My Hero Academia Imagines

{Fantasy AU} Slow Burn (Bakugou Katsuki)

Bakugou Katsuki:

It had been at the tender age of five when he first met her, though he was never a tender being even from birth. He was born to the village of dragonlords and their dragon bonds. Even from an early age, Bakugou Katsuki had recklessly strayed further from his home then he should have.

It was at the edge of his village and the next where he saw her across the creek. A small girl, no elder than him, innocently making boats out of the leaves that had scattered around her.

Being the prideful little lion cub that he saw himself to be, he eagerly stepped out onto his side of the creek. The small girl glanced up at him, seeing a strange red-eyed boy with barely enough covering on looking so pridefully on her from across the water.

"Be thrilled that a great dragon lord is in your presence!" He called out, puffing his chest up high like the older men of his village did around women.

The small girl ceased her actions, placing the half-finished boat down, and stood up taking a hard look at Bakugou. She shook her head and then pointed at him.

"If you're a dragon lord, then where's your dragon?"

His chest fell and the boy pointed to the small reptile wrapped tightly around his neck and shoulders. His dragon had hatched from its egg only a few months back and was the always sleeping. His mother had tried to tell him it was because baby dragons required a lot of rest for them to grow and learn magick, but he just assumed his dragon was lazy.

"Right here! Lord Explosion is my dragon!"

"It's pretty small for a dragon. Are you sure it's not just some lizard you found?"

"He's fucking real!"

The small girl gasped, making Bakugou raise a brow. She blinked in surprise and he huffed out in annoyance. What was her issue now?

"What?!"

"A-are you allowed to say that word?"

"What word? Fuck?"

She nodded and he smiled.

"I can do and say whatever I want!"

Once again, his exaggerated truth was not fooling her. So being the smartalic child she was, (Name) decided to test his words.

"Then swim across the river."

He paled at such a thought. He hated bath time back home enough already, but this river- It could really carry him off and Lord Explosion wasn't big enough for him to fly and save him.

"Pshhhh." He glared and spat at her. "That's stupid."

She giggled and sat back down, ignoring the boy as he watched her for a moment. She quickly removed something from her bag and then a flat piece of wood from a broken tree. She tied a string and threw it to Bakugou on the other side.

He caught it and looked as she placed something on the board and then into the water. She signaled for him to pull and he did just that. The little boat came to him and he hesitantly took the object off.

Unwrapping the thin paper, he shockingly glanced back up at the girl. She laughed and picked up her large bag and waved to him.

"Since you wouldn't come to me, I figured this might be better. I'll see you around Lizard Lord!"

Before Bakugou could call her out for her poor choice of name for him or where she exactly got an entire loaf of bread, she was gone. Running back to where ever she came from and leaving him alone on his side of the world.