Distracting (My Hero Academia)
Kacchako is a ship that seemed odd to me at first, but the more I look into it the more intrigued I become. While the prompt didn’t specify a shipping, I thought it would be fun (and kind of make more sense) to experiment with shipping them together in this story. I like how it turned out! Enjoy!
Note: This fic will remain unconnected to my other MHA fics. It’s a one shot story.
The sky was filled with pebbles.
Bakugou watched with detached interest as Uraraka scrambled around the rock garden, selecting each one carefully as though for an art project, then sending it up into the sky with the others. When she’d asked him to join her, he didn’t think this was what they’d be doing out here alone.
“Jeez, why are you picking so many? What is this even for?” he asked. When she didn’t answer immediately, he frowned. “You’re going to have to pick these all up once you let them go, you know. You should slow it down a little.” Again, no answer. Bakugou growled. “Hey, you’d better not be ignoring me after you asked me to come out here with you.”
Finally Uraraka stood and smiled at him. “I’m picking as many as I can because I need the practice holding multiple items at once.”
Bakugou glanced into the sky. There were probably about fifty pebbles up there. “They’re rocks. How hard can it be?”
“It’s not the weight, it’s the amount of items.”
“You’re telling me if they were boulders it would be just as easy?”
She gave him a look. “I held all the pieces of the arena you tore up during our match at the sports festival, didn’t I?”
He scowled, but didn’t reply. He had no retort for that.
“Anyway, I asked you to come with me because I need your help.”
“If you’re planning on sending me up there with them and then having me chuck them at you from above, forget it.”
Uraraka laughed. Bakugou felt something in him respond at the sweet sound. “No. But I do want you to distract me.”
“You…what?” the blonde was lost for words for a moment. “Why?”
“The more items I’m holding, the harder it is to hold them. The more I’m distracted, the harder it is to hold them. I want to practice for if I’m holding a bunch of people in the air during a battle or a rescue mission. I can’t lose my focus entirely, or they’ll float so high off the ground that they’ll be in danger when I release them, and that would obviously be a problem.” She smiled again. “So I’m going to try and keep something safer – like these pebbles – steady in the air while you try to distract me. It’ll be good practice.”
“I thought you could stop their momentum in midair.”
“Yeah, but only when I’m really focused. Plus, depending on the situation, I may accidentally press my fingers together, and that would be problematic, too.”
Bakugou blinked at her. “Okay, so…what am I supposed to do?”
“Anything.” Uraraka held up her fists in a mocking ready stance, punching the air in front of him teasingly. “You can fight me if you want, but I wouldn’t recommend it. As long as it’s distracting.”
The blonde narrowed his eyes at her. “Anything?”
“All right.” He shrugged, then reached for her, pulling her against him with her back to his chest, hugging her close. She started to stammer something at him, but then he curled his fingers into her sides, and instantly his plan was in motion.
Uraraka squealed and squirmed, giggling helplessly and trying to push his arms away from her.
“Ah-ah,” he teased in her ear. “If you make me float with those pebbles, I’m taking you with me, and then we’ll both be in danger if I distract you too much. Better not fight me.”
“Bahahahahahahakugou!” she shrieked, clenching her fists to her chest as she giggled. “Nohohohohohoho!”
“You said I could do anything,” Bakugou countered, pressing into her bottom ribs experimentally. “I even double-checked with you. This is on you.”
“I dihihihihihihihidn’t thihihihihink you’d tihihihihickle me!”
“Oh?” The blonde smirked, murmuring into her ear. “Were you hoping for something else?”
Bakugou grinned, enjoying how flustered she was getting compounded with her adorable laughter. He reached an arm around to scribble his fingers over her belly. All over her torso he traveled, from her hips to her ribs and back to her sides. While the pebbles remained hovering steadily in the air, one or two of them did start to rise higher a couple of times.
Just gotta find the right spot, he thought, hooking an arm around her waist while his free hand traveled up into her underarm.
Uraraka nearly collapsed in his hold right then and there. “NOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!”
Some of the pebbles started to rise.
“Uraraka, you’re losing people! Get a hold of yourself.” Bakugou teased mercilessly, continuing to tickle what was clearly a bad spot while trying to keep her focus on the task at hand as requested.
“You rescued all these pebbles from the League of Villains, and now you’re just going to let them float into oblivion because of a little tickling?” He dug into both underarms now, staying with her even as she twisted and screeched with laughter. Honestly, he was impressed she wasn’t fighting against him more. “What kind of hero are you? Come on, keep them steady!”
“Y-YOU JEHEHEHEHEHEHERK!!” she cried, doing everything she could to keep the remaining pebbles where they were even as she herself was wrestled to the ground and pinned there by the blonde’s relentless tickling. “STAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAP!!”
“You wanted me to distract you. You asked for this.” He chuckled lowly, almost wickedly. “Tickle, tickle, Ochako~”
“I DIHIHIHIHIHIHIDN’T AHAHAHASK YOU TO TIHIHIHIHIHICKLE ME!!” Uraraka shrieked, kicking her legs helplessly while she laughed beneath him, completely at his mercy. The blonde’s heart leapt at the sight, a slight grin creeping across his face even before she put the cherry on top of his metaphorical sundae by laughing out his name in a desperate, hysterical screech. “BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAKUGOU!!”
He couldn’t help but laugh with her. “I’m just doing my job! You’re the one who has to tell me when you’ve had enough practice. This is your training, after all.”
“OKAY, OKAHAHAHAHAHAHAY, ENOHOHOHOHOUGH!! PLEHEHEHEHEASE, KATSUKI!!”
The use of his first name was what made him stop more than her shrieking plea for him to let her go. He removed his hands from her, staring as she let a few more giggles slip while she collected herself. She looked into the sky, where most of the pebbles remained where they’d been from the start, then at him, grinning. “Not bad, right?”
Bakugou nodded on autopilot. “Yeah. Not bad.”
“I think I only lost control of a few of them,” she continued, seemingly oblivious to his dazed state as she got to her feet, brushed herself off, and then offered her hand to him. “Obviously I didn’t want to lose any of them, but this isn’t a bad start. I’ll just need more practice.”
The thought of tickling her into screaming his name around a string of hysterics again had his heart racing even as he accepted her help up and stood beside her. When he was on his feet, he squeezed her hand before she could pull away.
She looked up at him. “Hm? What is it?”
Bakugou cursed under his breath. “God, you’re adorable.”
Uraraka blushed, bringing a hand up to her face to cover her mouth in embarrassment. “O-Oh. Am I? Um…” Her words trailed off when he pulled her hand away, now holding them both. “Bakugou?”
“I want to see that smile all the time,” he murmured, leaning his forehead against hers. “Want to practice some more?”
She blushed even harder, but tried to smirk at him. “Are you just going to tickle me again?”
His return smirk was absolutely devilish. “Heck yeah.”
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