Chapter 2

Todoroki could feel the lack of sleep buzzing behind his eyes as he listened to his new boss talk about what he would be doing during the day. The clank of the dishes continued from the next room as though a death threat was a normal occurrence. He had known his life that business wasn't always safe, but it wasn't as dangerous to get an everyday death-threat. Todoroki glanced through the crack in the door where he could see Momo, inaudible, laughing as she communicated with the cooks from her stool.

"Shouldn't you be taking this situation with more than a grain of salt?"

"If I did, it would alert Momo. I want you to keep it from her." His boss shuffled through some paperwork without a glance at him.

"She'll be in more danger that way."

"Once someone steals your sense of security you never get it back."

"And this is exactly how that is done."

"Not if you're around. She'll need someone to lean on if things get rough."

"And I'm trustworthy to do that?"

"We'll find out, get out of here. You're not listening anyway." Todoroki glanced towards his boss paging through the paperwork, "See what'd I say."

"I'm listening, just surprised someone so famous for his intelligence would make such poor plans. I'll go see Momo then." He turned back, "If she doesn't know the reasoning she came all the way home, by foot nonetheless, then why does she think she here?" He glanced looking over his boss' grimacing face.

"I'd rather you not know, but since you're going to be her bodyguard, you're going to have to come with us anyway. The school says she's been distraught since the passing of her mother. It's hopefully a time of relief for her."

"And you thought it'd be best to put the pyro with her to calm her down?" Todoroki scoffed, shutting the door behind him without waiting for an answer. His boss was a disaster. To him, it was unclear how he had become the leader of an upstart company that began only recently.

Moving to the kitchen Todoroki stood wandering towards the kitchen where the bustle continued and voices became more audible, "I think he's very cute, but honestly dear, please be careful. He's been sent here because of impulsive and dangerous tendencies."

"You should be glad he decided to be impulsive that day or I'd still be walking."

"I'm not saying that I'm not glad that he was. I'm saying you should be careful around him. He's right on one count, I would like to rebel against your dad and get you some self-defense training."

Momo sighed, "I'm sure he has his reasons."

A dish clanked against the counter, forcibly, as though it had been more than put down, "His reasons are stupid and selfish. Just because you're a lady does not mean you should not know how to defend yourself no matter what anybody says. I just feel bad that, that poor kid is caught up in the middle of all of it when he has his own problems."

Todoroki sighed, sending several knocks on the door. There was no reason to be rude to the staff no matter how much he was tempted. He knew it wasn't like him. But heck these last several weeks were nowhere near like him. He wasn't even sure who he was anymore. Maybe that was an answer he could find why he was here.

"Todoroki!" Momo smiled jumping off her stool as she went to greet him.

He glanced towards the servant, their ears tipped red as they glanced away, "I'll do my job, then I'll leave." He stated, his voice contradicting his inside, it sounded cool and controlled. "One of those things is to practice being a bodyguard apparently."

Momo's eyes lit up as she excited bounced towards him, "That's wonderful! Which of our employees will you be guarding? Will it be a bigwig contractor? Or maybe-" Momo's eyes buzzed, a sparkle radiated in them. There was no way he could see the radiating depression that her school had sent her home for with the way she was looking at him.

"You."

The sparkle faded in her eyes as he could tell she was struggling to keep the look she had previously, "That's not fair, I'll get you someone better. Someone you can brag about when you go back home."

He could hear her heels click behind him as he reached out grabbing her wrist, "I wouldn't mind you. I'd hope you wouldn't fire me so easily."

Momo turned to her heat rising up her face, "No, that's not what I meant. I meant being with me would be so boring! What are you going to guard me from? The daisies?" Mom laughed gesturing to a flower pot full of dirt, but not a flower to be seen.

He shot her a soft smile wishing that he could tell her the truth, but the straightforwardness that glowed in her eyes and her sung in her voice was something unusual he wanted to hear and see those looks more. "I don't think a day with you has been boring yet."

Momo let a smile escape, "Guard me well Mr. Knight."

Author's Note: Sorry that I haven't posted as fast as we all would've liked, but I'm currently in college [one more semester almost there!], finals are in the end of November. early December so I can promise that it won't be much longer until the second chapter, but there might be that almost month gap because I'm exhausted, French and Math are so hard, but I'm almost there so that means less me time, more work, more school, less creative juices because I'm exhausted. I promise when I get the chance I'll try to make the next chapter lengthier because of these big breaks! I've read all of your guys' reviews and you all always make me smile thank you so much!