Too Many Almosts
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And If You Stay by vincaflower
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
26 Aug 2025
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“I missed—”
He clamps his mouth shut before the last syllable can fall into the air—
He thinks about what it would mean to say it.
Not just that he missed the games, or the fights, or the rooftop silences that used to feel sacred.
But him.
The version of him that looked at Izuku like they were tethered. The version that used to sit too close and never apologize. The version that would’ve met him halfway, every time, if only Izuku had known how to ask.
He can’t say it.
Not now.
Not with Katsuki sitting three inches away in a shirt that smells like home. Not with Haru’s things still folded in the corner.
Two ex-friends. Two quiet relationships. One coastal town that never forgot them.
It’s 2008 when Izuku Midoriya returns to Fujita, hoping a little peace might quiet the ache he never learned to name. Katsuki Bakugou shows up not long after—restless, still angry, and still pretending he doesn’t remember the night they fell apart.
They’re both 26. Both taken. Both pretending they’re over it.
But the past has its own gravity. And some tides never really go out.