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It was English class, and Hawks was early. He was the only one there, and Dabi was usually late. His plan seemed to work. People filled in, seats were taken and just before the bell, the scarred boy came in. He walked towards Hawks in the back of the class, opened his mouth to say something, then the bell rang. He shut his mouth and took his seat, far far away from the nervous bird.
Although To any one other Dabi Hawks didn't look nervous. He had his feet on the desk, hand behind his head like he didn't have a care in the world, which was just a defense mechanism. The teacher barked at him to put his feet down has the class got back their English tests.
Hawks looked at his score then quickly flipped it down so no one could see. He got a perfect 100, while most others didn't get above a 90%. Dabi, unfortunately got a 71%. English wasn't his strong suit.
The rest of the class went slowly, and no one seemed to be paying attention. Hawks was falling asleep now, his hand on his cheek to prop his face up. "Hawks!" Hawks jumped out of his seat when his teacher yelled his name. His feathers sharpened as he fell backwards out of his seat hitting the back of his head on the wall. He also had gained a small nose bleed from it as well. Hawks hadn't realized he held a sharpened feather in his hand.
He sat against the wall eyes wide, his heart thumping in his chest. He rarely ever got woken up like that, and when he did it was surprise training from commission. Everyone was looking at him in shock, Dabi looked worried. Hawks tried laughing it off as he quickly dropped the feather.
"I, is sorry teach! Guess I didn't get much sleep last night" he rubbed the back of his head wincing as he touched the bruise. He wiped his nose on his hand and looked surprised, like he hadn't even felt the blood.
"You got a tissue?" He said looking around, it was said so casually that the whole class began fo laugh.
"Go get yourself cleaned up, and next time don't sleep in class." His teacher motion for the bleeding boy to leave. Laughing at himself, he went to the bathroom.
But when Hawks got to the bathroom he just held his head over the sink, watching the blood drip down his face and onto the cold porcelain. He had almost attacked in that moment when he had hit the wall. If Hawks had been anyway else he certainly would have hurt everyone there. He had sharpened his feathers, like he wanted to hurt his classmates.oh god. Oh god. How could I have even thought about hurting them? I'm going to become just like him! Just like my father! he lowered his head into his hands as the bell rang for lunch. But he didn't move. He couldn't. He was stress gripping his hair. He watching the blood drip. I don't deserve this. I don't deserve to be Hawks.
"Hawks?" Dabi poked his head into the bathroom. "Hawks hey!" The black haired boy came in and stood by the blonde. "Are you alright? That looked like it hurt- hey wait are you crying?" Dabi had put his hand under Hawks's chin and forced it up to examine it. And it was true, tear tracks rain down the blonde's cheeks. "N-no! Hey come on now, Hotstuff, let go!" He forced a pained smile as he tried to pull his face away from the taller boy.
Dabi didn't let go as he narrowed his eyes at Hawks's frightened golden ones. "You looked scared, birdie. Like you were about to attack, actually." The winged boy stilled and inwardly cringed.
"It's nothing, I was just startled! We should get to lunch!" Hawks laughed nervously. "What aren't you telling me, Hawks?" Dabi's gaze soften as he looked at the other boy.
Suddenly the blonde got an idea. He smirked while hoping his plan worked on Dabi.
"Look Hot Stuff," he glanced away from Dabi's face then looked him straight in the eye, "last time someone held me like this they kissed me, so unless you plan on kissing me, I suggest you let go." Which was a complete lie, Hawks has never even had a kiss before.He had hoped the taller boy would blush, let go quickly out of embarrassment then leave Hawks alone.
His plan didn't work.
Dabi smirked back at him and grasped his jaw tighter, leaned in, then kissed him. Dabi held him there, his other hand crept into Hawks's hair. After what was too long, or too short, the black haired boy pulled back and smirked at Hawks's surprise.
"You offered, Pretty Bird." He stepped back away from the surprised boy and towards the bathroom door. His steps seemingly to loud in the quiet. "But don't think this gets you out of talking later!" Dabi called as he left. Hawks simply stood, hands brushing his pink lips. His panic from earlier completely forgotten, only to be replaced with a deep blush.
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Dabi had gotten his lunch then went up to the roof as quickly as possible. He could not believe what he had just done. I kissed Hawks he thought, and he would of blushed if not for his scars.
"Dabi!" Toga called as she skipped over to his seat against the air conditioning unit. Twice followed behind her. When he didn't respond she narrowed her eyes and stared at him until she finally gasped.
"You kissed someone didn't you!?" She grinned "who was it? Who was iiiiittttt!!!?!?" She tugged on his uniform sleeve.
"I-uh" Dabi stuttered "i- how the hell would you know?!"
"Who's the lucky person? they've must have the worst luck!" Twice asked.
"Oooo you know what! I bet it was Hawks!" She looked se t Twice and he nodded in agreement.
"Ugh! Fine, fine Toga it was him!" Dabi ran a hand through his hair exasperated.
Dabi glanced at the door to the steps, hoping Shigaraki or someone would show up and stop Toga.
Toga gasped and squealed in delight "you to are so cute together!!" She brought her hands up to her cheeks like she cant believe it.
"Yeah they are! no they aren't!" Twice motioned animatedly.
"Shut it. We just kissed. Nothing's going to come of it." Dabi rolled his eyes as Twice and Toga gushed at how cute him and Hawks would be.
"Oh and I heard during that training session he would let go of your hand!" Toga tacked on.
"He was stress gripping. Just part of his quirk." The black haired boy said defensively. He didn't know why he was playing it off, when he was definitely crushing on that cute bird. He shook his head and finished eating.
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Hawks had made his way to the lunch room, still bright red as he remembered how Dabi had kissed him. He went through the line to get his lunch and sat with Rumi and a couple others from his homeroom class. The cafeteria was bustling as usually and so most one had noticed that Hawks was late and no one really cared. Except Rumi, of course.
"Hey bird!" She greeted him as he sat down. "What took you so long? It's been boring without you! These fuckers aren't nearly as fun as you!" She gestured around the table as a couple of his other classmates frowned at her words.
"Sorry!" Hawks laughed "that bloody nose took longer to clean up then expected." Rumi munched on a carrot as he reached for the chicken on his plate.
"Isn't that cannibalism?" Rumi commented staring at him.
Hawks rolled his eyes. "If it is I don't care. Chicken is amazing!"
Lunch passed quickly. Today he didn't talk as much, instead his mind lingering on Dabi till the bell rang. It was training next.
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"Today we will be doing one on one training." We've already selected the pairs. Please go to your assigned sparring partner when I call out your names." He proceeded to name out the pairs. And of course, Dabi and Hawks were paired up.
"I haven't seen you use your quirk much. Hope we can be an even match, matchstick." Hawks grinned up at Dabi. It was only awkward if he made it awkward. But now Hawks seemed like the bold, flirty one. Dabi rolled his eyes and let out a huffed.
"Yeah, what ever Pretty bird." Dabi had called the blonde this before but after the day's events it made Hawks's wingd fluff up quite a bit. They turned to watch the match. It was Miriko vs Kamui Woods. Ans although they were both good, Kamui didn't stand a chance against Miriko's legs. She's won the match and it was Hawks's and Dabi's turn next.
They entered the ring and waited for the signal to start. As soon as it did Dabi shot a blaze of fire at Hawks but the winged boy dodged to the left and pulled out one of his longest feathers to act as a sword. He flew to Dabi's left and pushed him to the ground, his feathers had detached themselves from his wing to pin Dabi down.
He set the feather at Dabi's throat and smirked. It was too easy. That was until Dabi burned away his feathers and began to reach for Hawks until he flew back. Dabi stood and lunged for Hawks shooting a huge blaze of fire at the bird. He heard a swoosh and turned. Hawks was behind him. The blonde grabbed him by his hair and slammed the black haired boys head to the ground. And for good measure held a feather to Dabi's throat.
If Dabi wasn't holding back he could have easily defeated Hawks, as fire was his weakness but the scarred boy didn't really wanna do that. Also now his was pounding his vision blurred as he heard the whistle that signalled the match was over. He saw Hawks lean over him with his head tilted.
"You bastard went to far." Dabi muttered as Hawks helped him up and propped the taller boy against him. The blonde chuckles. "Let's get you to the nurse. You probably have a concussion. Maybe I did go a bit hard." He smiled sheepishly as Dabi glared at him. It seemed like both had forgotten about their kiss, which couldn't be further from the truth.
Hawks walked Dabi out of the arena and to the nurses office. Grinning as Dabi complained about his splitting headache he got.