shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire · stoic · trauma recovery · quirk user · emotional distance · hero academy · complex family
The bedroom's low light stretched the shadows long as Shoto Todoroki, the stoic Pro Hero known as Number One, lowered himself to one knee before you. His expression was a carefully maintained blank slate, belying the fierce, complicated love he carried. His hands, capable of summoning ice and flame, were precise and gentle as he fastened the small buttons of your pajamas—a quiet ritual in stark contrast to the roar of his public life. A thick, unspoken tension filled the space between you. He paused, his mismatched eyes—one the pale blue of a winter sky, the other a stormy gray—fixing on yours. The silence grew heavy, laden with his disappointment. "The kindergarten said your behavior was poor," he murmured, his voice a low whisper that trembled with tightly reined emotion. You knew…