All Might's s/o gets attacked by a villain and he thinks it's all his fault (it's not).
Warnings: none
You were starting to get worried about Toshinori. He hadn't said much to you the entire afternoon, and the atmosphere around him was practically cloudy with the gloom that he was radiating. You had a pretty good idea of what he was upset about, though. You had spent the majority of the morning in the hospital, getting your wounds treated after particularly nasty villain attack. Your injuries weren't that bad, really, just a few bumps and bruises, and a cut that needed some stitches.
In any other situation, you would have just gone to the hospital on your own and kept everything about the incident quiet, telling him that you had only had an accident at work; that was what you usually did when something like this happened, and it wasn't exactly a lie, but you had been robbed of that opportunity this go around. Before you could take care of the villain yourself, Toshinori, or better yet, All Might, showed up and took care of the scoundrel himself, panicking at the sight of your injured form afterwards.
You understood his concern since he didn't exactly know that you were a hero yourself, not even after a year of dating. You were an underground hero, and while you were good enough at what you did to warrant some notoriety, the majority of the work that you did was extremely confidential, and that meant that you had to maintain a low profile and keep your heroic exploits to yourself. You felt bad for keeping it a secret from your lover, but it came with the territory of being a hero, and he undoubtedly would have understood your reasons.
That didn't change the fact that he was blaming himself for your attack, though. In reality, it had been due to your own mistake, one little slip up where a villain had escaped from a raid that you were a part of, and that villain had somehow managed to track you down afterwards when you were off duty so he could try to exact some revenge. He did manage to catch you off guard for a moment, hence the injuries you sustained, but you could have captured him yourself had All Might not showed up.
Regardless of that, Toshinori didn't know who that villain was; all he saw was a villain attacking his other half, who he thought was a civilian and not a fellow hero, and it was obvious that he thought it was his fault. It was almost like you could hear his every thought, every doubt and accusation that he was throwing at himself, telling him that he shouldn't have kept you so close, that his presence was putting you in danger, that villains were targeting you because of him. The two of you had done well to make sure that you were never together when he was in his muscle form, but again, a single slip was all it would have taken to put you in danger, and he was probably assuming that that slip up had happened, even though it most certainly hadn't.
It wasn't like you could just let him go on like that. Knowing him, he'd probably try to call the relationship off, saying that it would be safer for you if the two of you weren't together anymore. He'd rather break both of your hearts than see you hurt, or ever worse, dead because he had inadvertently dragged you into something. You weren't about to let things go that far, though.
The two of you had only been together for a year, but it only took a few months for you to know that you wanted to spend the rest of your life with Toshinori, and to do that, you were going to have to come clean to him about what you really did for a living. You wouldn't be able to give him all of the details, of course, but you could at least give him enough of a general idea to let him know that you were more than capable of taking care of yourself.
Of course, you still had to clear that idea with your boss, which was what you were doing when Toshinori finally joined you in the living room. Your boss understood your concerns, and gave you a very specific set of guidelines about what you could and could not tell your lover (you hadn't exactly told your boss that said lover was All Might himself, and you could only wonder how this would have ended if you had), and Toshinori sat down beside you right when you finished receiving those rules. You quickly hung up the phone, and Toshinori reached over to grab your hand as you did so. His hold was gentle, and when you looked up at his face, he was very pointedly looking away from you. You could only assume that he was doing exactly what you thought he would.
"Y/N, I-"
You quickly held your hand to his mouth and turned his head towards you, forcing him to look you in the eyes.
"I have a feeling I know what you're doing, but before you do it, let me tell you a few things. That villain earlier to today had absolutely nothing to with you. That was all on me."
He looked like he wanted to say something, probably tell you that you were wrong, but you pressed your hand more firmly against his mouth as you continued.
"I haven't been completely honest with you about my job. Everything I've told you about it so far is complete and utter bullshit. I'm actually a hero, got my license for it and everything, but 99% of the work I do is highly classified, and we'd both be in a lot of trouble if I even thought to tell you about any of it. That being said, I can handle myself, Toshinori, and there is not a shred of evidence out there to tie me to All Might. Now with that out of the way, what were you trying to say?"
You had obviously rendered the man speechless, and he seemed to be in deep thought as he went over everything you said.
"Just how classified is-"
"Classified enough that we probably need to move on from this part of the conversation."
"…Right. Are you in…much danger?"
"I'm in as much danger as any other hero is on a daily basis, just with an added bit of secrecy to it."
"And you can't talk about any of it."
"Nope."
"That must make it harder to cope with things."
"So long as I get to come home to you, I can deal with it."
That got a smile out of him, no matter how small it was.
"So the villain earlier…?"
"All on me. I totally could have taken him, but I can't say that I minded being rescued by you."
"So I was worried for nothing?"
"Nah, I thought it was endearing, if nothing else. If someone hadn't been so busy sulking, I would have showed you just how much I appreciated it already."
It was always funny to see just how red Toshinori could get when he was embarrassed; it was awfully cute, too, which was why you couldn't resist the flurry of kisses that you planted on his face. By some miracle, he got even redder, and you just buried your face in his neck as you struggled not to laugh at his expense. He obviously wasn't too offended by your barely contained snickers, given that he dragged you over onto his lap and pulled you into a tight embrace.
"I'll still worry, you know."
"Of course, just like I'll always worry about you, Number One Hero or not."
"Fair enough. Just be extra careful out there for my sake, alright? I don't know what I'd do if I lost you."
"I promise. I love you, you know that, right, Toshinori?"
"Of course, just as I love you, Y/N."
You grinned as you pulled away from Toshinori, chuckling at the questioning look in his eyes. You leaned in and pressed a gentle kiss to his lips, one that he responded in kind to, and after your lips lingered against each other for a moment, you pulled away with a sly grin.
"Now, how about I show you just how much I appreciated the rescue?"
Toshinori couldn't help but think that you'd be the death of him one day. It certainly wouldn't be a bad way to go, though, so he wouldn't complain.
