Chapter 6: Midoriya vs. Todoroki

Shoto Todoroki looked a lot more athletic than a usual junior high student, his build was clearly trained. He had white and red hair on his right and left sides respectively, he also had a very unusual scar on his right side of his face over his eye.

"Hello young man, I believe your father should be here, if you wouldn't mind getting him." Gran Torino said walking over with his cane and standing next to Midoriya. Midoriya looked towards Todoroki and what he saw brought chills to his spine.

Todoroki's face went from a very calm and emotionless face to something that could only be called pure anger. He turned back around and went inside, Midoriya and Gran Torino waited, but Midoriya had a few questions for Gran Torino.

"When did you call that guy's father and who is it anyway?!" he said turning towards him, "We may not be on great terms, but when I asked if his boy wanted to try and prove himself against you, well let's just say that he didn't back down." Gran Torino said proud of himself.

Midoriya however looked unimpressed and rolled his eyes, 'So, you basically insulted Todoroki to force him to accept your terms.' he sighed to himself.

Midoriya heard footsteps as saw two individuals shadows as they came to the door, one he presumed to be Todoroki and the other, who was in front of him, was a very big man and who he presumed to be Todoroki's father.

The door opened and a man with short, spiky red hair and oddly enough flames coming between his lip and the bottom of his lip. It didn't click in Midoriya's head for a few seconds, 'Wait! The number two hero, the flame hero Endeavor.' Midoriya thought with very shocked eyes.

"So, this is the supposedly superior child to my Shoto, huh? I don't want to offend you honored elder, but I can't see how you can think he could stand a chance." Endeavor said with a deep and threatening voice, while being cocky at the same time.

Gran Torino lightly laughed and walked into the Todoroki house and spoke, "Sure, sure, let's go and see if your talk is as big as your son's bark." he said laughing while walking ahead of Endeavor and Todoroki.

Endeavor grumbled in anger and reluctantly followed Gran Torino, Todoroki turned around and followed.

Midoriya, who was just watching the scene play before him, quickly walked beside Todoroki. Todoroki didn't seem to notice or he didn't seem to care that Midoriya was walking beside him until, "So, Todoroki, um, your father seems really confident that you're strong, um, are you?" he asked so unsure of what to say, that it just came out.

Todoroki answered immediately, "I guess." he said so nonchalantly that Midoriya didn't know what to say.

Midoriya just decided to look around the Todoroki's house, he already noticed the clear Japanese style outside the house, but it was clearly the same inside the house as well.

"Your house is really cool Todoroki!" he said excited at how authentic is it to the original Japanese style.

"Thanks." he again said nonchalantly, Midoriya sighed realizing that he was probably not going to get any real conversation out of him. They eventually arrived at a training ground and he saw a white haired woman with red streaks, who Midoriya presumed to be Todoroki's sister.

He could hear her nervous worrying, "Are you sure Shoto and him should face each other here, father?" she asked with clear nervousness in her face.

Endeavor looked downwards at the girl with a angry face and said, "Are you worried about Shoto being hurt, you should have more confidence in my creation." he said grinding his teeth.

Gran Torino tried to change to the subject, but Todoroki beat him to it, "Shut it father, you're the one who wanted them here, so let's get this over with." he said with a angry face and walked past him and reached the end of the area.

Endeavor decided that getting into an argument with his son would be fruitless especially with guests. It was quiet for another couple of seconds, "Anyway, let's get to it, get ready Midoriya!" Gran Torino said signaling with his cane to get in position on the opposite side of Todoroki.

Midoriya nodded and went about 30 feet away from Todoroki who still seemed angry, Endeavor standed away from the two and also seeming angry over his son's attitude towards from. Gran Torino got between the two.

"Alright, remember this just going to be a sparring match, no excessive force and obviously don't try to damage the near area and hurt anyone, now are you ready?" he said looking at both competitors.

They both nodded, "Alright, BEGIN!" Gran Torino yelled, then jumped out of the way, only for Todoroki to put out his right foot and cause ice to spread throughout the entire floor, causing Midoriya to almost lose his balance but he quickly activated Full Cowl and jumped straight into the air.

Midoriya landed and stomped onto the ground resulting in the ice around his feet to break, Midoriya put one foot in front of the other and jumped towards Todoroki and prepared a punch to Todoroki.

Todoroki still seemed calm and caused ice to spike towards the flying Midoriya, 'Crap!' Midoriya thought and quickly flipped himself and did a downward kick to the ice, destroying it instantly.

However unfortunately for Midoriya, Todoroki already used his quirk again and shot ice towards him, resulting in Midoriya getting hit and sending him to the floor.

Midoriya hastily got up, Todoroki didn't do anything and observed him to decide what to do next.

'He clearly has a lot of control over his quirk, and he has the intellect to use it to it's full potential. He obviously won't let me get anywhere near me, so it's possible he's not very good at taking hits himself. All I need to do is get close enough!' Midoriya calculated in his head.

Midoriya got up clutching his side and then he activated Full Cowl again and jumped high enough to grab onto the 2nd floor and climb up onto the railing then the ceiling.

'What is he planning?' Todoroki thought, he didn't really care about his shitty dad's house and also would attack the house to stop Midoriya. However he didn't want to possibly hurt Midoriya and his sibling lived there too so he had to restrain himself.

Midoriya backed away and then full sprinted the edge of the roof and jumped, Todoroki fired off an ice attack again, but Midoriya decided that this was now or never, he then let Full Cowl go and abandoned control and fired off One For All from flicking his index finger and thumb.

The wind pressure immediately destroyed all the incoming ice and blew Todoroki causing him to make ice appear behind him to stop him from flying off and he used his left arm to cover his eyes from the continued wind.

When he removed his arm he saw Midoriya 3 feet away from him and was already having electricity flowing around him and preparing to punch him with his right fist and was having his left arm behind his back for some reason.

'SMASH!' Midoriya yelled inside his head out of instinct, he then connected his fist with Todoroki's head and quickly put ice behind him to cushion him, he then landed on his feet holding his head in pain.

Midoriya smiled happily in success, but then immediately clutched his fingers in pain. Todoroki noticed him clutching his fingers on his left hand and spoke out, "Hey, are you alright?" he asked.

Midoriya quickly shook his head and put his arm behind him, "No, I'm alright, let's continue!" he said excited and creating a fist with his right hand.

However they were stopped, "Actually, that's will be the end!" Gran Torino yelled to the two as he could not travel on the ice.

Midoriya grumbled to himself, "Shoto, get rid of this ice already!" Endeavor said commanding his son. Todoroki also grumbled and put his left hand on the floor, Midoriya looked at what Endeavor meant that Todoroki could somehow get rid of all this ice.

He couldn't see Todoroki's face, but he did notice his right fist being clenched into a fist, then steam began to surround the hole training area and the ice then began to melt and then eventually it was all gone.

Todoroki got up and walked away, not letting Midoriya or anyone else see his face, Midoriya on the other hand was flabbergasted.

'I can feel the heat surrounding me, so it's not like he can control ice or anything like that. And how he only used to attack with his right side, and that he used his left side to get rid of it, the only thing that makes sense would be that he has ice and fire powers in his right and left sides respectively. Wow, he really is strong!' Midoriya deduced.

Midoriya heard Gran Torino coming with his cane behind him and someone else, he turned around to see Todoroki's sister looking very concerned and Gran Torino not very happy.

"Are you okay Midoriya?" Todoroki's sister said sounding concerned, Midoriya waved it off, "Trust me I'm fi-" he was cut off by a hit to his leg by Gran Torino's cane. "You're not okay, you idiot! I can't believe you intentionally let go of your control!" Gran Torino said angry with Midoriya's recklessness.

Midoriya lowered his head in shame, "I'm sorry, it was just the only thing I could think of to beat him." he said still with his head bowing.

Gran Torino sighed in annoyance, "Whatever, just don't do that again, got it!" he said raising his voice. Midoriya quickly nodded, "Now can you attend to his injuries miss?" Gran Torino asked facing Todoroki's sister.

She nodded and asked Midoriya to follow her to the kitchen to wrap some bandages around his fingers.

Midoriya followed her to the kitchen with Gran Torino watching shaking his head, "I'm going to get a lecture from her aren't I?" he said not excited to be lectured by Recovery Girl.

"So, this boy of yours isn't all what he's cracked up to be, I mean it took breaking his fingers to even land one punch onto my Shoto." Endeavor said cocky and also laughing. Gran Torino turned around, "It's true that the boy was struggling against him, and I could also tell that your "Shoto" was not using his full power, but Midoriya's potential and full power is something you won't be able to comprehend." Gran Torino said smiling, he then walked to the kitchen to see Midoriya, while leaving Endeavor who was not in the greatest mood.

'That boy's power was strangely similar to another idiot, All Might.' Endeavor said with his face scrunched up in anger.

Todoroki was busy traveling through his house, he was not happy and his face showed that. 'This was such a waste of time, that guy was reckless and seemed like he couldn't even control his quirk like he just got it.' he arrived at his room he then sat down on his bed and closed his eyes.

He laid there for a while, then readjusted himself onto his side and opened his eyes to see a photograph of him as a child and a young looking woman with long white hair. Todoroki took a deep breath and turned onto his other side to avoid looking at the photo.

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After a very annoying lecture from Recovery Girl, Midoriya and Gran Torino left the Todoroki household and went to meet her. After another scolding from Recovery Girl, she reluctantly healed his fingers and sent them on their way. Midoriya and Gran Torino were saying their goodbyes at the bullet train station.

"So, when should we train again Gran Torino?" Midoriya asked, Gran Torino merely laughed and hit Midoriya on top of the head with is cane.

"We're not going to train again, like I said if you keep training with me, then you'll create some bad habits." Gran Torino said smiling. Midoriya was holding his head and nodded.

"Now, when I see you again, it better be when you have improved yourself, got it!" he said Midoriya smiled and nodded, "Yes sir!" he said raising his voice. However that attracted people to look at the two, "DON'T RAISE YOUR VOICE IN PUBLIC!" Gran Torino yelled while banging his cane on Midoriya's head again.

"B-but, you jus-" he was cut off by Gran Torino, "Now, get out of here" he said kicking him in the shin. Midoriya quickly ran away and got on the bullet train.

'That kid doesn't look or act like you at all, but I still see him in you, Toshinori.' Gran Torino thought as he watched the successor of One For All leave.

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Midoriya got home and got a very big hug from his mother, he had dinner with her, talking about his training, Full Cowl, and sparring with Todoroki. Of course he decided to not mention him breaking his fingers.

When he finished he clean the dishes and then went to watch tv, until he heard the doorbell. 'I wonder who would come here at 7:00 pm.' he thought as he opened the door to see no other than Todoroki.

"Todoroki! What are you doing here?!" he asked very confused. "Fuyumi wanted to come here and apologize for you getting hurt, but she was too afraid of my old man possibly being angry with her, so I came here for her." Todoroki said again very monotone.

'I'm guessing Fuyumi is his sister, but one thing still doesn't make sense.' he thought and then spoke, "Okay, that makes sense, but how did you figure out where I live?" Todoroki answered immediately, "I tried really hard." he said flatly. Midoriya sweatdropped, 'What?! How?!' he thought yelling inside his head.

"Well thanks for coming and also say thanks to your sister for me, but I'm fine" Midoriya said smiling and raising his hand to show his healed fingers.

Todoroki nodded and was about to speak until he was cut off by a very curious mother, "Oh, who is this Izuku? Is he your friend?!" she asked excited to meet the boy at their door.

Midoriya eyes were wide open, "Mom… this is Todoroki, remember I sparred with him earlier today." he said looking apologetic towards Todoroki who was stuck here. Inko nodded, "Well does he want to come in?" she asked.

"Actually I wanted to know if Midoriya could come with me for a little bit." he said still monotone. Inko smiled and nodded and pushed Midoriya out of the door, "Well, you heard him Izuku! Have fun!" she then immediately closed the door.

Midoriya sighed then faced Todoroki, "Well, you wanted to talk, might as well." he said then starting to go down the stairs from their apartment. Todoroki followed and they walked for a couple of minutes, then randomly Todoroki decided to speak up.

"The truth is I wanted to discuss something with you and Fuyumi's predicament was the perfect excuse to actually bother." Todoroki said looking straight ahead.

"Okay, but what did you want to talk about?" he said glancing at Todoroki as they walked. Todoroki got out his phone and he handed him his phone that was playing the very same video Uraraka showed him when they met.

Midoriya's mouth was open for a couple of minutes thanks to that, "I didn't recognize you at first but after thinking about it, you looked exactly like him, but I don't know why that other guy called you Deku, instead of your actual name." Todoroki said explaining himself.

Midoriya gave Todoroki his phone back and sighed, "He calls me that to make fun of me, and yeah that's me." he said reluctantly.

"I apologize if I upset you." he said, he then stopped walking and dialed his phone, "Hello, yeah I told him, if you want to talk to him, he's right here. Alright, I'll see you at home, goodbye." he finished.

Todoroki faced Midoriya who decided to not let Bakugo get under his nerves, "So, anyway, I was just curious and I wanted to ask you something. Can we continue are earlier sparring?" he asked.

Midoriya waited a couple of seconds for his words to sink in, "W-wait, what?!" Midoriya said. "In the video, I didn't see any electricity surrounding your body, and didn't look like you were using quirk throughout the entire situation. So, I'm curious on how you fight and why you fight like that." he said.

'Crap, that's true! What's going to happen when people like Kacchan sees me using One For All, or Iida and Uraraka?!' Midoriya thought. "You see, the thing is, it's illegal to use your quirk in public, so I refrained from doing that." he said pointing finger up.

"But, sure, we can spar, just, um, where?" Midoriya said, Todoroki looked up in thought. "We're definitely not going to my old man's, and there isn't that many places where we can freely use our quirks freely." he said.

As if a light bulb turned on in his head, Midoriya came up with an idea that seems very familiar for some reason. "There's a beach near here that people never go to!" he said smiling, Todoroki nodded, "Alright, that'll do." he said, then Midoriya walked towards Takoba Municipal Beach.

Midoriya already texted his mother that he would be out for a little while when they arrived at the junk infested beach.

"Why is this beach… like this?" Todoroki asked looking around him at the once beautiful beach. "Something about the currents. Lots of stuff drifts ashore. And people also dump their garbage here, even though they shouldn't." Midoriya said explaining why the beach has become what it was today.

"How do you know about all this?" he asked still observing the surrounding area. "Well, I'm trying to clear this whole beach before February." he said a little nervously.

Todoroki was curious why February, but he didn't want to pry too much, "Are you sure this is a good place to spar Midoriya?" he asked skeptical.

Midoriya nodded confidently, "Yes! I've trained here before and it's been perfect!" he said, 'Even though one time I broke a finger and then got an arm sore.' he thought to himself. Todoroki nodded and stepped a couple of steps back and prepared himself, "Ready?" he asked still in a monotone voice.

Midoriya got ready too and said, "Yes." he said confident. "Alright, 1, 2, 3, Now!" Todoroki said and again fired off ice spikes toward Midoriya. Midoriya activated Full Cowl and turned around to jump onto the nearby garbage, Todoroki increased the power so the ice would reach him, but Midoriya was ready and jumped high enough to avoid the ice and slide down.

Todoroki took the initiative quickly and created more ice attacks against Midoriya, Midoriya on the other hand was prepared again and threw consecutive punches towards the ice.

As Midoriya slid down the ice, he was destroying the ice attacks that Todoroki was firing off at him, but Midoriya was naive in thinking in how powerful Todoroki was, as he fired a much bigger attack.

Midoriya decided to take the attack and guard himself, he put his arms in front of him, after being forcefully pushed, he climbed the ice and jumped high enough to where he was directly above Todoroki.

Todoroki was about fire off an attack again, but Midoriya threw consecutive punches into the air below him, towards Todoroki, resulting in air pressure to blast down towards Todoroki and him losing control for a couple of seconds so the ice missed it's mark and went the right of Midoriya.

Midoriya hit a downward kick to the top of Todoroki's head, "Todoroki quickly put his right hand on the ground and made ice come up from the ground and brought Midoriya high up into the air.

Midoriya jumped off the ice spikes he hanging from onto the opposite side of where Todoroki was and took a couple of seconds to breathe.

'Man, he's crazy strong, and it's not just his quirk! His judgement, application skills, and mobility are all strong.' Midoriya thought while leaning against the ice wall that separated the two.

Todoroki on the other hand was rubbing his head, 'In the same spot too. Damn. He doesn't seem as awkward with his movements, but he doesn't have enough power to stop my attacks.' he thought as he leaned against the ice also.

Midoriya backed away from the ice and got ready to sprint, 'One For All: Full Cowl!' he thought as he flowed One For All throughout his body and sprinted at the wall of ice. He jump kicked the wall, surprising Todoroki as he was kicked in the middle back. Todoroki quickly turned around to see Midoriya trying to punch him the face, only for him to quickly dodge to the left.

Midoriya kept trying to hit Todoroki, but was unable to hit him. Todoroki took the opportunity to step back and fire off an attack at Midoriya only for him kick it and surprisingly destroy most of the attack easily.

Midoriya was surprised but recovered quickly and punched Todoroki straight in the gut, sending him towards the the previous ice wall. Todoroki was about to attack again, but Midoriya put his hand up, "I think that's enough, I'm tired and so do you." he said breathing hard.

Todoroki was also breathing hard and nodded, he then proceeded to cause all the ice to melt once again. Midoriya went and sat down on a nearby cabinet and looked at the damaged Todoroki who just finished melting the ice.

"That was really fun, you're really strong! I don't think I would have been able to keep up with you if we kept going." he said.

Todoroki had his hands on his hips and had his back to him, then Midoriya noticed there was frost on his right side and he was sort of shivering. "Are you okay Todoroki?" he asked as got up.

Todoroki didn't respond, so Midoriya lightly touched his left shoulder only for Todoroki to lash out with his left arm and almost hit Midoriya.

This was the first time since initially meeting him and referencing his father, that Todoroki showed real emotion onto his face, and it was complete anger.

Midoriya stepped back with a shocked and very slightly feared face. Todoroki's eyes widened and turned around immediately and rubbed the right side of his head. "Sorry." he said gently and almost , still not facing Midoriya, "It's alright, I'm sure you didn't mean it." he said sincerely.

Midoriya didn't know what to do or what to say, he just met Todoroki and he didn't feel it was his place to ask him why or anything regarding the matter. Todoroki then took a deep breath with his eyes closed, he then turned around with the same deadpanned face he's always had, "I apologize for lashing out." he then slightly bowed.

Midoriya panicked and quickly shook his hand to try and stop him, "N-no, it's fine, you don't seem like that kind of person Todoroki. Unlike other people I know." he said, except the last part was under his breath.

Todoroki nodded, "I think, I better get going, I want relax." he said now going towards the stairs to the street. Midoriya nodded and followed, "I hope we can train together again." he said happily.

One of Todoroki's eyes half closed in confusion, "I don't know how we could possibly stay in touch." he said. "Huh, couldn't we just exchange phone numbers." Midoriya said also confused.

"Oh, I guess that is an efficient way." he said, Midoriya laughed, and Todoroki gave the closest thing to a half smile when it comes to him.

They followed suit and exchanged phone numbers and went on their way home. While Midoriya was walking home he realized something, 'Wait, a minute! I forgot to ask what's up with his left side! Actually, maybe I shouldn't, something tells me that's it's a complicated topic.' he thought.

He made his way home, unknown to the truth behind Todoroki's quirk and past.

End

Two weeks and you get the shortest chapter I've written so far, man I'm a piece of crap. Anyway, I apologize for the wait, especially the fact that this only took me about 3-4 days to write, and I was just being lazy.

I hope I wrote Todoroki's character to your guy's liking, and also the the two sparring matches between the two was also enjoyable.

I'd say there's probably only 2 chapters left before the Entrance Exam, so I hope you'll continue to read until we get there and hopefully the very end.

So leave your thoughts by reviewing, see you hopefully by next week at most.