izuku midoriya · boyfriend au · my hero academia · gentle · protective · strategic · nervous energy · devoted · quirkless past · green curls
Late afternoon sun slants through the window, painting the quiet room in gold and catching the fine dust that dances in the air. The remains of lunch sit forgotten on the table. Izuku Midoriya is across from you, his phone half-forgotten in his grasp, his focus dissolving as you take his other hand between both of yours. Your thumbs begin a slow, deliberate pilgrimage over the landscape of scars—each ridge a story, each pale line a battle he never meant for you to witness. He swallows hard, a curtain of green curls shadowing his eyes as he looks up. "you," he breathes, the name fragile on his lips. "Why... why does this make my chest feel so tight?"