The light was a bit too bright for Shouto's eyes.

That was the first thing Todoroki Shouto thought as he woke up.

In a chair nearby his bed was Momo, and surprisingly, Aizawa. "How do you feel, Todoroki?"

Shouto blinked sheepishly as he replied, "Fine and fully rested. How do you feel, Aizawa-sensei, and you too, Momo? What happened when I passed out?"

"Our classmates got checked and sent home," Momo reported, "But when you passed out you were unable to be checked."

"So I should be getting checked now?" Shouto asked.

"After you give your retelling of events," Aizawa said, "Can Tsukauchi come in?"

"Okay."

The door opened to reveal a detective. "Hello. I'm Tsukauchi Naomasa, and you are, Todoroki-kun, right?"

Shouto nodded.

"Yaoyorozu, I think it's best if you step out for a moment," Aizawa gestured over to the door.

Yaoyorozu frowned as she got up, "Okay, sensei. I'll see you later, Shouto."

"Bye Momo," Shouto waved.

Yaoyorozu exited and Tsukauchi began the questions. "Did you have any idea that the attack was going to happen?"

"No, sir." Truth.

"Can you retell what happened?"

"We were talking to Thirteen when a black spiral spawned in the center of USJ." Truth. "Aizawa told Iida to escape, and Kaminari to call the school with his quirk." Truth. "I was then somehow transported over to the Earthquake section, and Ojiro, Kaminari, and Momo were with me." Truth. "We fought a bunch of villains and then ran over to the exit, but then I remembered that Aizawa-sensei was fighting... I was going to see if he was okay..." Truth.

Aizawa frowned, "That was a bad idea, Todoroki."

"You went to see if he was okay, and then?" Tsukauchi inquired. He looked at Shouto, who seemed deep in thought.

Shouto sighed, only one thing was on his mind, They saw me use the cards... I'm going to have to tell them about them... "Aizawa-sensei was fighting this big monster thing, I don't know what it was." Truth. "He got his head smashed into the pavement, and I rushed over to him." Truth.

"He had his head smashed into the pavement?" Tsukauchi inquired, "In all your stories it says this, but there's no evidence of the actual injury. Care to explain?"

Even Aizawa looked expectant.

"I used the cards... Magic, actually," Shouto said rather slowly, "I used a card called 'Heal'. Heal heals people based on my medical knowledge." Truth.

Aizawa didn't believe it, but when he looked at Tsukauchi, Tsukauchi nodded. "It's true. These cards... Do you have them with you?"

Shouto looked at his clothes, and surprisingly, they were still his normal clothes that he had in USJ. Reaching for his holster, he took out his cards, "These are my cards. They're called Shouto Cards... I got them a few years ago." Truth.

"How did they heal Aizawa?"

"Um well..."

"Isn't this about what happened at USJ? Continue your story, Todoroki. We can inquire about the cards later," Aizawa interrupted.

Tsukauchi backtracked, "Yes, please continue."

"While Heal was healing Aizawa-sensei, I turned my attention on Midoriya, who was wrapped up in fighting the noumu. The noumu stood fully against Midoriya's strength, and was going to fire a punch back at him." Truth. "I used a card called 'Armor' to protect Midoriya." Truth.

I should've used Shield, and Time before the battle, but I didn't have time... Shouto fully realized just how cracked he gets under pressure. Clearing his head from his thoughts, he continued, "Then Shigaraki Tomura... I think, lunged at me and I was mostly on defense." Truth. "I managed to slow him down somewhat with my ice and trap him in the Earth using Earthy. And after, All Might came in and here we are now..." Truth.

"Thank you for your statement." Tsukauchi said, "Now can you explain what these cards are and what they do?"

"These cards were originally made by Clow Reed, they were called Clow Cards, then Sakura Cards, and now since they're mine, they're Shouto Cards. They've been passed down and as I said before, they're magical..."

Aizawa didn't believe it, yet Tsukauchi hadn't indicated that it was a lie.

"In my deck, there are 53, and they each do different things. I'm a Cardcaptor and I had to catch all the cards before being able to use them. They do different things depending on the card. I have cards like Twin, Shadow, Earthy, Watery, Firey... And a lot more," Shouto said, "They also have two guardians, one is named Kerberos and Yue." Truth.

Tsukauchi just stared, he then smiled and said, "Thank you for your statement. Those cards sound rather dangerous and interesting."

"They're not dangerous if they have a captor," Shouto replied.

"How do you activate the magic or the cards?" Aizawa asked.

Shouto was quite surprised that Aizawa was asking, his sensei hadn't talked in a while. "I use my key," He gestured to the miniature one around his neck, "A chant to summon the key, then I tell the card what I want it to do, hold the card in front of the key, and say the card name. Then the card activates."

"Do you have a harmless card that you can do an example with?" Aizawa asked, "I can't believe it's actually magic."

Shouto merely nodded as he took out Windy. Windy won't do much here. "Key that uses the power of the moon, release!" The key grew into a staff that fell into his hand naturally. "Blow a gust of wind around us, Windy!"

Tsukauchi held tightly onto his papers are wind blew around them. He stared in astonishment, "magic..."

When the wind stopped, a card popped back into Shouto's hand, faintly shimmering. Shouto glanced towards his teacher, "Do you believe me, Aizawa-sensei?"

"Yes..."

"We can't allow anyone else to know about this, it could be dangerous," Tsukauchi said, "Have you told anyone, Todoroki?"

"I told Momo," Shouto replied, "She's known for a while now." Truth.

"You have 53 cards?" Aizawa asked for confirmation.

"Yes," Shouto replied.

"Well, thank you for showing us this," Tsukauchi got up, "You should be going home now, Todoroki."

"Thank you," Shouto respectfully said, and then bid goodbye to the detective.

"You will show me all your cards."

"Yes, Aizawa-sensei."

~~~

For Shouto, today was eventful. What made it more eventful was the fact that he now had a phone.

Fuyumi had given it to him after he made it home. Shouto felt bad for worrying her sick, and Fuyumi was so worried that she went on, bought him a phone, and told him to text her or call her whenever something happened.

So now with a phone of his own, Shouto inputted Momo's number from memory and texted her.

Me:

Hello, is this Yaoyorozu Momo?

1:16 PM • SMS

Unknown:

Yes, and this is?

1:17 PM • SMS

This is Shouto.

Hi.

Fuyumi gave me a phone.

1:17 PM • SMS

Really? About time

How are you Shouto?

You passed out, you had me scared

1:18 PM • SMS

Sorry. :(

I was so tired, i couldn't stay awake

I'm fine now, though

I told Aizawa-sensei and the detective about the cards.

1:19 PM • SMS

You did?

What did they say?

1:19 PM • SMS

Aizawa said that I had to show him all my cards

And I did

So now, I don't know what's going to happen

The detective said that this needs to be kept a secret

I told them that you knew

1:20 PM • SMS

That's fine

You showed Aizawa-sensei all the cards?

How many do you even have now?

1:21 PM • SMS

53? Or 52?

It's not that many.

1:21 PM • SMS

You're the Cardcaptor.

Of course, to you it's

"Not that many"

1:23 PM • SMS

Shouto smiled slightly. Yeah, Momo was right. The only time it had seemed like too much was back when he was capturing them, now it seemed like too little.

Me:

And your point is?

1:24 PM • SMS

Momo:

Nothing at all :)

Anyway,

You have a phone now, do you need the rest of the class's numbers?

1:25 PM • SMS

No, not all of them

Do you have Midoriya's though?

I have to see if he's okay

He was fighting the monster-thing.

I had to use armor on him since I was rushing

I should've used shield

1:25 PM • SMS

I don't have Midoriya's phone number.

I'll ask Uraraka.

And it's okay

I'm pretty sure he's fine

Armor was actually a nice choice

Because Armor's more flexible than Shield if he was fighting.

1:26 PM • SMS

Maybe.

Thanks, Momo

1:27 PM • SMS

No problem.

Midoriya's phone number is

XXX-XXX-XXXX

1:28 PM • SMS

Thank you :)

1:29 PM • SMS

Did you feed Kero?

1:29 PM • SMS

I'll do that now.

1:30 PM • SMS

Shouto sighed as he put his cellphone down. He'll check on Midoriya in a minute, first, he had to take care of Kero. "Kero, are you hungry?"

The guardian of the Cards glanced at Shouto, "Yeah, kid. Got anythin' to eat?"

"What do you want?" Shouto asked, "Fuyumi's in the kitchen, maybe I'll submit a request."

"Anything's fine," Kero replied. "How are you? Today was..."

"Hectic," Shouto said, "Very hectic. I'm fine, I found out that I need to improve in some places. I told Aizawa-sensei and a detective about the cards. And I think Midoriya knows."

"Who's Midoriya?" Kero asked.

"The bush. You know, the kid that's going to grow berries."

"Oh, that kid. Why would he know?"

"Because I protected him with Armor while he was fighting, plus, he saw me actively use the cards," Shouto then got up, "Anyway, did you figure out what you want to eat?"

"A normal sandwich."

"Okay, I'll be right back."

~~~

"You're-- nom, nom-- texting bush?" Kero asked in between bites of food.

"Kero, eat first, speak second," Shouto said, "And yes. I have to see if he's okay."

"Are you guys even friends?"

Me:

Is this Midoriya Izuku?

1:43 PM • SMS

"No? I don't think so. I haven't talked to him at all."

Unknown:

Yes, who is this?

1:43 PM • SMS

This is one of your classmates, Todoroki Shouto.

I just wanted to see if you were okay after today

1:44 PM • SMS

Oh yeah!

I'm okay

You protected me somehow

How?

1:44 PM • SMS

I'll tell you later.

I just wanted to check on you

How was your day after the USJ?

1:45 PM • SMS

Oh ok!

My day was fine

What about yours?

1:46 PM • SMS

I didn't have much of a day

I woke up from a nap recently

I'm glad that your day was okay.

1:47 PM • SMS

Who did you get my phone number from?

I didn't know that you had it

Not that it's bad that you have it or anything

Just curious.

1:47 PM • SMS

I asked Momo, who asked Uraraka

It's okay to be curious

It's not like I talked to you in class about it

It's good to be cautious

1:48 PM • SMS

Why don't you talk during class?

You only talk when someone talks to you

1:48 PM • SMS

I didn't really have many friends

So it was weird going into a classroom of chattering kids

1:49 PM • SMS

Oh.

I'll be your friend!

1:49 PM • SMS

A smile fell onto Shouto's features, his fingers quickly typing a response;

Thank you, Midoriya :)

1:50 PM • SMS

Shouto then let the conversation drop. He put his phone down and closed his eyes.

~~~

Shouto was fully rested so why the hell did he take a nap? That's what Shouto was asking.

"Maybe you felt fully rested but you weren't," Kero said, "Your quirk and the cards don't draw on the same reserve. You probably replenished one and had to replenish another."

"That makes sense..." Shouto sighed, "Might as well go back to sleep. It's nighttime anyway."

Kero smiled, "Good idea."

~~~

Shouto was a bit nervous to go to school after the two days off after USJ. But stepping into the classroom, he realized that he had nothing to be nervous about. Everyone was like normal, everything was like normal, it was a sense of normality that Shouto didn't even know he had acquired.

As always, Momo greeted him, but this time so did everyone else. They were all smiling at him, saying that they were happy that he's okay. And with that, Shouto just felt so happy. He felt like he actually had friends other than Momo for the first time.

He sat down in his regular seat just as Aizawa came in. "Your fight isn't over yet."

The classroom seemed to have dropped two degrees as everyone wildly looked around.

"The sports festival is coming up," Aizawa continued.

The atmosphere broke and was suddenly lively again.

"Why'd you have to word it like that?"

"God, I was so scared."

"The sports festival? That's so cool!"

The class shut up as soon as Aizawa began talking again. "It will be starting this week. This is your only chance to attract attention and your internships. Hopefully, all of you will do well." He then added the school's motto in such a deadpan voice that Shouto quirked a smile. "Plus Ultra."

"Now settle down, we're starting class."

~~~

It was during lunch that Midoriya wanted to talk. Not that Shouto had any problem with that, but he didn't want to starve Kero.

"Todoroki, how did you protect me back at USJ?"

Shouto merely replied, "Do you believe in magic?"

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"Do you?"

"What?"

"I'll tell you when you do."

Midoriya frowned.

Shouto merely stared at him, and then at his hair, "Also can your hair grow berries?"

"What the heck, Todoroki?"

~~~

Fin.

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A/N: Thank you for reading! Sports Festival, here we come!