Todoroki POV

It wasn't even light out when they woke us up. I was sitting up, awake and alert quickly. Enji would often wake me up for training at this hour. The rest of the required more "encouragement" from Aizawa and Tigger. This "encouragement" made me feel scared and small. I had to resist the urge to not curl in on myself and shut down. I felt a warm hand touch my shoulder but it was gentle, and it came with Midoriya's kind voice. "Are you ok Todoroki-kun," his kind voice was laced with worry. I just nodded, I didn't want to just dismiss him but I didn't want to say anything in front of the rest of the class. Then I looked into his green eyes as he looked into mine. I wanted to just stay that way but I heard the sounds of our classmates waking up.

"We should get ready," I told him as I forced myself to look away.

"Ye-yeah," he stumbled cheeks pink again which was actually very cute.

Midoriya POV

When we were woken up I saw that Todoroki-kun was really tense, maybe their yelling at us triggered him a little and his sister said that touch helps him get better. I wanted to pull him into a hug but I knew that it would draw too much attention to us and we're just friends anyway and two boys don't hug unless they're dating but I felt I needed to do something.

I sat up and put my hand on his shoulder careful not to be forceful and make it worse, I also asked if he was ok and he didn't say anything. He just nodded then he looked into my eyes and my brain stopped working. Then he looked away so we could get ready. I stammered out a yeah as I remembered where we were. We quickly got ready and went down for breakfast. The sun was still rising As we waited for everyone and the colors were so pretty I never saw one this clear, I just started at it. I noticed my crush standing next to me. His left arm brushed against my arm it was so warm it was always warm but it felt extra warm because it was so cold out and his hand was so close to mine I really wanted to just grab it, but I couldn't I couldn't risk our friendship.

"It really is beautiful, he said.

I turned to face him he looked perfect. "Yeah, I like looking at beautiful things," He made that small smile and felt my face beat up why did I say that I can't believe I said that! He turned to look at me and I forced myself to look away so he wouldn't see how red my face was. Luckily the Wild Wild Pussy cats called everyone over. before my mind could spiral into figuring out exactly what that meant.

Todoroki POV

"I know we said that we wouldn't be cooking for you but we figured we'd make you breakfast!" Mandalay's projected into our heads. The food wasn't fancy and no one ate as rigorously as last night. We all knew that we'd be doing some form of intensive exercise after. A few of my classmates were still half asleep. Iida was wide awake and talking to Midoriya-kun about what we were to do today. A more accurate description would be Iida asked Midoriya and he just started listing possibilities. I was happy to just listen.

After we finished we were all separated to work on our quirks. I was almost boiled when I was allowed out of the water for lunch, which was simply make your own sandwich. I still have a long way to go to control the heat of MY fire. I was back in the water as soon as lunch was done.

Todoroki POV

No one was happy when we were told that we were making our own dinner. Iida managed to make a speech about how making food for those that were just rescued can calm them. This somehow got everyone on board with this. I didn't know anything about cooking. I had never cooked a meal for myself before. I was afraid that I wouldn't be very helpful, but I was useful in other ways such as lighting all of the fires. The food came out terrible but we all ate it, training does make people hungry. Once the food was made I looked for Midoriya-kun. I couldn't find him and I didn't know what I should do Midoriya-kun, I know he wants to help Kota. He likes helping people. That's one of the things I love about him but he can't skip lunch, he's using so much energy with Tiger's physical training. He needs to eat. I want to go after him, but I know I'm not good with kids. I'd probably mess up any progress he made with Kota. I ended up sitting with Koda, along with Sato, and we ate in a comfortable silence.

Midoriya POV

I knew that Kota didn't like heroes and hero students and he wasn't with the others for dinner so I thought that I'd bring him some food. I found footprints going up a path in the cliff so I followed them and found him by a cave. "I thought you might be hungry, you can eat this curry."

"You..! how'd you find this place?" He didn't sound happy to see me, but I just wanted to help him.

I got anxious as I realized what I just did to him, as I told him about his footprints. My need to help him let me push back my anxiety and offer him a plate of curry. He didn't want to talk to me of eat he just wanted me out of his secret hideout. It was cool that he had one of those I wished that I had one when I was his age, but it was hard just leaving my house once I got my quirkless diagnosis. It seemed really cool then he started talking again.

"Getting all into trying to improve your quirk. It's gross." he's crying now, and I didn't know how to respond so I just listened sometimes what you need is just someone to listen to you not just be there while you talk but actually listen to you. "You want to show off your power that badly?" I knew this had to be about his parents but what do I do should I bring it up? Maybe it will help I hope it will help.

"Your parents, could they be Water Hose? With the water quirks?"

"Did Mandalay tell you!" and now he's angry! I guess it's because they died recently and he remembers them but I have no problem if someone were to bring up my dad. I really didn't know what to do here I want to help them and now he's yelling at me. I stammered saying that I figured it out, and apologized.

"It was an unfortunate incident. I remember it."

He looked away did I do something wrong? "Everyone's crazy...calling each other stupid names like "hero" and "villain" and killing each other. Talking about quirks and stuff it's because they're all showing off that it ended up like that... stupid..."

Kota hates all quirks.. and the superhuman society itself...I need to tell him what it was like growing up without anything to show off, I wanted to tell him that it's not the quirk that makes the hero but how do I explain my past without saying that it was me? It was a friend!

"What is it? If there's nothing else, then go away!" he shot back at me, but I did have more to say.

"Um, well," I stammered, but I was determined to tell him this. No matter how hard! I focused my attention on the food I brought him, making it easier to talk, "My friend... couldn't inherit any quirks from his parents..." he made a sound of confusion, and I continued. "it's a hereditary thing, and apparently it's rare but it does happen...but he admired heroes and and wanted to become one," I did my best to keep my mind focused on the words, not the emotions. "But you can't be one these days without a quirk... My friend couldn't accept that for a long time and practiced ..trying to draw objects to him, and breathe fire, but it was no good. There are a lot of different ways to think about quirks, so I don't know if this'll apply to everyone, but if you reject it that much, then it'll just make it more painful for you," apparently that was the wrong thing to say! He's yelling at me to leave! "Sorry. I'm just Rambling... I'll leave the curry here," I placed it on the ground and went back to the others.

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