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"Hey, where's Todoroki?" Midoriya asked looking around the classroom. The day classes had yet to start, however class 1-A's most attractive boy wasn't around.
"Who gives a fuck about that half-half bastard?" Bakugou griped, but he was largely ignored.
"Didn't you guys seem him for breakfast?" Jirou asked as she unplugged her headphones.
"I don't think so? I'm usually the last one out, but he wasn't there," Kaminari responded. "No wonder I got an extra egg."
"Dude, you ate his breakfast?"
"Not cool!"
"Bro!"
"I didn't know!" Kaminari defended himself.
"Kaminari's thieving habits aside--"
"Hey!"
"--we need to go back to the main issue, where's Todoroki?" Yaoyorozu finished. Sero raised a hand up.
"I don't know if it helps, but when I passed by his room frost seemed to be coming out?" Alarms blared in everyone's mind. Yaoyorozu however was the first to act and quickly took care of the situation.
"I'll check out Todoroki. Iida, could you please compile the day's notes?"
"Got it!" He saluted.
"Jirou, can you tell Aizawa-sensei I'll be out for a while?" Her best friend nodded before Yaoyorozu stood up and briskly walked out of the classroom.
"Was it me, or did she seem a little worried?" Tokoyami muttered.
"Dunno, but she's been different since the midterms against the sanseis, ribbit" Asui noted.
-PLUS ULTRA!-
Yaoyorozu felt her mind begin to fray. Her nervous habit of playing with her hair came into being as she twisted a long strand around her finger.
He should be fine, probably just didn’t want to show. Yaoyorozu thought as she went up the stairs. Eventually she reached the fifth floor. She felt a sudden chill run up her spine and wrapped her arms around herself. However it wasn’t her nerves which caused the chill, rather it seemed that the fifth floor of the dorms had become frosted over.
Teeth chattering, she Yaoyorozu saw that the origin of the deep chill came from one Todoroki Shouto’s room. A constant stream of chilled air blowing in from the space between the floor and the door.
“T-Todoroki?” She knocked on the door to his room. She felt her fingertips begin to freeze over, and used her quirk to make herself some wool mittens. She knocked on the door again. “Todoroki?” No response. Tentatively, she went to touch the doorknob but recoiled in a hiss when her hand touched it. It was steaming hot, and now that she noticed it, the doorknob was warm enough that it was causing its surrounding area to steam; the cold and warmth combatting each other.
Steeling her nerves, Yaoyorozu knew what she had to do. Making a skeleton key as well as an oven mit, she unlocked the door. The moment she did so, a large outdraft of hot hair shot it open and she jumped back to avoid being hit.
The surge of heat caused the fifth floor to become a sauna now, perspiration staining Yaoyorozu face before she wiped her brow. Her eyes spotted Todoroki, the boy breathing hard with his eyes closed in the center of his room. Acting on instinct, she rushed forward to him.
“Sorry for the intrusion!” She shouted before sliding to her classmates side. Todoroki made no motion of even realizing she was existing. His eyes were glazed over, and the only way Yaoyorozu could tell he was alive was by the constant but pained breathing he emitted.
Her hand went to his forehead and hissed in pain. She looked at her hand and saw one half was red from scorching heat, and the other was pale from an icy cold. The most curious thing was that it was Todoroki’s left side which caused the freezing cold, and his right caused her burn.
His quirk is reversed! Yaoyorozu realized.
“Mmmm…” Todoroki moaned as he lay on the ground. Gently grasping him. Yaoyorozu moved him into her. She hissed as she felt her legs both burn and freeze just by mere contact of his body. However her mind was already set on what she was going to do.
One hand created an ice pack, and the other hand created a heat pack. Noting which side needed which, she applied them.
“Mom…” Yaoyorozu froze as she heard Todoroki moan. She looked down to see his glazed look at her. “Mom…” His voice sounded so sad, and so alone.
Did she ever help him when he was sick? Yaoyorozu thought in sadness. How many years did he get sick without any comfort from her?
Shaking away her thoughts however, she went back to taking care of Todoroki. The sweltering heat however was starting to get her. Wiping sweat from her brow, she shed off her blazer before making a thermostat and putting it into Todoroki’s mouth. The temperature gauge fluctuates rapidly due to Todoroki’s unique physiology.
This is gonna be a long day…
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Aizawa closed up the morning period without much enthusiasm. He eyed the two seats which were empty, Todoroki and Yaoyorozu. Perhaps his current top two students; Todoroki namely for his instinctual battle ability and Yaoyorozu for her analytical and adaptive battle strategies.
He supposes that checking up on two wouldn’t be Bohemian of him, he is there Homeroom teacher after all.
Making his way through the dorm floors, he noted there was some sort of sheen on the walls and furniture. When he came to the fifth floor, he found that the entire floor wet, as if a janitor had come by.
Minding his step, he soon came to Todoroki’s room. He deduced the cause for the dorms interesting state must be due to him. Opening the door he came upon quite a sight. Both Todoroki and Yaoyorozu were in the room, asleep. Yaoyorozu had shed her blazer and draped it along the heated side of Todoroki, while an ice patch was placed along his chilled half.
Taking quick note of the situation, he deduced that Todoroki’s quirk must’ve been activating on account of some sort of cold or fever. It was fortunate that Yaoyorozu was the one to treat him, her quirk being most adaptive to the boy’s unorthodox physiology.
Closing the door behind him, he thought of what he’d have to report to Recovery Girl about their health. Considering the rather outlandish story which was given to him by his students.
“Yaoyorozu had to leave in order to aid Todoroki!”
“He was banished by his father in order to regain his honor!”
“His sister was seen as a prodigy compared to him, and he found himself unable to beat her!”
“He had to go on journey to capture All-Might!”
Aizawa shook his head. His students were certainly colorful character in an of themselves...