Thread by @italian_lily

A #kacchakothread post

Title: An Unexpected Hitchhiker
Pairing: #kacchako

A huge thanks to @katschako for betaing for me. She's amazing, so please give her your love, too (and credit for the title)! This piece was inspired by @Superevey1's beautiful kacchako art linked below!

https://twitter.com/Superevey1/status/1196249090985791488?s=20

Bakugou Katsuki was bored.

The hot-headed, flashy explosion hero landed on the edge of a high office building that gave him a clear view of the streets below. He crouched, a low rumble sounding from deep within his chest. No crime was a good thing, he reminded himself.

Except this fucking blows!

Maybe that happy go-lucky fuck Deku enjoyed days like this, when he could just wander the streets and smile and shake hands with everyone who passed him; sitting kids on his shoulders for pictures, signing autographs, and giving encouraging speeches --

about peace.

Gross.

Katsuki recalled a time, a very long time ago, when the celebrity grandeur of being a hero seemed enticing.

But he soon realized how much people annoyed him, and as much as he enjoyed protecting their (sometimes ungrateful and entitled) asses, he much preferred doing it without all the fuss and hassle afterwards.

Put his face on a billboard, fill the shelves with his merchandise, name a fuckin’ cereal after him…he didn’t give a shit, but getting him to sit still through an invasive interview or TV talkshow was harder than taming a bull.

Small explosions popped off in his palms, burning some of the nitroglycerine pooling beneath his bulky gloves. “Come on,” he grumbled to no one in particular. “Start some shit already…”

Crimson eyes scanned the street below searching for something, anything, but to no avail.

A disappointed huff escaped him. “Moving on…”

Just as he pushed himself upright the small orange and black earpiece crackled to life as a thunderous crash shook the ground. He felt the reverberations tremble through the building and grinned menacingly.

“Calling all heroes in the —“

“ABOUT FUCKING TIME!” Katsuki roared over the dispatcher. He was close enough to hear the impact and saw the plume of dust and smoke that rose above the cityscape to tell him where he had to go. “I’m callin’ dibs on this shit!”

He threw his hands behind him, blasting himself into an explosive arc across several streets. Over the years he had improved flying, or ‘floating,’ with his quirk.

After an initial powerful blast to launch himself airborne, he used smaller consecutive blasts to keep himself in the air for longer periods of time.

On his own he could be pretty quick with it, especially in close quarters, but over long distances his momentum started to --

die down and forced him to find a place to land before blasting off again.

“Ground Zero!” the dispatcher scolded. “There are no dibs in hero work.”

Katsuki clicked his tongue, releasing another blast to propel himself further.

“Yeah, whatever. I’m still on it,” he stated before lowering the volume on his ear piece to focus on getting there first and kicking some serious ass.

Approaching a nearby rooftop, Katsuki used an explosion to guide him toward his intended perch.

He landed heavily with his steel toe boots scuffing the asphalt. His palms continued to spark as if revving an engine to give him extra momentum as he sprinted across the roof.

He kicked off the edge, wind whipping through his ash-blond spikes as an explosion catapulted him through the sky.

“Incoming!”

Katsuki barely heard the sudden cry over the wind billowing in his ears, but he sure as fuck felt the weight that landed on his back almost immediately after

“Gak!” Katsuki yelped. The abrupt change in mass threw off his trajectory, dropping him faster than he had accounted for.

He quickly set off several collective explosions to keep himself moving forward.

Tipping his head as far as his position allowed him to, Katsuki caught a glimpse of a black sleeve and pink wrist cuff clutching his shoulder.

“What the fuck, Cheeks?!” he snapped.

“The hell do you think you’re doing!?”

She clung to his back like a chubby cheeked koala, grinning with one eye closed to the wind. “Never mind that!” she yelled into his ear. “We have to hurry to the crime scene!”

No fucking shit, but that didn’t answer why she was hitching a ride like he was some kind of free taxi-service!

“I ain’t your personal cab!” Katsuki exclaimed. “Use your own jet packs!”

She had them installed into her boots their third year at U.A. after he offhandedly made a comment about how doggy-paddling through the air was cute, but it would be a lot more effective if she could propel herself while in zero gravity.

He could hear the smile in her voice, “I was, but then I saw you. I’m saving fuel for when I need it!”

Katsuki rolled his eyes, growling as gravity kept tugging him under, forcing him to release smaller, more frequent explosions. “Dammit…whatever!” he conceded.

“If you’re gonna freeload then at least make yourself useful and use your damn quirk on us!”

Five fingers glowed pink on his shoulder as she rendered him weightless.

He ceased his explosions momentarily, causing them to drop until he felt her weight disappear, rendering them in a slow descent. “Hold on, Floaty!” Katsuki called over his shoulder.

They were about to make record time.

Reorienting their position, Katsuki’s palms crackled back to life. All it took was a small spark before they shot across the sky like a shooting star. Ochako’s screaming laughter was a distant echo and his earlier complaints were forgotten as adrenaline pumped through his veins.

A wide grin spread across his face.

💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

Katsuki’s grin was gone in an instant.

The moment they touched down with full gravity restored and took in the scene around them, Katsuki released Ochako. The young woman gave a startled yelp as she stopped herself from falling while he plowed ahead, fuming.

“DEKU, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE?!” he exploded.

“Ah! Kacchan, you’re here, too!” Deku was crouched beside a young child with tears in his eyes. Snot dropped messily down his nose. He quickly covered his mouth, catching his mistake. “Oops! I mean, Ground Zero!”

“SAVE IT!” Katsuki snapped.

“How the hell did you get here so fast?!”

Deku didn’t answer, eyes flickering over to Ochako instead as she came into view. “Ah! Uravity, also? Did you guys not get the page when I said I got here a few minutes ago?”

“HA?! THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?”

They hadn’t heard anything between Katsuki’s explosions and rocketing across the city. The fact he turned his earbud down didn’t help either.

Ochako sighed, but sported a kind smile on her face. “Man, we missed all the action!” She glanced around the surrounding area.

“Say, where is the villain?” she asked.

“No villain,” Deku corrected, returning his attention to the small boy beside him. “This little guy had gotten separated from his parents and was scared. It looks like his quirk allows him to generate pulse waves when he cries.”

Katsuki directed his curdling sneer on the child. The kid couldn’t be more than four as one tiny fist clung to the hem of Deku’s sleeve while the other rubbed at his moist eyes. “...You gotta be fucking shitting me. That’s it?”

“Yeah,” Deku laughed sheepishly. “Good thing it wasn’t anything serious, huh?”

Nothing serious.

A dud of an explosion went off in his palm, expressing his deflation at the turn out. “...Hah…,” he grunted hoarsely.

“Well, I should help this little guy find his parents now. Maybe you guys can do some damage control? A lot of buildings did get damaged and some roads need to be closed…” Deku reached down, grabbing the kid’s hand and gently guiding him to walk backwards slowly.

It was as if he could see the proverbial smoke coming out of Katsuki’s ears.

“...Hah? What was that?” Katsuki cocked his head. “Am I your fuckin’ clean up boy now?!”

Ochako caught him by the arm just before he could lunge.

She hugged his bicep to her chest, cheek pressing against his shoulder. “We’ll handle it, Deku! Good luck. You’re in good hands, Sweetie!” she reassured, directing a smile and wink at the young boy. Her thumbs up seemed to encourage him as he gave a wobbly smile.

Deku scooped the child into his arms and took off with a super charged leap.

“Bullshit!” Katsuki yelled.

Ochako drew back, lifting her hand and fanning him. “Katsuki, you’re smoking again,” she giggled.

“Come on, it won’t be so bad. I’ve never really come out this way before. Let’s go look around and make sure everyone is safe.”

This was not what Katsuki had rushed all the way out here to do, damn it!

...but he was already here, so he might as well…

“Whatever,” he spat, hands tucking deep into his pockets as he trudged after Ochako to check the surrounding streets and put up barriers.

“Hey,” Ochako drawled as they walked. “Are we in Ueno?”

Katsuki shrugged, glancing around. “Yeah. What of it?”

Before he knew it, her arms were latched back around his arm. “I’ve heard they have all kinds of nice attractions around here! There’s the park, some museums, and a zoo…” He stiffened, stomach flipping as he anticipated where this was going.

“...And?”

“And, I think it would be a super fun date spot! Don’t you? Maybe once the town is cleaned up a little more though…” Her pointer tapped her lower lip in consideration. “What do you say? Maybe we can go to the zoo and for a walk in the park after!”

Katsuki rolled his eyes so he didn’t have to see the stars in her eyes or that bright smile on her face that gave him a warm, fuzzy feeling all over. “Tch, whatever. If you want to go that bad, I guess we can,” he responded as nonchalantly as possible.

“I think the soonest we both have off is next Thursday. How about then?” Ochako suggested.

“Sure,” he shrugged. “I’ll pick you up at eleven.”

He eyed the sly grin spreading across her cheeks. “On the bike.”

“Sure, Katsuki. Whatever you say.”

Needless to say, the following Thursday Katsuki parked his bike outside Ochako’s apartment and found himself rocketing through the air with Ochako clinging to his back.

One hand held down her sun hat, dress billowing around their hips, while the other wrapped around his neck as he blasted them toward the Ueno district; their laughter was lost to the wind whipping through their ears.

💥🍡💥DONE🍡💥🍡