The rest of the day, Shouto couldn’t stop thinking about the messages that Tou-Dabi left. It wasn’t helping the fact that it involved their father nonetheless. Was it bad? Did something happen?...Was he gonna ask him to be a spy? A traitor? A double agent? He can’t do that, he’ll lose all the trust he gained from everyone, and Izuku...he’ll never forgive him.
Taking a deep breathe, Shouto held a the pencil in his hand in a tight grip as he felt a small amount of frost start to form. Ice started to take form around the pencil, causing the tight grip he had to snap it in half ignoring the worried look Yaoyorozu sent his way. Shouto grabbed the two pieces of what was left of his pencil to grab another from inside his bag, dropping the pieces inside to throw them away later. Once he finally found a sharpened pencil in the black hole called bag, there were already a few extra notes that he missed during his search.
“I can share you my notes if you can’t finish them in time.”
“Thank you Yaoyorozu.”
Yaoyorozu gave him one of her warm smiles before returning to focusing on the lesson, Shouto nodding as he did the same to catch up before the class ended. He was half way through the extra notes before the bell rang, signalling the class to start packing, and leave from how Aizawa described it. Shouto put away his notes before a familiar notebook was put on his desk.
“Here’s my notes, give it back when you finish writing the notes, see you tomorrow Todoroki.”
“Thank you, see you tomorrow as well Yaoyorozu.”
Bidding her farewell, Shouto put the notebook in his bag not even noticing Izuku’s presence until a hand dropped on his shoulder. A layer of ice covered his right side, freezing the hand in place as he wedged his body away from the being.
“Sh-Shouto! I-I didn’t mean to scare you, but...can you unfreeze m-my hand?”
“Izuku! I’m so sorry! I didn’t notice you, so I kinda went on instinct when you put your hand on my shoulder.”
“I-It’s fine. I sh-should have told you I was here th-than scaring you like that.”
Putting his bag down, Shouto walked back towards his desk once again to unfreeze Izuku surprised that it was only the arm than half the room. Bringing his left hand up, a small flame was drawn before he started to melt the ice causing it to evaporate than letting the water drip onto the floor. It didn’t take long since it was only his arm, apologizing every few seconds as he continued to be mindful of the clothing as the heat melted and evaporated the ice. Once the ice was gone, Shouto grabbed Izuku’s hand to warm it up as it shook from the coldness.
“I’m sorry Izuku, I shouldn’t have reacted the way I did.”
“It’s fine Shouto, you were just surprised. I would be surprised and frightened as well.”
“Now that you finished unfreezing one of your classmates-”
“Boyfriend.”
“-we need to get going. See you tomorrow in class Midoriya.”
“Bye Aizawa-sensei! Bye Shouto!”
Waving to the retreat form of his crush now lover, Aizawa and Shouto went the other way to pick up Hizashi from the teacher’s lounge. Shouto glanced towards the other’s direction noticing a small patch of fur was poking out from the scarf that hung around the underground pro hero’s neck. When they entered the teacher’s lounge, Hizashi and Midnight were sitting at a table, having a conversation of some sort until Hizashi noticed his lover and temporary child.
“Ready to go home?”
“Yes.”
“See ya tomorrow Nemuri!”
“Bye Yamada! Bye Shouta! Bye Todoroki!”
“Bye Nemuri.”
“Bye Midnight.”
Grabbing some ungraded papers and the keys off the table, together they walked out of UA ignoring the autumn breeze that picked up before dropping once again. Once inside, Fuyu decided to make her appearance by popping her head out from inside the scarf, hopping down into Aizawa’s lap to curl up better than she did in his scarf.
“I think Shadows will like her, she kinda needed some companion since she’s alone while we’re out.”
“We’ll wait and see once we get home.”
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Surprisingly, they got along better than they had expected them to. When they put Shadows and Fuyu together in the living room, they were like yin and yang, but they got along together nonetheless. Shouto took a spot on the couch with Fuyu on his right side, and Shadows on the other, rereading the messages with narrowed eyes before answering.
Shouto
Why can’t you tell me here?XXXXXXXXX
Finally decided to answer me after being left on read for an hour and a half.XXXXXXXXX
I need to see you in person because this is personal.XXXXXXXXX
Can’t have anyone looking through your messages to find this.Shouto
Fine, we’re do you want to meet up at?XXXXXXXXX
Meet me at the park, I’ll be waiting.It seemed suspicious, but the growing curiosity was getting the best of him as he got up to look for Aizawa or Hizashi. When he entered the kitchen, Aizawa was making coffee while Hizashi sat at the table grading a few English papers that they finished in class.
“Can I go out?”
“Go out? Where?”
“To the park, I feel like getting some air, and probably going on a run.”
“Shouto, you know-”
“You can go! Just be back before curfew, or Aizawa will go look for while on his night shift!”
Leaving before Aizawa could tell him anything else, Shouto started his walk to the park using his left side to warm himself a bit as the autumn breeze picked up once more. Thoughts and ideas of how this situation he gotten himself in to might end didn’t seem appealing, but once the park came into view, everything seemed to have disappeared. At the edge of the park, a dark silhouette leaned against the brick wall that surrounded the park waiting for a certain someone. There was something in the back of his head telling him to just turn back, but as soon as he came face and face to the older boy, Shouto knew he couldn’t go back.
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Light In The Darkness
Fanfikce"Mom...I know it's not right, but I can't do it anymore. The children, they're...like him more and more every day. And Shouto...his left side. Sometimes I look at him and hate what I see." Shouto drew closer, just enough for his left side to be seen...