Falling In Love ( Shoto Todoroki x OC )

Chapter 13- Love

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With the rambunctious kids running or crawling around everywhere and the sleepy ones fast asleep on their parents or trusted aunt/uncle's chest, the adults hung out around the living room swapping stories.

Like the village they were, everyone happily pitched in with the child care. 

Even Sora had been handed a baby, but seeing as it was Kirishima's baby girl, she wasn't too concerned. Sora bounced the girl on her knee while chatting with Mina, who was blessing them all with endless stories of Shoto from UA times. 

"I can see Shoto doing that," Sora laughed pleasantly as the conversation flowed effortlessly.

The black-haired mini mouse on her lap leaned over, and Sora held onto her a little tighter. "What's wrong, Hikari?"

Sora followed her line of sight to see one of the girl twin of Kaminari's Banshee Bunch. Kanae was sitting on her diaper sucking her thumb cutely, but there was something unsettling about how clearly the 11 month older girl was staring at her. "Umm, hello Kanae," Sora hummed.

Hikari frowned at the younger girl who flashed her crackling golden eyes away from Sora and to the fellow little girl. To which the elder Kirishima huffed, "No, thank you." 

"Hmm? What's wrong, Hikari?"

"I don't like Kanae," Hikari announced as she patted the man sitting thigh to thigh with Sora. "Uncle Todo, can I sit with you?"

Shoto didn't reply verbally, merely nodded his red and white head with a small smile. He held out his big hands and picked the three old effortlessly. He placed her on his lap and let her slump into his ribs. 

"Oop, there goes Mouse," Sero laughed with a raised glass. 

"Pardon?" Sora asked as Shoto returned his hand to the spot at the back of her neck he had been clasping lovingly. 

"Hikari's nickname is Mini Mouse because she likes to burrow into people and then crash out," Lore explained chiperly while expertly ignoring her twin girls tangling their hands in her mane of white curls and likely ripping out large clumps.

Not wanting to be rude to any party, Sora tucked her own white albeit much shorter pixie hair behind her ear before looking back down to find Kanae still sitting there waiting for Sora to return to her. Sora cautiously held down her hands to the Kaminiari child and asked, "Do you like to be held?"

At her question, it became oddly quiet in the screaming chaos. It was as if they too were all curious about the ominously Pandorian answers that innocent question would unlock. 

Sora's forest green eyes were wide with worry as she watched the gears in the electric blonde baby's brain spin. Gears grinding, moving ever wonkily toward a conclusion until all of a sudden, the key clicked. 

With a huge gummy smile, Kanae squealed excitedly up to Sora. Her hands held high as she rubbed her index finger and thumb together. "Yeeee!"

Ever the simple brain communicator, Denki was the first to gasp in surprise. However, shock quickly turned to huffiness as he exclaimed, "That crabcake! Catdaddy! She just gave Sora cricket fingers!"

"I saw," the mellow purple-haired man chuckled in his deep baritone. 

"Can you believe her!?!?"

"Considering she's probably a love ho like her Papa-" Fae smooched Denki's furious frowning lips and giggled, "yeah, I can believe it!"

Not privy to the married throuple's hushed teasings, Sora picked up the adorably chunky barely crawling baby and clumsily cuddled her to her chest.

"Support her bottom," Shoto coached gently. His cool fingers traced over Sora's forearm, leaving a trail of winterbliss in its path as he guided it beneath the baby's bottom. "Hmmm, good job bunny."