{DEAR DEPARTURE} My Hero Academia

𝟷𝟹. 𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚘

Iida lets out a sigh as he sits on the couch, not realizing until a moment later that Uraraka is sitting beside him with her head tilted back and her mouth wide open. She's passed out from all the excitement.

"Uraraka," he calls to her while tapping her on the shoulder, "Wake up."

However, she simply grunts in her sleep and remains motionless.

"Come on," he tries again, gently shaking her shoulder. "You shouldn't sleep out here. Where did Midoriya go?"

She simply shrugs and mutters something about All Might.

"Let's go," Iida sighs, putting his arm around her and lifting her up. "I'll bring you to your room."

"I'm fine," she slurs, struggling to stand up.

"Are you? So you'd be able to get there yourself then?" he chuckles softly as she looks at him with her sleepy eyes. He has always thought she was so beautiful.

"No," she then grumbles.

"Exactly. Come on."

As the two of them slowly walk towards the elevator, they nearly bump into Mina who bursts past them in a flash. "Where's she going that fast?" Iida shakes his head before calling out to her to slow down.

"She's almost as fast as you," Uraraka chuckles as the two of them make it inside the elevator.

"Oh, please" he laughs. "I can't believe you got drunk. How did that happen?"

"I don't know," she mumbles, trying to stay steady. "It's our last night. I wanted it to be memorable but then something happened and..." she trails off.

"Is everything alright?" he asks just as the elevator doors open to the next floor.

"Yeah, I'll be fine. It was just," she sighs, "I thought something would happen with Midoriya but it didn't."

"Did you want something to happen?" he asks, looking down at her as he leads her out of the elevator.

"Yeah," she admits.

"Then maybe you should talk to him," he suggests as she unlocks her room.

"But what if he doesn't want to? I mean, he wants to make me so happy that it's hard to tell if it's something he wants, too, you know?" she asks, stepping into her room and looking up at him.

"Yeah, I know," he nods as he walks her to her bed and sits her down on the edge. He then turns to leave before he hears her call his name.

"Tenya," she says quietly, causing him to stop and turn around. He hasn't heard her say his first name in quite some time now.

"Uraraka, it's alright.

"I want more than anything to be a hero, but I am really going to miss all this," she admits to him. With a nod, he walks back over and sits beside her.

"Me too," he agrees. "I didn't expect it to be this hard, saying goodbye."

"Me either," she mumbles.

The two of them then sit in silence for a moment. Iida, though he hates thinking about it, feels quite uncomfortable. He'd love to give Uraraka a kiss goodbye before everything ends, but he knows she's got her sights set on Midoriya. And who is he to take advantage of a drunk girl, anyway?

"Tenya," she calls out to him again, causing him to look at her. "Can I ask you something?"

"Anything," he remarks, his body stiffening even more than before.

"If I were to kiss you, would you think it was a mistake?" she then asks.

"A-Are you sure you're not just drunk, Uraraka?" he asks nervously, not sure if his ears heard her correctly. "You should really get some sleep. I'll see you tomorrow, alright?"

"Please don't go," she whines, grabbing his arm and tugging on it. He can't deny her when she begs like that.

"O-Okay," he stammers, not being able to pull himself away from her. "What should we talk about?"

If she keeps acting like this, he doesn't know how long he'll last before doing something he regrets.

"Tell me a secret," she smiles, her eyes gazing deeply into his.

"Like what?" he asks.

"Something that no one else knows," she chuckles, her smile growing wider.

"Alright," he sighs. "But you have to promise not to tell anyone."

"Okay," she nods.

"And you have to let me go."

"Fine," she huffs, releasing her grip on him.

"Thank you," he chuckles. "Um, okay, well, the thing is, I-"

Before he can finish his sentence, Uraraka interrupts him with a hard kiss on the lips. The kind of kiss that makes the entire world melt away. The kind of kiss that makes him weak. The kind of kiss that leaves him wondering why it hasn't happened before.

"Oh, fuck," he curses when she breaks the kiss, not being able to think straight.

"Sorry," she giggles, pressing her forehead against his.

"Uraraka," he says her name rather stiffly as he rises to his feet. "We should not be doing this."

"Why not?" she asks, grabbing his hand and pulling him back onto the bed.

"Because I know that you're drunk. And because I can't take advantage of you like this. We need to stop," he replies, standing up once again and backing away from the bed.

"Don't leave," she says, a look of hurt in her eyes. "I want you to stay."

"Look, I won't tell Midoriya because I'm pretty sure you're too drunk to even realize what you're doing," he explains. "Now, get some sleep, and tomorrow morning, this never happened."

Uraraka is left speechless as Iida walks out of the room swiftly and shuts the door behind him. What she doesn't notice, however, is the way he leans his back against the other side of the door and curses himself for putting either of them in that situation. He shouldn't have let her kiss him. He shouldn't have kissed her back.

He shouldn't have allowed any of it to happen. But, most importantly, he shouldn't have let his feelings grow for her.

"Fuck," he groans, running his hands through his hair and wishing the night would end. And so, instead of going back downstairs, he decides to rush over to his room. The erection that was beginning to strain against his pants would have been hard to hide so he allows it to lead the way instead, back to his room.