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It had been a long week of intensive training for the hero course students. Complaints of aching muscles and lack of sleep could be heard throughout UA’s dormitory as the students of the hero course lounged about. But none of those complaints belonged to two of the top students of the hero course’s class 3A. Missing from the common rooms were Midoryia and Todoroki who had already turned in for the night.
In Midoriya’s dorm, Shouto snuggled closer into Izuku’s chest, sleep being just a few breaths away. Reflecting back on the last couple of months, Shouto still found it difficult to believe that Izuku accepted his mess of a confession and liked him back. All of that pining for their first two years at UA was almost for nothing if only they’d acted on their feelings sooner. Granted they didn’t exactly have the luxury to act on their feelings by the end of their first year and the beginning of their second year. Izuku wasn’t even technically attending UA during that time of darkness, off risking his life on his own while refusing the help of their class. To say Shouto was devastated during that time was an understatement, but all of that had been sorted through already and put in the past where it belonged.
Shouto quickly found out that Izuku thrived in giving and receiving affection, so their new relationship impacted his life more than he anticipated. Although he had gotten used to hugging or generally being in closer proximity to Izuku while becoming close friends, it’s been a little bit of a challenge for Shouto to grow accustomed to all of the affection that comes with the new advancements in their relationship. Up until they started dating, Shouto had also never realized how deprived he was of affection from those who were supposed to be important in his life until they started dating. But Shouto now soaks in everything Izuku had to give.
Which brought Shouto’s thoughts back to the present. The two of them were cuddling under the covers of the bed. Although they had only been lying in the darkened room for under half an hour, Izuku occasionally mumbling about something that crossed his mind, the two were already a tangle of limbs and half asleep. Shouto was, with a hand wrapped in the front of his boyfriend’s t-shirt, pressing his face into Izuku's broad chest, while Izuku used his free arm to pull Shouto in as close as possible. As much as Shouto loved kissing his boyfriend, sometimes it was these small intimate moments of simplicity that made his heart melt into a pile of goo.
Shouto had half the mind to bring up Aizawa’s curfew rules and the rounds he would be making soon but after being deprived of affection more than usual this week, and limbs being as heavy as lead with fatigue, Shouto just wanted to lie and soak in the peaceful warmth between Izuku and him.
“Can we stay like this forever?” Shouto sighs softly, moving an arm to hug Izuku’s torso and giving him a light squeeze.
Smiling into Shouto’s hair, Izuku replies with a quiet hum of approval. A few minutes pass before Shouto once again speaks, wanting to get his thoughts out before sleep consumes him.
“This week was hell, but you make the pain worth it.”
Izuku flushed immediately at the compliment, grateful his boyfriend couldn’t see his face from the position they were in and took a few moments to compose himself as he was still slightly unused to hearing such comments from the other boy.
“You know, you’re very endearing when you’re half-asleep” he whispers back, lightly pressing a kiss into Shouto’s hairline before resting his head back down and letting sleep completely take over the pair.