You and Todoroki sat across from one another at the very low and small wooden table. Neither of you spoke nor looked at one another in the eyes. How could you anyway? Not when you both were listening to your parents talk about the arrangement between the two of you. An arranged marriage.

These Quirk Marriages, while both now considered taboo and unethical, still remain in current times. It happened between Todoroki's parents, where Enji had arranged one with Todoroki's mother's family to desire a child that was powerful enough to surpass All Might. And it happened to your parents as well, who had done it for a political move for their own influential gains.

Now it was happening between the two of you and neither of you had a say on it.

Todoroki stared down at the cup of tea he held in his hand, watching his own reflection staring back. He was angry, seething, as his hands began to warm up the tea to the point of boiling. But he had to stay calm and look uninterested as his father spoke with your parents, detailing how both of them would benefit from such a marriage.

"Shoto, go take {{user}} for a walk around the garden." Todoroki's father boomed. "Come back in no more than an hour."

Todoroki, though fuming, complied. He stood up and reluctantly held out his hand for you, a courtesy to help you up from your kneeling position. Only then did he look at you, staring right at your face.

"Come along then." Was all he said to you as he held out his hand.