I Burn [Todoroki x Reader]

20/100 Defeated

His POV:

Todoroki felt incredibly stupid, he had gone through the entire day without realizing that (Name) was in trouble. He went to school like normal and was terribly missing her like a stupid love-sick schoolboy when instead he should have been thinking about her strange behaviour the previous day. She had practically told him everything he needed to know, all he had to do was to decipher everything that happened.

(Name) was in trouble; she didn't come out to greet them not because she was sick but she was unable to and someone was possibly in her home that she had to lie about it. Not only that, she didn't call him by his first name. Some hero he was if he couldn't even figure out her hints right when she gave them. He only hoped that he wasn't too late to save her.

Todoroki made his way to the quiet little neighborhood, the sun was already setting in the horizon and he surmised that by the time he makes it to her house it would already be nighttime. He knew that he should call someone, his father could help but that would only boost his ego, perhaps All Might but does Todoroki really have the time to make a detour?

No, I do not.

However, as a precaution, Todoroki sent a short message and an address to his friends and a instruction that if they don't hear from him within the hour, was for them to call the authorities, he'd do it himself but Todoroki wanted to assess the situation first before he brought anyone else, he wanted to make sure that he wasn't misinterpreting her behaviour.

He had figured that if someone's in the house with her, he could take the person on. As long as the person is not a quirk user, Todoroki wouldn't have to use his and he could probably take on an intruder in a hand to hand combat.

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(Name)'s home was quiet, oddly quiet and there were no lights to indicate that someone was home. Todoroki looked up at the direction of her bedroom, he was glad that Kenji was throwing rocks at it the previous day as he wouldn't have known which was hers. However, Todoroki had a more subtle plan, the back door was his destination and he would have to be quiet and careful. He jumped over the fence and snuck his way to what he thought was the back door. He would have to apologize later to (Name)'s family but he had to melt the locked doorknob to get in.

When Todoroki finally managed to get in, the house was dark and it took his eyes a while to adjust to the dim room. Silently and nimbly, he made his way upstairs where he started to hear voices, there were two and one was clearly male and the other belonged to (Name). She sounded distressed but he had to wonder why she wasn't fighting the intruder at all? Sure she could be timid at times but she's not one to back away from a fight especially if her life was in danger.

The door to her bedroom was open a crack and Todoroki could clearly see two figures lying on the bed.

"...tomorrow we'll go on a date, I think we've been cooped up in your house that we should get some fresh air. What do you think of the park? We could go to your favorite cafe too or maybe the art gallery? I know you have a piece displayed there...Ah, my girlfriend is so talented and so pretty too..." the boy laughed even though (Name) remained silent throughout his tirade and Todoroki couldn't believe what he had just heard from the intruder. He called (Name) his girlfriend...

"Please...I can't. I already have some-" (Name)'s voice was interrupted by a loud crash. The intruder threw something across the room and Todoroki didn't even see what it was.

"You only have me! ME! ME! ME!" the intruder's silhouette sat up on the bed, Todoroki couldn't believe that his (Name) had to deal with a delusional psychopath like him all these days. He wouldn't be surprised if (Name) doesn't forgive him for taking this long to save her.

"You don't need that-what do your friends call him? IcyHot? Yeah, you don't need him. You only need me." the intruder slowly positioned himself above (Name) with his arms and legs on either side of her, trapping her to keep her from escaping.

Todoroki needed to do something and quick, Lord only knows what the intruder would do next and Todoroki didn't want to know or even see it. Without a second thought, he threw an icy blast at the intruder's direction, enough that it would push him off the bed but not hit (Name) in the process.

"Shoto-kun!" (Name) jumped up and off the bed as soon as she was able, there was a smile of relief on her face when she ran towards him but turned into a sudden worried look when she launched herself into a bear hug.

"We have to go! Before he gets up, if he gets up we're done for!" Todoroki didn't have the time to ask why as she immediately grabbed his arms and dragged him out of the room, down the stairwell and made their way towards the front door.

"Who was that?" Todoroki asked but she pleaded for him to wait until they were far away and safe but before they could get out the door, Todoroki felt his body freeze and he could tell (Name) was experiencing the same. This must be the boy's quirk, another reason why she never fought back. It's not that she didn't want to, it was that she couldn't.

Loud footsteps echoed in the dark, the delusional intruder was making his way down the stairs with slow and deliberate steps. Todoroki still held (Name)'s hand and he could feel her tremble with every loud thuds. He looked at her, tears were already streaking down her beautiful face as she looked at him worriedly.

"I'm so sorry..." she whispered to him. "I shouldn't have gotten you involved."

Before Todoroki could answer, the intruder was already in front of them. His face was dangerously calm, his hood covered most of his face but Todoroki could still see that his face was a familiar one.

"Why do you hurt me? I just want us to be happy, (Name)-chan."

Todoroki was sure now, he couldn't tell earlier but when the intruder was within a few feet of him, he knew right away where he had met the mad man.

"Its you...you were at the gallery when (Name) and I went. It was a very brief encounter so I didn't think much of you."

The boy laughed but he kept his gaze on (Name), he was angry and they could tell with how much the atmosphere changed when he walked into the hall. Todoroki tried his best to move, but every inch of his body refused to obey him.

"Don't hurt him...Please." (Name) pleaded but the boy merely shrugged and ignored her.

"He'll keep coming after us if I don't get rid of him."

"No...please." came another cry but her pleas fell on deaf ears as Todoroki's right arm raised in front of him. Ice was beginning to form on the palm of his hand and into a shape of a sharp icicle. He struggled to control himself, his right arm moved on its own accorrd while his hand closed around the icicle and was pointed on his chest.

"Stop it! Sto--"

Todoroki watched her beg as tears streamed down her face, he doesn't know what was happening, when he first came in he thought everything would be easy that his power alone could protect the one he cared for but for it be used against him, well he wasn't prepared for that. It was when he felt that piercing pain on his chest and the wail of her beloved did he realized, that it would be the last time he'd see her. In what few seconds he had left he wanted to remember everything about her, the pain he could forget but her image will forever burn in his heart.

The sound of laughter and her voice cursing him was the last thing that Todoroki heard before everything became dark and cold. His last wish was that if it were truly his final moment, he wanted to see her smile at least once more...