Midori the Villain

Fan Service

Quirk marriages... of all the things she expected Todoroki to say she didn't expect anything like this. She stayed silent listening to the story of his family; how his father was the hero Endeavor, forever second to All Might and completely bitter about it. How that bitterness had driven the Hellfire Hero into forcing Todoroki's mother into marriage to produce the "perfect" heir. How that that insane obsession for perfection drove his mother insane, and turned her into a broken woman.

"That's despicable..." Izumi narrowed her eyes. She clenched her fists at her side. In so many ways the Endeavor that Todoroki was describing reminded her too much of her Sensei. He was a man obsessed with power using and abusing others to further his goals. "How is he even allowed to call himself a hero with a mindset like that?"

"I've asked myself that question for years." Todoroki shut his eyes. "All the memories I have of my mother are of her crying. That man made life so miserable to the point she couldn't even stand looking at me. She called my left side unbearable..." he held his scar gritting his teeth. "Then poured boiling water on my face."

Izumi's breath caught at this. It wasn't just the words that shocked her, but the look on his face when he did so. She always considered Todoroki to be the handsomest guy she'd ever met. He was naturally smooth, and charming without being overbearing and arrogant with it. His cool demeanor gave him such a mysterious vibe...

...but there was no cool demeanor now. Something changed over the last couple days that unleashed the beast inside Todoroki. He was angry, bitter, rebellious... and broken.

Izumi had a soft spot for broken souls. She could relate to them, felt the desperate need to comfort and mend them. She wanted to save him.

"I never really planned to tell you any of this." he admitted lowering his hand to his side. "After you rejected my feelings I didn't think you had any right to know what lay inside my heart... but as I thought you've still got your claws dug into me, and it needs to stop."

"Todoroki-kun..." sympathy in her eyes Izumi stepped towards him, her hands held out to cup his face. He flinched back, smacking her hands down, and stumbling til his back met the wall.

"No! Don't touch me! Midoriya I said stop!" She trapped him between her an the wall, her petite body pressed into his, her ear laying over his heart to hear the loud thumping beats of it. Since he wouldn't let her touch his face she wrapped her arms around him in a hug and just listened to that fast unsteady heartbeat.

"Listen to that..." she said on a soft sigh. "It's so relaxing..."

"What are you talking about?" He went beat red and grabbed her shoulders. "Get off me, Midoriya."

"Here..." She grabbed his hands and placed them over her heart, his body tensed up as they brush against the soft swell of her breast. "Feel it? Isn't it soothing to know?"

"To know what?" He stammered but his hand lay flat over the heart not sure what else to do with it.

"That even a damaged and broken hearts can keep beating." Her eyes got a mischievous glint. "We're damaged souls, Todoroki-kun. A couple of kids with tragic pasts fighting for our goals. We've been used, abused, and left shattered at the feet of those who stomped all over us trying to tear us down... but we're still here. We're alive. We're damaged, but alive."

"Midoriya..." he whispered her name, saw the glint and felt the sudden urge to pull her closer to him.

"I know what it's like, Todoroki-kun." She told him with pure sympathy. "I know what it's like to be molded and used like a tool. I had a leash around my neck that was so tight I could barely breathe. I didn't even know it existed until I snapped that leash clean off me. Now I'm free... I'm making my own choices, living my own life, and becoming my own person. That's what you want, isn't it? You want to become your own hero and not what your father deems you to be?"