Quirkless Todoroki

Chapter One: Coming Home

' "Daddy can I please go play with Shoto? Pretty pretty please?" I whine my shoulders hanging low from being so tired, we've been training so much lately. Dad sighs and shakes his head no and turns around facing the door. I feel like crying as I turn back to the dummy I was practicing my bo staff on and prepare to do my moves again.

Dad sighs again and I see him fold his arms out of the corner of my eye, he stays faced away from me. "You're different, you need to train more than you're siblings do. You're at a disadvantage in this world" he pauses and I start my routine only half listening to his lecture about my strength. "However you are a child, you.. should play like your other siblings. You can play with Shoto before his training" he says and I pause and smile at him.

I run to him and hug his leg "Thanks dad!!" I beam he chuckles and looks down at me. "I will run my routine perfect for you before I go ok?" I say and he nods.

"That sounds fair," he says and turns toward me and watches as I do my routine perfectly for the first time. I looked at him out of breath and very happy he smiled and nodded at me. I put my bo staff back on the wall, suddenly there were screams echoing through the house. Dad ran and I stayed close behind. "Go hide this could be a villain go Shoma" dad yells but I stop dead in my tracks as I see mom with a tea kettle in her hand and my brother screaming in pain on the floor.'

I wake up gasping for air and look around to see that I'm sitting on the plane, I calm myself and look out the window high above the world away from it all disconnected from everything. Images of my mothers face from that night as she lunged at me before she could hurt me dad grabbed her and told me to get Shoto and run. My mother is a mad woman to take her anger and frustration out on Shoto like that is just horrible. Dad is no saint I admit that but he has always taken care of us and when he hurt us it was to make us stronger, mom hated us and would've killed us if dad didn't get rid of her.

I've been in America for the past month for competitions but now it's back home and I'm glad to be home. My brother just got excepted to UA High School though we knew that was going to happen. My brother has been through so much becoming the strong hero to be he is now that it'd be a little silly if he didn't get in. "We are preparing to land thank you for flying with us," says the voice over the speakers and I look at my phone. Yup just on time 15 hours and 50 minutes, 8:50 pm. I hope dad is waiting at the airport and not one of his employees.

We land and I grab my stuff stretching a bit and wait for the rest of my luggage my unmistakable luggage heads my way. My big bo staff case and huge suitcases with decorations from my past competitions and small stickers of dad and homemade ones of me and Shoto so I'd never lose my things. "Shoma" I hear and I turn to see my dad. I give him a hug but he didn't hug back because he is in public and he is supposed to be the big bad Endeavour all the time but I don't care. He wouldn't be my dad is he didn't act like this, plus the fact that he came to pick me up himself is proof enough that he cares.

He helps me with my things and we return to his car. I climb in the front seat and begin telling him about my experience. "America is as great as always, I got to go to Disneyland which was pretty cool and see L.A. everything was very different. I obviously won the competitions but this one girl tried to cheat and block me in my hotel room using her quirk so I climbed out of the window and made my way down. I was on the 30th-floor cool huh?" I ramble and he raises his eyebrows and looks at me a bit surprised.

"The 30th-floor?" he smiled ever so slightly, "That's a bit dangerous don't you think?" he adds looking back at the road.

I smile and nod, "I'd say it was the dumbest thing I did the whole trip but I couldn't effort to be late plus I totally beat the crap out of that cheater after I won, the only reason she tried to lock me in my room was because she knew she was gonna lose, though she didn't even make it top ten so she was only wasting her time anyway" I explain and dad nodded.

We park in the driveway but dad didn't leave the car after turning it off. "Shoma I've been thinking" he starts and I sit back in my seat, 'oh man I hope this isn't bad'. "You've proven yourself to be very capable even with your condition, you no weakling, you have Todoroki blood in your veins, you have proven yourself to be physically matched with your sibling. Did you ever think about going to a Hero School?" he asked and I sat in shock.

"Dad I can't be a hero I have no Quirk," I say and look down into my lap.

Dads hand tilts my head up to look at him, "You can be whatever you want to be, you have everything you need to be successful in whatever drives you, if you want to be a hero it wouldn't be too late I'm sure I could talk to UA and see if you could privately be assessed" he says and I smile, tears brim my eyes.

"Thank you dad, as much as I would like that, I think my future lies in another direction, I know it was never intentional but living in my twin's shadow was difficult and hero work is his thing if nothing else I can be a police officer. I am a Todoroki, a proud one at that however a hero I am not, I am quirkless and that's ok" I say and smile he smiled back.

"You always have a job with me, don't you forget that," he says and we exit the car to get my things.

Home, to actually be back home felt a little weird. It is 9:40 now and my sister is in bed. I look in our living room and see Shoto, he turns around when he hears the door open. "Oh hey Shoma your back," he says and stands up walking over to my I drop my stuff and run full force at him knocking him to the ground. "Jeez Sho, always a bit much," he says and smiles, I keep my arms and legs wrapped around him.

"I've been gone a month and that's the greeting I get? Not to mention I won World Wide competitions which just shows I could lay your ass out any day" I say confidently, he chuckles and I can practically hear him rolling his eyes. "Hey, I don't need your sass bro" I joke and look at him.

Dad enters the room and I smile at him while Shoto tenses up and looks away, must not have been too good while I was gone. "Shoto your first day of UA is tomorrow, get some rest, Shoma you've had a long flight and I have somethings I'd like to show you tomorrow, things are going to be a little different from now on," he says.

"Ok dad, Love you night! C'mon Shoto" I say and grab his hand pulling him and my luggage to our room. The house was big enough for us all to have our own rooms but I'd rather stay close to my twin when I can. I throw myself on the bed on my side of the room, our sides of the room were as different as quirks my brother has.

"So how was it without everyone? Alone in a different country for a whole month" he says and changes into sleep clothes.

"It was cool to kinda live my own way for a month but it wasn't much different from home, wake up fairly early, eat, train, instead of school work I would compete or be involved in a lesson or activity, eat, train, eat sleep" I say and he looks at me.

"Wow only you could dumb down spending a month in America" he chuckles and I roll my eyes.

"America was different and a lot of fun, the people are very open, I felt very at home there, people greet you with hugs regularly and I like that, not just a bow but a warm friendly hug," I say and he smiles.

"I'm glad you had a good time," he says and we both say our goodnights before drifting into a deep much needed peacful sleep. The first I've had in a month.