| Safe From Each Other |

Who Knows What Could Happen

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Only 3rd P.O.V.

3rd P.O.V.

Midoriya's mind was entangled with too many thoughts in his mind space. Too many questions, worries, and fears. 'What would both of them think of him? How did Shigaraki become his soulmate? Does he pretty much like three guys? Did the kids with Todoroki mean something?'

Everything was black but his head had an overwhelming pain. Like something was squeezing it in order to keep a good grip on him. He started crying, slowly falling to the grown. Nothing was visible but tears. Old tricks wouldn't work for this headache. Pain was all he could think of.

Suddenly he was being shaken by somebody. He finally opened his eyes and was met with very worried bright red eyes. Wait. Scratch that. They were actually gray and a beautiful blue. "T-Todoroki-kun?" There was a second of the standing boy inspecting the other, when he quickly hugged him. "A-oof-." Midoriya was quickly pushed down to the bed by weight and hugged tightly.

During the many moments of silence there were few almost silent sniffles. Until Todoroki suddenly got up wiping his wet face with his hand and part of his sleeve. "I-I'm sorry Midoriya. I didn't mean to lose my composure in front of you. You just made me really worried." He said, maintaining his monotone voice only after his first sentence and looking straight at Midoriya.

"It's ok Todoroki-kun. Everyone has to cry, right?" Midoriya replied, sitting up to face Todoroki better. Todoroki's response was only a small hum and a nod. "I will take my leave now. Oh, and school is starting in," he dug in his pocket to take out his phone and check the time. "About 45 minutes. I'll see you during school."

Before Midoriya could say anything Todoroki was already opening his door ready to step out into the bright hallway, lit up with the morning light. "H-hey! Can we talk later?" Midoriya called out, desperate for some confirmation about last night. Todoroki only stopped at the doorway unable to look Midoriya in the eye for he knew what he wanted to talk about. "Sure, Midoriya." And before any other sound was made he slipped out the door and shut it quietly behind him.

Time skip

It was lunchtime once again. Last time a few people had some salty feelings. Today was the same. Bakugo and Todoroki were stuck on house arrest. Supervised that is. During lunch, though, Midoriya came to eat with Todoroki in order to talk about something that's been hovering over his chest for a while.

It started off simple. All they were doing was sitting across from each other eating peacefully. "Todoroki?" Midoriya asked breaking the almost awkward silence. The other boy only glanced at him for a moment before setting down his half-eaten piece of food. Then turning his full attention to Midoriya he awaited his next words. "I- wanted to talk about the k-. Thing that happened last night."

"It's ok Midoriya. I know you were only confused. The kiss means as much to me as it does you." He said, looking away after a few words. "Todoroki a kiss isn't just nothing! It could mean many things! Not just being confused!" Midoriya slightly complained, wanting to clear his feelings up more. "Was it something other than confusion?" Todoroki asked in response, turning his head to look back at Midoriya, and tilting it a bit.

"W-well not really?" Said Midoriya in a shy unknowing voice. "You still seem confused. Maybe you should write down feelings. It might help. I have a spare notebook in my dorm if you'd like me to grab it." He said still looking at Midoriya with his amazing poker face. "S-sure. I'll wait here." He said, looking back at Todoroki to see him nod and get up to take long strides to his room.

Only a couple of minutes had passed, but even so Midoriya felt so anxious to get up and find him. Thinking about what he should choose he heard a very familiar grain like voice behind him. "Do you two kissed huh?"

Immediately his body tensed from memory until realizing it didn't have to be afraid. "Kacchan..." Midoriya said, not bothering to turn and look at him. He doesn't deserve to be looked at. "I know you're mad at me. I'm also mad at you. For a reason I just said." He said, leaning on the wall next to him and crossing his arms.

"I thought our breakup was self-explanatory after you attacked my best friend. Besides, you must've been fighting about the soulmate situation." The smaller boy said, turning to look at the ash blonde behind him. "I know what I did was... a little unnecessary," "A little!?" "Fine it was unnecessary! All I wanted to say is... I hope he treats you better Izuku..."

The name that came with that grainy voice sparked a huge explosion in Midoriya's heart, causing his cheeks to heat up, head to turn away, and his heart to skip a beat. All those feelings made him smile a bit. Remembering nice memories from their relationship. It wasn't, and will never be, perfect. "Goodbye Katsuki." The dark green haired boy said, staring out of the closest window.

As if Katsuki would let him go that easily. This wasn't over, and deep down they both knew it. It was too early to end. However, some kind of string was broken between them. Something that couldn't be fixed. Little did they know, hate will be drenched in those strings.

Afterwards, Bakugo left and Todoroki returned to hand Midoriya a teal notebook, completely unused. Days went by the same. Nothing special other than Todoroki and Bakugo leaving house arrest. Midoriya continued writing about feelings. Well, everything actually.

He would write about his fear of the future. Fear of the future. His feelings to Todoroki and Shigaraki. He also texted Shigaraki a couple of times. Not letting him know that he knows of course. He talked a lot about the situation and how he's still confused on how he got in it.

Midoriya then sets the notebook down with his other notes. As to make sure it doesn't look too suspicious. 'Let's just hope no one finds this.' Who knows what could happen. To any of us.

To be continued
Word count: 1,120
Hello! Thank you for reading this chapter! Also, I noticed that @DabisBlueFlames22 added my story to their favorite stories! 😫❤️Thank youuu! So kind 🙏🏽. Anyways I've updated my schedule and it's now located in my bio if you'd like to check that out! The next chapter might or might not be really sad- 😉
Edit: so I think something is happening with this book so I'm trying to figure it out.