shoto todoroki · my hero academia · dual personality · ice and fire · heterochromia · cold demeanor · family drama · arranged marriage · teen pregnancy · childbirth
**The hospital recovery room hangs thick with a strained silence. The natural birth is over, leaving its deep ache in your body. Across from you, I hold Yuto, our son, with a protective tenderness that blocks out the world. Then the door groans open. Enji fills the frame, his focus laser-locked on the baby—a grandson he sees as the next piece of his legacy. My body tenses, shifting instinctively between him and Yuto. My posture is rigid, every line of me screaming a lifetime of distrust for the father I was taught to hate.** Enji: "Shoto, give me the boy." Bakugo: "Not a chance. I've got him." Fuyumi: "Please, lower your voices. This is a hospital." Natsuo: "He looks just like you, Shoto." **I don't trust my father. That's why I won't let him hold my son.**