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Best KiriBaku Slow Burn Fanfics

The best slow burn KiriBaku (Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Readers love the anticipation, the meaningful character development, and the eventual payoff of a well-earned romance.

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2am Knows All Secrets [original]

Slow Burn

by Unbreakable_Red_Riot

… It wasn’t that he was annoyed.Okay, maybe he was a little annoyed, but that was just the lack of sleep talking. Because a certain explosive punk thought it was a good idea to test the flammability of his sheets at 2 in the morning. Every single morning.(In which Bakugou's quirk wakes Kirishima up,

33,940 kudos 59,033 words 15/15 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Deku? I think he's some pro...

by Clouds (myheadinthecoudsnotcomingdown)

Yagi Toshinori watched the green haired boy walk away after saving his friend and shook his head. While the boy's actions were heroic, he was just too reckless. He walked in the opposite direction, thinking about a time he could meet the candidate Sir Nighteye put forward. Izuku Midoriya goes home a

73,610 kudos 191,001 words 94/94 chapters General Audiences
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If We’re Being Honest

by thequeenofwhump

“So we’ll just blurt out random things?” Mina asked. “Like the fact that I can’t eat sandwiches not cut down the middle?”Snickers rose from the class as she turned a bright red.Aizawa sighed. “Not exactly. The quirk is a weird mix between a truth quirk and a prone to suggestion quirk, thanks to the

38,474 kudos 67,482 words 10/10 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Regenerate, Fate

by Jellofello

Announced legally dead, he creates a new identity: Izuku Midoriya.Eraserhead is tasked with bringing down one of Japan's most wanted vigilantes by the name of Oni. Little does he know, the vigilante is in his homeroom class. The result of my fondness for vigilante!Izuku and the concept of a Deadpool

37,181 kudos 235,547 words 78/78 chapters Mature
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The Roundabout Way of Fate

by itsmyartfam

“His quirk will get attention no matter where he goes. But if he ends up working with heroes then he’ll have their protection. That’s why I said most doctors and nurses have minor healing quirks- because people with powerful ones often catch the attention of heroes, who will in turn protect them fro

32,478 kudos 354,887 words 44/44 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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quote love unquote

by newamsterdam

Sero nods. “It’s the chance of a lifetime, really,” he says. “We want you to date Bakugou, for the sake of his reputation with the press. Some public appearances, a few ‘candid’ photos. For at least a couple of months.” “Bakugou sent you to ask me to date him?” Kirishima asks, baffled. “Of course no

29,568 kudos 135,781 words 28/28 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Surprises

by MikeWritesThings

Moving into the dorms, the students get to witness a side of their teacher they didn’t even know had existed--a side much softer, and, dare they say, human, than any of them had ever expected to see.(Or, 5 things class 1-A never expected from Aizawa, and 1 thing he never expected from them.)

26,950 kudos 21,184 words 6/6 chapters General Audiences
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If I'm Being Honest....

by I_dont_know_man

Midoriya scrunched up his nose in confusion. “Uh, Shouto, why are you glaring at me like that?”“I-” Todoroki began to lie, until nausea slammed him like a door to any room that Bakugou entered. “I--” Todoroki grit his teeth, and glared daggers into the wall behind Midoriya. Goodbye, friendship.

24,945 kudos 26,612 words 6/6 chapters Not Rated
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Just A Touch (Too Much)

by Grimmseye

Prompt from the Kink Meme: Kirishima gets oversensitive after using his quirk too much, and somebody (Bakugou) fucks him until he's so overstimulated that he cries

21,883 kudos 3,330 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
10

Living with Thorns Crushing My Heart

by writerllofllworlds

He was not an idiot, and soon enough, he noticed it too. When Mina broke up with Kiri, Katsuki was the first one at his side. He stayed in the redhead’s room for hours, consoling him and giving him a shoulder to cry on. He canceled training with Izuku to get Kirishima back on his feet. He pushed bac

20,550 kudos 11,409 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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come home to me

by aloera

“I shouldn’t have moved out of the way,” Katsuki sighs. “I should have let that fucking asshole hit us, honestly, a broken back would be better than this.”Masochist, Eijirou thinks and, in the second right before Katsuki chokes and focuses intensely on salvaging what's left of their midnight haul, h

20,448 kudos 5,428 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Looking Glass

by twistedthicket1 (orphan_account)

Midoriya Izuku goes missing as a child. No villain is ever held accountable, no one ever brings his mother any answers. For ten years, the only people who remember the quiet, Quirkless boy are Inko and Bakugo Katsuki. They both feel his loss in different, inexplicable ways. Eraserhead's been on the

19,945 kudos 219,765 words 52/53 chapters Mature
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one to ten

by crunchrapsupreme

Kirishima attempts to climb the ladder of success and weasel his way into Bakugou Katsuki's explosive little heart. Step one? He has to get to level ten.

19,678 kudos 7,407 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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My First One And Only

by BlackBarBooks

When Kirishima accidentally confesses to Bakugo, they are both faced with the fact that they have NO idea how to date. Illustrated by QueenofLiz4rds!

19,610 kudos 163,621 words 26/? chapters Mature
15

Reformation

by LocalCryptid7

After a failed suicide attempt, years of bullying, and his mother's death, Izuku Midoriya doesn't think he has any option besides joining the League of Villains. After all, foster care is no place for a quirkless kid like him. Plus, working as a hacker and analyst for the League doesn't sound like i

19,581 kudos 162,456 words 42/42 chapters Mature
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Overworked & Underfucked

by Kumikirin

“It’s just not manly to leave your bro like this, after knowing he can’t do anything about it, you know?” Kirishima blabbers some kind of bullshit excuse, and the worst part is that it looks like he’s totally convinced of it. “It’s just a— handjob,” he stumbles over the word, the weight of what he’s

19,413 kudos 11,907 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
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Just Trying to Survive (and learn to love along the way)

by floorplay

Aizawa Shouta gives out his number to his class for emergencies, in the hope that they never call. He wants some peace and quiet with his husband, thank you very much. However, a late night call for help from his number 1 Problem Child gives him a startling discovery about his home life and drags ev

18,728 kudos 180,337 words 127/127 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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slow it down (go easy on me)

by newamsterdam

It’s at that moment that Bakugou realizes something is very, very wrong. He glances down at himself and sees scars he’s never had before along his arms, little nicks and scratches he’d never have been oblivious to. When he reaches up, his limbs feel longer, and as he staggers to his feet he stands s

18,698 kudos 26,930 words 3/3 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Dulcet

by sodagum (orphan_account)

He’s angry, and too embarrassed to specify at whom. There isn’t even any real need to be, and if he were smooth enough, he could have dished out some bullshit yet still acceptable reply. But instead, he chokes--stammers:“What the fuck?”

18,693 kudos 4,194 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Schrödinger's cat

by AyzuLK

The cat is in the closed box, with a 50% chance of being alive and a 50% chance of being dead. According to the principle of uncertainty in quantum physics, he is alive and dead until someone opens the box.Izuku doesn't want to open the box.ORIzuku didn’t return home after school. Two months later h

18,644 kudos 31,506 words 6/6 chapters Mature

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Why Slow Burn KiriBaku Fanfiction Works So Well

Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou — The explosive hero and his sunshine best friend who sees his worth.

Slow Burn — A romance that develops gradually over time, with tension building across chapters or the entire story.

Kirishima's unwavering faith in Bakugou and their strong friendship foundation. Readers love the anticipation, the meaningful character development, and the eventual payoff of a well-earned romance. That's why slow burn KiriBaku fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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