Tododeku One-Shots

Loyaty {F}

Trust was something earned and not freely given. It worked the same as respect. It's how Todoroki saw it anyway. Loyalty, however true Loyalty was something more innate, something that fell alongside the heart of the individual. No hero or civilian was perfect, and no one retained absolute loyalty to everyone, at times tough decisions would be made..

His loyalty, his true loyalty to those he loved, to being a hero was beyond all reason. Beyond every doubt sown into Shouto's heart, about humanity and their loyalty to their own self, or an image to uphold.

His father for one was not one he'd swear had no sense of loyalty, aside from being to his image. Each moment of hope for love and affection from his parent, each semblance of hope, was quickly snatched away by the "Hero" Endeavor, his own father. If the loyalty of a hero could be doubted so easily, what did that mean for the rest of the world.

The last thing he wanted was to doubt the loyalty in the one source of comfort he sought out most. The woman who raised him with the compassion and courage his father failed to teach him, on his search for power. The woman who held him tightly on the couch, encouraging his dreams and everything he felt was impossible before, regardless of his relation to his father, and his quirk. He never wanted to doubt his trust for his mother. Yet, the scalding pain of boiling water on his pale skin, and looking up to see frightened and enraged eyes, made him do just that. He knew she still believed in him, that his mother was there behind the storm of emotions, but it ached.

There were few people he ever thought could even possess such an ability, to try beyond the impossible. To remain as loyal as humanly possible to their cause, their family, friends, and love ones. Even to those who treated him poorly, such a beautiful person was able to hold to that heroic loyalty, to save everyone. Midoriya Izuku was the beautiful individual to strive for just that. A hero that even, in failure had done everything possible to ensure help had arrived.

It wasn't all darkness, as pained as the past held Shouto captive, there was a brightness an array of hope. There was an enlightened future, one that he had been blessed enough to start in high school. Simply looking across the desks in a classroom, with a hand under his chin, his gray and blue eyes couldn't help but hold to the bubbly green haired boy, talking animatedly to himself. Todoroki caught himself smiling at the sight more often than not.

Midoriya not only held the innate ability of loyalty, but inspired it within others, within himself. He sacrificed his own chances at the festival, to be a bigger hero, to save him. Todoroki sought out to be a hero much like All Might, and the hero who held a similar aura. Truly he hadn't thought too far into things at first, but looking back it was incredible. Shouto placed both of his palms flat on the desk in his classroom. He lips curved upwardly, as a light lip up in his eyes.

Midoriya was scribbling wildly into his notebook, muttering to himself, sitting between Uraraka and Tenya who deadpanned a bit. The brunette girl pat at Midoriya's shoulder, but not avail. His writing only continued further, and at a hastened pace, "Did you see the news report last night? It was incredible, all of those heroes working together as one, as though they hadn't planned on it before. They were said to be from completely different districts and yet they worked together near flawlessly, you gotta give it to the professionals. They were so awesome, some of them, however, I hadn't seen before, that power communicating with objects and-" Midoriya muttered on and on, the light in his eyes glowing, and Shoto smiling as he stood behind the hero, listening calmly.

His two best friends seemed to take notice, smiling knowingly at the red-white haired hero, and excusing themselves quickly enough. Midoriya hadn't even so much as looked up from his notes, before he was quickly engulfed by a familiar and comforting warmth. The red-white haired male walked himself, before standing right before Izuku's desk.