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At first it was just a gentle peck on my forehead, which I easily ignored and brushed off as Aki's drool. However, once I felt the shuffling near the feet of our bed, I couldn't just run it under the rounded rug.
"K-Keigo?" I rubbed my eyes, sitting upright on our bed as the snoozing toddler crawled up beside me. "What are you doing up so late?-"
"I gotta fly." he mumbled under his breath, shoving his fur-lined coat over his broad shoulders. "Love ya." he grinned for the last time, but that curve instantly faded away and transformed into another poker face.
"What?!" I yelped, my voice dry and hoarse as it was the middle of the night. I wrapped my body within the wrinkled blanket, heaving my feet off the edge of the bed and reaching my hand out to the pro hero.
"Hold on a sec!" the tone of my voice heightened with worry, as my toes curled into the soft carpet. "What do you mean?"
Our room was cold, and the thin glass door leading out to our balcony was kicked open. Midnight temperatures from outside gusted in with no care for personal bubbles, whisking aside the tips of my hair and shaking the curtains.
The only thing illuminating up the room was the moon, a magnificent full circle shining past our spotless windows. My arms were covered in blankets of goosebumps, my hair standing up and lingering over the edge.
The abstract paintings hanging on our walls turned into disfigured creatures, birds turning into tarantulas- and rabbits turning into wolves. Every surrounding wall began to cave in, enclosing me in this dark dome.
His wings appeared black due to the lighting, folded and ruffling with the breeze. Cleaned streaks of drool no longer anchored around the corners of his mouth, and all I could see was the feral glow in his golden eyes.
"Answer me, Keigo!" my voice cracked, and whether or not it was from the dryness or just pure emotion- I honestly couldn't tell. "Please, please, tell me."
"Can't we just go back to bed? N' cuddle with Aki.." I didn't want to cry, but was this really happening? The only possibility of where he was headed to was something I wanted to forget, I didn't want to accept it.
"Come on, quit flashin me those pretty eyes. You're tugging at my heartstrings." Keigo tried to smile, attempting to lighten up the mood even if it was just for a few shades. "Nothing bad is going to happen, alright?"
"But, how can we know for sure? You're safe here, you've always been!" I clenched my fingers into a fist, biting the chapped bottom of my lips and only creating a bigger sore trench. "So why now? Why, in the middle of the fucking night?!"
I noticed Aki squirming around behind me, snoring quietly and almost ready to wake up. I lowered my voice and used my eyes to plead and beg, but all my pathetic attempts turned out to be for nothing.
"Deku is going, and he has All Might's power. Endeavor's gonna be there too!" Keigo closed his eyes and smiled brightly, flashing me his teeth and showing me that same expression which made me fall in love with him in the first place.
I knew that the top three heroes were assigned to this job, but not even that comforted me. I had a weird gut feeling, a constant pull at my stomach that churned and tugged, making me sick. "Are you sure?"
"Positive." his feet moved backwards, slowly stepping back out onto the exposed balcony. I looked around our bedroom, spying every corner for something that would buy me just another minute. "Alright, baby! I'm ready to take off-"
"Wait!" I clutched his pair of black latex gloves within the sweaty palms of my hands, my feet nearly tripping over as I stumbled barefoot towards the open space. "You forgot something."
"Man, I'm awful!" he laughed, rubbing the back of his head and trying to pretend as if this wasn't happening. Nothing I said was going to stop him, I knew that fact as well as I knew the back of my hand.
"Thanks-" he was about to say, before I wrapped my arms around his neck and smashed my lips onto his. Now I could let it all out, the salty tears ready to tip over my waterline. They streamed down my cheeks, flowing like rivers.
I pulled him by the collar and never let go, the bulb of our noses grazing against each other as I stepped closer. His venom tunneled throughout every vein in my body, that intoxicating kiss of his that I never got tired of.
I took a slight breath between the gradual part of our lips, his gentle hands cupping my face and wiping away my endless tears. He hushed me softly, slowly bringing his fingers to the back of my head and scrunching my tangled hair.
"I don't want you to leave, Keigo." I shivered and sobbed, my mouth pulling away from his and my vision growing blurry with soulful oceans. "D-Don't leave!" he wrapped me within his wings, our bodies rocking in a waltz as he stayed silent.
"Please, please.. I can't live without you." the gloves dropped from my hands, floating down to the ground as if they were sheets of paper. "I can't live without you, damn bird." he laughed at those words.
He tilted his head down, our foreheads pressing together. The plastic edges of his translucent shades hit against my brow, while he remained still and calm. "You're making this really hard for me, y'know?"
"I can't live without you either, and that's why- that's why.." he pulled me by the waist, our hips hitting together and my nose wrinkling as I sniffled up my tears. "I won't die, I can't die."
"I'll do it all for you." he continued, my gathered courage allowing me to gaze up into his glowing eyes. They were a sharp honey, his black irises appearing somewhat catlike. He picked up the latex gloves, tugging them over his fingers.
And with a single flap of wings, he was off the ground- soaring high into the air. My hair flew back with each gust, the strength and size of his wings never failing to send me into a state of shock. I held his remaining touch close to my heart, peeking up at the pro hero.
"I promise!"
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AN; after reading this sad mess i'll leave a few memes to hopefully make y'all cheer up.
i'm in literature right now and i stg english class is so hard, it's so much harder than math or chemistry.
i know that i write and all but english is SO TERRIBLY HARD?? i spend the most time on literature homework bc i don't know anything, i only have a high grade because of essays and well... the writing part 😐
hopefully hawks will be okay 👀🥰
credit: Kohei Horikoshi
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