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This day was objectively going to be an ordinary Saturday for Shouto, he sadly wasn’t able to visit his mother as he usually does on Saturdays knowing that she had an important session scheduled today according to Fuymui and he would rather not interfere with that. So he planned to stay at the dorms, finish his homework and maybe do some sparring if any of his friends were up for it (and they always were up for it).
So when he walked down to the common room and found the self-proclaimed Bakusquad making another scene in the middle of the living area with Kaminari and Ashido trying their best to rile Bakugo up for their own amusement and the poor bastard falling for it again while Kirishima bless his soul was trying to hold him back from bringing down the building over everyone’s head with Sero filming the entire commission from the background, he didn’t spare them more than three seconds of his time as he headed into the kitchen.
The first thing he noticed when he walked into the kitchen was Izuku’s curls bouncing as he moved around to take the bowl that Tsu handed him, and Shouto had to stop for a moment and appreciate the life he has now and the friends he very much adored.
The sight of Uraraka giggling as Aoyoma lectured Tsu about her choice of dairy products and cheese brands while she looked at him with all the interest she can gather at 8 in the morning, Shinsou and Tokayami by the coffee machine seriously debating the amount of caffeine they can consume in less than a day before suffering from some serious consciousness and Iida rather passionately showing Yoamomo how to use a potato peeler as she stared at him like he was giving her the secrets of the universe or something just as dramatic.
And then he was noticed even though he didn’t make a sound and Izuku turned to face him with one of his signature sunshine smiles (and if that smile wasn’t so blindingly beautiful Shouto might have felt a little wasteful at the loss of the chance to admire Izuku’s broad shoulders and his back muscles that were hugged just a little too tightly by yet another t-shirt that he clearly overgrown)
“Hey Shouto-kun, good morning when did you get here?”
“Good morning Izuku, I just woke up”
And just like that most of them noticed him and a series of morning greetings came his way (Aoyama clearly was still too invested in listing his favorite brands of French cheeses to notice).
“Excuse my intrusion Todoroki-kun but isn’t it unusual for you to still be at the dorms around this time on Saturday?” Iida said as he put the used knife in the sink.
“Yeah you are never around on Saturday mornings, kero”
“Yeah I usually go visit my mom around this time but she is busy this week” he said as he headed to stand by Izuku in front of the stove.
The answer seemed to satisfy them as a series of agreements came his way and everyone moved back to their own conversations.
Well not everyone since Izuku turned to him, a hand still holding the pan on the stove and a wooden spoon held in the other “ what are your plans for today then shouto-kun, I mean if you are mostly free all morning and you are already up you must have something in mind?”
“Well I don’t have anything planned actually, I figured I’d just finish my homework and maybe see if someone is up for some sparring?”
Izuku’s eyes lit up a bit “well if you don’t have anything to do a bunch of us started doing group training sessions every Saturday, we would just split into teams and fight, quirks are allowed but mostly we don’t use them, we didn’t get a chance to tell you because you were never around this time of the week but now that you are here maybe you can join us, if you want to I mean no pressure” he scratched the back of his head as he finished the very fast rant in one breath with a nervous chuckle.
“I would love to join you Izuku it’s ok I have nothing else to do anyway”
A soft smile spread on his lips as he looked at him and shouto couldn’t help the way his heart skipped a beat at the sight of that smile that his best friend spared for only him and he loved so so much.
“That’s great, well we usually meet up at gym beta for this, and we start in around two hours I think, right Iida-kun?”
Iida, who took a few seconds to realize the question is directed at him simply answered with “oh yes Midoriya-kun I informed everyone that we will start at 10”
“Right so you can meet up with everyone there? I’m usually there a bit early finishing up my morning workout routine but everyone will be there on time”
Izuku looked back at him with a glint of excitement in his eyes.
“Sure I’ll be there, but umm Izuku who exactly shows up to this training sessions?”
“Oh everyone who wants to come is welcomed, we don’t keep track of who’s there usually, we even have a few people from class B occasionally joining us”
“Oh that’s good, it sounds fun”
“It is usually but I’m sure it’s going to be….Umm much much better now that you are joining us, you will just have to show up and see how fun it really is for yourself” his eyes scanned all of shouto’s body almost nervously before he smiled and winked at him ( oh my god Izuku actually winked at him Shouto won’t recover from this anytime soon) as he turned around taking his recently plated food and hummed a “ see you there shouto-kun” before leaving the kitchen and shouto there with his face glowing red and smoke coming out of his left side.
He could hear someone yelping in the background and an “oh shit todoroki is smoking again, danm it Zuku” but he was too far gone in his own head to pay them any mind.
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Shouto liked to think of himself as a very composed young man, he wasn’t exactly the best at showing emotions anyway, a lot of people called him expressionless and maybe even emotionless which he was to some degree (courtesy of years of training under his old man) up until a few years ago when he met his current friends, when he met Izuku and everything in his life began changing for the better.
But this was not his current dilemma, his current situation made him out to be far from the composed young man he thought himself to be. Apparently as he walked into building beta with Iida (because if you want to get anywhere exactly on time you should just go with Iida naturally) he was met with the sight of Izuku and Shinsuo as they finished their training routine, Shinsuo was off to the side water bottle in hand and laughing at something on his phone, but Izuku oh god Izuku was standing right in the middle of the gym holding his own water bottle high above his head and pouring water all over his body, the water flowed from his hair and down to his body hitting his white tank top that left his strong arms exposed and soaking it making it almost transparent, and shouto couldn’t hold back the fierce blush that over took his entire body in a matter of seconds and clearly showed all over his face to save his life, and really of all the ways to die he doesn’t think blushing too hard at the sight of Midorya Izuku in a soaked tank top and gray sweatpants isn’t so bad.
But unfortunately the scene that shouto was pretty sure is unfolding in slow motion in front of his eyes didn’t stop when Izuku noticed them, oh no it continued as he yelled a very excited “Shouto-kun, Iida-kun you are here” and then started jogging his way to them, green curls dripping with water and bouncing with every step he took and a blinding smile gracing his lips until he came to a stop in front of them and shouto was really sure smoke was coming out of his left side especially from the way shinsuo was looking at him and snickering in the back.
Izuku for his part looked very concerned as he placed his hand over his shoulder “SHOUTO-KUN THERE IS SMOKE COMING OUT OF YOU!! YOU ARE SO RED ARE YOU OK??”
“I’m ok, just overheating a bit” he mumbled under his breath looking at the ground as he tried to cover his face.
“I had no idea you could do that”
“Todoroki-kun you must take care of yourself, overheating can be a very serious problem” Iida began to lecture him as midoriya dove into a very detailed muttering about his quirk that would have been endearing if shouto wasn’t mortified if his current situation. But luckily for him people started arriving at that moment and the case of his overheating was dropped in favor of the training session
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The group training went relatively well, at least the first round of it that is, shouto was paired with ojiro for a battle against Ashido and Koda which they won if only by a small margin.
Ashido’s new acid move gave them a real run for their money and shouto was mildly shocked when koda called in an actual lion to help him, he had no idea that was even possible but apparently with the right paper work and UA’s massive grounds and credibility it’s not that hard for an animal whispering hero student to own a bet lion to help him in battles, shouto was just a little bit unsettled by how the huge growling animal turned practically into a kitten when koda started playing with him after the battle, but it was a great fight nevertheless.
And it took a while too because by the time they finished the only other battle still ongoing was izuku and shinsou against Aoyoma and 1B’s Kuroiro, it was an interesting battle to say the least even though shouto only got to witness the end of it. Izuku and Shinsou managed to try one of their new dual moves that they were practicing for a while and took down Kuroiro actually using Ayaoma’s light and everyone was impressed to say the least.
The second round however was way more eventful, shouto liked how pairs were entirely randomly assigned, for his second fight he was paired with Jiro against shoji and 3B’s Kaibara, an odd combination if he can say so. Other pairs weren’t any less random generally, Iida and class B Tokage against bakugo and Tetsutetsu sure was on the random side of the line, Uraraka and Hagakure against Aoyama and Sato seemed fun. Izuku got one of the less odd pairs, he was teamed with Yoamomo and Shouto was sure their fight will be a strategy game to behold especially since they will be going against kendo and Tokyami, and he sure was right about that one but unfortunately he didn’t get to witness it himself as his own battle was starting.
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They had a solid plan, really they did, Jiro was going to attack shoji with her sound waves while shouto will see how Kaibara’s drill hands can work in a boiling temperature.
Unfortunately solid plans are not his strongest quality, he leaves that to Izuku and Yaomomo and they are masters at it from what he later heard about their fight, so when his plan went south due to a drill going through his ice slide causing him to lose balance and take a dramatic fall from the top of an iceberg three stories in height of his own creation he might not have been that surprised, what he was however was in pain serious pain, he landed on his ankle that might be broken now and seriously how can Izuku stand all of this pain all the time, they might need to check again to see if high pain tolerance isn’t on the list of his crazy quirks because this is not something he wants to go through multiple times, burns he was used to but this is annoying as hell.
Of course his fall has caused a small commission and people left their own fights to come check on him, the first thing he heard was Jiro’s voice calling his name as she ran to him and then he saw Kaibara as he ran to his side screaming “are you ok dude? That was a nasty fall I’m sorry I didn’t mean to get you down like that”.
“It’s ok it’s not your fault I was careless and got distracted” shouto hissed in pain.
“Todoroki-kun are you ok what happened?”
“He fell from his gigantic sky piercing ice thing and landed on his foot, I think his ankle might be broken”.
People started to gather around them and ask about what’s going on, Iida came running to check on his ankle and Bakugo yelled a “what the fuck is going on with the half and half bastard” from a few meters away, this was not helping his case, none of this is helping really, he can just ice it and walk or something, he had suffered from injuries that are far worse than this, so he did create a small batch of ice and placed it on his swollen ankle, the cold was gave him some temporary relief but touching it was not smart, so maybe he can try to stand up “Iida can you give me your hand so I can just.. Ugh”.
“No Todoroki-kun your ankle is obviously broken and you can’t stand on it, we need to take you to Recovery girl-sensei right away”.
“I know I have to go see her I just think I can… ugh” he grunted as he tried to use Iida for support to lift himself up “I just think I can emm go there myself, it’s not that bad”.
“Not that bad? Todoroki-kun that’s some unwise behavior coming from a future hero, we talked about how you undermine you injuries, this is not good for you” Iida argued but wrapped an arm around him to keep him from falling again nevertheless.
“I’m not undermining my injury I just think….”
“What’s going here? Is that Todoroki-kun? What happened?” he was interrupted by Yoamomo as she cut through the still fussing crowd around him, he glanced up from his feet to see she was followed by his favorite head of green hair closely behind her.
Izuku’s eyes were filled with concern and the moment they landed on him they widened a bit and shouto could swear he paled on sight “Shouto-kun, what happened to you?” he practically yelled as he passed Yoamomo to stand by Shouto’s other side and wrapped an arm around his waist to help support his weight.
“He fell from the top of his ice structure and landed on his ankle, we think it might be broken”
Shouto hissed in pain as he tried to shift his weight between his friends.
“It’s definitely broken, we need to take him to recovery girl but he is being stubborn and wants to walk there himself” Iida glared at him before looking back between Izuku and Yoamomo.
“Walk there himself? What are you talking about? Todoroki-kun you can’t even stand, you can’t keep ignoring serious injuries like this or else you will get seriously hurt, we had this talk already”
“This is what I just said, Yoayorozu-san is right you can’t walk we should call for one of the medical robots to carry you” Iida turned around to ask someone to do so as he talked.
“No no the robots would take a while to get here, I can carry him to recovery girl’s office right now, it would be easier and faster” Izuku spoke for the first time since he reached his side, his face still clenched with worry and his grip solid around Shouto’s waist as he moved his weight on to Iida to come and stand in front of him.
“What? No you can’t carry me all the way to recovery girl’s office, I can walk there on my own” a blush dusted Shouto’s face in pink as the thought of Izuku carrying him crossed his mind.
“You can’t even stand on your own, just stop being stubborn and get on my back” Izuku now fully kneeled in front of him, with his broad back stretching for him to climb on.
“No I’m not, even if I wasn’t able to walk I would be too heavy for you to carry all the way across campus” he fumbled trying to come up with an excuse albeit not a convincing one clearly.
Izuku turned to him irritation showing on the determined eyes Shouto adored so much as he got up to face him “seriously? ‘You are too heavy for me to carry on my back’ that’s the excuse you are going with? Fine then Shouto-kun I won’t carry you on my back”
And before shouto could comprehend what’s going on Izuku was by his side again, a strong arm wrapped around his back supporting his weight and lifting him from Iida’s hold as he felt another arm wrap under his knees and just like that his feet were not touching the floor anymore and he was held in a princess carry in Izuku’s strong embrace. He could literally feel the blood rushing to his face and his temperature flaring as he locked eyes with Izuku’s gentle gaze, his hands came up to cover his blushing face in a quick motion as he talked.
“what are you doing Izuku this is embarrassing, put me down, everyone is watching” Shouto was vaguely aware of the snickers and coos coming from the crowd of their friends and classmates as he avoided looking at anything but his own closed eyelids.
“I’m sorry but no can do. If you were reasonable enough to get on my back in the first place you wouldn’t be in this situation to begin with” he peaked between his long fingers just in time to catch Izuku’s gentle smile looking down on him before turning into a determined look as he tightened his hold on shouto.
“Ok now you need to hold onto me because this might be a little too fast, do you understand?”
Shouto nodded slowly as his hand left his face and his arms wrapped around Izuku’s neck, he didn’t trust himself with words right now.
Izuku gave him one last brilliant smile that made him forget about his pain before he looked ahead and green lighting enveloped his body, his eyes set and his arms steady around shouto’s waist. The moment they began flying through the air as Izuku leaped ahead Shouto actually yelped before hugging Izuku’s neck tightly.
He could hear Izuku’s soft chuckle and a whispered “good” as he had them practically flying through the air. He could not however see or hear his classmates laughter behind them and shinsou cackling a loud “you guys are gonna owe me so much money if this goes right” between laughs as Uraraka hit him on the back.
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The trip to recovery girl’s office, exciting as it is, only took a few moments. Izuku and his super speed got them into the office and all the way across campus in less than three minutes and Shouto was a little reluctant to leave his best friend’s embrace so soon but he did anyway.
Recovery girl worked her magic on him and he was as good as new as soon as her quirk activated, if only a bit tired, she gave him some energy gummy bears and told him to rest in the sickbay for a couple of hours and left them to be but not before praising Izuku for not being the one who was carried in again injured and bruised. Izuku for his part whined about how he didn’t break anything for months now and that earned him a smack from the pro hero’s cane and a fond smile before she walked back to her office leaving them alone in the room.
Izuku moved to get a chair so he can sit by shouto’s bed but Shouto held his wrist before he can get up from the bed and shook his head before he moved over a bit making just enough space on the bed for Izuku to lay next to him.
“Are you sure about this? You were just injured I don’t want to hurt you” concern filled Izuku’s eyes as he looked down on him, his hand came to settle on shouto’s own, firm yet gentle.
“No, I’m as good as new, I just need a nap and you know I sleep better with you next to me” he patted the space beside him with his free hand as his cheek were turning pink under Izuku’s stare.
“ok if you think so” he said softly as he moved to lift the bed sheets and slid under them, he settled in quickly, facing shouto as his arm came to hover over his waist, silently asking for permission.
Shouto nodded quickly and izuku’s hand settled on his waist, his fingers started playing with the ends of Shouto’s hair that came down all the way to his back after his braid came loose during training and drawing circles with the tips of his fingers lightly on his side.
Shouto for his part had his hand through Izuku’s hair, playing with his soft curls as soon as he settled down beside him. Izuku’s eyes softly closed as he leaned into the touch but his hand didn’t stop moving on his back, he finally looked peaceful for the first time in the last couple of hours, worry slipping from his body as he rested his head on the pillow beside shouto’s eyes closed and face so close that shouto can count his long green eyelashes if he so desired, he didn’t, instead he chose to focus on the freckles covering Izuku’s face and coming all the way down to his shoulders and beyond the edge of his tank top.
They laid there for a while in silence, enjoying each other’s presence and the soft touches shared between them. that is until a thought crossed shouto’s mind and he couldn’t stop it from disturbing the peace he felt at this moment. So he brought it up just to ease his mind and clear it from any doubts.
“Izuku”
Izuku hummed softly under his touch not bothering to open his eyes.
“Are you mad at me?” shouto said anxiously not sure where the answer he will receive was going to be.
Izuku’s eyes shot open in an instant, his hand now firmly pulled shouto closer as his other hand went to hold the hand shouto had on his cheek.
“What? Why? What in the world made you think that I’m mad at you?” his eyes were filled with worry and shouto couldn’t help the sting of guilt in his heart.
“It’s just that earlier, you looked very irritated at me at the gym, you were silent while everyone fussed around and you had this look on your face, I can’t explain it but you almost looked mad”
“Oh shouto” Izuku breathed quickly “I wasn’t mad I was just worried” he shifted a little and his hand came to rest on the side of shouto’s face “and maybe a little bit irritated. It’s just that you always do this kind of thing, you ignore your pain and injuries and you play it off as if it’s not important” shouto felt the hand on his back gently moving as Izuku continued in a low voice, eyes pouring into shouto’s soul “as if you are not important. And you are, you are so important to our friends to your family and to me especially”.
Izuku almost breathed the last part face so close as his eyes darted between shouto’s own eyes and his lips for a second before whispering “ Shouto, can I? Can I kiss you?” he could see the heavy movement of Izuku’s Adam’s apple from the corner of his eyes “please” he gave a soft permission and just like that he felt the touch of the lips he always dreamed about on his, soft and firm and careful moving slowly, as he started to kiss back just as gently.
The kiss lasted longer than shouto expected and went deeper than a gentle chaste kiss but they eventually had to break for air and he rested his forehead against Izuku’s as he spoke “Izuku I’m so sorry I got you so worried I don’t mean to but dealing with people’s affection towards me and how they care sometimes still gets me unsettled a bit”
“I know you didn’t mean to, I just need you to take care of yourself for me” Izuku’s hand on his side pulled him closer until they were flushed against each other and shouto’s own were buried in Izuku’s curls “since we came all this way I should probably tell you that I really really like you Todoroki Shouto, as in more than a best friend that is, and I would really like it if you can say yes to going out with me on a date?” Izuku rushed all of his confession on a one breath sounding very nervous as if they hadn’t just made out for five minutes just now.
“and I would also like it if you became my boyfriend after that, I know I’m rushing it a bit and I swear I don’t want to force you into anything but I just want you to know how I’m feeling and of course you can say no to all of it but I promise if you said yes then..….”
Shouto chuckled and the sound of his soft laughter managed to pull Izuku out of his mumbling that was going rapidly downhill.
“What are you laughing about” he asked confused at shouto’s reaction.
“nothing it’s just that you’re so cute yet so confidant and slightly insecure and I find all of that extremely endearing” he finally stopped laughing as he locked eyes with him and he felt his face getting extremely warm by the second “Izuku I really really like you more than a best friend too and I would love to go on a date with you and be your boyfriend because I know the date will be amazing, just like anything I do with you”
“Really, are you sure about this shouto?” Izuku asked his eyes hopeful as shouto felt his arms tighten around shouto’s waist.
“yes of course I’m sure Izuku” he said as his arms came to rest on Izuku’s neck “but before that, for now I mean can we do more of this kissing thing?” he said getting closer to Izuku and resting the tip of his nose on his, his eyes darting between his lips and the green emeralds that he adored so much.
“Gods yes” and that’s all he heard before Izuku’s lips were on his again and his eyes slid closed.
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Todoroki shouto was a creature of habit, something that was drilled into him after years of training schedules and planned days, so when his usual plans for his Saturday was changed, he didn’t expect to like what’s going to happen on that day.
But as it turns out breaking the routine wasn’t all that bad, given that he broke an ankle, got the boyfriend of his dreams and witnessed shinsou win a ton of money because of them. This was not the ordinary quiet Saturday he expected, but he doesn’t mind that clearly.