"Hey!" Zuku beamed as he knocked on the already open door of Hitoshi's room finding his two cousins camped out on the bed inside.
"Zuku!" Hitoshi smiled. "Get in here we're gonna' watch cartoons and we need your fanboy knowledge to pick good ones."
Zuku seemed to have accepted his true calling in life, throwing himself onto the bed and almost sending his cousins toppling off the side as the mattress bounced.
"What are we watching?"
"Anything, I just want something good that I can potentially fall asleep to." Hitoshi leant back against the stack of pillows, huddling closer to Kacchan. "I'm so tired."
"Don't stay awake on our account." Kacchan offered a soft smile.
Zuku seemed to have made his choice, placing his phone down on the frame at the end of the bed and swiping up through the air to project onto the white wall of the bedroom.
"YOU TOO CAN BECOME A HERO! All Might Adventures!"
The theme song played away.
Hitoshi smirked.
Of course.
Zuku slumped onto the bed to get comfy as he lay on his stomach, stretching his legs out behind him. He purposely prodded at his cousin with his foot causing Kacchan to respond a few seconds later by batting his foot away. He laughed.
'Episode 127'
"The Good, the Bad, and the Quirky."
As intended Hitoshi had fallen peacefully asleep a few minutes into the episode, his head resting on Kacchan's shoulder as he lay against his side.
Hitoshi groaned, flickering his eyes open before rubbing them with the back of his hand.
"Have I missed anything exciting?"
"All Might taught us not to play on building sites."
"So no then." Hitoshi teased quietly to Kacchan.
"Who's that hero?" The voices on screen shouted as the current episode reached the ad break.
Zuku's mouth opened to answer but Kacchan kicked him with his foot.
"We all know you know it, geek boy, let Toshi try."
Hitoshi scoffed.
"I know like five heroes..."
"Just guess." Kacchan encouraged.
Zuku tapped his phone to pause the episode.
Hitoshi looked at the black outline.
"I don't know, Hawks?"
"Hawks would have been four..."
He quickly did the maths in his head.
"Which means I was minus three, I don't know old heroes."
Zuku tipped his head back to look at him.
"Wanna' hint?"
"Sure, why not?"
"Well first of all it's a she but for hints, umm, she has wings when she transforms, and Shouza was in her agency."
That caught Hitoshi's attention.
"Woah, woah, woah..." He paused. "First, it's the dragon woman right?"
Kacchan smirked.
"Yes idiot."
Hitoshi rolled his eyes.
"Thanks for that. But anyway, you're saying that Shouta trained with her?"
"Yeah, at her agency in Tokyo."
"Shouta left?"
"Yeah, I know from reading stuff online that after they graduated UA Shouza wanted to join an underground agency but couldn't due to the laws back then. He needed to intern with a known agency and gain experience through working cases with them before he could apply for his solo licencing. I once overheard Nemuri talking about it, apparently Hizashi was scared Shouza was gonna' do something reckless and get himself killed but Shouza took it that Hizashi thought he wasn't capable of looking after himself because of his sight. Neither of them talked for a while until Shouza came back here, then she nagged him to sign on as a teacher at UA. But yeah, I don't know if he liked working there or not, he doesn't really mention it much."
"Can we just watch the show already?" Kacchan groaned.
"Hizashi and Shouta split up?"
"Well they called it 'going on a break' but pretty much, yeah."
Hitoshi looked horrified.
"But they're perfect for each other, they're like..."
"Don't say soultmates..." Kacchan interrupted.
"Well they are!"
"Awww, he thinks we're soulmates." Hizashi was practically beaming in the doorway.
Shouta rolled his eyes with a smirk.
"As lovely as that history lesson was I'd really rather not remember how much of an idiot I was back then."
"Oh you big grump, we both know the time apart ended up working out for the better in the end, even if neither of us wanted to admit that. Before you left I was just content staying as your boyfriend but after experiencing what being apart from you for a year felt like made me come to the conclusion that I never wanted to spend another day without you." The voice hero explained.
Shouta smiled.
"There's one part of the story you're missing there, Zuku."
"What?" His cousin's eyes practically lit up in excitement of new 'hero lore'.
"I was a little late getting back home and boy was Hizashi angry. 'You've been away an entire year and you can't even be bothered to be on time to see me again?'." He imitated.
"Yeah turns out Shouta had made a stop before he left Tokyo." Hizashi rubbed the back of his neck.
11 Years Ago - Tatooin Station
That damn idiot! Where the hell was he?!
He looked at his watch before up at the station board.
Shouta should have been here two trains ago.
"The next train to arrive at Platform 2 is the 10:25 from Tokyo."
As the train pulled into the station he waited anxiously as the doors finally opened. A crowd of passengers disembarked before heading out through the barriers.
He got to his feet and walked through them, hoping desperately to find his boyfriend.
But he couldn't see him.
The last few stragglers stepped from the train before the station guard did his check of the platform and the whistle rang out.
The train along with his composure left shortly after.
And then…
All was silent.
"Hizashi."
He gasped, his eyes widening, turning in seconds to see…
"Shouta!"
He launched himself at his boyfriend, Shouta dropping his suitcase and catching him in his arms, having to swoop him around a little to keep them both upright.
Burying himself against his shoulder he couldn't help the tears in his eyes that were spilling down his cheeks.
"You bastard!" He delivered a hit to his chest though there was no real power behind it, his voice shaking. "You've been away an entire year and you can't even be bothered to be on time to see me again?"
"I'm sorry but there was something I needed to do."
"Oh yeah, what was so damn important?!"
Shouta set him back down on his feet before placing his hand in his pocket.
And he collapsed to the stone of the platform right then and there as his knees gave way beneath him.
A small box.
"So we're really doing this? And you said you weren't one for cheesy romantic gestures." He teased with a smile.
"Well maybe I found my exception to that rule." Shouta got down to one knee. "There aren't enough words in either of the languages we speak to perfectly articulate just how fucking much I missed you this past year. You're loud, and you get on my last nerve in every possible way, but you're also my best friend, and I love you." The erasure hero paused, his own voice shaking now. "Hizashi Yamada, will you marry me?"
Pulling Shouta closer their lips met as he wrapped his arms around him and never wanted to let go ever again. Everything felt so right.
"So is that a yes, I don't know if you nodded or not?" Shouta teased.
Hizashi smirked tearfully.
"Yes you big idiot, of course I'll marry you."
His now fiancé was also crying too as they kissed once again.
The three teens' eyes were wide as they beamed.
"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"
Shouta rolled his eyes with a smirk.
"Come on, lunch is ready."
"Tell us more!"
"Yeah you two are adorable!"
The erasure hero walked out of the room.
"If you're not down in two minutes I'll eat it all myself."
"WE'RE COMING!" Came the wails of his brothers and son and he couldn't help the snicker that left his lips.
