Shangri La Pt. 1

132: Passionate

( Note: This chapter has Fluff/Smut, so you have been warned, and hopefully it's not gonna be as long as my past smut chapters have been! Good luck and enjoy! )

After leaving the ball, leaving the garden maze and now trotting along through the empty hallways of the palace, Izumi and Katsuki–hand in hand–walked side by side at a moderate pace. Neither truly wanted to leave the other just yet as the night was still plenty young. 

"I uh– I planned for us to leave here tomorrow." Katsuki started, unsure if this was the right way to start the conversation. 

"Oh... I see, I knew this trip wasn't meant to last, but it was fun when it did." she mumbled, pulling some of her hair behind her ear. 

In doing so, the blond just happened to look at the right time and could see just how red and swollen her eyes were from all the crying she did before. He couldn't help himself as he wanted to feel her so he reached his hand out and rested it on her cheek. 

"Your eyes are pretty swollen." 

"A-Are they? I-I'll just have to wash my face before going to bed and hope it'll be better in the morning." she answered, feeling a bit more comfortable with his warm touch.

Just seeing her like this and how–even after all that crying–she still was beautiful and breathtaking. Deep down inside of him, there was this urge–this want–where he just wanted to grab her and push her up against the wall and kiss her in the most passionate way. 

But he just got a confession out of her just an hour prior to now, so rushing things shouldn't be something right for this time. His heart was thumping to the point that it was throbbing, as there were still so many things he wanted to do with her. 

But after seeing her cry her heart and soul out to him in that maze and how she was shaking in their embrace–and those passionate kisses–he was about to lose his cool. 

"I-Izuku, I–" 

"There's my room." she interrupted, stopping him and pointing straight ahead. 

He looked up ahead to see the very door she was pointing at, and he automatically knew where this was going; they had to part ways for the night.

"Ah– A-Are we already here? I thought the walk was longer." 

"It did feel a bit short, didn't it?" she asked, looking up at him and smiling sweetly. 

For this very moment, Katsuki instantly thought that perhaps the night wasn't going to end this early for them, as he abruptly thought that maybe–just maybe–he'd enter the room with him... and never leave. 

The thumping in his chest started to pick up as he already started daydreaming of what it could be in that very bedroom and doing things that he'd imagined doing with her. 

"I-Izuku, do you want... me to–" 

"Well since we're here and we'll be leaving tomorrow, then that means I should get to bed right away, right?"

"Ah– Huh?" 

"You said we were leaving tomorrow, so I can only assume you meant early in the morning so we have enough daylight to travel. Getting enough rest tonight would be the best option, wouldn't it?" she stated, as Katsuki wasn't sure how to process this. 

"W-Well I-I guess when you put it that way, it makes sense..." 

"Right! So that means you and I should get some sleep now before we're too exhausted to travel at all tomorrow." she added, giving the blond a slight glimmer of hope that he might actually be entering her bedroom with her.