It was our first day of UA. I walked to school with Todoroki and followed him to our classroom. I don't know how he wasn't as excited as I was to be here. The school was already a sensory over load for me, I wanted to see everything.
Once we reached class room 1-A, I followed Todoroki to the back of the room and took a seat next to him. There was only two other students in the classroom, a tall boy with glasses and a girl with black hair who was seated on the other side of Todoroki, she seemed busy reading. The tall guy with glasses came over and introduced himself as Iida Tenya to us. Todoroki nodded to the boy as I introduced us to Iida. " This is Shoto Todoroki and I'm Rika Fujiwatari. Nice to meet you." Tenya smiled at us and then headed to his seat, which was on the other side of the other girl in the room.
The door then slid open as a boy with blond spiky hair and red eyes entered the room with a glare. He took a seat in front of the girl who was reading and placed his feet on his desk. He was followed by a boy with red spiky hair who took a seat next to the blonde and infront of Todoroki. The blonde seemed to have irked Tenya by placing his feet on his desk.
I watched as more students joined our classroom. The blonde seemed to stop arguing with Tenya as a green haired boy entered the room. He seemed to turn really angry as he started to yell at the boy. The boy seemed nervous. I eyed Todoroki, how can he be so calm right now? This class is becoming worrisome to me. I feel like some of the students may need some extra help or something, they are slightly terrifying.
Not as terrifying as the giant yellow caterpillar that just entered the room. I reflectively grabbed Todoroki's hand under the desk and squeezed it was I watched the caterpillar with my eyes wide open. Todoroki looked at me from the corner of his eye and then looked towards the giant caterpillar. Turns out it was just our home room teacher. I quickly released my hand from Todoroki and placed it on my desk.
After our morning classes, I was starving. I was so happy to get to the cafeteria and get food. I sat at a table, across from Todoroki and ate in silence, until Tenya and a girl with rosy pink cheeks came and sat at our table. I watched the two of them talk as I ate my lunch. I learnt that her quirk allowed her to make things weightless, while Tenya's had to do with the engines on his legs.
I almost choked on my lunch when the girl looked down the table at Todoroki and I. "Are you to dating?" I cough roughly at her question as she caught me off gaurd. Todoroki rose a white brow at me as I chug down my drink. Once I finish coughing I answer the rosy cheek girl. " No...Just child hood friends ." I replied as I felt my face grow hot and I try to focus on my lunch once more.
The rest of the day ran smoothly. I was exhausted and it was only the first day. I stretched with a yawn before grabbing my case and following after Todoroki. Once we were out of earshot of our class I chatted with Him. "What did you think of your first day of UA?" He side way glanced at me. "I feel like some of our class is way to energetic." I giggle softly and nod. "That's putting it nicely."
We walk the rest of the way in a comfortable silence. I wonder what the rest of the year is going to be like. Once we make it to my house I pull Todoroki in to a big hug. "Thanks for walking me home, are you sure you don't want to come in for a bit? My parents are off on a mission." He shook his head and a pained look crossed his features. "Father wishes me home." I make a face and sigh lightly. "Well, I wish you all of the luck then." He smiles slightly at me. I watch as he leaves my house and we both call out to each other. "See you tomorrow."
I groan as I head to my bedroom and start on some of my homework. I can't believe we were given homework on the first day. I lose track of time as I worked on my first essay. I stretch and glance at my clock on my desk and it reads 6:25pm. I haven't even had dinner yet. I grab my math text book and head down to the kitchen. I put a pot of water on to boil for some pasta and start on my math assignment.
While I eat my pasta, I read over my essay and make sure my math answers are correct. Then I wash up my dishes before heading back to my room and packing my school bag for the next day.
I actually never realized how quiet my house is when my parents weren't home. It was quite lonely. I pushed that feeling aside and went to the bath room that was joined to my room and washed my face and brushed my teeth. I then changed into a pair of pyjama shorts and a tank top.
I checked the clock again and it now read 9pm. I curled up in bed with one more yawn. This is the earliest I've gone to bed in a long time.
For the next few weeks, everything was the same, expcept this morning there was a lot more reporters than there was before. Todoroki's glare caused the reports to move out of our way so we could enter the school. Today we are going on our first school trip, sort of. It's still on the school grounds, but it simulates different natural disasters and helps teach us what to do in a rescue situation.
Our whole class was buzzing with excitement and couldn't wait to start today's training exercise. I wondered who my team would be and what scenario we would have.
Once we stepped in side of the USJ (Unforseen Simulation Joint) we were in awe. It was huge! There was six separate natural disaster simulators, ruins, mountain, landslide, conflagration, downpour and flood zones. We were greeted by Professor Thirteen, he looks like an astronaut to me.
Thirteen is in the middle of explaining how the training simulator works when our class is interrupted by was looks like a huge dark shadow, but there are people walking out of it. Our home room professor and professor thirteen jump in front of our class and try to call for back up, with no answer. "They must have someone that can jam our communications." Professor Aizawa mentioned to Thirteen.
Some of the other students seem to panic. The blonde with spiky hair seemed to be ready for a fight. I glanced at Todoroki and he seemed to be in high alert. I take in my surroundings, the entrance is right behind us. I go to tell someone to run to get help, but we were surrounded. The spiky blond guy went in to attack with his giant grenade, when the dark shadow sweeps up the whole class and septarted us.
Shoto and I end up in the landslide zone. Before I can even blink or figure out our surroundings, Todoroki already has all the enemies that were warped with us, frozen in place. I never realized how fast he had gotten over the years. This just proves to me that I need to always be on my guard.
I watch as Todoroki interrogates the villains, as well as keep a look out for another ambush. He comes over to me once he gets his answers. "Seems they are here to kill All Might, but these thugs are weak. So I believe they are a diversion." I glance at the frozen villains and back at Todoroki. "What's the plan then? Make our way back to the entrance or help our fellow students?" He looks at me as he thinks. "Our classmates should have no problem with these low class thugs. This would be good training for them. We should make our way back to Aizawa and Thirteen." I nod as I follow his lead, keeping an eye out for in coming danger.
Once we make it back to the main area, we notice All Might fighting a huge black creature with his brain sticking out. "What is that thing?" I ask. Todoroki ends up freezing it to help aid All Might, then looks at me. "Go help Mr. Aizawa." I nod and take off running towards our professor.
As I run to our Professor, I notice how bad his injuries are. He's with the short purple balls hair guy and the girl that resembles a frog. I'm really bad with names. The guy with the balls for hair seemed to blush and stammer as I approach them. I look over Mr. Aizawa's injuries. "Place him down slowly, I may be able to stop the bleeding and heal a few of his minor injuries." The frog girl nodded and lied him back down on the ground slowly. I knelt down beside him and assessed his wounds better. I then hovered my hands over his minor and bleeding wounds and concentrated on my water abilities. The other two watched in awe as his wounds slowly healed or closed up. "That should help him until he gets to the doctors."
I was so focused on helping Aizawa-sensei that I hadn't noticed the light blue haired villain sneaking up behind us. I only noticed when I felt like a gust of wind, causing me to look behind me to see the green haired kid, Deku I think his name is. I then notice that he's face to face with the villain that was going to attack us.
Todoroki creates an ice wall to shelter us from the up coming battle, as he makes his way over to our group. We help lift Aizawa on to Todoroki's back and then we make a run for the stairs that lead to the entrance. There were villians all over the stairs, blocking our way up. Then, back up slammed through the doors and jumped right into action. They cleared the way for us to run up the stairs.
Once up stairs, some of the other teachers took Mr. Aizawa from Todoroki and take him to get help. I collapse on my butt on the floor as I breath heavily. I probably over used my quirk and the adrenaline was now leaving my body. Todoroki looked down at me, with slight worry. He was about to say something but was cut off by Present Mic. "Are you the one that looked after some of Aizawa's wounds." I nodded at the teacher. "You'll be a fine healer someday young lady. The paramedics say that his injuries don't look as bad as they should have and that he should be back to his usual self in no time." I smiled at him, glad to hear the news.
Once everything was settled and the villians and creature were taken away, we were dismissed for the day. Most of the students cheered, while some of us were still slightly shaken from what had just happened.
Todoroki and I walked home in silence. My mind seemed to run a million miles a minute. The events replaying in my head, but one thought sticks out amongst all the others. I really don't want to stay home alone tonight. I stop walking and look down at my feet. Todoroki stops to look at me. "Are you alright, Rika?" I take a deep breath as I draw the courage to look up at the dual eyed boy. "Can you please stay the night?" My face grew hot as the words leave my mouth. "I.. I don't want to be home alone after today."
I think I'm imagining it, but I think Todoroki might be blushing. I sigh as I began to doubt he'll answer or reject me. I start to continue on walking, but I'm stopped by him grabbing my hand. My eyes dart to our hands as my heart starts racing and I look up at him. "I'll stay." I feel as my heart is about to break out of my chest as I smile brightly at him. "Thank you, Shoto!" He smiles slightly back at me. "We just have to stop at mine first to pick up stuff." I nod as we continue on our way to his house, neither of us letting go of each other's hand.
My mind stops thinking about the events of earlier and on to what I should make for dinner. Enji met us at the door and seemed to smile at us holding hand. Todoroki pulled his hand away from mine rather quickly as anger filled his eyes. I knew I didn't have to ask why. "I'm staying at Rika's after the incident at UA today." He told his father instead of asking. He headed off to his room to grab his stuff, leaving me to talk to his father.
He watched as he son left the room. Mixed emotions dance in his eyes before he turns his gaze towards me. "You two seem to be growing close. I'd suggest you staying here instead, but I know Shoto has made up his mind." I eye the man infront of me wearingly, not saying anything to him as I waited for Shoto to return. I didn't have to wait long, he returned with a duffle bag and his school case. He nodded to his father as we left his house.
I let out a breath I didn't realize I was holding in once we got out side. "That was nerve racking." Todoroki looked at me with a bit of worry. "He didn't say anything bad to you, did he?" I shook my head. "He didn't. I think he wishes we would stay at yours instead of being alone at mine. He thinks we are growing closer." I blush as I remember holding hands. "Are you okay? Your face is red." He places the back of his cool right hand to my forehead, making me get flustered. I wave my hands in front of me. "I'm fine." I smile at him to prove it and he moves his hand from my forehead.
When we reach at my house, I show Todoroki to his room. He use to sleep here a lot when we were younger. "This room doesn't look like it's changed at all." He said as he looked around. "My mom figured that you would probably use it again, so she wanted to leave it the same for you."
I left Todoroki to organize his stuff and headed to the kitchen. I turned the oven on to preheat while I decided on what to make us for dinner. I was busy cooking and rummaging through cupboards to notice that Todoroki was sitting at the island bar, watching me. I was humming softly as I finished wrapping the chicken breasts, that I defrosted this morning, in bacon. I stuffed them with cream cheese before hand too. I washed my hands and then placed the baking tray into the oven and set the timer.
I turned around and noticed grey and turquoise eyes on me. He seemed amused as he watched me, causing my face to go beet red once again. "Your face is red again." He said in a more teasing way this time. I smiled at him. "You just caught me off guard, that's all." He tsk'ed me. "You need to work on staying on guard." I nodded as a took a seat next to him. "I know." I looked at my hands on the granite counter top.
I could tell he was worried about what happened. If Deku hadn't showed up when he did. "I'm sorry for making you worry, Shoto." I spoke softly. He placed his a hand on top of mine, causing me to look up at him. He was way to close. I started to feel flustered once again and kept my eyes locked on his. My heart was racing super fast. I should tell him how I feel. In one fast movement, I was pulled to his chest and he was hugging me tight.
"I was so worried. I didn't know if I was going to make it to you in time. I'm just glad Midoriya was there in the nick of time." I nuzzled into his chest and took in his scent. I closed my eyes and returned his hug. "I'm so sorry." I feel him take a deep breath as he runs his right hand through my hair, causing me to shiver.
I didnt want to ruin this embrace, but the timer on the oven started to buzz. I groan as I pull away from Todoroki and make my way to the oven. I check on the chicken and remove it from the oven. I let it cool on top of the stove as I make us side salads with cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion and pepper. I place the chicken on the plates with the salads. I place them infront of Todoroki and grab some cutlery. "What would you like to drink?" "Water will be fine." I smile and grab us two glasses of cold water and sit next to him again.
"It smells good." I blush slightly. "It's just not spicy." I look at him as he plops a piece of cream cheese stuffed chicken with bacon in his mouth. I take a sip of my water and wait to see if he likes it. "This is delicious." I start eating my meal, happy that he liked my cooking.
After we finish eating, we do the dishes together then we work on some homework. When our homework was done we decided to watch a movie before bed. We sat close together on the couch, by the middle of the movie, my head was resting on his shoulder and he didn't seem to mind. I must have dozed off, the next thing I know is that the movie is over and Todoroki is carrying me to bed.
"Where am I?" I ask groggily. Todoroki chuckles lightly. "I'm carrying you bed, you fell asleep during the movie." He lies me in my bed lightly and tucks me in. I grab the sleeve of his shirt before he leaves. "Thank you for staying." He looked back at me. "It's no problem." He sits on the edge of my bed and thoughts of me telling him my feelings fill my head. I sigh and sit up in bed. We lock eyes and I place my hand over his that's resting on my bed. "Shoto?" I ask softly. "Hmm?" I swallow hard as I feel my self begin to over heat. I look down at our hands and take a deep breath. "I..." You can do this Rika. "I like you." My face burns hot as I feel like running away fast.
I feel him tense up and I feel like telling him was a mistake. I sit there in silence, over heating and feeling like crying. Then I feel his other hand brush against my cheek, causing me to lock eyes with him, the butterflies in my stomach return in full force. "Rika." His voice is soft. "I like you too, but.." My heart clenched at the word but. "But I don't want you to miss out on someone else because of me." I look at him stunned. "What do you mean?" I ask confused. He sighs and turns his back to me. "My father wishes us to be married after we graduate. I wouldn't want you to have only experienced a relationship with only me." "But I don't want any one else, Shoto." "But you might, or you might get bored of me or curious about someone else." I understood what he meant and I could tell that he put a lot of thought into this, so there was no convincing him other wise. "Fine, but if we do meet someone we want to experiment with, we have to be straight up and tell them our heart belongs to someone else." He locks eyes with mine once again. "We?" I nod. "Everything you said could be true about you too." He blinked. "But I don't want anyone else." I smiled and quoted him. "But you might." He seemed to relax more now. I leaned into his back and wrapped my arms around his torso. "And I'd want you to be my first, when the time comes." I said softly as I closed my eyes. I felt him feel hotter against my cheek. "Okay." He agreed and I felt him begin to cool off. I smiled happily with a soft yawn.
"Anyways, you should be going back to sleep. We have to be up early for school." I nod and curl back up in bed. Todoroki tucks me in again, but this time he leaves a small kiss on my forehead. "Goodnight, Rika." "Goodnight, Shoto."
And that was the first of good night sleeps.
