Bakugou loses his All Might card
Prompt: In which Bakugou loses his All Might card.
Content warning: insecure Katsuki, fluff, non-established relationship, 2nd year Katsuki,
You hummed to yourself as you folded the laundry around you, clothes floating around you being plucked from just finished washer and dryers placed beside you ready to be folded into each pile. Today was your day to do the dorms laundry which is a bit taxing especially when you live with boys—like Kaminari and Mineta, who claim their week old shirt is barely worn. Your nose curled at the gross behaviour of those two.
You all took turns with each chore but laundry typically fell to you. Your quirk made it easier than the others found it. Telekinesis made lifting, sorting and folding the laundry easy. A little white card stuck out from a pair of black basket ball shorts you had picked from the pile of washed dark clothes. You picked it out and held it up, it seemed completely fine having gone through a heavy wash and dry. The clear plastic keeping it safe from any water damage. An All Might card, you wondered who it belonged to not recognising the shorts which you had already sorted into the unknown pile which was rather small since everyone in your dorm had their own distinct fashion sense there were still things you couldn’t sort into their respective piles.
You just slipped it into your pocket and continued on—beginning to hum once more.
“C’mon (Y/N), don’t make me go alone” Jirou groaned. You rolled over onto your stomach on her bed and found her already looking at you.
“You won’t be alone Jirou. All the girls are going. I told you I have loads of homework” you replied, attention back on your phone before you.
“I know but I just like your company” her mumbled confession just made you roll your eyes. Jirou is your best friend, having a lot of common interests.
“Or is it because Kaminari is also going and you’re worried he’ll try and speak to you” You sat up and grinned at her reddening face. She chucked a pillow which you redirected mid air and scoffed at her.
You jumped from her bed and slipped your slippers on, heading to the door and turning back to face her. A sigh pushing past your lips as she gave you a pointed look and you only held you hands in the air with a roll of your eyes.
“Okay—okay I’ll come” She flashed you a small smile which you returned before leaving her dorm and heading to your own.
Your mind elsewhere as you hummed through the hallways looking at each very decorated door, lost in your own mindless thoughts. Not noticing the skulking blonde heading your way, who was also lost in his own thoughts—except his were only focused on one thing. His card—His All Might Card that has somehow gone missing. Bakugou gritted his teeth when you both bumped shoulders and the action snapped you from your thoughts with a jerk, looking to see just who you had bumped to apologise when red eyes met yours and your heart skipped slightly.
“K-Katsuki! Ah sorry, I was distracted!” You quickly bowed your head. You had slight feelings for your classmate—especially after the war and everything that has happened. He seemed different—more mellowed.
Katsuki peered down at you and felt his own stomach twist. He wasn’t sure if what he felt for you were feelings that pushed past friendship but he didn’t believe them to be mutual, not when you were always talking to Dunce face. He just knew he enjoyed your company without having to force himself to—liked finding you in crowded spaces to hear you talk. He also thought your quirk was impressive and your application of it as well, as if he would ever tell you that thought.
“It’s fine, y—y’okay?” His voice was softer than usual, eyes not as sharp and narrow. You just rubbed the back of your neck with a smile and nodded.
“Ye-yeah! What about you? How have you been?” Maybe it was your charisma he liked, how easy you seemed to find conversations. You always asked him if he was okay, genuinely seemed to care and notice when he was off.
Not that his other friends didn’t but no way would he ever tell Kirishima or Dunce face his feelings—no matter how strong of bros they were.
“I’ve been—“ his mind went to his lost card “fine”
You chewed your cheek at his response seeing how his eyes broke contact ever so slightly to glance to the side when he answered. Whilst you couldn’t read minds or communicate telepathically with anyone. You could feel peoples emotions if they were strong enough, which gave you some insight into their mental status and Katsuki—well, he felt sullen. A feeling akin to a little kid losing their childhood teddy.
The thought of Katsuki with a teddy made your nose curl with a snort and he furrowed his brows at you. What were you doing? Laughing at him? Quickly realising you eyes went wide and cheeks warmed with embarrassment.
“S-Sorry, ignore me—um, Just fine?” He only nodded “well, are you coming out with us tomorrow?”
His brow quirked and he began to wonder what you could be talking about. If it was some hang out he probably was invited but with how much his friends talk about mindless things he tends to tune them out after a while to save himself some space in his brain for more important tasks.
“Yeah I think a few of us are heading off campus. I’m not sure yet but you should totally come” You smiled up at him with a bit more excitement than you wanted to give off and a faint smile ghosted his own face.
“Maybe. Goodnight (Y/N)” he brushed by you without another word as a mumbled goodnight slipped from your own lips and you watched him turn down the hallway before heading to your own dorm.
Feeling a little giddy now that he was coming. Your eyes fell onto the All Might card you had pinned to your notice board.
Katsuki did decide to join your group hangout—mainly because you had asked. Kaminari was estatic to see the broody blonde who he had invited numerous times for the past week, unknown to him he thought Katsuki came because he had asked—not you.
You all were just at the mall, nothing exciting or crazy—just window shopping. Katsuki had fallen into step beside you glancing down to see your eyes focused on the shops you all passed until you slowed at a video game store. Jirou liked these stores—so did Kaminari. You turned and gave Katsuki a small smile, not noticing how close he had gotten and found Jirou’s eyes and nodded into the store. The entire group filtered in behind you two, watching as Kaminari sheepishly followed Jirou to the console isle and began to point out things to her. You could see her cheeks warming and you just grinned.
You instead turned and looked to see Katsuki leaning down and staring at a glass case, heading over and finding what he was staring at—cards. You looked at the encased cards on display, obviously collectables with how mint their condition is and below them sat unopened mystery packets—quite cheap to for bundles. You glanced up at Katsuki wondering what card he was eyeing up so intently, was it the Endeavour one? Or the Lady Mt? Maybe it was the signed All Might one.
It reminded you of the one you found in those shorts a few days ago. You had asked about to see if you could figure out who owned it but no one owned up or knew anything and so you figured it didn’t mean anything to whoever misplaced it—it was just a card it could easily be replaced by another. You grabbed at the mystery packets and Katsuki glanced down at you.
“Wanna open some with me?” His furrowed brows relaxed slightly and he stayed quiet but reached out for a packet and headed to the registry to pay.
You all left and found the food court splitting up to find tables and each some food. Katsuki stayed with you—only because you told him you both could open your cards together, nothing else—no other reason, like just enjoying your company. He placed his tray of food down beside yours and sat down turning to face you seeing you grinning up at him.
“Okay! Lets open. I’ve never really bothered with these things before” You told him as you ripped the packaging. Katsuki copied you but stayed quiet.
That was something he had started doing after the war—quiet. He wasn’t as loud mouthed and rude anymore, well he could still be rude but it was becoming more rare. He still though kept his grumpy demeanour—that would never change.
“Who did you get?” You asked leaning over slightly into his space to look down at his cards. He showed you all the Pro-Hero’s he got and you showed him yours.
“I got this cool All Might one too” You lifted it up to show the shiny card and he just nodded.
“Not as cool as the one I have” Had—The one he had. You just rolled your eyes and bumped him with your shoulder.
A few others joined you both at your table. Midoryria was interested in the cards you both held—especially your shiny All Might which you gave to him. You didn’t really care for keeping them. He was very thankful for it.
“Are you guys going to stay up with us to watch some movies?” Ururaka asked and you met her gaze nodding for her to continue.
“We are gonna have a totally wicked marathon of some old horror movies!” Kaminari opened his loud mouth before she could. You finished chewing on your food and replied.
“Yeah sure, are you gonna join Kats?” You looked up to him and he glanced over his friends with a grunt.
“Maybe, last thing I want to hear is Dunce Face crying” He grumbled and Kaminari pouted at him before whining about how he was not a crybaby.
You just snickered at Kaminari who began to tell Jirou he wasn’t a cry baby, watching your best friends face go red when he grabbed at her hands and pouted when she didn’t answer—clearly too nervous to muster up a response. Your shoulders sagged a bit with a sigh as you found yourself shuffling further against the back of the seat and closer to Katsuki’s side, thighs touching and shoulders grazing. The closeness making both of you grow nervous with feverish feelings.
Maybe he would join you all tonight.
“Move it nerd” Katsuki glared down at Mineta who had stolen his spot beside you when he went to grab some popcorn.
Mineta who took a deep breath ready to defend himself from Katsuki lost all nerve at the raise of the blondes brow and narrowing of his eyes. Mineta rose with a huff and moved down beside Sero. Katsuki took his spot beside you with a huff of his own and you giggled, looking up to find that glare still plastered to his face as his red eyes met yours.
“I’ll go join him if you don’t fix that look on your face” Both of his eyebrows raised at your cheeky response and his cheeks turned pink, quickly averting his eyes to the large projector and puffing his cheeks out.
You just rolled your eyes at his antics and grabbed some popcorn from his bowl as everyone found a spot. The lights were turned off and the movie began. You didn’t mind horror movies in-fact you enjoyed the slight thrill of apprehension over when something scary might happen. Katsuki found them horrible. He didn’t like the dread of not knowing when something scary might happen and you could sense that not just because of your quirk but because of how taut his muscles were beside you. His thigh against yours was thick with tension and you could see from the light of the projector how white his knuckles were turning—gripping the bowl of popcorn tightly.
You reached over after a while and placed your hand over his—over a quarter of the way into the film and he hadn’t relaxed one bit. His heart jumped when you touched him and he couldn’t help the inward flinch either which made you snicker, leaning up to his ear—the feeling of your lips grazing it made his stomach twist.
“I didn’t know you were so scared of horror movies. We can go to bed if you want?” We—you said “we”. Katsuki’s thoughts buzzed at what you could be implying by that.
He knew nothing dirty thats not where his mind went but it didn’t stop his stomach knotting further as your thumb rubbed against his skin. His eyes focused on the movie ahead too nervous to turn to face you with how close you were into his space. He took a deep breath, muscles flexing as a particularly unexpected jumpscare caused your classmates to gasp in shock. Katsuki grunted in the same response and just nodded quickly at your suggestion—he did not want to continue to watch anymore.
You got up from your seat and grabbed the almost empty bowl of popcorn from his lap, nodding your head to the kitchen and then the hallway to your dorms. He just nodded in agreement—heading separate ways.
Katsuki’s skin was still slightly clammy as he waited in the hallway for you—nervous. You two had been alone together before but never in such an intimate setting like your dorm room. He knew what his friends would say—what they are already thinking up as you came out to join him in the hallway. You gave him a small smile feeling your own nerves bubble as you both began walking to your dorm room.
It was silent the entire way as you found your room and opened the door allowing Katsuki to enter first. He had never been inside—not even during group hangouts when he’s been invited. He glanced around and took the decor in. It was fitting for you. The door closing made him turn to face you, seeing you twisting your fingers together awkwardly as you both stood—not saying a single word.
“U-Umm so do you wanna watch a different movie?” You gestured to your bed and Tv, moving past him to climb up onto the fresh sheets—thank goodness you decided to change them and tidy your room today.
Katsuki joined you as you flicked your Tv on and began to flick through different movies talking quietly about what you both could watch but Katsuki wasn’t listening—which was unusual for him as he always liked hearing you talk. He was too focused on the notice board and what was pinned to it.
An All Might card that looked exactly like the one he had lost.
“Katsuki?—y’okay?” He seemed to snap back and turned to face you and gave a quiet nod. You suggested some comedy to try and make him forget about the horror movie and he agreed.
But he couldn’t stop stealing glances at the card pinned to your notice board—it had to be his. He just knew it in his stomach. Even when you fell asleep slumped against his shoulder he couldn’t stop his eyes from forgetting about the movie which had moved to the end credits to stare at it. He carefully grabbed a hold of your body and manoeuvred you down onto your bed, pulling your sheet over your curled up body. He headed straight over to the card and picked it off the board turning it over in his fingers—this was his.
“K-Katsuki?” Your soft, tired voice made him freeze and he swivelled around hiding the card behind his back as he crept back over to you and crouched down.
“D’you enjoy the movie?” You asked with a small yawn pulling the blanket further under your chin making him smile softly. He reached his hand out and smoothed his fingers between your bangs and pushed them back.
“Yeah, better than that shitty movie they had on downstairs” he replied and you smiled softly, eyes shutting as you nodded lazily and fell back asleep.
He got up and looked at the card in his hand. He couldn’t take it now. You’d definitely notice and what would he say? That a beat up card means more than anything to him?. He curled his fingers into his palm with a sigh and left empty handed after pinning it back to your notice board. He would just have to sneak in when you were out and take it then—thats more reasonable than just opening up about his feelings, right?
It was happening tonight. Bakugou had it all planned on how he was going to retrieve his All Might card back from your bedroom. Kirishima had told him you were all having a girls night in Mina’s dorm room which gave him the perfect opportunity to slip in and grab his card. He stood searing the food in the pan before him. A devilish grin across his face so engrossed in going over every step of his plan he didn’t notice you appearing beside him and making him jump almost a foot in the air.
“Oh my god! I’m sorry I didn’t mean to startle you!” You clapped your hands over your mouth to hide the big grin at the image of him jumping replayed in your mind. Katsuki just grumbled at you and gave you a mean side eye—obviously wanting to know why you interrupted him.
“Oh! Was just wondering if you somehow made too much food for yourself?” You grinned with a shy smile. He only rolled his eyes. You often did this—found him cooking himself food, enough for just him and asking when he was almost finished if he had any spare.
He wouldn’t tell you though that he enjoyed you seeking out his food or how you gobbled it all up so happily. No, instead he would grumble and complain about how at your big age it was embarrassing you couldn’t cook for yourself and how you were stealing all his. You didn’t let it bother you—knowing if it really annoyed him so much he wouldn’t share as Katsuki can be quite selfish. You joined him at the table and dug into the hot food. A content hum leaving your lips.
“Y’going to that girls night?” He asked and your eyes met his. Your brows wrinkling in slight confusion. It wasn’t that Katsuki didn’t ask you about plans but you usually had to initiate the conversation, so this was odd.
“Maybe, not been feeling too well today” his fingers tightened their hold on his fork—no, you had to go. He wanted—needed his card back.
“Should go anyways, can always go back to your dorm if they get too annoying” your lips quirked at his response—too annoying, everyone was too annoying to him.
You finished your meal and thanked him, moving beside him and before he could turn and ask what you wanted now. You tipped onto your toes and pressed a chaste kiss to his cheek making him drop his bowl onto the counter, pale skin flushing bright red at your action. You quickly darted off to hide your own flushed face and retreated to your room to pack for the slumber party tonight.
Okay, you were one hundred percent at your girls night. Katsuki crept through the empty hallway that your dorm was on looking around feverishly as he grabbed at your door handle. All the doors could only lock from the inside with a key. He pushed the handle down and opened your door up rushing in and shutting it behind himself as he switched your light on. His eyes darting to the notice board with a forward step when he faltered. It was gone—his card was no longer pinned up for him to easily take. Katsuki’s stomach was already in knots from this whole plan. He didn’t want to basically break in and steal—well it’s his card. But he was nervous—extremely so.
As much as he didn’t allow himself to dwell on his feelings for you it was obvious he had some and clearly you did too—why else would you want to be around him so much? He knows what an ass he can be. So he seriously did not want to mess anything up. His eyes scoured your room going to your desk and flicking through different books and items that cluttered it, clicking his tongue with annoyance as he moved to your unmade bed. His hands fumbling with pillows and sheets trying desperately to find his card worried you would listen to his advice of leaving early.
Unbeknownst to Katsuki who rummaged desperately around your dorm—you had taken his advice and decided you’d rather the comfort of your own bed than a sleeping bag on Mina’s floor. You yawned as you walked to your dorm pausing slightly at seeing the door ajar, hand held mid-air reaching for the handle. You could have swore you closed the door behind yourself. A cluttered noise came from inside and you froze, who was in your dorm? You didn’t waste anymore time and swung the door open seeing Katsuki looking through one of your drawers. He froze in place like a deer caught in headlights. His heart pounded in his ears that were growing red as his cheeks warmed with embarrassment—hes been caught.
You stepped in with hesitance and pushed the door over behind you, not fully shutting it. You couldn’t begin to make sense as to why Katsuki was in your dorm without you for starters but looking through your drawers? That made even less sense. He slowly straightened up and turned to fully face you, adams apple bobbing as he swallowed the heavy lump down his dry throat. Unable to think of how to explain himself.
“Katsuki? What are you doing in my room?” You forced the question out slowly, unsure if you wanted an answer.
“I-I” he started but paused and rubbed the back of his neck looking at the floor. You grew even more confused you had never really seen him speechless. He always had an answer.
“I’ve lost somethin’—thought I left it in here” his words were chewed through pursed lips, red eyes glancing up momentarily to gauge your reaction.
“Didn’t wanna bother ya with your girls night” he added quickly.
He lost something? Why didn’t he just ask you earlier if you had seen it?.
“Oh—um, well what is it? I can help you look?” You shrugged your back off your shoulder and made your way over to him but he just quickly shut your drawer and stuck his hands in his pockets—still keeping his eyes downcast.
“It’s fine—probably not here anyways. Just gonna go” he moved to step by you but you grabbed at his forearm. He couldn’t be serious? Whatever it is it is important enough for him to sneak into your room whilst your away.
Katsuki’s excuse of not ‘bothering you’ was a bluff. Katsuki couldn’t care less who he bothered and when he bothered if his mind was set on something. You turned to face him and let go of his arm.
“No way. You’re gonna have to tell me what it is at least. You snuck into my room!” You were getting a bit frustrated. His behaviour was completely off.
Katsuki sucked in his bottom lip and slumped his shoulders with a sigh—was he seriously about to admit he snuck in to find a beat up old card?. What would you think of him? Weird—you’d probably think he was weird. He just swallowed the lump in his throat and with a dry tongue answered you.
“That All Might card that was on your notice board—looked like the one i’d lost” His words were mumbled so low you barely heard him. Your wrinkled brows relaxed and you couldn’t stop your lips from curling and stretching across your cheeks.
Katsuki glanced at you and felt his stomach knot at the smile on your face—mocking. You were definitely about to laugh at him, make some joke and think he was so strange for being so bothered by losing his card. His brows furrowed as the knot in his stomach twisted with frustration and he scoffed ready to storm out and never speak to you. He purposely shouldered past you which made you gape in shock and twist round after him.
“Katsuki wai—“ you grabbed tightly at his hand, slipping your fingers into his clammy palm and stopping him. He kept himself forward—refusing to turn and face you.
Quickly you let him go and grabbed your bag and ruffled through it—searching. He turned his head slightly to look over his shoulder at you and felt his already red cheeks grow warmer at what you were holding for him to see.
Katsuki hesitantly turned back around to you and picked it from your hand. Finally he met your eyes and held the contact. You fumbled witj your fingers trying to keep yourself from smiling at him. It was difficult especially right now. He—Katsuki had a special item, an All Might card. You never thought he would be one for sentiment but it clearly meant alot and you couldn’t help but find it cute, something you never would have thought before. That Katsuki could be cute.
“I brought it with me to show Tsu. She likes to collect them. I found it doing the laundry” You explained watching his narrowed eyes widen and brows raise—thoughts linking together as he remembered his black shorts that he stuffed the card into. He puffed his cheeks realising now how silly he had been.
“I—should’ve just said n’not have snuck into your room” he admitted and you knew that was the best apology he would give. You just smiled and moved to lie on your bed, patting the spot beside you.
“S’Okay, y’know if you actually shared more with me you would have got it back sooner” He rolled his eyes and grumbled at you as he took his spot beside you, making sure his card was safe in his pocket.
“Shut up—whatever. Play a damn movie” his heavy arm landed itself over your shoulder as you curled into his side with a giggle.
You couldn’t see and he was glad but Katsuki had a small smile on his face. He got his All Might card back and even better he had you.
