Ice, Fire, Love, Explosion: Season 2 | My Hero Academia

Chapter 29: Haunting Her

Dear Mom,

I want to tell you some things. And I want to ask you one thing.

In hopes of keeping up with my classmates, I'm making an effort to speak up and chat with them daily. It's hard to try and find my voice, but Vanessa's been helping me.

All that talking has led to some conflict, but sometimes butting heads with others has led to a better understanding of how they think and feel. Vanessa and my friends care about more than just themselves. They get mad and shed tears for the sake of others.

That's how I want to be too. It's not easy, but I'm trying. Like how I'm trying to be a good boyfriend. I don't know how to do it, and I always ask Vanessa if I'm doing things right and if I'm being a good boyfriend. But every time she just tells me to continue being me, and it only makes me more confused.

I make her cry a lot. She even h*rt herself once because of me. It makes me feel like I'm doing a lot of things wrong and that I'm h*rting her. But there's this look in her eyes that only appears when she looks at me or I'm the topic.

Vanessa mentioned once how normal couples don't really start thinking about marriage until they're at least adults. I know I'm still young, but I can't stop thinking about us like that someday.

If I wanted to marry a girl like that, not for her powerful Quirk but for her beautiful heart, would you be ok with that?

I want to be a good Pro Hero that helps save people because I want to, not to throw it in Dad's face because I was made as his masterpiece. I want to be a good husband and father because I love Vanessa and I know I will love our future children, not to throw it in Dad's face because he was terrible to us.

And that won't be easy, but I'll try. I'll try my best. Vanessa tells me she loves my best, so I think I'll be ok.

- Shoto

— Shoto Todoroki: Rising

3rd Person POV

The sun shone brightly upon the land this Wednesday morning. It was clear skies and beautiful, warm rays. The perfect summer day that lifted everyone's spirits and brightened the saddest of moods...

Except for Vanessa. She hated how bright and sunny and happy it was. It only made her more depressed, feeling as if the world was taunting her.

Three days have passed since Sunday, when she last saw Toya Todoroki...

She had awoken this morning in her boyfriend's arms. After both of them received the news so suddenly around 11:00 p.m. last night—via a chained email—did Todoroki rush to his girlfriend's room so incredibly fast... to find her having collapsed onto her knees, her eyes devoid of any emotion staring at her lit phone as they spilled tears.

He ended up staying the night in her dorm room. He didn't want her to go to sleep alone a crying mess. He didn't want to go to sleep a crying mess.

Homeroom was set to begin in four minutes, at least the bell to start the school day was set to ring in four minutes.

The classroom was full of bubbly chatter. And how could it not be? With how bright and beautiful of a day it was outside today, it lifted the students of Class 2-A's moods.

All except for two of them.

Todoroki sat at his desk, holding an open-book on his desk. To everyone, he looked just as he always did. But his eyes were another story. Despite that emotionless look on his face... were his turquoise and grey eyes flooded with immense sorrow.