Agent of Misfortune

But still, Izuku smiles and takes the first of many now-familiar steps to the train station because even to be caught thinking about Kacchan gives him an excuse to let the fingers of his memory trace the outline of his back, which is something. Kacchan is his childhood friend and sometimes his rival, after all, though that may not mean much in the years to come.Izuku wilts along with his sheepish smile. “I don’t think he would like it very much if he heard me.”Something in Todoroki’s blank expression gives Izuku the impression that, somehow, in a way he cannot understand, he casts an exaggerated look-right and look-left down the thoroughfare as if to make a point of Kacchan’s absence even though he never stops piercing Izuku through with his limpid stare.“I don’t think he’ll hear you,” he says.-The thoughts and feelings of others, as well as one's thoughts and feelings towards oneself, play as much of a role in writing one's life story as the cosmic reality of random chance. A sudden encounter with a ragged, spiteful middle schooler drives this home for Izuku Midoriya and the people closest to him.