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Excitedly, Bakugou sat beside Midoriya in the car as they pulled up to the shelter. He tried to sit still but man he was getting a fucking cat and he’d always wanted a cat, he always liked them, and now Midoriya was going to let him get one.
Hell yes.
They agreed to it before they went on vacation, but Bakugou had mostly forgot about it until a week after they had returned. When he did? Well that lead to Midoriya driving to a shelter the very next day.
“Alright Kacchan,” Midoriya yawned, the place was a little far — over an hours worth of driving — and Bakugou wanted to be here first thing . Which meant that despite working last night, Bakugou made Midoriya get up early.
“This is gonna be fucking great,” Bakugou replied. The two climbed out of the car and a still sleepy Midoriya walked rubbing his eyes as he grabbed onto Bakugou’s hand.
When they walked inside, they were greeted by a rather chipper woman, Midoriya handled the business side of it as Bakugou looked around the entrance. There were posters everywhere, and since Midoriya usually liked Bakugou to distract himself when he was talking to people (to avoid unbearable scenes of him exploding) he didn’t complain when the blonde was wandering around.
“Kacchan,” Midoriya called as the two began walking to the back. He smiled and followed behind Midoriya as they went to the very back room. The woman who had helped Midoriya pointed at the two doors on either side of them.
“These rooms are both kitten rooms, if you change your mind and want an adult cat, go to any other room in this hall. Come find one of us if you found one you like.”
“Thank you.” Midoriya smiled as the woman walked away. Midoriya turned to Bakugou who was standing, impatiently bouncing up and down. “Okay Kacchan, why don’t we go in this room first,” Midoriya pushed open the door to the right and stepped over the gate that keeps the kittens inside before offering a hand to help Bakugou over. Bakugou being Bakugou raised his eyebrows before climbing over on his own.
And holy shit were there a lot of kittens.
Some of them ran and hid, some of them continued on, and others approached either of the two (mostly Midoriya). “Fuck,” Bakugou cussed as he looked around. “Are there this many in the next room?”
“Probably,” Midoriya shrugged. “Lot of choices, Kacchan.”
Bakugou was a natural with cats, to Midoriya’s surprise. Most of the ones he came into contact with really liked him, and would fall asleep while he held them. Midoriya stood towards the door, petting one on the cat tower next to him. He wanted a dog, but, Bakugou was right when it came to the fact that cats were easier to take care of. So they’d start here.
It was when Bakugou got hit on the head by one walking past a cat tree that he stopped and looked at a latte-colored cat, with different shades of brown and white running across his body. Bakugou stopped and looked at the cat that had touched him, narrowed his eyes at it and then it reached out and placed one paw on his face.
Midoriya laughed a little to himself, and Bakugou wanted to turn and glare at him if the cat wasn’t climbing up onto his head to lay in his mess of hair. Bakugou glanced up, he could see one of the paws but not the rest of the cat, although he could hear it purring on top of him.
“Oh my gosh, Kacchan!” Midoriya laughed as he covered his mouth.
“This is it.” Bakugou pointed up.
“H-Huh?” Midoriya stopped laughing and wiped the single tear from trying to hold it in.
“I want him.”
“Because he climbed on your head?”
“No,” Bakugou replied. “Cause he doesn’t give a fuck. I like that.” It was true, the cat didn’t care who Bakugou was, just climbed up on top of his head like it was the thing to do.
The woman slid back towards the entrance of the room. “Hey have you found one — oh!” She laughed too when she saw the scene.
“This one.” Bakugou pointed at the cat, still on his head that almost blended into the color of Bakugou’s hair. “I want him.”
“Oh I think this one is actually a girl,” the woman said. She walked over and flipped the tags around on it and nodded her head. “Yep, a girl. If you just let me take her, we can go to the front and fill out some forms. We have open adoption for cats so the process is pretty simple.”
“Cool.” Bakugou nodded and crouched a little so the woman could remove the cat from his head and walk out of the room for it.
“Huh, you did end up getting a girl cat,” Midoriya smiled. “What’s its name gonna be?”
“Lady Explosion Murder,”
Midoriya sighed, so he was serious about that name. “Can you just tell the woman you’re gonna name her Lady? I don’t want them to think we’re insane.”
Bakugou wanted to argue, but because they got a cat before a dog, he grumbled his compliance as Midoriya continued petting the cat beside him. “This one is really cute.”
It was a black cat, with pale green eyes, and it had rolled over to that Midoriya could pet its stomach. When he would pull his hand away, it would meow at him and try and pull his hand back down. “Do you want it?” Bakugou asked. “I know you wanted a dog, but if you want you can have a cat too and we’ll get a dog eventually.”
“Are we allowed to get more than one?”
“Yeah, they call it a buddy system,” Bakugou raised two of his fingers up. “When you buy one,” he wiggled the first. “You get the second at a discount.” And then wiggled the second.
Midoriya glanced over at the black cat, he wasn’t really a cat person but he had to admit, he was already really attached to this cat. “You want it, I can tell by the stupid look on your face.”
“Kacchan,” Midoriya sighed.
“Nah, stay here, I’ll go get the woman.” Bakugou walked from the room and that left Midoriya to turning to the cat that was rubbing its face against his scarred hand. It made him interested to think about the fact that even though his hands were rough, the cat still wanted to be pet by them.
“Are you a girl or a boy?” Midoriya asked as he flipped the blue tag on it. “Oh, you’re a little lady too. What does that mean your name would be?”
The cat meowed at him.
“Hm, I don’t know if ‘meow’ is a good name.” Midoriya replied. “I could name you a cat-pun. Kacchan would probably be not so happy about that though.”
The cat meowed again.
“Oh don’t worry, Kacchan is really nice if he doesn’t hate you.” Midoriya smiled. “And he couldn’t hate a kitty as pretty as you are, so Kacchan will be nice to all of us!”
“Are you in here talking shit about me to a cat?” Bakugou asked as he and the woman entered the room again.
“No!” Midoriya shook his head as he moved so the woman could take the cat which the proceeded to meow loudly at being separated from Midoriya.
“Oh you chose a whiny one,” Bakugou wrinkled his nose. “Come on, half-pint.”
“Rude,” Midoriya sighed before Bakugou climbed over the fence and then offered a hand to Midoriya, which he took, and made their way down the hallway, hand in hand.
The two sat on a bench, filling out a form for each cat. “What are you going to name yours?” Bakugou turned to Midoriya.
“She wanted to be named ‘meow’ but I don’t know, kind of want to give her a cat-pun as a name. Maybe like Katsuki.”
“That’s my name!”
“Yeah but it has ‘kat’ in it.”
“You can’t give the cat my name.” Bakugou snarled. “Also it’s a girl cat.”
“Eh, you have a girly sounding name.”
“Deku I’ll fucking kill you.”
“Alright, your cat can be Lady and mine will be Empress.”
“My cat will kick your cat’s ass.”
“I’m gonna name her Miss Meow.”
“What? Why?”
“She said she wanted her name to be meow, I’m just respecting that.”
“Deku she..” Bakugou trailed off. “She can only meow!”
“And she does a lot of it, and I want her to know I acknowledged her request and just altered it slightly.” Midoriya replied. “Also — alliteration.”
“Fuck, fine,” Bakugou replied. “When we go to the vet and I tell them that this is Lady Explosion Murder and Miss Meow, they’re gonna laugh at your cat.”
“Or feel uncomfortable about yours,” Midoriya countered. “Oh ew, we have to go to the vet now.”
“Well duh.”
“Yuck, it’s so expensive.”
“You make more money than you know what to do with.”
“I hate spending money.”
“You’re the only one,” Bakugou sighed as he signed his name at the bottom of the form. “There, I’m all done. How far are you?”
“Almost done.” Midoriya replied.
They brought the forms up to the desk, and they put the two cats in cardboard carries before giving them two folders of information on the cats shots, description among other things before Bakugou and Midoriya headed for the exit.
“This is so great,” Bakugou chuckled as he held the cardboard contraption to his chest. “Have I told you I love you yet?”
“Ever? Yeah. Today? No.”
“Okay well I love you.”
“I love you too,” Midoriya said. “I can’t believe you just convinced me to also buy a cat.”
“We have to go to the pet store now!” Bakugou said before they set the carriers in the back and climbed in the car themselves. “I want to hold my cat.”
“That’s not fair I can’t hold my cat because I’m driving,” Midoriya whined.
“Just put her on your lap.”
“That’s dangerous.”
“Why?”
“Cause if she falls where the pedals are.”
“Oh,” Bakugou replied. “Fine, I’ll leave Lady Explosion Murder back there.”
“Do I get a kiss for driving you all the way here when I didn’t get home until three am?” Midoriya smiled as he leaned towards Bakugou. Bakugou looked him up and down for a minute before kissing Midoriya who hummed happily as he began to drive.
“So am I going in or are you going in?” Bakugou asked.
“In where?”
“The pet store, idiot.”
“We can both go in?”
“How irresponsible! You can’t leave a fucking pet in the car!”
“You can bring the pets into the store,” Midoriya rolled his eyes before Bakugou sat back. “It’s a pet store, Kacchan, the pet can go into this one. It’s where Uraraka brings her dog. Which we’re still getting one of by the way.”
“I know, I know,” Bakugou sighed.
So, the two walked through the pet store with Miss Meow sitting in the front of the cart where children sit and Lady Explosion Murder sitting on top of Bakugou’s head.
Bakugou was reading on his phone a list of things he made the night before of what to get them, and he was placing food into the cart as Meow licked Midoriya’s finger.
“They like the cat trees,” Midoriya said. “Should we get one while we’re here?”
“You mean cat condos?”
“They’re the same thing.”
“They’re also pretty expensive,” Bakugou said. “Are you sure you wanna spend that much?”
“My cat deserves the world, Kacchan.” Midoriya replied and heard a couple down the aisle laughing at Midoriya’s statement. He turned and noticed that the girl was holding onto a long-haired cat herself. She gets it.
“Fuck, fine.” Bakugou rolled his eyes. “Cause a half an hour ago you were complaining about spending money at the vet.”
“Yeah but the vet sucks, they cut their stomachs open to fix them.”
Bakugou turned to Midoriya, his eyebrows narrowed. “That.. Thank fucking goodness you’re gay because I’m not sure you know how shit like that works.”
“Why would I?”
“We have two daughters now, Deku,” Bakugou replied. “Be considerate.”
“Fine, I’ll go look up how they fix a cat.”
“They don’t cut open their stomach.” Bakugou replied.
“Well, they cut the underside of them, right?” Midoriya asked. “That’s in their stomach.”
“When you say stomach, you mean their digestive system,” Bakugou rolled his eyes. “Babies aren’t made in the stomach — not even cat babies.”
“I’ll never have to deal with that.” Midoriya shrugged. “I didn’t pay attention when we learned that! It was also when I learned I was gay, so there you go.”
Bakugou let out a loud and long sigh as he closed his eyes. His cat learned over the front of his head and placed a paw on his forehead. He opened his eyes to smile up at the cat. “Hey.” He looked back to Midoriya. “Alright gay-boy, we have to go find some carrier crates.”
“Gay-boy? You married me!”
“Least I know how a fucking baby is made.” Bakugou replied as he turned and began walking away. “Come on Lady Explosion Murder, let’s get away from these extras.”
“Extras?” Midoriya huffed. His own cat meowed at him. “I know right? So rude!”
“Stop talking shit about me to your cat.” Bakugou called back as he was almost out of the aisle.
They landed in front of a lot of cat trees. Some were really tiny, some were like their own little buildings. “Look at all the shit that one has.”
“Would we be able to fit that in the car?” Midoriya asked.
“No, but we can buy it unassembled and put it together.”
“We’re gonna put something together? Do you remember what happened when we got the kitchen table?” Midoriya asked. “You got so pissed off that you broke it and we had to buy a replacement leg.”
“We’re seasoned veterans of assembling furniture now,” Bakugou replied. “So we can fucking do this.”
Midoriya sighed. “How much is it?”
“Enough.”
“That’s.. not a price.”
“I don’t care because I’m buying it either way.” Bakugou replied. “Remove Miss Meow from the cart so when it shuffles from putting this box in it she doesn't get scared. And also take Lady Explosion Murder from my head.”
“Can you lift it on your own?” Midoriya asked as he picked the cat up before walking towards Bakugou to fetch his cat.
“Fucking yeah I can.”
It took ten minutes, and Bakugou grumbled a lot but he did eventually slide it onto that bottom shelf of the cart before placing his cat back on his head.
Oh and Midoriya didn’t like what the price was when they were checking out.
Midoriya also made Bakugou put it in the car which took ten more minutes as he sat in the driver’s seat holding both of their cats.
“He’s so dumb.” Midoriya sighed and his cat meowed back. “Yeah I know! Why do you like him Lady? I know I married him and what not but you didn’t even try to struggle, you couldn’t scratched him or something.”
“Stop talking shit about me to the cats!” Bakugou shouted from placing the cat tree box in the backseat and Midoriya laughed a little before Bakugou’s cat made her way to his head.
“Oh, I feel honored Lady.”
After they made the drive home, Bakugou petting Midoriya’s cat as his own sat on his shoulder (his head was too close to the ceiling for her to sit there) they let out a deep sigh of relief before Bakugou realized he had to carry everything up into their apartment now.
“Do you want help carrying it?” Midoriya asked. “I can just lock the cats in our room so they don’t run out the door.”
“Yes I want your fucking help.” Bakugou sighed. “Wait.. wait..”
“Hm?”
“You have a strength quirk and you didn’t use it to carry the box!?”
“You didn’t ask.”
“Fuck you,” Bakugou huffed before climbing out of the car with both the cats and heading up into the apartment. “You can bring the shit inside!”
“Okay!” Midoriya shouted back and in a couple of trips brought everything upstairs into the apartment. “Do you wanna put the cat tree together now?”
“Yeah because they’re needy.” Bakugou replied from the couch. “I’m gonna feed them first but if you open the box then we can get started after.”
There were three bowls, one for water, and two to feed the cats in. Bakugou’s was black and had a skull and crossbones in the bottom, Midoriya’s was white with a pink trim and had a cute cat face at the bottom.
Bakugou placed the mushy kitten food on the floor for them and watched them eat before noticing that Miss Meow made her way to the black bowl and Lady Explosion Murder to the pink one. Bakugou rolled his eyes but overall ignored it.
“Uraraka is coming over!” Midoriya shouted.
“Fucking why?!”
“She wants to see the cats and she agreed to pick up take out for us,” Midoriya replied as Bakugou walked into the room. “Maybe she could help with this as well. And hey! I haven’t seen her since we got married. You’ve hung out with Kirishima many times.”
“It’s cause you worked all week,” Bakugou rolled his eyes. “Anyways give me the fucking instructions.”
“Okay,” Midoriya replied. “I wonder if Uraraka will accidentally make the cats float.”
“I’ll blow her ass up if she thinks she can use her quirk on my fucking cat.”
“Noted.”
“Oh shit,” Bakugou sighed. “This is gonna take forever! And I’m fucking hungry, we haven’t had lunch or breakfast!”
“I just told you that Uraraka will be over with our lunch,” Midoriya sighed. “Relax.”
“Fuck, fine.” Bakugou huffed. “I think we need to have a talk.”
“Oh.. is everything alright?” Midoriya asked at the very sudden tone of seriousness.
Yeah, I just want you to know that now that we have cats, we can’t do it wherever we want.”
“K-Kacchan!”
“Because I don’t want our children to see.” Bakugou continued. “You know, so they’re not scarred for life. Also, I would feel weird having cats watch me do that.”
“These cats are our children now?” Midoriya raised his eyebrows.
“Yeah duh,” Bakugou replied. “Except cooler because I don’t have to change any diapers and worry about them having a good future.”
“Or being a shithead like you were.”
Bakugou didn’t say anything, but the look on his face said it all. Midoriya smiled at him though, trying to extinguish the fire he had just sparked. “I love you, Kacchan.”
“Fuck you,” he scoffed. “I love you too.”
About twenty minutes in and maybe a fourth of the way done, Uraraka was knocking on the door and came in with a bag full of food. “How are you?” Midoriya asked as he took the bag from her.
“Good,” Uraraka smiled. “Where are your cats because that’s really what I’m here for.”
“They’re in here!” Bakugou shouted.
The two cats were running back and forth, taking turns chasing one another. When Uraraka saw them she squealed and accidentally pressed her hands to her face causing her to start floating.
“Uh oh,” she laughed.
“Don’t vomit on our fucking floor.”
“Hey!” She huffed before bringing herself back down to the ground.
“Do you ever accidentally float in your sleep?” Midoriya asked.
“Sometimes,” she shrugged. “I usually wake up though.”
“I saw her on the news the other day,” Bakugou spoke up. “And she was vomiting.”
“It’s nice to see you too, Bakugou,” Uraraka grumbled before turning her attention to the cats. She was petting Miss Meow when Midoriya handed her a feather dancer that immediately caught the interests of both cats. “So what are you building?”
“A cat tree,” Midoriya answered. “Bakugou insisted that we build this one.”
“Even after the table incident?”
Bakugou raised his eyes up to Midoriya. “You told her about that?”
“I tell Uraraka everything.”
Uraraka snickered. “And he means everything .”
“Deku!” Bakugou shouted.
“You don’t tell Kirishima everything?” Midoriya asked.
“Fucking no! ”
“Oh,” Midoriya replied. “Well sorry.”
“If it’s any consultation Bakugou, you’re doing a great job.” Uraraka said, trying to contain her laughter.
“I’m legit gonna end you,” Bakugou snarled. “Both of you!”
“Guys don’t argue in front of the babies,” Uraraka scolded them.
“Why are the cats our children?” Midoriya sighed. “Kacchan said the same thing.”
“Your pets are your children,” Uraraka replied. “They are babies and they need to be taken care of and you are their parents.”
“I have a favorite child,” Bakugou replied. “Hint: it’s my child.”
“What are their names?” Uraraka asked.
“Well the black one is Miss Meow,” Midoriya said. “And the tan one is Lady Explosion Murder.”
“Oh what.. great names..” Uraraka laughed lightly. “So, you have two girls?”
“I guess so.”
“Lady Explosion Murder is ten times the cat as any male cat there would have been,” Bakugou spoke up. “She’s The Godfather of cats.”
“She also sits on Bakugou’s head,” Midoriya said. “I think she likes sitting in a lot of hair.”
“She’s fucking great.” Bakugou replied. “And I’m halfway done, hell yes. Food break.”
It was another rigorous two hours later when the tree was finally finished. Bakugou was more than thrilled and immediately placed his cat up on the tower which was just sitting in the middle of the room. Uraraka eventually excused herself, and that left the two with their new cats enjoying being spoiled by mostly Bakugou.
Later that evening, the four of them were curled up on the couch, Midoriya was laying on Bakugou’s lap as he ran his hand through the curls. Lady Explosion Murder was sitting on Bakugou’s head and Miss Meow was curled up beside Midoriya.
“So tomorrow, wanna go get a dog?”
“What?” Midoriya sighed. “No, we just got two kittens. Let’s focus on that first. Also I don’t know if we can get a dog living here anyways, I don’t think we’re allowed to have more than two pets.”
“So let’s move,” Bakugou shrugged.
“It’s not that easy, Kacchan.”
“Let’s go buy a house and just raise animals until we die.”
“We have jobs we need to keep,” Midoriya replied. “We can’t just raise animals.”
“But we should buy a house,” Bakugou replied. “We’re married and I want you to have a fucking dog because you let me have this cat.”
“I don’t know if now is the best time to be moving,” Midoriya replied.
“Why not?” Bakugou asked.
“Well..” Midoriya trailed off. “I like it here.”
“You could like it in a different place too.”
“Yeah but when we graduated this is where we moved and I don’t know.. it’s special.” Midoriya’s voice seemed to grow quieter and Bakugou moved the curls from his face.
“Izuku we can’t stay here forever.” Bakugou answered. “It’s a nice apartment but it’s still a pretty small apartment. You can’t expect us to live out our entire lives here.”
“Yeah.. I know,” Midoriya mumbled. “I don’t know, leaving it scares me.”
“Why?”
“Because, I feel like there’s more stress with owning a house and I don’t want us both to be stressed between work and having to move to a place that might stress us out more in case that makes..” Midoriya’s voice trailed off, he didn’t want to say what he was thinking but he already got there and Bakugou wasn’t going to say anything until he finished that thought. “In case that makes you not love me anymore.”
It sounded so meek, so deeply afraid and sad by the idea that it made Bakugou’s eyes widen up. He took the cat off of his head and set her on the back of the couch and moved the other cat too before forcing Midoriya to sit up to see his face.
“Listen,” Bakugou replied. “That’s not gonna fucking happen.”
“But —”
“No, no buts Izuku!” Bakugou continued on. “Listen, I know things aren’t always going to be easy, but that’s just a part of it. I could go through hell and back though, and still come back loving you just as much — if not more — as I did before I went through it because the entire time you would have always been right there. It matters a hell of a lot more to me that you’re going to always be right there than anything else. Don’t get in your own head like that, it’s bad for you.”
“O-Okay..” Midoriya mumbled.
“C’mon, I love you. In the good moments and the bad moments.” Bakugou said as he let a thumb trace across Midoriya’s cheek.
“I love you too,” Midoriya replied as he moved onto Bakugou’s lap and nuzzled against him. “I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be sorry,” Bakugou shrugged. “You have to understand that we can’t stay here forever, though. We can stay for some time longer, but not forever.”
“Okay,”
“And I know change is scary and what not,” Bakugou continued. “But as long as were in it together it won’t fucking matter.”
“Alright Kacchan,” Midoriya raised his head up and kissed Bakugou’s cheek before laying his head back down into his shoulder. Bakugou’s arms wrapped gently around Midoriya’s waist as the both of them relaxed in each other’s comforting embrace.
The cat moved it’s way back onto Bakugou’s head and the other one laid in the small space between Midoriya and Bakugou. A small chuckle came from Bakugou. “Why is everyone sitting on me?”
“Cause you’re comfy,” Midoriya hummed. “Kacchan ‘m tired.”
“I can carry you to bed, it’s alright if you fall asleep,” Bakugou replied. “I’m too comfy to move right now though.”
“Alright,” Midoriya said. “I had a good day.”
“Me too,” Bakugou replied. “But you didn’t get a lot of sleep so you should probably catch up on it tonight.”
“Okay,” Midoriya hummed. “I love you.”
“Yeah, I love you too,” Bakugou replied.
Bakugou gently rubbed circles into Midoriya’s back and could by the way his breathing changed and his body relaxed that he had fallen asleep. There was some kind of peace in the moment that made everything feel better.
Pure bliss.