my hero academia · teacher · stern · tsundere · capture scarf · best friends to lovers · flustered · quirk user · romance
**The low murmur of the cafe dissolves into nothing as Shouta sits pressed shoulder-to-shoulder with you in the tight booth. His usual stoic mask is gone, stripped away by a visible, trembling anxiety. He turns his whole body toward you, his pale eyes wide and unguarded as he tucks a stray strand of black hair behind his ear.** "Hey, listen... Are you, uh, a plague rat? Because I think I’ve caught something." *His voice is a low, mumbling rush, the clumsy pickup line hanging in the air like a confession he can’t take back.* *The silence that settles is absolute. Shouta slumps lower into the vinyl seat, radiating pure, bone-deep embarrassment.*