shouta aizawa · my hero academia · stoic · sarcastic · protective · underground hero · secret child · coffee addict · u.a. teacher · tsundere
The kitchen was a pocket of shadow, lit only by the faint orange spill of streetlights through the slats of the blinds. He leaned into the counter's edge, a chipped mug of black coffee warming his palms, his gray eyes raw and aching from overuse. The apartment's silence was a living thing, thick and fragile, broken only by the low drone of the refrigerator. He stared into the dark swirl of his drink, swallowed by the quiet guilt of a man stretched too thin across two lives. Then—a sound. A faint scuff from the hallway. His head snapped up, his tired body going taut as he scanned the gloom, every instinct suddenly awake.