My Hero Academia: Aspirations

Chapter 28

Aspirations
Chapter 28

You looked at the notification on your phone. It said that you had a delivery. The funny thing was that you couldn't remember ordering anything. Even more bizarre was the fact that you'd gotten a notice about something being delivered to your office. You had never ordered anything to be sent to that office before. You barely even knew the new address so there was no way that any company had shipped an appreciation package either.

Which was exactly why you trudged through the minute amount of snow to make your way off campus. The Main Street was well maintained so it didn't take you long to get to the building.

Once you'd gotten there you had a whole other set of questions. Namely revolving around why Hawks was there. Noticing the fact that he was bundled up as much as he possibly could be while still being free to move his wings, you opened the door to the office so he could go in. It was warmer inside the building despite not having the heating on. Hawks looked around as you turned on the lights and set the temperature.

"I bet you're wondering what I'm doing here," Hawks was the first to break the silence.

You turned around to see him pulling out two lacquered boxes from inside his jacket. They looked like very nice bento boxes if you weren't mistaken. Though a bit on the smaller side they were packed well.

"I figured after you handed me half your lunch, I owed you."

Well at least you guessed right. You tilted your head as you regarded the winged hero. He had such a warm, open look on his face as he handed you one of the boxes that you accepted with a murmured: "Thanks."

"Mind if I eat lunch in here with you? It's a bit of a flight back to the office and I just got the icicles off if you know what I mean."

"Sure," you said quietly, still feeling confused about the situation.

You motioned for Hawks to follow you. You lead him from the office space to the much larger back room. There was a door to the side that led up to a decently sized attic you'd been using as storage. Even with the couple of boxes of things up there, there was still plenty of space to sit down and have lunch as was evident by the small round table and chair. Though prior to quickly cleaning the table off, there had been books on mutant quirks open to various different pages. You closed the books and grabbed a cushioned medical stool to use as the second seat.

"Would this or the chair be comfier for you?"

He did have large scarlett wings behind him to consider. The chair you had up there was fairly standard as it hadn't been made for a mutant quirk. Which was why you guessed the stool would have worked better for him. Based on his choice you felt confident to say that he was right.

"You do know that you could have just had it delivered right?"

You asked the question as you and he sat at the table. Perhaps it wasn't the smartest idea to be along with a stranger even if it was for lunch. The fact that it looked like he had somehow tricked the delivery notifications was a little disconcerting but he seemed like a nice enough guy. It was the fact that he was such a recognizable hero which put you at ease. Sure some heroes could have been horrible people in disguise but that wasn't your experience. Plus you knew if he laid a hand on you there were plenty of people out there that would love to hear about that. Bad news sells and all that.

"Yeah but that seemed a little impersonal after you shared the Yakitori you made."

That caused a small smile on your face as you opened the box. Unsurprisingly it was a high quality, yet not pretentious, Yakitori bento.