What Are The Most Popular Bakudeku Kisses Scenes In Fanfiction?

It's interesting how certain moments get replicated across fics—you notice patterns after reading enough. The rooftop confession kiss comes up a lot, usually after a fight or a heavy conversation where Deku's been pushing himself too hard and Katsuki finally snaps and confronts him. The emotional release is huge, anger melting into this desperate, messy kiss. It’s never gentle. Another big one is the post-battle kiss, where they’re both bruised and exhausted, maybe after a joint victory. The adrenaline hasn’t worn off, so it’s fierce and almost celebratory, backed by the relief of surviving. I’ve also seen the accidental kiss trope used a ton, like during a training exercise where they collide. It’s cliché, but the immediate tension afterward, the denial that slowly unravels, can be fun if written with a fresh twist. What makes a scene stick isn’t just the act itself, but how the characters’ history—all that rivalry and unsaid stuff—gets funneled into that physical moment. The popular ones nail that dynamic shift.

Okay, so tracking down those specific fluffy (or, let's be real, often intensely angsty) Bakugou x Deku kiss moments is a whole little quest. My first stop is almost always Archive of Our Own. The tagging system is your absolute best friend here. Searching 'BakuDeku' or 'Katsuki Bakugou/Midoriya Izuku' is obvious, but then you need to filter. I'll add the 'First Kiss' or 'Kissing' tag, and maybe sort by kudos to find the popular ones. A lot of writers are amazing at building up that tension, so sometimes the kiss is the climax of a multi-chapter slow burn. Don't sleep on the 'Established Relationship' tag either—those fics often have really casual, sweet kissing moments sprinkled throughout that hit different. Honestly, sometimes I just get lost scrolling through the results. The fandom is so prolific, you can find anything from a quick peck during a training accident to a full-blown, world-saving, emotionally charged confession kiss. For me, a really memorable one was in this post-canon fic where they're pro heroes sharing an apartment, and the kiss happened while they were arguing about chores. It felt so in-character and perfect.

Alright, so I've gone deep on this search more than I'd like to admit. My top spot has to be Archive of Our Own. Use the tag combination 'Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku' plus 'First Kiss' or 'Kissing' – but the real trick is sorting by 'Kudos' and then checking the 'Fluff' and 'Romance' tags. That usually filters out the heavier angst fics and brings the sweet stuff to the top. Sometimes you'll find a perfect short fic tagged 'Tooth-Rotting Fluff' that's just 2k words of them figuring out how to kiss without arguing first. I stumbled on one called 'Static Electricity' that was literally just them getting stuck under mistletoe at a class holiday party – stupidly simple, but it hit exactly that craving for something soft and uncomplicated. Don't sleep on the 'Domestic' tag either. Scenes where they're already established and sharing a lazy morning kiss hit different.

I swear the fanfics that get the tension right are always the slow burns where the kiss feels earned. There's this one writer on AO3, their username escapes me, but they wrote this urban fantasy AU where Bakugou and Deku are rival monster hunters forced to team up. The first kiss happens after a brutal fight, both of them bruised and exhausted, and it’s this angry, desperate thing that’s half shove, half surrender. The romantic tension isn’t in the kiss itself but in all the glares and almost-touches leading up to it—Bakugou noticing how Deku’s hair curls when it’s wet, Deku catching Bakugou staring at his mouth when he’s talking. You spend 20 chapters waiting for them to just snap. Those are the stories I come back to. The ones where the ‘will they, won’t they’ feels like a fuse burning down. Too many fics jump straight to the kissing and lose all that delicious friction. Give me the clenched fists and the bitten-off insults any day.

Man, it's wild how this pairing went from a super niche thing to having some of the most intense, creative scenes out there. I'm not even talking about the straightforward stuff, but the ones that really twist the dynamic. There's this one where after a brutal fight, Katsuki's tending to Izuku's wounds, all quiet and furious, and it's not gentle at all—it's this raw, desperate thing where the cleaning stings and the silence is louder than any explosion. The heat comes from the sheer history between them, the unspoken 'I almost lost you' vibrating in the air. Another angle I keep coming back to is the quirk-combination scenes done right. Not just 'oh Deku uses OFA to enhance something else', but where the physical intimacy forces their powers to interact in unstable, dangerous ways. Like a story where a kiss accidentally triggers a feedback loop between One For All and Bakugo's sweat glands, leading to this cascading, barely-controlled energy surge that threatens to blow out the windows. The danger is the turn-on, which feels so true to both their characters—they'd be turned on by the risk and the sheer power of it. Honestly, the best scenes for me ditch any pretense of traditional romance. They're built on that foundation of rivalry, regret, and a partnership forged in violence. The tension isn't will-they-won't-they; it's can-they-handle-what-they-feel without destroying each other and the room they're in. That's the core of what makes a scene truly stand out in this fandom.

I've spent way too much time scrolling through AO3 tags to answer this one. The absolute dominant ship is, of course, Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugo themselves—the classic rivals-to-lovers dynamic that 'My Hero Academia' practically gift-wraps for writers. It's the backbone of the fandom, generating countless slow-burn stories where they go from childhood friends to enemies to something more complicated. There's a whole subgenre exploring their middle school years, full of angst and hurt/comfort. You'll also find tons of AUs, from coffee shops to fantasy settings, where their core dynamic of push-and-pull, admiration and irritation, gets reimagined. But the fandom loves to play with other pairings that include one or both of them. A surprisingly popular one is Shouto Todoroki paired with Izuku, often with Katsuki as a third point in a love triangle or even in a polyamorous relationship with both. That one leans heavily into the 'sunshine meets grumpy' trope with Izuku thawing Todoroki's emotional walls. Then there's the rare but passionate subset that ships Katsuki with Eijiro Kirishima, framing their friendship as deeply loyal and supportive, which sometimes gets romanticized into a steadier, less volatile partnership compared to the storm of Bakudeku. It's interesting how the interpretation of Bakugo's character shifts the ship's tone. Some writers soften him dramatically for fluff, while others lean into his abrasive nature for intense, conflict-driven romance. The most compelling fics for me are the ones that don't erase his flaws but make the emotional progress feel earned. After browsing for years, I'm less interested in the purely fluffy coffee shop AUs and more drawn to the fics that try to tackle the genuine complexity of their history, the apology, and the slow rebuild of trust. Those stories stick with you long after you've closed the tab.