Am I A Monster?

Chapter 1

Shoto’s POV:
‘Run, run, FASTER,’ I told myself, holding 2 fingers over my bleeding, throbbing neck. I wasn’t in a very pleasant area, especially after what just happened to me.
I was at the store, picking up my typical favorite, the best of the best, soba noodles. The place I got them was kinda far from the Todoroki household, and I made my own special trip once a month to buy out their stock of my favorite noodles. My family never went to this side of town EVER, which is why I made my own trip here. Fuyumi had taken me there once for soba, which is how I found out about the store’s delicious noodles.
On my way back, I decided to take a small detour through a few, dark alleyways since I was tired from today's training. I could’ve stayed at home, but this was the one day a month that I had to get my soba, which I would NEVER skip.
I had a gut feeling before going into the alleyways, that something bad would happen. With my luck, something did happen.
Now I was basically running for my life, trying to navigate between the dark, unpleasant place I was in. My neck had 2 fang wounds, which I put my fingers over to prevent them from bleeding too much considering they were DEEP.
She haunted me. The words haunted me. They replayed over and over again in my mind. ‘Your blood’s so sweet! It’s so addicting! I love it! I’m gonna keep you, you’ll be my little, sweet human!’ Of course, this wasn’t true. I wouldn’t let that happen, so I kicked the blood-sucking parasite away from my body and ran.
I was kinda dizzy, probably due to the sudden blood loss, and my footing was all over the place. I couldn’t really run straight, and tripped a few times once I had gotten free from her grasp.
It was kinda difficult to navigate the alleyways since I had never taken this route before, but once I had gotten into daylight and out of the alleyways, it was easier to find my way back. I took out my phone right away and went to the map so it’d be even easier to get home.
After a long, dizzy, and tiring walk, I finally saw home in the distance. I ran over to the big, Japanese-styled house, and ran inside.
I grabbed my first-aid kit from the back of my dresser drawer and fixed up the small, bloody bite wound. For some odd reason, it was barely there when I got back, which was odd. It also didn’t hurt as much as before, which was also weird. I didn’t think too much of it, as I quickly put a small band-aid over it so the wound wouldn’t open again.
It was fairly late, and I also had school the next day, so I decided to go to sleep. It was kinda difficult to sleep that night, probably since I was still shaken up from the incident.
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Turns out, I got barely any sleep, with only about 1 hour of light sleeping. I was typically a deep sleeper, which was weird when I got woken by the gusty wind outside. I couldn’t sleep after that AT ALL, so I just laid in my bed the rest of the night, waiting for my alarm clock to go off…
“BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!”
“GAH, WHAT THE HELL!” I screamed, jumping out of bed and putting my pillow over my ears to block the loud sound. That, for some reason, was louder than Bakugou’s explosions, WAY louder. I turned it off as quickly as possible, sighing in relief that the loudest sound EVER was off. I could’ve gone deaf from that.
First thing I did in the morning: open the blinds. Letting the nice, warm sun touch my skin because you didn’t need lights on during the day, as long as you had windows with the bright sun shining through… in this case, it was one of the biggest mistakes of my life…
“OW OW OW, WHAT THE HELL!” I screamed, quickly maneuvering out of the sunlight. Holy shit, did that hurt! I looked down at my arm, which was what hit the sunlight, my eyes widening. There was a huge, black, what seemed to be, burn on my forearm. I had no words as I looked at the big burn. I also noticed how incredibly pale I was, which was concerning.
I was shaking, kinda scared of what was happening. I had no clue what was going on, or how I got to this state. I was panicking.
I started shaking even more when I saw my reflection. My eyes were most noticeable, aside from my pale skin. They were a dark red, very dark, replacing my what-used-to-be heterochromia eyes. My hair was also different, with it now having black ends to it. It kinda looked cool, but I was still scared since I never dyed it.
I was most terrified once I had opened my mouth.
One on each side, both as pointy as the other. Fangs. Pointy canines that were very noticeable if I opened my mouth. Fangs that could pierce through any kind of skin. Fangs that could be used to kill even the toughest of victims.
I looked away from the mirror, shaking and trembling as I was terrified of myself. I had never thought of this happening before, and what was even worse was that I had school today. I had to find a way to hide this all, and FAST!
I had no other thoughts of how to hide my condition other than to slip on a dark hoodie and put the hood up so I wouldn’t get burned. I’d try to stay in as much shade as possible throughout the day, and I also was gonna wear pants instead of shorts, for obvious reasons. Hopefully no one would ask about me not wearing my uniform, but that was the least of my worries.
With my black hoodie on, I put my arm in the sunlight shining through my window. Luckily, nothing happened to my arm so it was a success. My skin was still sensitive to the sun through the hoodie, but it didn’t burn, which was good.
I closed the blinds and slipped my hands in the pocket of the dark hoodie, walking out of my room with my head down, not wanting to scare anyone with my appearance.
“Hey Shoto, off to school I see,” Fuyumi brightly said. “Want anything to eat before you go?”
“No, I’m fine, thank you,” I told her, walking faster out the door. The blood scent was strong, and I almost lost myself with it. I had to be more careful. One false move and I might kill someone without meaning to. I didn’t wanna hurt anyone, and I had no clue what I’d do with my condition. It’d get out eventually, but I wasn’t prepared for that yet.
I walked fast to school, not wanting my face to be shown so I looked down most of the time. The sun was blinding to me, so I closed my eyes most of the time, but I could still navigate since all my senses seemed to be stronger than usual.
I had already guessed, by this point, what happened to me. That dumb vampire probably turned me into one. I’ve heard things about that, vampires turning humans into other vampires. I never thought that it would happen to me, nor did I want it to ever happen to me, but I was stuck like this, probably for the rest of my life.
“Hey, Todoroki-kun,” I heard a familiar voice yell. I turned and glanced at who it was, and of course, it was Midoriya. I continued walking forward as he caught up, me still with my head down. “Something wrong? You seem a bit more gloomy than usual.”
“I’m fine,” I simply said. Midoriya shrugged it off, probably knowing that I was normally cold, so he probably didn’t think too much of it.
He blabbered on for a while, talking about things like All Might and what we may be doing in class today. I wasn’t overly worried about it, as I half listened to his words. I was tired, probably because I barely got any sleep the night before, and because of the whole vampire thing.
My stomach hurt as well. It was kinda painful, and it was kinda difficult holding my sanity to not bite into his silky skin on his neck. I could smell, and hear the blood running through his veins, which made it more tempting, but I didn’t. I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself if I did something like that.
We finally got to school, a few more of our friends joining in our tiny conversation. I was walking on the end of the group, my head down with my hands in the pocket of my dark colored hoodie.
“Hey Todoroki, you alright?” I heard Uraraka ask. Suddenly, everyone's attention was on me. ‘Great, exactly what I wanted’ I told myself, kinda annoyed that she brought the attention to me.
“I’m fine, don’t worry about me,” I told them, trying to get the attention off of me.
“Are you sure? You seem a bit more hostile and dreary than usual. Did you get enough sleep last night?” Iida chimed in, annoying me more.
“I told you, I’m fine so leave me alone,” I stated firmly, clearly showing that I was annoyed. Finally, they decided to leave me alone, which felt great!
Morning classes were always boring, today just mainly pop quizzes and note taking with teachers talking. I slept through a lot of it, easily since I was in the back of the class and the teacher paid less attention to me.
And after the morning classes, lunch hit.
Typically I’d be happy for lunch because it meant that I could have my soba! This time, something happened that broke my heart.
I sat down with my tray as usual, next to Midoriya since I was on the end. I typically sat with the “squad” as everyone else called it, consisting of Midoriya, Iida, Uraraka, Asui, and Yaoyorozu. Everyone else was talking around me, and the fact that the cafeteria was always filled with people, triggered my hunger because the scent of fresh blood filled the room.
I ignored it as best as I could, trying to push away the thought of biting into someone's neck.
I was honestly confused since I had never thought about that before, but I’m guessing it’s just a vampire thing, like, whenever they smell blood, they just think about biting into someone’s neck? I didn’t know if that was the case, but I guessed it was and went along with the theory.
Either way, it was difficult to push it away, as the thought still continued to circle in my mind.
What was even worse was when I discovered that I didn’t like my soba.
I had always loved soba, it being my favorite food EVER! I was always excited to eat it, and never left a single noodle on the plate.
However this time, I wanted to leave all of the noodles on the plate.
I took one bite. ONE bite, and I hated it. It was the most disgusting thing ever, worse than spicy food, which my mouth was always sensitive to. I’d prefer to listen to Bakugou’s yelling for an hour, and for me to say that, was REALLY saying something.
I didn’t wanna seem weird about it, so I forced myself to swallow the cold noodles. I hated it, and it was torture to me.
The rest of the lunchtime I sat at the end of the table, sad that I could no longer enjoy my favorite noodles. Luckily, no one asked about it when it was time to leave the cafeteria, which I was happy about.
Hero training was difficult, at least for me. We had to go outside… outside… and it was sunny…
We’ll just say that I suffered A LOT. The hoodie, of course, prevented my body from getting burned. However, through the hoodie, my skin stung BADLY. It hurt like hell, but then I reminded myself that a burn from my father was worse.
By the end of the school day, I was just happy to go home. Long summary short, I got lots of questions from my classmates about the behavior change in me and why I wasn’t wearing my uniform. I just dodged the question, and either ignored them or got up and walked away. I also barely talked to anyone all day, so from now on, I’d most likely socialize less. WAY less.
“Hey Shoto, how was school,” Fuyumi greeted me.
“Meh, alright I guess,” I simply replied, going straight to my room. My head was down with the hood over my head and my hands in my pockets.
“You don’t wanna talk about your day at all?” Fuyumi questioned, although I kept walking.
“Not really…” I trailed off. I walked towards the hallway, until Natsuo showed up, blocking my way.
“Hey little bro, why so sad looking?” He asked me, still blocking my path, annoying me slightly.
“Move,” I firmly said, still not looking up at him. At this point, I could sense Fuyumi getting a little nervous.
“Tell me what’s wrong first,” he said back, annoying me more. “Maybe I could help with your little attitude.” This made me even more frustrated.
I said nothing, and pushed my brother aside, continuing my walk to my room. I could hear Natsuo go to Fuyumi, as they started talking about me and my sudden attitude, which they both agreed wasn’t normal. I shrugged it off, not wanting to tell them about what happened as I didn’t want them to be scared of me.
I went to my room, taking a few deep breaths to calm down. This whole day has been stressful, and I have to train with my father later… something I didn’t want to do in this predicament…