Gears and Roses (BakuDeku fanfic)
(+Support course Deku art at the end)
Summary: Bakugo is oddly interested in a quirkless support course student and he isn't sure why. Over the course of a few days Bakugo grows fonder and fonder of the green haired man, but he's totally not catching feelings! that would be crazy!
Tags: Support Course Midoriya Izuku, Quirkless Midoriya Izuku, Mutual Pining, Alternative Universe - Never Met, Bakugo Katsuki is Bad at Feelings.
Notes: I was watching a video by tonkajoey08 on YouTube and something they brought up caught my brains attention, and I started making fanart for an au in my head, and thennn I actually started to write said au, so here we are. Hope You enjoy!
Also this is cross posted on ao3, so any support on there is also greatly appreciated!!
Midoriya sat at his desk, tinkering with some kind of neck piece used for a second year student's costume.
“What the hell is up with this thing..?” He muttered, trying to get his head around how the support item worked.
“Maybe I can help!” Hatsume said, suddenly appearing behind him with a devious expression on her face.
Midoriya yelped in surprise at her sudden appearance. “No Hatsume! You can’t take every project I work on!” He exclaimed as he wrapped his arms around the neck piece in an attempt to keep it away from his assertive classmate.
The two played keep away with the item for quite awhile, causing a mess around Midoriya’s workspace. Finally Hatsume had backed him into a corner, but just as she was about to steal the object away from Midoriya, the door swung open and the two of them turned their heads around to face it.
In the doorway was a black haired man who wore similar colored clothes and a long thin scarf that almost reached his chin.
“Man, who's that guy? Is he a teacher? No, no he looks far too scary to be a teacher.” Hatsume said bluntly.
“Hatsume!” Midoriya blushed, embarrassed by her complete lack of knowledge towards anything non technology related. “That’s the pro hero Eraserhead, He teaches the Hero Course.”
“Ooooh.” Hatsume replied, though her tone indicated that she hadn’t processed a single word he had said, nor had she cared.
Midoriya returned his attention to the teacher in question, and then to the large group of students behind him.
“Class, this is the Support Course.” Eraserhead explained to his students, with a less than enthusiastic attitude which matched his appearance perfectly.
“C’mon Midoriya, we have to get over there so we can make a good first impression! They must know about my gadgets!” Hatsume exclaimed, grabbing and pulling on Midoriya’s arm.
“W-wait Hatsume!” Midoriya tried to protest to no avail.
Midoriya watched anxiously as Hatsume inspected and harassed every single member of class 1-A.
“Is she one of your classmates?” Eraserhead asked, snapping Midoriya out of his horrified state.
“Oh, um yeah, sorry about her Mr. Eraserhead, she’s very enthusiastic..” Midoriya sighed.
“It’s alright, maybe a bit annoying but it’s better to get the introductions out of the way sooner than later.” He shrugged.
“Introductions?” Midoriya questioned.
“Oh did Power loader forget to tell you? You two are going to be helping class 1-A create their hero costumes.” Eraserhead explained.
Midoriya’s eyes widened. “Us? Like me? I’m going to be helping your class make their hero costumes??”
“Yeah, you two are some of the most promising in your class from what I’ve heard, so it’s not that big of a surprise. Hatsume has incredible inventing skills, and you have extensive quirk knowledge which could be very useful.” Eraserhead explained.
Hatsume returned to Midoriya’s side, practically beaming.
“All these first years have such exciting quirks, I can’t wait to test all sorts of things on them.” She snickered, Midoriya could practically see the gears turning in her head.
“Class, attention.” Eraserhead called, trying to get the attention of the group of kids who were chatting about what Midoriya could only assume was Hatsume. “These two are the Support Course students who will be helping you with your costumes and support gear.” He gestured to Midoriya and Hatsume.
“What were your names again?”
“I’m Mei Hatsume!” Hatsume said excitedly, though her face wore the same expression as always.
“And I’m Midoriya Izuku.” Midoriya followed with a less enthusiastic tone.
“You will all meet with one of them at some point over this week to discuss your costumes and work up a blue print, which will then be constructed and delivered to you the following week.” Eraser explained.
“There will be a list in the classroom of who meets with who and when you're scheduled to meet, but of course you can visit any of the other support students during the times these two are busy to ask for additional help, any questions?” He asked.
The class stayed silent and still, seldom for a few shaking their heads.
Eraserhead continued, “Good, well then the first two who will be meeting with these two today are Yaoyorozu with Hatsume, and Bakugo with Midoriya, the rest of you may head back to class with me until your time comes.”
Midoriya squinted his eyes, observing the group of students to see who was staying in the workshop as the group left. Eventually after the room was cleared two students remained, one with a large black pony tail, and a blond boy who had a scowl practically engraved on his face.
‘Please tell me the nice looking one is Bakugo.’ He thought anxiously to himself, before he watched the polite black haired girl follow after Hatsume. He returned his attention to the man in front of him.
‘Um hello.” Midoriya said, his voice strained and hoarse.
“So you're the extra I'm stuck with?” Bakugo scoffed. "At least I didn't get stuck with her.” He added, turning his attention to Hatsume before looking back at Midoriya. ‘Let's just get this over with. If I'm going to become Number One I need my suit as soon as possible.”
Bakugo pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket. “Here’s my blueprints.” He said, handing the paper to Midoriya.
MIdoriya examined the paper as they began to walk over to his workshop, muttering to himself as he read over the design. It was surprisingly well researched and designed, except for the occasional comment which tended to be something childish and vague like “Make this part look flashy and scary!” And Bakugo’s drawing skills were certainly something.
“Wow this is some interesting gear.” Midoriya commented as they arrived at his desk. He sat down, placing the paper on top of a work mat that Bakugo assumed really wasn't doing much to protect the desk based on the scratched and burnt state of the thing.
“Ill start working on the blueprint, you just hang tight and I’ll call you over if we need to discuss any part of the design.” Midoriya said, shoeing him away with his bulky, gloved hands.
Bakugo walked over to one of the chairs and sat down as Midoriya turned on his computer to begin work.
Bakugo sat in that chair for what felt like hours. He occasionally got up to help translate part of his rough draft to Midoriya, or to make check in’s to make sure the design was to his liking, but aside from that he was stuck staring at weird support items, and listening to the sound of machinery, and the chatter of the pink haired girl Yaoyorozu was stuck with.
He glanced over at Midoriya, typing furiously like he had been for the past 20 or so minutes, and muttering to himself. For some reason Bakugo caught himself staring at the boy. Though he thought he was rather annoying, he could commend his focus, and Bakugo was surprisingly interested by his ramblings.
‘God shut the hell up Katsuki, he’s just some extra, don't let yourself be fooled just because he says a few smart things.’ Bakugo thought. Though he would like to say he hated all extras, he did have a bit of respect for the smarter ones, I mean if you’re gonna be an extra atleast be a useful one.
Still, eventually Bakugo couldn't stand sitting in silence any longer.
“God could you be any slower, when is this damn blueprint gonna be done.” Nagged bakugo as he swivelled around in one of the workshop chairs impatiently.
“Just a minute Bakugo, I'm almost done.” Replied Midoriya as he stared at the computer, fingers clicking keys rapidly. “Jeez, I heard that some of the Hero Course students were a bit much, but I didn't expect this…” Bakugo heard Midoriya mutter. He quickly got out of his chair and began stomping over to Midoriya, his blood boiling with anger.
“What did you just say about me you-” Bakugo was interrupted by a gloved finger pressing against his lips.
“Shush, I'm almost done.” Midoriya hushed him, returning his hands to his keyboard and finishing up the last parts of his project. “Aaaaand done!” He said with one final click. He swivelled around in his chair, moving slightly to the left to make the screen more visible to Bakugo.
“Voila.” Midoriya said, waving his hands around as he presented the design on the screen.
Bakugo’s narrow and sceptical eyes widened in surprise. “This is.. Really good?”
The design was undeniably well crafted and researched, every part of the suit matching exactly what he had asked for, with the addition of minor suggestions for changes that could improve the suit if Bakugo wanted typed neatly on the side of the document.
“I mean heat related quirks are my specialty.” Midoriya shrugged with a smug ‘Don't you feel dumb for rushing me, especially when my work turned out soooo amazing?’ Smirk on his face.
“Your specialty?” Bakugo asked.
“Yup! My dad’s quirk is fire breathing so I assumed there was a good chance I would inherit his, so I spent my whole childhood researching heat and fire related quirks in hopes of using that knowledge to my advantage when the time came and I became a hero.” Midoriya sighed, staring off at the wall of the workshop.
“Unfortunantly I didn't end up inheriting his quirk, but it's ok because now I have all this knowledge on quirks and I can help heroes like you.” He smiled.
Bakugo was confused how Midoriya could look at him with so much kindness when he was being such a jackass just a minute ago, but the question quickly got replaced with another that he was even more curious about.
“Well it seems like you were planning to become a hero based on what you just told me, why did you end up joining the support course instead?” Bakugo asked.
Midoriya chuckled. “Oh well that's simple, I don't have a quirk!”
Bakugo paused and stared at Midoriya. He knew there were kids at UA without quirks, but it still surprised him that he was meeting one, and that the quirkless kid in question was so well regarded by the school that he was trusted with 1-A’s hero costumes.
“Oh I see.” Bakugo said, hiding the surprise in his voice.
Bakugo usually would’ve bullied a person like this, but when he stood here face to face with a quirkless kid, he almost felt, guilty? He didn’t care for the boy by any means, hell he had just met him, but the idea of bullying him almost felt shameful.
Midoriya was clearly talented, and seemed relatively unbothered by his lack of a quirk. In some regards he even seemed more accomplished than Bakugo. Bakugo was intelligent, sure, but Midoriya clearly far surpassed him in the department, and he seemed far more content than Bakugo had been his whole time at UA.
Bakugo had spent hours training outside of school and he still felt like he was making no progress, meanwhile Midoriya had been there the same amount of time he had and he was already being praised for his impressive skill by the staff, unlike Bakugo who had only received countless reprimands from Mr. Aizawa.
He scowled at Midoriya. “Well I guess I’ll be heading back now, but don’t think that means you have an excuse to slack off you damn nerd, you got that?” Bakugo exclaimed.
“I wasn’t planning on it!” Midoriya yelled back as Bakugo stormed out of the workshop.
Midoriya sighed in relief as Bakugo exited the room, the tension in the air thinning within an instant.
“Jeez he sure had a temper.” Midoriya said to himself as he began to download the file to send off to Power loader.
He thought back on his interaction with Bakugo. The boy was extremely rude, there was no doubt about that. Midoriya felt like half the time Bakugo was about to punch his face in, even when the two were on opposite sides of the room, his angry aura was just that intense.
But something stood out to him, his reaction to Midoriya not having a quirk. Usually whenever Midoriya told someone he didn’t have a quirk he was met with a sea of taunts and rude comments, but Bakugo had just stared at him?
Out of all the UA students, Midoriya least expected someone with a temper like Bakugo’s to react so calmly, not even a single rude comment! Midoriya sat contemplating the interaction before he was snapped out of his thoughts by a hand on his shoulder.
“So how did yours go?” Hatsume’s excited voice asked from behind him.
Midoriya turned around to face Hatsume, her expression the same as it had always been, though she was visibly shaking with excitement.
“Good I guess.” Midoriya replied. “He was pretty rude, but his design was good and I could tell he was impressed with my craftsman ship.” Midoriya smiled confidently. “How about yours?”
“Mine was great!” Hatsume beamed. “Her design was super boring but it was great getting to work on a hero costume nonetheless.” Hatsume sighed, her smile still unchanged. “If only she hadn’t turned down so many of my gadgets.”
Midoriya chuckled as he swiveled back around to face his computer. “I’m sure one of them will fall for one of your crazy gadget pitches, just be patient.” He noted as he emailed Bakugo’s costume blueprints off to Power loader.
The two of them were interrupted suddenly by the presence of two new students in the doorway.
“Um, is this where we were supposed to head to get our costume blueprints?” A girl with pink rosy cheeks asked.
Hatsume nodded excitedly as she bounded over towards the two students and began to pick their brains about their quirks and costumes.
The day went on as Midoriya worked with several students on their costumes. He was amazed by the impressive roster of quirks possessed by the other students, and their surprisingly good costume designs, though even through all that, he couldn’t stop thinking of a certain angry blonde and he wasn’t quite sure why.
Thank you for reading!!! Here is some art as your reward for reading all the way through haha.
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