Quiet Love [Shoto Todoroki x OC]

Chapter 28

Aimi's sitting with the other girls during lunch, listening to their conversation.

"Who do you wanna fight against", Mina asked excitedly, looking at her.

"I don't really know. It doesn't really matter to me as long as I know them", Aimi answers softly, shrugging her shoulders. It's true. She doesn't actually care about who she's going to fight against. Aimi can only win or lose. It doesn't matter against who.

"I don't want to fight against Bakugo", Mina says while shuddering and Aimi laughs at that. It's understandable. Even during training he's going at it with a hundred percent. She doesn't know what he'll fight like when it's about something as important as this.

Mina was going to say something again, when she got interrupted by Kaminari and Mineta speaking to Momo. "Hey. We're sure that you already know since you're the class rep, but they said all the girls have to wear those uniforms for a cheer battle." Mineta points at a group of girls running past them, actually wearing cheerleader uniforms.

At that, the few girls look at each other, shaking their heads confused. "Are you sure? That's the first time we've heard about it."

"You don't have to believe me, but you might get in trouble since this is coming straight from Aizawa-sensei. I thought you might've forgotten so I thought I'd remind you", Mineta says nonchalantly.

Aimi frowns at the thought of dressing up like that, however she'll go along with it if the others do. After all, she doesn't want to embarrass herself further by being the odd one out and not wearing it.

"Well, thank you for telling us", Momo answers politely.

After the two idiots, well, Kaminari and the idiot, stroll off, Mina turns to them again with a frown on her forehead.

"Am I the only one finding this suspicious?"

"No", almost every girl answers in return with a mirroring frown.

"Well, I'll make those uniforms with my quirk either way. I wouldn't want to risk going against Aizawa-sensei's wishes", Momo tells them with a torn frown on her face.

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At some point, the girls get back to the changing rooms and after Momo made the uniforms, put them on rather begrudgingly. No one seems to actually like this, except for Hagakure and Mina who don't seem to have a big problem with the uniforms.

"I swear, if this is a stupid, perverted joke of theirs, I will kill them", Jirou says with a blush on her cheeks as she tries to cover her chest with her arms.

Aimi does the same, feeling very uncomfortable with having this much chest exposed. On top of that, the skirt is way shorter than she thinks it should be. How can anyone do this willingly? Then again, Aimi's aware that not everybody's the same as her and might like it. Like Hagakure, who thinks that she looks amazing. Which, Aimi's sure, she does. Well, she would if they could see her.

"Let's go, lunch is almost over", Momo leads them and opens the door for everyone to step out. When the fresh air hits Aimi's exposed legs, a shiver runs down her spine briefly.

The group of girls walk towards the stadium and, when they enter, are very embarrassed and very annoyed at seeing that they are the only ones wearing these stupid cheerleader uniforms.

"Looks like Class 1-A is going full on fan service", Mics voice booms from the speakers as the girls stand there and Aimi is very close to dying of embarrassment.

"You tricked us", Momo shouts at Kaminari and Mineta who give each other a thumbs up. Aimi glares at them too and if she wanted to, she'd crumble their hands. Which she won't. Yet.

Momo sighs and falls to the ground next to Aimi. "Why do I always fall for his schemes. I even used my quirk for this."

The blonde kneels down next to her and puts a comforting hand on her back. "It's okay. Don't worry too much."

While Momo suffers a crisis, Jirou throws the pompoms in her hands to the ground and Hagakure exclaims that they could just make the best of it.

If anything, Aimi agrees with Jirou. She really does not want to be here in these clothes. Especially because she feels various eyes on her. She gets up from her position on the ground and stands up straight, looking around.

When her eyes meet with heterochromatic ones, Aimi feels herself blush. Of course he had to see her like this. As if she wasn't embarrassed enough already. Although after a moment of looking at each other, Todoroki looks away abruptly. She doesn't know if her eyes are betraying her, but Aimi could swear that she saw a tint of red on his cheeks.

"I saw that", Mina exclaims as she suddenly appears next to her.

"Saw what", Aimi asks her, confused and startled by her sudden appearance.

"That look he gave you. That look someone with a crush gives you. And guess what? You had that look too", her best friend laughs giddily and wiggles her eyebrows at Aimi who blushes profusely.

"You're talking nonsense. He doesn't have crush on me", Aimi states convinced and crosses her arms over her chest. "But you have a crush on him", she returns with an annoying smirk on her face which Aimi would've laughed at, had it not been directed at her.

"No! I don't have a crush on him and he doesn't have one on me. That's it. There was no look", Aimi declares while glaring at Mina.

"If there was no look, then why didn't he look away from you the moment he saw you?" At that, Aimi stares at Mina open-mouthed, gaping at her like a fish, before looking at her unimpressed.

"I'm sure that was just a coincidence. He was probably looking at Momo. Or Uraraka. They were right next to me." Mina rolls her eyes in response to her best friends self-gaslighting and groans.

"You can be so oblivious sometimes", she states and shakes her head at her like a disappointed mother would. Before Aimi can return anything, Midnight gets back on stage and starts talking about some games before the last competition. Aimi only hears half of it though, thinking about Mina's words.

Todoroki was looking at someone else. There's no way he was looking at her.

Right?

And if he had been, would it have been so bad?

Aimi can't bring herself to think it would have.