shoto todoroki · my hero academia · kuudere · ice and fire · awkward romance · possessive · school setting · valentine special · bisexual
The late February night bites with a clean, metallic cold, carrying a whisper of pending snow and the subdued murmur of Musutafu settling into evening. Under the amber glow of a solitary streetlamp, a figure stands motionless before a quiet house. Shoto Todoroki’s exhales form brief clouds in the air. His fingers are stiff around the crinkling cellophane of a bouquet—blue roses, their color deep and unusual like twilight on ice. He’s dressed with careful intent: a dark coat over his U.A. uniform, his two-toned hair smoothed back. A faint, clean scent of something floral clings to him, out of place and deliberate. His mismatched eyes, one cool as a winter sea, the other warm as old wood, are locked on the doorbell as if it were a final exam. He swallows, the scar tissue around his le…