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[01/01]
You were the daughter of a model and an actor so it wasn't a shock that you wanted to have your name out there as well. From a young age you were fascinated with the entertainment industry that your parents were part of. You had begged your mother to take you to one of her photoshoots. She was reluctant at first, not wanting you to be exposed too much to the entertainment industry. However your four year old self was rather persistent and did not take to well to being told 'no', so you whined and pouted until finally she gave up, got you dressed and hauled you into the car.
You sat idly in your [F/C], frilly, doll-like dress. Your mother sat next to you as the chauffeur drove you to the set.
"I can't wait to become a model like you, mama!"
Your mother gave a forced smile at your dream, "Are you sure about that, [Y/N]? You know you can be anything you want to be, me and papa will love you no matter what. You could always become a hero like All Might or Endeavor."
You shook your head, your [H/C] locks swishing fast, "No way! I don't want to do anything that'll get my pretty dresses messy, mama! Besides being a model, that means I get ot play dress up everyday just like you!"
Your bright grin made the woman smile down at you, "Of course, we don't want you to get your dresses dirty now do we? Ah, look we're here, [Y/N]!" She pointed outside to the garden, hidden in the orchard. In the garden you could see a table with cakes and candy on it.
Your mouth dropped at all the sugar that was on the white table. "Do I get to eat that when you're done? Look they even have those really pretty cupcakes from the food magazine!"
Your mother laughed at you childish excitement, she slowly pinched your cheeks and watched how your cheeks were so chubby and cute. "Yup! You can eat them later but only after we're done and if Mrs. Bakugou will let you."
You tilted your head as your mother released your cheek. She unbuckled both of your seatbelts and got out of the car. Who was this 'Mrs. Bakugou'?
You scooted over the seats and jumped out of the car, making sure your dress didn't get dirty. You followed after your mother and saw her greet another lady with wild ash blonde hair. She wasn't dressed up like your mom was so you figured she was part of the staff. You grabbed her dangling fingers, your eyes wide in curiosity on who she was.
Your mom looked down at you as she clenched your hands. She lightly pushed you forward and held you in front of her person so you could be introduced to the woman. "This is Mrs. Bakugou, she's gonna be the one taking my photos today."
Your eyes went wide, this was the candy lady! The one you had to ask to be able to get to the table filled with sweets. You clenched your mom's hand, not being able to contain your curiosity you hastily asked her the question. "Hi, Mrs. Bakugou, I was wondering if after your done with the shoot, could I please eat the candy on the table!"
She looked down at you before she gave a loud, hearty laugh. "You're a cute kid so sure, but I gotta know the name of the little princess who wants to eat all my candy."
She gave you a grin as she knelt down to your height. You gave a giggle at her nickname for you, "I'm [L/N] [F/N]!"
"How old are you, [Y/N]?"
"I'm four years old! And I just had my princess birthday tea party the other day!"
"Is that so? What's your quirk, princess?"
You were about to give her an answer before you saw an explosion from afar. Your eyes went wide as you saw a boy your age walk from behind the bush and give a cough. He wiped away the dirt on his knees and scanned the area. Once his ruby eyes landed on Mrs. Bakugou, he stomped his way over. "Hey, hag! How much longer do I have to be here? I wanna go home and watch All Might!"
Your jaw dropped once you hear the word he called the sweet lady in front of you. "Don't go calling Mrs. Bakugou a hag!"
"Huh?! What's it matter to you? I can call MY mom whatever I want, ugly!"
Oh that was it! You were never an angry child, that was a fact but you'd be damned if you let someone like him call you ugly!
"I'm not ugly, you- you PORCUPINE TROLL!"
At this point both your mom and the porcupine's mom were looking between you and him. They couldn't help but look back at each other and laugh. You were huffing in anger as well as the other boy. His hands were releasing small explosions while you on the other hand had what seemed like a ball of water in your palm.
That was the start of yours' and Bakugou Katsuki strange relationship,
By age five, you had gone to enough of your mom's photoshoots with Mrs. Bakugou that you and Katsuki became well acquainted. So whenever your mom went, you did too and the photographer was always Mrs. Bakugou and Katsuki was always there, like today.
You hopped out the car, dressed in yet another frilly dress that your father had bought you from China. It was by far one of your favorite things you own, not only because it was your favorite color, frilly, cute and came with matching shoes but because it was from your dad. He wasn't home too often due to movie and tv shootings but when he came home he always made up for it. And every time he came home, he would bring you something from wherever he had been.
By the time you reached the set, this one was in a studio, you saw your mom already being placed into different outfits. You admired her serious yet happy face as she talked with Mrs. Bakugou about the concepts of the shoots and what they were aiming to capture in the photos.
Your eyes had a dreamy glaze until you smelled something. You scrunch your nose, wondering why it smelt like something was burning and why your shins were suddenly feeling warmer than usual. And then you heard the snickers that turned into loud laughter. Your [E/C] orbs went wide and you looked at the hem of your dress and saw the small fire that was caused by none other than your arch nemesis, Bakugou Katsuki.
You screamed out and started to freak before you remembered that your quirk was the fires natural enemy, water. You formed a small ball of water in your tiny hand and dropped it onto the fire. You kept on with this until there was nothing left of the fire, only the aftermath.
A good chunk of your father's present was charred and slowly falling to the ground and into ashes. Almost half of your right leg was exposed now that it was burnt off.
Tears welded in your eyes as the last piece floated to the ground into ashes, your mom and Mrs. Bakugou were running over to you with worry on their faces, meanwhile Katsuki was laughing his ass off.
You yelled at the top of your lungs, your tiny hands balled up into fist and angry tears falling from your cheek. "You- You- I will never forgive you, Bakugou Katsuki! I hate you and I never want to see you again!"
You glared at the ash blonde boy whose laughter had died done once he saw your tears. You stomped over to your mom and hugged her, she smoothed your hair down as you cried into her lap. She glanced over to Mitsuki who gave her a sigh, the ash blonde female gave a sigh before she bowed and apologized for her son's actions.
Your mother shook her head and mouthed for her to not worry about it. Mitsuki then walked over to her son and smacked him across the head. They argued a bit before Katsuki kicked the ground and trudged over to you.
You stood with your back to him, facing your mother as she wiped your tears away. She saw him make his way towards you and gave a soft smile to the boy. She softly turned you around so you could see him. You wiped your cheeks and gave a sniffle before you glared at the boy that you hated more than anyone else in the world.
"What do you want, Bakatsuki?" You felt a happy feeling when you saw him get irritated by your nickname for him.
He only stopped walking when he was right in front of you, he was about the same height as you, with his arms crossed and his chin tilted upwards, his eyes to the side, he mumbled something that made you narrow your eyes.
"What'd you say?"
"I said I'm sorry, okay! I didn't know that the small explosion I made was going to burn off that much of your dress."
You looked Katsuki up and down with narrowed eyes, you wanted to yell and scream at him again even hit him a bit, but your mother's grip on your shoulders made you stop. You glanced up at her, she gave you a knowing look and you huffed before giving a grin to the confused boy. "I won't accept your apologize until you buy me a new dress. Papa said that there were only five other dresses that were made like this one so until then, I hate you Bakugou Katsuki."
At age six, you were dropped off at the Bakugou's home more than not. With both your mom and Katsuki's mom working so closely together now, you would stay over at his home since Mr. Bakugou could work from home when he wasn’t needed in the office.
You had just been dropped off at Katsuki's house for the weekend since your mom and Mrs. Bakugou had a shoot in Tokyo today and you weren't able to go because it was a big shoot so no one could really keep a good eye on you. At first you pouted until your mom had promised you that your dad would be coming home soon if you were a good girl, immediately you packed your bag and hopped in the car and told your mom to hurry up instead.
You watched as the car left with your mom waving her hand until the car turned and went out of sight, you gave a sad smile before walking over to Mr. Bakugou, he reminded you a lot of your own dad so you liked him a lot. You grabbed onto his fingers, your backpack on your back with your adorable teddy bear in the other hand.
"Are you excited for this weekend, [Y/N]?"
You bounced your head up and down, any time you were over Mr. Bakugou would always take you and Katsuki somewhere to eat and then to the ice cream parlor. "Mhm! I can't wait to see what pretty dresses you're going to make!"
He laughed at your remark before he took your bag and went to go put it in the guess bedroom, he offered to take your bear as well but you shook your head. "Sir Bartholomew wants to stay with me, besides I have to take good care of him since mama gave him to me."
Mr. Bakugou melted at your cute reasoning, it was times like this that he wished he had a daughter, it didn't matter though since he saw you as his own daughter. "Ah, of course. Anyways Katsuki's in the backyard, you can go out there and play with him."
You nodded your head and made your way to the back yard. You saw the ash blonde kick and screaming, you even saw him strike the All Might pose. You couldn't help but laugh at him., "You're so lame, Katsuki."
Katsuki turned around slowly, he knew that laugh anywhere. Once he saw you his whole face went red and he saw that you were hunched over and laughing and it made him mad. So he kicked a pile or mud over to you, some of it splashed onto your dress and more importantly, Sir Bartholomew. Your mouth dropped and world went still around you, you saw red.
You dropped Bartholomew and launched at Katsuki, he was already in a stance to retort back but was taken by surprise at how strong you really were. You knocked him over and straddled him. Your small fist pounded into his chest while he tried to block his face.
Once Mr. Bakugou saw you guys, he rushed out and grabbed you and lifted you off the boy. Both of you had rolled in the mud enough to the point where more than a good half of your dress was covered in mud and the whole back side of Katsuki was completely covered in mud. You kicked and yelled at him, calling Katsuki by his nickname. "You'll regret this, Porcupine!"
Katsuki's dad gave a sigh and brought you back into the house while Katsuki followed being with his head low. He never liked it when his dad was mad, it was one of the few little things you actually knew about the boy. Still it didn't excuse the fact that he soiled your pure and cute best friend, Sir Bartholomew.
Mr. Bakugou sat you down on the bathroom sink while he went to grab your change of clothes. He didn't a speak a word to his son, who stood outside the open bathroom door, leaning against the wall with a pout on his lips. He really didn't like when his dad got like this.
You on the other hand, you were enjoying seeing him get in trouble. You stuck your tongue out at him but he didn't respond because he knew his father would be even more upset with him. You gave another huff as you looked down at yet another dirtied dress, maybe it was time for you to stop wearing such nice clothes just to see Katsuki, not like he cared anyways. You frowned once you saw that Sir Bartholomew was dirtier than you had originally thought so when Mr. Bakugou walked back into the bathroom with your bag of clothes, you pushed the toffee colored bear into the man's arms and with a low whisper you asked him the life or death question, "Can you help clean Sir Bartholomew or is he- already gone..."
You little head and [H/C] locks sagged down. Mr. Bakugou gave you a warm smile and told you that Sir Bartholomew would make a full recovery. You cheered and gave a tight hug even in your dirty dress, you knew Mr. Bakugou wouldn't care. You gave a glance to Katsuki, his head sunk low with what looked like prickles of tears. You never liked seeing anyone upset but seeing someone as confident and vibrant as Katsuki feeling blue made your heart wrench.
"Bakatsuki!"
He looked up at you with a glare but you stood your ground, "Since your dad can fix Sir Bartholomew, I won't be too mad at you and I'll even put in a good word for you to your dad for him to stop being mad at you."
His red orbs widen, the prickled tears disappearing, "Really?"
You nodded your head and turned to his dad and started to speak about how you forgave Katsuki and so should he. Even though he had heard the terms of agreement between the two children and had already decided to let his son off this time, he still gave a small fight towards your favor. You stood your ground though, funny seeing as you sat on a sink counter with mud all over you and your face. He gave in easily and promised that he would forgive Katsuki,
Katsuki's face lit up and he ran to hug the pants leg of his father. Mr. Bakugou ruffled his son's hair and told him that after you showered and changed that it would be his turn next. Katsuki didn't put up a fight this one time because of the good word you had said about him. He gave a happy nod and rushed out the room with his father's hand in tow only after Mr. Bakugou helped you hop off the counter and onto the ground, leaving you alone in the bathroom since Sir Bartholomew was taken by Mr. Bakugou to go into surgery.
At age 11, you and Katsuki didn't fight over such small things like when you were younger. You both had more sleepovers than not and tonight just happened to be another sleepover, the only difference about the sleepovers you guys had now was that you wanted to sleep over. You weren't forced by your mom anymore like when she went on out of town or when your parents couldn't find a babysitter in time so they would call the Bakugou's and had them watch you for a while. You weren't a big fan of it but now you didn't mind. Besides, you and Katsuki had one majorly present thing in common that overlooked everything else and that was that you were both big fans of All Might.
He had introduced the hero to you on his 8th birthday party, it was All Might themed of course, and you were hooked ever since.
When you entered the house, dressed in shorts and a simple shirt with your All Might bag on your back, Katsuki was pretty surprised, this was something new to him. He had never seen you in anything but a dress, you even went to sleep in dresses for crying out loud!
You blushed a little, you knew why he was shocked and it made you feel happy inside to know that he noticed it. You kicked your feet a bit, the awkward tension around you two was so weird.
"Well? What are you looking at? Are you gonna let me in?"
Katsuki shock himself out of his daze before a wide grin appeared on his face, "Well isn't this a surprise, why are you all dressed up for?"
You rolled your eyes at him before pushing past him and into your second home, you could immediately smell the amazing cooking of Katsuki's mom. You dropped your bag and went into the kitchen knowing that there was already a plate set on the table for you. Katsuki wasn't far behind you, still shocked that he could see more than your shins for once. The both of you grabbed your plates and headed straight for the couch to turn the tv on and watch any new updates on All Might.
Katsuki knew the news channel by heart and you did too, neither of you could wait any longer to see your favorite hero. However when the news channel clicked on, they weren't covering any stories on All Might instead it was about another hero by the name of Endeavor. Katsuki scoffeed at the hero and began to complain about how Endeavor was so lame compared to All Might but you ignored him and watched the fire breaded hero on the tv.
He looked so strong, you just couldn't help but admire him especially when they cut to scenes of him fighting the villain.
"He's so cool!"
Katsuki was taken back by this, no way you thought that that weirded fire guy was cooler than All Might.
"What are you talking about? That guy's so lame! He doesn't come anywhere near as cool as All Might!"
"No way! His bread is on fire, Katsuki! Fire! That's way cooler than All Might."
And for whatever reason 11 year old Katsuki had, he blew up in your face. Going on and on about how All Might was so cool and that you were dumb for liking Endeavor more and calling him cooler. You didn't even have time to interject because of how fast he was yelling at you. Eventually it became way too much and your patience was wearing thin.
"All Might can save 100 people in less than 10 minutes! While all Endeavor can do is be a prissy girl like you and stand on the sidelines cause he's so weak! That's why you can't be a hero cause you like Endeavor!"
Oh that was it! Your anger that you had tried hard over the past years to keep under control went ballistic and suddenly Katsuki was on the ground drenched in water and a pool of it surrounding his feet, "I hate you Bakugou Katsuki! I hope we never see each other again!"
The moment you said that, Mrs. Bakugou had quickly came to the living room to see that you had your bag on your back and tear rolling down your cheeks. She scanned between you and her son before she figured that she would go to you first, "What happened?"
You whipped your head to look at the older lady and without saying anything you ran into her arms, your own arms wrapping around her waist while you cried. Katsuki was seething in his spot, he was so still that it scared even his own mom. She closed her arms around your head while she gave a sympathetic look towards her son. He would be yelling her ears off later.
Once everything had settled down a bit, Mrs. Bakugou had called your parents to let them know that you didn't want to stay the night anymore. They were instantly worried but she had promised them that nothing serious had happened only that you and Katsuki had gotten into a pretty big argument. They understood the situation and had told her that they would be over soon to pick you up.
You and Katsuki were glaring at each other, wanting to burn a hole in the other. Katsuki has a new pair of clothes on and a towel around his head while you sat on the opposite side of him with your bag in your hand, ready to book it once your parents showed up.
No sooner than 5 minutes was there someone at the doorbell. You jumped at the sound and immediately went to open the door, your father was standing behind your mother, you ran to hug him and bury your head into his stomach. Both your parents were taken aback before they looked into the house and saw just how mad Katsuki was and how Mitsuki was shaking her head at the whole thing. Both your mom and Mrs. Bakugou nodded their heads to each other, coming to an understanding that this was a bigger fight than any other fights before.
No words were spoken until you were in the car safely with Sir Bartholomew in your arms, he had been stuffed in your bag the whole time. It wasn't until your father had pulled into the driveway of your home, a 10 minute drive from Katsuki's to your house, that you said something, "Boys are so dumb."
At age 16, you had not spoken to Bakugou Katsuki in five years. Any time both your mother and father had to work, you simply went with your mom and stayed in her dressing room until she was done. It was a dumb fight in all honesty but your pride wouldn't let you get over it. He had told you that you would never be a hero because you liked Endeavor, which hadn't made sense because you only called him cool once. You had dabbled on the thought that there may had been another reason why he had lashed out so badly but you didn't care enough to find out.
Now at the age of 16, you were one of the top students at Shiketsu High School. You were only a first year but you showed more promise than most and because of that, you and only one other first year had been allowed to take the provisional license exam.
You sat in the bus with your eyes closed, taking a deep breath you opened your eyes to see the bus that belonged to U.A. You saw that there were more than 20 students standing near the bus meanwhile your school only had 6 people in total taking the test, 4 of them being second years. You turned to look at the only other first year, Yoarashi Inasa, you both had been through quite a bit together having known each other for 4 years.
"What do you think of U.A., Inasa?"
"I can't wait to see how strong they are in person! I really wanna meet them!"
You rolled your eyes at his enthusiasm, typical Inasa. You looked over to Camie and the rest of your team but said nothing else until the bus pulled up right behind U.A.. You made your way off the bus, adjusting the short skirt and the blazer. You were the first to get off, Inasa following right behind you. You sized the group of U.A. students, they didn't look much. You glanced at the taller boy next to you, "They don't look very strong, Inasa. I think the media blew them up too much."
Inasa shook his head at your comment, "You shouldn't judge those you haven't met yet, [N/N]."
Again you playfully rolled your eyes at him before smirking and going right up to the group of U.A. students. If he wanted you to get to know them then you were going to get to know them. You lightly jogged towards the group, accidently bumping into a male with red hair.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't see where I was going!" You lowered your head to the red haired male, seeing that he was blushing from the corner of your eye.
He stuttered to give an answer before he was interrupted by another voice. You brought your head back up and made eye contact with crimson orbs. They were wide and confused yet also angry. Your own orbs only starred back before wondering back onto the redhead that you had 'accidently' bumped into.
"I'm so sorry about that, you're not hurt are you?" You placed your hands around his arm and 'checked' his body for any injuries. He blushed almost as red as his own hair before sputtering out about how he was a man and that something like that couldn't hurt him.
"Well, that's good to know U.A. has an amazing soon-to-be hero like you in their school." You grinned at him, pushing your chest close to his arm. He nearly blew up from all of the hormones.
"Hey! Get your arms off of him!"
You turned away from looking at the red-head and focused your attention onto your old childhood friend and grinned, "Hey Bakatsuki! Didn't see you there! I didn't know you were enrolled in U.A., good for you though. You were always one to go for the flashest of flashiness."
He glared at you, obviously seeing through your words and how you were really mocking him. "Why don't you just mind your own business and get the f-"
"Hey, sorry about that! Apologize to them, [Y/N], you know not to cause trouble with other schools!"
You looked back and saw Inasa only a couple of feet away from you, he had his usual bright grin on his face. He stood next to you and placed a hand on your shoulder, motioning for you to bow to the U.A. group. Your eyes widen at him, the pressure on your shoulder was weird coming from Inasa but then again, he had something against U.A. maybe that's why he was forcing you to bow.
"Apologize, [Y/N]."
You turned your attention away from him and onto Katsuki, with a smile you bowed your head slightly, "I'm truly sorry if I've caused any trouble, I just wanted to get to know you guys before we started the exam."
"[Y/N]! Inasa!"
The two of you looked over to see that your teacher had been calling for you to leave the U.A. students alone and prep for the on coming exam. You looked back to Katsuki and winked at him before clasping your hands behind your back and walking away side by side with Inasa, "Good luck on the test, U.A.."
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After all the trouble and mess, the fighting and the exam, [Y/N] was staring at Inasa with a sloppy smile, "You totally suck for not getting your license with me, idiot."
He grinned down at you and placed a hand on your head, "Don't worry, just because you have it first doesn't mean I still can't catch up."
You rolled your eyes at him and glanced over to see the only two from U.A. that didn't pass the test. You moved Inasa's hand from your head and walked over to Katsuki, "So I heard you didn't pass the exam."
He glared at you, "Yeah, so what? You wanna rub it in my face or something, bi-"
"You really need to fix that mouth of yours, Bakatsuki. I simply came over to say that you weren't that bad out there. I saw you at the tournament but I didn't think you get this good this fast."
"You were watching my fight?"
"Yeah, me and Inasa were making bets on who would win and who would lose."
He rose a brow, "That's the only reason why you came over."
"Yup."
"Tsk, you're so annoying, you know that? I haven't heard from you in over 5 years, and the first thing you did was mock me and now your trying to make me feel better. I don't know what you want from me, dumbass."
You frowned at him as you looked past him to see that his classmates were pretending to not listen in on their conversation, and behind you, you could hear Inasa's ugly whistling was him pretending to also not be listening. You rolled your eyes and gave Katsuki one more look before shaking your head, "Boys really are dumb."
You left the boy was went to Inasa and dragged him behind you onto the bus, sitting down with a huff, you glared at Katsuki as you passed by him and the U.A. bus. You leaned against Inasa as you kept huffing and mopping.
"It's your fault you know."
"Hey, Inasa?"
"Yeah?"
"Shut up."
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Later that night, you pondered over what Inasa had said. It ticked you off that he was right. Over the past five years, you had really wanted to make up with the fiery boy but that stupid pride of yours always stood in the way but today was different. Even though he hadn't gotten his license, just seeing the way he fought with so much passion made her swell with happiness and pride in him that her own pride didn't matter at that moment. In all honesty, you missed the stupid blonde, you even had a crush on him when you were younger.
Thinking back to when you were younger, you thought that Katsuki would be the one. The prince in shining armor to come save you yet he turned out to be the snarling dragon that kept you locked up in a tower. You sighed as you rolled onto your back and stared at your cream colored, closing your eyes, you thought back to the first day you ever met the boy. When he had called you ugly as little kids to the last day you ever spoke to the boy because you had called another hero cooler than All Might. It was so, so long ago yet you felt like it was yesterday.
Sighing out loud yet again, you got up from your bed to get some fresh air. Stepping out onto the balcony you placed your hands on either side and leaned out to take a deep breath. Opening your eyes, you looked at your view and then down your driveway, only to meet the wide eyes of the boy you were just reminiscing about, "Katsuki?"
He froze in place, a small rock in hand that was ready to be thrown at your balcony door. You tilted your head to the side and watched as he grew red and redder. You were confused for a second before you pieced it all together, "Oh.."
You chuckled as he tossed the rock to the side and shoved his hands in his pockets, "Nevermind, dumbass. Pretend you never saw me!"
"Wait, wait!" You called out to him and seemed to have forgotten that you still hadn't fixed that loose screw on the balcony fence. Your mind didn't react in time for you to save yourself from the fall but it wouldn't had mattered because it was you who had saved yourself but the fiery blonde idiot.
"If you wanted me to stay you could've asked, stupid! You didn't need to go falling off a balcony to get my attention, dumbass!" His face was centimeters from yours, close enough for you to feel his breath and tell that he had just brushed his teeth.
"Hey Bakastuki,"
"Dumbass,"
"We got a lot to catch up on."
"I know."
You did say that your relationship with him was strange because the only other thing that you both liked, maybe even loved, about each other was that actions always spoke louder than words; yours had woken him and his had finally caused you to settle.