Cruel Intentions (Todoroki x Reader)

Chapter 11 - Hatred

       Pain was something you had experienced many times throughout your life. You've experienced it by feeling the cold shoulders from others who felt obligated to look after you. You've felt it whenever you saw a nice family enjoying a meal on TV while you sat alone. You've felt it from a paper cut, a scrapped knee, the bruising of an elbow, and the stub of your toe against a desk. But none of that compared to what you felt now. 

    As your mind separated itself from your body, you cursed at yourself for all the unnecessary spilled tears. You could feel your arm become numb, like it wasn't even attached to your body anymore and it was hanging from a mere thread. Then a fiery burning sensation spread throughout body like you were being pierced with an iron rod that had been left sitting in a fire for hours. A shrill shriek could be heard echoing all around and it dawned on you that that voice was yours. Tears blurred your vision as you reached out towards somebody, anybody that could help you stop the pain. Your classmates looked at you in horror, their minds not wrapping around what was happening or what to do. 

"It hurts, it hurts," you sobbed through clenched teeth. "Oh my god, it hurts so fucking much..!"

Your fingers touched the tender flesh to stop the bleeding but it only made things worse for yourself. Your voice cracked and strained as you struggled to contain your screams of agony. The vile serpent man stood before you with a sinister grin, licking his lips in satisfaction. 

"Heh, you're nothing compared to her. She'd be disappointed seeing her own daughter bawling on the floor like a baby. You're pathetic," he spat. 

Eyes piercing with anger and hatred looked straight into his. You felt this overwhelming emotion of rage and hostility. To oversimplify it, you were extremely pissed off. The pain that you felt, you wanted him to feel it to. The words that he spoke only made you want to hurt him more. You wanted to see his face twist into agony and see his mouth open wide to spill words of plea towards you. 

    A strange feeling was overcoming you; a feeling that thirsted for violence. A sadistic demon inside of you had awoken with a strange curiosity that desired deeply to inflict pain. 

While these feelings were stirring inside of you, your spilled blood began to regroup and harden. The pain you felt in your shoulder began to subside just enough so that you could slowly get up to face this man. Your classmates all looked at you surprised and confused. Todorki didn't know what it was that he was seeing before him. He knew he should be doing something or else things could get out of hand, but he was frozen in place as he watched your true power takes it form. 

Your blood had hardened into a scythe shape that extended out from your wound. The wound itself still bled slightly but most of it went towards the weapon that your body had created. The look in your eyes changed. All the insecurity, and self doubt you possessed had disappeared and was replaced with something else. It was a look that no one thought they would ever see you have before and if you could see yourself at that moment, you would have been shocked as well. 

"Now this is what I've been waiting for," the serpent man grinned. 

He raised his claws yet again to try and strike you but without even blinking, the scythe had extended itself outwards to pierce him in his chest. You hadn't struck his heart, but rather his right pectoral. Nonetheless, he still choked on his own blood and his hands frantically went to remove you from his body. But your bloodied scythe sank in deeper into his flesh, hooking itself into his body to spread the pain. Everyone gasped as they watched this once threatening villain fall onto the ground on his knees. You towered over him, face empty of all emotion while everyone else watched in horror. 

"(Name), stop!" Midoriya shouted. He broke the silence with his shaky plea for you to stop. "You don't have to do this! Think about your doing right now and how it will affect you!"

      Todorki had been staring at you in shock like everyone else. When Midoriya spoke up, he snapped back into reality and realized that he too should attempt in stopping you. He felt glued in his spot for a split second before swallowing his fear and running forwards. Ice flowed from his fingertips towards you. Before, he never thought that he'd use his powers against you; and even now he felt guilty for what he was about to do. The ice moved to cut the scythe you had made in half, the hardened blood breaking into pieces onto the floor. You turned to slowly look at him, confused but at the same time feeling irritated. The serpent man was relieved when the torture you were putting him through had finally stopped. He clutched the wound on his chest, still breathing shakily, he tore the bottom half of his shirt to wrap it over his wound to help treat it. 

"Why'd you do that?" you asked Todorki. 

"(Name), you could have seriously injured him-"

"So?" you shrugged. "It's not like he's one of the good guys."

"If you can just so easily disregard someone's life like that, then how are you no different from him?" 

You looked away in anger, balling up your fists at your sides. What did he know about anything? This man provoked you in the first place so now that you were acting out upon his dreadful actions, you were just supposed to sit there and take it? Since when did heroes just take all the punches and then just let the bad guys off with a stern verbal warning? Is that the type of hero everyone expected you to be? 

"No, I'm different than him," you shook your head. "I felt so tired of hiding myself because of my quirk. This is my quirk and there's nothing anyone can do to change it," you stated boldly. "If you don't like the way it looks then too bad."

Your blood had begun to harden again and reform the same scythe. Midoriya and Todoroki both looked each other with a pained expression, not knowing what they could say to stop you. However, something strange happened. Your hardened blood had suddenly turned back into a liquid and fell to the ground with a splash. You too were confused as it wasn't you who caused this to happen. But then something clicked in everyone's mind and they turned around to see Eraser Head standing on top of a building with his eyes locked intensely on you. To say he looked angry was an understatement. And from behind was none other than Goliath and All Might himself. All Might wore his signature, determined smile whereas Goliath looked at you with  disappointment. 

He jumped down and ran towards you, pushing past every villain who dared to get in his way. When he stopped in front you, he ripped his shirt to wrap it around your wound and scooped you up into his arms. 

"Jesus, (Name), what were you doing?" he asked. "You've never used your quirk before and now you decide to go all rogue and almost kill a man. What's going on through your head right now?" 

He sprinted away from the scene to rush you to the nearest hospital. You looked back at Todorki whose eyes looked into yours with hurt. You felt all the anger inside of you melt away and be replaced with a numbing sadness. 

"I wasn't thinking clearly," you mumbled. 

Goliath sighed. "I can see that you feel guilty.....Look, let's just go somewhere quickly to clean you up and we'll talk it about later, okay?"

"Okay," you nodded.

   Hot tears welled from your eyes and down your cheeks. Goliath pushed your face closer to his chest and so you continued to cry, your anxiety beginning to resurface again. 

A/N: Hey guys! Sorry it's been so long since I've updated ^^; I was just so busy with finals and work but now since finals are over, I'll have more time to hopefully update more frequently. I want to update at least once a week and it'd be cool if I could have it on a set schedule like, every Thursday I'll update but I'm not sure if I can do that. I don't want to make any promises and disappoint anybody. Most likely the next two chapters or so will have some time skips and may be a little choppy in order to further progress the story but I'll see what I can whip up to make everything transition smoothly. I'm always worried I'm rushing everything and things aren't coming out good. Either way, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and thanks for all the lovely comments!