Having figured out that neither really had to apologize to the other, settling on the fact that the whole situation had just been unnecessary, both teens finally made it out onto the school park grounds.

Feeling a small but strong breeze make its way down to them and through the park, ruffling their hair, both boys made their way towards the grass outside of their classroom windows as solicited by Aizawa a few minutes ago.

"Sensei, would it be alright if Midoriya and I go out to the school park and work on the assignment?" asked Todoroki.

He wanted to get away from all this distracting background noise his classmates were making, and if he was being sincere, he wanted some alone time with his green headed friend.

When his teacher had announced they'd be working in partners, he couldn't care less about the assignment, but when he had gone up to see who he would be partnered with, he felt a tug at his heart, and a small smile showed up on his face, accompanied by what felt like a blush, if that's what you would consider the burning sensation on his cheeks.

"Yeah alright, I can see why you would want to leave; your classmates are quite loud." Agreed their teacher, "but I want you on this side of the building so that I can still keep an eye on you." He said pointing out the window. He was still their teacher and had to take care of them.

'You spend half of the class sleeping...' thought Todoroki but decided it best to keep that comment to himself.

"Thank you, sensei." He said as he grabbed Izuku's hand and led him to the door. "Let's go Midoriya."

After their fight in the sports festival a while ago, Todoroki hadn't been able to get young Midoriya out of his mind. He'd been tormented night after night by green eyes, soft green curls and those words he had yelled at him that day:

"You don't get to be the best if you're not going to use your full power!"

That had clearly struck a chord in the one cold teen. The more he pondered this kid and what he had done for him that day, Todoroki couldn't help but want to be near him, he felt a strong pull which only intensified as the days went by.

If he tried to ignore it, Midoriya would somehow make his way into his mind, into his day, into everything. Coming to a strong yet scary conclusion, Todoroki decided that the emerald green-eyed teen had made his way into his heart.

Though frightened at the idea of someone having wound their way into his most sacred of places, only reserved for his mother, his heart was happy and somewhat excited at the newcomer.

His somewhat frozen over heart could do with the intense amount of heat that this boy would always be radiating, and he wasn't about to give that up.

As they reached a small tree they could lean up against, Todoroki looked down at his hands once again as he felt the weight of another in it.

'When did I grab his hand?' he questioned himself as he let it go.

Taking a seat next to his friend, Midoriya couldn't help but notice the sudden loss of warmth in his hand, wondering when they had decided to hold hands. It's not like he minded the contact, it's just that he wasn't used to it and didn't know what to make of it.

Taking in his surroundings, he could see Aizawa sensei in their homeroom class glancing at them then going back to sleep.

'Lazy old sensei' thought Midoriya as he turned to face his friend, a smile digging its way to his lips.

"So, how are we going to do this? I would love to hear what you have to say about your quirk Midoriya." A blush could be seen adorning Todoroki's cheeks as he spoke. "I mean, if we want to get this done, I suggest we start with you." He said, trying to play it off as he twiddled his thumbs.

"Mmm, well, not much to say about my quirk. I mean, we had that fight together at the festival and you were able to experience firsthand what I can do." He explained, trying not to slip up and mention All Might and One for All.

"I guess you could say that it's just directed energy, like I choose where to send it to, focus on it and boom! I hit and it goes." Said the small teen making a demonstration with his fist.

"Yeah, I remember, you put up quite a fight for being so small. I was honestly impressed." Todoroki said, complimenting Midoriya on his ability.

"I never got around to saying thank you for that day, it had a huge impact on me, it helped me wake up in a sort of way. I've been able to break down lots of walls I had placed around myself because of you. So, thank you." As he said this, young Midoriya couldn't help but look on surprised at his friend's sudden confession.

He didn't even notice when said friend had gotten closer and wrapped his arms around him bringing their bodies together into a hug.

"It really helped me out, thanks Midoriya." Todoroki was blushing.

Still shocked, but finally understanding where his friend was going with this, he could feel the sincerity behind every word. He decided that returning the gesture would only be the appropriate thing to do, so he lifted both arms and put them around his friend, relishing in the warmth that this bodily contact brought him

"You're welcome Todoroki, that's what friends are for. I'll always be around for you." He said, still squeezing the older teen.

As he looked to his right, past the glass of his homeroom classroom window, he could see one very angry explosive teen glaring daggers at him and Todoroki, which only frightened him, so he quickly pulled away from the embrace.

"We should continue the assignment." He said nervously trying to ignore the loud explosion coming from their classroom.

"Did you hear that? " The older teen genuinely asked, "What do you think it was?"

'Just Kacchan being Kacchan' thought Midoriya.

"Nothing, now tell me about your quirk." Said Midoriya trying to get Todoroki's attention on him.

'Why did I pull away though, it's not like anything bad was happening. It was a simple hug between friends, and why was Kacchan glaring at us like that.' He kept on thinking as Todoroki spoke to him about how he could manipulate both fire and ice but preferred his ice.

"...if it were up to me, I'd just erase my father's quirk out of me. I just gotta learn to live with it, I guess." He kept on explaining unaware that nothing was pulling young Midoriya out of his thoughts.

'What does he want from me? Why does he ignore me one day, treat me like shit the next and then flip out because of something else some other day?' he kept on torturing his mind.

He was barely paying any attention to the icy teen. 'It's as if he's trying to say something in his own messed up way...no, that's not like Kacchan. Maybe I'll just ask him.'

"So Midoriya, what do you say? Wanna do it with me?" asked his friend, accommodating his back onto the tree to get a little more comfortable as they spoke.

"Ah? Do what?" asked the small teen, his mind drifting off to unexplored territory.

'What does he want me to do with him? Is he referring to sex? I'm still too young for sex...what the heck!' thought the young boy madly blushing and averting his gaze.

"Oh Kami, Midoriya you're mumbling out loud. I wasn't talking about sex..." he quickly sat up trying to calm his friend down, sporting a tomato red face.

'Though it's not something I would deny you...' he thought, quickly pushing that idea to the back of his mind.

"I meant the plan on how to work with our quirks together this Friday." He finally said, grabbing the green-eyed teens chin so that he would face him.

"Ah! Bad habit of mine, so sorry I jumped to conclusion, I just freak out and well I didn't know how to react, I'm so so so so sorry Todoroki." He blurted out rapidly as he tried to calm himself down, not yet noticing Todoroki holding his chin.

Smiling at his friends little embarrassing moment, he wasn't able to hold back a laugh. "Don't worry about it."

"What's so funny?" said Midoriya wanting in on the joke.

"Your reaction was, I'm sorry for laughing." He said, laughing a little harder.

It's been ages since anyone had made the older teen laugh like so, he was grateful of his friend, truly grateful, he was really helping him forget old memories and make new, better and happier ones.

Embarrassed to no end, Midoriya just wanted the earth to swallow him up or for some giant bird to swoop down and fly off with him.

"I guess I did overreact a bit and it was kind of funny, I'm glad I could make you laugh though. Haven't seen this side of you before." Izuku said being sincere in his words.

He was surprised that his friend had laughed, but was beyond happy that it had been because of him, a sudden sadness struck him as an old memory swept through his mind:

"Hahahaha!" Laughed a small blond toddler, "Get up Deku!" he grabbed his belly, still not able to hold back his laughter, a few tears adorning the brim of his tiny eyes.

"K-Kacchan! Stop laughing and help me up, it hurt!" Said green haired Midoriya trying to get off the dirt he had rolled into.

Both had been walking through the forest when Kacchan had decided it'd be a good idea to climb a huge bolder that blocked their way.

An easy feat for said boy turned to demise for the younger as he began climbing, his left toddler foot lost its grip and he slipped as he tumbled down the side of the boulder and lander on the soft dirt below.

"It's just that it was funny Deku, you make me laugh, aren't you happy about that?" he said, trying to distract his younger friend from what had happened.

"I'll come down and we can go around, I'm not leaving you behind Deku, never, so just wait there." He yelled as he was making his way down.

"Well if you put it that way, then I guess I'm happy to make you happy Kacchan, anything for you." He answered, completing the blond boy's objective.

"Be careful coming d-" was all he could say before he heard a sharp cry as the older boy came falling onto him.

"Ouch, let's leave the climbing to the monkeys Deku." He said, trying to get a grip of himself, not getting an answer, he called out again, "Deku?"

A small giggle could be heard coming from underneath him. As he looked down, he saw the source of the cute noises, none other than his best friend.

"Hahaha, Kacchan fell down too! Hahaha!" laughed the little green-eyed boy a little harder.

A little surprised, he laughed with his friend as they both got up. "Come on Deku, let's go around it." He said, grabbing the boys hand pulling him along.

"We should really be heading back in, lunch is gonna be served soon." Said Todoroki, breaking Midoriya out of his daydreaming.

As he stood up, he offered Midoriya his hand, which he silently took, and pulled him up. "Let's go inside." He told him.

Both teens, unaware that they had been observed not only by their sensei, slowly made their way back into school, lost in their own thoughts, but neither drifting apart, one thinking about a long-forgotten childhood memory, deciding it was time to act, and the other thinking about his fit of laughter, deciding it was also time to take action.

They walked back into their classroom, Todoroki being the gentleman that he is, opened the door for Midoriya and let him in first, something that was not lost to a certain explosive blond currently a ticking bomb waiting to go off in his seat.

Neither teen really said anything as they entered the classroom and took their respective seats, to one another that is:

"Pst! Uraraka...I'm gonna ask him this Friday." The icy teen whispered to his friend as she looked on over to Midoriya.

"Hey Kacchan, would you maybe want to eat lunch together today?" The green-eyed teen whispered to the blond.

Being curious as ever, Bakugo couldn't pass up on an opportunity to find out exactly what was going on between the icyhot bastard and Deku.

"Tch! If it means you'll shut up, then sure!" he said, making the smaller teen smile that smile Bakugo so loved.

'Wait, what?' the blonde thought, he didn't love that smile, 'Do I?'.

'Oh no' thought the bubbly teenage girl, knowing what her friend meant, not sure he would like the answer he might receive. 

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Another chapter out. Gotta say, I'm kind of liking this whole writing experience. 

I'd love some feedback, maybe the chapters are too long, maybe too dull or just not what you're looking for. Hit me up with some ideas, maybe I might want to include them in the following chapters.  Thanks <3