Imprint (bkdk)

Third year at U.A. is supposed to be about control-over quirks, over fear, over the past.

Then a quirk accident strips Izuku Midoriya of that control entirely.

When he wakes up in a body that isn't his own, everything feels wrong. His balance, his reflection, the way people look at him now. Izuku tells himself it's temporary. Something to endure. Something he can fix.

Bakugou Katsuki tells himself the same thing.

But Bakugou notices things he shouldn't. The way Izuku's voice softens. The way his expressions change. The way she looks when she isn't trying to be brave-and how that image burns itself into Bakugou's mind no matter how hard he tries to rip it out.

A week later, Izuku is himself again.

Everyone moves on.

Bakugou doesn't.

Because now every time he looks at Izuku, he remembers. And the guilt is worse than the confusion. Worse than the anger. Worse than the terrifying realization that whatever he felt wasn't about the quirk at all.

Izuku went back to normal.

Bakugou didn't.

And the distance between them has never felt heavier.