Finding Me (Todoroki x Reader)

Chapter 103

The few days after that night, I hadn't heard a word form Fat Gum or Amajiki. Neither had Kirishima, the both of us being left in the dark about our work study. At first I wondered if it had something to do with our performances that night. Had we not done enough? Had we disappointed Fat Gum and he'd changed his mind? It seemed as though Amajiki's anxiety rubbed off on me.

However, Kirishima had been a real hero that night; so there should've been no reason for him to be sent packing. So as much as I believed I wasn't good enough, I didn't think it to be the reason we hadn't been getting called in. In fact, none of the other work study students - Midoriya, Tsu and Ochaco - had been called in, either.

In fact, we were all sitting at our breakfast tables alongside the rest of our classmates - just like any other day. They might not have shown it like Kirihsima did, but the others were angsty about the silence on work studies. I didn't know much about their personal experiences, but from the little things I heard, they were having great times, too.

No, this sudden silence wasn't from disinterest in us. Something else was behind it all, but what? My mind flashed back to the night Kirishima fought the blade villains and how Amajiki had been...

"I'm not hurt; but my quirk won't activate!"

A drug that could take away a person's quirk? Could that be...

"Y/N...Y/N...Y/N!"

"Eh?!" I exclaimed, jumping in my seat at the sudden voice. "Oh. Sorry about that, Ochaco. Guess I'm still a little tired from the past few days."

"You okay, L/N?" Midoriya asked, placing his bowl in the table. "That's the fifth time this morning you've spaced out on us. Are you sick?"

"No no no! I'm not sick. I said I was tired, that's all."

A familiar, reassuring presence sat down beside me, a wave of comfort washing over me as I turned to face Shoto.

"Midoriya's right, Y/N," he said, looking at me up and down. "You look awful."

I sweat-dropped, flopping onto the table. "Wow. Way to make a girl feel beautiful, Sho."

"I-I'm sorry. That came out wrong. I just meant that-"

"It's okay, Sho." Peaking up from my folded arms, I flashed him a tired smile before sitting back up to continue eating. "It's true, though: I probably look like a complete mess. I should probably go have another shower before school starts."

Before I could leave the table, though, a firm grip encircled my wrist, pulling me to a stop.

"Sit," Shoto said, pulling on my wrist. "What's on your mind?"

"I told you that it's nothing, Sho..." I looked from my icy-hot boyfriend to see Midoriya, Ochaco, Iida and Tsu all looking up at me, worried gazes in their eyes. They were all staring at me so intensely. It was kind of scary. I released a sigh before returning my butt to my seat, feeling suddenly very deflated. "Guess there's no escaping the interrogation, huh?"

"We just want to know if you're all right, L/N," Iida said, his usually strict tone unable to be heard. "Is it the work study? Are you not enjoying it?"

That caught me by surprise. "Oh no, that's not it at all, Iida! No, Fat Gum's Agency is incredible, and I'm learning so many new things from him and Amajiki everyday. Not to mention I get to do it alongside a classmate of mine. I'm really grateful I get to do my work study there. Honestly!"

"Ribbit. Then what's the problem?" Tsu asked. "If you're loving it so much, then why do you look so... burdened?"

As much as people praised me for being able to read people so easily, Tsu was more than capable of doing the same - and she didn't even have a quirk that helped her to do that. She just did it, and she was right every damn time. I remained silent for a moment longer, my E/C eyes locked with her emerald green ones. Should I tell her? Tell them? Surely Midoriya and the girls would understand what I'm going through.