Purple Midnight (TodoBakuDeku AU) ✔️

~*Fourth Chapter*~

*A few weeks later + Major Cussing Warning*

"Mom?!" Shoto whisper shouted at the frosty-haired woman kneeling at his bedside. Quickly shushing him, Shoto's mother raised her pointer finger and pressed it against her lips as she made a hushing sound.

"Hi honey. I...wasn't able to be there for your first day, so I decided to sneak out and drive you to school today. You just have to get ready quickly because your father will be up soon, and we don't want him to find out I did this, now do we?" A mischievous smirk lifted up the edges of her mouth as she tugged on his arm, signalling for him to get up.

Sighing, and resisting the strong urge to smirk back at his troublesome parent, Shoto quietly climbed out of bed, and waved as Rei Todoroki, his rather cheeky mother, left his room.

'That woman...I swear,' he thought, grabbing a scarlet hoodie with the word, 'Suffer' in big black letters scrawled across the front, black jeans, and red sneakers with black laces, and throwing it all on.

Shoto sneakily made his way from his room with his backpack on his back and down the grand staircase that led from the second floor, where most of the bedrooms were located in his gigantic house, and down to the first, which was where the huge family room, pristine, thousand dollar kitchen, and pool room were.

Rei was standing near the front door in a long, tan coat, a white turtleneck, jeans, and gray boots; way different from the hospital clothes that Shoto last saw her in.

Going up to her and putting his hand on top of hers once it was placed on the handle of the front door, Shoto stopped and started to say,

"Wait mom, before we go, I just want - no, I need to know - how and why did you get out of the facility?"

Rei sighed as she looked at her son, her beautiful, grown up son, and only thought of what she had to say next for a split second.

"You already know why. For you, of course. And you don't need to know how, all that matters is that I'm here...and that I'm sorry I wasn't here sooner." She smiled as her eyes became glassy, memories before the accident flooding her mind and reminding her why she was still alive and breathing. Why she even existed in the first place.

Taken aback by her answer, Shoto stepped back slightly, and looked his mother up and down. He reached up with his right hand and touched the scar that covered his left eye as he stared at her, his own eyes moistening.

Rei slowly walked up to her son, and touched the same red mark that he was and kissed his forehead, resting her face on the red half of Shoto's hair.

The both of them stayed like that, Shoto having no clue as to what he was supposed to do, and Rei just secretly wishing that they could stay like that forever, before the white-haired woman pulled out of their semi-embrace first and went back up to the front door.

"I don't blame you for the first few years that you hated me when you came to visit. In fact, I don't even understand why you don't hate me now. But I'm not going to question your feelings, especially if it means I get to be selfish by hoping that you continue to not hate me for a while," she said, trying to be quiet as she opened the door.

She looked back up at Shoto, and smiled even wider than he had ever seen her smile, and said,

"I love you, Shoto."

Becoming even more stunned that the parent that was supposed to resent him because of his potential, had just confessed her positive feelings for him, Shoto's mouth fell open a bit, his gaping not fazing his mother by the slightest.

"I'll be waiting in the car. We have plenty of time to get there, sweety. So take as much time as you need," said Rei as nodded her head slightly, closing the door behind her and walking out to the car that awaited her out front.