Todoroki x Female reader

🌸~Special chapter! Todoroki's POV~🌸

I shut the door behind me and start to walk to class. I wasn't sure why I lashed out. I had felt a protective instinct wash over me when she passed out. She could have died. But still. It wasn't my place to tell her how to use her quirk. We all had our limits, didn't we?

I see Bakugo on the way to class.

"Oh hey, Baku-" I start.

"Shut up!" he glowers back at me, hands in his pockets. Unfazed, I keep walking, internally shrugging. I had bigger things to worry about. My growing feelings for Y/N.

They had grown far beyond friendship a while ago, and I wasnt quite sure what to do about them. I didn't know if she only saw me as a friend or more, and I couldn't jump to conclusions, or I could end up getting hurt, or even hurting her.

She pushed me outside of my bubble, and I didn't hate it like I thought I would.

Mina knew about my feelings, and so did Uraraka. Those two were sharp. They didn't say they knew outright, but it was obvious. Like when I showed up at Y/N's door this morning. Uaraka was there but the second I showed up she magically had to leave and wiggled her eyebrows at me when she passed.

I sigh and continue towards the school, the building approaching rapidly. My mind was so unnecessarily confusing. It used to be so simple. I knew what I wanted or didn't want.

***

The day goes painfully slow when It usually goes fast for me. Probably because my mind was constantly trying to sort out my dilemma of 'feelings'. I couldn't focus on any of my studies.

***

When Y/N finally comes back, im slightly relieved. Until the entire class swarms her. She tries to come to the seat, but everyone follows her, throwing question after question at her.

"You okay?" I ask, worried. She looks overwhelmed.

"I was kind of expecting this..." she whispers back.

Just as I convince myself to get up and drag her out of the sea of classmates, Mr. Aizawa comes in and everyone files to their seats. Then he drops the Provisional license bomb. The test I had been dreading.

Fortunately, he strays away from that topic pretty quickly, moving on to an incident that happened over the week.

I already know all the details. Endeavor had gloated about it for a while when I visited the family.

Im about to tune out the lesson like I usually do, but Y/N's hand shoots up and im suddenly interested. She gives a thoughtful retort to Mr. Aizawa's question, A retort I thought Midoryia would have given, not her. Everyone looks back at her, delighted and surprised. She never talked in class.

"I didn't even think of that." I blurt out without thinking. I didn't mean to come out sounding so jealous. She doesn't seem fazed though.

"Is that a compliment?" she comments, her smirk makes me lose my thoughts.

"It was supposed to be, yeah." she lets me know she was pulling my strings. And Im embarrassed for letting that slide past me so easily. Im praying the rest of the class isnt this awkward, but suddenly her demeanor changes and she looks shy.

"Hey. Want to maybe... get a coffee or boba later?" she asks me. I wonder if I heard her wrong. She had said it pretty quietly. But the way she is looking at me is-

"Yea-!" I stop myself, not wanting to sound too excited. What should I say? I don't want to be too eager. I don't want it to sound like im uninterested either. I settle on a simple, "Sure. That would be fine." we make plans to meet after school, and Im anxious and excited for the day to end.

When the day finally ends, we meet up outside the school and then walk to an internet cafe, which usually wasn't my kind of scene, but I don't say anything. This was just another way she can guide me outside my bubble.

I figured we shouldn't stay late though, since our provisional license exams were tomorrow. Almost like she was reading my mind she says, "Okay, we can't stay out late because we have the first exam tomorrow." I agree, but I lose myself in conversation with her. She was just so easy to talk to.

When she checks the time and tells me what it is, I shoot up out of my chair and we both run back towards the dorm. Naturally, she starts going to wrong way and I grab her wrist, then place my hand in hers, dragging her the right way. I realize this is incredibly intimate, but don't really want to let go. Her hand fits perfectly in mine, like a puzzle. And it's so warm and soft, comforting against the brisk night.

Her hand shifts and I start to think she is pulling away, but instead she wraps her fingers around mine. She looks uncertain about this, so I don't pull away, even though my heart is threatening to break out of my chest.

Does she feel the same way I do then? Maybe not. Maybe she just was holding my hand as a friend. Despite my overthinking, my gut tells me that was not what was happening.

Our pace slows down and we walk hand-in-hand in total silence the rest of the way to the dorms. I walk her to her dorm, trying to be as quiet as possible so I didn't alarm anyone or wake anyone up. She opens her door and starts to slip inside. This is when our hands let go.

"Good night Y/N," I say softly, trying to put as much affection in my voice as I could. I wasnt sure I was ready to tell her my feelings, but maybe she could guess them if I gave her enough signs. Then I wouldn't be rushing her into anything. Her eyes inspect mine and I stare back at her.

"Good night Todoroki. I had fun tonight." she says finally, her gaze breaking.

"Me too." and with that her door shuts. I stand in front of it for a few seconds more then turn and walk down the hallway to my dorm. My mind is racing. I've never felt this strongly about anybody before. Everything about her drew me in. God. I needed to calm down.

I tear a hand through my hair and let out a half breath, half laugh. Maybe I should have kissed her good night. At least on the forehead. No. I needed to be subtle with my hints. I couldn't jump right into that, even though I really did want to kiss her. Desperately.

I seriously needed to calm down. My heart was racing and I could hear it.

Padum, padum. Padum, padum. Padumpadumpadumpadumpadum.

I open the door to my room and then shut it, locking it behind me. Then I flop down onto my bed, trying to come to terms with what the hell had just happened.

I guess I was in love. 

I hope you LOVED this chapter and that It wasnt to repetitive from chapter 5! I was really excited to write this one that I wrote it immediately after chapter 5... THE LOVE IS TAKING OFF. FINALLY! ITS TIME! anyways, please make sure to vote, follow, and comment!