My Number One Hero-(All Might/ Toshinori Yagi) Book 3

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Soon September was over and Fall was upon us...as the air outside began to grow colder, Toshinori and I were trying to come to terms with everything that had happen. Well actually...he seemed a bit more distant lately since Enji and I spoke outside. He seemed as if he was now the one lost in thought. And since I punished Serah, she wasn't sharing anything with me about his feelings. So I did the next best think and read a bunch of articles to get a sense of his feelings but none of them were helping me.

It was like we were back to square one...I have asked him countless times what was wrong and he would just brush it off. Was it possible that he was jealous of Enji still?

A part of me wondered as I walked down these streets. I told Toshinori I was going to the grocery store to get some ingredients but honestly I needed this walk to clear my head and to think about everything that was happening, it just so happens to be raining right now and I had forgotten my umbrella.

But I loved the rain...the sight of it and the smell of it.

They call it petrichor – the smell of earth that emanates as soon as the first raindrops fall.

I've always loved that smell. It brought so many childhood memories of running around the track into puddles of water, of laughter, and friendship. It conjured the aromatic smell of freshly brewed coffee, and that decadent scent of fresh-from-the-oven cookies I made when we were living together when we were in America. And it brought that vivid memory of a moment with you, the boy with the blue umbrella that walked me home from school when it rained.

People around me pulled out umbrellas, and those who didn't have one started to rush to their cars. One guy on his phone ran under a tree to seek shelter from the weather.

As it started to rain harder, and as people began to walk quicker to their destinations, I started to slow down. The guy under the tree gave me an odd look as I veered off the sidewalk and onto the street. By the time I cross the street, my hair that was all did was drenched, my shirt was sticking to my skin, and my pants were completely soaked.

I looked up at the sky, just noticing how large the drops of water were. I walked through the gates. I walked straight into an open area with no trees. And I just stood there.

"This park"

I always came here when something was bothering me.

And I smiled.

Rain conjures a sweet pattern upon my skin, the thousands of liquid globes reflecting the greenery of nature.  It is cooling on this coolday, a welcome shower to add to the senses. It was peaceful in someway.

I push those random stray of hair out of my face and sighed. Becoming an adult was harder now than it was back when I left Toshinori on the field after he defeated All for One. It was all my fault, I shouldn't have left him ...maybe then we would be much closer or even married. But even I can see now that there is still a gap between us...regardless of how much we both want to pretend there isn't for the sake of our children and I didn't even know what to do.

"I should have never met him," I thought to myself..."I should have never enrolled in U.A high...I should have never been born..."

"Hana it's raining and your sitting down underneath a tree with no leaves," someone said.

I looked up to see the messy, shoulder-length black hair that partially hangs in front of his face and often half-opened black eyes looking down at me.

"Hey Shouta," I said a bit somberly.

"You and All Might at it again?" Aizawa asked.

I couldn't answer him as I turned my head away from him. I mean we weren't at it we were just not seeing eye to eye in terms of his feelings and I was furious at myself because I am unable to make an judgements on it.

"No," I replied, "I am just upset that I can't get a read on his emotions and his feelings..."

"So crying in the rain was your next idea?"

"I thought I was mean...sheessh!" I thought while wiping my eyes, "I am not crying! It's just the rain rolling down my face."

"Sure," Aizawa said while rolling his eyes.

Yup, he so didn't believe a word I said.

"Listen, if you stay out here, you're gonna get sick and I much rather have you not get sick because you make the days at school more tolerable now," Aizawa replied.

"You're a cold man," I mumbled.

"Come on," Aizawa said, "I am close by, you can dry off there."

I sighed knowing there was no means of getting away from Aizawa. He probably would just use his quirk to turn mines off and his bind cloth to bring me against my will. I got off the ground and walked beside him as he lifted his umbrella enough for both of us to be covered.

"You know," Aizawa started, "All Might told me where I would find you."

"What..." I said a bit shocked that Toshinori would even know where I was considering that I told him I was going to the grocery store and he didn't even see me off.

"He called me telling me that he had a feeling you weren't going to the grocery store especially since he ran to the window after you left and noticed that you went the opposite direction of the grocery store," Aizawa said.

"He watched me walk down the block...but when I asked him about his feelings...he can't give me a straight answer..." I thought.

"He cares very much about you," Aizawa interrupted.

"Then why can't he tell me that something is wrong when it is evident in his visage?" I asked, "I can't get a read of his emotions especially because of the drawback of my quirk."

"He is probably scared that he will cause you to run away like you do countless times," Aizawa said straightforwardly.

"You are such an asshole," I mumbled, "Heartless asshole...and besides I promised him I wouldn't run away...we have kids."

"You consider me a close friend ever since our time at U-A, so I'll tell you if you are wrong or if you are right." Aizawa said, "Right now, you neither wrong or right, it was right for you to leave the house and think about how All Might is feeling...but you were wrong for lying to him."

That caused me to smile at that idea. He was right, often times he would be in my class because he was advance in one area of students and during those times, since the day he noticed how sad I was, he would be the one to talk to me especially when Toshinori was surrounded by his fangirls. Eventually he introduced me to Hizashi Yamada and Shirakumo Oboro, his closest friends. Those days of hanging out with him and his classmates, even though they were underclassmen, were peaceful.

"I know...and Hopefully, you see me as a close friend the same way I see you as one..."

"I wouldn't have babysat your kids for free if I didn't," Aizawa said.

I laughed at his apathetic statement while he opened the door to his place and allowed for me to step in as he followed after me, closing the door behind him. We were in for a long reflective thought about the recent events that had happened between Toshinori and myself.