I sit in my now furnished bedroom and close my curtains with a sigh. I can finally be alone. I feel tired and look at my clock. 11:34. I need to go to sleep, so I begin my bedroom routine, brushing my teeth, taking a shower, etc. Finally, I slip into bed and let sleep consume me.

The next day arrives. I groan, not wanting to get out of bed, but I have to so I begrudgingly sit up and stumble my way across my room. After getting ready and waking up a bit more, I decide to go down to the kitchen for breakfast. When I walk down, I see Bakugou and turn right back around, hoping he didn't see me and I could just go back to my dorm room like nothing happened. Too late.

"Hey Deku! Get back here you little shit!"

I break into a run and race back to my dorm room with Bakugou in fast pursuit. But just as I round the corner to the staircase, I smack headfirst into a figure that's much taller than me. Because I'm running so fast we both go flying, making my vision blur and go black.

I wake to the sound of Bakugou's laughter over my continuously ringing ears. "Oh, Deku, that smack was fantastic!" He doubles down, wheezing at this point. "Ten out of ten," he manages to get out, his voice brimming with laughter that echoed grimly through the hallways. I'm aware of a hand helping me up and taking me to my dorm while Bakugou is still on the floor. As I look up, I see Todoroki saying something that I cannot hear. He seems to notice after a little while that i'm not going to respond and just sits there next to me in silence until the ringing in my ears fade.

When I look at him next he understands that I can hear a little better now and asks me a question.

"Hey, can you tell me what just went down back there?"

I shifted uncomfortably. "Kaachan's my childhood bully and is still about as nice as a donkey's butthole. I walked down to get breakfast and he-"

BANG.

"That'll be him."
"GET BACK HERE STUPID DEKU!"
"Sorry about that."
"No worries, stay there Midoriya-kun. I can handle this."

Some shouting, a bang, and Todoroki walked back smoking slightly on his left side. "Sorry that you had to deal with that," I say, but he waves it off. "It's fine. Anyway, now that you're awake, can I check to make sure that you aren't badly hurt? You hit your head pretty hard back there." I nod in consent and he holds up three of his fingers. "How many fingers am I holding up?" "Three," I respond, and he runs me through the basic tests. I seem to pass all of them to his satisfaction, so he helps me up and we walk over to the kitchen to get some food, like we were supposed to do originally.

After we ate we parted ways, but Todoroki made me give him his contact just in case. I walk to my dorm, knowing that no one will be waiting there to kill me like Bakugou, and sit down at my desk. In all honesty, my head is still throbbing. Todoroki has a really hard skull, I think, while laying my head down and hoping to maybe take a nap.

I suddenly wake up to a banging on my door. Bakugou...? My thoughts are slow and I forget just what I was supposed to be thinking about.

"Midoriya-kun,"
Todoroki.
"Do you need me?"
"Yeah, it's lunchtime and you weren't at the cafeteria, so I brought you something."
"Oh, thanks. You can come in."

He opens the door and sets down a paper plate with fried rice and chopsticks. As I eat, we converse a little bit and then head to the student gym to do some personal training.