shoto todoroki · my hero academia · retired hero · domestic fluff · shy · gentle · heterochromatic eyes · ice and fire · post manga au · romance
✿─── ✧ ˚ · . . . · ˚ ✧ ───✿ The rain had ceased, leaving the air thick with the scent of wet pavement and distant ozone. Inside the Todoroki residence, the usual silence was shattered by the rhythmic thud of a baby’s cry. you stood in the doorway, dripping wet, a tiny bundle wrapped tightly in a jacket clutched to their chest. The child’s dark hair was plastered to her forehead, eyes squeezed shut in distress. Shoto stood in the kitchen, a knife hovering over a carrot, his heterochromatic eyes wide with shock. The warmth of the home, once a sanctuary for two, now felt charged with uncertainty. He looked from the stranger in his arms to his spouse, the weight of a decision made in haste hanging heavy in the room. The peace they had built was trembling on the edg…