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Ochaco Midoriya was tired. Work has pulled her ass through the wringer. 'So tired...' She opened the front door to her home. "Izuku, I'm home!" She yells out as she takes her shoes off at the door.
"Okay! I am in the kitchen!" Her husband called out to her.
She took a deep breath as she entered the kitchen. "Making beef stew?"
"Yep. I saw you on the news earlier. Thought you would want something hearty and delicious." The greenette turned his head back to smile at her then got back to stirring the meat chunks and veggies. "So, how was your day?" He asked trying to strike up conversation.
"Ugh! It was hell." The gravity girl plopped down onto the couch, resting her feet of the arm rest. "First they had me cover 60 blocks!"
"That is almost three times your average. Must have been short staffed today." He turned the stove off and poured himself and his lovely wife a bowl. He carefully walked over to the couch.
"Yeah. There was a big villain hideout bust yesterday. A couple of heroes got injured and I had to cover their patrols." Ochaco sat back up and grabbed the bowl her love handed her. "Thanks, baby." She already began to dig in.
"You're welcome, honey." He beamed. "Hope the stew is good. I ran out of paprika and had to substitute it with cayenne pepper. So it might be a tad spicier than normal." He started eating more slowly, his wife already halfway through her bowl. He smiled.
The two met by chance. Izuku was just getting back from a bad day of school when he bumped into this girl. She apologized, saying she was doing an internship program and lost sight of her boss. He soon realized that she was a hero in training. They exchanged numbers and began texting each other. She was there to listen to his awful days with bullies, and he would give her encouragement to keep up the work to becoming a hero. He told her about Katchan and it didn't take long for her to find out he was her classmate. Let's just say, that year's sports festival was a doozy. Ochaco holds the pants in the relationship. She is the bread winner and he is the one who takes care of the home front. Not that he didn't try to get a job. He did, it's just that nobody will hire a quirkless person. At least he can make a couple of bucks from his homemade Uravity plushies. They don't sell as well as he would want, but hey, any chance to jump in an Ochaco plush pile, he takes. He was so happy the day she proposed to him.
They actually got an offer for a tv interview last week, but they refused to do it. They just wanted to ask questions like, "How does living with a qurikless affect your social and hero life?". Dumb stuff like that.
"Then we got two purse snatchers on the span of 30 minutes." She poured herself another helping. Hero work build quite an appetite. "And one of them had an agility quirk so catching him was dragging me all across town." She sat down more gently as to not spill her husband's signature dish. Beef stew always made her feel better after a long day, and he knew it. So, he may have tried to cook it 30 times in one weekend as to get the perfect recipe, but hey, they were all delicious and her agency was happy to have a home cooked meal. Though some grimaced at the batch that used lemon juice. "Then it all ended with being given a full inch stack of paperwork to fill out over the weekend... Ugh!" She groaned, throwing her head back against the couch before going back to scarfing down the beefy nectar of the gods.
"Do you need me to help with them again?" Izuku took his now empty plate to the sink and moved to behind the couch.
"Nogh... Tha sad tha..." *Gulp* "They said that they want me to fill it out personally. Apparently it is a break in security for someone's spouse to see the documents, let alone write on them. So, I got this months and last months to fill." She handed her bowl to Izuku and he placed it in the sink before moving to behind the couch again.
"Sorry. Didn't mean to put more of a work load on you." He apologizes as he places his hand on her shoulders, beginning to massage them.
"Not your fault, sweety. We both didn't know and you were only trying to help." She rolled her shoulders to help ease the tension in her muscles. "Mmm... That's nice..." She moaned softly at his expertly tension relieving hands. "Thanks Izuku."
"Anything for the love of my life." She leaned forward a bit and he moved onto working the knots out of her back. "You got pretty banged up back here." He chuckled.
"Yep...Mmm... Got slammed into a vending machine."
"All in a days work?" He smirked.
"Yeeeeeeep." She accentuated the p into a pop at the end.
"Why don't you take a nice hot bath, while I clean and ready the bed. You look like you need it." He removed his hand from her back, earning a frown from the gravity girl.
"Fiiiiiine." She whined as she headed to the bathroom. "I want cuddles when I get out." She pouts as she waits for his awnser.
"Of course dear." He smiled a big toothy grin.
She slammed the door. With love.
They both lay in their pajamas. A green and pink set respectfully. Ochaco feeling much more relaxed after her bath, making her all the more aware of how worn out she is.
"So, who is the big spoon tonight?" Izuku asked.
"I am too tired...You be ladle."
"Big spoon." He corrected.
"Same dif." She huffed as she faced away from him.
He chuckled to himself. 'Always cranky when she gets tired, but I know she is just playing.' He scooted closer to her, wrapping his arms around her mid section. "I love you." Izuku whispered in her ear before blowing lightly against it, earning a small giggle from his wife.
"I love you too, you big goofball." She nestled closer into him.
Felling a little adventurous, he gives her ear lob a nibble. "Nom." He feels her shiver under his touch. "I love teasing you, dear. I am the only person who can push all your buttons."
"I like when you push my buttons, but sorry honey, I ain't giving you the pot tonight." She looked over her shoulder to see him stammer and blush. "I can push buttons too." She stuck her tongue out playfully.
"N-no fair..." He tried to regain his composure. Nestling his head into the back of her neck.
"Good night, Izuku." She gave one last chuckle before closing her eyes.
"Good night, Ochaco." He gently nuzzled her. "You know you would make a great mother though."
"IZUKU!" She blushed hard, eyes wide.
THE END