TWO POWERS (Todoroki Shoto x Reader)

Chapter 12: Change

Determined to do your best, the two weeks of training before the Sports Festival begin. You stay behind at school to train since there's no one home anyway. Besides, your classmates are training on school grounds as well. Iida is dashing around the school and there are explosions coming from the forest area. You've also seen some students head towards the battle arenas. You had hoped that you'd be able to spot Todoroki and practice against his ice, but after a few days you realized that he trains at home.

You yourself occupy a relatively bare area behind one of the gyms. It's out of the way of most of the student's trajectories, although Koda is close enough to deprive you of all the bugs and insects. You don't mind – it's no good if you freak over a couple of insects and break your concentration.

The training you've been doing has been simple: increasing your level of output a few percentages and doing various training while maintaining the power. This is so that you could move freely even at a higher output. You seem to have got the hang of some of the higher percentages, but you doubt that you can and should access your full power unless you absolutely need to. This time your decision stems from safety concerns, not concerns about what others think of you.

After about a week you feel like you have trained One For All enough for the Sports Festival. Thinking about how you've neglected your other power bothers you, so you decide to make it right by finally asking Todoroki to train with you.

Having only a few days left before the sports festival, you decide on a training idea and plan to share it with your victim during lunch.

"So, Todoroki, would you possibly be interested in training with me?" you cheekily ask, "Since you thought I'm All Might's love child and all."

Todoroki regards you with a slightly tilted head as he is chewing his rice. The cafeteria is full of sounds, people eating and talking. You're sitting at a corner of the room, near the huge windows. Since it's so far from service you have the table all to yourself.

"Do you want to train against my ice?"

"Exactly. I know it's sudden but how about today?"

"Yeah, I can stay behind."

*.☽ .*

After the class ends and the teacher leaves, everyone starts preparing for their training at school, Todoroki included this time.

Uraraka opens the door to leave but is met with a crowd of students. "Uhm, why are you all here?!"

"Do any of you have business with our class?" Iida asks.

"They're scouting out the competition, Idiots," Bakugou states. "We're the class that survived a real villain attack. They wanted to see us with their own eyes. At least now you know what a future pro looks like. Now move it, extras!"

You roll your eyes and "excuse me" yourself through the crowd to get to the gym. You've been training behind it enough to know that no one is using it on a regular basis, making it the perfect place to train. Todoroki catches up with you quickly.

You change into your P.E uniform in the respective locker rooms and meet at the gym. It really is a huge hall with nothing in it. But it is enclosed, hoping that it will be able to contain most of your power and not affect the others in the area.

"Alright, so," you begin explaining, "I thought of a way to train so that we can both practice."

"Save it," Todoroki cuts you off rather coldly. "I didn't agree to train with you to improve myself."

"But won't that be unfair?"

"Let's face it, you need the training. I don't. I have a lot of prior training and I can easily train on my own. I'm just a little surprised you took so long to ask me," he casually adds..