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Katsuki can’t be more happy with his life, he is the number two hero, he is a spot ahead of Half and Half (Take that Candy Cane), only until Hawks announces his retirement, then he’s goin to be the number one hero, he would have wanted to beat that overgrow chicken on his own merit but life is what it is.
He is so lucky to have his boyfriend even after what he made him go through when they were young, sometimes he wakes in the middle of the night in a cold sweat after a nightmare of what could have happened if Izuku listened to him that afternoon, after he passed the UA entrance exam and started to go to class he had a rude awakening when he learned that the most important thing in the world to be a hero, a good hero that everyone admired, wasn’t how flashy or powerfull was your quirk, what is important is to have a good heart, to be willing to always help others without expecting anything in return, just the satisfaction of doing the right thing, that were qualities that Izuku always had, that was wen the regret came like an punch to the gut with the realization that he bullied the most selfless and kind person that he knew only because he don’t have a quirk.
After years of hard training and therapy to be a good hero, he worked hard at being a good sidekick, and the day of his hero debut, life gave him the oportunity to find Izuku again after years whithout knowing nothing of him after he moved out of town after the middle school gaduation.
He was chasing a villain with a fire quirk, when he almost had him, the villain breaks in a nearby coffee shop, being 7:30 am the coffee shop was full, therefore a simple chase became a hostage situation where the villain demanded that if I did not let him escape he would start burning the hostages alive, when ambulances, paramedics and cops arrived I decided to sneak in through the back of the coffee shop, slowly and quietly I approached the villain who had a person by the neck while threatening others, the lights were off only the street light came through the door and windows therefore I did not see the person well, but I knew that he could see me, the villain had his back to me, I signaled to the person to stay quiet, I approached them and immobilized the villain, when I looked up to find the hostage that the villain was holding I didn’t find him, scaning the coffee shop I found him he was asking a pregnant woman if she was ok, when the lights were on again and the police came to collect the villain I aproached the man to ask if he was ok he has green hair and was short, he was still helping the woman, when I went to ask him what was wrong he turned to tell me to call the paramedics because the woman was in labor, I saw that it was Izuku and I froze for a moment, I shook myself from my surprise and started moving, everything after that was a blur, after receiving many thanks and verifying that all the hostages were fine and there was no one injured, I asked the police to which hospital they had taken the woman and I went there, I saw that Izuku got into the ambulance with her and I needed to talk to him.
When I arrived at the hospital I did not know how to ask for Izuku I decided to ask for the pregnant woman, the receptionist nurse was telling me that she could not give me that information if I wasn't a relative or an emergency contact, when I saw Izuku pass with a doctor’s coat and a medical chart? I called his name, He turned to see me, sighed and came closer.
“What do you want Kacchan?” he asked me with the most tired voice that I ever heard in someone.
“I came to ask about the lady that was in labor” I asked scratching my head.
“She is fine, she had a healthy baby girl and she is recovering in her room, actually I was on my way to check her and the baby” he smiled, the eye bags he was sporting were impresive he was dead on his feet and it showed.
“Actually Doctor Midoriya, Doctor Shuzenji told me that you should go home as soon as possible, you have been working non-stop for three full days and it is not healthy for you, she will take care of the girl and the baby, if not she will hit you so hard with her cane that you will sleep for 3 days in a row, three days that you are banned from the hospital until you completely rest” the nurse said.
Katsuki was shocked, Izuku works with Recovery Girl? And more important... THREE days in a row WITHOUT REST? Wow.
“But I wanted to se the baby” He said pouting.
OMG The nerd was cute, that was the other thing that my years in UA and therapy showed me, I am Bisexual, and part of my bullying to Izuku was my way of represing my feelings towards the nerd, and I learned to accept that.
“Well what about this, you go and see the baby and her mother and I wait here for you to go for Warm Chocolate to talk for a bit, and later I accompany you to your house so you don't fall asleep on the way” I said hoping that he would accept I really needed to talk to him now that I had the chance and I wasn’t goin to lose it.
“I not sure, I don’t want to bother you Kacchan” he said unsure.
“I am sure Izuku, my shift is over I only have to go to the agengy to report the incident and change, but after that we can go for breakfast and that warm chocolate, what do you say?”
“Ok give me five minutes and we can go” he said walking backwards towards the elevator.
When I turned to the nurse she was seeing me with a knowing smile.
“What?” I asked frowning.
“Nothing” she said shaking her head and laughing, I moved to the chairs nearby waiting for the nerd to come back.
After five minutes I saw the nerd exit the elevator with Recovery Girl on his heels pushing him with her cane.
“I told you to go home this morning don’t make me suspend you for a month, you can't continue like this my dear It’s not healthy” she said with so much worry in her voice.
“Ok, ok I get it, I’m gonna rest I promise” the nerd said
After that Recovery girl saw me “Bakugou my dear why are you here, are you hurt?” I gave her a smile I didn’t see her since my graduation “Hi Recovery Girl I’m not hurt I’m here to talk with Izuku” she saw me with a smile “Perfect then, take him away from here he shouldn’t be here since yesterday morning that his shift ended”
“Shuzenji-Sensei” the nerd say pityfully “Come on nerd let’s get some breakfast” I took his arm and draged him to the exit.
We walked to the agency I left Izuku in my desk while I went to talk with Hawks, after that I went to change out of my costume, I put a pair of sweats, a shirt and sneakers, whe I got to my desk there were the group of idiots all over the nerd.
“What are you idiots doing?” they turned to see me “Oh Bakugo who is your cute friend” said Pinky with hearts in her eyes “I didn’t know you were capable of be friends with other people apart of us” said Tape Face “Or that other people were capable of being friends with you” said Pikachu I saw red and felt my cheeks burn in embarrassment.
“Ok, Ok guys stop you are goin to make him pop a vein” Said Shitty Hair with a smile that said he wanted to know who was the nerd too, I took a deep breath and calmed myself “Nerd these are Pinky, Tape Face, Pikachu and Shitty Hair, Idiots this is the Nerd, come on we gotta get breakfast” I said the last part to The nerd while leading him to the exit “But Kacchan wait” he tried to free himself from my hold without success “Walk ahead nerd or we never are gona leave this place” when finally we were outside I sighed with relief.
“Your friends are lively, I never imagined that you could have that type of friends” He said smiling “When I started at UA, they stuck with me and never left me alone since then, they are good friends but sometimes they are too much”
We walked in the coffee shop closer to the agency I ordered two warm chocolates and a spicy chicken sandwich and a normal chicken sandwich we waited for our order, we seated in a spot by the window “What do you wanted to talk with me Kacchan?” I stared my sandwich trying to invoke the right words to convey all I wanted to say “I wanted to know how are you I never knew anything about you after middle school”
He sighed, “Well I realized I only was setting myself to fail wanting to be a hero, and really started to think about my future and what I wanted to do with it, I still wanted to help people an I realized that there were other ways, like being a doctor, I applied for one of the best high schools of Tokio, got accepted moved here and started doing nursing classes at night I met Shuzenji-Sensei there she took me under her wing and recommended me to the best medical school in the country, I graduated earlier than what was expected earning my general medicine degree and now I work with her in the hospital she directs, and I am working towards my specialization too that is pediatrician specialized in quirks” he said smiling
While he was talking I was thinking how I could bully him when we were young, he was the most pure, kind, selfless and inocent person that I ever meet, only thinking about how to help others “That’s great Izuku I’m glad that you’re doing well” he looked at me and asked me “Why are you calling me that?” a hint of sadness in his voice
“What?” I asked meeting his eyes.
“Izuku, you never called me Izuku anymore I always was Deku” he was looking at his plate.
“That’s the other reason why I wanted to talk with you, I never should have treated you the way I treated you when we were kids, It was wrong, I was a shitty person, I made your life hell, all for something out of your control, I’m sorry and I could never make it up to you, but I wanna try if you let me” I say bowing my head my eyes burning with unshed tears.
I felt a touch in my hand and I looked and it was his hand on mine, then I looked at his face and he had te most tender and warm smile in his lips “I forgave you a long time ago, I knew you never meant it, your eyes always showed me the truth, you were suffering too”
“That was no excuse, I wanted to be a hero, what type of hero treats his best friend that way for something out of his control, for something he didn’t ask for, but I am triying to be better, I’m trying to be a person and a hero that you would have been proud of being friend of” I said sincerely “And I want to try to be your friend again”
He looked me for a long time then smiled at me “Of course Kacchan, all I ever wanted was be your friend”
“Thank you Izuku you will not regret it” I said then a thougth cross my mind “And Aunty Inko? How is she?”
“Oh! you will not believe it! My mom married again!" He said bouncing in his seat.
“Really?!”
“Yeah, Guess with who!” I looked at him with confused and shrugged “With All Might!”
“Oh my God All Might is your stepdad?” That really shocked me “¿How that happened?”.
“Well my mom was working in the physical therapy wing of the hospital Shuzenji-Sensei directs when All Might fought in Kamino, after that he needed surgery and therapy for a couple of weeks, and my mom was in charge of it, It was love at first sight for him and after a couple of months he won my mom over and a year after that they were married, now they are living in our old apartament in Musutafu and All Might gifted me his apartament here for my graduation” He said with so much love for his family and I am glad that he now has a father figure like All Might, after that piece of shit excuse of a father abandoned him and his mom.
“Looks like your life is really full of suprises” I said with amusement
“Yes, I can't complaint” he said with a beautiful smile, After that I walked him to his apartament that was only a block away from the coffee shop and the agency, he was so close all this time and I never knew, after exchanging numbers and after promising to be in contact I went to my apartament.
That was the starting line of the best years of my life, after two years of reconecting as friends I armed myself with courage and asked Izuku to date me, now after four years of dating, four years of love, four years of learning to be a better person with Izuku, appreciating what I have, four years with the occasional fight but with the reconciliation that comes later, four years of pure bliss.
Now It's a saturday night, its my day off after one painfully hard week of work, but I'm here now cuddling with my boyfriend in the sofa watching cheesy movies after a hearty dinner, we are here after so much lived, apart and together, and in times like this I reafirm the choice I made months ago when I bought the ring that is in my safe in the office, I want to live the rest of my life beside this man.
“Why are you smiling Kacchan?” came the sleepy question fron Izuku.
I look at him and answer him with a kiss to his forehead “I only thinking how much I love you” then a kiss to his lips “And how you are the best thing that I have in my life”
“I love you too Kacchan” he kissed me “So so so much that sometimes I think I am dreaming”
“It’s not a dream Izuku and I would spend the rest of my life proving it to you”