chapter 2: The crack in the ice

Chapter 2: The Crack in the Ice

Five years. Five years of forced smiles and stifled cries. Five years of living in the shadow of her brother, Shoto, under Endeavor’s cold, demanding gaze. Nuri Todoroki, Shoto’s identical twin, possessed the same striking bi-colored hair, but where Shoto’s ice-blue eye reflected a chilling stoicism, Nuri’s crimson eye burned with a quiet defiance.

Endeavor's training regime was relentless. Shoto, the inheritor of his fire and ice quirk, was pushed to the brink, a carefully crafted weapon. Nuri, however, was an anomaly – a mirror image with a quirk as unpredictable as the flames that danced in her crimson eye. Sometimes, the fire in her eyes reflected a burning rage; sometimes, it held a deep, unsettling sadness. It frightened Endeavor. It confused him. And so, she was largely ignored, a shadow in her own home, left to fester in a world where her only comfort was her brother's rare, fleeting moments of kindness.

One evening, after a particularly brutal training session, Shoto found Nuri huddled in a corner, clutching a small, worn doll – a relic from a time before the relentless training began. Tears streamed down her face, silent, unshed tears that spoke volumes. Shoto, exhausted and aching, felt a pang of guilt, a familiar tightness in his chest. He knew what it felt like to be a discarded tool; to be reduced to nothing more than a means to an end.

He knelt beside her, his own ice-blue eyes softened with a rare empathy. He offered her a small, almost imperceptible smile. “It’s okay, Nuri,” he whispered, his voice hoarse. “It’ll be alright.”

But it wasn't alright. The next day, Endeavor’s anger exploded. A misplaced training tool, a momentary lapse in Nuri’s practice, ignited a furious outburst that left both children trembling. Nuri’s crimson eye flared, a terrifying sight, as she unleashed a surge of power unlike anything Endeavor had seen before. It wasn't ice, nor fire, but a chaotic force that ripped through the training grounds, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.

Endeavor’s eyes widened, not with admiration, but with pure, unadulterated fear. He saw in Nuri not a successor, not a tool, but an unpredictable force of nature, a power he couldn't control, a threat to his carefully constructed image. The crack in the ice wasn’t just in Shoto’s heart; it had shattered Endeavor’s control, revealing a terrifying truth: He didn't just have one uncontrollable child. He had two. And the storm within Nuri was only just beginning.

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