My Hero Academia Imagines

{Soulmate AU} Past Mistakes (Bakugou Katsuki)

Bakugou Katsuki x Reader

Requested By: aivvnee & Misty06

Request: Combining:

I was hoping for something super angsty? Maybe a soulmate AU, where quirkless!reader finds out that Bakugou is her soulmate. But when Bakugou finds out, he rejects her? Thanks for giving me the opportunity to request and good luck!

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Basically, reader confessed to Bakugo in 1-A but he rejected her, only because he wasn't expecting it. In truth he did actually like them. Then a few years later, the pair get put on a mission together and they have gotten over the 'rejection' but he still hasn't, which would lead to a small amount of angst that will become something really sweet and emotional. I love your work so much! Thank you :)

He could still remember the day clearly when he found out who his destined was. It wasn't the best memory of his, as it truly showed how blinded by ego and desire he was at the time of his own selfish whims.

His small wrist tattoo stung constantly since he had told her he didn't need her and never would. Always unsure if it had been her pain or his that was causing the problem. But now five years after the fact, he could now at least shake the pain away to the back of his mind. It's not like it was something that hurt like a broken arm or leg, more like a sore muscle and a sensitive mild burn. Something he could move past with his attention focused on something else.

Even so, it was hard to fade his thoughts or regret all the time. In the middle of the night when he should have long been asleep and resting up for his next day at work, he'd awakened in a cold sweat and come to realize how truly alone he was.

Nightmares were nothing but blank slates and only leaving feelings of crippling isolation in his wake. Even so, Bakugou Katsuki had never been one to deal or try to make good on his emotions. Rather moving it to the back of his mind, filed away under issues he didn't need to or want to deal with.

Now as a pro-hero, it was at least a little easier to try to forget about his growing loneliness and regret for rejecting the person who was meant to love him unconditionally. With plenty of people to fight and numerous near-death experiences, he was always thinking of something else or someone else.

"Zero! You need to evacuate!" His colleague on the other side of the line yelled at him. "The building structure is comprised! Get out!"

"I said to shut it!" Bakugou roared back, still storming through looking for the criminal who had been setting various arsens this last week. "I'm not letting this bastard go!"

"Ground Zero-" The hero on the other end start to speak, only for the ear piece to be tossed aside by Bakugou a minute later.

He stormed forward spotting a flash of movement and soon saw through the falling structure the man who had been doing this. A reckless high school dropout with a fire quirk... and Bakugou was dead set on putting him in handcuffs.

Though, it appeared the warning to get out should have been taken more seriously, as the next thing he knew the sounds of a deep creaking came from above him. As his carmine eyes looked upwards, he saw the flaming ceiling start to fall down and onto him, sending him into a sudden darkness.

His dream was seeable this time, as he could make out the gates of UA and a courtyard. A female was standing before him, looking at him with tears in her eyes. Her hand holding onto her wrist, squeezing a tattoo on her wrist.

"Don't bother trying to convince me otherwise..." He scoffed turning his back to her. "Soulmates are nothing more than a damn waste of time anyway..."

He watched his younger self walk away, leaving the girl in his dream to watch as he did so. Droplets falling down her cheeks as a light breeze carried her hair around. And then it faded again, the constant reminder of his denial of what was meant to be never leaving him be.

"He's coming to! Go get what I asked of you! Now!" Someone's voice was peaking through his head, and slowly the male seemed to realize he could move his eyelids again.

His eyes shot open, and he was greeted with the blazing sky above him. His mouth and nose covered by a breathing mask and his body held down and on a makeshift medical unit at the scene of the fire.

Bakugou turned his head slightly, wanting to see who was tending to him. His burning lungs begging for more air as he was frozen solid at the appearance of the woman who was tending to him.

It had been a long time since he saw her, but (Name) looked more mature than he remembered her looking. She was dressed in medical garb and ordering around the other medical heroes and paramedics.

She turned to look at him, her face going into a scowl. She grabbed his head and forced him to look upwards again.

"Lay on your back. You're hurt and I'm trying to tend to your burns before out healer hero gets here." She ordered him, and Bakugou growled.

"I'm used to burns." He spoke slightly muffled thanks to the mask.

"You can do your job when I'm done with mine." She spoke to him, grabbing more bandages. "Now sit still and let me do mine."

He listened, watching from the corner of his eyes as she worked on him. Spreading ointment on his burns and wrapping them in gauze. Knowing why she wasn't using a quirk... because she didn't have one, but still worked in a rescue hero agency.

Bakugou listened as she worked, hearing how not only the situation was put under control, but how (Name) had made a name for herself. Her matching tattoo to his seen every so often, another reminder.

Eventually, the hero with a healing quirk helped him back onto his feet and good health with their power. But now the fight was done, and he could go home after a short lecture from his boss.

(Name) was packing up and dismissing her own underlings it appeared, the spoke to her own boss as Bakugou watched despite his boss yelling at him through his phone. When finished he waited for her to be done... knowing he needed to talk to her a bit. Say something after five years of radio silence despite who they were to one another.

"Hey..." He approached her. "Been... a while."

"Five years." She shot back, starting to head out.

Bakugou followed. "Yeah... you're doing well for yourself."

"I'd say I'm doing amazing for someone who's quirkless..." She shot back, giving him a low glare.

She wasn't over what he had said to her either, and seemed fairly upset to even be near him now. Bakugou let her walk on without him, watching as she disappeared from his life again. What could he do or say now after all? The damage had been done and it was clear he couldn't rewrite the past.

But even so... he knew of how he came to realize his mistake as the years went on. How his feelings had blossomed into something he never guessed he could experience. And maybe, unlike before, he was curious what a soulmate could be like.

And so, despite her clearly showing she wanted nothing to do with him, that she still held his harsh words to heart, and that he more than likely would never get another chance... he had to try.

He had defied much worse expectations before, so this should be nothing to him. After all... at the end of the day, no matter what each thought of the other: They were soulmates.