[ FIRST ] // ruby x deku :3
[ FIRST KISS. ] // EVERGREEN ROSE.
she’d seen it before, felt the winds of responsibility howling around her skull. voices trying to reach her get lost in the storm. the vacant look of eyes clouding into a dangerous front that would churn the seas. the only place to reach them was in the eye of it. a need to be grounded before it was too late and deku had the same hauntingly calm eyes. ruby can practically hear the crashes of anger, guilt and despair. no time to clutch her own head to drown the winds out, no point when the sounds of his are like standing inside a mid-april twister. ruby reaches out to him, the sting of sparks from his quirk don’t phase her. it wasn’t painful..
‘ izuku! you’re doing it again. the dumb thing where you ask scary questions. you aren’t doing anything wrong. you're doing what everyone can. you’re trying. ‘
he was so caring.. a dangerous kind of caring. someone with a bottomless void of compassion inside. yet he never gets a drop of it. ruby was good at being reckless with the same void for others too. ruby pulls him in close by the scarf as the winds howl around them and their lips collide in time with the lightning. ruby feels her hair stand up from her skin. was this his quirk or what she should be feeling kissing someone she liked.. someone like her.. lost in the same storm with different rains. pulling away for a moment silvereyes flutter open and her thumb runs over his freckles.
‘ i uhuhm.. thought that would get your attention. ‘ she says with a shrug of her shoulders and flustered giggle.
