strangled

⁵⁵dashing through the blue inferno

what led to that day...

Touya whispered quiet words to himself as he sat on a dresser in front of his bedroom window

They were so quiet Fuyumi couldn't hear them clearly from where she was sitting at the small desk as she colored in a coloring book.

But the fact that it's nighttime and her brother was staring up at the stars made what the words he spoke obvious enough. He always had an unusual habit of wishing things about you whenever a shooting star passed over the Todoroki household. It started only a few days after you started training him.

He grew a connection with you so fast, but that wasn't much of a surprise to Fuyumi at all.

"You really like (f/n) don't you?" Child Fuyumi giggled. "Everybody in this family took a liking to her so fast. Mom considers her to be like a daughter. Natsuo blushes whenever she talks to him-"

"I don't give a fuck about Natsuo."

Fuyumi gasped before whisper-yelling at him. "No cursing, Touya!"

Touya let out an exasperated breath before yelling without an ounce of a whisper in his voice. "Well then stop talking about Natsuo! I don't care if he likes (f/n)! What does that have to do with me!?"

"Okay but you didn't need to yell..." Fuyumi frowned as tears welled in her eyes.

Touya didn't mean to yell at his younger sister the way he did. Seeing her on the brink of tears because of his loud tone made him regret it. But something about the fact that Natsuo makes his crush on you so obvious easily ticks the boy off.

Why does his brother keep talking to you so much. Not just talking, but trying to interact with you as well. If Touya has to hear Natsuo ask you to play games with him out in the yard one more time he swears he's going to lose it.

Whenever he does, Touya makes it his personal mission to distract you with his own problems. An example of his distractions; he would purposefully set his arm on fire to create more scars on his skin-no matter how much it hurt terribly-then pretended he didn't do it on purpose. Your attention always turned to him immediately to make sure he was okay. It was so satisfying to see the way you turn Natsuo down just to check on him every single time.

It should worry Touya that Natsuo always wants to be around you and take your attention. Between Shouto and Natsuo, there's way too much competition to consider. However, you're being forced to give attention to Shouto by his dad so Touya isn't worried about that at all. When it comes to Natsuo though...

"I need to mark my territory or something." He said his thought aloud.

Fuyumi raised her eyebrows. "What are you talking about?"

Touya explained while keeping his eyes up at the stars."We watched a nature show in science class and most animals usually mark their territory so others won't dare to come around. The number one method is peeing on the spot."

"Touya you want to piss on (f/n)!?"

"No, I don't want to piss on (f/n)." Touya rolled his eyes at his sister's stupidity. "And keep it down. I don't know what time she's coming out of training with dad tonight. I don't want her to walk down the hallway and hear you screaming about me pissing on her. I just... I need a different method like maybe leaving a burn mark on her skin or giving her a fake tattoo-"