Frost Chapter 6

Todoroki was tempted to take Yuki away from Katsuki, he had been bouncing her in his lap looking at her with curious discontentment but hadn't said a word. It was likely that he had likely already figured out what happened. "Are you going to tell Deku?"

Todoroki shifted, it was something that had been on his mind. He wanted to tell Deku, they had been best friends all throughout high school after all. But the current situation made it almost impossible to tell him. A landline or a phone wasn't safe enough to say this information, and the storm outside raged too hard to tell him in person. The fewer people that knew about Uraraka and Yuki the better. But Deku would never do anything to put either of them in danger. "I will."

Katsuki's eyes shifted back to Yuki, "It's strange that you haven't tried to tell him already."

Todoroki reached to take Yuki, "There wasn't a safe way to tell him about them. I'm sure he'd understand that their safety had to come first."

Katsuki shifted Yuki away from him, "Your hands are shaking, you're not holding her. And I'm sure safer worked out just fine." Katsuki's eyes shifted to the door where Uraraka was pacing. Behind that door, Air-Lock was likely receiving emergency surgery to save their life. "You should've come to us as soon as this happened. You made a decision that left your old classmates out in the pouring snow thinking that you two were dead and might've destroyed your intern's future. You're supposed to be smarter than this."

Todoroki lowered his head, "I know." He glanced up, "Both of us?"

"You do realize that you've never not picked up the phone for Deku right? We were on our way over when we got the call."

Todoroki nodded, "Where is Midoriya?"

"Likely checking out your house for any other possible attacks. I wouldn't be surprised that he wants you to stay with him for the next couple days." Katsuki sighed.

"And if I explained to him that I wasn't the target?"

"Heck you weren't the target, your intern's neck was crushed-" Katsuki paused his rant, eyes darting down to Yuki in his arms, "A child? This child isn't even old enough to have a quirk."

"Well, about that-"

" Who's child is this anyway?"

Todoroki choked. Katsuki had seen the way they were both shaking and insisted on being the one to hold Yuki on the way to the hospital and had refused to let either of them hold the child. Todoroki thought that Katsuki had already managed to figure it out on his own.

"You don't know? But why were you looking for Uraraka?"

"Huh? Don't be dumb. She's been reported missing all over the place, of course we'd go looking for her." Katsuki snapped, eyes shifting down towards the child then back to Uraraka, "What did she do?"

"It's nothing she did."

"I'm going to pumble someone."

"Too late." He could almost see Katsuki's face contort on that response.

"People like that you share with the class." Katsuki sighed. Uraraka moved back reaching for Yuki. "Uraraka, are you okay?"

Uraraka's eyes darted towards his. Todoroki had never actually suspected to hear those words coming from Katsuki. "Yeah." She whispered, lowering herself to next to Katsuki, "I think it was coming to this. My parents messaged me that they finally got back on their feet, I didn't want to startle them by telling them I was unhappy with my marriage, but…" Uraraka glanced down towards Yuki, "When I realized I was pregnant. I think I finally decided I needed to go. I could subject myself to the marriage, but I couldn't let someone else suffer the way I was just because of-" Uraraka's eyes drew to him, she darted away.

Todoroki shifted in his seat, "It's okay. I knew what he was after."

The door nearest operation door slid open, Uraraka's face melted, her arms tightened on Yuki, and she shifted back Todoroki knew that she was almost touching Katsuki. He turned. Mr. Eden was standing in the doorway. "Apparently your fond of a face arrangement."

Mr. Eden glanced towards Uraraka and Katsuki, "You wouldn't dare. Not with witnesses this time."

"You seem to be under the wrong understanding here Mr. Eden." Todoroki stood, brushing himself off, "I know which villains you pay off to do your dirty work. And I also know that you sent the villain that destroyed Uraraka's family's business her senior year after them. It explains why you knew their situation so fast, and why you were so eager to help. In exchange for something of course." Todoroki explained, "There's also the fact that you sent that villain to my house. Other than I punched you, you had no reason to believe that Uraraka was anywhere near my house. I haven't seen her in four years after all."

Katsuki stood, moving Uraraka to behind him, and setting Yuki in her arms.

"Well, you're an anti-quirk marriage right's activist after all. I had to suspect that you stole my wife."

Todoroki took a breath, this man must've been a form of stupid, the stupid was overflowing and exploding out of this man's mouth, "You don't seem to understand who you're surrounded by."

"I know exactly who I'm with and I'm sure they'll hear my side of the story out over an aristocrat that's been handed everything in his life."

Katsuki let out a laugh, "I can't believe he's this pathetic. Todoroki, I'm almost going to feel sorry for hitting him."

Mr. Eden took several steps back. "And I thought you were a smart man."

"Why do you keep saying that stop it?!"

Katsuki was several feet from Mr. Eden, "It's cuz you're an idiot."

"I'm a victim here! My wife was kidnapped! Listen to me!" Mr. Eden shouted, ultimately not ready to meet his demise. Which he probably should've been with that he had decided to do and then walk into a room with her classmates. Katsuki took him by the collar, throwing him a crossed the room towards the door, the door slid open. Deku glanced down towards the man at his feet.

"Who's this?"

"The man who volunteered to be the class piñata at our reunion."

Deku sighed, "Katsuki! How many times do I have to tell a reunion doesn't need a human-piñata."

Katsuki shook his head, grabbing the man on the floor, "This man has so graciously volunteered. He promised to be the class piñata instead of serving time for his crimes."

"Kaachan, listen, people can't substitute their crimes with something like that. Even people doing community service spend some time-" The man crawled up Deku's leg.

"Please, please, help me."

Deku glanced down with his signature smile, "Sure. I'll escort you to the jail."

"You didn't even ask my crimes I'm innocent why would you believe these people?"

Todoroki scoffed, "He didn't research our class very well. He should be surprised that he got away with what he did for so long."

Katsuki glanced over his shoulder, "We're going to take him away. That all right with you?" Uraraka nodded. "Well, you heard the lady." Katsuki lowered himself to the man's ear, then drew away. Panic ran across the man's face as he backed up to Deku.

Midoriya slammed a hand down on the man's shoulder, "Now, Kaachan, don't scare the prisoners."

Todoroki sighed, "Wait. I've got something to say to him too. The words should be simple enough for him to understand." The man nodded rapidly. It could've been his tone, it could've been the fire that was blazing from his right hand, but either way, Todoroki was pretty sure that the man would understand his point, "First, I'm going to sign with the anti-quirk marriage advocates. They're about to start making jumps and leaps in the laws. And second, if you approach any of the people that are under my protection again I will torture you in ways that you could never imagine. Understand?"

The man nodded, rapidly clinging to Deku. Deku let out a small chuckle, "You're clinging to the wrong person if you want to be saved from him. You're probably better off trying Kaachan."

Katsuki scoffed, turning back to Uraraka, "You're safe now. You don't have to cling to the child to the point you're going to suffocate it."

"I'll be back," Deku explained, taking Mr. Eden down the stairs.

Katsuki sighed, turning to go with him, "Both of you need to learn to check in more often. I'll go with Deku, someone needs to give a clear report on what happened."

Uraraka glanced down nodding and attempting to pull down one of her sleeves further than it was able to go. Todoroki sighed, sitting next to her. He glanced towards the door where the surgery was taking place, it was still going on.

"Air-Lock's going to be fine. They've got you as a teacher after all." Uraraka shifted, leaning her head on his shoulder. Todoroki glanced down towards her, Uraraka had shifted off into sleep. He was definitely signing that paperwork in the morning. Tomorrow morning, he was going to start making leaps against quirk-marriages. He wasn't just going to be the spokesperson or allow them to make him the symbol and face, he was going to be the go-to man, he was going to be elbow deep in saving people from this fate.