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His father never gives him the pleasure of having things, the only thing he has that’s important to him is Mama’s quirk and Touya’s fire. He wishes he could give it back to him, he doesn’t want fire. Touya does though, he wants to give it back. He wants to give everything he took from Touya back, he knows it’s not possible. He wishes it was. If he could give it back he would without hesitation, this isn’t his quirk. He knows it isn’t. But he won’t let Touya’s quirk go to waste either.
He’s currently 7 years old, (“Please stop pushing him, he's only five years old- ”) wrapping up bandages has now become a daily occurrence for him. (From Mama to Touya to him -) He’s used to it by now honestly, he doesn’t know what else to expect, it’s all he knows. He’s made to be a hero and that’s what he’s gonna be.
His father is leading him to be a hero, he’s learned the consequences of disobeying.
(“Shouto meet me in the training room!”
“No! You hurt Mama!”
“Today we’ll be going through a different type of training. Meet me in my bedroom, boy. It’s was your mothers training.”)
(“I’m sorry Father i-i’ll be good i’m sorry please d-don’t-” His words get cut off as he lets out a hoarse scream. He’s never gone through this type of training, it’s always his quirk. He can’t see, he’s not using his quirk. This is unfamiliar training, he doesn’t like unfamiliar training.
“Crying is weak Shouto.”
“I’ll train with you please I-I don’t want this-” He chokes on a sob and suppresses it with his fist, crying is weak. He doesn’t want to upset his Father more than he already has.
He doesn’t like his mothers training.
He doesn’t want his Father to see Mama when he touches him.)
His Father recently left for hero work. (It’s all he does, he doesn’t change between work and home. We become the villains and he’s always the hero.) He’s left exploring from there, even with his seven years living in this place he never really gets to see other sides of the house. He mainly knows the way to the training room and his room by heart, he doesn’t go to the backyard again. (“They live in a different world than what i’m training you for.”) He does need to pass the backyard to get to the other part of the house though.
He lets his feet guide him as he takes in the view of the backyard, he admires all the flowers (Fuyumi always replants them, Father never pays attention to her anyway.) and takes in the colors for a moment. He realizes he must be looking at them for too long and his once shimmering eyes filled with admiration now dulled to despair he starts to make his way to the other part of the house.
Meow!
He should continue moving..but the noise is probably more interesting than exploring a quiet house right?
Meow!
Yeah, he’s found something more interesting.
He turns around in a swift movement and makes his way towards the mysterious noise, he wonders what could make such a noise.
He makes his way into the backyard as the noise grows in pitch, as he gets closer he sees a pure white... cloud? He’s pretty sure clouds are in the sky though..
Ah , it’s a cat. He crouches down and stares into their bright blue eyes. The eyes look to be the same color of his ice. Their ears, paws, and their tail have the same tone of blue as tips to add to their unique look. He reaches out with his right hand and let’s the cat explore him as he admires them.
He knows he’s only allowed very little things to himself. He knows his father would never approve of an animal, but this one he wants to fight for. After a quick glance he learns they’re a girl.
“..Soba?” He knows people usually name their pets, there’s not much his mind comes up with anyway. Besides, he wants to name her something he loves.
I like it, meow
What?
“Can you understand me?” He doesn’t remember people talking to their animals…
Stop talking out loud you look weird, I can understand you if you try to talk with me through your mind too, meow
Really?
I can, meow
I don’t think you’re a normal cat, do people talk to their cats like this?
No, I'm special. I’m also yours now as well, I trust you will not take advantage of me for negative purposes, meow
I don’t want to do that, how does this work though? If you’re not a normal cat what doesn’t make you normal besides talking?
I have your quirks, I’m here to find someone compatible with me. You found me, nobody else could hear me since it was for you, meow
Oh, okay
I will grow as you grow, by time you hit your teenage years I will be bigger than you and usable to ride, meow
Like a lion but bigger?
Yes, now go. You have training, but take me with you, meow
I don’t think that’s a good idea.
We’re a team, your father won’t be able to separate us, meow
I trust you.
Sure enough, he hears his father’s steps and the door opening to the house. He looks at Soba before she hops on his shoulder making sure to not dig her claws into his skin. He gives her a quick pat on her head before making his way to the training room.
Soba didn’t lie, his father can’t separate them. He now gets time to train with Soba too.
Unfortunately Soba can’t stop what he had to go through to get his Father to agree to Soba.
(“I’ll do anything please let me keep her!” He’s not one to beg, his father doesn’t like weakness. But Shouto would do anything for Soba, even if he has to disobey his rules in the process.
“Get in the box.”
“No please i’m sor-”
“DO NOT DISRESPECT ME.”
He frantically rushes to his room and quickly places Soba there before closing the door.
“I’ll be back soon, please stay here Soba!”
He doesn’t want this type of training, it’s the only way to improve his ice. His father said there’s no other way, he hasn’t found another way yet.
He believes him. There’s nothing else to believe.
He makes his way to the training room, his Father’s already there.
He slams his knees against the floor and places his arms in the slot before they get clamped in the box. He can’t move his arms, he knows this. He’s tried, never again since then.
His Father yanks him up by his arms, he’s used to this. It’s familiar training, he still doesn’t like familiar training. At Least he knows what’s going to happen, he doesn’t like unfamiliar training.
He practically drags him into a room, he knows where they are. They have an indoor pool, it’s never used for fun. It’s used for Shouto’s training.
“Remove your clothes up to your boxers, wait by the pool.”
“Yes Father.”
He doesn’t want his Father to wait, he’s like a ticking time bomb. He doesn’t want it to hit zero, he knows what happens. This timb bomb never dies when it hits zero, it explodes and leaves sparks of embers on everyone around it until they catch fire. Nobody puts them out.
They pay attention to the timb bomb instead. The embers will always be shadowed, and when they ignite they say it came from the time bomb.
Shouto wants to be his own ember, he wants to start his own fire. He doesn’t want it to ignite, he wants it to bring light.
He doesn’t want to be his Fathers ember.
His Father pushes him underwater, he strains his ears to listen to the muffled voice of his Father.
“Freeze the water, Shouto!”
He complies.
“Melt the ice Shouto! Use your left!”
He uses Touya’s fire, he uses his own fire.
He doesn’t like the way his Father looks at him, he has to keep his eyes open. It’s an order. He doesn’t squirm, his Father looks at him like he used to look at Mama. He treats him like he used to treat Mama, he’s her replacement for her training.
He doesn’t know how long this goes on for, he can’t keep track. His mind’s too foggy to count. He’s exhausted, he won’t let his Father know. He only pushes, he never pulls. If he doesn’t push, he drags.
Shouto has to keep up.
Soba also didn’t lie about growing, she’s able to shrink into a normal cat size but her true size is as tall as his old man. She can’t fit through the hallways in width so she mostly goes into her smaller form in the house.
He’s 15 now and he’s been training with Soba for 8 years. Soba’s quirk grows as his fire and ice grow as well from what he observed. The U.A entrance exams start tomorrow and he’s pretty excited. He wants to do his best and introduce himself as Shouto. He knows people are gonna know who’s son he is but he wants to show them who Soba and Shouto are.
Ready for tomorrow?, meow
Yeah, I know we can do this. Are you ready?
Always, meow
He lets himself have one of his few moments of peace and pets Soba as he lets sleep take over both of them.
Meow!
Meow!
MEOW!
“I’m up, I'm up!” He’s used to having Soba as his alarm, which doesn't mean he likes to be woken up.
It’s time for U.A entrance exam Shoto, meow
I know I'm getting ready.
His old man put him through recommendation, he doesn’t mind too much. He’s getting into the U.A with his own quirk.
“Don’t make me regret giving you and your mutt a chance, Shouto.”
“Soba’s not a mutt.”
“Do not disrespect or humiliate me Shouto you are my masterpiece!”
“Whatever old man.” He has better things to do, none of those things are to make his old man proud.
The written test wasn’t too bad, he’s been taught most of it by Endeavor. He has some trouble with the questions asking about his opinions but he manages.
He’s gotten some curious looks at Soba but he doesn’t mind. He knows his old man didn’t give any information about Soba to U.A but they’re fine with that. He likes to talk with Soba to pass time before they come and collect his written test.
Eventually someone comes with a banana yellow hair and neon green glasses, he recognizes them as Present Mic.
“This way little listener to the recommendation practical test!”
Shouto gets up after turning his paper to put it face down on the desk before making his way to follow Present Mic.
“Ooh! What’s up with the cat little listener? What’s their name? I think Shouta would love you!”
Shouta? Ah, he’s most likely talking about Aizawa Shouta. He didn’t think such polar opposites would be close.
“Her name is Soba, it’s hard to explain but I think you’ll see eventually.”
“You’re interesting little listener! I like you! I’m honestly glad you seem more on the calm side! You and your father are like total opposites!”
Ah, he already knows people are gonna assume his personality based on Endeavor. He wants to change that, he is going to change that.
They fall into a mutual silence as they arrive at the recommendation practical exam.
“Good luck little listener!”
He mumbles out a thank you before making his way to the starting line to join the other 5 students.
Since this is mainly a race I think it’d be best if we used our ice, I'm sure they don’t know about you sharing my quirk so when we get near the end would you mind giving me a boost? If someone starts getting ahead though I get to ride you the rest of the way.
Seems like a good idea to me, meow
Alright.
He places Soba down beside him before they start, he learned a while ago Soba can keep up and go faster than him in both forms.
“-AND GO!”
He sends off a blast of ice and they make their way, he notices the student on his left seems to have a wind quirk. He knows the student has an advantage as they start nearing the halfway mark.
As they reach the halfway point and he glances to his left and sees the student with the wind quirk take the lead barely.
I’m ready.
Purrfect, meow
Soba quickly transforms and Shouto uses his ice to make a quick ramp to hop on her while they're still running. She doesn’t use her ice since her speed is enough. Shouto takes a quick glance behind him to see the shocked faces of several of the students still running before they regain focus.
Soba reaches the end and quickly stops bringing up some dust with her. Shouto gives her a quick ruffle on her head which she leans into before hopping off of her.
He whips around when he sees the one with the wind quirk reach the end seconds later.
The wind user is shocked as well but still congratulates him. He finds out the boy’s name when he introduces himself as Yoarashi Inasa. Shouto isn’t used to meeting new people that aren’t pro heroes or higher up so he doesn’t really know what to say. He ignores him and goes over to where Present Mic’s jaw is dropped.
He glances back and sees Yoarashi with an expression he sees quite often, just slightly more milder, anger. He’s most likely made an enemy, he’s usually used to talking to Soba though and Soba’s used to his body language. He’ll have to use what he’s learned with Soba then, he won’t be like Endeavor. Teamwork isn’t something his father works well with, he’s not his old man.
He looks back to Present mic and it seems he has finally lifted his jaw from it’s shocked expression.
“THAT’S A VERY SPEEDY CAT LITTLE LISTENER!”
Why does he get louder the more excited he gets? He hopes he doesn’t make him excited often if he has to deal with that.
“Thank you Yamada-san”
He looks over to Yoarashi and catches him glaring at him before Present Mic leads them out.
He’s loud, it’s a nice loud though I suppose, meow
I guess
There should be an interview next, right? Meow
Yeah, then we have to go home and wait for results whenever they come.
I think we’ll make it in, they don’t know what we're capable of, meow
I think so too.
“Interview time little listener!”
He heads home mostly just tired, the interview mostly made him tired so he heads towards the kitchen. He mainly wants to check for dinner, he never really knows besides the fact that most of the time it’s Zaru Soba or something his father made the maid make for his diet.
Fuyumi left recently, he knew she was mainly staying to keep her father together and keep being the maid of the house, she assumed everything was safe and eventually left. They now have maids that do most of the things Endeavor claims is a womens job, he helps them out when his old man’s not home though.
Natsuo left as soon as possible, he’s 18 now and in college. He doesn’t know which college.
The maids know what’s going on in the household, they can’t tell. One maid tried telling once, Shouto liked her. She ended up in the hospital for 3rd degree burns, the hero commission covered it up. He’s not surprised, he’s lost that emotion. He’s lost most of his emotions, they're mostly locked up. He lets himself unlock around Soba, she’s the only one who can stay.
His old man forces them out.
He ends up helping the maids make the Zaru Soba, he eats and encourages them to eat while giving Soba a few noodles as well since he’s learned she can eat a few human dishes before making his way to his room to grab clothes for the shower.
With Soba he learned she doesn’t shed as much as normal cats especially with her amount of fur, it’s not like her fur covers her entire face. It’s mainly just enough to make her look like a cloud and see her eyes.
Even so she still does shed, he usually now sticks with clothes more on the pastel side. Endeavor only tolerates it because he likes to keep a clean image, clothes just happen to fall in that category. He’s glad he gets to control that.
He still washes her every week even if Endeavor tries to get a maid to do it. It’s one thing he has fun doing, he always does it in the backyard since Soba needs to go into her real form for washing.
He washes her every Wednesday, it’s still Saturday so she’s fine. They always have fun during washing.
“SHOUTOOOOOO”
Okay, he’d much rather wake up from Soba.
He waits several minutes on purpose before letting Soba hop onto his shoulder and making his way to Endeavor’s office; he knows he’s always there besides training. He’s always a hero, he’s never a father. He doesn’t know what that is anyway.
“What?”
“Don’t disrespect me Shouto!”
“What do you want, old man?”
“Ungrateful brat, I called you here to see what you scored and if you did good enough to get into class 1-A.”
“Open the letter.”
“Watch your tone Shouto.”
“What tone, Endeavor?”
“It’s Father to you.”
“I’m only calling the number 2 hero what his name is to the world.”
He watches Endeavor smoke as a fire beard starts appearing.
Endeavor throws the U.A letter at Shouto and Soba catches it in her mouth and places it in Shouto’s hand.
“Get out of my office Shouto, training room 20 minutes!”
Shouto takes that as his cue to leave, he turns around to leave and Soba simply sticks her tongue out as Endeavor.
Shouto speeds up when he feels it grow hotter.
“SHOUTOOOO AND YOU DAMN FELINE”
Shouto laughs.
He won’t be laughing for long. Training with Soba is fun, they work together and improve together. Training with Endeavor isn’t fun, they fight against each other. He always ends up hurt.
He reaches his room before shutting the door, his room has been made to fit Soba in her full form and his bed is an abnormally large futon. His father didn’t care since it didn’t change much to his training. He likes it because when nightmares come he feels safe within the soft fur of Soba. Her purring is always a nice feeling and sound.
He looks at the letter with the U.A stamp on it before opening it.
Class 1-A.
He let’s a soft smile take over his face as Soba leaps off his Shoulder and he scratches behind her ears.
We made it
This is just our beginning, meow
“SHOUTOOO”
HISS
Meow
Meow!
“Soba, please have mercy on my ears.”
No, meow
Rude, can you at least get out my uniform while I take a shower?
Sure, meow
He watches Soba go into her normal cat form before sitting up and adjusting his eyes to the sunlight. After several minutes he stands up and makes his way out of his room towards the bathroom, he makes sure to leave his room door and the bathroom door cracked open so Soba can easily push it open.
He looks in the mirror and as predicted he has several bruises lining his arms, mostly his wrist from Endeavor yanking him up every time he gets even close to stumbling. The uniforms are long sleeved so he won’t have to cover anything. He’s used to it.
With a sigh he discards his clothes before stepping into the shower and turns to adjust the water to a lukewarm. He feels all the bruises and sore spots become more bearable and relaxes into the water.
Distantly he can hear Soba coming in and dropping his uniform clothes on the towel he put on a small stool in the bathroom signaling it’s time for him to come out.
He turns off the water before stepping out and grabbing his towel off the stool before drying himself off and beginning his morning routine.
After finishing up drying his hair the last step he completes is separating the two colors. He quickly combs it through letting them untangle before heading out of the bathroom and finding Soba in the living room waiting by the door.
He puts his shoes on before putting his arm out signaling for her to jump on his shoulders. She settles down on his shoulder before he grabs his backpack off the coat rack and they make their way to school.
Endeavor most likely would have made one of his workers drive him but Shouto assumes he was called into work early. He prefers it that way anyways, Soba’s a better and faster car.
Do you mind?
Of course, nothing like a morning jog, meow
She hops off his shoulder and turns into her real form before Shouto hops onto Soba, he doesn’t need his ice this time around since they aren’t really moving or in a rush.
They enjoy the breeze as they make their way to the U.A.
About 2 blocks away from U.A Shouto gets off of Soba and Soba goes back into her normal cat form, they don’t want to cause attention when you randomly come to school riding a giant cat.
She perches back onto his shoulder as they head inside along with other students. He notices some people stare curiously at Soba but they don’t stare for too long. There’s many types of quirks and people with mutations, so Soba isn’t too intriguing, at least not yet.
He makes his way down the halls before finding the large door with 1-A in big letters put on the door.
He’s aware he’s early so he simply opens the door and makes his way inside.
“Greetings! My name is Tenya Iida! Welcome to class 1-A!”
Ah, more loud people. He doesn’t want to make the same mistake he did with Yoarashi.
“Shouto Todoroki.”
“Hi, Todoroki-kun! My name is Momo
Yaoyorozu.”
Shouto simply gives a nod before making his way to his seat, he notices the desks have sticky notes with the student names on it which makes it easier for him to find his seat. He finds out he’s right next to Yaoyorozu.
Neither of them question the cat which he’s thankful for.
He uses the time to wait for the rest of the students talking with Soba, while to the rest of the class that’s entering it just looks like he’s sitting there petting Soba.
Eventually all the students make it in and ignore Shouto and Soba to talk to other people which of course he’s grateful for.
Soba’s ears twitch as she looks towards the front of the class, Shouto follows her gaze to a yellow sleeping bag starting to get up and out of it appears the pro hero Eraserhead. Shouto stops petting Soba and places his hands folded on top of his desk.
He locks eye contact with Eraserhead, well Aizawa-Sensei now he concludes. He sees his teacher glance towards the cat before looking back to the class still talking. A few others have seemed to notice Aizawa-Sensei a few minutes after him and place their hands on their desks as well.
Aizawa exhales an exasperated sigh before letting his hair rise along with his capture weapons and glares towards the class.
“If you’re here to make friends, get out now.”
The ones who didn’t notice scramble to their seats and place their hands on top of the desk. Shouto glances around and notices everybody has their hands on their desk besides a boy with Ash blonde hair who appears to have his hands at his sides.
He’s pretty sure he just watched half of his class develop a speed quirk. (Maybe it comes with being a teacher?)
He watches their homeroom teacher let his hair and capture weapon down before addressing himself to the class. Shouto listens as Aizawa-Sensei takes a roll call and remembers most of their names.
“Todoroki Shouto.”
“Here.”
Meow!
Why?
I wanted to introduce myself, meow
It appears now the class mostly notices his cat now that Soba addressed herself as they direct their eyes at the cat.
“Todoroki, please explain why you have a cat. It doesn’t say anything about your quirk having to do with cats.”
“She helps me.”
Way to go, that makes perfect sense, meow
It’s your fault.
Fair, meow
“We’ll have to see, everyone line up and follow me to the field.”
The test Aizawa-Sensei put them through was honestly easy in Shouto’s opinion, he doesn’t think anyone noticed when Soba pitched in with her ice but it is hard to notice when they both use their ice at the same time. He noticed during the tests some of the students would look at Soba, they honestly don’t know how to show them that Soba isn’t a normal cat. They make it to 2nd place below the Ash blonde which he now sees as Bakugou Katsuki.
Aizawa-Sensei says that no one will be expelled which honestly wasn’t something Shouto worried about, he knew he wouldn’t be in last place either way.
“Todoroki, If your pet is here just for show I would not like her interrupting your hero work.”
And now the class's attention is back on Soba and him, great.
“I can show you.”
Full form I'm guessing? Meow
Yea, whatever quirk I show just show it. Make sure to stay a bit away from me so he doesn’t think it’s just my ice.
Sure, meow
He sees the class look at Soba and him with curious eyes and Bakugou with his eyebrow raised before he scoffs.
Aizawa-Sensei simply raises an eyebrow, “Go ahead Todoroki.”
Shouto nods before stepping a couple feet away from everyone. Soba hops off his shoulder and she moves a couple feet apart from Shouto.
Shouto raises his right hand and lets his ice produce.
Soba makes sure she’s a good distance and goes into her full form towering over the U.A students along with Aizawa-Sensei.
He sees the look of shock on their faces.
“Is that it Half n Half Bastard!? You just have a giant fucking furball with you?”
Soba glares at Bakugou before letting all four of her paws along with the tip of her tail generate ice.
“No, Soba’s not just a giant furball. Bakugou.”
“WHATEVER IT’S JUST SOME DAMN ICE I COULD BLOW IT TO BITS IN SECONDS WHAT ABOUT THAT HAH?!”
Shouto simply just smirks before letting his right hand generate his blue flames.
“Oh great what’s next the damn furball is gonna have flaming paws HAH?!”
Soba’s blue fire generates onto her tail and melts the previous ice there before shooting out blue flames from her mouth before closing it.
Bakugou finally shuts up, Shouto counts that as a win.
“WHAT THE HELL MAN!” Shouto looks at the rest of their class which have their eyes wide, including Aizawa before he goes back to his apparent dead default look. He finds out the boy who yelled was Kaminari.
“SO MANLY!”
He hears a quiet, “So that’s why I couldn’t communicate with her..”
He assumes it was Kouda, the boy with the animal quirk if he remembers.
“Interesting.” Is what he hears from Aizawa-Sensei.
Shouto takes that as approval to keep Soba.
They have to do a hero vs villain activity which Shouto and Soba are excited for. He has already designed his hero costume and he’s pretty pleased. It’s all an off white color and it’s a one piece. He added multiple velcros to tighten it around many places and it’s pretty adjustable, he picked the material that could hold both his fire and ice.
His hero costume finishes off with a little pad on his back. It looks like a mini backpack, he added it to make sure it regulates his quirk. Soba helped a decent amount, he mainly wanted to go comfortable and flexible. Soba made sure he didn’t forget things for his quirk.
Shouto this isn’t just a hero vs villain activity. Meow
What do you mean?
Well normal heroes missions include teamwork so highly doubt this is something you should use to show off, meow.
Have any ideas?
We have to talk to Shoji as well, meow
Shouto sighs before walking towards Shoji, he doesn’t want to be like Endeavor, he wants to work with people. Not against everyone.
“Hello, you’re my teammate right?”
“Yeah, any ideas Todoroki?”
“Yes, I think I have one.”
They’ve all agreed on their plan, when Aizawa-Sensei says to start, Shoji and Shouto go separate ways.
Shouto and Soba make their way to the center while Shoji does as well on the opposite side. Soba leaps off Shouto’s arm to get a lead and locates Hagakure, once Soba hears Hagekure run after her she speeds around the corner to Shouto and once Hagakure makes it around the corner he sends ice that reaches up to her ankles.
Shouto notices she still has her gloves up in a fighting stance. He simply raises his eyebrow.
“I’d advise you not to move, unless you want to become a footless hero?”
He watches her gloves go to what he assumes is her sides and he concludes she surrenders.
Shouto and Soba make their way to the center where Shoji is holding Ojiro with all of his arms with two on Ojiro’s tail.
Shouto makes his way towards the wall and presses his hand against it as he hears the voice over the field saying the team hero won.
Shouto watches Shoji let go of Ojiro before he makes his way back to Hagakure and takes his left hand to unfreeze her feet.
“You and Soba are so cool Todoroki-kun!”
Meow
“Thank you Hagakure.”
The invisible girl just chuckles before they make their way back to the spectator room.
They do quirk training the next day, Soba and Shouto spend their time switching between their fire and ice as usual. Half way through their training Shouto gets on Soba’s back and they continue training.
He has really interacted too much with the class, he prefers talking to Soba anyways since she’s easier to talk to. Most of the time he talks it comes out as rude, he mainly just wants to get out of the conversation.
There’s not much he has to work on hero wise, his teamwork mainly comes from Soba encouraging him to talk to his classmates when doing activities. Spending years doing team work with Soba has improved that skill he never had until Soba.
Aizawa-Sensei seemed to like the fact that we used teamwork in the hero vs villain activity, he doesn’t know what would have happened without Soba telling him to use teamwork in that activity. (He doesn’t know what he would do without Soba in general.)
On Wednesday’s he wakes up an hour earlier to wash Soba in the backyard, he let’s her sit in the sun while he takes a shower and gets ready. By the time he’s completely ready Soba is dry and waiting at the front door.
They fall into that routine easily, Aizawa-Sensei then announces they’re going to a training zone called USJ. They all load onto the bus and Soba gets comfortable on his shoulder surrounding his neck like a warm (never hot like blazing hand around his throat squeezing -) scarf.
“Soooo Roki! Wanna tell us about Soba?”
Shouto glances around to see most of the students with their eyes on him, the teachers are facing the front so he can’t tell if they’re curious as well.
He finds the person who asked was the same Kaminari kid.
“I met her when I was seven, we found each other I guess. We’ve been training together since then and learning from each other.”
“Wait, someone do the math, how many days is that?!”
“IT’S 8 YEARS FUCKING DUNCE FACE!”
“Thanks Kacchan!”
“DIE!”
“Calm down Bakubro it’s not manly to hurt your friends!”
“I’M NOT ANYBODY’S FRIEND SHITTY HAIR!”
“Blasty will warm up to us soon!”
“HAH?! CAN IT PEPTO BISMO!”
“Bakugou please sit down and refrain from threatening your classmates. It is highly unheroic!”
“DON’T FUCKING TELL ME WHAT TO DO FUCKING FOUR EYES!”
Least the attention’s off of him now.
He leans his head back onto Soba’s fur before closing his eyes for the remainder of the trip.
“We’re here, everybody stand up and follow me off.”
“Aizawa-Sensei, who’s gonna wake up Todoroki-kun?”
“Wait, no way Midoriya’s right, he's asleep!”
“Obviously Pikachu!”
Meow
“What the hell?!”
Meow!
“Woah Todobroki has his own cat alarm!”
“I HAVE A BETTER ALARM THE A STUPID FUCKING FURBALL!”
MEOW!
“She has a powerful meow, kero.”
“What a mad banquet of darkness.”
I don’t know if I should thank you or wish I was still sleeping.
Thank me, meow
I wish I was still sleeping.
Well he’s officially up now, he looks around before yawning and standing up. Soba perched back up on his right shoulder.
“Just follow me, problem children.”
“Problem children- You barely met us!”
“I can tell you’re already in trouble.”
“Aizawa-Sensei with all due respect you shouldn’t make such assumptions about us!”
“I can tell you right now you’re gonna tire yourself out from trying to lead a class filled with trouble. Eventually you’ll turn into them.”
“...”
“It’s okay Iida-kun we believe in you!”
“Thank you Uraraka-san! It is my duty as Class Representative to ensure you all become responsible heroes! ”
They all follow Aizawa-Sensei off the bus, Shouto rubs his eyes to adjust to the bright sun.
When they get there Shouto sees pro hero thirteen, they all listen as she explains about USJ.
Portal, meow
What do you mean portal?
Look!, meow
Shouto sees a black portal and clusters of..villains? Emerged from it, he sees the rest of the class start panicking and asking questions while thirteen places herself in front of them. Shouto watches her costume get sucked up in the mist as he meets a pair of yellow slithers.
The portal emerges around the class and Aizawa-Sensei goes to fight the villains in the center.
He looks around and notices he’s in another part of the USJ, he feels Soba still perched on his shoulder.
I don’t think the teachers came prepared for this, meow
I don’t think so either, do you think villains will come our way?
They may underestimate us, we can use that to our advantage, meow
Alright.
The seconds villains warp in their area they lay out ice and encase most of the villains.
He walks down in between them freezing and weapons coming his way and Soba freezes a large katana from behind him.
“The second we warped here..”
They want something, isn’t all might supposed to be here? Meow
That makes sense.
“What do you want with All Might.” It’s not a question.
A villain mostly encased in ice except his face talks with his teeth chattering, most of it is nonsense and he doesn’t get any information about their reason for attacking.
“Hey, at this rate your cells will slowly die.”
Meow!
“Todoroki-kun!”
He takes a minute to look around before his eyes locate a pair of floating gloves.
“Hagakure.”
She lets out a giggle, “You can call me Tooru Todoroki-kun! It seems we ended up in the same area. I didn’t see anyone else so I thought I was alone..”
“I’m going to head to the center but I think it may be too dangerous with the amount of villains and I don’t want to risk your safety bringing you with me. Could you actually do me a favor and try to gain access to the pro heroes Tooru?”
Shouto merely tilts his head when she lets out a squeal at her name being mentioned.
“Oh and it’s only fitting if you call me Shouto.”
Shouto’s sure if he could see her she would be beaming at this point.
“Of course of course Todo- no! Shouto-kun, I'll do my best! Plus Ultra!”
With that he heads towards the center.
They don’t want to waste time so Soba transforms into her real form and Shouto creates an ice ramp to hop on her and they make their way.
When they get to the center, it’s not fine. Aizawa-Sensei’s face is being slammed into the ground by a man with a bunch of hands clinging to him and sky blue hair.
What the hell is that?
Those appear to be Nomu, I've had a few encounters in my past world. They aren’t wise and follow the orders of whoever leads the creatures. They’re quite powerful, but they have yet to defeat us. With your quirk and me inheriting it should be enough for me to stop it. Heat could also be a solution.
What are they?
They’re mutants of the sort, if they replicated past Nomu’s that means the one’s they’re making are by chemicals or someone being the source. They shouldn’t be too much trouble for me to take out but it may take a toll on All might if he doesn’t have any information of Nomu’s quirks, meow
Should we interfere?
I think so, when we have a clearing and All might backs up it’ll be a wise course of action to take action especially someone with experience which they seem to lack experience with the Nomu, i’ll get the man with sky blue hair attention since it seems to be the controller of the Nomu, meow
Alright.
They watch the fight and Shouto takes notice that it is taking a toll on All Might, he watches as Nomu doesn’t seem affected by All Might's punches. In fact it regenerates and Shouto is not sure if putting it down will be the only thing they have to do to stop it or stay alive at the most.
HISS
It seems as if that catches the man's attention, from what Shouto has observed the man seems to be a bit deranged and more messy in battle. He causes destruction to himself and everyone around him.
“Foolish kids! Don’t get in my way of finally defeating All Might!”
Shouto observes as Nomu keeps attacking All Might.
Is there anything you could do to get it’s attention?
If they used past Nomu’s to create new ones then I don’t think they ever took out it’s instinct to fight against an old enemy, meow
As they have their conversation he watches as Nomu pauses it’s fighting with All Might.
The beast sniffs the air before slowly turning its head towards Soba and Shouto’s direction.
He watches the mutant let out a roar before charging at them as hears some of his frantic classmates calling out his name.
Soba charges and Shouto quickly creates an ice collar around Soba’s neck to hold onto.
Soba uses her leap to land on top of the Nomu before bringing her ice and letting all four paws get surrounded in ice. She uses her icicle claws and stabs it through Nomu's brain.
She uses her back paws and does the same to Nomu’s legs before letting out her blue fire burning the Nomu head while she repeatedly sticks icicle’s through Nomu’s legs till all that’s left is a pile of icicles and mush of body parts, bones, and blood. She knows it will regenerate soon so she moves onto Nomu’s upper body and pierces icicle’s in all directions.
She uses her fangs and rips it’s head off what was once a Nomu and now a pile of blood, bones, and icicles, she throws the head and it lands at Shigaraki’s feet.
Meow
Ah..Shouto didn’t exactly expect that.
That’s just cruel.
The problem is resolved, meow
“You and your damn cat! Ruining my plans of defeating All might-”
“It seems like we came unprepared, we should retreat for now Shigaraki.”
The mist talks?
Maybe it’s not just mist, the yellow slithers seem to be expressing the mist emotions as eyes, meow
Must be a quirk then.
It appears so, meow
The villains walk back into the portal and retreat.
They leave the remains of the Nomu behind them.
Soba starts licking her paws to get rid of the blood and fluids that stain her claws and fur.
“Soba that’s disgusting.”
Soba simply twists her head before using her large tongue to lick off the remains of the Nomu that got on Shouto’s cheek.
Shouto grimaces. Soba doesn’t look sorry.
When they return to U.A Soba and Shouto wait by the gates, the rest of his classmates along with him are waiting for their guardians to pick them up given the event.
Honestly he’s waiting to be the last one to inform the teachers he can go home on his own. Endeavor’s caught up in hero work (thankfully) and he knows when he gets home his old man’s gonna be upset after work. (When is he ever happy? )
Shouto focuses back to reality and realizes his classmates (He doesn’t have friends, he’s not allowed. He knows the rules.) have all been picked up by their respected guardians.
Shouto walks towards one of the staff dismissing the students.
Shouto simply watches as the staff signs off a classmate's departure, he always waits. He doesn’t speak unless spoken to. He used to think of talking back as a sign of bravery, he now knows of it as a foolish attempt to add his own words.
He doesn’t add his own words anymore, he only knows what he’s taught. His Father taught him what he knows. It’s what he believes, you can’t erase a decade worth of being told what he says goes.
He’s tried.
“Todoroki, has your guardian arrived?”
He guesses that it’s his turn to talk.
“My Father is busy at the moment, I think it’d be best if I went home by myself.”
“Is your mother busy as well? I’m sure it wouldn’t be a problem if she could pick you up.”
Ah. He wishes that was true. He wishes she would pick him up after school and ask him about his day, he wishes for a lot of things. He wishes he dreamt of it too, only when darkness surrounds him it’s not dreams. It’s nightmares, he relives his punishments going through rules in his head and he never forgets the rules. Even if he follows the rules he can never get on his Fathers good side. He doesn’t have a good side.
The only time he looks appeased is during his punishments. Shouto doesn’t like that, he doesn’t know what he likes.
He knows he doesn’t like himself.
“My mother is currently not available.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Don’t apologize to me! That’s a sign of weakness! Do you think a villain will spare you if you apologize !? You know the rules boy, yet you still disobey me with your rebellious phase!” He says words like venom, Shouto knows how poisonous it is.
Nothing pleases him, he doesn’t talk back, he knows the rules. So why does he keep disobeying? Why can’t he do anything right? His Father would be calm right now if Shouto didn’t keep making mistakes . He knows he’s hard to deal with, that’s why everyone left .
He knows what punishment he gets for apologizing. If his Fathers words are like venom, he gets venom. Endeavour’s words are never enough, he has to prove it.
So he does.
Shouto is pleasantly surprised when his teacher who had just been crushed into the ground walks into class .
It seems the rest of the class shared the same feelings.
...And Soba.
HISS
Soba what are you doing you can’t just hiss at my teacher -
Tell that idiot to go to bed do you see his eyebags they’re worse than yours-
HISS Meow!
Shouto can tell his class is amused.
“Todobroki your cat seems to be vocal you a cat whisper? Oh! Kouda what’s she saying? Oh forgot you can’t communicate with her oh how so unfortunate- OH Kacchan aren’t you like part pomeranian or something surely you understa-”
“I’M PART WHAT HAH FUCKING PIKACHU WANNA FUCKING SAY THAT TO MY FACE?!”
“Bakugou, we are in the middle of class as class representative-!”
“Aizawa-Sensei are you okay?”
Look what you’ve done- STOP HISSING-
What it looks like to the class is an angry cat hissing and meowing at Aizawa-Sensei.
What it is to Shouto is Soba cursing the hell out of Aizawa-Sensei commanding him to rest.
“Sorry Aizawa-Sensei, she is just worried about you teaching with injuries.”
TELL HIM TO GO TO BED SO HELP I WILL SCRATCH HIS EYES OUT SO HE’S FORCED TO REST-
He needs his eyes Soba-
THAT’S THE POINT-
YOU ARE NOT SCRATCHING MY TEACHERS EYES OUT TO GET HIM TO REST-
WATCH ME-
Soba attempts to leap towards Aizawa-Sensei and would have succeeded had Shouto not grabbed her with grace he didn’t know he could have with your cat on the way to claw their teachers eyes out.
Aizawa-Sensei just looks tired, Shouto’s glad that hasn’t changed at least.
Are you sure I can’t attack him-
Yes.
He literally is injured and still wants a sports festival-
Soba it’s fine he won’t be fighting anyways just commenting.
Yeah, fine whatever. Shouto..Endeavor's gonna know about the sports festival, meow
Shouto..meow
I’ll..i’ll be fine.
We both know you can’t convince yourself like that, meow
You need to get help, meow
I just want someone to listen and believe me. Even if they believe me they can’t take action.
I want help, I can’t get it.