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“Tensei I think I’m having a heatstroke.”
“Calm down there, tiger.”
“Seriously, feel my head, I have a fever. Gotta go home I guess.” Hizashi tried to turn and leave but was quickly yanked back by his friend.
“You’ll be fine, dude. It’s just a pool.” Tensei continued to drag the protesting blond through the gate that lead to Nemuri’s pool.
“Yeah, with a shirtless Aizawa! You can’t just make me-“ He was quickly silenced when he caught sight of said boy. He turned to Tensei and said very seriously “Have you ever
seen someone so beautiful you want to cry?”
The other boy rolled his eyes and continued walking towards their waiting friends. Hizashi quickly threw on a smile and followed, plopping down next to Aizawa who was fidgeting with his phone. He took a deep breath and mentally prepared to socialize like a normal, totally-not-pining individual.
“Hey.” The shorter greeted him and Hizashi felt a bit too warm again because he looked so cute when smiling up at him and Hizashi had to remind himself to say hi back instead of just staring at his friend like a freaking weirdo.
“What’re you up to?” In response, Aizawa leans into his space to show him his phone that was playing a video of some admittedly adorable kittens. He lets out a sigh of relief when the other boy leaves his phone in Hizashi’s hand to go change.
“He’s so adorable. No wonder cats love him. Adorable attracts adorable.” The blond immediately starts gushing to his two other friends, thoroughly interrupting their conversation.
“I can’t believe I thought I was straight.” The blond sighs out. “me, heterosexual.”
“Ask him out.” Nemuri says like it’s the easiest thing in the world.
“I can’t!”
“You can.” Tensei counters quickly.
“No!”
“Why not?!”
“Because Aizawa could totally kick his ass.” Nemuri supplies. Hizashi points to her as a response. “Couple goals is dating someone who can beat you up.” She adds.
“Seriously, my sexual awakening was when he pinned my ass during the sports festival.” Then to Tensei, he says “He would probably, like, murder me.” Hizashi laments.
“Dude, I doubt he’d even be upset about you just asking him out.” Tensei reasons. “What would he even be mad about?”
“I don’t know! I’m thinking worst case scenario here!”
“About what?” Hizashi almost ducks under the nearest chair at the sudden appearance of his crush behind him. The two other teens just gave him a pointed look as Aizawa waited for a response.
“Just! You know! That test that’s coming up in English, I haven’t studied or anything and I don’t want to fail or anything!” He spits out way to fast and just a little too loud. He knew he should’ve left. His brain was melting at the sight of his shirtless friend.
“Right. You’re awesome at English.” Hizashi feels like his face is on fire. Aizawa should really put a shirt on. “And I don’t remember there being a test in English?” Nemuri and Tensei shared knowing smirks as they watched
“Guess I was worried over nothing then! Let’s swim now!” Hizashi blurts and bolts towards the pool and jumps in.
His regret is immediate. He splashes to the surface of the water with a sputtering curse.
“I forgot to mention that it’s still pretty cold.” Nemuri says as Tensei doubles over laughing at Hizashi’s wide eyes and chattering teeth.
“Pretty cold!? I feel like I just dipped myself into a glass of ice water! My nips could cut diamonds right now!” He tries to move his limbs about to get his body used to the water.
“It can’t be that bad.” Aizawa says as he steps towards the edge of the pool. Hizashi reaches a hand out to the other boy and gets a devilish grin when he has a grasp on the other.
“Try it for yourself.” He says as he yanks his friend into the water with him.
Hizashi is trying to keep afloat as he laughs but he needs to hold onto the wall for support when he laughs harder at the sight of Aizawa. He pops up with a gasp and immediately gives the giggling teen a death glare. The effect was lost however with his long hair plastered to his face, covering most of his expression.
As soon as loud teen caught his breath, he was met with a splash to the face. He let out an offended scoff when he saw the others smirk.
He hands his glasses off to Nemuri before returning fire. They move towards the shallow end in order to get better leverage, hardly noticing their friends working their way into the pool amidst the flying water.
After a while, Hizashi doesn’t feel his splashing being returned. When he pauses, he looks around confused when the smaller teen is nowhere to be seen. He looks towards the others and they both shrug but their knowing smiles give them away.
He opens his mouth to ask them but then there’s a pressure on his shoulders and his mouth fills with water. When he resurfaces, spitting out water, he realizes he’s found Aizawa, koala beared onto his back and laughing. Maybe he can pass off his blush as the beginnings of a sun burn.
“When did you even!-“ Hizashi is underwater again. He kicks against the floor of the pool and just barely keeps his balance enough to stay above water with another person clinging to his back and trying to basically drown him.
“Alright, alright, you got the jump on me.” Hizashi says a little out of breath. “But now you’re stuck!” He grabs the smaller’s wrists and holds them around his shoulders. “Hold your breath!” He warns before sucking in a deep breath himself and diving under water, pulling Aizawa with him.
They both emerge from the water near the other two teens with gasp.
“Aizawa’s got the right idea.” Nemuri says. “We should have a chicken fight! Dibs on Tensei!”
She ignores Hizashi’s pointed glare, already climbing onto the boy’s shoulders. “Fine with me. We’ve already established that Aizawa can kick all our asses.” Hizashi jokes before crouching underwater so that the other boy could get on his shoulders.
Okay. Hizashi can do this. He can totally have his crush on his shoulders. He’s got this.
He has not got this.
When he stands he’s Aizawa’s thighs on either side of his head and he’s pretty sure he’s gonna lose this for them because there’s no way he can keep his balance like this.
Hizashi shakes his head and tells himself to get his head out of the gutter. He braces himself and focuses on the other teens who look out for blood.
“Go!” Tensei shouts and then he’s stepping towards them and now Hizashi has to really focus to keep his balance.
It really only takes maybe thirty seconds before Nemuri is crashing backwards into the water. Aizawa and Hizashi are able to get a cheer out before Tensei grabs Aizawa’s feet and flips him back into the water.
“Rude!” Aizawa says pushing hair out of his face.
“Sorry! We’re sore losers.” Nemuri says and splashes the other in the face.
As the two devolved into another splash war, Tensei turns to Hizashi. “Guess you were right, you guys won pretty fast.”
“Dude.” He responds and rubs his hands down his face. “I don’t think that helped.”
“Still want him to kick your ass?” Tensei laughs.
“I want him to crush my head between his thighs, holy fuck.”
The other boy shakes his head and laughs. “Just ask him out!” he says and joins the other two before Hizashi can argue.
***
The sun is setting and Tensei and Nemuri are sitting in the hot tub. Hizashi and Aizawa didn’t quite feel like getting out of the pool yet.
The blond turns to his friend, “You wanna play a game I used to play with my sister?”
Aizawa rubs at his eyes and looks over. “Sure, what is it?”
“We just go underwater and try to tell each other stuff. I say something up to three times and you see if you can understand it and vis versa.” Hizashi explains. He feels his stomach knot up as Aizawa nods. This is it.
“Sounds weird. You go first.”
“Okay.”
He’s gonna ask him out. This way if he doesn’t want to he can act like he didn’t understand. Or he won’t understand. Either way this is the best Hizashi can think of without giving himself a heart attack.
He takes a deep breath and nods at the other. They both sink under the water and he opens his eyes to look at the blurry figure in front of him. His eyes burn from the chlorine and he wonders if Aizawa is doing the same even though his eyes are already irritated. He tries to talk fast.
They both pop up from the water and catch their breath again. “You said it too quickly.” Aizawa says.
Hizashi nods. “Right, two more tries.”
They repeat the process and Hizashi talks a little slower, puts his quirk into it just the smallest bit. Maybe the lack of oxygen was making him make stupid decisions.
He sees Aizawa pause before resurfacing and Hizashi thinks maybe he still didn’t hear.
The smaller boy looks thoughtful as he looks at the other. Hizashi is still holding his breath. He seems to decide something before nodding to himself and saying. “One more time.”
Hizashi smiles through his anxiety. “Alright. Last chance.”
When they go under again, Aizawa moves closer and Hizashi can feel his heartbeat in his head. One last time, he says it.
“Will you be my boyfriend?”
He wants to close his eyes so he doesn’t see if the other understands or not. Instead he forces his eyes to remain open against the stinging of pool chemicals. He sees the dark blob in front of him move even closer. He doesn’t know if he’s about to be drowned as Aizawa holds the side of Hizashi’s head and pulls him even closer.
When Shouta presses his lips against his own, Hizashi almost gasps, forgetting that their underwater. They come up for air and he can’t decide if he’s light headed from the kiss or from holding his breath for too long but he’s got a big dumb grin on his face. He Knows!
“So you understood?” Hizashi asks excitedly, still in each other’s space.
“Yes.” Shouta says with a small smile.
“And?”
Shouta gives him a look like he can’t believe how dense Hizashi is before repeating “Yes.”
Hizashi let’s out a loud woop only to splashed in the face.