m the one at fault here, so no complaints, I’m gonna be the one to cook and that’s final, just tell me what to put in first” Hitoshi said, as he took what seemed to be a frying pan.

“Wait… you don’t know how to cook fried rice?” Ren said, as the realization hit her when Hitoshi asked for directions, “I know how to cook it, but I wanna know your style of fried rice, who knows, I might like your style better than how I used too cook fried rice” Hitoshi said.

Hearing that Hitoshi was curious on how Ren usually cook, her heart started beating faster again, and now if she was still considering whether to ask her friend Momo or not, she definitely should ask her friend whether she has heart issues or not, her heart keeps acting up.

“O-Oh, uh, okay then” Ren said as her cheeks dusted pink. Ren gave Hitoshi the directions to make her style of fried rice, and surprisingly, despite being an engineer, Hitoshi was a good cook, after almost all the ingredients and sauces have been mixed, it was time to taste test it.

Hitoshi scooped a spoonful of fried rice and tested it, Ren waiting for a reaction from him, after a while, his eyes grew wide, and he turned too Ren, giving her a thumbs up, “It tastes good, you should try it” Hitoshi said as he scooped another spoonful of fried rice, and feed it to Ren, who without a second thought, ate it.

Hitoshi than realized something very crucial that instantly turned his face red, he just ate the fried rice from the very same spoon he fed Ren with, he should have changed spoons, but it was so good he wanted Ren to taste it as fast as possible, moreover, it’s not like she broke her arm and can’t move it, she could have eaten it by herself, without even being spoon fed by him. Ren tasted it and nodded approvingly, “Yeah, this is it, my style of fried rice” she said.

On the other hand, her heart was pounding very fast, she just ate with the same spoon that Hitoshi ate from, she was too eager to taste the fried rice that she didn’t think again, and just ate what he gave her, moreover, Hitoshi just fed her. He. Just. Fed. Her, isn’t this usually in those cheesy romance novels that uraraka just love too read, what was it called again? Indirect what? Ren didn’t remembered, she was too flustered to think straight.

“U-Uh, it’s-it’s good!, I should, uh, prepare the tables!” Ren said, as she dashed to where the cabinet’s are, “Oh!, uh, Okay! I’m just gonna, um, finish up around here!” Hitoshi said as he, kept stirring the already cooked fried rice, deep red coloring their faces, as they tried to calm down their frantic beating heart.

The tables were set, and the fried rice was evenly distributed between two plates, Ren and Hitoshi sat across each other, “Itadakimasu!” They both said at the same time, and started eating, Ren looked at the clock on her wall, “Oh!, it’s starting!” Ren said as she got up from her seating position to take the remote control, Hitoshi raised an eyebrow at her excitement “Mind if I turn it on?” She asked Hitoshi, “Sure, go ahead” Hitoshi said.

Ren turned the tv on and searched for the right channel, after finding it, she turned up the volume, and put down the remote, “This is…Jeopardy!” The tv exclaimed, as they ate, the tv show, that was named Jeopardy, began introducing their contestant, after the contestants and host have been introduced the show continued, “Here we go, jeopardy round! And the categories, would be divided into 2 main categories, the workings of the nerve system, and the workings of machines”, the host continued, this time introducing the quiz categories “Oh! This is gonna be fun” Ren said as she continued eating, Hitoshi perked up when the word ‘machines’ were mentioned.

“Alright Bob” the tv host said, asking the contestant, Bob, the doctor, to pick a topic from the two main topics, “The workings of the nerve system $200 please” the contestant picked, “Nicee, Bob, good choice” Ren said, after she swallowed her fried rice, “Friedreich ataxia is caused by a mutation of a gene locus on which chromosome? Chromosome 4, 9, 14, or 19?.” The host said, “Chromosome 9. It was from an autosomal recessive disorder resulting from a mutation of a gene locus” Ren immediately answered, not giving Bob, the doctor, even a second to think, Hitoshi was impressed at how fast she answered.

Bob immediately answered, “Chromosome 14" the wrong answer sound effect played and Ren sighed in frustration "It was easy Bob, it was chromosome 9, how did you even get that wrong”, Ren said a bit irritated

“Chromosome 14 is for follicular lymphoma and friends not friedreich ataxia” Ren said, frustrated, “And friends?” Hitoshi asked, a bit curious, “The mutation of chromosome 14 can lead to different kinds of disease, one of them is the follicular lymphoma, there’s a lot other of diseases that is caused by the mutation of the chromosome 14, but friedreich ataxia is definitely not caused by chromose 14” Ren said, explaining her answer.

Hitoshi was surprised at how fast she could answer the question and even giving an explanation for her answer, and also the wrong answer that Bob who is apparently a doctor, gave the host.

"Too bad Bob, better luck next time" the host said, "Alright, Karen" the host said, turning his attention to Karen, an engineer, "The workings of the machine, $200 please" she picked, "Oh" Hitoshi said, as his spoon stopped mid way to his mouth,

"Which of these mechanism has six links? Is it Tchebicheff, hart, peaucellier or watt?" the host said, "Hart's mechanism requires only six links, it's Harts Karen, hart's" Hitoshi answered, as if he was Karen, Ren could only stare at Hitoshi, astonished at his speed "Peaucellier mechanism" and yet again, the wrong sound effect played, "Peaucellier requires 8 links, Karen, 8 not 6, how could you forget something that easy" Hitoshi sighed, a hint of frustration on his voice.

"Wow, you answered at the speed of nightling, I'm shocked" Ren said praising him, all the while clapping a little, "T-Thanks" Hitoshi said, pink spread across his cheeks, when he suddenly, noticed.

"Nightling?" Hitoshi asked, "Ah, S-Sorry, it's kind of a habit" Ren said, suddenly embarrassed, "Us neuro students like too use the catchphrase 'at the speed of lightning' since the shape of it is kinda similar to nerves, like it branches too a lot of branch, like nerves", Ren explained

"But we kinda changed it to nightling, since we have a really popular lecturer, that likes to be a nightling", Ren continued, "Nightling means lightning that strikes at night, he really likes too change schedules or give us assignments or notices at, well, kinda ungodly hours, so he kinda strikes like a lightning at night" Ren ended her explaination

"Oh, I just knew there was that kind of lecturer" Hitoshi said, surprised, "Yeah, there is, he's really popular too, for a lot of different reasons", Ren said, "What kind of reasons?" Hitoshi asked, curious, "One of them was that behind his all black outfit, lies a heart of gold, do you have any lecturer's that's really popular? " Ren asked, curious "Oh, there was this really popular lecture, she was--" They continued their conversation, tv long forgotten.

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"Here you go, tea" Ren said, handing Hitoshi a mug of tea, another one on her hand. The cool breeze of the veranda making the tea the perfect temperature.

"Thanks for inviting me to dinner, your fried rice is really good" Hitoshi said, while sipping his tea, "I should be the one thanking you, besides, you're the one who cook, not me" Ren said laughing a little.

"Still, you were the one giving me directions" Hitoshi said, "Well.. fair enough" Ren said, "Really, thanks though" Hitoshi said, showing his genuineness, "Thank you to you too, for cooking today" Ren said back, comfortable silence enveloped them when suddenly, Ren spoke up.

"Say.... does your hair feel... stiff?" Ren said, curious, "No, it doesn't, why?" Hitoshi asked back, confused, "No, just curious, it's just that, the way it stands up, I thought it would be stiff" Ren said turning her attention back to the mug at her hand.

When suddenly Hitoshi asked, "Do you wanna feel it?" He said, "Um, no, uh, it's okay, I'm satisfied with your answer" Ren said, resisting her will to touch his hair, Hitoshi laughed at that, knowing full well his friend is far from satisfied, "It's okay, I don't mind, go on a head" Hitoshi said, moving his head closer for Ren to touch.

Ren, put her mug down, hesitant but surely, she raised her hand and touched the soft indigo hair of Hitoshi’s, "Wow... It's softer than I thought, how does the nerve, keep it standing? Oh could it be because of--" Ren said, mumbling while feeling more of Hitoshi's hair.

Hitoshi could only hope Ren doesn't notice his rapid heart, beating a mile per minute, should he ask Aizawa whether he has a cardiologist friend? It seems like he has heart problems

"Oh, I-I'm so sorry Shinsou!, I-I lost track of myself again..." Ren said, apologising, Hitoshi looked up, ready to tell Ren that it was fine, when he noticed, Ren's red face, was she always this red? He doesn't know.

"Oh, uh, no it's-it's ok, it's fine" Hitoshi said, the atmosphere suddenly took a drastic change, and awkward silence surrounded them, red was visible on their faces, and they turn their faces opposites way, hoping the other wouldn't notice their faces.

After a while, Ren broke the silence, "Um, thanks for satisfying my curiosity Shinsou" Ren said, after fully calming down, "You're welcome Sakamoto" Hitoshi replied, a smile tugging on his lips, when suddenly a loud ringtone blasted.

It was Hitoshi's phone, he fished it out, and an alarm with the caption ‘FEED SUSHI’ was written in caps lock, "Ah, it's time to feed sushi" Hitoshi said, dismissing the alarm, "Sushi? Oh! Is it your cat?" Ren guessed.

"Yeah, how did you know it was a cat? Are you a pyschic?" Hitoshi joked, "It's just that you were acting kinda ecstatic, when you saw my band aid" Ren said, raising her hand with a band aid that has cat patterns on it, "Haha, you got me there" Hitoshi said.

"Well, I gotta go feed my cat" Hitoshi said, "Um, could I... Nevermind" Ren said, taking back her request, "What is it?" Hitoshi asked, "No, it's nothing" Ren said, reassuring him that everything was fine with a smile on her lips.

"Ok, now I'm curious, what is it" Hitoshi said, crossing his arms, demanding an answer from Ren, "Really, it's nothing, you should feed your cat" Ren tried to change the topic, "Yeah, I'm not leaving till you tell me what" Hitoshi said, not budging from his place.

Ren sighed and gave in, "Guess I couldn't hide anything from you" Ren said, "Could I... interact with your cat?" Ren said, quite literally, "Interact? You mean meet my cat?" Hitoshi asked, a bit confused, "Ah yes, I mean meet your cat, I have an assignment, that needs me to interact with a cat and write down what is the cat's response to the interaction" Ren said, explaining herself.

"Well I don't see the harm on it, you neuro students have it tough" Hitoshi said, "Yeah, we do" Ren said, opening her door, not before taking a small notebook and a pen.

Hitoshi rumaged for his key and fished it out, inserting it to the door, he turned the door knob and was greeted with a meowing sound "Meow" the cat who apparently is a she, meowed, demanding to be fed.

"Ok, just wait a minute" Hitoshi said as he stepped in, "Come on in" Hitoshi said, inviting Ren into his apartment, "Sorry for intruding" Ren said, slipping out of her slippers and kneeling down infront of the cat.

"Hello, I'm Ren, Shinsou's neighbour, you must be sushi" Ren said extending her hand to the cat, as if to pet her, "Careful, I wouldn't be so friendly if I were you", Hitoshi said, filling sushi's food container, "Why? She doesn't seem that bad" Ren said.

"Yeah, when I-- wait what?" Hitoshi whirlled around, and there she was, the cat was laying on her back, letting herself being scratched on the belly while purring ecstatically.

Hitoshi could only gawk, "She, she wasn't that friendly with me when we first met" Hitoshi said, feeling betrayed by his own cat, "How was she, when you both first meet?" Ren said, still scratching sushi's belly.

"She scratched and hissed at me when I tried to pet her", Hitoshi said, while walking over to where Ren and sushi is, a full bowl of cat food on his hand.

"How did you tame her?" Hitoshi asked, astonished, while placing the bowl near her, "I just extended my hand, and waited for her" She said, as sushi propped back up and began eating her food.

"So you just, like, extended your hand and did nothing?" Hitoshi asked, still confused, "Yeah, she was the one that thrusted her head at me" Ren said, "Wow, you're like an animal tamer, or something" Hitoshi said, still confused.

"I once read an article about cats, it said that cat's feel threatened when a new person comes, so if you want to pet the cat without getting scratched, you just need to extend your hand and do nothing, the cat will then think you're not a threat if you didn't try to instantly touch them, and I was curious and tried the theory and it actually worked" Ren explained

"Oh, so that's the secret" Hitoshi said, slightly nodding his head, "Mind if I borrow your table for a sec?" Ren asked, "Sure, go ahead" Hitoshi said.

Ren stood up and made her way to the table, opening her notebook and jotting down her succesful result of interaction with the cat.

Ren was too immersed taking notes, when suddenly, Hitoshi's door bell rang, he stood up and made his way to the door.

When he opened it, he was greeted with a hug, "Big brother Hitoshi! I missed you!" Eri said, hugging Hitoshi's leg, as soon as she let go of his leg, he kneeled down, and smiled at her, hugging her back, "I missed you too", Hitoshi said, ruffling her hair,

"Hey" Shouta greeted him, "Hey dad" Hitoshi greeted back, "You got guests?" Shouta asked, peeking behind Hitoshi,

"Just one, my friend", Hitoshi said "Ok" Shouta said, "What brings you here dad, eri?" Hitoshi said, stepping back into his apartment, letting Shouta and Eri to come inside his small apartment, Eri crouching beside sushi, watching her eat, while petting her

"Eri missed you, and I wanted to see how you're doing since I have night classes yesterday and can't come check on you" Shouta said, explaining himself, "Oh, thanks for checking up on me dad, even though you're busy" Hitoshi said, a smile tugging his lips, as he averted his eyes, Shouta smiled and ruffled his hair

"Even when you're already in college you never change, I would always have time to check on you, no matter how busy I am", Shouta said, his tone full of fondness for the indigo haired boy.

"Oh, big brother Hitoshi, sushi's done eating" Eri said, notifying her older brother, "Oh, okay" Hitoshi said, while approaching his little sister.

Ren, not noticing the presence of Hitoshi's family, scribbled away at her little notebook, Shouta that was curious of his son's guest, took a peek at her, and widened his eyes,

"Well, I wasn't expecting to see Sakamoto here" Shouta said, surprised, as he took a seat across Ren, "Huh? You know Sakamoto?" Hitoshi asked, surprised that his dad knew who his friend is, he then went to the sink to fill the container with water and gave it back to sushi for her to drink.

"Well, she's my student" Shouta said, "Oh, really? I didn't knew", Hitoshi said, surprised, "Well, remember that one, student I always talk about?" Shouta asked, Hitoshi paused a bit, back trackingto the few students that managed to get his father's attention "Is it the one you said, that's quick to understand and often gave answers you were not expecting?" Hitoshi asked, not sure which student his dad is talking about.

"Yeah, that's her" Shouta said, pointing at Ren who was mumbling to herself while scribbling on her notebook, seemingly in her own world,

Hitoshi was surprised, he knew his dad has very high standards, only a selective of his students can amaze him, and he was certainly not expecting Ren to be one of them

Ren put down her pen and closed her notebook, stretching from her crouching position, when she opened her eyes and came face to face with her professor.

"Professor Aizawa!" Ren said as she quickly sat up, seemingly very tense, "Hello Sakamoto" Shouta replied, keeping his neutral expression, the air around them was tense, as if they were in a court room and not some small cramped apartment.

"What brings you here?" Shouta asked, hands in front of his chest, intimidating Ren, "I was doing your assignment sir, I was writting down what was the response of the cat that I interacted with" as if on cue, sushi jumped on Ren's lap, resting there.

"And what is your conclusion?" Shouta asked, "I reached a conclusion where--" Ren explained her very long answer, Shouta nodding along, while both Hitoshi and poor Eri seemed lost.

"And, that is my conclusion" Ren said, at this point, she can no longer feel her legs, "Okay, print your answer and submit it on Friday”, Shouta said to his student.

"Oh by the way, you don't need to sit so formally since we're not even in class, I bet your tibial nerve is giving you leg cramps" Shouta said, "At this point, I don't think, I can feel my legs anymore sir" Ren said since her professor gave her permission to sit normally, she tried moving her legs into a better sitting position

"Seriously dad? Cats?" Hitoshi said, shaking his head, "Well, they need to know how the nerve works in animals to, so I picked cats" Shouta said as sushi came to him, asking to be pet, "Are you done yet, dad?" Eri asked as she approached her dad asking for his attention.

At that, Ren perked up, 'dad?' her voice not more than a whisper , as she tried to massage the cramps away, too bad Shouta heard her, "Yeah, dad, I may act like I'm heartless, but I have kids" Shouta said, stroking Eri's hair.

"Oh, um, I'm sorry for saying it out loud, I was just not expecting you to have kids sir, and it doesn't have any relation to you being heartless, because you're not heartless, you just want us, your students to improve faster because you care for us sir" Ren said

Both Shouta and Hitoshi only blinked, once, twice, and then Shouta spoke up again, "See? Tell me you were expecting that" Shouta said to his son, "I, I wasn't expecting that kind of answer" Hitoshi said, surprised,

Ren was confused, but then something clicked, "But then if you sir, is dad, than..." Ren's eyes travelled to Hitoshi, "Surprise, surprise, I'm his son" Hitoshi said, and realisation hit her like bricks, "Ah, I see..." Ren said, still surprised.

"Under no circumstances you are allowed to tell a single soul that Hitoshi is my son" Shouta said to his student, "If word got out, that Hitoshi is my son, I'm getting you expelled" Shouta said,

"I understand sir, I will not tell a single soul that Shinsou is your son" Ren said, her seating position was back to formal, while her whole body was visibly tense.

Suddenly, Histoshi broke into a laughing fit, it was apparently so funny he even doubled over in laughter, "Sakamoto, dad is just joking with you, the whole university knew dad has 2 kids, and some of them even knew one of them is me" Hitoshi informed Ren,

Ren turned so red, that she needed to cover her face, Eri giggled at her, and even Shouta laughed a little, "I didn't knew about that, I was afraid if word got out about Professor Aizawa having a son that goes to the same university, either you get expelled or Professor Aizawa got fired, so I swore to not let word out" Ren explained,

"Yet another unexpected answer", Shouta said, Hitoshi nodding along, "You're funny" Eri said to Ren, "Why thankyou, beautiful, what's your name? I'm Ren" Ren said introducing herself,

"I'm Eri, are you also a student like big brother Hitoshi is?" Eri asked, curious, "Yeah I am, though I'm studying what your dad is teaching", Ren said,

"Oh! Really?! Neurology?!" Eri exclaimed, Ren was completely surprised that such a young girl already knew neurology, of course she should have guessed, she was the daughter of her genius professor,

"Yeah! It is!", Ren exclaimed back, matching Eri's enthusiasm, "Oh, oh, tell me more!" Eri asked, Ren and Eri talked while, Shouta and Hitoshi only stared at their interaction, it was surprising how Eri was the one to talk to Ren first, she was always very shy, but she was already warming up to Ren.

"I approve Hitoshi" Shouta suddenly said, "Huh? Approve what?", Hitoshi asked, confused "Sakamoto as your girlfriend" Shouta said, at that, Hitoshi grew red, "I-It's not like that dad! We're just friends!" Hitoshi said, embarrassed, "Sure, of course you are" Shouta said, believing none of it,

"You're so fun to talk to Eri, I wish we could talk more, I but I have to go back" Ren said standing up, "Aww, don't go back yet big sister Ren", Eri said, reluctant to say goodbye to her.

"I promise we would talk again soon" Ren said, crouching down to match Eri's level, "Promise?" Eri asked, holding out her pinky, "Promise" Ren said as she hold out her own pinky, sealing their promise,

Ren stood up again, and bowed to her professor, "Thank you and I'm sorry for taking your personal time to hear my answer outside of class, I hope you have a good night sir", Ren said, "You too, sakamoto, have a good night" Shouta answered back.

As Ren was making her way to her door, Shouta suddenly spoke up, "Hitoshi, why don't you accompany Sakamoto outside?" He said, "Oh no sir, it's okay, I can go out by myself, I don't want to take even more of Shinsou's family time", Ren said, reluctant,

"It's okay, besides I'm just showing you outside, it won't take that much long" Hitoshi said, leading Ren to his front door,

"Okay then, if you insisted" Ren said, and turn back one last time to say her final goodbye, "Goodbye sir, goodbye Eri!" She said, waving goodbye to them, Shouta and Eri waving back to her.

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Hitoshi lead Ren to the front door, "Thanks for showing me out", Ren said, "Thanks for giving me dinner tonight" Hitoshi replied, the night air blowing past them, as they stood outside, comfortable silence enveloping them neither Hitoshi or Ren made a move to go back to their respective places.

"You have a great family Shinsou, tell Professor Aizawa thanks again, and Eri too, they both are really sweet" Ren said, "Haha, dad would laugh when he heard you call him sweet" Hitoshi said laughing a little

"Why? Both he and Eri are really sweet" Ren said, "Well, nobody seemed to ever call dad sweet, just terrifying, or evil, or something along those lines" Hitoshi said, "Well.. He is a bit terrifying, but he acts cold and heartless because he wanted us to progress faster, and that kind of act is what I found sweet from Professor Aizawa" Ren said

Hitoshi laughed and with that the comfortable silence enveloped them again, neither taking a step back to their apartments, "What about your family Sakamoto?" Hitoshi asked, curious, "Oh, they're working abroad, my dad is in America and my mom is in Canada" Ren said, loneliess on her tone, "Oh... um, okay, sorry for asking" Hitoshi said, feeling guilty from the sad tone of his friend, "No it's fine" Ren said, a reassuring smile on her face.

The silence returned and they stood still, not moving even an inch, when Ren spoke up, “Today was fun, thank you, Shinsou”, Ren said a smile tugging on her lips, “Thank you to you too Sakamoto” He replied with a smile on his face. The silence continued when suddenly, Ren muttered “I wish time would just stand still here, I wanna be with you a little bit longer”, she said under her breath, “H-Huh?” Hitoshi replied back, apparently hearing what Ren said.

Ren turned red, “Uh, um, What?, anyways I, uh, gotta go back home, see you tomorrow, Shinsou!” Ren said in a hurry as she fished out her keys, and unlocked her door, closing the door shut, leaving the confused indigo haired boy alone.

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Soon, monday came faster then Ren thought, she opened her door with a yawn, locking it with her keys, she turned around and saw a puff of indigo hair infront of her.

“Hey” Hitoshi greeted her, “Oh uh, hey, why are you up so early in the morning?” Ren said, pink dusting her cheeks, hoping that Hitoshi would forget what she said at Saturday, “I have morning classes today, you?”, Hitoshi replied, “Same, I have morning classes too, Professor Aizawa’s the lecture by the way, I hope he doesn’t reschedule my class” Ren said, stifling a yawn,

“You might want to check your messages first, he was messaging me at 3 am yesterday, or well, today”, Hitoshi said as they began walking, “I checked, but there was no messages from him” Ren said, while walking beside Hitoshi, “Oh really? I hope your classes wouldn’t get rescheduled” Hitoshi said.

“I sure hope so, oh by the way—", They walked to the station together, the sun slowly rising to it’s full glory, as the two college student chattered away, laughter and giggles filled the otherwise lonely dull pavement of the road, as they made their way to college starting each other’s day with smiles on their faces.

It started with a simple innocent order of vanilla latte and a simple curious question and both of them got more than what they were expecting that day, an admirer, a neighbour, and a friend, warming up their hearts.

Thankyou for reading! :)

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