Ophelia by The lumineers is playing…
Toshinori was soft with you, softer than he was with anyone else, he couldn’t bear to tell you ‘no’ even a single time, striving to make your life easier than it already was.
He’d stop by at your place to drop off the tea you liked so much but was too expensive, to ask you how you were doing or to clumsily report class 1-A’s training and their weaknesses and strengths, even before you caught him talking to Mic about how ‘amazingly lovable’ you were you suspected he liked you.
You were not so sure though, the man liked almost the entirety of the planet, and with how polite he was you didn’t question all the care he had when he spoke to you, nor did the students or anyone who saw you outside of school.
You found out he liked you through Mic, who basically yelled to the top of his lungs when Toshinori finally told him he felt something for you, you’d rushed in along with Cementos and Midnight, checking to see if Mic was being once again strangled by Aizawa’s scarf: you found the loud blonde with his jaw on the floor still blabbering, while Toshinori had become all shades of red possible and was coughing up blood as he tried to get Mic to shut up.
After that incident he started avoiding you completely, no more random questions, no more tea drop-offs, no more reports, you felt worried and also a bit sad, Toshinori was really a nice guy, and although he didn’t understand when to stop working for the dear life of him, you thought he was funny and kindhearted nonetheless, so you decided; you were going to invite him to dinner with you, at least to get some time to talk and laugh a bit.
When you approached him in the teachers lounge, he seemed spooked at first, looking at you like you were going to pounce on him at any moment, he agreed to your proposal, asking five times if it was really going to be just the two of you there, bouncing his leg in a weird way.
The two of you talked for a bit, and he told you all about class A, getting lost in a rant about young Kirishima’s quirk improvement after his work study with Fatgum, you liked when he got like this, so excited for even the smallest things, it made your heart feel warm, warmer than usual.
A week went by before your dinner arrived, you were getting ready, leaving your hair down and putting some makeup on, just a tad bit to make your eyes pop and your skin a little more glowy; you got a text, your phone dinging and lighting up, you checked and found a message from Toshinori, reading
“Should I come pick you up for our date tonight?”
You didn’t pay much attention to the word ‘date’, Toshi was old at heart, the man said he was going to ‘hook up with Tsukauchi’ way too many times for him to know what it meant now, he was also confused when his students said things like ‘Damn I’d smash her right now’ looking at them to ask ‘What did the young lady do that was so bad’ since in his mind smash only goes with punches.
“Oh it’s alright, I’ll grab my car”
You replied, setting your phone back down to finish getting ready, grabbing your dress and shoes and fixing yourself up. You filled your purse with what you needed, adding a bottle of pepper spray, not because you were worried about Toshinori, but creeps came around a lot more often than necessary and you didn’t want to fight on your night out.
The car beeped as you opened it, getting in the driver’s seat and typing the restaurant’s name on google maps since you didn’t actually know how to get there, the ride wasn’t too long, just 15 minutes and you were actually in time for once so there was no need to make a run for it.
You arrived five minutes earlier than the set hour, but you still noticed a tall man with blonde hair standing in front of the entrance, chatting with a man you didn’t recognize. It was Toshinori, facing the opposite direction from you, speaking to who you assumed was a fan from the way he was basically jumping up and down like a kid would.
You got out of the car, heels clinking as you approached him, bag in one hand and car keys in the other.
He turned around so fast you feared his neck might snap in half, almost coughing up blood from the scare, even though with his fame he should be pretty used to it by now.
“Great heavens! I didn’t see you young y/n, you’re early”
“Yeah, my hair cooperated for once thankfully”
You noticed then something in his hands, looking down you saw flowers, sunflowers so yellow they could rival the sun right in his hands, wrapped in a purple paper that had crinkles where he held it.
“Are you waiting for someone?”
“Then what are the flowers for?”
“Then I don’t see the problem dear, they are obviously for you”
Your brain stopped for a second, he obviously knew that you had heard Mic screaming his lungs out, but Toshinori wasn’t a bold man by any means, always the softest, most shy but caring man in the room, but he definitely wasn’t the type to do something like this without imploding at least.
“Wait, what do you intend with date?”
“A… romantic outing? Or does it mean something else now?”
Now was his turn to look concerned, he was looking at you with those wide eyes of his he always had when he was about to go on a rant of apologies so long and sincere it could’ve melted your heart, thinking he did something wrong even though he didn’t.
“No Toshi, it’s… it’s the same, I just didn’t expect it”
You smiled at him, taking the flowers from his hands to smell them, like the color, the smell was fantastic, so much so you were wondering if he had sprayed perfume on them, but he wasn’t the guy to trick you like that.
“Did I overstep? Should I have not bought them? I’m so sorry!”
He began stuttering a million different things one after the other, ripping a laugh from you so quickly you had to try not to seem rude or anything, but he was too adorable to ignore when he got like this.
He stilled, staring in your eyes with a mixture of fear and hope at the same time.
“You did absolutely nothing wrong, you are fantastic, I hope you know that”
“But for this to be a date… we should actually get inside, don’t you think?”
“Surely, sorry for misunderstanding!”
“Don’t be sorry, let’s just go”
Hello there! This is just a little story I had in mind for All Might, not much you may say, but I was planning to do more parts, tell me how it sounds!🎧🪐
