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2025-06-13
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hardened hearts can still soften

Summary:

━━ There is you. There is also me.
( Bakugo Katsuki. )

 

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You're a heartbeat. He's a detonation.

Bakugo Katsuki is all sharp edges, blown fuses, and glass-caged emotions. But with you, he softens--just barely, just enough.

War is coming, and you're both teenagers caught in the middle. Training, bleeding, laughing in dorm kitchens like the world isn't about to burn.

You've got a habit of running headfirst into danger. He's got too much pride, too many scars, and a throat full of barbed wires. Neither of you know how to say the things that matter, not when there's always another mission, another briefing, another goodbye that might be the last.

But hearts--no matter how hardened--can still soften.

Even in wartime.

Especially in love.

Chapter 1: 00.

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

 

ACT ONE: on falling

ACT TWO: on feeling

ACT THREE: on flying

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I don't know how to love you soft."

"You don't have to. Just don't stop."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

warnings : swearing & profanity (it's literally bakugo), canon-typical violence. this fic starts right around the corner of the war arc. forgive me, it's been a while since i engaged with canon material and my uni literally bans all the websites i know to access it. if there are any inconsistencies, i apologise.

credits : bnha    ©   horikoshi kohei

              writing / plot © starryeon-

notes : the funny thing is, about three (four?) years ago i had a burning hatred for bakugo and here we are waxing poetry about this asshole. i know somewhere my best friend is having the last laugh.

(ngl i don't think i established anything permanent about the reader except their quirk and like, concepts of the personality. i like neutral characterisations for my readers unless specified otherwise. cause uhm. i'm not exactly white so anything that implies "he ran a hand through your hair" is like oh.... and again this is literally an x reader)

cross-posted on wattpad!

 

Notes:

hi. uhm. it's been a long while. i'm in uni now. i just turned 17 not too long ago. a lot has changed but not my love for writing apparently. i'll get around to updating my other fics.... probably......