Some promises last a lifetime. Some love stories do too. Three years ago, you lost your husband. Katsuki Bakugo was the love of your life, your partner in everything, and the kind of father every child deserves. Before he died, he and his best friend, Eijiro Kirishima, spent years dreaming about one unforgettable road trip- a sixteenth birthday adventure through Southern California they would one day take with their sons. Now the boys are sixteen. When Eijiro asks to take your son on the trip he and Katsuki planned all those years ago, you aren't sure you can say yes. Some dreams feel too sacred to touch after the people who dreamed them are gone. Then your son quietly reminds you that the journey was never meant for just one person. As old promises become new plans, Southern California brings your husband's memories back to life. Between the streets of Temple City, the lanterns of Little Tokyo, endless Los Angeles freeways, and fifteen years of friendship, you begin to realize that healing isn't the same as forgetting...and loving again doesn't mean loving someone less. Sometimes the greatest journey isn't measured in miles. Sometimes it's measured in the courage to keep a promise. AU romance/drama. Updated every Monday.

"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺, 𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯." "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘵." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heroes moved on after the war. She didn't. While the world celebrates victory, she's left with nothing- no quirk, no future, no place beside them. So when she crosses paths with Katsuki Bakugo again, it's not reunion. It's unfinished business. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Author's Note: 💌 Hey everyone, thanks so much for checking out my story! Just a quick heads-up before you dive in! I wanted to focus heavily on the psychological aftermath of the war and the realistic growth between the characters. Speaking of characters, I tried my absolute best to keep everyone as close to their canon personalities as possible. Bakugo is... a lot, to say the least. He's incredibly complex, stubborn, and inherently guarded, so trying to write him realistically without making him soft or out of character was a huge challenge. I really hope I did his dynamic with Y/N justice! Also the story has mentions of drugs/ adult language and Sex.

Katsuki Bakugo says you're endgame. The problem is that you broke up four months ago. Now you're one of Japan's most feared attorneys, Katsuki is the country's number two hero, and the two of you have perfected the art of driving each other absolutely insane. You date other people. You argue every time you see each other. You tell yourself you're moving on. Katsuki tells you to stop being stupid. According to him, you're still going to marry him someday. He's just waiting for you to figure it out. When a high-profile legal case forces you back into his orbit, your carefully constructed distance begins to unravel. Between courtroom battles, gala appearances, hostage situations, impossible choices, and one infuriating hero who refuses to stop taking care of you, you're forced to confront a truth you've spent months trying to outrun. Some love stories begin with a first kiss. Yours begins with your ex-boyfriend climbing into your bed, telling you to take him back, and somehow making you wonder if he was right all along. This is a legal drama entwined with a complicated, volatile relationship between two incredibly passionate and stubborn people. 18+ only, please. Updated daily M-F.

𖥔 ݁ ˖❝ 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐒 𝐅𝐋𝐘 ❞˖ ⊹ ࣪ ˖ ⟢ 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙮 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙤, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗳 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁, 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲 𝙩𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙙. ⸝⸝.ᐟ⋆ Sena is known for her control. With a Quirk that manipulates energy itself, restraint is the only thing keeping her power from becoming something dangerous. But control begins to slip the moment her path collides with Katsuki Bakugo's. The sparks between them feel off... too strong. As enemies begin to take interest in a power she barely understands and strange reactions start surfacing in the middle of battle, Sena is forced to question whether the connection forming between them is just coincidence or the sign of something far more dangerous, waking up. or In which a popular, bubbly girl who never loses her spark sets her eyes on a certain explosive blond, and sparks fly in ways neither of them expected. ❨ 𝕸𝖞 𝕳𝖊𝖗𝖔 𝕬𝖈𝖆𝖉𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖆 ༚ 僕のヒーローアカデミア ❩ ❨ 𝕶𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖚𝖐𝖎 𝕭𝖆𝖐𝖚𝖌𝖔 𝐱 𝖔𝖈 ❩ ❨ 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖘 𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖆 & 𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖒𝖊 𝖘𝖕𝖔𝖎𝖑𝖊𝖗𝖘 ᵎᵎ ❩ ❨ 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖊𝖉: 02 - 14 - 26 || 𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖉: 𝑶𝑵𝑮𝑶𝑰𝑵𝑮 ❩ 𝒸𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝓎: © 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐓_

**MHA AU Cozy Romance** Katsuki Bakugo was supposed to be a twenty-minute detour on the way to Artist Alley. Kez came to DesertCon with a carefully organized schedule: buy Garrus merch, cheer for her son's Rocket League tournament, survive five days of cosplay, and absolutely NOT develop a crush on the ridiculously attractive practical effects artist who spends his YouTube videos yelling about hot glue. Unfortunately, Katsuki keeps showing up. First it's a Mandalorian armor emergency. Then grilled cheese sandwiches. Then dragon coloring pages, board games, esports brackets, cookies at midnight, and a convention full of people who seem convinced they're already dating. Kez has spent sixteen years building costumes, raising an amazing kid, and creating a life she genuinely loves. The last thing she's looking for is romance. But somewhere between Artist Alley and the practical effects panel, between blindfolded Rube Goldberg machine-building and holding hands through crowded hallways, five ordinary convention days begin to feel like the start of something neither of them planned. Sometimes the best part of the con isn't on the schedule. This is a cozy romance, a story that focuses on community and connection with very little conflict. Read if you enjoy healthy relationships, heartwarming banter, and happily-ever-after endings.

A quirk like this wasn't supposed to exist. It was a secret that the Hero Commission would kill to control - a weapon they would break down to mold as they see fit. Caught between a thinning line between suspicion and trust, Ren must confront her dark past in order to have a future. With the League closing in and the Hero Commission growing colder, Ren's only constant is Hawks. Hawks, seemingly, is always there to pull her back from the edge. But as lies unravel and hidden forces at play are revealed, Ren has to decide if she's a pawn in some dark force's game or if she is the Hero who will rewrite the rules and save the hero society as we know it? Her quirk made her dangerous, but will love make her unstoppable?

**MHA AU ROMANCE** When your car breaks down in Tombstone, Arizona, the closest mechanic is Katsuki Bakugo. You only need him to fix your Lexus so you can continue your cross-country trip to Connecticut and deal with the inheritance your estranged mother left behind. Instead, he comes along. Now you're driving across America with an infuriatingly attractive mechanic who cooks for you, holds your hand while he's driving, fixes every problem before you can solve it yourself, and looks at you like you're the most beautiful thing he's ever seen. What starts as a road trip becomes something much bigger: a found family, a second chance, and a love story neither of you saw coming. You set out to find yourself. Instead, you found home.

She didn't fall in love with a hero. She decided to. Amaya Tsukino has spent years building herself into someone worthy of standing beside greatness. Ranked low, overlooked, painfully ordinary in a world of legends, she knows exactly what she wants: Katsuki Bakugo. Not his fame. Not his power. Him. When a chance encounter lands her inside his agency, she finds herself pulled into his world of brutal efficiency, impossible standards, and relentless danger. Fighting alongside him is nothing like the stories, nothing like the posters on her wall. He isn't inspiring. He's terrifying. And the closer she gets to the reality of him - the scars, the violence, the unwavering drive - the more her admiration stops looking like motivation... and starts looking like something else. Something consuming. As missions grow deadlier and the gap between them becomes painfully clear, Amaya must confront a truth she's spent years ignoring: Is she chasing greatness... Or is she chasing him? And if it's him- How far is she willing to go?

you came for your best friend's wedding, not to share a hotel room with her fiancé's infuriatingly rude best friend, katsuki bakugo. a double-booking mistake traps you and him together for longer than either of you expect. if this is hate, it burns a little too warm to be harmless. ⭑ timeskip!katsuki x f!reader, no quirks au, reader uses she/her pronouns, no physical descriptions of reader mentioned, no use of 'y/n', lowercase, you and katsuki share a room, forced proximity, you don't like each other at first but then you do, swearing, katsuki and reader get annoyed very easily at each other, mention of blood but it's not in detail, miscommunication (between you and katsuki), misunderstandings, suggestive, katsuki is insecure of his personality, reader is also insecure of it, it gets angsty at times but it'll get fluffy near the end, drinking, reader gets drunk & tired so katsuki respectfully helps her change and get into bed (katsuki is a Gentleman), you and katsuki sleep on one bed (gasp!!), running away from feelings ugh, suggestive, talks of marriage - ONGOING. all rights of the my hero academia characters go to the rightful owner, kohei horikoshi. this work is purely fan made fiction, with no intent of being related to the official my hero academia franchise, or claiming creation of it. cover: @ clipperman934 on pinterest

**An MHA AU romance** You moved into the duplex to start over. New job, new life, no attachments. Then your neighbor turned out to be Katsuki Bakugo. Loud. Blunt. Infuriating. Also the guy who fixes things without being asked, cooks when you forget to eat, and somehow notices every tiny crack you try to hide. Suddenly the quiet life you built to protect yourself is full of laughter, arguments, late-night confessions, and a man who refuses to let you disappear into the background. He's not gentle. You're not healed. And love- real love- is a lot scarier than being alone. But for the first time since everything fell apart, you're starting to believe you might deserve it. A slow-burn, neighbors-to-lovers romance about healing after heartbreak, learning how to fight without breaking, and discovering that sometimes the loudest person in the room is the safest place to land. Tropes: Neighbors to Lovers, Slow Burn, Grumpy x Soft