hc’s about falling in love with your childhood best friend.
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warnings: swearing ig?? it’s fluffy, mainly. i tried to make it fairly gender neutral in terms of the reader.
notes: hi uh these were supposed to be for the dekusquad but they ended up being SO much longer than i originally intended so i cut down on the characters ;-; i struggled with bakugou’s but his ended up being the longest??? idk man, hope you guys like it <3 these are seriously just drabbles in disguise
izuku midoriya
you met at an author meetup at the local bookstore. the book was a biography about all might, ofc you were bound to meet
you were in front of him in line and he shyly complimented you on the all might t-shirt you had worn
you two basically spent the entire time talking to each other about your favourite pro heroes as you waited in line
by the time you got to the front, you were so engrossed in your own conversations that both inko and your mom figured it would just be better to take you two home for a playdate instead
since you were friends with midoriya, that meant bakugou was also in your little circle
you stood up to him a couple times and always checked up on midoriya after kacchan’s tiny tantrums
midoriya appreciated that, and you two were practically inseparable
bakugou always accused you two of teaming up against him
you would simply link arms with midoriya, tilt your chin up high and say that you were a full package deal. two peas in a pod. two halves of a whole, always
midoriya’s face seemed to be permanently red that entire day
you two were pretty dedicated in school, with you wanting to persue your top picks for high school. that meant that there were lots of study dates between you two
during those study dates, midoriya couldn’t help if his gaze lingered on you just a bit more than his notes about quirk laws
he realized he was in love with you when you had stayed after school to look for the notebook kacchan had burnt
“you don’t have to do this, y/n. i can find it on my own… i don’t want to make to make you stay any longer.”
“don’t say that, izuku. i don’t mind. besides, we always stick together and we will even after you get into ua!”
“a- after i get in?” he spoke in a disbelief. everyone had doubted him, everyone had told him that he needed a quirk in order to get in but not you
you stayed. you supported him. you believed in him.
he grabbed your hand on instinct, startling you. “i- i-” he began stuttering, eyes darting about as the feelings he hadn’t realized resurfaced
“thank you.”
you gave him a gentle smile, chest feeling light as your hand encased in midoriya’s squeezed his own comfortingly
“full package deal, remember?”
he nodded, his smile jittery and shy. you giggled, blush dancing on your cheeks as you went on your next rant about how kamui woods could totally beat mount lady in a fight
midoriya gripped the straps of his backpack, chest feeling light and his head feeling dizzy with all the new thoughts of you flooding his mind
oh yeah, he was definitely in love with you
shouto todoroki
you were his neighbour
well, more accurately, your grandparents were his neighbours and you visited often
your grandparents made you get the mail in the mornings and sometimes you would see him outside in the front yard with his mother. you would wave to him, and he would give a timid wave back after some encouragement from his mother
you would play outside with your grandfather, flying your tiny kite and playing catch with him
until you noticed there was a boy lingering near the fence separating the both of your houses
he was watching the relationship you had with your grandfather curiously, almost as if there were a bit of envy in his eyes
being the kind child that you were, you went over to him and passed the small ball between the rungs of the fence to him
shouto was hesitant, but eventually took the ball from your inviting grip and tossed it back and forth between his hands testingly
this began a little game between you two
he would toss the ball over the fence, and you would throw it back over to him
you didn’t quite understand why he couldn’t come on the other side of the fence to visit properly, but that was okay
you two would spend hours by the fence, sitting and talking you would give him tiny daisy chains made from the flowers in your grandma’s garden
he wouldn’t tell you, but he kept each one you gave him on his windowsill
he would compliment you a lot, too
not that he knew what that meant, he was simply stating facts to you
“i like your hair. it’s very pretty.”
“you’re very strong. you throw over the ball like it’s nothing.”
“you want to become a hero? i think you would be the best one.”
“your smile makes me want to smile, too.”
all of his words make your heart do somersaults
sometimes when you’re sitting with your backs to the fence, leaning up against each other, you feel the heat of his left hand ghosting your fingers. you don’t know why that made you feel shy, but it did
one day before you were supposed to go back home to your parents’ house, you went to go say goodbye to shouto
he was sitting there normally, but his head was hung low so you couldn’t quite see his face
as you approached him, you noticed that there was a bandage covering his left eye
“sho?”
he said nothing as you sat down
“mom says i have to go now,” you tell him. he says nothing, again
“um… are you okay?”
an indiscernible noise comes from the small boy. you press your face right up against the one barrier separating you two. he looks up to see you worried. you didn’t like seeing him so upset
then an idea came to you
“before i go.. let me kiss it better.”
shouto looked at you in bewilderment
“you’re not… afraid?”
“no, why?” you asked in a confused manner, yet shouto remained hesitant
“come here, please,” you asked of him, “before mom catches me kissing a boy.”
pink dusting over his cheeks, he slowly crawled his way over to where you still kept your face against the fence. your gentle lips met the fabric of his bandage. the scent of something burnt catching in your nose as you did
“you’ll come back?” shouto asked quietly. you nodded, promising him
he nodded back in understanding, the tiniest of smiles appearing across his features
“i’ll be waiting.”
katsuki bakugou
you had been in the same class since kindergarten, meaning that you knew him before he had his quirk
even so, you thought he was pretty cool
the reason for that? well, you weren’t exactly the most well liked kid in school. children were ruthless, and there was always a bottom of every social ladder between preschoolers
you got teased a lot. they pulled your hair, made fun of the way you cried, poked fun at the shoes and shirts you wore despite them being your favourite ones
you were different. they didn’t like that
the world seemed completely against you
during a colouring activity, the box of crayons you were holding was smacked out of your hands. your bottom lip quivered as the same boy taunted you to no end about how clumsy you were
you simply bent over to pick them up before hearing another voice call out
“oi, picking on small fries like that is lame.”
looking to your left stood katsuki bakugou, looking bored and disinterested in helping you out. but your bully stopped in his tracks. being called lame?? by the great tiny katsuki bakugou??
no one had ever stood up for you like that
even though he didn’t help you pick up your crayons, it felt like you had some type of ally in this class
slowly, you connected two and two together
if you stayed around bakugou, no one could pick on you anymore! so you glued yourself to him practically every day
at first, he found it annoying, but after seeing that you admired him up close, he liked the attention that feuled his ego, so he kept you around
because you followed him around so much, you picked up a lot of things from him. he taught you how to defend yourself, and you taught him that some extras didn’t deserve as much attention as he was giving him. it was better to walk away sometimes
you ate lunch together, he came over to your house to play heroes and villains, he even showed you his secret all might poster collection. you were his person to talk to
he even had a katsuki bakugou™ nickname for you: small fry
you two were quite the duo. bakugou went from simply tolerating you, to gradually beginning to care for you being around
and as you grew up with him, he caught himself beginning to admire the strong, gorgeous person you had become all on your own. it seemed he had developed a bit more than just a simple friendship bond with you
did he ever tell you that? fuck no
you knew bakugou had always been rather… brash
but you absolutely drew the line in the sand when he wouldn’t stop picking on midoriya for being quirkless. that one day where you walked into that classroom to meet bakugou and his group of friends only to see bakugou telling some green haired kid to jump off the building because he would never make it into ua without a quirk. he was different
bakugou turned to leave and he saw you standing in the doorway with a bit of an angry, hurt expression on his face
“small fry, thought you were never gonna show up.”
“... lame.”
“hah? what did you say?”
“i said it’s lame picking on small fries like that just because they’re different,” you spat at him. his eyes stayed fixated on you as you walked past him, helping the smaller boy off the floor and asking if he was okay
normally, if it were anyone else, bakugou wouldn’t care. at all
but it was you
you were different
and all he did was act like he didn’t care. why? he didn’t know. but what he said to you that day came out rash and hurtful. you two had your fights before, but this had struck a chord with you. no one deserved to be treated like how you were back in preschool. that hurt
he didn’t realize how much you meant to him until you stopped inviting him over, you stopped eating lunch with him, you stopped texting and that bothered him
the one person who he wanted to admire him didn’t anymore
so it was a surprise to you that he waited for you to be finished your club after school to talk
“small fry, listen. oi! i said listen up!” you kept walking, but he stopped you by grabbing your wrist
“what? what is it? what can you possibly say to make things better? how could you treat people like that?”
“come back.”
“what?”
“i said, fuck- come back, y’know, eat lunch with all the extras again.”
“no.”
the frustration showed true on bakugou’s features. his cheeks were turning red, you figured from the anger he was feeling towards you yet his voice dropped
“i didn’t mean that shit back there. i was angry. fuck, i.. you want me to apologize or some shit, right. heard you small fries like that.” he shifted uncomfortably, his clammy hand still holding your wrist in a firm grip, as if you would walk away from him any moment now
“sorry, or whatever.” he mumbled out in the smallest voice you had ever heard bakugou speak in
your heart stopped as he looked at you with such sincerity. you held his gaze, eyes locked on his before you shook your head
“i don’t forgive you for saying what you said and doing what you did, but i do trust you. and i know that you’re better than that. you’re not lame. but if you seriously do that again, i’m not giving you any more chances.”
relief came flooding back to bakugou at your words, but his face fired up almost instantly as you moved your hand so that your fingers intertwined with his
“now c’mon, the new all might special is airing tonight, if we hurry we can still make it to my house.”
“don’t speak so fucking loud! ... damn small fry.”
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