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Some days, I finish all my editing work and filming sooner than I normally would. Those days give me more time to enjoy other things, like reading old manga, watch anime that I haven’t seen yet, play some video games and sometimes I’m lucky enough that Hawks is either free that day or already finished with all his work.
This day wasn’t one of those lucky days.
Today wasn’t just a day where Keigo was working longer but also a day where I felt extremely nostalgic. Making me not only look through my old email account to see the old mails we send to each other, but also search for that big box of memories we have.
Yes
We have a big box of memories
That’s how sappy we are
The thing didn’t only contain all the letters we shared with each other but so many more other things like paperwork that I had to go through to become a Japanese citizen, his old Provisional Hero License and so much more.
Like actual junk… Well… It’s junk in someone else’s eyes. In ours, it’s the best thing in the world.
On the bottom of the box was a piece of plastic that was covered in stickers. That piece of plastic comes from my old suitcase, the suitcase that I used to move over to Japan. It was there in the room when I wrote my first letter to him as a task for school, it was there when he called me for the very first time, it was there when I received my very first picture of Keigo. The damn suitcase was even there when I was officially accepted for my internship and for my citizenship later on.
The damn thing holds a ton of sentimental value to me since it was there for a lot of my firsts with Keigo…
… And also my first time with Keigo but that’s a story for another time! Maybe! Perhaps!
Just thinking about it makes me flustered …
Sadly enough, the suitcase broke down quite badly at one point and we decided to keep a piece of it.
Looking through all the old letters makes me remember the first time we called each other. Previously, we never talked about what we really looked like in detail or what kind of Quirk we had. We just said the basic stuff like what gender we were and our hair color.
Now that I think of it … We never even said what our eye colors were!
Laughter came from my mouth as I leaned back against the bed. All sorts of stuff was laying down next to my legs, on the floor. A picture of Hawks as a child was clutched in my hands.
I remember exactly what he told me when I asked what his Quirk was back when we called for the first time.
“Big red wings! I fly with those!”
Back then, the both of us were full-on learning English so neither of us were extremely good at it just yet but we were able to have a normal conversation with each other. We were just so nervous about calling that we stumbled with our words a ton…
Hell, we were both 12-13 so we were going through puberty! Everything made us nervous!
When he asked me what my Quirk was, I had to disappoint him by saying that I was Quirkless. Both my parents were so automatic, I was too.
Surprisingly however, was that he wasn’t disappointed at all!
“I will protect you with my wings!”
That shit was cute as fuck
Just a year later, our nervous and stuttered talks turned into full-fledged English conversations about what kind of hero’s we both had in our countries.
The amount of joy he had whenever he talked about Endeavor was so adorable!
Our talks were never very long though, a lot of things were going on in his life at that point so he couldn’t talk for more than an hour. Sometimes he’d even be on the phone while I could just hear how tired he was due to training all day.
I never really asked him at that time if he was training to enter a hero school or something else. Didn’t need to ask since he always said that people were helping him
“... To become a great hero that shines as bright as Endeavor!”
That was enough for me to know, I didn’t need to know more.
Something that I remember vividly is the phone call he made when he ranked in the top 10 Hero Billboard Charts.
“Y/N! I got into the top 10! I’m so much more closer now to be on the same level of Endeavor! Just you wait and see, I’ll be shining so bright that you’ll need to wear 7 sunglasses!”
“Are you for real?! Oh man, my surprise isn’t as great as yours now!”
“Eh? Surprise? Tell me!”
“I got an internship to go to Japan! Fukuoka to be more specific!”
He had dropped his phone by then, a few seconds passed until I heard a loud yell come from the birdman himself, followed by him picking up the phone again and already planning to pick me up from the airport when I would arrive.
Time couldn’t go any slower by then but the day had arrived where I’d be landing in Fukuoka.
By that time, I had found out that I was head over heels for him. Ever since that first call when we were 12-13, I’ve had this warm feeling in my chest that would get warmer and warmer by the thought of Keigo.
Looking at the bedside table, my eyes focused on a picture that stood there.
Our faces were squished together and the both of us were crying happy tears.
The very first picture we ever took together.
I had arrived at Fukuoka Airport and was utterly scared shitless. Somehow, probably because I was so nervous, I could not remember any of the Japanese that I spent so much blood, sweat and tears on to learn.
I didn’t know where to look, where to walk or anything.
The only thing I knew was that I kept hearing a familiar voice call out for me.
“Y/N! Y-your here! I-I have no idea what to say, the only thing I know is that I really wanna fucking hug you right now”
That was the very first thing I ever heard of him, without it being through phone or anything. (It also made sure that, yes indeed, I still know all my Japanese!)
Needless to say, the both of us started crying and kept on hugging each other. One of my hands on his lower back and the other petting his feathers that I always had wished to be able to touch one day.
No feather he ever had sent to me, could compare to feeling it all in one piece.
We didn’t need to leave quickly, even though he recently got into the top 10, since the airport was very quiet and the only people that were really around were some older people of families with kids who were on vacation.
The picture was quickly made and soon after, he brought me to his place so that I could stay over for the entire time being that I was on my internship.
A few months later, I had to go back home and another few months later, the progress of me becoming an official Japanese citizen was being finalized. He immediately offered for me to live together with him at his new place and well … Here we are! I still live here!
There were some hard moments in our lives, moments were we had discussions and stuff but never something that made us utterly furious.
On my 19th birthday, he told me that he had feelings for me, feelings that were more than those of a best friend.
“Y/N… I need to confess something to you… And I’m so fucking scared for what you will think because this might break this amazing thing we have going on now but- … But I can’t fucking hide it anymore”
“What’s wrong? Keigo please tell me, nothing can ruin us now!”
He sat down on the sofa and mentioned for me to sit next to him. We turned to each other, his hands taking mine.
“I… Have feelings for you, feelings that are more than those of a best friend. I’m pretty sure I’m in love with you and that this isn’t just a crush. I can see an entire future together with you and I’m so fucking scared right now because this might cause so many complications”
By the end of his words, I was crying. I tightly squeeze his hands, causing him to look up into my tearful face. His own tears brimming his eyes, not yet falling down but ready to.
“Takami Keigo, I’m also in love with you! And I want to have an entire future with you!”
He quickly took me in his warm embrace, “But if we started a relationship-! There are so many things that you need to know about the dangers of dating a hero! I’m the number 3 hero right now!”
I shook my head against his shoulder and looked up into his eyes, pressing our foreheads together.
“I’m willing to try everything that I can to make this work Keigo, everything”
We soon shared our first kiss that evening, a kiss that turned into something more heated. The next morning, we both woke up naked in his bed. Giggling and holding each other close.
“Whatcha doing Pigeon?”
I jumped in surprise, my head whipped to the bedroom door, noticing how my hero was standing in it.
He walked over to me, still in his hero outfit, and crouched down. Picked up an old picture of ours and smiled.
“Having a nostalgic day?”
“Hmmm, I was lonely and finished all my work pretty soon.”
Keigo brushed a piece of hair out of my face and kissed the tip of my nose. He stood back up and stretched himself out, including his wings. Seeing that happen was something that I could never stop being amazed by. His beautiful red wings couldn’t fully stretch out in this room but they were still so big. Not long after, he relaxed again and his feathers puffed up for a second.
“Lemme go take a shower and you clean everything back up, then we’ll start cooking and let’s talk a bit about the past, be nostalgic together. I’ve got some good news to tell ya”
“Oh, can’t tell me now?”
Two of his fingers tapped against the tip of my nose and he laughed. “Nah, after a good meal!”
Not that long after, the room was cleaned of all stuff and the box was situated in its usual spot.
Keigo and I had prepared food and while eating, we started talking a bit.
“Remember the first time we saw each other for the first time?”
“Oh man, Dove … I was so nervous that I kept on stuttering and I didn’t know if I should just talk in English or Japanese so I just started talking in Japanese!”
“Ha! I remember that, but we soon got comfortable right?”
“Yeah, It was like we remembered that we had already known each other for a while.”
We talked about more stuff while cleaning the dishes and the table. After everything was done, we found ourselves in each other's arms, watching some sort of drama movie.
By the end of the movie, I had completely forgotten about the news he wanted to tell me, until he brought it up again.
“So, about the news I wanted to tell you …”
I turned my head around to be able to watch his face, my chin supported by his firm chest. A soft murmur could be heard from me, indicating that he could continue
“The Hero commission and my Agency finally gave us the clearance to make a video reveal!”
…
HUH?!
I jumped up from my laying down position and started sitting down on his lap, his hands finding their way to my waist.
“You’re for real?!”
A baritone laugh came from Keigo. “Yeah, Pigeon, just need to wait for the papers to be sent to us so that we can sign it, after that … You can give your reveal! Oh man, I can already read the headlines ‘Big content creator reveals her relationship with the oh so dashing and amazing, Number 3 hero!’ ”
He enlaced our fingers together and gave a 1000 kilowatt smile.
“I can’t wait to be able to come up into one of your streams and be able to just kiss you and take your breath away!”
Keigo’s eyes opened back up from his smile and his hands reached up to my face, pulling me back into his arms and hugging me close.
“... I can’t wait for the world to see how much I love you”
I slightly pushed away from him so that I could face him and looked him in the eyes.
“And I can’t wait for the world to see how much I love you too…”
Our lips touched and soon turned into something more heated. A long night was awaiting us but luckily, he had a day off tomorrow and I have to give my Pretty Birdy a treat after working so hard...