TWO POWERS (Todoroki Shoto x Reader)

Chapter 13: Brewing

As the sports festival began to grow nearer, you noticed how all the hero-oriented news feeds began discussing All Might's disappearance. Additionally, a lot of the general news channels began reporting an increase in crime rate since All Might had not been seen in public since the morning of the USJ attack, leaving several to speculate. The prevailing theory was that All Might had been defeated at the fight with the League and the students had defeated the villains, but All Might was credited instead. The only real counterargument for this theory was the big hole in the ceiling of the USJ and the evidence that the Nomu had been captured a distance away from the facility. No student could have done that.

You decided to ignore the news, they were too frustrating. Days passed. Training made the days go by quickly. Before you knew it, it was the day of the festival.

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Some days before the sports festival, Aizawa is sitting in a doctor's office, waiting for his check-up. He is still covered in bandages and expects to be so when leaving the room as well, but the doctors at his hospital insisted that he be examined by a true professional, Doctor Tsukauchi. Aizawa had recognized the name immediately and agreed, mostly because he was curious about the person behind this name.

"Hi there, Mr Aizawa. I hope you weren't waiting long."

"No, not at all."

He looks at the woman as much as he can and from what he can see, the family resemblance is striking.

"Great, let's see then. We should check whether your arms and face are healing well." She is both bubbly and energetic. Even while unbandaging Aizawa's arms she keeps talking about trivial things meant to put Aizawa at ease. Aizawa, however, can't stand to listen to it for long.

"I'm sorry to interrupt, but is it possible that your daughter is in my class?"

"Oh, could it be? Yes, she does go to U.A, but I don't know which class. I'm so busy here at work that I hardly have time to go home, and then I forget what my husband and Y/N tell me since it's so much information at once."

"I see. Well, the name matches. I'm her homeroom teacher, Shota Aizawa."

"Oh, lovely to meet you!" I'm Phoebe Tsukauchi." Without giving the poor man an opportunity to say anything, she continues, "and to think that my daughter is in your class. What a coincidence! Is she doing well? I sometimes wonder how she manages with my power."

"From what I have seen and what I heard from my colleagues about what happened at the USJ after I lost consciousness, I would say that she is managing very well."

"With my heat quirk? I find that difficult to believe," she cheerfully replies while checking Aizawa's skin for any suspicious bruising. "My quirk is mostly useful for keeping me energized throughout work and heating water for tea. I was honestly surprised when she was accepted."

Aizawa, feeling a strange duty to defend his student in front of her mother, explains, "She managed to damage quite a lot of robots by running at full speed the whole ten minutes. She also got a good bit of rescue points by helping another student escape while the other examinees abandoned her." He didn't add the and she got first place since his own explanation felt like another info dump the mother experiences when she gets the time to go home.

"Wow, I'm glad to hear that her hard work paid off," was the final thing Phoebe said before falling unusually silent. Something is bothering Aizawa as well.

"Judging by how you described your quirk, I'm assuming that you couldn't boost your strength. I'm just asking for a possible training route," he lies.

"No, not at all. I only have the strength I have got, and all I can do is restore my body to how it was before I tired it. That's why I didn't become a hero myself, although I wanted to."