Friendship...?

A/N: Yo, before I start, lemme just say I've been getting more comments and @Nooneofinportance, YOU ARE FRICKIN HILARIOUS!!! You and @MiguelCastro854 are gonna kill me with these LOL

~Momo~

I really like Todoroki as a friend. He's nice and he's hilarious. However, I doubt he means to be funny. I find him funny because of his denseness.

I'm walking in the hall and Ashido spots me walking with Todoroki Shoto. "What have we here?"

"Don't start, Ashido-chan," I warn her. 

"We're only friends," Todoroki agrees.

"Friends? Ha! Friends with benefits, maybe!"

"What does that mean?" Todoroki asked, no blush, no sweat, no nothing. He asked as if he was asking "Will it rain tomorrow?"

In spite of how furious I was with Ashido or how embarrassed I was at what she said, I laughed out loud at my friend's cluelessness.

I point right at him and cover my mouth as I laugh. Ashido looks at me like I'm insane, and as a matter of fact, so does Todoroki. But in that moment I don't even care.

--

When Ashido goes away (finally), Todoroki asks me "What does that mean?" 

Not wanting to be the one to tell him, I search up "what does 'friends with benefits' mean" and show him my phone. 

He reads for a couple seconds and then cringes. His right eye twitches twice and he stands there, looking like someone offered him raw meat.

"What the hell is wrong with everyone here?"

I burst out laughing again, that is the funniest sentence I have ever heard. 

~Shoto~

Thanks to mine and Yaoyorozu's friends being idiots, I have learned several new words.

And I have got to say, I don't like any of them.

Ashido and Bakugo are certainly the most vulgar of the teasers, though they haven't said anything that made Yaoyorozu cringe too hard. Maybe it just shocks me when I learn the meanings of the words they use.

As for the "friends with benefits" thing, I keep hearing that.

Dis-gus-ting.

I've heard that from Bakugo, Ashido, Jiro Kyoka, Kaminari Denki, Sero Hinata and Mineta Minoru.

Especially Mineta Minoru.

I think it's supposed to be funny, but for me it is only cringe (another word I learned, which is literally just a verb turned into a noun. I think I hate people.)

Yaoyorozu and I, for the most part, have the same reactions whenever people (i.e. Bakugo) say weird stuff about our friendship.

We'll just have to learn how to tune people out.

--

Okay, so Bakugo just called me a "playboy" and what the actual hell. I swear, people are never going to leave me and Yaoyorozu alone.

I have to admit that one shocked me.

I'm sitting outside under a tree right now, reading a book. I notice Midoriya jumping at Bakugo's roaring voice, which just called me a playboy again.

"Why won't he let me alone?"

"You really don't know?" Midoriya asks.

"Well, everyone seems to think Yaoyorozu and I are some sort of romantic couple, I don't get that."

"You and her do act a little weird for friends."

"Why?"

"Well, I can't be sure of everything that's happened, but after we defeated those three villains, you two went somewhere together. You were burning up with fever." Midoriya recounts.

"She took me to her house," I tell him.

Midoriya bursts into laughter. "I've literally never met anyone more dense." 

"What..." then realization sets in. "All of you are sick."

"We're just teasing, Todoroki-san!" Midoriya chuckles and raises his hands like I surrender, back off.

"People don't tease without a reason," I mumble.

"And you and Yaoyorozu are... giving us a reason." That's the last thing Midoriya says before leaving, chuckling all the while.

I am going to crush that cabbage one day.

I start to think, maybe my friendship with Yaoyorozu isn't good. I'm sure she can't stand being teased as if she's dating me. (Yeah, I know that word now, too). We're just friends and I hear her remind her friends of that almost every day. 

I know she can't stand this.

I walk Yaoyorozu home after school is over, knowing what I have to say to her and dreading it all the while. I don't want to end my friendship with Yaoyorozu. She's smart and funny and a pleasure to be around.

But maybe something I'm doing is wrong.

Kirishima is friends with pretty much everyone, no one ever makes jokes about him. If there is a way I am acting that is making people joke about Yaoyorozu and I being in a different relationship, then there could be a way I am acting that makes Yaoyorozu uncomfortable.

And that's on my list of the last things I ever want to do.

~Momo~

"Welp, we're here!" I cheer when Todoroki and I get to my house.

"Yaoyorozu."

I whip my head around and my ponytail smacks me in the face. I blush as I move it away from my forehead. 

I swear I just saw him grin. I have the sudden urge to die in this moment.

"I have to talk to you, Yaoyorozu..."

I'm concerned. He doesn't usually start off our conversations like this. He's usually much more easygoing, but right now he has a worried look on his face.

"I think I have to stop being your friend."

What. The. Actual. F--k.

"Todoroki-san, what are you are saying? I... I like being your friend."

His eyes widen in shock, and so do mine, because I cannot believe what I just said. I look into his eyes with worry.

"You are aware of the things our classmates have been saying about us."

"Todoroki-san, that can't be what this is about! You have to ignore them, they're being foolish. They're our friends, that's what they're supposed to do!" I clench and unclench my fists rapidly. Todoroki can't stop being friends with me just because Jiro and Bakugo don't know how to shut their mouths.

"That's not what it is, it's that I think I may be acting in a way that makes them act this way. Uraraka and Iida, for example, are friends. No one speaks this way about them. Only us, and now that I think about it, Uraraka and Midoriya."

I understand what he's saying now. He thinks there's something he's doing that makes me...

"Uncomfortable. I think I may be making you uncomfortable."

"Todoroki-san, that's just not true. You don't make me uncomfortable in any way." I love being around him. He's a good friend.

But, I am starting to think of him as more.

This worries me because I barely thought he'd be my friend, and he did, but there's no way he wants to date me! Even the way he's talking to me right now, he wants to be my friend and nothing else.

"On second thought, maybe we should stay away from each other for a bit..."

"You really think so?" Todoroki looks into my eyes and I feel as if he's staring into my soul, my heart, everything I am.

"Y-yes... It would be for the best."

"I am very proud to have been your friend, Yaoyorozu." Todoroki bows to me and walks away.

"Todoroki-san!" Why in hell did I just scream his name?

He turns to me, walks up to me and hugs me on my porch, in front of everyone. He whispers "Goodbye, Yaoyorozu" to me and then lets go and walks away from me.

A/N: Yo, y'all crack me up. I love the comments, keep it up! 

A/N: In the next chapter, Shoto will start calling Momo "Yaoyorozu-chan".