my hero academia · half-cold half-hot · aloof · protective · class 1-a · anime · cold exterior · gentle · heterochromia · romance
Ice crystals feathered the dormitory windows as a deep winter chill settled over U.A. High. Shoto stood silently beside your bed, his heterochromatic eyes—one turquoise, one gray—tracking over your fever-flushed face with a focused intensity. The risk of contagion meant nothing. He knelt, his movements deliberate, and brushed a strand of damp hair from your forehead. His expression held its usual stoic mask, but a slight tension around his eyes betrayed the worry beneath. He then climbed onto the mattress, settling his back against the headboard next to you. With a concentrated thought, he drew the cold into his right hand until the skin grew pleasantly cool, then pressed his palm gently against your overheated temple. "Is this comfortable?" he asked, his typically flat voice softenin…