20 Works in Unreliable Narrator Bakugou Katsuki
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The Line Between by PineappleTheme
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
18 Sep 2025
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Following Midoriya Izuku's death and suicide, Bakugou Katsuki finds himself lost. He doesn't recognize it at first. He just knows that he's suffocating. So what if he told the idiot to kill himself just hours before Dek-Izuku actually died? It wasn't his fault he actually followed through. He wasn't the one that pushed Deku off the building and into the fire.
But it was. It was his fault.
He killed Deku with his words.
Now what is he supposed to do? Can he really hope to be a hero when he's already killed someone?
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When the lights go out (I call your name) by averagetealover
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
27 Aug 2025
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Katsuki listens closer. And then notices the small inflections in his voice, how out of breath he sounds. Ragged, panting for air. Likes he’s decidedly run a marathon in his own fucking house. He wasn’t speaking quietly out of courtesy, but he was afraid to speak any louder. And then he realizes,
Somethings wrong.
He hurries out of his bed, already heading towards the front door.
“Izuku, what’s going on? Are you alright?”
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Katsuki can almost hear the immediate regret that fills Izuku’s voice when he speaks up,
“Oh God, I'm so sorry!! Nothing's wrong, Kacchan I- ” then a beat “Okay fine, I was being an idiot. I had this stupid nightmare where you died again and I just called to make sure you’re okay. I’m so incredibly sorry for worrying you like that I don’t know why I did that, you think I'd be over this by now, it won’t happen again I swear- “
Katsuki stills.
“I’m coming over.”
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I'm not a perfect person (There's many things I wish I didn't do) by guppy22
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
14 Aug 2025
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What if Bakugou told Midoriya to take a swan dive a year earlier? What if that comment hit Midoriya just a little bit harder? What if one big mistake kickstarted Bakugou's character growth in middle school instead of UA?
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Bakugou and Midoriya got their shit sorted in middle school and how that alters the trajectory of their relationship.
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Red is the Color of Trust (and Blood) by MaskSoully
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
09 Jul 2025
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“I—I didn’t mean to—I Zu-kun—I—I swear he just—I just—I killed—!”
“No. No, you didn’t, Kacchan. It was an accident. You didn’t mean it. Kacchan is a hero. He’s going to be a hero.”Katsuki Bakugou makes a mistake—
At least, he thinks it was a mistake.One second he was standing. The next, he was kneeling in blood that wouldn’t stop spreading. A body. A broken memory. And Izuku Midoriya, far too calm for someone staring at a corpse with brains blasted all over the alley's walls.
Middle school wasn't supposed to be like this. He's thirteen and terrified for his future that hasn't even started. Heroes-in-training weren’t supposed to be knee-and-elbow-deep in this red.
But someone’s dead. And Deku is already telling him how they’re going to make it disappear. Katsuki isn’t sure what’s scarier: the corpse on the ground… or the quiet smile on Izuku’s face.
Katsuki’s just not sure if he’s losing his grip on reality or if Izuku’s been holding it for him all along.
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Knot My Problem by user_18922518
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Jun 2025
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And don’t even get him started on Izuku.
Because if there’s one alpha on this planet who seems hellbent on dragging Katsuki into the pheromonal fuckfest he wants nothing to do with, it’s that curly-haired, over-eager, green tea-scented menace.
Or; Katsuki is a beta just trying to live his life in a world full of alphas and omegas. One alpha makes that hard. (And even harder when a mission's safe house happens).
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- Part 1 of The Knot Conundrum
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Your own advice by I_Am_Not_The_Hero
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
04 May 2025
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That's when the last puzzle piece snaps into its place.
A few years or so ago, there was a case about a boy who was a few years older than Katsuki—Maybe his age now?—who died. He was found lying in a pool of his own blood, not far from where Katsuki lives. It was discovered after he died that his classmates had been a little bit mean and said some things about his quirk a few days prior to his death, but it didn't matter because he was already suicidal. At least that was what the news said…
One of the extras who at the time followed Katsuki around, had a big sister who went to the same school as the boy, and had a friend who had taken a video that was somehow tied to all of this.
The boy in the video they showed him didn't just fall, he jumped.
Deku didn't fall, he jumped.
OR: The fic where Katsuki Bakugou comes face to face with the consequences of his actions that will haunt him the rest of his life, acquires a somewhat shady and illegal job, gets to know what it's like to have a big sister in the form of a vigilante(?) and becomes someone worthy of being called a hero. In that order.
And all the while he tries to get an answer to the question of: Who the fuck Izuku Midoriya really was?
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Walking the Line by blittre
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
02 Mar 2025
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Ochako sighs. “Go grab a bottle of wine for dinner, please.”
“Don’t tell me what to do,” Katsuki grumbles, as he makes his way to the wine rack he knows Izuku keeps in the store room.
Kousuke, since Katsuki had gone to check on the goings-on in the kitchen, had resorted to setting up block towers to knock them down in the most violent way he’d seen any preschooler handle solid wood.
“Die!” Kousuke screeches, giggling as his flared hand smacks straight through the centre of a large wall he’d built, scattering blocks across the vinyl flooring. Katsuki raises a fist in solidarity and nods at a beaming Kousuke as he slides past.
“Gentle, honey,” Ochako calls tiredly over the thundering of strained noodle water.
“Don’t tell me what to do,” Kousuke singsongs under his breath, gingerly picking up his fallen blocks and kissing each piece tenderly as he meticulously reconstructs his barricade.
Katsuki’s genuinely surprised Izuku hasn’t strung him up by the testicles yet.
“Oh! Kacchan!”
Huh. Speak of the devil.
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Katsuki visits the Midoriya residence for dinner.
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- Part 2 of steps taken (in the wrong direction)
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the inherent eroticism in picking out wedding rings with your best friend by starcrxssed
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
14 Feb 2025
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Things not to do: get black out drunk, set the floral centrepieces on fire, burst into extremely uncharacteristic tears, grab Izuku and kiss him senseless.
Things to do: be nice to Ochako, smile (optional).
Or; Katuski attends Izuku and Ochako’s wedding as best man, takes a trip down memory lane, and tries desperately to ignore the sound of his own heart breaking.
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- Part 2 of kacchan-centric angst
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silly little marriage pact by sapphiclobotomy
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
28 Jan 2025
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“And if we’re still too busy being pro heroes like you say someday, let’s get married,” Todoroki says casually yet far too seriously.
He knows this is one of the beautiful bastard's weird jokes, he truly loves to torment Katsuki. Still, he can't help but freeze, repeating the only reaction he was able to give Todoroki far too often tonight. Todoroki continued anyways, either too drunk to care or already expecting Katsuki not to respond.
Previously titled "Challenge or Promise?"
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Over and Over (I Fuck Myself Over) DISCONTINUED by Anonymous
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
30 Dec 2024
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“You should know what,” Uraraka finally stated, looking up at Katsuki with narrowed eyes. “You know what you did. Don’t pretend that you’ve forgotten.”
He raised an eyebrow. “If I fucking knew, Pink Cheeks, I wouldn’t be fucking asking, now would I?” Katsuki scoffed, chewing on the inside of his lip. “What the fuck is everyone’s deal?” Katsuki snapped.
“You should know what,” Uraraka finally stated, looking up at Katsuki with narrowed eyes. “You know what you did. Don’t pretend that you’ve forgotten. We know what you did to Deku in middle school,” she said coldly. “We know.”
Katsuki clicked his tongue, “You are all ganging up on me because of shit I did in the past?”
When a loose-lipped and medicated Midoriya tells the class about his rocky past with Bakugo in elementary and middle school, things turn sour, and Bakugo finds himself forcibly isolated from the class. It's not like he hasn't been alone before. It just hurts even more this time around than it did the other times before. It's fine because Bakugo has dealt with worse before.
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- Part 1 of These Red & Blue Salvias
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feels like there's nothing new for me to say by heliadae
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
08 Sep 2024
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Katsuki and Izuku were never meant to be, no matter how hard they tried. Time, misunderstandings, and their own broken selves kept them apart. And now, when it’s too late, when Katsuki is staring at the battlefield where everything ended, he can only ask himself: Why?
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I can't believe no one has written any "self-insert as Bakugou" fanfics yet what a bunch of cowards by the_incidental_author
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
09 May 2024
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Ugh, I have to do everything myself around here.
Can't find a single Self-Insert as Bakugou Katsuki fanfiction, so here I am, doing God's work.
(cowards)
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Tell Me You Love Me, Show Me You Love Me (Don't Let Go) by MJBunnyLuv
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
01 Jan 2023
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“You’re upset,” Katsuki spoke, finally breaking the silence. It wasn’t a question.
Izuku turned, finally taking in the blonde’s sharp features. The angled strip of light from the tall lamp post accentuated his high cheekbones, the intensity of his eyes as they stared out the windshield, the tension he held in his jaw. It hurt the freckled man to think about saying anything, to see that his boyfriend was trying to piece together where he went wrong. But that was the entire problem…Katsuki rarely seemed to know where he went wrong, not until a screaming match ensued. Sometimes insults were thrown, the kind meant to hurt, to stab and twist the knife just to get the wanted reaction. But Izuku was tired of those kinds of conversations. “I think we should take a break.”
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After a night of miscommunication and failed expectations, Izuku & Katsuki argue about their devotion to each other. Claws come out and painful words are exchanged, sending them into a week of hell, their relationship hanging in the balance.
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- Part 19 of BKDK Drabbles
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Childhood Friends by KittKatt420
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
30 Dec 2021
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Katsuki has tried suppressing his feelings for Deku for years now. As much as he wishes he could ask her out, he knows she doesn't see him that way— that they're only friends… and he's accepted that (though very begrudgingly).
But when his old friend Camie suddenly appears in his life again, his relationship with Deku becomes a little weird. Camie keeps insisting Deku likes him, but her actions say differently.
Will Katsuki take the chance and confess to Deku? Or will the fear of ruining their friendship keep him from uttering a word?
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- Part 2 of It's All About Perception
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Leave your window open (and your heart, too) by eventidethoughts
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
14 Aug 2021
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People thought that Bakugou Katsuki would end up as a villain. With his rugged ways, violent tendencies, and crude language, it was speculated; almost expected.
Little did they think that instead of Bakugou, it was actually Todoroki Shoto, who would spiral into villainy.
Todoroki Shoto, who showed up all of the sudden after completely disappearing for two years.
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house of memories by Anonymous
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 May 2021
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[spoilers for manga/ova's/movies]
rated M for Bakugou's nasty mouth mostly.
Pro Heroes AU // We start at the end, quite /literally/. Bakugo Katsuki dies but cannot move on. For one reason or another he's instead stuck as a ghost without knowledge /why/ he can't move on and in this fic we're following in his footsteps, ups and downs and /possibly/ fuckton of realisations.There's a wild plot bunny running rampant, next gen heroes & my personal headcanons (also is very self-indulgent, don't like don't read).
[dkbk; katsuki!centric;] additional tags: kirimina; iidachako; ace!katsuki; bi!deku;
CH.15: #dekudace IS UP!
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"Look at the flowers Kacchan, isn't spring beautiful?" (undergoing heavy plot revisions atm) by greenbeancasserole
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
22 Jan 2021
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Katsuki and Izuku live a simple life together. They’re happy, content being on their own. Away from everyone else, surviving off of their own efforts, alone. It’s all they could ever ask for. But things are dangerous now, and with the prince missing and tensions high between neighboring kingdoms, the threat of imminent war is a constant concern. Amidst this, Katsuki’s past starts to creep up on him, threatening to expose his secrets and ruin the life he’s worked so hard to build. But no matter how far he runs, how hard he tries to get away, the past always has a tricky way of catching up. And soon, all of Katsuki’s carefully woven lies fall apart, endangering the life of the one person he holds dear. Before long, he’s forced back into the grasps of status and reputation. And the life he lived? It’s not a life that he’d ever want for Izuku.
But life isn’t easy. It hasn’t been for Katsuki, and it won’t be for Izuku. All secrets eventually come to light. And sooner or later, Katsuki will have to learn that secrets can get people killed. Especially the ones closest to him.
After all, history has an ugly way of repeating itself.
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Resistant by Centauria__12
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
23 Mar 2020
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In which Bakugou Katsuki learns that love is not weakness and there is strength to be found in the company of others.
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Can't Hear the Fireworks of Your Art by orphan_account
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
24 Sep 2019
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Bakugou's hearing is slowly deteriorating due to the constant usage of his quirk within close hearing proximity, and his body's inability to compensate for its irreversible damage.
Everyone else (except for shinsou because he's technically not a part of the class, and the class collectively shares a single brain cell with every rat that lived during the black plague): hol y sh ti hes dyinGg
Or: Bakugou literally disappears for one day, and returns to an entire conspiracy spawned by his class's emotional inability to properly and healthily communicate their thoughts (and to no one's consent, especially his own, Bakugou accidentally ends up making friends).
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Emotional Explosions by Dozing_Dazey
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
15 Dec 2018
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He’d tried so fucking hard to prevent this, all of this and what good did any of that do in the end. Zilch. Nada. Not a damned fucking thing.