Light Within The Shadows(Aizawa x Reader Agent!AU)

Ch 26: ...Turns To Hope

All I remember before sleeping suddenly was watching the movie 'Romeo and Juliet and The Prisoner of Azkaban: Return of the Kings'. Not once did I wake up suddenly. No bad dreams or nightmares. Although, when I did wake up, the first thing I felt was the sun's rays on my eyelids. I wanted to raise my hands to rub my eyes, but it felt like someone's arms were, around...me...

Oh, I remember now.

I opened my eyes and gaze at the sight before me. Shouta is cradling me in his chest with one arm draped over my waist and another acting as a pillow for me. His eyes were closed, sleeping soundly.

I blushed, but slowly untangled myself and sat up so as not to awaken Shouta. I lifted my shirt and removed the bandages, wincing along the way. I held my shirt up with my teeth and started bending water from the vase with flowers over the gunshot and sent healing pulses through it. I slowly drew out any infection from my body and finished sealing up the wound, using my blood to accelerate cell growth. I finished and put the water back, and gazed at the scar left in place of the wound.

The scar dipped into my skin, slightly darker than my normal skin tone. The skin was marred and swollen. I frowned looking at it. I wasn't too fond of the scars littering my body. They've been a little annoying ever since; stretch marks adorned my legs and my friends always thought they were bizarre. Not a lot of good memories for me...

(3rd P.O.V.)

(Y/N) was so caught up in her scar that she failed to notice Shouta wake up. He saw her gaze at her stomach and saw that she had healed the wound entirely, but there was a prominent scar in its place. He subconsciously felt a throbbing in the scar under his eye and he silently reached to touch the gunshot scar on (Y/N)'s torso. When he did, she jumped in her place and looked back at him.

"Ah! Shouta, how was sleep?"

"It was okay. What about you? Did you have any nightmares?"

"No! I slept safe and sound! Thank you! I'm guessing I'll have to stay here a few days to make sure my Quirk didn't miss anything." 

Shouta nodded and then they heard a notification sound go off. Shouta turned to the bedside table and grabbed his phone. "Hizashi just texted me a list of things to do once you get out of here. And he said, and I quote, "Y'all better do all that stuff I listed!! Or else imma come over and make you!"

(Y/N) snickered. "Of course he'd say that."

Shouta hummed in response, turning off his phone and blushing at the second part of that text. 'You better have a plan up your sleeve! You gotta confess to her! She's perfect for you! You're always such a stick in the mud, and you deserve to be happy!'

"Mic, I'm gonna kill you when we get back..." Shouta muttered under his breath.

"Huh? Did you say something Shouta?"

"No."

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Fully recovered, I finally got out of my bed and left the hospital with Shouta. We hailed a taxi to bring us back to our hotel. It was extremely hard though because everyone was out and about for the last day of the festival. Man, we are super lucky to have at least one day for it. I'm super excited! 

We entered our room and I immediately went into the bathroom and got changed into my outfit I bought a few days earlier. I admired the outfit on me in the mirror. I curled my hair and put part of it up in a low bun, but I suddenly remembered that I forgot to buy a hairpin!!

Scrunching my face in the mirror, I exited the bathroom and presented myself to Shouta. "Ta-da! Does it still look good?"

I came out with my eyes closed, so I didn't see him right away. But when I opened my eyes, I saw Shouta in the same outfit; all that was different was his hair. He had it tied back into a ponytail with some hanging in front of his left eye. I was so caught up on his appearance; he just looked so handsome to me, even with his ocean-deep eyebags I still found him so beautiful.