One-shots

Momo’s skin was getting paler as seconds passed by. She didn’t move a muscle, and Shouto wasn’t even sure whether she was breathing, as she lay on the stretcher.

She’d been shopping-she was on shopping duty that day-and she’d found herself all alone, and Kirishima unconscious in another aisle. She’d fought to the best of her ability but had been completely outnumbered.

Kirishima’s hardening quirk had saved him from most physical attacks-but hardening couldn’t save you from drugs that knock you out, could it?-but as worried for him as Shouto was, Momo’s injuries terrified him in a way no one else’s ever had.

He wasn’t allowed to sulk outside the infirmary forever, since he still had to go to classes.

So, instead, he sulked in class.

“Todoroki.” lida’s voice brought him out of his depressing thoughts. “May I say, I understand your concern for our classmate, everyone does. But you and Jirou have been almost inconsolable for a week now. You are falling behind in studies, so I would like to advise that you focus on school. I am certain that Recovery girl will make sure Yaoyorozu is okay.”

He finished with his speech and strange hand motions. Now, Shouto may have not been very accepting and friendly when he came here, but even then he had never been outright rude. However, at that moment, he didn’t hear anything.

His brain did zero in on the fact that lida called Momo by her first name, sparking an emotion in his chest that he couldn’t name.

“Jirou?’ He had meant to assure lida that he would take his advice, but it had popped out of his mouth. His body took no consent from his brain. 

“Ah yes,” lida furrowed his eyebrows, distracted. “Jirou has been almost as bad as you,”

Todoroki followed lida’s gaze to the said girl. Her gaze was on Momo’s empty table. The look in her eyes wasn’t something he could name but it was unmistakably familiar.

He felt the same spark of petty resentment in his chest, but it stung harder this time.

“I will think about your words.” He turned back to lida, uncomfortable with these emotions that he was feeling.

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Yaoyorozu sighed in relief when she heard the words from Recovery girl’s mouth.

She’d been waiting to be released for one and a half week now. She’d woken up three days after her attack, and since then, she’d been feeling restless.

Just thinking about everything she’d missed in class made her wince, not to mention how she’d disregarded her vice rep duties. And what about her friends? They would surely be worried!

“Here. This’ll make you feel better and more refreshed.” Recovery girl held out her palm, which had a circular-shaped candy in it.

Gratefully, Yaoyorozu took one. “I appreciate your thoughtfulness, Recovery girl,”

Recovery girl gave her a smile and encouraged her to leave.

She wasn’t expecting her classmates to be there. They'd been waiting right outside the infirmary. 

“Mr All Might told us you were going to be released today!’ Mina exclaimed, joyfully punching her fist in the air.

“He’s still a blabbermouth?’ she smiled fondly.

“Ah, I’m hurt, Young Momo.” All Might said from behind his students.

Yaoyorozu flushed when she realised he was there when she’d called him a ‘blabbermouth’. 

“I apologise for my rudeness, I did-”

“I was kidding!’ All might cried awkwardly. 

Yaoyorozu smiled brightly. Everyone mobbed her, all excited to see her doing fine. Everyone was talking at once and even though she couldn't make out what they were saying, she was still very glad they were here.

However, they all parted for two of her classmates.

Todoroki. Her heart fluttered, as light as the wind. She didn’t enjoy hurting him, but her traitorous heart was happy he was worried about her and cared. 

The other was Jirou. She wasn’t sure why her mouth was dry and why the air was so tense for the three of them, but all she knew was she’d hurt these two the most with her absence.

Of course, neither would blame her.

Jirou reached for her first, her eyes glassy with tears. Yaoyorozu’s own eyes widened, she felt breathless. Had she made Jirou cry? But, she wasn’t that important, and it wasn’t life-threatening.

Jirou reached around and wrapped her arms around Yaoyorozu. She could feel Jirou tugging at her waist, and felt warmth in her heart at the other girl’s affection.

“Oh, Jirou, I’m so sorry.” She soothed.

“Don’t be sorry!’ the raven-haired girl choked, “you can-you can call me Kyoka...if you like.”

She felt someone else invade their embrace. Very subtly, she could feel Todoroki push Kyoka to the side. Her heart was racing.

her crush was hugging her.

She took a breath quietly to compose herself. She missed the looks the two sent each other.

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Kyoka felt her eyebrow twitch in annoyance. She could feel Todoroki’s gaze on her, his steely eyes boring into hers.

Oh, she knew what she’d done to cause envy, too. Yaoyorozu let her call her by her first name and even called her Kyoka and Todoroki was extremely jealous because he wanted the same, but he couldn’t seem to let Momo know.

After that near-death experience, where they both thought they’d lost Yaoyorozu, they’d come to terms with the fact that they were in love with the girl. That they’d been in denial all this time, even though it felt more obvious now than ever. And that they’d figured it out at the same time.

He was pretty straight-forward, but ever since he’d figured out that his feelings for Yaoyorozu weren’t just friendship, or familial, but romantic, he’d been very shy around the beautiful girl.

Which worked to Kyoka’s advantage. Kyoka wasn’t sure if she even stood a chance, but she was a hero so she would try even if she didn’t. It’s not that she didn’t see Yaoyorozu moon over Todoroki, it’s that Yaoyorozu was more lenient on her, and just opened up more around herself. Even if Yaoyorozu was leading her on, which would definitely be unintentional. The girl was too nice to do that for fun.

Still, Kyoka would take what she could get before Yaoyorozu and Todoroki got together.

A yelp brought her out of her thoughts. Yaoyorozu was reaching for a ruler, which was lying near her table. Except Yaoyorozu was sitting two seats away from her, and Todoroki was next to her, and it had landed somewhat diagonally in-between.

She looked up to meet Todoroki’s gaze head-on. She could see the challenge in those bi-coloured eyes. She felt herself smirk in a way she’d never really done before, a weird kind of confidence surging through her. 

Even Todoroki’s mouth lifted, though she’d never before seen him smile.

It’s not that he never did, but never for her.

It made her feel important and that was a pathetic feeling that she squashed. Her earphone jacks shot faster than ever for the ruler. A wall of ice blocked it.

The ruler clattered farther away from her, towards Todoroki. The noise and sudden change in temperature gathered everyone’s attention.

“Todoroki! Jirou! Please refrain from using your quirks in class.”

“I was just going to pick up the ruler,” she gritted out. 

“I can do that, it’s closer to me,” Todoroki replied, coldly.

“Um, it’s fine. I can-I can do it myself,” Yaoyorozu interrupted shyly. She hastily shuffled towards the ruler.

“No, no. I can.” Todoroki insisted. The two reached for the ruler at the same time, their hands bumping into each other. Almost instantly, Yaoyorozu’s face turned red.

“Whoa, Todoroki’s blushing!’ Kaminari hollered. Kyoka looked closer and saw he was.

She was jealous, but a subconscious thought flitted into her mind. 

He looks cute when blushing.

She jabbed Kaminari, who was wolf-whistling, mostly to distract herself from stupid thoughts like that.

“What did I even do?!’ Kaminari exclaimed, offended.

“You’re too loud.”

Yaoyorozu quickly picked up the ruler and rushed back to her desk, unable to hide her red ears. 

Todoroki’s eyes drifted to her, and he gave her a look that clearly meant ‘todoroki 1, jirou 0.’

WELL, I’ll show you, she thought.

Yaoyorozu sighed in exasperation when she saw Shouto-she still blushed at calling him that, even in her mind. ugh stupid crush-and kyoka-that felt inexpicably natural on her tongue, but she loved the way it rolled off of her tongue-shoving and pushing each other in the cafeteria line.

“I wonder what sparked their rivalry,” Uraraka chuckled. “It was kind of unexpected. Shouto took his focus completely off Bakugo or even Deku.” 

Yaoyorozu felt her heart twist at the familiarity with which Uraraka called Shouto by his first name.

She was far too possessive of someone who was not even hers.

Truthfully, she thought it was more likely that Kyoka and Shouto would get together, considering the amount of time they’d been spending together.

The thought hurt so much she couldn’t take another bite of her food, her appetite ruined. But she wasn’t jealous of Kyoka-or ridiculously, of Shouto, either-it just...made her feel excluded and sad.

Her conflicted and odd feelings were far too confusing, so she stuffed them down.

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Shouto supposed he should be annoyed that Ky-Jirou kept getting in his way of ‘wooing’ Yaoyorozu, but it was sort of fun.

Which was a weird thought in itself, but he couldn’t explain how amusing Jirou was when they were fighting or arguing or anything.

He almost liked spending time with her as much as with Yaoyorozu, which made no sense since he knew for a fact that he was in love with her.

His rivalry with Midoriya and Bakugo was one of mutual respect and one where he pushed his limits, but it was tense and this little rivalry with Jirou felt like a break.

He let his thoughts drift away, and came back to reality. He saw several people crowded around Kaminari’s desk, the most eccentric being Mina.

“What’s everyone talking about?’ he asked softly. 

Everyone jumped at his voice.

“N-n-nothing!’ Sero stammered, flustered. Shouto narrowed his eyes at the tape-elbowed teen.

“We’re betting on when you and Yaomomo will get together,” Mina beamed at him. The pink-skinned girl had almost too much energy, but she was likable. Sero and Kaminari elbowed the girl, whispering something furiously into her ear. She pouted and playfully threw some acid at them. It wasn’t harmful to them.

“Ah,” he said, unbothered, although the thought of him and Yaoyorozu dating was very pleasant.

“Yeah, although Kirishima thinks you don’t like each other at all. Him and lida think we shouldn’t butt in, but Kiri’s still betting on you guys not getting together at all. For some reason, Kyoka’s also betting on that.” Mina said, thoughtfully, “it’s probably because y’all’s weird rivalry.”

“Oh, has she now?’ he asked, narrowing his bi-coloured eyes to slits.

“Ah, so you heard.” K-Jirou’s voice called from her desk, which was next to Kaminari’s. “Mina can’t keep secrets.”

Mina pouted. “I can.” she grumbled.

“It actually makes a lot of sense. Todoroki’s, like, handsome on a godly level, not gonna lie. There’s definitely a lot of girls-even juniors-who’re in love with him. Yaomomo doesn’t really…” Toru pointed out to get Kirishima and Jirou's point across.

“What’s the highest bet for all those who say I’ll get together with Yaoyorozu?’

he asked at the same time as Sero who said,

“if it makes you uncomfortable, we’ll stop right now, though,”

Everyone hid their surprise at his question. Jirou crossed her arms over her chest, and even though Shouto didn’t want to, his eyes followed the movement.

“1000 yen,” she said. “2000 yen that you won’t get together.” she gloated, proudly.

“5000 yen,” he muttered. Everyone glanced at him, surprised. “that we will get together.”

Noise broke out around him, everyone whispering. Or, yelling-Mina, Kaminari and Toru.

“So, you’re saying, you like Yaomomo?’

“6000 yen saying you won’t,” Jirou said, strained, quickly interrupting whatever he was going to say.

“10, 000.” he said, his voice deeper than normal.

“15, 000.” 

"20, 000."

“Wait, wait, wait.” Mina said, holding up her index fingers at both of their faces. “What’s with you two always arguing about stuff. Is this about your rivalry? Do you even like Yaomomo?’ She said, riled up.

“Mina, even I can see he’s in love with her. He’s been since forever,” Jirou burst out, throwing her hands up in exasperation. “so stop asking.”

Mina raised an eyebrow, staying calm. That was not normal, Shouto thought.

“Then why is it such a problem for you?’

Jirou sighed exhausted. “Because I’m in love. With Yaoyorozu,” she said. Why did that make him so disappointed, he wondered. Everyone gasped at the revelation. No one saw it coming.

“And I don’t know. I think I’m-I’m…” she trailed off. Mina gave her a knowing look.

“In love with Todoroki?’ She asked. 

“Mina!’ Jirou glared. But he didn’t really notice anything after Mina said that.

It felt so natural like it made perfect sense. She was in love with him? Even though what he felt for Yaoyorozu and Jirou were different, they both felt like love. The romantic type.

Could you even love two people? Was he being sinful and shallow and greedy?

But he didn’t want their bodies-it was just a bonus that he couldn’t take his eyes off the two girls-he was in love with everything about them.

“-roki. Todoroki!’ Someone shouted right into his ear.

“K-kaminari.”

Something zipped past his past and jabbed at Kaminari’s forehead. “ouch,” he muttered.

“Stop-stop bothering him,” Jirou said, blushing and looking away when he looked at her. The action almost made him smile; he loved her confidence, but she was pretty cute when she was being shy.

“Jirou’s in loveee with our resident hottieeeee,” Mina crowed, giggling.

She was skillfully dodging Jirou’s earjacks. “Stop it,” Jirou wailed.

“I don’t mind,” he said. Was that the wrong thing to say? Everyone froze. He could see Kirishima and most of his classmates stifling their giggles.

“Oh.” Jirou said, twirling a lock of hair shyly. “Um.”

“Come on, you two. Just make out or something already,” Kirishima sighed dramatically.

“Make out?’ Shouto questioned, puzzled.

“Kiss.” Mina wiggled her eyebrows. “You want to kiss her?'

He thought about it seriously. “That...would be nice.” he blushed.

Now that he’d said it, it sounded a lot more embarrassing.

Jirou covered her face in embarrassment, too.

“Oh, wow. Jirou, you were right. We should’ve been betting on when you and Todoroki will get together.” Toru giggled.

“But.” he paused. “I love Yaoyorozu.”

He heard a gasp. He turned around just in time to see Yaoyorozu standing there, gaping at him, crimson.

“Oh? Things just got interesting,” Sero smirked. 

He hadn’t realised she was there. 

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this is a mess, Kyoka thought, wishing that a hole would open up and swallow her. Preferably, right now.

Todoroki wanted to kiss her, big deal. He’d literally just confessed his love for Yaoyorozu. They’d get together, she’d have to move on from both of them.

“U-um,” Yaoyorozu stuttered, stumbling over her words. Kyoka’s heart clenched. Why did both of them have to be so beautiful? Why was her heart so greedy?

“I, um, love you, too. Since l-last year,” Yaoyorozu admitted. Everyone cheered, but Kyoka’s heart sank lower and lower, into her stomach. She felt sick.

“But, that’s not being completely honest,” Yaoyorouzu scratched her cheeks, looking guilty. “I...I think I’m in love with Kyoka. I don’t-I don’t know why I’m like this, and you must hate me, but-”

She felt hope bloom in her chest and interrupted before she even knew what she was saying,

“I love you, too. You and Todoroki. Both of you.” She heard multiple gasps and saw lida, Midoriya and Ochako entering, seeming astounded at the confession she’d hurled their way as soon as they entered the classroom.

“I’ve been in love with you for a long time, you were so beautiful and elegant, but I only realised when I nearly lost you. I couldn’t imagine life without you and I just-I just knew. But then Todoroki came into the picture and I got jealous, but as time went by, I started to like spending time with him, too. And I didn’t know what was going on in my head, and I didn’t wanna admit I loved being him so, so much. But by then, I wasn’t jealous, I felt sad. I loved you both and wanted you both and the thought was disgusting to me, but you two were perfect for each other and I just didn’t fit in.” She ranted, breathless, feeling tears prick at her eyes.

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Yaoyorozu wasn’t sure when it had started. Shouto and Kyoka were so kind to her, and a ridiculous thought had been invading her mind for a while. Starting with that ruler incident, she felt like their fights revolved around her.

Like they were fighting for her. It was too much to hope for. Ever since she’d come to terms with the fact that she not only loved Shouto, but Kyoka, too, she knew she’d been hallucinating. Seeing things she wanted to see, but would obviously never happen.

It was impossible for them to be polyamorous, right? Wasn’t Kyoka straight, anyway? 

The thought was heavy.

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Shouto had never been so happy in his life.

When he was a kid, he had a very simple and pure notion of love. It’d been distorted by his father’s abuse and his mother’s mental stability deteriorating, of course, but he was pretty sure that he-or anyone in his family-had never imagined that he’d have two girlfriends.

And they were the most beautiful, powerful, intelligent, funny, witty and just the absolute best. Although, he still liked competing with Kyoka. It’d become almost a habit.

The relationship wasn’t the most ideal-to outside view, probably, although he was perfectly satisfied with it. His father would probably think he was being productive, though, and the thought was bitter-tasting-but it worked well in a way that no one, even they themselves, expected it would.

Their classmates were extremely supportive. Even Mineta congratulated their relationship, even if it was grudgingly.



He was the luckiest man alive, he thought.