Mateless. (katsudeku♡)

Chapter 9

Shouto's Story

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Shouto Todoroki's POV

I sat quietly in a corner of the room. Why did I even come here? I rather be sleeping. Sure the whole mate thing was cool and all, it's just that this whole night and execution of it was a little stupid. I mean, you find your mate and love them automatically? That's not how it works. Just because they're your soulmate, doesn't mean you have to fall to their feet right away. Just saying.

The room was hectic with people crying and jumping into other peoples' arms. Truly it was nauseating. I could feel the smell of my mate filling my nose, and I had already found out who it is. (A/N You'll see later hehe) I promised myself I would court them instead of just professing the love tonight. I smiled in their direction, giving them the subtle hint. They got it and giggled. I needed some air.

I began to walk up to the stairs to the roof when I was met with a very angry Katsuki. My best choice was to look down but I felt confident and cocked an eyebrow at him.

"F-fuck off Half and Half." His eyes seemed glossy and his voice cracked. This isn't Bakugou but whatever.

"Please save him Todoroki." I could hear him whisper quietly. I don't think it was meant for me to hear. If I wasn't paying attention, I wouldn't have heard it. I began to rush a bit faster, save who?

As I opened the door, everything seemed to stop. Midoriya was on the edge of the building, preparing to jump.

"M-Midoriya, what are you doing? Stop. Get off of there right now. You can't do this, you have so much to live for," I managed to choke out.

He turned around with tears streaming down his face and gave me a weak smile. I ran behind him and pulled him off the ledge and into my arms. He only began to sob harder. I pet him softly with my left hand, making it a comforting warm temperature.

"T-Todoroki p-please let m-m-me d-do this. I j-just want t-to m-make him h-ha-happy."

"Who happy Midoriya? No one would be happy if you killed yourself, you know that." I whispered quietly.

He buried his face into my chest while choking on this one word, "Kacchan."

As many times as the class had heard Katsuki tell Midoriya to kill himself, everyone could tell that he never meant it. They were both so oblivious; Katsuki lacking to realize how big his soft spot for Midoriya is and Midoriya lacking to realize there even is a soft spot for himself. Katsuki covers his soft spot for Midoriya with pain and hatred so Midoriya can only hear the words being thrown his way.

"He won't be happy if you die, I know that for a fact."

He looked up and me and tilted his head. I nodded to assure him. Midoriya looked down and turned red, as always.

"I love him Todoroki. I love him with all my heart."

I knew that already. It was subtle but if you noticed, then it'd become more obvious along the way. When I first noticed, if I blinked I would have missed it. It was our first year in U.A. and Midoriya was writing something in his notebook, typical right? But every time Bakugou would say something to him, he would turn bright red and flip to the back cover of his book and write something before returning to his notes. I watched it happen every single day. It made me smile. Sometimes you can catch Midoriya staring at the back of Katsuki's head. He would reach his hand up to touch his hair then snap out of his daze and blush while looking down. The boy was in love.

"Hey Midoriya."

"Yes Shoucchan?"

"Why don't you go and try to find your mate?"

"I'm not an alpha." he responded quietly.

I understood but I would be lying if I said that I wasn't shocked by this. He was so strong and his quirk would seem to be linked to alpha blood. I guess he was a beta.

"Well, let's wait for your mate together okay?"

He nodded and got up from my embrace and stood over the ledge, looking over towards to city. I stood next to him and admired the view. It was beautiful truly. We stood in comfortable silence while we waited for his person to come.

"Shoucchan? Do you know what it's like to love someone who doesn't love you?"

My head dropped and I chuckled softly. I nodded. It was funny talking about something like this to Midoriya of all people.

"Yeah, it was last year. I loved this person with all my heart, I would hope and pray to God everyday that he would be my mate. He was so beautiful and kind. He had my heart entirely."

"Oh... what happened?"

"Well, he loved someone else. You can't really change someone else's heart. Trust me I tried. It hurt to watch him fall in love with another person so hard. I never had a chance you know? So I moved on, and now I just support him from a distance. I rather him be happy with someone else than content with me."

I looked up at him and he had tears in his eyes, "I'm so sorry Shoucchan! You're such a catch and anyone would be so lucky to have you. That guy was silly for not loving you!"

Silly Midoriya, the guy was you.

"Oh and you're gay? I had no idea!" he smiled at me.

"No, I'm bisexual heh."

I looked at my phone and it was getting pretty late. Everyone had begun to leave. We had been waiting for maybe an hour and a half by now. He was getting visibly tired and started to lean into me. His face was filled with pain and sorrow as all his hope slowly began to pull away from him.

"Do you think I'm mateless?" he looked up at me.

Mateless? That was a term for people that the universe saw that being alone was the best path for happiness. It was either they were planned to be that way, or they were rejected by their mate.

"No, there's someone made for everyone."

Midoriya began to cry softly once more. I have no idea why his mate hasn't come yet or if they were even here. Why wouldn't they come? What was stopping them? A bunch of questions were running through my mind until he broke the silence with a small whisper.

"Thank you Shoucchan for staying, but can I be alone right now?"

I nodded. I gave him a warm embrace and kissed him on the cheek to wish him good luck. He blushed furiously but didn't remove his eyes from the view. I began to walk out but I swear I could feel a pair of eyes glaring at me. But that was probably just my imagination.

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1188 words!! it's kinda a cute short chapter in my baby shoucchan's pov :)) i hope you enjoyed this chapter!

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