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Part 2 of See You After
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2023-10-03
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2025-10-20
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See You After

Summary:

One week after the end of the war, Katsuki still hasn’t woken up. Shouto writes him a letter reminding him of a promise they made on the morning of the final battle. By the time Katsuki wakes up and reads it, Shouto has disappeared and no one else in Class 1-A has heard from him. Over the months that follow, they continue to exchange letters as they, and the world around them, try their best to heal.

An epistolary fic set after the final war.

Part I: Hospital Letters (Ch. 1-21)
Part II: Rebuilding the bridges that were burned (Ch. 22-45)
Part III: No one told us (that winning the war would be the easy part) (Ch. 46-56)
Part IV: Heroes are also human (begins in Ch. 57)

[on hiatus until Spring 2026]

Notes:

This fic is presented primarily in epistolary format (including letters, texts, articles, etc.) but will also include longer scenes throughout the story. Reading the prequel isn’t necessary, but it’s short and provides a bit of context for where Shouto & Katsuki are starting from in regards to their relationship.

*This fic was conceived shortly after Ch. 390 (Todoroki Shouto: Rising) and remains canon-compliant until Ch. 404 of the manga. (Spoilers for anything until then are fair game.) There are some minor references to later chapters, but any plot points that align with the canon epilogue are coincidental, so I’m not counting them as spoilers.
See this tumblr post for specifics on where canon ends and this fic begins.

This was not meant to be a fix-it fic, but in some ways it accidentally became one. This story will touch on some of the other characters and the aftermath as a whole but at its core, this is about Shouto & Katsuki (as individuals & together). There is quite a bit of TodoFam though. (Yes, Touya is alive).

**Days of the week align with the 2023 calendar.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: May 17: Todoroki to Bakugou

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(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

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Wednesday, May 17

Bakugou,

I’m leaving this letter with Midoriya in case I’m not there when you wake up. I’m okay, so don’t worry. It’s not anything bad. Well, I guess I don’t know if that’s true. Everything’s upside down these days and I don’t know what’s going on half the time.

Physically though, I’m fine for the most part. I’m alive at any rate. So is my family and the rest of our class. Somehow, we’re all still alive. 

But it’s been a week and you still haven’t woken up. Your parents gave Aizawa Sensei permission to update us on your condition but right now the doctors are just waiting. No one ever says it out loud - what it is they’re waiting for. None of us asked how long we’re supposed to wait.

Do you remember that morning before we left? The only thing I remember saying was that we’d see each other after. Maybe we should have been more specific. Maybe we should have promised that we would stay alive and come back safe and whole but I think it’s all we could manage at the time because neither of us is the type to make promises we can’t keep. But you have to wake up. Even if we didn’t say that promise out loud, it was implied that we would both be here. That there would be an after, one with both of us in it. I know that’s not how it works but I need to believe that it is.

I should probably explain things better so that you don’t jump to conclusions. Like I said, I’m fine. I was luckier than most, I think. But something’s wrong with my quirk. I guess I couldn’t regulate my temperature when I passed out after everything happened and something’s still not quite right. 

The doctors have me on quirk suppressants for now. It’s something new they’ve been trying and I guess it’s been helping but they want to transfer me to a different hospital with some kind of specialist. Mom, Nee-san, and Natsu-nii are getting discharged tomorrow so they don’t have a reason to keep me here anymore but I don’t want to leave. Not until I know you'll be okay. I probably don’t have a choice though.

Write back when you wake up? Even if I’m not here, I’ll see you after.

-Todoroki Shouto

Notes:

See the extended notes post on tumblr for additional thoughts and references in this chapter.