Under Your Wing

Chapter 3

Hawks sat and waited on top of a small rooftop of a restaurant, the next morning.

He was sure Dabi would meet with him here and they could talk about a few things, like asking Dabi to quit the league of villains.

Then, almost out of nowhere, Keigo heard two pairs of feet landing on the rooftop behind him, as shadows were covering over him.

"What are you doing, Hawks? Aren't you supposed to be waiting on me at the train station and not here?" A voice came.

Keigo widened his eyes and stood up.

Tokoyami! Hawks completely forgot, he was supposed to be with his student today.

But then, who was the other person with Tokoyami?

"Why aren't you keeping up with your student, Keigo? What have you been doing instead of continuing your real work?"

Keigo sighed and slightly smiled at Aizawa's voice. He turned around to face them, smiling.

"I'm so sorry, I forgot that even though I worked with him a long while ago that he still needed me, and so therefore I forgot I promised to personally train him every other week, my mistake. I'm really sorry, Fumikage" Hawks apologized, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly.

Aizawa sighed and stepped forward closer to him.

"Hawks, this isn't like you, please tell us what's really going on" he said.

Keigo looked over at Tokoyami, then back at Aizawa, as he felt horrible he'd been hiding from them.

He sighed and looked down at his feet. The truth was going to come out one way or another, it had to.

He looked back at Aizawa. He wasn't one of his hero students, but even as an adult, he knew already he was in trouble, but not just by Aizawa but all of them, including Tokoyami, as he now had failed him.

"I haven't been feeling myself at all recently so I've been trying to get away without any of you guys noticing, I figured no one would notice, no one would care, maybe if I forgotten to fly one day, and jumped off the side of a building. But I met someone, and I fell in love, and I want to see him more again, before I do decide against suicide, but now well, I guess you noticed, huh? Well, there you have it" he explained, being as truthful and honest as he could be.

"Wait a minute! Him? Keigo, are you gay?" Aizawa questioned, raising a eyebrow.

Keigo blushed and slowly nodded.

Aizawa sighed again and shook his head, as he tried picturing it. Then, he thought about the other and main thing Hawks said, the thing that really mattered now.

"Keigo, of course I noticed you haven't been yourself! But suicide? Really? Keigo, what the hell? I mean, really, you just wanna throw yourself off of a building and forget about Tokoyami, failing him? Hell! Forget about us?! We can help you, Keigo! But you weren't planning on telling any of us, were you?!" He nearly lectured, almost forgetting he wasn't talking to one of his students.

Keigo looked back down, feeling absolutely embarrassed. Tokoyami stared over at Keigo, as he felt sorry and really sad that his idol and hero was struggling.

But why?

He felt he needed to do something, anything to help.

Tokoyami made his way over to Hawks and laid a hand on the hero's shoulder, as Keigo looked at him when he did so.

"Please don't hurt yourself, please don't kill yourself, we would all notice if you were gone. Even if it's what villains wanted, we'd still miss you, you're a great hero and I really idolize you" he softly said.