There's one word that NOBODY would ever use to describe Katsuki Bakugo and that word was soft. Anyone that knew him knew there wasn't a single soft thing about him. Not his attitude, not the volume of his voice, not a spec of softness on his body and not even his hair! That's what other people see. I know otherwise. Katsuki Bakugo is probably the softest person I know.

Katsuki and I have been together since our second year of high school. But not a single person other then us knew it until about 3 years after we graduated. Even then it was kinda an accident how everyone found out. He was fighting off a villain and I was on rescue duty. Somehow I got distracted and let myself get pinned by a rock. It ended up shattering my femur. All my friends came to visit me in the hospital and one face they saw every single time no matter what time it was ... was Katsuki's. He didn't leave my side once that week I was in the hospital. Everyone put two and two together.

How did I come to love Katsuki Bakugo? Well in our second year one day I was in the common room just playing on my phone. Several others were there. Katsuki had come in from training at the gym grabbed a water from the kitchen and sat down on one of the couches, pulled his own phone out. After awhile I noticed he started to fall asleep. That old man. As the evening went on the others started to head up to their rooms. I stayed for a bit and occasionally looking up at him. There in his sleep, he definitely looked soft.

I went to head towards my room and before I was out of earshot of him I heard what I thought was a cry for help. I rushed back to the common area to find a sweating Bakugo sitting with this face in his hands.

"Hey are you alright" i asked him.

"fucking peachy" he replied.

He rubbed his face and as I started to walk away he questions "How long was I asleep for?"

"Ummm, maybe 2 hours"

"And how long have you been here?"

"The whole time, I just got up to go upstairs"

He didn't say anything else so I walked away and headed upstairs.

It was 12:16 when I was woken up by a knock on my sliding glass door.

His face was red, but it held its usual scowl. "Look, I haven't slept well once since I was kidnapped. But I slept so well earlier. So I wanna test something out okay. Can I ya know... just lay on your floor? I'll be gone before you get up." That one sentence changed his harden look he'd perfected over the years to a soft and almost defeated one by the time he was finished speaking. Now I really wasn't comfortable with this but if Katsuki Bakugo was at my door in the middle of the night asking for help, I knew it was serious. I didn't say anything, I'm sure he didn't want to hear anything, so I just stepped outta the way and climbed back into my bed. He laid down on the floor as far away as he could and put his hands behind his head and started to relax. I tossed a pillow and a blanket to him since he didn't have any. He grunted in either annoyance or appreciation I dunno, didn't care either. But I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep.

When I woke up when the alarm was going off I looked around the room. Did I dream that? No way that happened did it? Then on my desk chair was the blanket I gave him folded neatly with the pillow sitting on top. I guess not.

The day was pretty typical. We all ate and went to class. I over heard others talking about him. They were pointing out his rather unusual good mood. I smiled to myself. I guess he slept well.

He didn't talk to me at all that day. But just like the night before he knocked on my sliding glass door. "Do you mind again?" I moved outta the way and let him in.

That went on for several months. Actually to the point where I just kept my door unlocked and he let himself in. Honestly he was in and out in the night that I generally didn't notice anymore. It was just something he did. I would however definitely notice when he hadn't slept on my floor. If we ever had training where he wasn't able to sleep close by, his attitude was definitely much worse the next day.

As the time went on him and I started to get closer. We started talking more when he was in my room. I learned a lot about him. Just like he learned about me. I noticed he was moving closer and closer to my bed. Every couple days it was the slightest movement... maybe an inch or two at a time. Until one night I went to go to the bathroom and I stepped on him. "Where you gonna go now that you're that close to my bed... there's no where else to go except away." Katsuki took that as a challenge. And he never backs down from a challenge. He stood up grabbed his blanket and pillow and tossed them into MY bed. He never slept on the floor after that night.

There were times when I woke up in the middle of the night to find my face buried in his chest, my legs wrapped around his and his arm around my waist holding on. Anytime I would try and move he would pull me closer. We slept like that every night. Except when we were forced to be apart.

Christmas break rolled round and it was the longest he's gone without sleeping next to me. To be honest I kinda missed him. It's been about 6 months since he started sneaking in. I'm not entirely sure how even *I* was going to handle this. I knew he wasn't gonna take it well. I sent him home with the blanket he always used and the pillow hoping it would give him some kind of comfort.

1:14am on the second night away

Bakugo: Are you awake?

Me: unfortunately. I'm so tired but I can't seem to fall asleep

Bakugo: same

My phone rang a few minutes later.

"It's pitch black in here why are you FaceTiming me?"

"Shut up, just put your phone down and go to sleep"

I did what I was told. And I was able to drift off listening to the sound of him breathing. I woke up to an argument. I look around and one voice I recognize and the other I don't. It takes me a minute to process. Oh yeah, he's on the phone. I don't think he realizes that it's still on. After a few minutes the yelling stops and a door slams. He sighs heavily and mumbles "fuck, I miss her" he then comes into view of the camera that I'm assuming is laying on his bed and WHAT IS HE DOING?! He's starting to get undressed "KATSUKI!" He looks around and then it hits him like a baseball to the face he shoots down towards the phone and says "WHAT THE FUCK" and turns it off.

A text appeared on my screen

Bakugo: What the hell

Me: what?

Bakugo: what the hell were you doing?

Me: ummm sleeping till you woke me up yelling

Bakugo: sorry

Bakugo: why didn't you hang up, we're you trying to be a pervert?!

Me: I mean, I could've not said anything at all

Bakugo: whatever

That went on the whole break. Him FaceTiming me at bedtime. Until my birthday hit.

10:30pm

He facetimes me right at the usual time. I ignore it. I'm out with my parents still celebrating my birthday.

11:00 hits face times me again I have to ignore it again.

11:42 He tried again but again I have to ignore it.

Bakugo: What the fuck why do you keep ignoring my calls?!

Me: I'm with my parents, they might question why a boy is FaceTiming me.

Bakugo: why are you up it's late!

Me: it's my birthday and we usually stay up late eating cakes and snacks and watching movies

Bakugo: Oh... well good, I thought you were mad at me for some reason... happy birthday I guess

Me: Thank you!

I woke up the next morning on the couch. Sleep was awful. I tossed and turned all night. I reached out for my familiar comfort but then I remembered I was home and he wasn't here.

The break is finally coming to an end. We go back to school tomorrow so it's my last night at home.

The first night back Bakugo didn't even wait for lights out. He was in my room before I was. Just laying on the bed. I had to look around to make sure I was in the right place. How long had he been here? Surely I saw him downstairs a bit ago. He jumped outta the bed and picked me up and kissed my forehead ever so softly.

"That was hell" he said. That was all he said actually. We stayed like that for a minute my arms flat at my side not knowing what to do. Bakugo didn't ever show affection towards me unless it was in the form of cuddling at night. And he's never kissed me before. I slowly lifted my arms to hug him back and I grabbed onto his shirt. It felt like we stayed like that for hours. Each second that passed I can feel his body releasing more and more and becoming softer and softer.

After that day when we were together the kisses didn't stop. We cuddled more he started showing up at random times. Usually he got back to my room before I did after classes before he went down to the gym to train. Always coming and going through my balcony door. If you saw us in class or anywhere else for that matter you would never know. We had our own little thing going. When we passed each other in the hall sometimes we'd link pinkies for a split second and he would blurt out "watch where your going damnit" if it was particularly crowded sometimes we'd get away with little butt pats. Training exercises if we were in a situation where we were alone it was always a quick hug an kiss an act like it didn't happen. At lunch we'd sit on opposite sides of the table and our feet would touch. If no one was around while he was making his dinner he would quickly put stuff in my bento box and shove it in the fridge an I would grab it later like I had prepared my own meals.

To everyone else, Katsuki Bakugo was a jack ass with a horrible temper and treated nobody with respect. To me. He was a jackass with a horrible temper but he was super affectionate and caring. He also did not like sleeping alone. You could almost say he was pretty fucking soft.