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The wind was flowing through your h/c hair while you were staring out the window of the classroom. You were daydreaming again, daydreaming about the usj incident.
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You had never been more scared in your life. Scared for you, your classmates, but mostly him.
You were fighting your own share of villains while you had to watch a nomu and Shigaraki hurt him. Trying to focus on the villains in front of you, you couldn’t help trying to keep an eye on Aizawa Sensei, who was also your boyfriend. You had secretly been seeing each other for 6 months up until that point. It started out with one on one training sessions and tutoring, to longing looks, to finally your first kiss. He explained thoroughly more than once that the relationship wasn’t appropriate. But you didn’t care, because you loved him.
You were bound to get caught by someone eventually for how often you spent time together. He had just pinned you to the ground with his capture weapon, yelling mercy as he smirked above you and leaned down to give you a quick kiss. But quick kisses always turned into more when it came to the both of you. You had failed to notice the outside doors of the gym open as two individuals walked in. You were too enthralled with each other to notice your best friend Bakugo, and midnight walking in to do their own one-on-one training. Bakugo was blushing and looking away, while midnight had her arms crossed across her chest smirking, before she coughed loudly announcing their arrival. You were both stuttering messes trying to explain, but luckily they both never said anything to anyone, they also made sure no one ever found out if you two were spending time together, which you were thankful for.
Looking back on the USJ incident, you had tried to go over and help Shouta, but Bakugo had stopped you, giving you a look that said “let me, stay here”. He knew you would fight with your feelings, not your head. You’ll never forget the way Shouta had caught your eyes, making a face that only you would interpret as a smile. You had started screaming then, thinking that he was saying goodbye until all might had finally arrived. After the fight was over you had passed out from over usage of your quirk and were taken to the hospital.
You had woken up alone, but something caught your attention out of the corner of your eye — It was the bracelet you had gifted him after being together for awhile. It looked like someone had fixed and cleaned it, as you thought it had been destroyed at the attack. There was a small note placed underneath it, opening it, it read ;
“Hey kiddo, I know he’d be upset if he lost this, they took it off as he had to have surgery and I didn’t want them throwing it out. I fixed it for you! Whenever you’re awake, I’m sure he’d love you to give it back.— Present mic” , on the back was a room number.
You audibly groaned; Of course he would know about me and Shouta, they are best friends after all. *gasp* Shouta, I need to see if he’s ok.
You slowly eased yourself out of the hospital room, walking the halls trying to find the room number you were given. You were now standing outside of it, bracing yourself for what you would see inside the room. Was he ok? Would he still be able to teach or fight? You opened the door, stepping into the room. What you weren’t expecting, we’re the heroes who were also in the room. All might, present mic,midnight, and principal Nezu we’re all next to Shouta's bed, staring at you.
“I-Uhm.. I’m sorry I can come back..I-I just wanted to see how a-Aizawa Sensei was doing”
“Oh it’s quite alright young y/n ! We were all just getting ready to head back to U.A. shortly.” All might replied.
They all walked past you wishing you a speedy recovery as well, before principal Nezu stopped next to you asking to talk outside the room.
“How are you feeling y/n ? I understand you took a lot of injuries yourself.”
“Oh I’m fine sir— they said I would recover quickly…recovery girl helped with the more severe injuries” you said looking longingly at the hospital room door.
“It has come to my attention that you are in a relationship with Eraserhead, am I correct?”
You froze. Did Shouta say something? Or was it someone else. Did someone see you and tell the principal? Oh god you were going to be expelled, WORSE, Shouta's career would be over.
“ Y/n , obviously teacher and student relationships are forbidden. While he was being brought here, he kept asking for you, kept asking if you were alright. Normally he would be fired, and you also would be expelled. I’m sure you are both responsible people, but I would advise to refrain from certain aspects of your relationship until you are graduated, that sound fair?”
You were shocked to say the least. You knew the principal was a reasonable one, but at this point you wanted to grovel and thank him while kissing his shoes.
“T-thank you so much sir...I will make sure your kindness is not wasted. I promise you”
He patted your shoulder and left to follow the others. You rested your hand on the handle of the door, unsure of what you were going to say to him. You hadn’t looked when you first walked in to see if he was awake. You pushed open the door quietly, noticing the curtain was half drawn, hiding him from view. You walked over, finally seeing the state of your boyfriend. He was covered head to toe in bandages, with monitors and wires all around him. You sat down in the chair next to him, wanting to reach out and touch him, but you hesitated. Did you even have the right to touch him? You were probably distracting him during the fight by how much you were screaming his name. You tucked your head between your knees and started to cry. You didn’t want to see him like this. You wanted him to hold you, to tell you everything was going to be ok, to sneak glances or touches during class, all of it. You failed to realize he had woken up and was looking over at you. He wanted to assure you that he was fine, that he was still here, but being bandaged head to toe was a tad difficult. Luckily Hizashi had pulled down some of the bandages around his mouth so he could talk softly or ingest fluids and food.
“Y/n….”
* gasp* “sh-Shouta…?!”
“Shhh kitten...I’m here..” he tried to lift up his arm to touch you, hissing in pain.
You had basically jumped him then, forgetting he was seriously injured. You apologized profusely touching his hair and stared into his eyes, talking about his recovery and when he would be released.
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Smiling at the memory, you then stretched in your desk chair and looked around the room. Everyone was working on a worksheet, while you looked around for him. He was resting his head on his hand, having a cat nap on his desk. His hair was down, cascading over his peaceful face. You unconsciously started fiddling with your necklace, he had given it to you not long after he was released from the hospital. It was a promise that he would always be yours, and that he’d always come back to you. You started tearing up, again realizing you had almost lost him, and that you could lose him anytime as he was a pro hero.
You then started sobbing uncontrollably, waking him up abruptly. Excusing yourself you rushed out the classroom door while he stared after you, wondering why you had gotten so upset. Without saying anything, Bakugo stood up from his desk, giving his teacher a look and followed after you out the door. Everyone was staring at the door quietly, wondering what had happened for you to get so upset and run out of the classroom. Shouta scolded them to get back to work, secretly hoping you would come back to class soon. Bakugo had found you in one of the stairwells, contemplating and worrying about every life choice involving him.
“Why are you crying idiot?”
“I-I’m sorry.. I was just remembering the usj incident..and how I couldn’t do much for our classmates...or him.”
“Tch, he’s a pro hero y/n, and also our teacher, of course he would try to take on all that he could to help us. I blasted a lot of them. And...you were...you were good to” he said while scratching the back of his head avoiding looking at you.
You smiled , “ I know. But sometimes I wonder why he’s with me, a student with a mediocre quirk when he could have a pro hero partner, someone much better than me”.
He slammed his hand next to the wall as he peered down at you;
“Listen idiot, I'm only gonna say this once. If he wanted to be with someone else, he would. He wouldn’t have asked me to look after you when he isn’t around if he didn’t care about you. And your quirk isn’t as good as mine, but it isn’t shit.”
You started crying again and wrapped your arms around his waist, hiding your face in his chest. You knew he wasn’t a touchy or emotional guy, but surprisingly he wrapped one arm around you while his other hand soothingly smoothed down your hair. After a couple minutes he grabbed your hand and pulled you back to class. You walked in behind Bakugo , apologizing for leaving so abruptly. Shouta nodded and watched you walk back to your desk. He watched you try to get back into your worksheet, but you still seemed distracted. He stood up from his desk, walking over to yours and put one of his hands on your desk asking if you were having any trouble. He had surprised you so you quickly squeaked “no”, but he just stood there, staring. You started to fidget not knowing what he wanted, until he leaned down close to your ear, making sure no one else was listening or watching the both of you.
“I don’t know what has made you so upset kitten, but we can talk about it later if you’d like, ok?”
You smiled at him, blushing and saying you’d like that very much. You then noticed his sleeve had ridden up, showing the bracelet that he usually kept hidden to not get asked questions regarding it. He then smiled softly at you, tapping your hand 3 times, and walked back to his desk. You inwardly swooned at him using the secret code. You had made it up as a joke one night, telling him to use it if he wasn’t comfortable saying the 3 words out loud.
“I love you”