Love as rich as chocolate ~TodoBaku~

Chapter 1: A child no more

Akio Todoroki

Damn...when did I get so old?! Fucking hell, eighteen tomorrow, I'll be ancient and crusty by the time I realise! Ugh, no thank you!

Anyway, I'm walking home from uni, it's Thursday, 4th of November, the day before my 18th birthday. I don't really know what to expect about being 18. Will I just wake up and immediately understand taxes? Know how to cook a three course meal?

I'm studying maths at uni. Some choice, I know, but it was always my favourite subject. The idea that there could be so many problems and only one conducive solution was incredible to me, and that someone had to reverse-engineer every single goddamn one of those questions to make sure it would work. The amount of effort behind that was awe-inspiring, and it lost no effect on my through time.

"Dad, I'm home!"

"Heya Kiddo! How was class?"

"Boring, as ever. Busy day?"

"Not for me, just sorting out your father and I's trip away in summer"

"Oh yeah?!Where is it you're going again?"

"We're off to Florida for the week. Your father needs it, he's not had a holiday since our honeymoon"

"That sounds like him..."

These types of conversations were quite rare. Myself and Katsuki, my one-armed father, having one on one chats without my dad Shoto being there. It wasn't a bad thing, I just rarely was able to get one of them alone. Even after being together for nearly 20 years, they still can't leave each other alone.

"Aki..did I ever tell you how your father and I met?"

"No. You told me about your first date, in the escape room, but not how you met"

"Well...a coworker of mine, snivelling little shit that he was, let Shoto in to the coffee shop I worked at early, and I went in to pick up something I'd left there...or maybe I was dropping something off...either way, that was the first time I ever saw him. After that, he came in the shop almost every day, until eventually we ended up going on a date"

"Woah...all because of that coworker you hated!"

"Don't you dare bring that idiot up again, he had nothing to do with it"

"But if he hadn't-"

"Butterfly effect, Aki. If he hadn't done that, I'd never have met your father, I'd probably still have my arm...but I wouldn't have him, and I wouldn't have you. So, I'm pretty sure I'd take this outcome over the other"

"Don't get sappy with me, I'm 18 tomorrow"

"Uh-huh. Which means tonight is the last night I get to boss you around. Get me a drink from the fridge"

"You fu-"

"Akio, no swearing at your father please"

I whipped around to learn that Dad was home now, and had silently crept through the door. I rolled my eyes at his comment and stomped off to the fridge, picking up the first non-alcoholic can I saw, and laying it down next to...(fuck, this'll get confusing. Let's have Shoto as Dad, and Katsuki as Old Man) my Old Man, a nod of acknowledgment as I did. My parents embraced, kissing as they always did whenever they'd been apart for more than a nanosecond, and which always made me want to throw up. Dad would always stroke my hair afterwards, and I was strangely thankful for it. It gave me an excuse to work on my flexibility, bending my back so as to dodge any contact with him.

In general...I mean, I guess I love them. They've always been good to me, and I think they've done a good job making me who I am today, and I'm damn awesome, so they must be too. It was unspoken a lot of the time, but I think they got it. They knew I cared, yet they knew that tomorrow I'm gonna do a lot of stupid stuff at the party I'm going to. Class was never on on a Friday anyway, so I wasn't missing anything...why not go have some fun? Have a drink, I'm old enough! Stay out late, I'm old enough! Hook up with some hot girl , I'm old enough!

My 18th had to be one to remember, I was dead set on that. There was no way I was gonna let it bum me out, I was gonna have the time of my life. And there was no one that could stop that. As of tomorrow, I was an adult, whether they liked that or not. I had free reign, the rest was simple. Having not been allowed to live in a dorm for uni pissed me off, so now? Now was time for me to let loose a little. Properly grow up.

"I'm going to bed, I've got no homework"

"Oh..ok. We were going to get a takeout since it's your birthday tomorrow..."

"...well when you put it like that..."
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Hope you guys are liking Akio so far! I'm doing cartwheels trying to think of another character for you know what..

Fact of the Day: my very first fact of the day was that I don't like coffee. I can confirm that this is no longer true, I drink a lot of coffee now.