𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗲 - 𝗌. 𝗍𝗈𝖽𝗈𝗋𝗈𝗄𝗂 「✓」 - Chapter 6: Chapter 6

"𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺, 𝘪 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘺𝘢."
"𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶?"
tobio asked his curly/coily haired friend as they left the convince store. she nodded. "i left him on read though." he furrowed his eyebrows in anger and confusion. "you dumbass, why would you do that!?"
y/n was skeptical on why he cared more about the situation than she did. "why does it matter?" she asked, taking a sip from her slushie. "he could've changed his mind on the whole friends thing." tobio said like it was the most obvious thing.
she shook her head. "i doubt it, his dad probably made him do it." now tobio was even more confused. "why would his dad make him text you?"
"because endeavor and my mom are always around each other, so she probably told him that i got into u.a. and wants shoto and i to train together."
"wait what?!" tobio shouted and stopped walking. "your mom hangs out with endeavor?! I thought he was you know..." he trailed off as he looked to the side. "i don't even know if that's true or not. anyways, it's just that..." she said mumbling what she said at the end.
"it's just that what?"
"my mom is kind of coon." y/n whispered. "what?" he asked leaning closer to her. "it was nothing." she said before putting the straw back into her mouth
"come on just tell me." tobio whined. she shook her head no. he rolled his eyes and look away from her. "fine don't tell me." he pouted. she took the straw out of her mouth. "you're such a baby tobio."
he glared at her before attempting to snatch her slushie, but she slapped his hand swiftly moved out of his reach. "aht aht! get back! get back!" she exclaimed. "you're going to drop your slushie." tobio said as he deadpanned. "and you're gonna pay for a new one." she said still moving away from him. "totally." sarcasm present in his tone.
"yamada! l/n!" the two turned towards the voice and saw kirishima, mina, and two other guys trailing behind him. one of them had blond hair with a black lightning bolt on the side. the other guy was tall and had black hair.
"hey!" tobio shouted as he ran towards the group.
y/n walked behind him waving at them. kirishima looked from tobio to y/n then back to tobio. "did we interrupt something?" he asked. "nope." y/n said popping the p as tobio shook his head no. "oh ok i thought you guys were on a date or something." the redhead said catching the two teens off guard.
"kirishima! you almost made me choke on my slushie!" the now flustered girl exclaimed. "sorry l/n!" kirishima lifted his hands defensively. tobio silently stared at the ground, his face red. him on a date with y/n? he wouldn't mind it.
"tobio. tobio!" he was snapped out of his thoughts. "huh?" he looked up from the ground and made eye contact with y/n. his blush darkened. "you good tobio?" she asked him.
he nodded his head quickly and looked away, making eye contact with kaminari. the blonde was smirking at tobio's flustered state. kaminari whispered something into mina's ear that made her eyes widen and look at tobio. a smirk appeared on her face.
y/n was just standing there looking confused. "what y'all whispering about?" she questioned the suspicious teens. "oh, nothing to worry about." mina said too cheerfully as kaminari nodded in agreement. "um, ok then."
"well if you guys weren't on a date, what were you doing?" kirishima asked. "we were just going to meet up with ochaco to train for the sports festival." y/n said, twirling the straw in her now empty cup. kirishima nodded.
"we were going to bakugo's house to train." kaminari said. y/n knit her eyebrows together. "the one that's always angry?" the four of them nodded. wait- four? y/n realized that she never introduced herself to the black-haired guy.
she walked up to him. "hey you." she pointed at him. he looked around and pointed to himself. "you talking to me?" he asked. "mhmm." she nodded before continuing. "i never got your name."
"oh, i'm hanta sero."
"i'm y/n l/n, nice to meet you sero." she stuck her hand out for him to shake and he shook it. she noticed his elbows. "oh! is that part of your quirk?"
"yup, i can shoot tape out of my elbows. i can even swing from it."
"that's cool. you're like spider-man."
"who?"
"never mind."
he smiled to himself. for once in his life sero felt noticed. not like the outcast that he usually was.
the teens talked for another 10 minutes or so and exchanged numbers. tobio's blush was dying down, but mina and kaminari didn't make it any better by teasing him.
"ochaco just asked me where we are, so we gotta go. it was nice talking to you guys though." y/n said as she looked up from her phone. "ok see you at school." mina said as she waved. tobio and y/n nodded and waved as they walked away.
"tobio~" he looked at the girl as he quirked an eyebrow. "hmm?"
"do you like mina~" she asked smirking.
"no."
she was taken aback by his straightforward answer. "what? but you were flustered." she gasped. "is it one of the bo-"
"no!" he cut her off.
she laughed at him. "i was joking. unless you do like guys instead of girls or both. either way, i support you 100%." she smiled at him.
her smiled warmed his heart. why does she do this to him? he didn't understand where the feelings came from, but their encounter with their classmates they had earlier, made him realize them.
he knew he had no chance though.
"don't kill me now!" tobio shouted as ochaco made him float for the 100th time that night. she giggled as he freaked out in the sky. y/n was trying to hold in her laughter as she took a drink from her water bottle.
"tobio why don't you float on your smoke of something?" she asked him as she twisted the cap of her bottle. he sent her a glare. "we've been over this before. i can't float on my smoke."
"oh i forgot." she replied sarcastically. "let me help you then." she went next to ochaco with a devilish smirk on her face.
"what ar- ahh!"
she used air to make him flip in the air. the two girls laughed as he flailed in the air. "y/n!" he shouted.
"ok ok i'm done." she stopped and ochaco let him back down on the ground. "i'm gonna kill both of you!" he shouted as he ran in their direction. y/n and ochaco ran away from the enraged boy.
"how is he not dizzy?"
"i don't know."
tobio chased y/n and ochaco around for a good 20 minutes. when he finally caught them, he tackled them down to the ground. they were all laying on the ground and it was silent until all of them bust out laughing.
"that was fun." ochaco said between laughs.
"yup." y/n agreed
"only a little bit. i'm still mad at you guys." tobio pouted and crossed his arms.
"aww does the baby want a kiss~" y/n teased.
"yea i do." he said still pouting.
"too bad." she got up and stretched. "it's getting late. i better go before my mom calls me."
"no need i'm right here."
the teens looked towards the voice in shock. y/n's mom was standing right there and endeavor was a couple of feet behind her.
"endeavor." tobio growled in anger.
"mom what are you doing here?" y/n asked as she looked between her mom and the fiery pro.
"to pick you up. we're having dinner at the todoroki's."
"what!?" she couldn't believe what was said.
"you heard me." her mom looked at the dirt on her clothes.
"we'll go home first, so you can change. get your stuff. come on." she said.
"uh ok." y/n reluctantly collected her things and walked towards her mom. she looked back at her friends and waved. "see you guys."
they waved back. tobio was still mad that endeavor was there and ochaco was speechless. y/n, her mom, and endeavor left and ochaco let out a breath that she didn't know she was holding.
"she's still scary." she said.
"still?" tobio questioned.
"nothing."
"we should get going too." she added.
"yea."
"welcome." fuyumi said as she opened the front door. "hello fuyumi." [mother's name] said as she stepped inside and took her shoes off.
y/n waved and copied her mom's actions. she pulled the bottom of her dress down because it was rising up. her mom had made her wear a short skin-tight white dress and slicked her hair back into a low puff.
"y/n! i haven't seen you in so long. you look so beautiful." fuyumi said as she pulled y/n into a hug.
"thank you fuyumi. you look beautiful as well." she replied as she hugged back.
"thank you."
they pulled away from the hug.
"follow me, i'll show you both to the dining area."
fuyumi led them into a different room with a dining table and tatami mats on the ground. shoto and natsuo were sitting down already.
when they heard them enter the room, they looked up. shoto looked shocked as his gaze lingered on y/n. natsuo furrowed his brows at [mother's name], but his look softened when he saw y/n.
"let's sit down." fuyumi told them as she made her way to the table. y/n followed.
"where is enji?" [mother's name] asked.
"of course you would want to know." natsuo muttered under his breath.
"oh. he's out back." fuyumi said as she pointed to a door.
[mother's name] nodded and made her way to the door.
the two girls sat down and it was silent. shoto never once took his eyes off of y/n.
fuyumi cleared her throat. "so you go to the same school as shoto, y/n?"
y/n nodded as she stared at the table. shoto's stare was making her uncomfortable.
fuyumi noticed it. "shoto why don't you go see if dad and y/n's mom are ready to eat."
he looked at his sister. "why?"
"because i'm getting hungry."
"then couldn't you go?"
"just go."
"ok then."
reluctantly he got up and made his way to the door that [mom's name] walked through not that long ago.
"thank you fuyumi."
the second eldest nodded.
shoto came back with the two parents and they sat down.
"i'll go get the food." fuyumi got up and went into the kitchen.
the silence was tense and awkward.
"so y/n, what do you think about training with shoto?" her mom asked.
"oh um.."
"i'm back." fuyumi sang as she walked back into the room. "and i brought soba."
the tiniest sparkle of excitement could be seen in shoto's eyes when she said that. y/n held back her smile when she remembered that was his favorite food.
"it smells delicious." [mother's name] said.
fuyumi smiled as she served everyone a bowl. y/n had to agree with her mom. it did smell good.
once fuyumi served everyone, she got herself a bowl and sat down.
"itadakimasu." everyone said as they began to eat.
y/n almost ate her food in one bite because it was so delicious.
"you never answered my question y/n." her mom said before taking another bite.
"what question?"
"about if you want to train with shoto or not."
y/n froze and looked at the boy. he was already looking at her. she looked away.
"i'm already training with ochaco and tobio though."
her mom scoffed. "those weaklings?"
"they're not weak."
her mom rolled her eyes. "it doesn't matter anyway because you're training with him no matter what you say."
"if you were going to force me, then why ask me in the first place?"
"because i did."
y/n almost got up and walked away, but she stayed seated and silent.
"it'll be good that you two train. you can make each other stronger." endeavor said.
"exactly." [mother's name] agreed.
"that's all you care about." natsuo muttered under his breath.
"speak up." endeavor said.
"i said that's all you care about. you don't care about nothing but yourselves and who's strong or not!"
"natsuo." fuyumi called out to him to try and make him calm down.
"no fuyumi." he said then pointed at y/n's mom before continuing. "and you. how self-absorbed can you be? your husband is in the hospital and you don't even go see him!"
"i-" [mother's name] started before she was cut off.
"i bet you don't even care about how your daughter feels and how she's doing! hell, you didn't care about how she felt about the training!"
"natsuo! that's is enough!" endeavor yelled.
"whatever, fuck this." natsuo said before getting up and leaving. he slammed the front door once he left.
the room was silent besides the sound of shoto eating his soba. he wasn't bothered much by the argument, he just wanted his soba.
"shoto take y/n to your room. fuyumi go to yours. i have to talk to [mother's name]." endeavor said.
they did as told mainly because they wanted to get out of the tense air as soon as possible. nothing changed much though when shoto and y/n got to his room. it was awkward.
"so your dad is in the hospital?" he asked as they sat on his bed.
y/n only nodded. he took her lack of response as a sign to not talk. it was silent.
"he was attacked by a villain." y/n said randomly. he looked in her direction to signal for her to keep going.
"he was on a mission in hosu city and was trying to apprehend the villain, but it got to him before he could."
she took a deep breath.
"my mom was supposed to be on the mission with him, but they got into an argument beforehand."
time passed as she continued to tell him about what happened and somehow she found herself leaning on his shoulder as tears fell from her eyes. she didn't know why, but it felt good to open up to him.
shoto didn't know how to feel. he was never good with emotions, but he thought about what his mom would do when he was sad and wrapped an arm around her.
she was surprised by his sudden show of affection. he moved her face to look at him with his other hand and wiped away a tear with his thumb.
"it's ok. everything will be fine." he told her in a soft voice, then placed a delicate kiss on her forehead.
she was feeling a range of emotions. sadness. relief. love? no, but when she looked back into his eyes, she almost acted without thinking.
she almost kissed him.
after realizing what she was about to do, she pulled away from him and removed his arm from around her waist.
"did that not help you feel better? i'm sorry, i thought it would. that's what my mom always did when i was sad." he asked.
"it did, i just prevented myself from doing something i know i'll regret. she said as she stared at the wall ahead of her.
"oh? what would you regret doing?"
"you don't need to know."
"ok."
the room went back to being silent, but this time it was comfortable.