Under pressure

Chapter 27

"So when we're you planning on telling me about your new skill?"

"Whenever the time felt right"

"Like during the final exam?"

"Okay, well technically you figured it out by yourself"

"Well the technically, you underestimated my observation skills"

(Y/n) smirked at him and walked a little closer towards him, the two were in a small training ground near (Y/n)'s dorm building, deciding that the best way to celebrate their exams was to have a rematch from the sports festival, but of course only a spar.

"My needles are very small though, I wouldn't expect many people to notice them. Midoriya maybe, but you Shoto? Just how close were you paying attention to me?"

Shoto swallowed hard as she was now pretty close to him, he could smell her lotion and his face flushed a bit at the aroma.

"Of course, I'll show you right now just what I can do"

She pointed to a tree and threw a needle at it. Hitting the trunk, it imbedded itself in the wood, leaving a pattern of cracks surrounding its impact point.

"Now here's the cool part"

Picking up another needle and twirling it in her fingers for a second, she threw it and a metallic clang rung out for both of them to hear, the needle hitting the other one, embedding it further into the already cracked wood.

She turned to him and for a moment she caught a look of shock on his face as well as an eminent blush.

"Nighteye trained me to exhaustion to develop that, I probably spent more hours training than not that week, but I personally think it was worth it"

For a moment, Shoto let out his inner monologue.

"It was, your aim is phenomenal as well as your accuracy. Being able to control the exact amount of pressure that comes behind to force of all of your needles as well as hitting a specific enough point to be able to paralyze someone is incredible. And to have been able to pick it up in a week, you'd have to be an insanely fast learner on top of hours and hours of training, honestly I..."

The moment of shock ended when he stopped himself from continuing on to his own opinions and feelings about her. (Y/n) looked starstruck by his words, eyes wide and mouth slightly agape. Blushing from his compliments,  she spoke softly.

"Thank you, Shoto"

She looked down, still quite embarrassed from what he had said.

"You should speak like that more often, your passion..."

His heart quickened

"It's beautiful"

Thoughts of the past few months flooded both of their minds. All the night spent together, all the moment when they were vulnerable, all the times they held each other, or even the slightest touch that made their hearts swoon, all the words that they used to tease each other, all the thoughts they had pop up in their minds asking whether this was normal. Whether it was normal that they felt this way, whether this really was something.

And when they snapped out of their daze, now looking at each other, they realized that it was.

It was something.

They were still so close, so close that they couldn't even fathom another outcome.

"Shoto?"

"Yes?"

"Can I-"

"Yes"

His eyes fluttered shut when she cupped his cheek and brought his lips down to her own. His arms draped around her waist and it felt as if the world had fallen from their shoulders.

Desperate not to end the moment, she memorized everything she could, every movement, every touch, everything about him that she could while she kissed him.

So many nights she had dreamed about this, even more days she though, wondering what would happen, now it would be, how it would go. Countless times it would be Shoto snapping her out of these daydreams she would have about him.

Hesitantly, they broke apart and all he could to was stare at her. Her breath quickened and started to break a little bit when she smiled. (Y/n) smiled to brightly and so wide and started to laugh. Laugh out of pure joy, pure bliss, and he looked in admiration as she yelled. She yelled out towards the sky, the trees, the grass, she yelled out the entire world that she kissed him.

She cheered out and spun around,

"I kissed him, I kissed him, YES!"

She had tears in her eyes and she tried to suppress even a fraction of her smile to no avail what she came pack to him and gave Shoto a hug while spinning him around, still laughing from joy.

She looked up at him and he had broken out into a smile and even let out small chuckles at her antics.

"You're the prettiest boy in the world Shoto"

He blushed and clutched (Y/n) closer to his chest.

The two swayed with each other, calming down slightly and just stayed like that, hugging each other closely.

There were no sparks, there were no moments where they felt as if they would lose the other if they let go, there was a flame that had been built up, only now finally being used for warmth, and pure, absolute, unimaginably strong bliss.

They were bliss.