After so much emotion, Takuma didn't have it in him to do more than the bare minimum for dinner before going to bed. Not that he could have done much more even if he had wanted to, since Mei had turned into a cuddle-bug that refused to get off him. He didn't mind; on the contrary, he returned her embrace with passion because he needed it as much as she did. They spent the remainder of the day cuddling in bed, just enjoying each other's presence. He took strength in being so close to her, something he needed and never could get enough of, and the knowledge that he would have to wake up and leave to go train a skittish heir to an odiously powerful Quirk just made him want to cry. He didn't want to be away from her. He knew this was going to be a problem, and the smart thing to do would be to make sure he could be away from her without feeling like his heart had been ripped out of his chest. Takuma was tired of being smart; he wanted to be selfish for a change. Just this once. U.A would offer many opportunities for Mei and him to socialize with other people.
So with that in mind, Takuma set his alarm on Mei's phone to ring an hour earlier than necessary so he could get enough cuddle time. He made sure to quickly turn off the music, some kind of rock that always got Mei bouncing around the room, and pulled her close to him. She was quick to make herself comfortable on his chest, her leg tangling with his own as she switched positions in her sleep. He had been close to her long enough that he could now feel her mind when she was asleep. Something he rarely achieved in his life, even with his closest friends. Dreams were hard to understand, even for him and his capacity to experience someone else's perspective. It was a jumbled mess that he could hardly make sense of. Still, he could feel who it was coming from, and it made it easier for him to appreciate the cute sleeping form next to him.
Waking up so early also allowed him to look at her. He didn't know if he would be able to remember her next time his Quirk threw him into a fit. His only hope was to put in enough hours that maybe he could remember what the single most important person in his life looked like. The cute nose, rosy lips, and pink hair were a sight for sore eyes. Takuma still couldn't understand how no one had seen the earnest and hard-working girl under the facade of anxiety and fear that pushed everyone away. If someone like her could end up so alone, she could put up with someone like him. Then the world was definitely going to shit at the speed of light. He was thankful he had met her, and he would make sure she would be alright, even after he's gone.
He was surprised to feel Mei's arm squeeze him strongly. Takuma smiled as he felt Mei's muscles bulge while she sleepily robbed him of his breath. The morning squeeze was one of the things he looked forward to most every day. It also meant she was waking up. Tomorrow, he would have to find a way to wake up without disturbing her.
Like every other time, he waited for her to emerge, patiently anticipating the moment her eyelids would flutter open and her sight-like eyes would focus on anything. That's how he knew she was awake. After all these months, her eyes were still as mesmerizing as the first time he saw them.
"Good morning," he whispered in her ear as he kissed her cheek right after.
"'ning," she mumbled in answer.
"It's pretty early. Sorry," he warned her with a wince.
Sleepy Mei was cute, but well-rested Mei was less prone to blowing up.
"Nuh," she grunted before her eyes focused on him and she slithered on top of him. "Stay."
He smiled and bumped the side of her head lightly with his as she wrapped her arm around his neck, making sure he couldn't go anywhere without her say-so. He enjoyed feeling her weight on top of him, knowing without a doubt she was next to him.
"We still have..." he looked at her phone, "a good half-hour before I have to get up."
"Too short," she pouted as the sleepiness slowly started to leave her eyes. "Don't wanna."
"I don't want to either, but a certain girlfriend of mine offered my help to make sure another friend of ours doesn't kill himself while training," he reminded her before peppering the crown of her head with kisses until she giggled under his assault.
"Not fair," she moaned as she got up, straddling his abdomen. "Mine," she then added as she looked down on him from on top of her seat with a Cheshire smile.
'Oh dear. I am in trouble, aren't I?'
Takuma had no time to vocalize his thoughts before she assaulted his face while draping herself over him to pin him down and make sure he couldn't move away from the barrage of sloppy kisses she laid on his face.
"That's my thing, you gremlin!" he giggled through her flurry of kisses as he found himself giggling like a moron.
"What can I say," she teased with a lascivious smile. "I learned from the best."
And then she returned her attack with twice the fury as Mei decided to strip him of his pride and leave him a giggling mess. He tried everything he could to make her slow down. Tickling, kissing her back in an attempt to equalize the deluge, but no. He was at her mercy. And he loved it.
"You shameful little thief," he breathed with a smile so wide it hurt his cheeks. "Revenge something something beware."
She laughed out loud and started petting his head and playing with his hair in the same breath. "You're not the most inspired in the morning."
"It tends to happen when my extremely cute girlfriend kisses me until I start seeing stars," he replied without missing a beat.
She let herself fall, comfortably settling half onto him, half onto the bed. The good mood was still there, even if he could tell there was something on her mind. "Could you tell me more?"
"About what?" he asked for clarification as he laid a quick kiss on the tip of her nose.
"Your Quirk. You're supposed to go and find a murderer today," she reminded him with a hint of fear in her voice. "I'd just like to know how you're going to go about it and keep yourself safe."
"Sure, I guess it's time I tell you more about how I use my Quirk," he realized. Withholding information was a given with his Quirk, but not with everyone. "Alright, I'm going to close my eyes, and you are going to raise any number of fingers you want."
He closed his eyes and waited for Mei to choose. "Three."
"But I didn't even move my finger!" she protested as she double-checked.
"I know. Try again," he confirmed, waiting for her to choose another number. "One."
"How do you do it?" she wondered excitedly, as again she hadn't even had the time to move her finger.
"It's the same principle behind my dodges when I fight, through extensive combat I got used to reading my opponent. At first, it was little things like 'Attack' or 'Advance', but given the fact that I fought a lot of people in my life, I learned how to pinpoint the intent to 'Harm'," he revealed, noting the anger burning like amber when he revealed how he named the feeling. "What I mean by intent, for example, when I asked you to raise your finger to make numbers, I knew what you were about to do before you could even act. This is the same principle I use in a fight, but this time I react not to dodge a punch but to tell you the number you chose by reading the intent, which finger you were about to move. The 'Intent' in itself isn't just reading your surface thoughts, but it's also your body, how your shoulder, arm, and hand tense right before you act. It's not mind reading, but it allows me to react before my opponent even acts. That's my best weapon to keep myself safe. Besides, you know, knowing who wants to hurt me."
"So it's like a highway into your opponent's head. You go straight to what you need to know and ignore everything else?" Mei asked, her irises zooming excitedly around.
"Exactly. It works during a fight because I trained extensively to wield it while getting punched in the face, but it doesn't have to. I can do that with pretty much everything and everyone," he continued to her delight. He could feel her thoughts bouncing from one idea to another. "Most of the time I don't use it; nobody wants some random guy playing with their mind for funsies. For example, the last time I used it was right after we met Mousey," he added, enjoying the adorable blush on her cheeks as she obviously didn't forget what had happened then. "But keep in mind in that case, it's so natural my Quirk does it on its own. In truth, there are a lot of parallels between sex and fighting. Both help me to read my opponent. The only difference is one getting off and the other is getting knocked out."
She giggled softly against him. "You have a way with words," she said, shaking her head. "Could you give me a play-by-play?"
"Sure, what do you want to see?" he replied, more than happy to provide her with all the information.
"Surprise me!" she demanded. Takuma wasn't born yesterday and knew exactly what she had in mind.
He moved to his side, facing her directly, gently pushing her onto her back as he positioned himself just above her. He laid a hand on her thigh, a touch she found intoxicating as he leaned in for a kiss. She parted her lips to receive him, but he stopped at the last second.
"This way, when I listen, I can feel your frustration when I stop the kiss. I can also tell you enjoy the sensation of my hand resting against your leg. I can even tell you're looking forward to my hand going just a little higher," he whispered sweetly in her ear as her breath grew deeper. "I can feel what you want, but not quite. Always keep in mind I could be wrong. See—" he continued, his hand on her thigh slowly climbing higher, drifting gently across her skin to the side of her hips, where he teased the elastic of her panties by pulling on it lightly. "—but not everything will be good. Sometimes I'll catch some anxiety—" he added as his hand slid under her shirt, quicker now as it rose to hover under her breast. A sharp inhale, right as he stopped just below them. "—here, for example, I felt surprise, uncertainty, and then acceptance as you realized you didn't mind me grabbing your breast."
She was holding her breath, nervous, tense, needy. "Then why didn't you already grab them?" she demanded, her voice a husky whisper.
"Because the first thing I felt was surprise, that I was so bold as to go for them without warning, then uncertainty as you quickly decided if it was something you wanted or not, then acceptance as you decided it was what you wanted...but as I told you before, your thoughts come second to using your voice," he reminded her as her heartbeat grew stronger.
"You can grab them...if you want," she told him with a cute blush. He was endlessly surprised that the girl who could boldly demand someone have her babies could be such a blushing maiden.
He grinned at her, again going for a kiss before stopping right as their lips were about to meet, to her ever-growing dismay. "Tell you what, how about you take your shirt off?"
She nodded, and he helped her take off the oversized shirt she enjoyed sleeping in. Then he took off his. "Fair is fair," he told her as he saw her take in every little detail of his muscled chest and abdomen. "You can touch, you know," he reminded her as she dived her hand, dancing on his skin as she felt him up every place she could.
"I'm never going to get tired of that," she moaned as she started to kiss his neck, then going lower toward his chest.
Takuma let her have her own fun as he kissed the crown of her head. His back, shoulder, and side, then chest and abdomen. The touch was gentle and needy as the kiss threatened to rip a moan out of him, then the caress that scratched an itch always in the back of his mind. Mei enjoyed every part of him. He was glad his training and diet had worked in accentuating the definition of his muscles; she was a big fan of it. She caught his eyes as he looked lovingly down on her and she stilled like she had been caught with her hand in the cookie jar.
"Don't stop on my account." He chuckled at her. How can someone be so cute, he didn't know.
"Your turn!" she decided as she laid back down, offering herself on a silver platter.
Her breasts, as inviting as they were, weren't exactly what interested him in this instance. So he leaned back on her, their faces barely a few centimeters away as he just looked at her, laying a hand against her cheek as she leaned into the touch. "You know I didn't quite realize it before, but every time you take your shirt off, there's this strange tenseness in your back." He pointed out as he wrapped his arm around her, bringing her into a comforting hug, his hand rested against her upper back, making circles to soothe her tense muscles. "Do you know why?"
Mei, for the first time, looked away. "I-That's...nothing, just me being dumb."
In retaliation, Takuma bit the tip of her nose gently and tickled her side, ripping a giggle out of her. "My girlfriend's problems are not dumb, and I will fight whoever disagrees."
She made herself comfortable against him, half-hiding her face in the crook of his neck. "It's...you know, I only ever got any attention from other people because of those things..." she revealed with a sigh as she shook her chest, making her boobs bounce against him. "It's not fun when all everyone cares about is how big those things are..."
He hummed, wondering if he could hunt down those who made her feel that way before sundown. "That makes sense, and no, it's not you being dumb." He told her as he kissed her forehead. "If it makes you feel better, I can tell you two little secrets I have been hiding under my hat."
He had her interest, which meant it was time to strike.
"Go on," she pressed him as she leaned into the hand that rested against her cheek.
"Well, you remember I forget what you look like when you leave the range of my Quirk?" he reminded her as she nodded against him. "Well, first you need to understand that I don't love you any less when I forget what you look like." He told her as he started to move his thumb against her cheek, it earned him a smile, and that was worth more than anything in the world. "And secondly, you need to keep something else in mind. When I see you again, I get to rediscover how absolutely adorable you are." He added, her eyes widened in surprise.
"I-How did I not realize that," she groused, frustrated at herself for not making a connection sooner. "You're too sweet sometimes, I'll get cavities at this rate."
"Then so be it!" he declared as he dived on her and peppered her with kisses, lightly tickling her side as she burst into laughter, failing to escape him. "Love is mandatory, do not resist!"
She tried to, but he gave her no hope of escaping his grasp as he held her in his arms and then flipped her on her back, before holding both her arms above her head, then he went for a kiss. She moaned into his mouth as she finally relaxed, the tenseness in her back gone as he let himself fall on his side, again bringing her closer to him. She did the same, and they held each other, simply enjoying the closeness they were sharing.
"I love you." he told her, kissing her on the side of the mouth. "Never doubt it."
She smiled, a shy smile that never failed to make his heart flutter. "I love you too." she told him, kissing him on the side of the mouth, like he did a second ago. "Never doubt it."
They stared into each other's eyes for a second, it felt like an eternity to him, yet so short. As they were interrupted by Mei's morning alarm.
"Noooo..." she moaned as she looked at her smartphone like it had slighted her in some way. "I hate you."
"It's okay, we can still pick up where we left off tonight." he reassured her, still it didn't quite work.
"But I can't wait tonight!" she bemoaned as she led his hand toward her soaked panties. "Please!"
Takuma rolled his eyes as he slid her panties down. "You're lucky you're cute, here have a seat." he told her as he pointed at his face.
Mei blinked owlishly. "You want me to sit on your face?" she asked, bemused.
"Yep, there's never a better time like the present." he confirmed to his still shocked girlfriend. "Do you not want to?"
"I never said that!" she denied as her panties flew off her leg and kneeled above his face, hesitation clear on her features.
Takuma smiled viciously. "Nom." he said to her confusion before he grabbed her hips and forced her down until her pussy, slick with juices, landed on his mouth.
"Tak!" she moaned as his tongue started to explore her folds.
It wouldn't take long before Mei earned some relief, and he was more than happy to give her just that.
First chapter where I had to rewrite 80% of what was in it, took some time.