My Hero Academia Requests

Flustered (TodorokiXReader)

He wasn't sure just what drew him to her. Maybe it was the way she talked with everyone, or maybe how she wasn't like most girls in their class. Or most girls in general. She wasn't bubbly or overly peppy, she wasn't over the top and "extra" as a lot of people would have put it. Instead she was calm, collected and nearly as expressionless as he was.

Which suited him just fine. He found himself admiring her from time to time during class or during training. And when they had all moved into the 1A dorms for UA, he came to learn her quirks and habits and a lot of them were... cute.

She would mutter to herself, kind of like Midoriya, but only when she was cooking. She would pace around in circles when she was on the phone with someone. She was always willing to tutor someone who asked.

Even though they lived in the same place now, along with everyone else in 1A, Todoroki couldn't really bring himself to talk to her. Sure she was friends with Midoriya and Iida and Uraraka and they often hung around those three together, he never said anything directly to her, unsure of how exactly what to say.

He hasn't felt like this for anyone, so he wasn't sure exactly what to do. But there was one person he knew he could ask for advice. One person who could talk to his crush without feeling awkward, or so it looked to him, anyway.

"Hey, Midoriya," Todoroki said, catching up with the green haired boy before they went into the cafeteria.

He turned around and looked at the other boy. "Todoroki! What's up?"

Todoroki shifted from one foot to the other. "I... I need your advice on something."

"Okay, I'll see what I can do."

"Well..." Todoroki let out a breath. "So you're good at talking with your crush and everything, so I was wondering if you had any advice on how I could do... that too..." he started to lose steam as he progressed and looked to the side.

Midoriya sputtered. "W-wait what? What do you mean, my crush?"

"Uraraka," he replied and tilted his head, looking back at Midoriya. "You like her, don't you?"

His face turned the color of Todoroki's red hair. "Is it really that obvious?"

The other boy shrugged. "Maybe not to her, but to everyone else well..." he sighed. "Anyway do you have any ideas of what I could do?"

"O-oh well um..." he was still red in the face as he looked down, trying to think, "you could always pay her compliments and get a conversation going that way."

Todoroki thought a moment before nodding at the suggestion. "I can do that. Thank you, Midoriya."

"No problem," he said and waved as Todoroki rushed off.

That day, during training, they were split up into teams again, doing much the same drill as the one they had done during the first day of training. Todoroki was not on the same team as _____ so he watched her and her partner on the screen as they tried to capture the payload.

He was nearly mesmerized by the way she handled the objective and when she and her partner came out victorious, he couldn't help but feel a little proud. His team was up next so he was walking out just as she walked back in.

"Hey," he said as he walked passed her.

She looked at him and raised an eyebrow, but her expression didn't change much more then that. "What's up, Todoroki?"

"You were pretty good out there," he said.

He turned and started walking towards his starting point, so he couldn't see her reaction to his compliment. But she stood there, staring after him. Her eyes were wider then they ever would have been and her face was bright red. She just stood there, her hands on her cheeks as she tried to figure out exactly what she was feeling.

When she finally walked back in with everyone else, Todoroki was already well into his "match" and Midoriya walked up to her.

"You okay? You're all red in the face," he said.

She opened her mouth to try to speak, but closed it, having trouble finding the words. About the third time she tried, she finally managed to speak.

"T-Todoroki complimented me," she said, feeling her face heat up even more.

Midoriya just smiled at her.