Misuse of Power (Yandere My Hero Academia x F!Reader Oneshots)

Let It Hurt

A request from my Tumblr!

Title: Let It Hurt

Pairings: Bakugou x Reader

WARNINGS: Yandere themes, harassment, Bakugou is a bad boss

Summary: Your boss makes your life hell, but, for some reason, he won't fire you.

"So let it hurt, let it bleed

Let it take you right down to your knees

Let it burn to the worst degree

May not be what you want, but it's what you need

Sometimes the only way around it

Is to let love do it's work."

-from "Let It Hurt" by Rascal Flatts

When you first started this job, you were bright-eyed and excited, ready to experience 9-5 office life. Your co-workers were more than welcoming, but your boss was the exact opposite. At the time, you figured he was just having a bad day, but, really? It was just the first red flag of many.

Mr. Bakugou always worked you harder than anyone else. At first, you thought it was because you were new, and needed to learn things everyone else already knew.

But 6 months in and you're being worked over 80 hours a week. Overtime isn't paid extra, either.

Your paycheck fluctuates between nice bonuses and surprising raises that make you grateful for your grueling job or numbers that can't possibly be correct with how absurdly low they are.

What Mr. Bakugou is doing is definitely illegal. You could definitely prove it. But you're new to the working world and you gaslight yourself into believing it's normal. You tell yourself it's too much trouble to deal with HR and it's uncertain if you could get another job on short notice.

That's what you told yourself.

Until the harassment started.

Mr. Bakugou would hover over your work station, making snide comments about anything and everything.

"Don't tell me you're turning in that report as is." "This is the best you can do?" "It's just sad that it takes you so long to do something so simple."

It stresses you out and makes you second-guess yourself, but it's just the beginning.

You try to pretend that you don't care when he sabotages your work in front of higher-ups and belittles you in front of your co-workers until tears are dripping down your face.

You try to pretend you don't hear him when he calls you names and starts aiming his insults for the places they really hurt.

You try to pretend like he doesn't bother you at all, and that you're a purely professional woman. You save your tears for when everyone's too busy to pay attention.

Mr. Bakugou's got you convinced that you're a failure- the worst employee in the whole office building. Every day, something goes wrong and you think "today's the day I get fired". You're about ready to quit yourself.

So it's a real shock when Mr. Bakugou promotes you, of all people, to his personal assistant. You consider turning him down, but it doesn't really seem like he's offering. You feel almost forced into accepting the role.

You were sure you'd be more miserable than ever as Mr. Bakugou's personal assistant, since you'd have to be around him all the time, but it's actually not too bad. He doesn't hover over you judgmentally, though he doesn't need to when he's stationed you at the spare desk in his personal office.

The way he treats you is nearly inappropriate. He parades you around at meetings with a hand at your waist, and, if you were a braver woman, you'd report him for sexual harassment for that. He talks softer to you, brings you a cup of coffee when he grabs his, and he doesn't insult you as often! There's still mountainloads of overtime, but the pay is better and finally consistent.

Every problem seems miniscule now. You can easily brush past the red flags because they seem less bright and less dangerous than before.

Now that your job has improved, you can't imagine quitting.

Little do you know, that's exactly how "Mr. Bakugou" wants it to be.