I Found What I Was Missing

Chapter 15: Past and Present

Past and Present

The fourth ever time Denki saw Hitoshi, he started to like him. The very first time he had seen the indigo haired alpha had been just before the sports festival, when Hitoshi had told Katsuki he was a jerk and declared war on their entire class.

The second time was at the sports festival itself, but Denki was too focused on the cute girl from class B. The third time was just after they got their Provisional licences, and Denki was very confused by his sexuality by then.

He had always been attracted to girls, but once he presented as omega at fourteen, he started to feel confused. He tried acting normally, like most of the other boys in his class, and felt himself crushing on Jirou for a while.

He would act sort of pervy with Mineta, out of fun, really. But after the sports festival, Denki started to question his likes and dislikes. His crush on Jirou drifted away, and he felt himself be attracted to some of his male classmates.

He had a crush on Kiri for about two months, but that shifted quickly to fond affections, like brotherly love. He could easily admit that Shoto and Katsuki were hot--he did have eyes--and Deku was just too cute for words.

But it never went any further than that--just appreciating his classmates' looks--until he saw Hitoshi again. The minute he saw the taller alpha, his heart started beating a little faster, and he just wanted to be near the other.

Denki got flustered easily while talking to Hitoshi every time he saw him, but the alpha never made fun of him for it, just stood and waited patiently for him to pull himself together enough to hold a proper conversation.

Hitoshi had said he didn't want to make friends--much like Shoto did--and Denki was determined to be the first to befriend him. So with his friendly, outgoing personality and metaphorical bat of friendship he used to hit Hitoshi over the head with; Denki befriended and fell in love with Hitoshi.

It was hard, once the alpha transferred over into the hero course--they sadly had to say goodbye to Mineta--he was adamant on focusing on becoming a hero. At first it seemed like he really didn't want to make friends, but Denki was stubborn.

He constantly cornered the alpha for a short chat--it was hard to find him at first--and greeted him in the morning and said goodnight once they retreated to bed. Hitoshi, at first, refused to say anything back to him, and gave him no reactions whatsoever.

But slowly, Hitoshi welcomed the small chats which soon turned into long talks and assisting with homework. He started to smile each time Denki greeted him fist thing in the morning with a bright, sunshine smile and cup of coffee; felt longing every time he had to say goodnight and spend hours without the blond's affections and bright personality.

Hitoshi started actively looking for Denki whenever the omega wasn't by his side. His heart would speed up every time Denki paid any sort of attention to him; he found himself falling in love.

Hitoshi decided to hide his feelings; he didn't want to ruin his precious friendship with Denki, the blond was too dear to him, he'd be heartbroken if he lost Denki over something like love.

He refused to believe the blond could like him back; he wouldn't allow himself such futile hope. His fragile heart would shatter should it turn out untrue.

"We're going to go check in on Todoroki-kun now, you should check in on Kaminari-kun, too," Izuku told him, smiling brightly at him as if he hadn't just endured the tantalizing scent of two omega in heat for the passed two weeks.