Rescue // Shoto Todoroki x OC Fanfiction

Chapter One

UA, Year One - Sports Festival

Katsumi tied her blonde hair back into a high ponytail and readied herself for her match. She'd done a little research on the students in the hero course at UA so she wasn't at a complete disadvantage, but watching Todoroki's match with the tape elbows guy, she knew she was in for a rough fight. She stared at her reflection in the mirror, eyeing her smoky gray eyes, trying to hide the nervousness written all over her face. Wiping her palms on the sides of her uniform, she stepped away from the mirror and started to pace the waiting room. 

Todoroki. Half hot, half cold. Though he never used his fire in a fight, and she didn't know why. She only hoped that she wouldn't be an exception to his senseless rule. Using only half of his quirk in a fight, was like fighting at half-strength, all the time. So if he decided to use fire, she knew she would be done for. She wasn't sure if she could beat him at half-strength in the first place, especially with her lack of practice with her own quirk. 

Katsumi hoped to be moved to the hero course at UA after the Sports Festival. It had been known to happen to a few students throughout UA, and she hoped she could show the administrators that they were wrong about her and her quirk. She could be a hero--she knew in her bones that being a hero was her destiny, and she would fight like hell to make it happen. 

Much like Todoroki, Katsumi pretty much had two quirks--half light, half shadow. She was still working on controlling her light quirk, but the shadows seemed to come easier to her. Perhaps this was the reason she wasn't let into the hero course. Without a flashy quirk, you can oftentimes get overlooked. The light was a flashy quirk for obvious reasons, but the shadows were subtle and quiet, and she was still learning to control and use them. She only hoped that the practice she'd been doing was enough to show them that she had potential. 

Before no time at all, it was time. 

She clenched her fists at her sides, trying to subdue the burning light in her palms that she'd yet learned to control. 

Deep breaths, you, she told herself. You can do this. You will do this. 

Katsumi knew in her heart that she probably wouldn't beat him, but she was going to try like hell to do it anyway. 

As she stepped out onto the arena, the crowd shouted and cheered, though more of it must have been for Todoroki, who was already on the opposing side of the arena. She did some circles with her elbows, trying to loosen up her shoulders and ignore her nerves, but as she stood opposite him, they crashed back down into place. 

She tried to listen to the intros that Present Mic gave for the two of them, but all she could hear was her pulse pounding in her ears. Taking in a deep breath, she took to her fighting stance and stared Todoroki down. His eyes were laser-focused on hers, but instead of the intensity she expected to find, his expression was laced with something else. Unsure of what to make of him, the match started, and she was already distracted. 

He came at her hard and fast with a wall of ice that she just barely dodged. Cold radiated from the ice, making her shiver, despite her racing heart and the heat she felt burning at her fingertips. She knew they were glowing, and she didn't even have to look at them. He wasted no time in launching another ice attack that threw her off balance. As she teetered, a third blow came, one that completely knocked her on her ass. 

No one had expected her to make it this far. The fact that she'd made it to the third event had taken everyone by surprise, especially her peers from the general studies class. She could hear them cheering from the sidelines, and it reminded her of why she was here. 

She needed to prove herself. 

Before Todoroki could take the offense, she harnessed the darkness and forced it to take the shape of wings at her back, and she launched herself into the air. Todoroki's eyebrows shot up in surprise. She had yet to use this move in the Sports Festival, so there was no way he'd know she could do this. 

From the air, she got a clear view of the arena, which was covered in shoots of ice, severely limiting the angles at which she could come for him. She thought that he must have set this up on purpose. With an ice wall at his back, she wouldn't be able to just shove him out of bounds. She could attack from the sky, but there would be no element of surprise. That was her only choice at the moment. 

Todoroki must have been tired of waiting for her to make a move, so he shot up a wall of ice that managed to knock her in the air, momentarily distracting her enough that the shadow wings disappeared. Her shadows were fickle things in the daytime, which was yet another reason that she needed to harness her light. She could be so much more powerful in the daytime if she could control it. Before she fell to the ground, she summoned the wings again, barely managing to keep herself from making contact with eh hard surface. She bit the inside of her lip and rose into the air again. 

She wasn't sure what to do. With his ice barrages, he made it nearly impossible to get close. 

"Are you just going to hang out up there all day?" He shouted, throwing another blast. This one, she managed to dodge. 

Before she could think about her actions, she launched herself down toward his right side, shooting shadow tendrils from her palms out toward his ankles. He hadn't seen that coming and was knocked off his feet. 

"And Todoroki goes down!" Present Mic shouted through the stadium. There was some cheering, but Katsumi tuned them out. "I don't think any of us saw that one coming!"

Todoroki was up again in no time, and Katsumi didn't have a chance to create distance between the two of them again as he grabbed her arm, freezing it up to her shoulder. She grimaced at the cold. 

"What, no fire?" She prodded. "Are you going easy on me, Todoroki?" 

Instead of a verbal response, he grabbed her frozen arm and ripped it down, flipping her through the air and onto her back, taking the breath right out of her lungs. The ice on her arm shattered, and she lay there dazed for a second before throwing herself onto her feet and sweeping a leg under him, which he easily dodged. An ice-covered fist launched at her face, and before she could even react, she threw up her hands, bringing up a wall of light. It shattered upon impact but kept her face from being pounded in. 

A look of confusion crossed his face for a moment before he snapped back into the fight. Katsumi summoned her shadow wings again and skated away from him and behind his back, her feet just barely staying in bounds. Her heart raced at the realization that she'd almost thrown herself over the line, but she took a few steps forward. 

As Todoroki turned around, he threw the largest wall of ice at her yet, the top covered in frozen spikes, without looking too hard where he was aiming. Before Kansumi had a chance to dodge, the spikes came right at her, a few lodging themselves deep in her body. 

She let out a startled gasp as one went through her gut and another shot right across her eye. She saw nothing but red in her right eye, so she squeezed it shut, trying to ignore the blood spilling down her cheek. 

Todoroki was just standing there staring at her--perhaps thinking he'd won, but Katsumi wasn't done. She grabbed the base of the spike in her stomach, summoned the light to her hands, and broke the ice tendril off, leaving it lodged in her gut. Despite that, she was free to move around. She knew she needed to leave it in and fight for however much longer she could. She was lasting a lot longer than any of his previous competitors already, and she didn't intend on going down easily. 

"I'm not done yet!" she called, as she ran at him, her wings of shadow propelling her forward. Her chest heaved and she ignored the pain in her stomach as she raced forward, but Todoroki took a readying stance, letting her get in close. 

She was starting to get dizzy. The ice must have started to melt, as she felt liquid running down her front side. As she tried to keep moving forward, her shadow wings disappeared, and she stumbled across the cement. Her competitor simply stood there, his hands now at his sides as she fell to the ground. Everything was starting to get a bit fuzzy, and the last thing she heard was Midnight's voice. 

"Katsumi Ono has been KO'd! Shoto Todoroki wins the match!"

Then, everything went dark.