My Hero Academia: Shōta Aizawa x Akemi Yuriemoto (Aizawa)

Chapter 171: Happy Tears

Finally!!! Brace yourselves because the long awaited moment has arrived!!!
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The next day Shota was making good use of his new sleeping bag. As the students entered the classroom with their Christmas hats on their heads, they noticed the classroom's resident yellow caterpillar was sporting a new face. Shota smirked at them from behind the creepily grinning Cheshire kabuki mask.

His muffled voice spoke from behind the mask. "Morning everyone."

"Good morning Mister Aizawa!"

"Yeah, yeah and thanks for the gifts. I appreciated all that constant knocking." He chuckled just to prove that he wasn't being mean as the mask obscured his face.

"Oh and Midoriya before I forget, thanks for the consideration towards my dry eyes but I'm only going to use those goggles for lengthy battles. My old goggles are a family heirloom and I don't really want to give them to Emiko just yet."

Midoriya grinned in understanding. Shota smirked from behind his mask. "Oh and Bakugo thanks for the new sleeping bag."

The students stared at Bakugo in shock. Bakugo rolled his eyes. "Yeah whatever..."

Shota removed the mask and smirked as class officially started the main topic was about the possible hero agencies for the internships. A little while later...Shota was in his sleeping bag in the far corner of the room facing the door busy droning out Idia's commentary on the upcoming internships when he noticed that he had a voicemail. He put his headphones in and listened to it.

His pulse faltered, and his eyes widened as the breath left his lungs with a soft shaking gasp.

His stunned reaction went completely unnoticed by his rowdy students as the bell rang signaling the end of homeroom. His hair shielded his face and the bell startled him. He blinked and suddenly felt moisture on his face. He reached up acting as if he were taking out his headphones but checked his eyes and realized he was crying.

He was crying — because Eri was going to become a member of his...

He froze as it sunk in again and all he heard was the ringing of his ears before Bakugo yelled. "Hey Mister Aizawa You Deaf Or Something? The Bell Rang Homeroom's Over!"

Shota hastily stood up with his head down and quickly gathered his things. He spoke with his voice muffled by his capture scarf.

"Class is dismissed..."

He watched as every student left, without meeting eye contact with any of them, only to stop Midoriya as the boy was the last to leave. He had a firm grip on the boy's shoulder, mostly to stop himself from shaking. He spoke with a little more force than he had initially intended to but it was the only way to keep his voice steady and not break down into a sobbing mess of happy tears.

"Midoriya."

Midoriya turned to address his teacher with slight apprehension over the man's tone. Had he done something wrong?

As the older man lifted his head slightly, and the light of the room shined briefly upon his face, Midoriya blinked. *Is Mister Aizawa crying?* He swore that he was just imagining things but a sudden sniff and irritable grumble of his homeroom teacher made him question that thought as the man turned away in order to rub his nose.

"Uhhh, Mister Aizawa are you feeling okay?"

"I'm fine!" Shota didn't mean to sound so harsh but he was treading on thin ice with his emotional resolve. He couldn't look the boy in the eyes and hastily mumbled. "Just meet me after school alright..."