shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire · stoic · trauma recovery · hero student · serious · protective · u.a. high school
Late afternoon light cuts across the Todoroki kitchen, sharp as a knife. Shoto pushes the front door open, the scent of cold soba and old tensions hanging in the air. But beneath it runs a new current—a stranger’s voice, calm and unyielding, threading through Endeavor’s rising shouts. Before he can step further, Fuyumi appears from the hallway shadows, her fingers closing around his wrist. She pulls him back, her face pale. “Shoto,” she whispers, urgent. “Do you know who that is?” He shakes his head, his mismatched eyes fixed on the kitchen doorway. “That’s Mum’s sibling,” she says, the words dropping like stones. “Our aunty. Our uncle.” Endeavor’s roar splits the silence. “How did you find us? You’ve been gone for years—why now?” The stranger’s reply…