A/N: I wrote this up last night on a whim because of a HC post I saw on tumblr. The headcanon in question being: What if Mic always wears sunglasses because he is self-conscious of his eyes?
Needless to say, i instantly accepted it.
It's rather short, but sweet.
Aizawa always wondered what Hizashi's eyes looked like. Not that it was hard to see his eyes behind his opaque sunglasses; every now and then he would see the faint outline of his eyes from behind the orange tinted lenses.
Hizashi would always wear them too. He would wear them in class all the time, and even on days when it would be cloudy and days where it would rain. It seemed that no matter the weather, or setting he was in, those sunglasses would sit upon his face.
Aizawa would be lying to himself if he said that this didn't bother the hell out of him. For one, who the hell wears sunglasses all the damn time? Only people who want to stand out, which now that Aizawa thought about that it pretty much described Hizashi. But Aizawa was curious as to why he would wear them. Did he have some kind of eye condition? Were they sensitive to light? Aizawa scratched his head to those questions. It was no big deal to ask about them, but if Hizashi goes through a big deal to conceal them, it must be pretty personal. Whatever the reason, he had to get an answer.
"You seems to be pretty attached to sunglasses," Aizawa said on their walk home from school.
"Hm? Well, I guess you can say that. They're pretty much a part of my character design you could say." Hizashi said walking happily ahead of Aizawa, as he put a finger up to the bridge of his nose.
"Why do you always wear them anyway?" Aizawa asked deciding to get straight to the question in fear that saying something else might make Hizashi go off topic.
"Like i said, they're apart of my character design! Plus it adds a sort of "cool guy" vibe to me."
Aizawa had to wince at how generic that answer was, but as half-assed as it was, it wasn't the one he was looking for. "No, really, what's the reason?" He asked this time, only a bit more demanding.
Hizashi stopping walking, looking back to Aizawa, "Why do you want to know?"
"Once again, you're always wearing them. There must be a reason. That's all i want to know, so why can't you just tell me?"
Hizashi stayed silent for a bit, and Aizawa just felt like letting it go for now, mostly because he was too tired for this, and didn't want to force the information out of him. Until Hizashi let out a large sigh.
"Well knowing you, you probably won't be satisfied with another generic answer, so why don't I show you?"
With that statement, he took his sunglasses off, his eyes at first being closed shut. Aizawa wasn't sure what he was expecting by this, but the moment Hizashi opened his eyes, Aizawa let a expression of surprise form on his face. Hizashi's eyes were something else he had to admit to himself. Bright green, but the feature that made them that "something else" were the dark rings around his iris. They were thin, each of them perfect circles that got smaller the closer they got to his pupil. Together, they were a pretty interesting sight, and quite beautiful.
As soon as he took them off, he put them back on. Pushing his finger on the bridge on his sunglasses he spoke up, "Satisfied?" He asked, sounding rather not too pleased by the situation.
"You didn't have to show me if you didn't want to." Aizawa said, starting to feel a bit guilty.
Hizashi sighed, "No, it's okay. You wouldn't have stopped asking anyway."
"You could've just said you were self-conscious of your eyes."
Hizashi was taken aback from that statement, but Aizawa wasn't wrong. For as long as he could remember, he's been teased about his eyes. Memories of being in elementary school flooded back to him. How the other children would call him out on his eyes, thinking that he had some weird eye quirk. He started to become so self-conscious of his eyes that he started wearing the sunglasses in junior high so no one would ask about them, and no one did.
Hizashi just turned around and waved back to Aizawa, "It's okay, I already showed them to you, so it doesn't matter anymore."
"…..They're really pretty."
Hizashi could not have turned around more quickly than he did. For one thing, Aizawa Shouta just said the word "pretty" and another thing was that he just called his eyes "pretty." At first Hizashi didn't know how to respond to that, from besides the already apparent blush on his face. "Uh, thanks," was all he managed to get out.
"Can I see them more often?" He then asked.
Hizashi had to turn away again from being flustered as hell, "Uh…well, i don't" Hizashi wasn't sure what to say, no one had ever complimented his eyes before without questioning them.
Aizawa spoke up, "Only when we're together, and it can be on your own time if you want that."
Hizashi turned back around to face him, "Well, if those are your only conditions, i don't see why not."
Hizashi had to smiled as he saw that rare little smile form on Aizawa's face. The two of them continued their walk home together, and as they parted ways to make their own ways home, Hizashi had to mentally promise himself to start talking his sunglasses off around Aizawa more, at least at lunch first.
