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Knock Knock Knock
Aizawa awoke to some knocking, he looked at his alarm 3:26am… "who tf is awake at three in the morning!?" He thought to himself, all his students should be asleep by now. He gets up slowly and he can now hear the light shuffling outside of his door. When he opens the door he finds Kaminari standing outside in a striped white and red shirt and pikachu pants, eyes and head casted down.
Kaminari looks up for a second, he looks a bit nervous, fiddling with his hands. "Hi…" is all Kaminari said to his teacher, a small "hi" that was barely heard.
"Kaminari." Aizawa said in a stern voice but not enough to scare the boy obviously nervous about something in front of him.
Kaminari looked up at his teacher but didn't say anything.
"Are you alright?" Aizawa asked calmly to Kaminari.
"Yeah" Kaminari said a little too fast.
Aizawa raised an eyebrow "really?" He asked.
Kaminari's face flustered looking back down "well…".
"Kaminari… What are you doing up and at my door passed three in the morning?" Aizawa said now looking a bit more concerned, he realized Kaminari's forehead is dripping with sweat… "is he sick?" Aizawa thought to himself, he's really hoping Kaminari is not sick, sick students are not his speciality.
"Well… I… I-I was wondering if we had any painkillers… I guess…" Kaminari said shyly.
"Shit he is sick…" Aizawa thought to himself, totally not looking forward to dealing with a sick student.
"What's the matter?"
"Just a h-headache…" Kaminari looked up quickly and gave the slightest smile he could. Kaminari look exhausted, is he sure it's just a headache?
Aizawa didn't question again, the boy looked like he really had to get some guts to come ask him for painkillers, probably because it's passed three in the damn morning. Aizawa shut his door and lead Kaminari to the kitchen to retrieve some painkillers for the poor boys headache. On the way, Kaminari looked a bit frightened and jumped a bit when one of the floorboards creaked. Aizawa grew a bit more worried after witnessing that. Once they made it to the kitchen Aizawa opened the top cabinet where all the first aid was kept to find a bottle of painkillers.
"One or two?" Aizawa asked Kaminari while opening the bottle.
"Two… please…" Kaminari whispered the please barely audible.
Aizawa handed his student two pills and got him a glass of water. Kaminari took the pills and swallowed them down with the water but saved some water at the bottom of the cup.
"C-can I… can I take this to bed with me?"
"Yeah, if you need it. Are you sure you're alright?"
"Y-yeah… I mean… like… yeah, I'm fine… thanks Aizawa-Sensei…" Kaminari started to walk off.
"Kaminari… is there a reason why your headache started in the first place?" Kaminari stopped in his tracks, he turned his head but not his body towards his teacher but did not make eye contact.
"I woke up sweating sir, and then I felt the headache... It's probably from that. Sorry to bother you Sensei." Kaminari said quietly. He started to shake a bit, the thought of going down that dark hallway again to his room made him feel gross, uneasy in every way… sitting, in his room, alone, even with lights on, it just doesn't feel right. And then, Aizawa brought him out of his daze.
"Nightmare?" Aizawa said almost like as calm as possible as he could, walking towards his student. Aizawa could see Kaminari start shaking more and more each minute after Kaminari came to ask for painkillers.
Kaminari's eyes widened by that, "shit I'm caught, he fucking caught me! HOW!?" Kaminari thought to himself. But he was too tired to protest, he's exhausted and at this point terrified of the dark and being alone and ANY noise that didn't have permission to even be heard! So Kaminari's shoulders just shrunk and he let out a shaky sigh…
Kaminari didn't say anything but he did nod. Aizawa knew this was the case after Kaminari's eyes widened after he had mentioned the nightmare.
Aizawa moved to stand in front of Kaminari, and looked down at him with soft eyes.
"Would you like to talk about it?"
Kaminari looked up to his teacher, even though he's only seen Aizawa's eyes either really dull or with anger, but this was definitely not dull, there was more to them, but he felt safe. Kaminari didn't respond, he didn't really even want to think about the nightmare he had, but he's really grateful that it seems like his teacher cares for him.
"Alright, you don't have to talk about it. I wouldn't want to think about it either if it was that bad." Aizawa said softly. He put a hand on Kaminari's shoulder, supporting the shaking boy. Kaminari took a breath and his shaking started to settle a bit.
"If you'd like, I'll walk you to your room."
Kaminari nodded and Aizawa walk through the dark hallway and took the boy to his room, once they arrived Kaminari just stared at his door.
Aizawa eyes squinted onto Kaminari, wondering why he hasn't opened the door.
"Kaminari?.."
"I-I don't… really… don't want to be alone… right now…" Kaminari whispered the end of the sentence. Afraid to ask his teacher for company, his teacher must be really tired, especially since he already has trouble sleeping and has to sleep during class hours.
"Sorry… y-you don't have to stay with me, I can go stay with-" Kaminari was cut off by Aizawa with a stern "no".
"I'd rather you not wake up another classmate. They need sleep, and so do you, like everyone else." Aizawa said a bit softer than his "no". Kaminari totally think at this point that Aizawa does not want to be up and that he has annoyed him. Maybe Aizawa was pretending to be nice back there because he wanted Kaminari back in his room so Aizawa could sleep. Until…
"But… if you would like company, you'll have to be stuck with me for your only option." Aizawa said opening the door to Kaminari's room. "We should probably get out of this hallway." Kaminari looked up at his teacher, grateful that his teacher wasn't as mean as he thought.
"Go on… I'll hang in here until you kick me out or fall asleep." Aizawa said with a bit of a smile. He really does care for his students, even Aoyama (surprisingly), yeah he's full of himself, but his quirk wrecks his body, just like Midoriya (except obviously not as bad), and that is not good. And that's not all, there's more to Aoyama that not a lot of people know, but not like anyone cares. But that's not important right now. Kaminari and Aizawa walk into his room, Kaminari goes to sit down on his bed and takes another sip of his water, and leave it on the desk beside his bed. Aizawa takes a seat on a nearby chair in the corner of Kaminari's room but still not too far from Kaminari himself.
After awhile of talking about different things to help Kaminari get his mind off of his nightmare, like what Kaminari's plan is after UA, and his favorite music and games at the moment. They went through at least 5+ different topics that surprisingly lasted longer than expected. Now at 4:37am Kaminari has finally now settled down and closed his eyes, and a few minutes later you could hear some light snoring. Aizawa was thankful for this, not only he can attempt to get some sleep now, but it is almost five in the morning, and Kaminari really needed some sleep, especially for today's lesson.
Aizawa got up quietly and left the room unheard, he traveled back to his room and actually managed to sleep for about an hour, which is good enough for him I guess… he can't do much about it now.
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It is now sometime in the afternoon and Aizawa just woke up from his nap to find his classroom completely empty, he's surprised they didn't wake him up like usual. He unzipped his sleeping bag and got up to find a note on his desk. It read…
"Thank you for last night Sensei, I made sure that no one disturbed you since you need sleep just like everyone else. ~ Denki Kaminari :)" Aizawa smiled, that's the sweetest thing he's ever received from a student, especially since he comes off scary. He didn't noticed the door to his classroom opened until he felt someone put a hand on his back.
"Well wasn't that sweet!" Hizashi said with a big smile "you usually never get sweet notes like that unless they're from me." Hizashi continued to rub Aizawa's back. Aizawa didn't say anything about it, just put the note in his pocket.
"You wanna stop somewhere to eat before you drive me back to the dorms?" Aizawa looked to the blonde.
Hizashi's heart fluttered and his smile widened even more than you'd think is possible.
"Yes!" Hizashi said it like they were getting married all over again. Aizawa is use to it by now, and he thinks it's very sweet how happy Hizashi is! Aizawa gathered his things and gave them to his husband to carry while he got back into his nice comfy yellow sleeping bag and rolled his way to their car.
T'was a nice day!
THE END