Quirk: Shadow Control

 Saying that I had a crush on Shoto Todoroki was an understatement. For the past few months I had been head over heels for the oblivious boy, but I was too self conscious to do anything about it. My best friend, Tsuyu, was desperately trying to get me to tell him how I feel, but each time I said no.

Despite me not meaning it to turn out this way, it was no secret that I had fallen for him. Everyone in the class could tell, and I think even Aizawa could tell by the way I'd watch Todoroki during training, or always ask to be in his group whenever we were doing group exercises. Kaminari would always like to tease me whenever I was busy staring at Todoroki during our training, something which Tsuyu would often hit him for as she was protective over me due to my awkwardness and self consciousness.

During classes Bakugou would scoff at me and call me a creep whenever he saw me staring at Todoroki, which didn't help when I was trying to build up my confidence to admit my feelings to him. Thankfully though, Midoriya would always step in telling Bakugou not to be so mean, making Bakugou's attention turn from me to him.

It was time for training, so we all changed into our UA gym uniforms and headed to Gym Gamma. Aizawa announced that for a warm up we'd start by doing simple one on one battles, telling us all to get in pairs. I timidly approached Todoroki and asked him to be my partner, and to my surprise he accepted. "So for the first ten minutes just get warmed up by sparring with your partner. Then we'll get on with individual training," Aizawa called out to all of us tiredly.

Todoroki and I began our sparring match, my shadows battling against his ice. He seemed to be going easy on me which I didn't appreciate, so I brought out everything I could and managed to wrap my shadows around his arms. He seemed surprised, then decided to fight with all he had too. He broke my shadows as he shot ice from his body, and I quickly managed to defend myself by making a shadow wall.

For a few minutes it was a case of each other blocking and dodging the others attacks, until I decided to send a shadow behind a wall of ice he had created, the ice hiding my shadow. I kept him distracted by fighting him, and using other shadows to bait him into attacking. As quick as I could, once the shadow was close enough to him, I wrapped it around his throat, then encasing his entire body in the growing shadow, all apart from his head. I smiled at my success.

"Wow, well done," he praised making me blush.

"Thanks," I mumbled.

"(y/n)?"

"Hm?"

"Could you retract your shadows?" He asked.

"O-oh! Sorry," I said awkwardly, pulling them away. It was then that Aizawa announced the ten minutes were up, and we all began the everyday training, working on our quirks individually until school was over.

Once we were all changed back into our uniforms, I walked with the girls back to the dorms. "So everyone's still up for the sleepover tonight, right?" Mina asked excitedly.

"Definitely," Toru squealed.

"I bought some snacks," I said.

"And I've got some drinks," Kyoka added.

"Great! Oh it's going to be so fun!" Mina bounced. When we reached the dorms Momo was adamant that we all had to do our homework set for us that day before we went to Mina's room for the sleepover, something which Mina groaned at. It thankfully wasn't long until we were all in Mina's room though, dressed in our pyjamas and eating pizza. We hadn't had a sleepover like this in so long, and it felt great.

Naturally, we did all the classic girly sleepover things: watch a chick flick, play truth and dare and now we were onto the gossiping part of the night. "Oh, I know!" Mina suddenly said, raising her hand dramatically in the air. "Lets rate the boys in terms of how attractive they are!"

"I'm up for that!" Toru said, clapping her hands together.

"Really? You think that's okay?" Kyoka asked.

"Of course! It's not as if they're gonna find out, is it," Mina pointed out. She found a bit of paper and a pen, and put them in the centre of the circle we were sitting in.

"Well we know who's last," Kyoka said and we all nodded in agreement, Momo writing Mineta's name at the bottom of the page.

"So, who do we think takes the number one spot?" Mina asked.

"I think that's an obvious answer," Toru giggled.

"Of course it's Todoroki," Momo said and the rest of the girls nodded. I blushed bright red, self consciousness rising in me at an alarming rate. My mind unwillingly went to the possibility that all the girls in the class could have a crush on the boy.

"Definitely, he's so dreamy," Toru sighed.

"He is quite attractive, it has to be said," Kyoka agreed, nodding her head.

"His hair is incredibly unique," Momo smiled.

"And his eyes! They're just so cool!" Mina said excitedly. I saw Tsuyu send me a worried glance. It both angered and upset me that they were almost fangirling over my crush, especially when they all knew I had feelings for him. Even Ochaco, despite her crush on Midoriya, started pointing out how attractive Shoto was.

"There is one thing though," Momo sighed.

"What's that?" I asked, it sounding much more bitter then I intended.

"It's such a shame about his scar. It's really not pretty and he'd look so much more attractive without it," she said, as though it was an obvious point. I almost exploded.

"WHAT?" I shouted, standing up and glaring at the posh tart. "How dare you say his scar is ugly! It's a part of who he is, and who he is is amazing! His scar is attractive, everything about him is attractive!" Everyone was staring at me, surprised by the quiet girls sudden outburst. "How can you even think such a thing, let alone say it? Shoto Todoroki is gorgeous, whether he has a scar or not. I for one love his scar. It proves he's brave! So how dare you say it's ugly!"

Rage was building within me at Momo's horrible words. I glared around the girls then picked up my blankets and stormed out of the room, needing time to call off. I was stomping my feet as I walked through the halls towards the lifts, almost punching the button. Thankfully I reached my floor, and entered my room, slamming the door behind me. Anger was still running through my veins, unable to believe that Momo would actually think such a thing. I went to bed that night riled up, but finally drifted off to sleep.

- Todoroki's POV - - Earlier that evening -

"So the girls are having that sleepover of theirs aren't they?" Kaminari asked as we sat round the table eating the food we had made, and Kirishima nodded. They shared a glance at each other, before looking over towards me. "Todoroki, can we ask you something?" Kaminari asked, and I simply nodded. "Are you aware that (y/n) is head over heels in love with you?"

I almost choked on my food. Kaminari's question caught the attention of all the guys at the table. I stayed silent, unmoving. "Kaminari!" Midoriya sighed.

"What? He has to know, she's gone on way too long without making a move," Kaminari said.

"But she wasn't ready to tell him!" Midoriya defended her.

"He is right, dude," Kirishima said.

"But Kaminari's also right, she's gone on way too long just staring at him from a distance," Sero joined the conversation.

"W-wait, you all knew about this?" I asked, my voice quiet.

"Christ icy-hot, you're such an idiot for not noticing, she gawks at you all the time, practically drools over you, god knows why though," Bakugou scowled in passing. Confusion and surprise ran through my body as I was trying to process what I had just been told.

"Are you serious?" I asked Kaminari.

"One hundred percent serious, I'm really surprised you didn't notice," he admitted.

"Todoroki, you can't tell her you know, it'd crush her-," Midoriya started before Sero interrupted.

"Unless he shares her feelings! Well dude, do you like her too?" He asked and all the guys looked at me with anticipation.

"I... I don't know," I admitted. "I've never even thought about... that kind of thing."

"What? Relationships?" Kirishima asked and I nodded.

"Well that's alright, I'm here to help!" Kaminari said excitedly before he got elbowed in the stomach by Kirishima. Thoughts were spinning in my brain, my heart was pumping loudly. I couldn't believe that (y/n) had feelings for me, why would she? The guys chatted about the situation but I chose to block them out as I started to think about (y/n). She was pretty, I had acknowledged that, and she was kind, I had just never really thought about relationships before. The more I thought about her, the more I realised how sweet she was as a person.

The way she played with her hair in class, or when she bit her nails when she was confused. She had great control of her quirk, and it was obvious she was motivated to become a hero. She was cheerful, if a little timid, and her soft voice started playing on repeat in my head. That was until Kaminari snapped me from my thoughts.

"Todoroki!" He basically shouted.

"Huh?" I asked, looking up from my food.

"You were so totally thinking about her weren't you," he teased.

"I guess I'd just never really seen her in that way before... but... she's... really nice," I mumbled under my breath, refusing to blush.

"Aw, Todoroki's got a crush!" Kirishima said. Did I have a crush on her? Maybe on a subconscious level I did, after all, I noticed all the sweet little things she did during class and she was one of the few people I smiled at.

"What do I do?" I asked.

"You're going to ask her out?" Midoriya asked and tentatively I nodded.

"So you do have a crush on her!" Kaminari almost squealed.

"I think... yeah, maybe I do," I said, trying desperately to hide my blushing face but I could tell the boys noticed it.

"You're gonna have to try and get closer to her at school. This week just talk to her more, act friendly, hang out with her more," Kirishima listed.

"Oh, and on Friday you could offer to walk her home! Then you could ask her then, as you'll be alone and hopefully closer to her," Kaminari suggested. I looked towards Midoriya for back up.

"I think it could work," he said so I nodded.

I fell asleep that night thinking about her, and realising my feelings for her more and more. I smiled when I remembered the Modern Hero Art History project we had to do together, as well as all the times we partnered up during training. It all brought a smile to my face, and I fell asleep that evening quite relaxed, hoping that by the weekend we'd be together.

- (y/n)'s POV - - Timeskip -

When I woke up the next day I remembered the previous nights events. I was still unbelievably mad at Momo, and around all the other girls (apart from Tsu) I felt self conscious, thinking they had a thing for Todoroki. I spoke out my concerns to Tsu as we walked to UA together from the dorms, but she assured me that none of them liked Todoroki in that way, they were just appreciated his good looks. She too seemed annoyed at Momo, making me glad I wasn't the only one.

The class soon filled, and to my surprise Todoroki approached me to say good morning. All throughout the day he seemed to be talking to me more then he usually would, which made me happy as I felt as though I was the one who initiated every conversation we had. He even asked if he could swap places with Tsu at lunch so he could sit next to me. Tsu kept on sending me cheeky glances, but I knew he was just being friendly. I was glad that Todoroki was talking to me more, due to the tension between the girls.

Momo didn't see the fact that she had been horrible, and blamed me for overreacting. Both Tsu and Ochaco were on my side thankfully. Mina and Toru were just desperate to settle things between us, and poor Kyoka, being Momo's best friend, felt like she had to stick with her although she looked incredibly awkward and had admitted to Tsu that she thought what Momo had said was out of order.

The rest of the week continued like this, but the tension between the girls evaporated from my mind whenever Todoroki came to talk to me and hang out with me. He even approached me during our foreign languages lesson to ask if I wanted to do the project we had been set with him, to which I happily accepted. Tsu said that I was in for a shot with him, however the way the girls gushed over him at the sleepover still lingered in my brain.

Friday soon came and I was in the dorms, packing a rucksack ready to head home for the weekend. It looked like it was about to rain, so I searched my room for my umbrella before I realised I had left it at home. 'Great' I thought to myself.

I went down to the common room, ready to head home when suddenly my path was blocked by none other then Todoroki. "Hey (y/n), are you heading home?"

"Yeah, thought I better run home as I haven't got an umbrella," I laughed lightly.

"How about I walk you back? Your house is en route to mine, and we can share my umbrella," he suggested and I blushed bright red at his offer.

"I-I don't want to be trouble for you though-,"

"Don't worry, I was going to head home anyway. I'll be back in a second," he said, walking off towards the lifts. I let go of the breath I didn't know I was holding, and I realised then we had an audience that consisted of Kaminari, Kirishima, Tsuyu and Ochaco all smiling towards me. Momo was there too but she was busy scowling, so I ignored her.

"Hey, I'm back," I heard Todoroki say behind me. He now had a bag on his shoulder and was carrying an umbrella. "Shall we?"

"Yeah, sure. Thank you for this," I said as we walked out of the dorm building. Almost as soon as we had gotten outside it started to rain, so we were fairly close to each other as we huddled under the umbrella, making our way through the streets. We were both silent for a while, apparently unsure on what to say to each other. I wondered whether to talk about the project we were going to do together, but I wasn't sure whether it was too boring. He suddenly said something however that definitely was not boring, and almost made my heart stop.

"So, Kaminari told me you have a crush on me."

I carried on walking with him but was frozen solid on the inside. 'How do I respond to that?' I screamed internally. Thoughts were whirring in my head too quickly for me to even comprehend. "E-er... Kaminari does love to gossip, doesn't he," I mumbled, laughing lightly.

"So it's not true then?" Todoroki asked. I scrunched my eyes shut briefly, trying to calm my exploding heart.

"He loves to gossip..." I mumbled again. "Who do you like? Momo? Kyoka? Ochaco?" I asked tentatively, unsure on whether I wanted to hear the answer.

"None of them," he said simply. "You see I realised my feelings last week, and they're for you (y/n)."

This time I fully froze, and stopped walking. He turned back and immediately put the umbrella over my head. I couldn't believe what he had just said... did he even say it, or was I imagining it? "Y-you like me?" I asked, just to be sure.

"Yes. Which is why I hope what kaminari told me was true," he said calmly.

"It is true," I finally admitted to him. His small smile widened a little, and I couldn't help but beam.

"So, (y/n), would you like to be my girlfriend?" He asked politely and I immediately nodded.

"Yes, yes, absolutely," I squealed, wrapping my arms around him tightly. He seemed surprised at first, and I was quite surprised at myself for doing it. Slowly however he wrapped one arm around my waist as the other was holding the umbrella.

"I'll warn you now though... I-I'm not very good at this kind of thing... relationships I mean," he said awkwardly but I shook my head.

"Don't worry about it Todoroki, I like you because of how you are now," I smiled at him.

"Shoto, you can call me Shoto," he gave me permission and I nodded. The rest of the walk back to mine felt wonderful as we walked closer together and talked constantly. My heart was almost out of control with happiness, but a slight sadness overcame me as I realised I was back home.

"Thank you for saying yes, (y/n)," he mumbled. I went on tiptoes and kissed him delicately on the cheek, apparently surprising him.

"Of course I would say yes," I smiled at my new boyfriend. "So... I'll see you Monday," I whispered.

"I'll message you," he smiled slightly with a pink hue to his cheeks. I nodded as he kept me covered by the umbrella until I got inside. I watched him walk away, and just as he got out of sight I physically jumped with joy, squealing a little. I pulled out my phone and immediately texted Tsu, telling her what had happened. Seconds later I got a text, thinking it was a reply from Tsuyu but when I opened it I blushed, seeing it was in fact from Shoto.

Todoroki - Hello x

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Me - Hey x

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