Crush Culture

Originally Izuku felt frightened by the other sitting under the table, it was slightly creepy, he thought about alerting the staff but now his perspective had drastically changed. The person he saw looked the same as the person he bumped into the other day and the person in his dream.

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Shoto sat under the table silently praying that the other boy wouldn't see him. Unfortunately for him, his prayers were left unanswered. The boy was staring at him! 'WHY!', this had to be the worst day he had in years! Shoto knew that he had been caught so he gave up crawling out from under the table.

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Shoto crawled out from under the table, head hung low in shame. "Uh... Hello", Izuku greeted with an uncertain smile slightly bowing his head. "Hi", Shoto returned the gesture. The atmosphere around the two was tense, one was completely embarrassed while the other was scared of all the possibilities. Neither of the two wanted to talk. Shoto walked to a table far enough from Izuku deciding it would be best to avoid him but it seemed that his friends had other ideas. Once Izuku was served his food everyone had come and begun cleaning the tables, some of those people being complete strangers who did NOT work there. Eventually, Momo began cleaning the table Shoto was sat at forcing him to move, wasn't it extremely convenient that every single table was being cleaned except the one Izuku was sitting at. With a huff, Shoto approached the doors ready to leave until someone began cleaning those too. 'Why am I even friends with these people', he sighed knowing what they wanted, they wanted him to sit with Izuku and he was going to give them what they wanted.

Time skip

Drip

Drip

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The sound of the water falling from the broken faucet played like a broken record along with the occasional clink of the fork against the plate. It had been like this for thirty minutes. For thirty minutes there had been two boys sitting at a table, one eating cake and the other looking out the window, both without a single word exchanged, not a single glance spared. Izuku couldn't stand it anymore, the intensity was eating him alive. "Hi, I'm Izuku Midoriya", he spoke, shoving his hand out after he had cleared his throat. "Shoto Todoroki", he replied grasping the other's hand. A spark ran through both boys as their hands met. They changed their gaze to look each other in the eye. In that moment they both knew that they were soulmates. "Hey Todoroki-kun sorry we didn't get to do much today but everyone needs to go home", (Y/N) spoke with a frown, it was quite convenient timing both boys were happy that this embarrassing situation wouldn't linger although everyone else was disappointed, they had all been trying extremely hard to have the two interact but they couldn't do anything any longer. Izuku gathered his things about to leave when he stopped in his tracks. "Um, c-could I maybe get your n-number", he spoke shyly, his sentence directed at Shoto. "Oh, um, sure", Shoto replied, a blush forming on his cheeks. They took out their phones exchanging contacts. "I hope to see you again! Bye!", Izuku spoke with a smile, "Me too, bye", Shoto replied, a rare smile forming on his lips. Izuku didn't think very much of the smile but once he found out how rare his smile was he would look back on the moment and treasure it forever.

Time skip

Izuku tossed and turned in his bed hoping that a certain someone would text him, he'd been waiting for almost an hour now. "Izuku, come down for dinner", with a sigh he turned of his phone throwing it on the bed and heading to the kitchen

Time skip

Izuku walked back into his room gathering everything he needed to study. Just as he opened up his phone to play music he noticed a notification

(1)Message from "Todoroki🍄🥶🥵" (I couldn't find a peppermint emoji so I'ma use a mushroom)

He immediately scrambled to unlock his phone and read the message

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: Hello.

Sent at 10:28 pm

Seen at 10;30 pm

Midoriya🥦💕: Hi!

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: How are you?

Midoriya🥦💕: I'm good :)

How are you?

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵:

Not great|

Not gre|

Not |

N|

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I'm okay.

What are you doing?

Midoriya🥦💕: I just finished dinner and I was gonna study

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: Oh, sorry if I'm bothering you.

Midoriya🥦💕: NO! THAT'S NOT IT! IT'S NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL!

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: Midoriya-kun please calm down.

Midoriya🥦💕: Sorry! But I think I studied enough today

And to be honest I kinda wanted you to message me|

And to be honest I kinda w|

And to be honest I kin|

And to be ho|

And to b|

And t|

A|

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Midoriya🥦💕: Hey, um your Endeavour's son right?

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"Tch", Shoto let out reading the text, he had hoped that at least Izuku wouldn't ask such a question but he did. He wanted to say no, to refuse any connection to that monster but he couldn't, he couldn't let anyone find out and no matter what happened no one would believe him, he would just suffer more, it'd be better to just hide it, right?

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: Yes.

Midoriya🥦💕: That's cool! I hope I can meet him one day!

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: Maybe someone else but not him.

Midoriya🥦💕: Huh? Why not?

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: It's nothing, just forget it.

Midoriya🥦💕: Oh, ok then

So are you planning on becoming a hero too?

Are you planning on going to UA?

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: Yes to both.

Midoriya🥦💕:Well hopefully we'll both make it in!

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: You're applying too?

Midoriya🥦💕:Yeah, I've been wanting to be a hero all my life

Shoto smiled down at his phone 'I know', he thought remembering how Izuku would ramble on and on about heros specifically All might.

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: What's your quirk?

No matter how much he tried to recollect he couldn't think of what his quirk was.

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Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: What's your quirk?

Izuku stared at his phone, eyes wide, and a cold sweat covering him, what could he say, not that he was quirkless, that would be too suspicious, but he couldn't tell him about one for all, what lie should he make up?

. . .

Midoriya🥦💕: Super strength

He didn't want to lie but what other choice did he have

Midoriya🥦💕: What about you?

He didn't want to continue the discussion about his quirk, he could be found out!

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: Half cold, half hot.

Midoriya🥦💕: How does it work?

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: I can create fire with my left side and ice with my right side.

Midoriya🥦💕: Wow! That's really cool!

Todoroki🍄🥶🥵: Not when you can only cover half of your body with a blanket when you're sleeping.

"Pff!", Izuku burst out laughing imagining Shoto laying on a bed with only half of his body covered with a blanket and his usual board and blank expression.

"Who knew a person who looked so serious and cool could be so silly and funny"

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