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Noises of the cafeteria were only background noise in todoroki’s mind as he’s trying his hardest to focus on something else other than the headache and the throbbing pain in his skull. Though he is grateful for having the most caring friends anyone could ever ask for. Both Iida and Midoriya offered to get him his lunch (which is typically zaru soba). but he refused, saying he doesn’t have his appetite for it so they both left to get their own leaving him to deal with the annoying noises of all the first year students trapped in one roof.
Maybe he should have left rather than stay for Tokoyami to calm down from his rant with dark shadow since both of them were paired together. It was a mistake and the wrong decision to try to talk to dark shadow to calm him down from his whining and taunting and refusing to listen to tokoyami in the hopes that he might calm down but all it did was give out their location to the worst person possible: Bakugou.
Bakugou came in blasting down the walls of the dark room that they hid in and started yelling that he will be the one to take them down (especially todoroki) and win this exercise to prove to everyone that he is stronger than ‘the half-n-half bastard’ as he says it. Only to end up with Bakugou’s and Tokoyami’s demands to result in angering dark shadow that it snapped and attacked todoroki (who was standing there innocently having done nothing to deserve it) with full force and threw him out the building they were in and into another concert building. Thankfully Aizawa caught todoroki in his arms mid-air as todoroki struggled to get himself from losing conscious while being so vulnerable in a training exercise (and mid-air lets not forget that).
Soon Aizawa placed todoroki on the ground telling him to focus and not loss his consciousness in a calm tone and then he fiercely scolded both tokoyami that he needed to get along with his quirk and bakugou to rather calm the situation down rather than make it worse than it already is (he did it while yelling at their faces with his capture weapon tightening around them).
And now here he is, holding onto his dear life for the day to just end so he could take a nap and allow his mind and body to give into a peaceful slumber. But nothing is working. His head was pounding so hard in ectoplasm’s math class that half of the lesson didn’t reach him. He considered to take notes from Iida (not Midoriya because all is in that notebook of his is ancient scribbles of who knows what but surely not math equations that were on the board) but tokoyami offered his notebook to todoroki as an apology for what happened (saying that darkness shall forbid it from happing again to him) and todoroki gratefully accepted it even though it wasn’t tokoyami’s fault, and todoroki forgave dark shadow too. because for the entire period he kept popping up from behind tokoyami’s back with his head bowed down, and todoroki knew he was feeling sorry for what he did. And it was kind of cute.
Bakugou was no help to the growing headache because whenever he passed by him he would stare at todoroki making him feel extremely uncomfortable, and worsening the pain by saying it wasn’t that hard of a hit (talk about a hypocrite! He didn’t survive when he was thrown into a concert building by all might himself who was slightly holding back on him) though when todoroki reminded him of that bakugou started yelling and blowing few explosion from his overly sweaty hands (or what todoroki thinks is a sweaty hand) which caused Kirishima and kaminari to interfere as todoroki was in no state to handle it. Though he would have appreciated him to apologize since this was his fault in some way that todoroki won’t be able to explain if they asked him why he thinks that. He just feels like bakugou needs to apologize for everything he’s done to tokoyami and dark shadow if not himself.
"Todoroki-san!" Called out a sweet like honey voice from close by. Gosh, he loves that voice, the way it makes him forget about the things his mind was so wrapped up in.
Yaoyorozu
todoroki gazed at her form as she gracefully made her way to the table he was sitting at alone. She held an olive green, a long box of some kind that todoroki’s hazy mind couldn’t make out what it was. She stood across the table from him as she wore a smile full of confidence and…pride?
that's weird. He never has seen her smile pridefully in his way or to him.
"Yaoyorozu." Said todoroki in a hoarse voice (god he sounded just like he felt.! And he sounded horrible if you're wondering!).
"Oh my, you sound so…" terrible? wondered Todoroki sarcastically.
"Worn out!" That might be a little bit better than to hurt his pride in maintaining an indecipherable mask that he perfected. That’s Yaoyorozu for you.
‘You don’t say?’ Thought todoroki of saying but didn’t trust his voice from not uttering a coherent sentence, let alone a single word, so he did what’s best. He nodded his head in agreement.
"I thought of something that might help you!…if you don’t mind, that is?!" She began confidant but hesitated as fast as she began.
Todoroki nodded his head signaling her that he didn’t mind.
"Is that…that you mind?" Asked Yaoyorozu brows frowning in hurt.
Sharply todoroki shook his head left to right signaling that he didn’t mind. Again.
"Oh…ok!" She exclaimed happily as she placed whatever she was holding in her hands on the side of the table, within seconds her features took on a more serious look as she closed her eyes and held her exposed forearm. For only a second todoroki thought he did something to upset her but quickly understood what that stand of hers meant. Within a blink of an eye, she created an elegant white crochet tablecloth and placed it gracefully on the table between them. Then she created a beautiful navy blue porcelain tea set and carefully placed one of the cups in front of her and one in front of todoroki. She opened her eyes to admire her work (in front of todoroki that is. which includes him in what she meant her work). She slowly took the seat that sat their abandoned and sat down on it folding her arms on the table while still holding that prideful smile on her face.
"I thought a tea might help you forget the pain and helps you focus on the lessons a bit more, since…you seemed…struggling. I mean I didn’t tell you that I would! Until now that is! B-but I hope I did the right thing! It’s alright if you didn’t want this! It’s just-just that I thought I might be a bit of help to you since you looked like you needed it!" She ended her awkward speech with a sheepish smile replacing the prideful one.
Todoroki felt grateful for her concern, and yes he was terribly struggling to focus in class that’s why tokoyami offered his notebook in the first place. "Thank you very much, Yaoyorozu. I think you're right. I feel like a cup of tea would really help." Replied todoroki trying his best to sound sincere rather than dead. A really big and bright smile tore itself on the said girl who sat across the table from him.
"Could you…somehow…melt your ice to make…water?" Asked Yaoyorozu, hesitant to outright tell him to use his quirk to create water just like he is able to create glaciers of ice and walls of flames with little to no efforts. And of course, todoroki is dense to understand that she feels embarrassed at how she was able to forget such an important thing at her attempt to help him. But he did create a few chunks of ice in both of their cups then he lifted his left hand to touch the porcelain cups with one finger heating it to melt all the small chunks of ice into simmering water.
"So which kind of tea do you have?" Asked todoroki hoping she brought with her matcha because he would prefer green tea at the moment.
"I brought matcha honey tea! I know you like matcha but I wasn’t able to find the fine matcha tea powder brand that you like so… I brought one that I often use…" yaoyorozu trailed off fidgeting with the long, green box in her hands.
"I don’t mind that." Said todoroki glade for the honey addition since his throat feels like it will crawl out of his mouth and would look nothing like the normal esophagus but a dry tube of flesh, todoroki felt goosebumps form on the back of his neck as he imagined it.
Both of the recommended students to the most prestigious school sat in a comfortable silence enjoying their tea with the other’s aroma.
Yaoyorozu soaking in the scent of todoroki’s expensive cologne that she finds very appealing to her.
Todoroki relishing in the frosted cherry-like smell of yaoyorozu’s perfume
"What do you two think you are doing using your quirks like that?" Asked a tired looking man with the iconic capture weapon as a scarf. Todoroki looked up at his teacher with an indecipherable expression on his face.
"I made tea for todoroki since he had a hard day because of what dark shadow did." Replied yaoyorozu straightening her back, tilting her head up and voice filled with confidence and certainty. Aizawa kept looking between him and yaoyorozu looking torn to either scold them for using their quirks when not needed or to just let it go as if it never happened and not waste his time with rich kids.
"Do you want to join us?" Asked todoroki with a flat tone. Yaoyorozu was caught by surprise at his offer to the hard-shelled man before them (He may not even like tea).
"Sure, whatever." leisurely Aizawa pulled one of the seats on the table and sat down with his black hair swaying. Yaoyorozu quickly and without missing a beat created another same looking porcelain cup and place the tea bag in it and handed it to todoroki.
Todoroki created the same small chunks of ice in the cup and brought his left hand’s finger and placed it on the cup until he got the desired outcome which is semi-simmering water and placed it in front of the oldest between them.
Aizawa picked up the cup to his lips taking a gentle small sip of the hot solution water. It was a little too bitter to his taste buds since he usually drinks sweet juices like jelly but he didn’t complain rather enjoyed the warmth of the water going down his throat. It felt grounding and relieving some of the stress he had from doing his best to train shinsou and getting the approval of the UA faculty to transfer him to the hero course.
Yaoyorozu hadn’t realized it until now that the cafeteria went a little too quiet. She looked up from her staring at todoroki to look around her surroundings. Everyone had their eyes on their table. hushing and murmuring things that can’t reach yaoyorozu’s field of hearing. Possibly confused about the whole tea party thing that’s going on with the UA’s most strict, and freighting teachers, and the son of the number one hero, and the daughter of the yaoyorozu family. She can’t blame them. She most certainly didn’t think she would be able to get todoroki’s approval, nor could she have guessed that the todoroki shouto would invite the Aizawa shouta to drink tea peacefully. Though she doesn’t mind at all.
She would love more chances to get an excuse to see her mentor relax and let go for just a little bit. More opportunities to be around her crush and get to talk to him and feel the temperature difference of his body caused by his quirk that she finds it to be so much more interesting than others.
She would rather have more tea evenings with her mentor and crush peacefully.