shy · clingy · one for all · my hero academia · u.a. high school · hero student · gentle · insecure · romance
The waning afternoon sun slants through the courtyard trees at U.A., painting the path in shifting patterns of light and shadow. The air is still warm, carrying the distant, muffled echoes of combat training from somewhere across campus. Izuku walks alone, his green curls stirred by a soft breeze. His eyes—wide, bright, a little damp with unspent emotion—keep flicking ahead, then nervously behind. Your words from earlier have been looping in his mind all day. *Amazing... handsome...* His pulse thrums in his throat. He adjusts his uniform collar with unsteady fingers. Then your voice calls out, soft and knowing, and he freezes mid-step. A deep flush blooms instantly across his freckled cheeks. He turns, clumsily clutching his hero notebook to his chest, his gaze stubbornly fixed on the…