IZUKU STOOD IN FRONT of his mirror fixing the collar of his shirt, luckily Shota left his marks just below the collar of his shirt. They'd only be visible if Izuku moved his collar away from his neck or if someone was really looking at his neck. He did his tie and straightened it before giving himself one last look over and heading to school.

Izuku lounged at his desk with his headphone on waiting for class to start, Aizawa entered the room after Uraraka and Mina who immediately ran over to Izuku's desk with giddy grins on their faces. Izuku's eyes flicked up towards them from his phone as they entered his peripheral vision, he turned off his phone and pulled off his headphone, resting them around his neck while Mina hopped up and made herself comfortable on his desk. Uraraka stole Bakugou's chair and sat across from Izuku, he quirked a brow at their excited expressions.

"Are you excited for this weekend?" Mina asked, Izuku just continued staring at her. Of course he knew what they were referring to, they'd been bugging him about it forever, but he wanted an opening to show the marks on his neck. "For your date?" Mina continued and Izuku made an o shape with his mouth.

He reached up to his collar and adjusted it to offer a glimpse of the love bites on his neck as he scratched his collarbone. Mina and Uraraka gasped in unison and Uraraka jumped up to pull at his collar, gaping at the marks that littered Izuku's chest in shock. 

"Deku! What are these?" Uraraka poked at one and Izuku batted her hand away.

"Nothing, don't worry about it," Izuku brushed them off fixing his shirt. 

"Doesn't look like nothing, it looks like someone tried to eat you, literally." Mina scoffed flicking a small bite mark that was barely visible above his collar. "I'm not letting you go on a date with those on your neck, you look like a fuckboy." 

Izuku rolled his eyes as Uraraka deflated, whining about how Izuku and their friend would've looked so cute together. 

"You guys don't want me to be lonely, clearly I'm not, can we finally drop it?" Izuku begged and Mina lit up.

"Wait don't tell me, you kept denying the dates because you're in a secret relationship! Izuku you dog," Mina teased, Izuku shook his head and glanced up towards the clock, if he timed this right the bell would ring right before Mina could ask anymore questions.

"No, it was a one time thing, still not looking for a relationship." Izuku huffed and Mina opened her mouth to ask another question only to be cut off by the bell. Fucking brilliant timing Izuku, you're safe till lunch.

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Shota had watched the whole thing in amusement, he was still waiting for Izuku to snap and tell everyone to hop off his dick and fuck out of his love life. Standing at the podium waiting for the bell to ring Shota spaced out, his mind wandered back to the evening before, the feeling of Izuku's lips on his, the way their bodies felt pressed together, the noises Izuku made when he hit the right spot, everything. He pushed away the more un-pure memories and thoughts, he refused to teach class only at the podium, he instead turned his mind towards the after. A ghost a smile crossed his lips as he remembered the way Izuku blushed when he stole a kiss in the middle of one of his rambles, he liked watching Izuku's freckles contrast against the rose color filling his cheeks. Izuku was pretty, one of the prettiest boys Shota had ever seen, and he let Shota kiss him, fuck him, it still didn't feel real to Shota.

Izuku, this bright pretty boy that could have anyone he wanted whenever he wanted, wanted him, a old man with nothing to offer him. Shota knew he wasn't the nicest looking guy and his personality was 'an absolute shit show of anger issues and closed off-ness' as one of his friends had said. He was withdrawn from everyone around him while Izuku was the brightest person in the room, he could make conversation and friends with anyone while Shota rather glare at anyone who approached him. They were complete opposites in every way, and yet, he met Izuku's eyes as the bell rang and Izuku offered him a small smile. Shota only offered a small quirk of his lip as he thought maybe that's what will make it work.

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With lunch approaching rapidly Izuku knew he wouldn't be able to outrun his friend's questions for much longer. Mina and Uraraka had let it slip to almost everyone that he had hooked up with someone so now it wasn't just them two asking questions, it was almost half his class wondering who finally got into "No time for relationships or hook-ups" Izuku's pants. He had about twenty minutes before the bell rang for lunch to come up with an escape plan, he stared down at his English paper Present Mic had assigned at the beginning of class brainstorming. He had finished the paper a long time ago but he refused to turn it in because then he'd be open to an onslaught of questions from his classmates that had also finished their assignment. 

Pulling on his headphones and keeping his head down he counted down the seconds till lunch. The bell rang and Izuku was the first one out the door, after giving Present Mic his paper of course, he kept his headphones on as he almost ran through the halls with no idea where he was going. Until a hand gripped his arm and tugged him into a secluded corner, the person behind him covered his mouth and pulled him flush against them. Izuku stilled watching a few of his classmates pass the spot he was in without noticing him at all, he felt his headphone being pulled off and he whipped around to see Shota smirking at him as he held them up to his ears.

Shota watched Izuku practically deflate and smile softly, he handed the headphones back and leaned back against the wall, "looked like you could use a rescue."

Izuku nodded with a small smile, "you have no idea." 

Shota regarded Izuku silently, he looked tired and irritated, his shoulders were tense and every few seconds he'd glance over his shoulder as if someone was tracking him. 

"Why don't we go to my office," Shota offered pushing off the wall and placing a hand on the small of Izuku's back, gently nudging him forward. Izuku allowed Shota to steer him all the way to his office without any complaints, just happy no one would bother him should they see him walking with Shota. When they arrived Shota opened the door and ushered Izuku inside before closing and locking the door. He watched Izuku look around the small room before stopping in front of his desk to look at the couple pictures he had on his desk.

"Is this Husker and Snow?" Izuku questioned looking back over his shoulder while motioning to a small picture, Izuku felt his ears heat up as Shota met his gaze, he was watching him again. It was odd, Izuku never had someone look at him like he found Shota doing just then, with a fond smile and warm expression as if Izuku had just hung the moon and stars. But maybe Izuku was just imagining things, no one could look at him like that, he wasn't anything special and he knew that. 

Shota nodded and moved to stand beside Izuku, he picked up the picture frame and pointed to the small white kitten sitting staring at the camera. "I had just brought Snow home and as you can see, Husker was not amused." He pointed to a fluffy black and white cat staring disapprovingly at the kitten from a good space away. Izuku giggled as he looked over the picture, "here, this is how they act now." Setting down the picture he picked up another with the same cats only Snow was fully grown this time and the two were curled up in a cat bed. "Husker still pretends to hate her, but everyone knows he loves her."

"They're super cute," Izuku smiled looking up at Shota, Shota smiled back and set down the picture. He moved over to the couch across from his desk and took a seat, silently offering Izuku the seat beside him. Izuku sat down beside him and bumped his shoulder playfully, "I know you didn't just bring me in here to talk cats."

"Maybe I did, Husker and Snow are very important conversation topics." Shota grinned and Izuku snorted, after a few moments a comfortable silence Shota turned to face Izuku with a serious look in his eyes, "but you're right, Husker and Snow were not the reason I brought you here. I think we should talk about yesterday and discuss what's going to happen going forward."

Izuku nodded and turned his body so they were facing each other, "we should." 

"Ok first, was everything I did yesterday alright with you?" Shota started, he was never really good with these types of conversations but he was going to do his best to make sure he didn't scare Izuku away. 

"Of course, I would have told you if I was uncomfortable with anything you were doing." Izuku responded, he was fidgeting with the sleeve of his blazer as he held eye contact with Shota. Shota held in a sigh of relief, he had been worrying he had made Izuku uncomfortable or done something Izuku didn't like since Izuku waved him goodbye the night before. 

"Would you want to do something like that again? It's ok if not, it's completely up to you." Izuku nodded and looked away to take a moment to formulate his respond, with every second Izuku was quiet Shota worried he had overstepped. He was about to apologize when Izuku finally responded.

"I would but," Izuku started before pausing, he apparently didn't fully formulate his response.

"But?" Shota urged gently.

"Would it be a relationship or just casual hook-ups? Like would we label it as something or just leave it unlabeled?" Izuku continued and it was Shota's turn to pause, he hadn't really thought about that. Sure he'd love to be Izuku's boyfriend but the whole reason this happened was because Izuku was trying to stay out of a potential relationship. Izuku took Shota's contemplating silence as he had said something wrong and quickly tried to fix it, "sorry! I just didn't want us to be confused if it happened again,"

Shota cut off his rambling with a quick kiss that left Izuku staring at him with rosy cheeks and wide eyes, "it's alright, you didn't say anything wrong I was just thinking. We don't have to label it, we can just do whatever feels best." Izuku nodded making Shota smile, Shota cupped Izuku's cheek and leaned forward leaving a small space between them. Izuku went to lean in the rest of the way when the bell rang, Shota pulled away and stood up a satisfied grin on his face when Izuku whined and flopped back onto the couch.

"That's fucking mean." Izuku groaned pushing himself back up to grab his bag and stand up, once he had everything he joined Shota by the door.

"Couldn't send you back to class with more hickeys Darling," Shota teased unlocking the door, Izuku blushed as Shota pulled the door open.

"That's even more mean!"

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Okayyy, here we go! Sorry it took so long I've been busy with life and all that fun stuff. I have no idea when the next chapter will be out but I'm hoping to keep up with the somewhat longer chapters, so just be on the lookout!