𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼𝑐𝑒 [𝑇𝑜𝑑𝑜𝐷𝑒𝑘𝑢/𝐷𝑒𝑘𝑢𝑇𝑜𝑑𝑜]

Chapter 14 - Obligations and truth

Stone cold, stone cold
you see me standing, but I'm dying on the floor;
stone cold, stone cold
maybe if I don't cry, I won't feel anymore...
(Stone Cold - Demi Lovato)

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Chapter 14 - 'Obligations and truth'

Day 56

Funny how I thought I wouldn't see my old man for a long time thanks to the dorm system, but I was sitting next to him at our home's dining table. For some odd reason Endeavor required me home for dinner and Mr Aizawa obliged to his stupid request. Natsuo was home too for once and the only thing he said to me from the moment I walked into that house was just a small greeting. Nothing else. On the other hand, Fuyumi gave me a lot of attention, more than she usually did and I didn't like that at all.

"Make sure to be home as soon as classes end tomorrow, your teacher already know you'll come home" - my old man said.

"I'll try but I might stop to train with my classmates for a bit" - I said not even bothering to look at him. Like hell I was going to rush home to be forced into a day of training or whatever he was planning. I was going to hide at Midoriya's or Yaoyoruzo's room till dinner time and make up some kind of excuse to not come home.

"It's an order Shōto, not a request" - he said putting his chopstick down and looking at me. I noticed how Fuyumi tensed on the other side of the table clearly uncomfortable. That's when it clicked, she clearly knew what was about to happen more than I did as by the way she showered me in attention it was going to be something unpleasing.

"What's wrong with training with my classmates now? It helps me understand how other moves, it's useful and I thought we agreed on that" - I spat annoyed. Yeah, playing video games and laying in bed talking might not have been useful for my training but it was surely helping me feeling better about my shitty life.

"You won't train tomorrow. You are going to meet Miyako Nishimura" - he stated as a matter of facts.

"And who that might be?"

"Miyako is a girl of a very powerful and respected family. You are going to date and, if it works well, eventually marry her."

I dropped my chopstick and glared at him as a cold shiver run down my spine. There was no way I was going to date that bitch.

No one spoke a word. Fuyumi sat in silence looking down at her food and Natsuo, who almost seemed like he wasn't even there most of dinner, scoffed and kept eating his pork.

"I won't date anyone!" - I said raising my voice.

"You are going to and that's final!" - he boomed slamming his fist on the table making Fuyumi flinch.

I threw my plate across the room angrily glaring at him. I was not going to do as he pleased, not this time. He could train me till exhaustion and control my friendships, he could have ruined my childhood but there was no way in hell he was going to ruin my present or future and force a relationship on me.

"You can control my schedule, my friendship, my school, but there no way I'm letting you arrange a marriage for me!" - I states as a matter of facts getting up on my feet.

His flames grew, he was clearly on edge as he was not used to me talking back like that in front of my siblings. Natsuo stared at the two of us more pissed that dinner was ruined than anything else as Fuyumi's glance shifter between the two of us.

"Shōto please calm down" - she begged me with watering eyes. She was trembling like mom used to do whenever Endeavor was around. It pissed me off how she was terrified of him, but my anger didn't last long as it quickly turned into sadness once I realized she was scared of me as much as she was scared about him if not even more. I noticed how the temperature of the room had dropped and that there was ice around my feet, meaning my emotions had the best on me and I lost control of my ice quirk without even noticing.