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The train to Shibuya is filled with high schoolers. They talk in loud tones and make lame jokes which they wont find funny in less than a year. A meter away from them; Izuku, an omega with a figure taller and more built up than society requires stands with his brows furrowed with annoyance. He puts on his headphones to block the noice. He doesnt hate kids, how can he when he teaches them all day? But high schoolers is a bit too much for the greenette, aspecially when they are loud and clearly the 'popular ones'. Izuku has a talent to spot them.
Just two more stops... he thought to himself. He walks near to gate.
"Yoyogi!.." Just a few minutes and the woman voice on speakers announches his stop. He walks out with rush before people starts to push each other out, he is not even late.
when he finally makes it out to daylight, So Fell Autumn Rain, a song he havent listened in a while plays on headphones. And Izuku think it matches with gentle october rain slowly soaking his tuxedo and drops kissing his cheeks.
The sun is still out, last 30 minutes maybe. The sidewalks are filled with orange and browninsh leaves. And Izuku thinks its a view to vibe, he is early anyways.
He walks in nearest coffee shop, ordering sweetest thing in the menu. He doesnt wait long since the area is not crowded that time of the day. Its filled with cram schools and school support center which people do not prefer to spend their nights in, unlike Izuku.
"Deku!..." calls the bartender with his lips curled upwards slightly. He finds the name funny. Which Izuku is used to and doesnt even tries to fix anymore.
"Thats will be me. Thanks." The guy looks him up and down as he takes in his appearance in. Eyes stays at his necks a few seconds longer.
"You know..." Guy says with a flirty tone as he hands in his warm coffee. "...You to cute to get called like that."
Izuku took a deep breath and smile gently. "Well it doesnt happen unless the person is uneducated enough to read it wrong so it doesnt happen too much. Thanks for the drink."
He mumbles as he walks out. He can hear Alpha mumbling some insults as he walks away but he is too tired to care. Its been a long shift at work and he still has some classes to teach at cram school. He just wants to get the day done and take a warm bath. Not deal with a cocky alpha.
Izuku learned to ignore them with long experience. He didnt meant to be discriminatory towards a gender, but the society forced him to be. He was a kind, welcoming and believed not alphas was same. He still doesnt think they are but as he grow and became more 'desireable' of an omega, more of them took his kindness as "Oh you hot and i am nice to you because i want to sleep with you!" way. Which disgusted him. He learned late and hard but he did anyways.
It wasnt like this all the way long. Apparently, they started to treat him that way after he became 'approachable'. Alphas used to believe him to be an beta and talk to him as a person. Now his omega features became more noticable they treated him more like a sexual arousal, which Izuku hates. Izuku took a deep sight and sipped his coffee.
He now sitting in the park neart to cram center. All the banches around him is empty and that makes him unnecesarly happy. Izuku smiles at his situation as he takes another sip.
Rather than being humiliated because of his sexual inadequacies and therefore being not seen as an individual, he opens her persona to close people only and allows those he meets for the first time to use her physical appearance as a first point of judgment. And he is indeed loves his body. He know he looks good and is proud. He is not the same loser from high school anymore. He refuses to romanticize a partner finding her lovable 'no matter what', staying with him as if its a favor, and him being grateful for it. He did it once, and it turned into the biggest lesson of his life, one he couldn't convey with words or a whiteboard, despite his master's degrees and award-winning theses in education science.
It reminds him high school. Izuku shakes his head and giggles at himself . He doesnt think about those years unless he is alone at home and few cans of beer around. He scared it might break the walls he spent so much to built.
Takes a big sip of coffee. He really does need all that sugar to keep it together until the end of the day.
Few more songs in headphone, coffee is not as warm, sky is orange and rain is colder. He wraps his green scarf around his neck. He really needs to thank Ochako for this, the girl really knew hot to knit the warmest ones. Izuku stand up with a deep sigh and throws the half full cofee cup in the nearest trash. Starts to walks out of the park. Headphones now in his bag and the next song is white noise of Yoyogi. People walking on rustling leaves, chatting each other, car horns and the distant sound of a fire truck siren. Izuku walks and hums melodies, not thinking of high school even a little bit.
He walked down the street with half of his face covered under soft scarf. People dont see but he is smiling until he makes it to the cram school. The sky is now dark blue with burning red at the horizon. Izuku is in a good mood, he really liked that coffee and he know that he'll be visiting there more. He even grabs some chocolate on the way for his student. He was thinking they could hold small competition quizzes and share chocolates. His students liked spontaneous and rewarding competitions in class.
He turned the last corner with bag of chocolate hanging in his cold hand. Apperently the fire truck wasnt that far away.
It was pure chaos, none one of the windows on the third floor, which he was supposed to be in, were intact, and orange flames rose towards the sky as if they wanted to disappear with the sun. İzuku stood shocked, his cold, red lips ajar, green eyes round as people im background gathering worried, firefighter shouting and siren filling the whole street.
Izuku looked around as he came back to his senses. Seeing no kids or students around. Some of them loves to come early and prepare for the class before he cames. Izuku knows that. He takes slow and small steps towards burning building. Some people tries to stop him, police blocks his way but he somehow makes it to the door. None of them wants to deal with a worried omega.
Some firefighter grabs his waist, trying to pull him back. And Izuku starts to shout, he cant hear his own voice but he can feel the pain, his eyes blurred due to smoke, or maybe its his tears. He struggles and tries to lean towards building but the arms pulling him back is stronger.
"I-Izuku!" Shouts a familiar voice. And Izuku starts to hear and see again. He is now a few meters away from burning building and a pair of eyes burning more red than fire is looking at him.
Izuku is not thinking about high school.