Friends...?
katsuki bakugou x f!reader
MHA: one shots part 1
SUMMARY: Katsuki became your friend when you guys were six years old and ever since the first day of UA, he has been trying to get you to date him but you eventually snap at him to stop him but it ends with him snapping at you.
CONTENT: soft ANGST, high school au, anger, friends to lovers, not beta read, sad slow burn, dumbfounded!katsuki bakugou, yearner!katsuki bakugou.
WORDCOUNT: 1185
WARNING: this is my first Katsuki short fic and it might be a little ooc. this doesn't follow the original plot line of MHA, there may be grammar and spelling mistakes since English isn't my first language, and the plot may not be that good since it's slightly rushed. ai is not used in my work. holy mischaracterization.
have a fun reading y'all🧡
Ever since you can remember, Katsuki Bakugou has been with you. Playing in the sand? Katsuki is there too. Going to school? Katsuki is going as well. Reading in your room? Katsuki somehow ends up there too, reading. There is nothing that will stop him from seeing you, talking to you, following you.
Katsuki is the grumpy type, one with an enormous ego, pride, and an aggressive temper. Although he has every attribute that could make even the most patient person on earth scream at him, he doesn't seem to use any of those on you. He loves teasing you and fighting you, but he knows which line not to cross, at least that's what you have been seeing in his actions.
You know he's a stubborn person, but you would never have taken him for someone who would casually flirt with a girl and never stop demanding she date him. Katsuki is really an unexpected one, isn't he...
Ever since the first day of UA, he has been constantly trying to (but failing to) flirt with you, asking you out as well in a grumpy yet soft manner.
Unlike always, you are stuck with his constant angry blabbering and grunting about why he's the best for you and why you should be talking and flirting with him instead of that "ugly, egoistic, crazy" Monoma. You sigh while rubbing your temples, sitting on the couch in your dorm room. You called him because you weren't feeling well and now he's becoming the reason you're not feeling well.
"I don't even get why you would let yourself be stupidly washed away by that self-in-love psycho copy bastard! There are obviously way better people than that jerk!" He paces in front of the couch angrily, not even noticing your headache or your efforts to calm him down.
"Katsuki, just calm down for a minute, will you...?" You softly ask to not rile him up more but he is just too obsessed and focused on changing your mind on Monoma, your current flirt. You started flirting and texting with Monoma after the sports festival and he doesn't seem to be a bad guy, besides his obsession over himself and how he looks down on people.
"Do not try to shut me up! I know I'm right! I'm always right whenever it's about that bastard and you never even care to listen to me while I'm the only rational one!" Katsuki angrily points at himself to show he's the "only rational" one. What a joke...
"Katsuki—" you sigh and stand up to shut him up but in a softer tone however he ends up interrupting you again.
"I'm here! He's not so why are you even still doting over him when I, the almighty Explosion Murder God Dynamight, am standing right in front of you!? Tell me for once!"
And this time, you can't hold back. You do what you never do and snap at him.
"Because we're friends!" Katsuki freezes. His eyes widen in pure shock at your words.
"Friends...?" Even you have never heard him sound this soft and weak rather than the rough voice he was letting out just moments ago.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell." Your voice immediately falters when you notice your mistake. Katsuki told you he likes you during the first months of UA and you never stopped him, continued giving him hope just like that. And now, you are hurting him.
"You don't get to apologize after that, dammit." Katsuki spits like he is angry but it shows on his face. He is upset more than he can be angry at you.
You walk over to him and place your hand on his stiff shoulder. When he doesn't look at your face, your hand finds his jaw to softly turn his face towards you. His strangely soft eyes meet yours. "You knew I liked you." Katsuki changes the topic once he sees your eyes and your soft expression that can melt him right away. "Yet you never stopped me. Every time I told you to be with me, you just rolled your damn eyes and continued acting like nothing was wrong when everything was so fucking wrong."
"You are important to me. I didn't want to ruin it by saying the wrong things." Your fingers caress his jaw before pulling back softly, leaving him without your touch.
"Like what you just said didn't ruin anything..." He says gruffly as he watches your hand move away from his jaw. And then, suddenly, his hand flies towards yours and catches your wrist. "I don't want your stupid friendship, not anymore. So either give me my damn relationship or fuck off." Katsuki's voice may come out as rough but his hand is soft against your wrist, almost shivering.
"Your hand is trembling and getting sweaty." You point out because actually, you don't know how to answer those words.
"AM NOT!" He snaps again but doesn't pull away his hand yet he tries his best to still it. You sigh and shake your head at his stupid effort, his pupils dilated to their full extent just by watching you and he probably doesn't even notice it. Poor blondie.
After seeing him swallow in surrender, you step forward and take him into your arms. "Give me time..." Your whisper makes him slightly shiver before relaxing against your body. But from how he relaxes into your touch, it's obvious that he eventually calmed down.
"I gave you enough time, you end up telling me we're just friends. We both know we aren't just friends..." Katsuki's voice lowers into a much softer and gentler tone, one no one would hear if they weren't you. Because you are you, you are special and his significant other he can't and will never let go of, no matter what.
There's a moment of silence, just hugging before you break it with your words again. "You really like me?"
"You know I do... you can't keep acting dumb on purpose to avoid me. I'm not dumb." He closes his eyes while resting his head in the crook of your neck while his arms are around your lower waist.
"I want to hear it from your mouth. Not something like 'you know I have feelings for you' or something like what you just said." You shrug your shoulders while still holding him, giving him a safe zone.
Katsuki lets out a groan. "Fine," he sighs, "I like you." He pulls away to just slightly see your reaction. The pout on his face is so unlike him that you want to chuckle but can't. "So don't tell me we are friends." He leans in to plant a soft kiss on your lips that automatically ends the conversation. Your eyes widen when you finally come to your senses about the kiss. Even he is surprised with what he just did like he wasn't waiting for himself to do such things to you in this moment. And his lips find that smirk again.
"I will keep doing that in the future so you better prepare yourself for my attacks, you hag."
People using “salt and pepper” to describe Misha is so wildly inaccurate. Salt and paper is more THIS.
MISHA is this.
He has very little grey. If anything when he did, it was only at the sideburns, but given he probably had to touch it up for Gotham Knights, now only resides in the beard.
Even then what people are mistaking for “salt and pepper” is actually an ashen blond color, which admittedly does look gray under certain lighting. But is still just ashen blond.
I know it’s not a big deal but it bugs me when details are incorrect and my brain can’t rest until the record is set.
The man has barely any silver to speak of, just ask my mother. Who went FULL GREY at 40 and Misha, who’s pushing 50 is only BARELY in the gray zone.
