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↳ chapter 29

I shoveled mouthfuls of food into my mouth. Literally anything tasted good with I was this hungry. After dinner, all of us girls went to the hot springs. It felt, weird, seeing all of us in just a towel, gossiping about things. I had never done this before, it was just so weird.

"So, does anyone here like any of the boys?" Ashido brought up the topic.

I cringed. Honestly, I expected this to come up, but not so soon. All of them turned to me. Ever since Ochaco sent that image, I expected myself to be shipped with Shoto. The girls eyes me like hawks. I didn't know what to say, I didn't know if I liked him that way. I've never even been in a relationship before, so I didn't know how to go about feeling. I sighed, opening my mouth the explain the situation to the girls.

"Well... I don't even know if I like him. My heart beats really fast around him, I get slightly jealous when he's around other girls..." I trailed off. The girls were practically squealing, although I had just professed my undying love for Shoto or something.

"You totally like him! And I'm pretty sure he likes you back, even if he doesn't know it. Did you guys see the way that he rested his head on yours after he accepted that you fell asleep in him?" Ashido grinned.

"Yeah! I even have some of the photos of it on my phone, " Ochaco grinned devilishly.

  Holy- since when did they become legitimate demons? All I did was asked for advice. I thought over their words. I... Liked him? No way. There's no way I'd fall for that peppermint bastard. I huffed, denying everything. At one point, Ochaco got fed up with it.

"You like Todoroki, you dumbass!" she shouted, before covering her mouth rapidly.

  My eyes widened. The boys were literally on the other side of the fence, and there was no doubt that Shoto heard that. In my last defense, I hastily denied it loudly enough for the boys to heard.

"Ochaco, are you crazy? I told you, I like him as a friend, " I glared at the girl with a forced grin.

  One of these days, that girl would be the death of me.

••

"You like Todoroki, you dumbass!" Ochaco's voice sounded from the girl's side.

  There was a moment of silence. All the boys stared at Shoto. Shoto froze in shock. Who liked him? What was going on? There was a lot of shuffling and loud denials from the other side, which anyone would easily identify as Sakura. Shoto sighed to himself. She probably didn't even like him like that, and they were probably doing that as a dare. No one would be dumb enough to shout that out loud.

"Ochaco, are you crazy? I told you, I like him as a friend." a muffled voice said from the other side.

  For some reason, his heart sank. He knew that it was too good to be true- wait, what? His thoughts were constantly betraying him nowadays, flooding his head with thoughts of Sakura. Was he mentally ill, or possibly going crazy? He was Todoroki Shoto, the guy who is focused on becoming the number one hero to spite his father. He did not like Sakura like that. She was just a friend. Or so he told himself. However, his emotions were betraying him, stabbing him in the back over and over again.

  Yeah, he was fine with Sakura being a friend. He was okay with that. He was just fine.

••

  I stood in front of Aizawa-sensei and the rest, my hair messed up. Apparently, today, we were improving our quirks. I barely pulled myself out of bed today, groggily trudging towards the training field. We were all split up, the goal today was to overuse our quirks. I wanted to see how fast I could teleport, and apparently, I could teleport 100 times per second. I teleported myself so that my afterimage would be everywhere, nearly splitting myself and creating clones. I continuously teleporting back and forth. Once of the cat ladies stopped me.

"Can you teleport objects? That's so cool! Why don't you try teleporting people's attacks!" the green one asked me.

  I was about to object, until I realized that it wasn't that bad of an idea. I teleported in front of Izuku, and asked him to punch me. He immediately protested, not wanting to injure me, but I persisted, and eventually, he gave in.

"5 percent Detroit smash!" he shouted, punching me. Well, attempting to punch me.

  I, when trying to teleport his hand, which I realized was a horrible idea now, opened up a small portal, which his hand punched through. The only thing was... I opened up the other end of the portal to Shoto, since he was on my mind at that moment. I sheepishly teleported to him and apologized for unintentionally injuring him. How stupid was I? I literally opened up a portal right in front of his face.

"Again, I'm really sorry Shoto!" my after image shouted, going back to practice.

  Well, at least now I knew that my teleportation wasn't limited to myself and objects, but I could also open up portals to teleport people. That was so cool. How the hell did I only discover this now?

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  After an entire day of training, we finally got to rest. And by rest, I meant that we had to cook ourselves. My arms were dying, since when I teleported my last round, I accidentally teleported without a small layer of skin on my arm. It was bleeding like water running from a tap, and if I hadn't bandaged it, I probably would have bled out. Since I didn't change my attire, my clothes were now stained with my own blood.

  Everyone slowly inched away from me seeing the blood on my clothes. I walked over with my food, ready to cook it. Only that the fires weren't lit. I was about to ask Yaoyorozu for a lighter, when Shoto walked over and help to light the fire for me.

"Thanks Shoto!" I beamed.

  And I swore, that the cheeky candy cane boy grinned back at me.