Shouto on his way to the station when he saw her.
Kimura.
Dressed in casual clothes, she's smiling as she chatted with that friend of hers from General Education. The purple-haired teen that got dragged along standing a little to the side, looking annoyed as the white-haired girl with the twin tails introduced them. She soon bid them goodbye and walked in his direction.
He turned to walk away, but then she bumped directly in his back and stumbled to the ground.
"Oh, sorry, I wasn't watching—" she looked up, and blinked.
"Todoroki?" She straightened slightly, and as her hood slipped off he found this scenario incredibly familiar— have he met her somewhere else before? With a sigh he offered her a hand and she took it, pulling herself up. "Thanks. Oh, and sorry about hitting you with my bow. I should've just drained you instead of smacking you like that. It was stupid." She grinned and he raised an eyebrow.
"It was a combat exercise. Don't apologise." He said, and turned to continue his way to the station. The girl jogged by him and caught up.
"Hey, how does it feel, to have ice powers?" She asked, staring at him with curious eyes, "is it really cold, or are you not bothered by it?"
He glanced at her, a little annoyed, "The cold never bothered me."
She snorted out a laugh; he gave her a weird look.
"You just quoted a Disney Princess. Technically queen but whatever." She chuckled, "never took you for that type, Peppermint Swirl!"
Peppermint Swirl?!
He glanced at her, bewildered. She only chuckled and pointed at his hair, grinning.
They walked for a few minutes in silence, heading in the same direction. Shouto gave her a slightly alarmed look as she got on the same train as him, but by the surprised expression on her face she probably isn't following him on purpose.
"Actually, I have a question." Shouto asked after a while of standing by the girl in silence, "Your quirk seems to be rather extensive." She glanced at him, "what is your quirk? I still haven't figured it out."
"Oh. It is very extensive." She nodded in answer, "it's... Rather unusual, actually— it's a form of manipulation and alteration, albeit mutated." She sighed. "For convenience, I call it Sorcery. But it's actually 'Complete Convertable Energy Manipulation and Charged Energy Telekinesis'."
His head whirled around to look at her. What the name implied...
That is a lot of power. Overwhelmingly so.
"I know. It sounds powerful. It sounds amazing and stuff." She grumbled, "it's not. A slip of concentration and I become either a freaking energy black hole or a ticking time bomb. And that is not cool. Not at all."
He looked away. A weakness, huh.
"A little stupid to give away your weaknesses, isn't it?"
"Well giving away weaknesses to enemies is stupid, but to an ally it's smart." She retorted, grinning, "So someone who knows you've got your back covered, right, Peppermint Swirl?"
He rose an eyebrow, and decided to look away.
The girl continued to babble and held an one-sided conversation for several minutes, but quieted after that.
When the train arrived at his station, he stood up and got off, Kimura following behind him.
He gave her a slightly surprised look. So she lives nearby, huh? Throughout his entire way back to his house he expected her to turn off in another direction, but she didn't and stuck next to him the whole way. And finally when he arrived at the Hōhana area he turned to face her.
"You live in the Hōhana—?"
"Peppermint Swirl, You live—?"
They stopped and Kimura giggled. "Yeah. I live here." She answered.
He glanced at the casual clothes she has on, they are all normal brands, nothing expensive or what you'd expect a rich kid would wear but then he noticed her shoes, well nevermind.
They continued their way up the hill, taking the same route until almost halfway up the slape and at the Ringoki lane, conveniently the same place where he...
Kimura took a turn for the Southern Area, just as he turned for the Northside. He stopped a little, before turning around and calling out.
"Kimura."
The girl turned around. Golden eyes staring at him with a questioning gaze. Very familiar, like he've seen them before.
Last Christmas Eve—
"...nevermind." He shook his head. What are the odds, really? He turned around and began to walk away.
Little did he know Akemi was staring at his silhouette with a stunned gaze, blinking slightly.
"...the scarf guy?"
Please RnR for Todoroki to figure it out!
