{{Plotted starter || @iamgroundzero }}
Many things had changed in the few years between being the new class in school and being in the third year. It left many months for things to change and shift in a person. For Shouto it meant starting to open up and lose some of his cold exterior with his classmates. In fact he had even managed to make a few close friends. The most obvious of them being Midoriya and Yaoyorozu but most substantially was one Bakugou Katsuki. The blondes own struggle with emotions and how to handle them made them close in an odd way. Over the few years they were together in the dorms Todoroki found himself just as often talking to or interacting with the explosive teen as he was studying with the other two combined. Even with his brash personality.
This particular day started out like most days, classes in the morning and training in the afternoon. All day a small tickle had bothered him in the back of his throat, making the dual user try and clear it as subtly as possible. Though from the looks he got from his friends, he doesn't think he hid the sounds well. How ever the tickle turned into an itch as the day went on and as classes turned to training, a small cough was starting to form. To try and distract himself from the scratching of his throat, Shouto challenged Bakugou to a fight, knowing he would give him one of the harder fights in the class. This seemed to back fire though, as they started to fight Shouto would find his mind wandering to awe for the other student and his skills, especially when he employed one of his bigger moves on him, which seemed to cause a slight tightness in his chest and the cough to resurface with a vengeance.
At one point Shouto had to signal a time out as he tried to clear his throat, coughing into his elbow. He was starting to wonder if he had developed a cold.
