Shoto Todoroki: Rising

Chapter 4. Waiting...

The last class of the day finally came to an end and loud chatter could be heard amongst the class 1-A students who were just about ready for a well-deserved weekend of rest at their new dorms after grueling training and lessons only 3 days into their return.

"FINALLY!! classes are oooover. Especially after that math class, my braincells couldn't handle any mooore!" Mina announced jumping up from her seat in excitement. A chorus of hums in agreement could be heard from around the class.

"True true. I think- Kaminari's braincells are fried.....literally- pftt!" "W-WH-WHEYYYY"Jirou replied from her seat in between chuckles where a certain bright yellow haired teen had started short circuiting next to her.

Suddenly the class quieted down and a tense atmosphere filled the room upon seeing Aizawa and Endeavor walk past their classroom, before they switched their attention to Todoroki at the back of the room, looking for an explanation. The teen merely shrugged it off and pretended not to know what was going on. Midoriya proposed that the number 1 hero had arrived for hero work, in hopes of helping his friend whom he could tell didn't want the attention and luckily the rest of the class went back to their idle chatter. Moments later their homeroom teacher appeared at their door and quickly announced they were dismissed, but not before Shoto caught his teachers gaze focused on him as if to remind him of something. Surely enough he didn't forget as he sat comfortably at his chair while everyone else hurriedly packed their belongings ready to go back to the dorms. The deku squad took notice of this and huddled around the teens desk.

"Heyy Shotoo. Not leaving yet?" Midoriya questioned, tilting his head confusingly towards his friend who looked about ready to fall asleep on his desk.

"No, I still got something to do here before I head home." Shoto replied in his monotone voice.

"Oh, oki. Does it have something to do with Endeavor coming here?" This time Uraraka spoke up.

"Yeah. And..umm.. thanks for saving me back there Midoriya. I didn't really know what to say."

"Sure thing! That's what friends are for after all." Replying in his cheerful voice.

Shortly after the deku squad also left and soon only Shoto was left in the room, waiting his teacher to call him into the dreaded meeting room. It had always been an annoyance for him to have to act all normal with a certain flaming trashbag in public, and today was no different. Actually, he could consider today to be worse than usual since he knew Endeavor would be angry at him, but not for the usual reasons a parent would be angry for when being called in for a conference about their son's tardiness. No, Endeavor would be more furious about the idea of Shoto making him look bad and wasting his time with, ironically, his own doing.

Of course the Number One hero would blame his own son for being late because of the injuries he himself caused. Not wanting to worry more about his current situation, Shoto decided to take a nap at his desk  in hopes of making time go faster and get it all over with.

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"-to.......SHOTO."

I graudually woke up to the voice of someone calling for me. Rubbing my eyes, I look up towards the direction of the voice. Aizawa was by the door, and I quickly remembered what I was here for.

"Come with me. Bring your bag already." Aizawa wasted no time so I also quickly stood up and followed him out of the room and towards a room by the end of the hallway, near the faculty room.

To be continued...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everybody!! A bit late but my gift for you guys is here nonetheless and I hope you enjoy this chapter, tho this is more of a 'calm before the storm' so its a bit shorter. Anyways I hope you're all doing well in time for the new years!

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Thank you for reading!