Tangents: A Wholesome Shoto Todoroki x reader

Chapter 6: Homework

You reached your dorm and swung your bag under your bed. You left your candle burning for too long so the scent of cinnamon overflowed the room. "A nice shower should do the job." You gathered your stuff and headed out.

You have always had a tendency to deny and reject your own feelings so this whole Todoroki situation was seriously getting to you. You decided to hopefully be able to sleep on it.

You returned to your dorm and noticed a text from Deku.

Best broccoli boi
hey i noticed you looked off, talk to me

You
I knew it wouldn't take long for you to text me
I just can't seem to stop thinking about the whole Shoto ordeal

Beat broccoli boi
It sounds like u like him

You
Don't even
I barely know him

Best broccoli boi
Y/N you know yourself, I don't think you need me to tell you what you be doing sometimes. You believe that as long as you don't say stuff out loud they won't come true

You
You can stop calling me out now
And no I don't need you to tell me

Best broccoli boi
At least you know
Imma go, we about to play some uno, wanna play too?

You
No I have to study

Best broccoli boi
Alrighty goodnight then ^ ^

You
Gn <3 (￣^￣)
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You wanted to study a bit since you had a test on Monday but could hear your friends playing a very aggressive Uno match. You were surprised to hear Bakugo since it's past 8. "Kirishima must have gotten on his knees and begged him to stay or something. I'll just wait until their done and study later."

You killed some time and painted your nails and catched up on your favorite Webtoon. You kept getting distracted by Midoriya's words to you. You knew he was right and that bothered you even more.

"HELL YEAH PICK UP TWO ICY HOT!"

"Kacchan there's no need for all of this"

"SHUT UP DEKU!"

Bakugo was known for being competitive and passionate about things that have no need to be competitive and passionate about. As long as he didn't flip the table or kill someone it was all good.

About an hour and a half passed and it seemed everyone went back to their rooms, so you decided to make your way to the kitchen to study a bit.

Standing at the entrance of the kitchen you noticed someone in front of the kitchen island.

"Who?...fuck." Your luck couldn't get any worse at this point. "Todoroki?"

"Hmm?" He said looking up from eating his soba with one hand and reading his manga with the other. He was wearing his pjs, a light blue sweater and grey sweatpants.

"I thought you would be sleep like everyone else."

"I'm not the only one here."

You looked around in confusion and finally noticed Mineta and Denki knocked out on the couch and it clicked to you that they were the last ones playing and neither one won so everyone left, they still kept going though. There were cards everywhere.

"Oh. Well I'm just here to study a bit for Monday's test. Are you enjoying your food?"

"Uhm"

"Uuh alright, I'll leave you to it then."

You opened your book, it was math and you instantly felt like passing away. Math isn't your thing, never was. "Shit"

He raised an eyebrow at you but let you do your thing.

You were visibly confused, and possibly at verge of crying. He noticed but didn't want to be intrusive.

"Maybe I should ask him for help. Everyone else is asleep so I don't have much of a choice here" you thought knowing asking him for help won't do you any good but that it also applies to not asking for help at all. He has proven to be both academically and physically strong so this shouldn't be an issue for him.

"Hey uh could you help me with this?"

"Hm?"

"It's math and I don't really get it."

He got up and put his food away and came to sit next to you. You felt your heart skip a beat or two, probably more than that.

"Let me see" You passed him the book and he took a few seconds to take it all in. He looked around looking for a pencil, you both reach out for it and you can already guess how that went.

"My bad, here."

He shook his head and took it. "It's simple, just use this equation and plug in the corresponding variables."

You realized you didn't even have that on your notes. "Oh thank you. I think I understand." You started to work on it with your shaky hand, there was no way he didn't notice your nerves but you pretended to not notice it yourself.

He stayed seating next to you and you could just assume it was to help you again if needed. He reached for his manga again while you worked.

"Ok I think I got it, can you check?"

He put down his book and looked at your work. "It's correct. Good job" he gave back your work and made an unusual amount of eye contact with you. You reached for your book without breaking eye contact.

"Uh thanks" you said with a tiny smile. You continued to study and do practice problems, occasionally asking him to help you. He didn't go back to his seat for the rest of your study session but only got up to get his soba back.

"Do you enjoy my company or something?" You asked jokingly.

"Perhaps"

His answer took you by surprise since you expected him to be blunt and say something like 'no, I'm just helping you'.

"Oh, I see." You said looking away slightly embarrassed.

You finished your work and got your stuff together. "Thanks for helping me, I really appreciate it."

"It's my pleasure."

Both of you said your goodbyes and went your separate ways. Denki and Mineta were still on the couch and you just hope their noisy asses didn't wake up and see anything that happened. Denki has an intuition for this type of things.

You reached your room wondering what just actually went down. "He is being oddly friendly. Maybe he also... nah there's no way. He is probably just being as equally nice as I'm trying to convince myself that I am too."

You went to sleep hoping it will help clear your head, but you knew this would be bugging you for a while.

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This is my longest chapter so far and I'm slowly getting more comfortable with the story so expect longer chapters, unless I'm not feeling it.