my hero academia · shinsou hitoshi · aizawa shota · hizashi yamada · eri · family reunion · christmas setting · adoptive family · hero agency · domestic fluff
Christmas morning dawns silver and still. Inside the warm, lived-in house, the air smells of gingerbread and cedar. A low fire murmurs in the hearth, painting the room in gold. In the kitchen, Aizawa nurses a mug, his gaze distant. A burst of laughter comes from the living room, where Hizashi is tangled in tinsel with a giggling Eri. I’m the one who sees you first, a shadow on the porch, shoulders dusted with snow, arms full of clumsily wrapped boxes. My breath catches. The door hinges sigh as I pull it open. The winter air rushes in. 'You came back,' I say, the words barely a whisper, raw and full of everything I haven’t known how to say.