I Used Many Flower Sources So Some Of Them Are Not Like Another Source But I Linked Them ^v^ - Blog Posts
reverse hanahaki au wherein the one you love is the one who blooms flowers. also no one dies.
izuku growing up with only yarrows from inko. everlasting love. they are the first flowers he’s ever had blooming in him—the first he collected. he saw their little buds and knew they are from his mother’s, and izuku hopes his flowers for her are just as beautiful.
they are. inko blooms sunflowers from him. adoration.
. . .
when izuku meets katsuki, he blooms white gardenias. inko giggled when izuku showed her his flowers from katsuki, blushing brightly. you are lovely.
he wonders what his flowers for katsuki are, and if he likes them as much as izuku loves his. (purple delphinium. first love. katsuki strongly does.)
when he turns ten, he stopped blooming gardenias. izuku waits, seeing if katsuki would have more flowers for him. but he is empty, and izuku goes back to only having yarrows. he cries that night, holding onto the jars filled with dried gardenias.
(katsuki stopped blooming delphiniums. a week later, a blue salvia flutters from his throat. i think of you.)
. . .
it’s years later when izuku meets all might that yarrows are joined by different flowers again. blue iris from toshinori. faith and hope, a flower for izuku’s long journey.
and when izuku gets into ua, more flowers unfurl in him—a garden in his own right.
white jasmines from ochako. sweet love.
heathers from tenya. admiration and solitude.
freesias from tsuyu. thoughtfulness.
hydrangeas from shouto. thank you for understanding.
everyday, more flowers bloom in his being and izuku weeps at his friends’ love. thank you, he whispers, i love you too. his flowers for them convey the intensity of his feelings.
. . .
one quiet day when everyone is still asleep and the sun is barely breaching from the clouds, izuku coughs and coughs and coughs.
asphodel. i’m sorry.
purple hyacinth. forgive me.
pink camellia. i long for you.
red chrysanthemum. i love you.
with these flowers in hand, izuku runs to katsuki’s room. “kacchan?” he asks despite the coughs that threaten to scratch at his throat again.
(from inside his room, katsuki coughs out a heliotrope. eternal love. he stands. “yeah de—izuku?”)
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