hiii just wanted to say i love the way you write aizawa💔💔
would you maybe be interested in writing about him again? literally anything
The way this has been sitting in my drafts partially finished for a year and a half... Girl I'm so sorry sjdhjhdhdg
"We should consider getting married for the tax benefits."
You sit up, abandoning your magazine and staring across the couch to where Shota sat on the other end, tapping away at his clunky, old laptop. "I'm sorry?"
"The tax benefits- married couples file jointly which means-"
"No, I know about joint filing," you say, pulling your legs to your chest. "That's how you're proposing to me?"
In the three and a half years you've been together, you don't think you've ever seen Shota look scared. To his credit, it's subtle. Frozen features aside from his eyes widening to saucers. The man was too stunned to speak, it seemed.
"I mean, I know we've always been pretty casual about milestones," you say as you stand, grabbing your wine glass from the coffee table and heading to the kitchen for a much needed refill. "You never really asked me to be your girlfriend," you continue as you pour, "I gradually moved in to your place over a matter of months, but-" you set the wine bottle down just a little heavier than you meant to. "For taxes? You're saying you want to marry me for taxes? I mean, don't I at least deserve a ring?"
Shota closed his laptop slowly, slipping your fluffy blanket off his legs, and trudged off into the bedroom without a word. Your blood started to bubble, on the verge of boiling, and you took a hefty gulp of wine. When Shota emerged from the bedroom again he had the decency to look apologetic.
And then he puts a little black box on the counter.
Your jaw grinds a little. "What's this?"
Sure enough, when he opens the box there's a ring inside. The perfect ring, actually. You didn't think he'd really paid attention in the past when you made little comments about what you did or didn't like in an engagement ring, what metal, what stone, what shape- but it was all correct.
"I wasn't-" he sighs heavily, running a hand over his face before he folds in on himself and hunches over the counter. "That wasn't the proposal. The proposal was going to be something nice. Something with a nice dinner and a stroll through the botanical gardens, or breakfast in bed on a trip to the countryside. This was supposed to be the conversation to make sure we were on the same page."
You took a deep breath. "Of course we're on the same page. Do you think we'd still be together after all this time if I didn't want to marry you?"
"I didn't want to think, I wanted to know. In your words." He raises up again, taking your left hand in both of his. His thumbs ran over your bare knuckles gently, a sense of hesitancy in his touch.
"Well you definitely weren't thinking, that's for sure," you mumble, trying to ease the tension.
"Clearly I wasn't."
You purse your lips. "The botanical gardens?" You ask.
"You said a few months ago that you always mean to go but never do."
The corners of your mouth lift a little. "Breakfast? In the countryside?"
"You love breakfast foods," he answers. "And those cows with the long hair-"
"Highland cows," you correct.
"Highland cows," he repeats. "You're always showing me videos of them."
Any bubbling, boiling anger has evaporated. Maybe you should have heard him out just a little before jumping to conclusions.
"It's a beautiful ring," you comment.
"It's custom," he tells you. "Do you want to put it on?"
"I don't know..." you sigh, "... I like the sound of that whole garden walk and countryside breakfast stuff."
"How about this," he says, plucking the ring out of the box with one hand while the other cradles your fingers so delicately. "You wear this now, and we'll do those things to celebrate the engagement. And I'll buy you some jewelry to match your new ring to give you then. That sound alright to you?"
You smile and nudge the ring with the appropriate finger, urging him to slide it on.
"You can pay for it with the money we'll save on taxes."
He sighs in that familiar exhausted fondness you've grown used to over the years.
"I'll never live this down, will I?"
You lean in and kiss him firmly. "Til death do we part, my love."

