~Stars~ Todoroki x Reader

Chapter 58 - She Deserves More

The crowd was silent, you could hear a pin drop if it wasn't for the shaky cold breath from everyone closest to the arena, like that made much of a difference. This was Shoto not holding back. Sero squeaked in response to Shoto's attack his entire body frozen in an ice coffin, only his head barely poked up. 

Only a mere few inched from the ice, Y/N let out a deep gasp at the mere flaunt of absolute power from none other than Shoto himself. Here She thought only Midoriya uselessly used his quirk. This was way overkill and to one of her closest's friends. 

"Sero be honest, can you move" 

Midnight's shaky voice echoed throughout the arena drawing everyone's attention to the true victim in all of this. 

Sero's voice came out just above a whisper, "You kidding?!" He thought she had lost it for even asking him this question. His eyes went from Midnight to straight at Shoto, who couldn't even meet his gaze. Something was off, and something was different about him. Something was sad. It wasn't like him at all. Not the version of him in class where he's calm and collected, not the version they saw earlier, arrogant, selfish, incredibly rude. He was just, and Sero could tell there was truly something bugging him.

"Sero has been immobilized! Todoroki advances to the next round!" Midnight exclaimed to the entire arena waving her dommanatrix weapon in the air. 

after a beat of silence, someone could be heard in the crowd chanting "Nice try!" Almost like clock work the entire arena began to chant "Nice try!" in an, attempt to cheer up Sero. Sero could only roll his eyes till they landed onto Todoroki who was now directly in front of him. 

"Sorry about that. It was a bit much. I was just angry." Todoroki's voice was just above a whisper but Sero still heard it. "N-Nah man it's cool-" Sero said in an attempt to save face. Todoroki put his hand on Sero's body and all of a sudden Sero felt a warm sensation, Todoroki's other quirk. Sero's eyes went from the hand Todoroki had placed on his chest to his eyes. Todoroki did not meet his gaze. Something was definitely more wrong than him just being angry. 

As soon as Todoroki melted away all the ice, both him and Sero were escorted off the arena fighting space. the walk back to where everyone was seated was quiet and awkward. Sero hated quiet and awkward, it was like his worst enemy. 

"Hey man- um if you like I don't know need someone to talk to, you know you can talk to me right?" Sero said breaking the silence as the continued their walk. Shoto didn't respond. Didn't even look Sero's way. Only gave him a silent nod.

"Like I said" The was a beat of silence as Sero searched his classmate's demeanor for what he could be trying to say. 

"I'm not here to make friends," Shoto's blue and grey eyes staring down Sero, but it was different from before. He was saying the same things from before the festival started but now it just seemed like he was trying to convince himself more than anyone else. 

"Right..." 

Shoto didn't wait for Sero to continue to conversation and walked away once they got to the door that would lead them back to the rest of the students waiting in the audience.

"Wait."

Shoto looked behind him to Sero who waiting at the opening. "I'm sure you have your reasons for saying that, and I know Midoriya already gave you a mouthful." He sighed, "I just- Y/N has been through a lot and you need to make up your mind. If you want to be a loner, fine, but don't give her mixed signals. She doesn't deserve that okay? Do the right thing" 

Sero has hoped the right thing in this case was for Todoroki to get over himself, maybe even try therapy, but Shoto only looked him up and down and left without saying a word. 

Sero sighed, what was he truly expecting in this. He made his way back to the audience with the rest of the class. His pace slow, here he was worrying about Y/N, when he'd just lost his chance to really show his stuff, but he couldn't get the look of Y/N's face out of his mind, when she opened up to them during lunch. She looked so defeated. 

"Sero!!" 

He looked up realizing he was now with the rest of his class, Y/N beaming a smile at him, "Nice try!" She exclaimed in a somewhat mocking tone. He rolled his eyes at her but took his seat anyways, "Nice try indeed- wish I got to flaunt my stuff a little more-" 

"Oh don't be such a big baby- you started off really strong." Y/N nudged him playfully, "Cheer up your boyfriend's next" 

Sero playfully shoved her back, "He's not my boyfriend, you have got to cool it with that, or he will find out." he let out an exasperated sigh as Y/N giggled. Although he seemed like he was irritated, a small smile played on his lips seeing her smile and laugh, even if it was at his own expense. This was what he wanted to see, not that defeated look she had earlier. He hoped her smile would last forever, she deserved that much. 

"Hey after the sports festival s over, how about we have a movie night, we didn't get a chance before" Sero smiled at Y/N. 

"Yeah I'd like that-" Y/n smiled back at him as their attention was now drawn to Kaminari's fight against one of the Class 1-B students. 

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Hey yall!! In case it's not clear I'm skipping a lot of the fights and scene. and im kinda back??? IDK- I have the attention span of a 6 month old- but all the comments have been so helpful and motivating and I feel so bad this story has been on like the weirdest string of hiatus' ever-