"I'll Steal a Future With You"


Truth be told, Katsuki was an exhausting person.

Normally the phrase would be better suited for Mineta, because of his shameless perversion; Uraraka or Midoriya, with their persistant humility and faltering confidence; or even someone like Todoroki, since the guy was so hard to get a reaction from on an everyday level.

But no. Katsuki was exhausting for all of the opposite reasons.

Katsuki wasn't forthcoming with his feelings at all - the softer ones, anyway. Sometimes I really though the two of us were something, like there was an unspoken static between us that electrified and magnetized our true, inner selves.

(In the least cheesy, fairytale way possible. This definitely isn't that kind of story.)

Yet half the time it was as if I barely existed in his world. As if I wasn't actually all that important, and I didn't really matter in his master plan. To use his words, I regularly felt like just another "extra".

Because Katsuki wasn't like Uraraka, or Midoriya, or Todoroki. Nothing about him was hesitant, or humble, or meak. He wasn't hardened like ice either. Katsuki had passion that undoubtedly exploaded from his every pore, triggered by some of the most mundane things. Katsuki wasn't a man who lacked fire, or a voice, or conviction.

Maybe Katsuki wasn't such an exhausting person to most people, once they got used to him. Maybe it was just me.

Maybe it was just exhausting to love a guy like Katsuki and never get that whole-hearted, undeniable, fly-me-to-the-moon confirmation that he felt the same way.

It was exhausting for me to realize that I was forcing my way into his life. Forcing my feelings on him. He wasn't inviting me in.

Really, we couldn't belong together. It was too much of a battle every step of the way.

My story of "us" was more of a selfish, villainous plot on my part.

It wasn't the kind of love I'd always dreamed of. But it was the only love I wanted, since it was with him.