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❝𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 ; 7/𝟐𝟑❞
𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐢

As I hit the punching bag over and over, the sweat covered my face and I thought back to yesterday, I've thought about it more times than I could count already and it fueled my punches

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As I hit the punching bag over and over, the sweat covered my face and I thought back to yesterday, I've thought about it more times than I could count already and it fueled my punches. I kept repeating to myself that she was too young, she was resistible and I didn't have to break my pledge. Maybe if I lied to myself enough I would believe it to some extent but the memory of how her eyes lit up when she walked into that cheap furniture store kept rewinding like a broken record player.

I was never the type to entertain feelings or crave touching someone else unless it was beneficial. Maybe Midoriya was right and I just needed a girl to let off some steam, hell I couldn't imagine anyone except l/n what was wrong with me she was just a woman. Had she been affected as much as me?

She was even prettier when she was smiling which I didn't know could be possible, thoughts of her followed me into my shower and after it, and after that. Damn it! She wasn't leaving me alone. I have to distance myself from her like I originally planned.

Walking into the office early I was met with a familiar chuckle, of course, she was here early when I planned on avoiding her. To my dismay, the source of her laugh was from Midoriya. She was walking up the stairs with him "God, I can't believe Todoroki makes all his workers suffer going up these stairs, like what if they were just researchers." I approached them faster "Right! That's what I told him but yk Todoroki and his ideas" he had never told me anything about this matter before.

"I'm glad to see you both getting along" I cleared my throat interrupting their conversation "Oh, hi Todo how did you sleep last night?" L/n cheered, my eyebrow arched at the new nickname "I hope you don't mind me calling you Todo, me and Izu were thinking about nicknames on the way here" I ground my teeth "You walked here together?" I asked "Yeah, Izu thought it would be safer for me to walk with him" She would have been fine on her own and definitely did not need 'Izu' to walk her. Did he have a crush on her? I quietly sidestepped them before walking ahead.

"By the way I do mind you calling me 'Todo' Don't use that vile nickname ever again" I glanced back to see the friendliness leave her face, replaced with the same annoyance from before yesterday as she furiously messed with her damn necklace again. Good, she shouldn't warm up to me. But for some reason it hurt when she replied with "Izu, I honestly don't know why I joined his agency. I should've joined yours" while staring directly at me.

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After a whole day of dealing with l/n's snarky comments I laid my head against my hard desk, groaning frustratedly, I missed her smile. I didn't get to see it long enough and it drove me crazy being plain mean to her. It was fine teasing her but now I was just being rude.

A loud bang startled me. I glanced up to see Midoriya storming towards me "What is wrong with you around her?" he said looking angry "Why do you care? You have a crush on her?" "You're acting like Kacchan and no, it's because" He sighed holding himself back from saying something "If you don't wanna be close to her because she's young I get it, but don't be mean she doesn't deserve that," he said.

I ran my fingers through my hair, he was right but I knew this was the only way I wouldn't get hurt.

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