Todoroki's POV:

I was still in the lockers after all the other guys left. I just had to ask Katsuki some questions before we had to train. The panic attack he had last night was scary. What did the League of Villains do to him? Did I even want to know? He seemed fine the days following. I mean I had just started keeping a close eye on him, so maybe he did change from the way he was before.

I moved around the lockers, and saw him. He was putting on the bottom layer of his costume. When he heard me, he rushed to put it on. We made eye contact and he had this look of 'ugh AGAIN?' on his face, but I had seen the bruises scattered over his torso and abs. Damn those thing were toned. Ugh stop thinking about that. I mean he does look good. I step towards him, and he stepped back once. He looked kind of scared but I didn't ask about that.

"Tch what IcyHot?!" He asks. He quickly puts on the arm layer of his costume and then the gloves. Almost as if he's hiding something. I see that his abs are showing. I stare at them. Wow those are... just wow. He sees that I'm looking and pulls the cloth down, covering his amazing abs. He turns his head to the side after a few seconds of thinking. He looks ashamed.

We stay quiet for a little, and then he asks again, "What did you want?!" I blush because I know he saw me staring. I just say, "I saw the bruises on your body, what happened?"

"I was training in the dark last night and I hit myself a couple of times with the trees." He seemed satisfied with his answer. I just nod, but I'm definitely not convinced.

I will ask him more questions at the sleepover. Maybe I'll wake him up in the middle of the night or while Midoriya is getting snacks. "Okay, well, hurry up because you've taken too long already," I say. Then I walk out as he just looks at me. As I'm walking to the training grounds, I think about how I'll get him to open up to me. He needs to feel comfortable and cared about. I wonder what happened when he was taken.

When I get there, Midoriya comes up to me and asks what took me so long. "I just had to do something first, it was nothing," I tell him. He goes back to Iida and Uraraka. After a while, Katsuki comes to the training grounds. He's moving rather slowly. He looks distressed. Like he's forcing himself to walk.

He looks at me and glares. "Tch, move, IcyHot." He waits for me to move. I do so and he walks towards the rest of the class. Then Mr. Aizawa speaks up. "Today you will do one on one combat. You will draw a number and one other person will have that number. That person will be your partner. It won't be a whole show or anything, it's just training." He then got in his cocoon thing and went to sleep.

Everyone went up to the front and got their numbers. I got number 6. I look around and ask people if they got the same number as me. Only 2 people who I haven't asked left. Midoriya and Katsuki. I need to ask Katsuki some questions, so I want him to be my partner.

Katsuki's POV:

Hm, I got number 6. I go looking around wondering who got the same number as me. I get tired of waiting around, so after a while I yell out, "I got number 6!" I see red and white hair walk towards me. "Tch what IcyHot?" He looks at me and shows me his paper with the number on it. What!? He got 6 too!? Nothing can go my way.

I sigh and then he starts walking towards the woods. "Our quirks are pretty strong, we should get away from other people," he says. I am in a mental battle right now. I have to make it to where he can't ask any questions, but I'm in no condition to put on a real fight. My rib is most likely broken. I don't know for sure, but it feels pretty bad.

We walk pretty far into the woods until we see a clearing. We stand far from each other. We are both in a fighting position. I don't make any remarks to provoke him because I can't take anything hard right now. I just put on an angry and smug face. He charges first and throws his ice. It's not too fast, so I dodge it, but let me just talk about the pain I felt. My face contorts as I bite back a wince, but I quickly throw an attack at him before he asks anything.

He does have this look on his face, but I don't know what it means. It's hard to read. He throws another ice attack again, with the same speed. I dodge it again and throw another attack at him. Right now I'm pretty much protecting myself. I can't do anything too extreme. I'd probably pass out from all the pain.

He throws an attack to the left so I jump to the right, but he throws another one in the direction I'm going. I can avoid it, but it would cause me a lot of damage. If I just let it hit me, the ice would definitely hit it, I mean it would be kind of like an ice pack for the rest of the fight.

Of course it would be like an ice pack was thrown at my rib, but it would only hurt for that amount of time, so I let it hit me. I prepare myself for the impact and boom. It hit me on my chest. OUCH. That hurt so much more than I thought it would. I let out a grunt and then fall to the floor. I get up slowly, and look at Shoto. He's looking at me too, waiting for me to go at him. I stand there for a bit, getting used to the pain that just overcame my rib.

I start jogging towards him and then speed up a little bit. I throw an attack, and he dodges it, but I throw another one quickly. It strikes him and he falls back, landing on his feet thanks to his ice. I really couldn't fight today. I would probably hurt myself more. I couldn't let anyone know that though, so my idiot ass decided to go at him, full on running. It hurt my rib, but if I got sent to Recovery Girl, we could just say that my rib was broken because of the battle.

It would also be good so that she could just heal it and I wouldn't have to deal with the pain for a longer amount of time. Shoto looked up quickly and threw another attack. I saw it coming, but I jumped up a little so that it would hit my rib. It was successful, but the pain wat excruciating. I felt the air leave my lungs. It hurt so bad that I wanted to cry. I let out a loud grunt and fall to the floor. Shoto's eyes widen in panic and he runs towards me. "Hey Katsuki are you okay?" He asks me, worry laced his voice. He called me Katsuki again. I liked that, but the pain limited my thoughts.

I was on the floor clutching my ribs. "Yeah just help me up," I said, my voice strained. He picked me up and carried me bridal style. I looked away from his face and yelled, "Why do you have to carry me like this?! I just needed help to walk!" He smiled lightly and just said, "It's better if you don't walk at all." I couldn't protest anymore because he smelled amazing. Like apples. Seriously, does he get into a tub of apples and shower like that?

I blush slightly and he rushes to Recovery Girl. He finds a way to avoid our other classmates, so that I wouldn't be embarrassed. He so sweet. Ugh. I have to stop thinking like that. He'd never see me the same way I see him. I get a little sad thinking that I may not find anyone at all. It's silent for a while as we're headed to the Nurse's Office. Then after a while Shoto speaks up. Hm, I like his name.

"Why did you let it hit your rib?"

I look at him. "What?"

"I know you saw that my attack wasn't going to hit you, but you jumped up and let it hit your chest. Why?"

I look at him shocked. I didn't know how to answer his question without giving anything up. If anyone found out mother would beat me, I'd be killed. Her beatings are bad. Last night was only for a few minutes, sometimes she can beat me for hours. Those are the ones that are hard to recover from. She usually beats me like that on Friday so that I have the weekend to recover.

I shudder at that thought and look away from Shoto again. "You can tell me, it'll be okay," he says. I really can't, if she finds out, I'd be totally screwed. But if he didn't tell anyone, I'd be okay. I'd just have him to confide in. What if I told him and he didn't want to talk to me anymore? I didn't want to be left alone anymore.

If I didn't tell him, he could just get annoyed and leave. Either way, I was scared. He looked trustworthy. The problem is anyone can look trustworthy. The real question is if they really are.

We finally got to the Nurse's office and I let out a sigh of relief. He looked at me and said, "I understand if you don't tell me. I get it, you don't trust me. How could you? You don't even know me all that well, but I will make sure you will eventually trust me." He smiles lightly again. Wow that smile is pretty. I nod and look away before I start blushing. He walks in and Recover Girl walks over to us.

"Put him on the bed." He does just that. "What happened Bakugo?" She asks.

"We were training and I hurt my rib, I think it's broken," I say quickly before Shoto can speak up. She nods and then does her magic. I start dozing off and the last thing I see is Shoto smiling at me on the chair next to the bed.

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