Melting his Icy Heart [Todoroki Shouto x Soulmate!OC]

Ch 18: Heartbreak

"I'm not hungry right now. But have a good meal!" Akari said with a smile before dashing inside the building in search of her soulmate.

As she went in she saw a cluster of students heading to the mess hall, her light blue eyes darted in every direction in an attempt to discern Shouto from the rest of the crowd.

Where is he...?

Akari could feel her stomach grumbling but she gave priority to finding Shouto over eating food.

After a few moments, she found his bi-colored hair. But instead of heading to the mess hall like most students, he walked to another hallway that was one of the underpasses near the edge of the stadium.

She felt apprehension about approaching him after their last encounter but she shook her nerves away and followed after him.

"Shouto!" She called out as she ran towards him. "Wait!"

He stopped and looked back at her with cold, narrowed eyes. "What do you want?"

Akari widened her eyes, not expecting his cold tone. But as she looked at his face, it wasn't just his tone. He had a scowl on his face as his bi-colored eyes looked at her harshly.

She was used to his faint smiles and soft glances but there was none of that now. It was as if they'd gone back to the first day of school. With his cold gaze and harsh tone.

She gulped but steeled her resolve and answered, "We need to talk."

"About what?" He replied stoically.

She frowned, "Many things, like about how things went between us after you-" She felt a knot in her throat but continued. "...rejected me from being on your team."

I also want to talk about your flames...

Akari wanted to say but kept that in as she wanted to talk about that when he's calmer.

Shouto narrowed his eyes, "Not sure why you care, you seemed perfectly happy on the team you were on."

"Happy? Wh-" Akari had begun but Shouto interrupted her.

"You were happily laughing and chatting with Bakugo." Shouto clenched his jaw. His glare deepened, and she could have sworn the air turned colder. "I even saw you poke him in the nose."

"We were just playing around!" Akari frowned. "Besides I was only on Bakugo's team because you said that you didn't want me on your team."

"Ah." His glare turned even harsher and Akari saw a dangerous glint in his eyes. "So you went with him to spite me."

Her heart sank. "W-what?! Of course not! I never even thought you'd get this angry."

"Why not? You know I don't like him." He scowled.

"Not to this extent!" Akari exclaimed. "Besides he won third place in the race, with our points combined, I knew we'd have a fair chance of winning."

Logic seemed to have worked on him as he looked away and muttered, "So it was because of the points..."

"Why are you acting like this...?" Akari glared, as she clenched her fists. "When you're the one who denied us the chance to work together!"

"I HAD A PLAN!" Shouto snapped, annoyed at her repeating the same thing.

"WE HAD A PROMISE!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, all the fury she had accumulated exploding out of her.

His eyes slightly widened, not expecting her outrage. Finally breaking through his cold facade.