When I'm With Them, I'm Free

(Todoroki x Reader)

In which Shoto Todoroki is in love with the useless conversations you start, but he doesn't recognize the signs until they punch him in his face.

And whereupon you deny your own trivial feelings until death begs to stare right through you.

Or,

You are just a fearful teenager with a past made of silence and blood, Shoto is just a teenage boy with feelings almost too big to understand, and you need to grow before you can allow yourself to love and be loved.