Author Note: Hello, my lovelies, and a Happy Valentine's Day to you all! As a gift to all of you, from now until White Day, which is March 14th, I will be taking requests for cute, little, fluffy one-shots feature your favorite couples. Just post a review with your favorite couple and I'll write a Valentine's Day/White Day centered one-shot for them. And before anyone ask, it doesn't matter to me if it's boy/boy, girl/girl/ or boy/girl and I will even make up an OC if any of you want an OC with an existing character. I aim to please. With that said, this first one-shot will feature my OC from my My Hero Academia story, The Fallout Zone, and her love interest, Todoroki. So, enjoy and review! I do not own My Hero Academia.
Chapter 1 Chocolate Explosion(Todoroki X Halyn)
Valentine's Day.
A day of love, romance, chocolate, and, in Todoroki's case, a day of wondering if he would get chocolate from the one person he really wanted it from.
Of course, as a reasonably good looking guy, he got chocolates from a good number of girls at school, but there was only one girl who he really wanted them from. A girl who was just as determined and fierce, as she was kind and compassionate, a girl who was surprisingly more cat-like than she reasonably should have been, and a girl who never failed to see the light in the world, even when darkness was closing in around him.
A girl who was currently sitting on the couches in the common space of their dorms with the rest of the girls from their classes, talking and laughing as they discussed something lowly between them. It was the evening before Valentine's Day and Todoroki was watching Leander Halyn as she grinned brightly, her long, cat-like tail curling behind her.
It only took one look at the grin on her face for Todoroki to know that Halyn was teasing someone. He didn't know who or what about, but he knew the grin she got on her face when she decided to tease someone. He had seen it directed at him enough times to know it when he saw it. Though that wasn't really what was circling around in his head.
While, normally, Todoroki didn't care about Valentine's Day or how crazy about it girls got, he couldn't help being curious about who Halyn was planning to give chocolate to. He had already seen her holed up in the dorm's kitchens the day before, chocolate splattered across the front of her apron and had already seen the two large, shopping bags she had rushed back to her room afterward. It made him wonder who she was giving chocolates to and if he was one of them.
The thought that she might be giving them to someone else at all, left a twisting feeling in his gut that he was unfamiliar with.
Not that he was going to tell her.
It would be embarrassing to admit to her that he wanted her to give him chocolate and no one else.
And that thought brought him back to the first question on his mind.
What was she talking about with the other girls.
Across the room, Halyn was trying to fend off questions from the other girls, a smile on her face because Mina was getting frustrated with her teasing.
"Come one, Ha-chan! Tell us! Who are all of those chocolates for!?" Mina demanded.
"No comment."
Halyn's grin grew as Mina threw a fit, pulling at the ends of her hair. She was finding it far too funny to watch her friend get frustrated from the lack of gossip. Sometimes it was just all too easy to get Mina worked up.
"My plans for giving chocolate, or lack there of, aside, are you girls giving anyone any?" Halyn asked, turning her attention to her other female classmates.
"I wasn't planning on it." Asui replied.
"It just seems like a little bit of a waste of time. Especially with all of our training now a days." Jiro agreed.
"If I did, it would just be a little store bought gift for all of the boys in our class. After all, I don't want to single out any of them." Yaoyorozu said.
"Oh, I get it! That's why you had so much chocolate, Ha-chan! You made a little for all of the boys!" Toru exclaimed.
"I will neither confirm nor deny that." Halyn replied.
This only succeed in setting Mina off again. Halyn really did like making Mina frustrated. She made it too funny.
"I bet you made some for Todoroki."
And Halyn's grin turned into a blush as Mina quickly retorted with that little statement. Turning slightly to glance across the room at Todoroki, who was sitting at a table and staring at the book sitting in front of him, Halyn took hold of her tail and started finger combing the pale blue fur. The tip of the tail even rose to embarrassingly cover her mouth.
"Maybe." she replied.
"I knew it!" Mina cheered.
"I only said maybe." Halyn argued.
"But you're blushing, which means you totally did!" Mina shot back.
"Well, I guess we'll see tomorrow, won't we."
With that, Halyn got to her feet, bid her friends good night, and hurried back to her room, Mina calling after her that it wasn't fair that she was running away from the question. She didn't want anyone to ruin her Valentine's Day surprise and since they didn't have class tomorrow, she was going to take full advantage of it.
She just didn't know she was going to be surprised too.
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The next morning, Todoroki met Halyn at the end of her hall by the elevator as he did every morning. The girl was humming as she came down the hall, carrying the two large, shopping bags he had seen her with two days before. When she saw him, she gave him a big smile in greeting.
"Morning, Shoto!" she greeted, stepping onto the elevator with him.
"Morning. What are those?" he asked, pointing to the bag, pretending like he didn't already have a really good idea as to what lay inside the bags.
"Oh, nothing really."
When she didn't say anything else, Todoroki glanced at her out of the side of his eyes. Halyn was happily staring ahead of herself, her tail joyfully swaying behind her. For today, since they didn't have classes, she had chosen a halter top that was a molten mix of red and pink with a pair of black jean shorts, red thigh-high stockings, and a pair of cork wedges. The hair along the left side of her head was pinned back with pink and red glittered hair pins and she had even tied a pink bow on her tail.
She was clearly in the festive mood of the holiday, but she wasn't inclined to let on to what was inside the bags. It had him wondering if it was really chocolate as he had originally thought. If it wasn't, that begged the question of what exactly was in the bags and he just couldn't bring himself to ask her what was in the bags, either.
When the elevator arrived on the first floor, Halyn hurried off and headed straight past the kitchen and dinning area.
"Ha-chan, you not gonna eat?" Mina called after her. several of the others looking up from their food when she called out.
"I have permission to head off campus today. I'm going to have breakfast with my brothers since they flew in to see me for Valentine's Day." Halyn called over her shoulder.
With that, and without even so much as a good bye to Todoroki, Halyn left the building, the furry end of her tail the last thing Todoroki saw of her as she flew out the doors. Todoroki continued to stare after her, surprised. Since moving into the dorm, Halyn had never left without him without saying goodbye to him first. And their classmates knew it too. It had them whispering behind his back none too quietly.
"I was for sure that she was going to give Todoroki chocolate, at least." Kaminari whispered a little too loudly.
Todoroki had thought the same thing. Apparently, though, he didn't know Halyn as well as he thought he did. Maybe this just meant he needed to step up and do something for her.
The question was...what?
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"You're cruel, you know that?"
Halyn looked up from the cup of coffee in her hand at her brothers. Remus was shaking his head, Maximus failing at hiding his laughter, while the twins were staring at her like she had just grown a second head.
"What? What makes you think I'm being cruel? And to whom?" Halyn asked, sitting her cup down.
"Tell us, baby sister...did you hand out any chocolate before you left school this morning?" Felix asked, his cat ears twitching.
"No. I have all my chocolates with me. I didn't want to be late to breakfast with the four of you, so I just left." Halyn replied.
All four of her brothers groaned. Halyn, confused, looked around the table at her brothers. She really didn't get what they were trying to get at.
"What's with the collective groan?" she asked.
"Halyn, normally, as your oldest brother and legal guardian, I would never nose into your relationships with others, but allow me to point something out and give you a little advice." Remus remarked, raising his head. "You still spend most of your free time with that Todoroki boy, correct?"
"Yeah. Why?" Halyn asked. "You aren't going to tell me I can't be friends with boys, are you?"
"No, no, nothing like that." Remus assured her.
"Well, you should." Maximus muttered but his siblings ignored him.
"Halyn, when you spend that much time with a young man, regardless of rather you're friends or more, there tends to be a certain amount of...expectations. I assure you, if he has any brains in his head, which I'm sure he does, then he was waiting for you to give him chocolates. Not only did you not give him any this morning before you left, knowing you, you left without even saying goodbye. Didn't you?" Remus asked.
Halyn stopped to think for a moment, her brothers watching her. As they watched, their sister's expression went from thoughtful to what they classified as "Uh-oh". And then she gave them a sheepish smile that had them all groaning once more.
"Okay, so I forgot to say goodbye and didn't make time to give out my chocolates. It's not like I'm not going to have plenty of time to do it later today and Shoto's more mature than that. He won't do anything drastic." she insisted.
"Oh, you think so?" Cyprian asked.
"You really don't know guys, Halyn." Felix agreed.
"Oh, come on. What guy would really get that upset just because he didn't get the chocolates he was expecting, first thing in the morning?" Halyn asked.
"I would."
This came from all four of her brothers, making Halyn frown in response. She really did highly doubt that Todoroki would do anything or get too upset, just because she waited until later in the day to give him some chocolate. After all, he was more mature and grounded then other teenage boys and she was pretty sure that he had no interest in Valentine's Day, in the least.
"Well, that's the four of you." she replied.
"That's all guys. Believe us, baby sister. He's going to be like a dog tugging on a leash by the time you give him his chocolate." Felix told her.
"Then that's just how he's going to have to be because when I get back to school, I have to visit the teachers' lounge and the dorm for Class B and the dorms of a few senpais, before I hand out chocolates for my class." Halyn replied.
"Oh, boy..."
Halyn didn't know what brother that came from, but it didn't matter.
Honestly...what kind of trouble could Todoroki really cause over something so small?
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"What. The hell. Happened here?"
Upon returning to the dorms after making her stops to hand out chocolates, Halyn had handed out her chocolates to every single classmate, but one.
Todoroki.
When she asked where the boy was, she had been told that he had been holed up in the kitchen for the better part of the morning, refusing to let anyone in. When Halyn entered the kitchen, one last bag in her hand, she had found a scene that she had never expected to find in her life.
Standing before her, just as plastered with chocolate as the kitchen around him, was Todoroki.
The boy had on an apron and had a pot in his left hand, and, though she didn't know how he had pulled it off, chocolate covered the complete front of him from head to toe. It looked like a chocolate bomb had gone off in his hands.
And he didn't appear to be too pleased with the result.
At first, Halyn had been completely shocked, her eyes widening as her jaw dropped. She had never seen such a mess before. Once that moment of shock passed, however, Halyn had a very hard time holding back laughter. Her lips twitched as she tried hard to keep her laughter to herself. A person couldn't look at a chocolate covered Todoroki and not laugh. It was just impossible. Pressing a hand to her mouth, Halyn spoke.
"Oh, Shoto...what did you do?" she asked, laughter evident in her voice.
Todoroki heaved a sigh, holding his arms out to look down at himself. He was going to have one hell of a time trying to clean all the chocolate off of him and his clothes. In fact, he didn't think he would be able to save his shirt and pants.
"I was trying to make chocolates." he told her honestly. "I got frustrated and my flames..."
Todoroki trailed off. He didn't need to finish that sentence for Halyn to know that he had lost his grip on his flames in the middle of his frustration and the sudden explosion of heat and fire had caused the pan of chocolate to explode in his hands.
"But why?" Halyn asked, still grinning though she had her laughter under control now.
"...for you..."
Halyn paused, her grin fading for a moment as she let that information sink into her head. Todoroki had...been making chocolates for her?
"When you didn't give me any, I decided to make them for you, instead." he admitted, even though it was embarrassing to admit.
She knew it was embarrassing for him because he couldn't look her in the eyes. It was embarrassing and he had obviously screwed it up, but the mere thought that he had been sweet enough to try to make chocolate just for her, made her incredibly happy to hear. It was so sweet that it put a smile on her face and made her tail curl in joy. Trying to avoid the chocolate on the floor, she crossed the kitchen to stand in front of him.
"That's so sweet, Shoto, but if you did all of this just because you thought I wasn't going to give you chocolates...then you really shouldn't have, you silly boy." Halyn told him.
Todoroki looked down at her as she laughed lowly. When she knew she had his attention, she held out the red and purple bag in her hand. Sitting aside the pan still in his hand, Todoroki took the bag from her. Inside, he found little cat shaped chocolates, all made painstakingly by hand. It was, by far, the biggest batch of chocolates that she had made. It had even turned out to be a bigger batch than what she had made for her brothers.
Now feeling even more embarrassed, Todoroki refused to look at Halyn. This only made Halyn chuckle at him.
"You are the sweetest person ever, Shoto." Halyn told him. Todoroki was surprised when she reached out, swiping a dab of chocolate off his cheek with one finger tip. Sticking that into her mouth, she gave the chocolate a taste. "Hmm! But not as sweet as this chocolate."
Todoroki couldn't help the smile that began to curl his lips. Halyn really made it difficult to wallow in embarrassment or feeling stupid when she did things like this. It was also when she did things like this that it reminded him how much he really liked being around Halyn. She really did make his day.
Ignoring the chocolate on his hand, Halyn took hold of his hand in her two hands, smiling as she looked up at him.
"Happy Valentine's Day, Shoto. I can't wait for White Day." she told him. "Now come on. Let's get you cleaned up. I'll even do your laundry for you because I have a feeling you're not going to get those stains out on your own."
"Probably not." he agreed, happy that she had enjoyed his attempt to make her chocolates, even if it had failed majorly.
A day filled with misunderstanding, whispering and gossiping classmates, and exploding chocolate it was, but Halyn wouldn't have had it any other way. It was when ridiculous and hilarious things like this happened that it made Halyn love her life all the more. Add in an incredibly sweet and thoughtful guy like Todoroki and her day was complete.
Now she just had to plan what she was going to do for White Day.
After all, he had try to pull a switch.
END
Kyandi: I'm sorry, I just had a hilarious dream of Todoroki covered in chocolate and that gave birth to this little one-shot. I will apologize if Todoroki seemed to OOC for you, but I will not apologize for the silly cuteness this gave life to. With that said, I wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day and hope you'll leave a review with your requested couple. I hope you all continue to read and review both this and The Fallout Zone and I'll be back as soon as I can. Bye-bye!