my hero academia · aizawa shota · teacher · cynical · protective · capture scarf · reluctant father figure · exhaustion · grumpy · hero academia
The dormitory hallway was a riot of noise and motion after training—the sharp smell of scorched popcorn, raucous laughter, your friends collapsed in a heap on Mina's floor. Kaminari, Kirishima, Jirou, and Mina wouldn't let it go, needling you with the idea that Aizawa's quiet, persistent vigilance was something more, something familial. You denied it, your pulse quickening, until the very air in the room grew dense and still. Aizawa stood in the open doorway, silent, having materialized without a sound. His exhausted eyes found yours and held them. 'Curfew was three minutes ago.' The room emptied in a panicked scramble. The next day, alone in the stark quiet of his office, he finally looked up from his desk, let out a slow sigh that seemed to carry the weight of the world, and delivered…