Best KaiMaki Healing Fanfics
The best healing KaiMaki (Momota Kaito/Harukawa Maki) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Readers come to healing fic for the gentleness canon rarely allows, and stay because watching someone learn to be okay again feels like permission to heal themselves.
Top KaiMaki Healing Fic Recs
1 healing KaiMaki fic matched, followed by other top-rated KaiMaki stories.
Everyone’s New Semester of Healing
Healingby DramaLlama456
Imagine waking up after the most traumatizing experience and then being told it was just a science experiment you WILLINGLY signed up for, totally can’t be Shuichi Saihara.
Under His Mask
by katiwrites
It all started with the class agreeing for each student to hold their own event for everyone to get along and get to know each other. Though, that doesn't hold true for Kokichi Ouma who does the exact opposite of getting along. Shuuichi Saihara believes that there is a mystery behind Ouma's actions
Lipstick on a Pig
by carrief91
For a long time, Korekiyo’s life was brutal but simple until his best friend came forward with romantic feelings for him out of the blue. He never even considered a life without his sister, and now he had to question if he was homosexual on top of everything else. Rantaro was always there for him, b
Apple of Temptation
by BrightStarWrites
Shuichi Saihara is tasked with the objective of claiming a human soul, the soul of Kokichi Ouma. With the lords of hell threatening to kill Shuichi if he doesn't get the task done, will Shuichi be able to claim the boy's soul? Or will he choose a different path? And what happens when Kokichi is immu
Secrecy and sex
by girlsgogames
Oma Kokichi hadn't been the luckiest. Actually, you could say he's the most unfortunate person in this univeristy. For all he knows anyway. He's young, inexperienced, but jaded as all hell, sarcasm being his first language. He's never had much: an abusive mother, a father he never knew. Of course, t
Lurking Between the Days
by SpookieSatire
Shuichi has brought home a case that’s caught his attention.A little too much.He's been becoming so engrossed in this case that he’s missed sleep, dinner plans, and has begun to ignore everything and everyone, that doesn’t sit right with Y/N, his wife.
Fortuity’s New Flavour!
by weepingviolin11037
My goofy ahh university au!! After being partnered with her for a presentation, Shuichi is made aware of Kaede’s existence, instantly changing fate’s course. What will happen next? :00 (This fic is SOMEWHAT shoujo-inspired.)
The New, Far Too Chaotic Class at Hope's Peak
by ArtistGoblin_333
It had been years since Junko Enoshima, the girl who decided to try to end the world, got hit by a car before she could start setting up her evil plan. So, the world didn't end, no killing games occurred, and the students of Hope's Peak Academy were able to live on, grow up, and, for the most part,
Hope/Despair
by FujoFudanshi
Final year of high school, a new student counsellor, and Nagito Komaeda can’t stop himself from being intrigued by the man who just walked into his life.
Why?
by Snow_fakey
Kokichi keeps thinking about poo-ichi. He starts to panic when it gets in the way of his daily life. Ts gets dark so mind the tags
I love you (not?)
by Lov3ly_sofii
Somehow the goodbye despair cast is also alive irl here bc I say so pregame rantaro and shuichi went to the same school, they were aquantences, they were mostly opposites, rantaro was somewhat passive aggressive, popular, and is still trying to figure out his sexuality, shuichi on the other hand, he
No Other Explantion
by fabuc1dal
The story starts with Kokichi and Shuichi having a sleepover, and while they’re at it Shuichi figures something out about himself, and he’s probably in denial. Buttt, we still get a happy ending!!! Yay!!!
The disease that brought me to you
by Rosa_Fandom
Basically Shuichi got the lovesick despair disease because Tsumugi needed a way for the killing to start And the one person it is directed towards? Kokichi Oma of course! (Also some background ships because why not?)
The Case of the Anonymous Heart
by leizyyyyy
Shuichi Saihara didn’t expect to become the target of a mystery. But then the love letter appeared. In short: Shuichi find a love letter in his locker Monday morning. His secret admirer gives him till Friday to figure out who they are. Will he be able to solve this case with the help of his friend K
bury me in your memory (I'm not the boy I ought to be)
by glowingskullsx
Shuichi has to change schools back in grade 7, because of his father’s new job, a few months after that, Shuichi cuts off all contact from his closest friends. His friends think nothing of it. Now in grade 11, Shuichi moves back to his old town, significantly different. OR Kokichi’s ex friend, Shuic
A Life Amongst Chaotic Cats And Maybe New Friends
by EveningEve
Survive the killing game... Easier said than done, especially with everything happening. Loss becomes normalcy, murder could happen at any moment and hit just about anyone. And yet it is also important to maintain your daily life, find some normalcy... It is an uphill battle but not everything is au
Hope's Camp Tales
by Monsterunknown_0
Lynx Whistler wakes up on Jabberwock Island with no memory of how she got there. Surrounded by familiar faces who shouldn't exist together, mysterious glitches, fragmented memories and an impossible killing game, one question refuses to leave her mind: Komaeda Nagito Why does everyone seem to rememb
【夜训组】掌纹
by Yin_123
No summary provided.
【王百春】放逐者
by Yin_123
No summary provided.
【百春】残り潮
by Yin_123
No summary provided.
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Why Healing KaiMaki Fanfiction Works So Well
Momota Kaito/Harukawa Maki — The Luminary of the Stars spends V3's killing game dragging a former assassin into nightly training sessions until she learns to want things again. Maki's love is canon by the end; Kaito's execution makes sure it costs everything.
Healing — Stories centered on recovery — physical, emotional, or both — where the plot is less about what broke a character and more about the slow, nonlinear work of putting themselves back together. Often paired with a patient love interest or a supportive found family.
He treats the school's scariest girl like a kid sister who deserves stars, and she falls first and hardest. Readers come to healing fic for the gentleness canon rarely allows, and stay because watching someone learn to be okay again feels like permission to heal themselves. That's why healing KaiMaki fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.
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