Todoroki never was too fond of weekends, the busyness of academia was enjoyable, and unlike some of his other classmates he really enjoyed learned. The weekends were boring, and filled with having to see his father. So naturally he left very early in the morning and didn't come back to his house until late, late being 8 or so (he wasn't THAT crazy).
But anyways, that's how he inevitably found himself looking through the window at a gym, specifically and the girl who sat next to him in class. She was in the process of deadlifting when he checked the time. 'Damn it's like 7:30 in the morning, why the hell is she strength training now?'
He looked back up at her and she had stopped, she was just about to do another set when she snapped her head around.
He got startled for a moment and began to flush, like she had previously, but then realized she wasn't looking at him, rather a man around the age of 40. Her eyes grew a pained look and she covered her midriff.
That's when he realized what she was wearing, a simple pair of leggings and a tank top that matched. He was confused on why she would suddenly become self conscious when all at once he realized what had probably just happened.
He rushed into the gym and thanked himself earlier for deciding to go on a run as he was still in his athletic clothes.
He purchased a day pass to the gym and walked in, the two spotted each other and he calmly approached.
"If you're done with dead lifting, I need a spotter for the bench, I can return the favor?"
She relaxed just a bit before glancing quickly at the man who had catcalled her moments prior.
"You know what, sure, just let me put this away"
"Okay, I can help"
The two started disassembling the bar and every time he could catch the man's eye, Todoroki sent him a cold glare. The man left with a tsk and didn't even finish his workout.
Once (Y/n) noticed he had left, she sighed in relief.
"Thanks"
"Don't mention it"
He started to put weights on a bench before she looked at him with a bit of confusion.
"What are you doing?"
Todoroki was now confused as well, was he doing something incorrectly?
"Putting weights on the bar?"
He looked back at his work, he had gotten 115 on so far, and he had seen her deadlifting 275 earlier, so it shouldn't be too much for her.
"Yeah, we're you serious about working out together?"
Her tone was one more of curiosity and possible excitement rather than judgment, so he was still a little confused. He needed to work out anyways, and spotters always made it safer for both parties, he figures it was a two birds one stone type situation. Though he could see if she just wanted to be left alone.
"Oh, yeah. Sorry, I can leave if you would rather..."
"No, no, no, quite the opposite in fact, I really do need to push myself on bench so this works out nicely, thank you!"
She gave him her signature smile and they began to work out. The dopamine rush one gets from working out has never been stronger as they both really got into it. Both cheering for the other once victories, admittedly one much louder than the other, but I digress.
They ended up spending around 2 hours working out together and at the end they were both sweaty and smiling.
"So what do you have planned for the rest of the day?"
Todoroki thought long and hard, nothing really came to mind. After this he had planned to change into the extra set of clothes he had brought (he did that ever since falling into a puddle on a run about a mile away from his house) and then just continuing to wander around the city.
"Nothing really, what about you?"
He didn't know why he asked that, he was never really one for pleasantries unless it was necessary, but he felt intrigued by her. I mean who wouldn't, she was strength training at 7:30 in the damn morning.
"Oh I need to go grocery shopping and then to the library"
She paused for only a second, not wanting to create an awkward silence but needing to debate something in her head before she just decided to say it cause you know why not.
"Would you like to join me?"
He was about to give her his normal response, but then thought about it. He could use a trip to the library, also he was a bit hungry so the grocery store was probably a good idea, he also didn't really have anything planned and it's not like this is his only free day, aka just avoiding his dad.
"Sure"
For the second time, Todoroki made her noticeably surprised by his response. Her eyes lit up with almost childlike wonder and her smile grew.
"Alright then, let's go to the locker rooms and then get going, I'll meet you at the entrance in like 20 minutes?"
He nodded and with that, they finished stretching and went to go shower and change.
30 minutes later, Todoroki walked toward the entrance to find (Y/n) standing there on her phone, and when she noticed him he was a little taken aback at what she was wearing.
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A/n if you don't like the outfit I chose, totally fine, I just personally love dressing in lots of colors, that's why I chose this, but it's not a major plot point so literally you can pick something else, and if someone even has suggestions to styles I should put, totally tell me!
He was shocked because her style, it wasn't bad. It was like she took time in planning out what she wore and it worked.
Snapping out of his thoughts, he asked where they were going.
She smiled once more, he didn't really understand why though. She smiled a lot, it wasn't like it was fake, or if it was she was very good at pretending. No, he didn't understand how she was seemingly in a pleasant mood all of the time, and how she so quickly warmed up to him even though he had rejected sitting next to her for a week straight.
Either way, she responded cheerily
"I already have my wallet with me, so we just need to go to the market a few blocks from here, you know that one pretty close to school?"
