Stolen Moments

15. Lunch

" Even when we're side by side I feel like you're too far away." ~ Unknown

Emerald eyes watch with a strong sense of nostalgia as the blonde hero next to him opens his take out box. They always ate together after they had become a couple, often on the ledges of rooftops just like this. He thinks of how often over the past two years he missed this, how often his heart ached over the loss of this and how no one in the past two years that he ever shared his lunch time with ever compared to crimson eyes and blonde spikes, not his friends, not other hero's, not even Ethan, no one could ever compete with Katsuki Bakugo in any way and he knows it.

A deep voice that has always drawn Izuku like a moth to a flame breaks his thoughts.

" Oi, you alright over there? You spaced the fuck out. Or you falling asleep again?"

Izuku meets smirking crimson eyes of the hero next to him who just took a spoonful of his curry.

The greenett laughs softly with a head shake shifting his eyes to the city lights in front of them.

" I'm fine, just thinking."

Katsuki studies him for a moment as be takes a drink of his coffee, placing the can back down.

"About?"

Green eyes meet crimson ones that are asking for the answer more than the words he spoke.

Izuku smiles, it's soft, wistful making Katsuki ache as soon as he sees it.

" Just that... that this is nice. It's been so long since I've done this with you."

That ache in a built chest grows deeper.

He gives a rare smile, it's not overly noticeable, it's not large or would be apparent to everyone, but it's real and it's there and there's only one who can cause it.

" Yeah, it's been a while huh? Too long, I'm surprised you remembered my order nerd.", he smirks with a chuckle.

Izuku meets his eye and though there's a smile there's a sheen of tears in green eyes.

" As if I would ever or could ever forget anything about Kacchan."

The words hit a blonde hero in the chest so hard it almost takes his breath away.
He clears his throat with a nod looking out over the city lights.

" Yeah well, just so you know..."

There's a pause and then intense crimson eyes locked onto emerald green.

" That works both ways."

Izuku wants to cry, wants to break into tears because this is both somehow amazing and hurts like hell. He fights the lump in his throat hearing the blonde again.

" I'm surprised you got the time to find me. Thought for sure boy wonder would give you a hard time about it."

The greenett looks over at him seeing a smirk that holds bitterness even if he tries to hide it.

" I told you and Kiri I would have lunch with you, I.. I ment that. I wouldn't go back on that Kacchan."

The blonde scoffs lightly.

" Yeah well I guess I'm still surprised. Seems like he keeps you on a pretty short leash Deku. Hell I haven't even seen you on patrol with anyone else since I've been back, trust me, I check."

Izuku heart flutters at the confession that Katsuki checks the pair up roaster the same way he does daily. He scrunches his face in thought though seeing more clearly now what everyone around him seems to notice about that schedule.