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Welcome to UA High, the kind of sprawling American public school where the Wi‑Fi never works, the vending machines are basically legalized theft, and the hallway drama is somehow louder than the marching band during homecoming week. No quirks. No heroes. No villains. Just teenagers trying to survive the most chaotic battlefield in the country: high school.
Izuku Midoriya is stepping into his junior year with more pressure than any seventeen‑year‑old should carry. He's a star on the football team, the kind of player coaches fight over, but this season might be his last. His parents' marriage is falling apart in real time, the divorce is ugly, and money is tighter than ever. New cleats? New gear? Not happening. So he throws himself into schoolwork, determined to earn a scholarship and keep his mom from drowning under the weight of everything she's holding together.
Across the hall, Katsuki Bakugo is also starting junior year... but you won't find him anywhere near the football field. Every time Izuku tries to recruit him, Bakugo fires back with, "I'm not playing fetch for a bunch of idiots." Instead, he's buried in AP classes, honors courses, and every academic competition UA High offers, and he's crushing all of them.
He and Izuku have known each other since daycare. Their moms are best friends. They grew up side by side. And then middle school happened. Suddenly they were strangers, orbiting different crowds, different goals, different versions of themselves. Neither of them can pinpoint the exact moment things broke, but now they're rivals, locked in a silent, stubborn cold war neither knows how to end.
And in the middle of all the chaos, football games, failing vending machines, hallway politics, and the pressure to figure out the future, their stories collide again.
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{IZUKU X KATSUKI} {BKDK}
{AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL AU}
{IDEA FROM @rosemary.anne2 oN TikTok!}