He thinks his new sidekick is a man. She's terrified to be truthful with the only hero who has ever believed in her.

Some things can't be burned away. A story about restraint, regret, and the quiet work of becoming safe. Bakugo x OC.

Y/N Kirioka was done with the hero life .. until he walked in. After vanishing from the spotlight, former pro hero Mistwalker has rebuilt a quiet life brewing coffee and keeping her past buried. But when a brooding top hero shows up at her café with a wild request..; pretend to be his girlfriend to throw off the media, shes dragged back into a world she thought she'd left behind. Neither of them expects the fake romance to feel so real. And the longer they keep up the act, the harder it gets to remember where the lies end and something else begins. KATSUKI BAKUGO x fem! READER (TIMESKIP AU) COVER ART BY: @ur.mom480 on TikTok !! ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ 𓏵 HIGHEST RANKINGS: #1 IN KATSUKIBAKUGOU #1 IN BAKUGOUKATSUKI #1 IN BAKUGOU #1 IN MYHEROACADEMIA #1 IN BAKUGOUFANFIC #1 IN KATSUKIBAKUGOU #1 IN BAKUGOXREADER #1 IN ANIME ⏔⏔⏔ ꒰ ᧔ෆ᧓ ꒱ ⏔⏔⏔ THIS FANFIC IS ALSO PUBLISHED ON MY TIKTOK ACCOUNT @katsnebula :)

"𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣?" "..𝐌𝐡𝐦.." "𝙏𝙘𝙝.. 𝙐𝙨𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧." ---- In their third year at U.A., everything is supposed to be loud-explosions, training, expectations, futures rushing toward them at full speed. But for Bakugo Katsuki and you, love settles in quietly. Your quirk, Sonic Blast, burns through body heat as fuel-leaving you exhausted, buzzing, or cold when you push too far. Bakugo doesn't like being touched. He never has. But somehow, somewhere between late-night training sessions, accidental hand-holding, and slow, careful trust, he becomes your safest source of warmth. You don't kiss right away. You don't rush. You learn each other instead. What starts as a practical solution becomes a routine. What becomes a routine turns into something neither of you is willing to give up. And when graduation looms, when dorm doors close and futures split open wide, Bakugo makes a choice-quiet, impulsive, terrifying in its honesty. He doesn't know what comes next. But he knows he wants you there. 🥇 Bakugo 04/01/26 🥇 Bakugou 05/01/26 🥇 Bnha 07/01/26

" 𝘿𝙞𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙙𝙖𝙢𝙣 𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 !? " " ... 𝐎𝐨𝐩𝐬 " ✎﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏ She glitches. He explodes. Somehow, they fit. (Y/N), a sweet but scatterbrained hero-in-training, spends most of her days trying not to forget her homework, her lunch money, or the fact that she tends to glitch herself into walls when she gets excited. Her quirk may let her blink across distances and stun opponents like a system error, but her heart? Totally unprotected. Then there's Katsuki Bakugo - explosive prodigy, walking inferno, and the last person anyone expects to be soft for someone. Except he is. Painfully so. And everyone knows it. Everyone... except her. From warming her hands in winter to dragging her to "totally-not-a-date" arcades, Bakugo finds himself doing everything he can to prove his worth to the one person too dense to see he's been in love with her for months. Through training mishaps, glitch accidents, late-night talks, jealousy wars, and soft private moments, (Y/N) slowly uncovers what everyone else already figured out: Bakugo doesn't just care. He's gone for her. And when sparks meet glitches, maybe-just maybe-the system finally crashes in the best way possible. A slow-burn romance full of fluff, tension, miscommunication, healing, and a boy with explosions for hands who learns how to hold someone gently. 🥈 bakugou 14/11/25 🥇 myheroacademia 21/11/25

"Any last words Hero?" "Do you like to breathe?" [Y/n] transfers to UA in her second year and quickly solidifies her position as one to watch, especially in the eyes of the resident angry boy, Bakugou Katsuki. [Y/n] must come to terms with her power, her past and her heart all while something sinister simmers under the surface, threatening to bring down the heroes. *Warnings* - Strong language (because well Bakugou) - Love shapes - Violence - Dark themes - Sexy time This fanfiction exists in UA's second year and events up to the winter internship manga chapters have occurred. Future events are fictional with LOV in the far far background. All BNHA characters are property of Kōhei Horikoshi. Story is complete. Any updates are just grammatical edits. Highest Rankings #1 bakugou #1 bakugo #2 katsuki #1 bakugouxreader #1 bakugoxreader #1 bakugoukatsuki #1 katsukibakugou #1 myheroacademia #1 bnhafanfiction

A collapse brings them together. Recovery teaches them how to stay. This is a story about learning that love isn't rescue-it's walking forward, side by side. A quiet, cozy, slow-burn romance. Bakugo x OC.