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Best One-Shot Friends with Benefits Fanfics

Friends with Benefits one-shots under 10k words — the trope distilled to a single complete read. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.

Friends with Benefits 20 one-shot fics Avg 4,713 words short stories under 10,000 words

Top 20 One-Shot Friends with Benefits Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with friends with benefits and falls in the short stories under 10,000 words range.

1

My Heart Comes Tumbling Down

by DevilDoll

"This is a casual, adult relationship based on sex, and it is awesome." In which Stiles and Derek have a great time buddyfucking until a burrito ruins it all.

21,517 kudos 5,689 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
2

the moon lives in the lining of your skin

by sarahyyy

“Let go,” Lan Wangji says.“Huh?” Wei Wuxian tightens his hold on Lan Wangji. “Why?” “If you don’t let go,” Lan Wangji tells him, reaching up to cover one of Wei Wuxian’s hands with his own, squeezing lightly, “then I can’t get up.” “And what will you do once you get up?” Wei Wuxian asks. “Will er-ge

13,392 kudos 9,143 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
3

Wheatgrass and Froot Loops

by WhoNatural

"You’re falling for him," she says, and it’s not a question. Stiles looks up, blinks, and shakes his head."No," he lies. "We work out, have really intense sex, and then eat cereal marketed for children. We have a system, okay? Why upset the arrangement?"

5,564 kudos 6,885 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
4

peace in your violence

by favspacetwink

“Mmnh - mmnh - mmnh-”“Better keep it down, Tomioka,” Sanemi breathes in his ear. Giyuu groans into the hand covering his mouth. “What did I just fucking say?”

5,474 kudos 1,803 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
5

wanna lift this curse

by softambrollins

It's not a secret, not really; they don't decide to not tell anyone. It's just — no one else needs to know. It's just theirs, whatever it is. He's not ashamed or afraid. He thinks it might disintegrate if exposed to sunlight, and he's not ready for that. Not yet. Or: The one where they hook up somet

4,762 kudos 4,494 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
6

How To Train Your Cumslut

by AvatarMN

Intimate developments in the relationship between Hiccup and Toothless sweep the boy along into a world of discovery, kink, obsession, and more pleasure than he'd ever imagined.

4,059 kudos 2,914 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
7

The Slippery Slope to Bestiality

by AvatarMN

Just what it says on the tin. A taboo sex comedy from a dank corner of my brain, but it's still a better love story than Twilight!

3,522 kudos 1,360 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
8

Trading Favours

by caramelle

"Come on," she wheedles. "I'll do the laundry for two weeks. I'll pay for beer the next time we go out." She waves her hands in the air, momentarily flailing around for more ideas. "I'll go down on you."Cassian looks up then. "You're not going to go down on me."She snorts on sheer impulse. "You unde

2,943 kudos 7,206 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
9

Dragon Dragon Bo Banging Banana Fana Fo Fagging

by AvatarMN

Watched over by Toothless, Hiccup is gangbanged by a dozen Terrible Terrors. Enough said. What more could you possibly want?

2,705 kudos 3,567 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
10

See the day

by Taromei

Okay. So. Felix is in a friends-with-benefits type arrangement with Dimitri. Except it’s not actually an “arrangement”, because nothing was ever actually “arranged”. It’s more that after two decades of being best friends, Felix suddenly can’t hear Dimitri laugh without going for his pants, and it’s

1,065 kudos 7,644 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
11

'It works, doesn't it?'

by LizLimone998

"Well. It would seem we have a textbook case of classical conditioning on our hands." "I don't know what that is." "Of course you don't." Laszlo sniggered, "Let me put it in simpler terms; you, Nandor, have gotten so used to the mental image of a certain vampire killer in moments of pleasure, that y

48 kudos 4,672 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
12

"Is that a gun or are you [...] happy?"

by Lines (Nemalined)

Hardison asks Eliot a question that he knows the answer to, because he knows that that thing poking him ain't a gun.

22 kudos 900 words 3/3 chapters Explicit Complete
13

To Whom It May Concern, I Will Not Sleep With Satoru Gojo

by Kerfuffledome

“Nanamiiiiii, don’t just make me spell it out. Are you seriously not getting this?” Gojo groaned. He was now leaning as far back on the legs of his chair as was possible without tipping over, head completely upside down over the backrest. Nanami opened his mouth to ask what, exactly, Gojo was trying

22 kudos 8,788 words 2/5 chapters Mature
14

(Shinobu x Giyu) Friendliness is difficult with Tomioka-san

by Boodeerie

Following Kanae’s death, Shinobu tries to find her way through her new title as the Insect Pillar, while also developing relationships with the current Hashiras. Should be pretty interesting to watch pan out. Especially after she takes a liking to a certain Water Pillar…

14 kudos 2,821 words 2/? chapters Mature
15

I'm still glad I met you

by avoidantattachmentfinalboss

architect phuwin designs houses people are meant to grow old in. pond builds miniature versions of them before disappearing to the next city. or one believes love survives by staying. the other survives by leaving before love has the chance to. or where phuwin becomes the one blueprint pond never wa

14 kudos 6,843 words 4/? chapters Mature
16

Your "What’s happening?"

by GothPinkXX

“God I really hope he finally got hit by a car,” was Kaede’s first thought every morning as she left her apartment. A familiar boy appeared next to her, wearing his usual two sizes too big black t-shirt and baggy jeans with messy hair. “Akamatsu-san!” He called out, and Kaede knew her freedom was ov

12 kudos 5,213 words 2/? chapters Explicit
17

Between Sand, Waves, and Thunder [!Moodboard]

by DarthBloodOrange (DepressingGreenie)

Waiting to be picked up after a mission, Thor convinces Steve to "unwind" with him on the beach.

6 kudos 0 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
18

Complicated

by lunaloomi

Relationships had always been hard for you. Maybe that’s what led you to this messy, hurtful, impossible situation.

5 kudos 7,526 words 5/18 chapters Mature
19

can you read my mind? i've been watching you

by openwound

The quiet makes her think. And she hates to think of things she can't control.

5 kudos 150 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
20

Something Like Us (Say It Like You Mean It)

by soulbleedsoul

A college transfer student from Miami moves to New York and gets assigned to share a dorm with Sadie Sink. They immediately clash because their personalities don’t mix - constant arguments, passive-aggressive comments, and tension over shared space. Things escalate when they’re forced to work togeth

2 kudos 6,641 words 3/? chapters Mature

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About Friends with Benefits

Two friends agree to a no-strings physical arrangement and draw up rules to keep feelings out of it — rules that begin failing almost immediately. The genre convention is ironclad: someone always catches feelings, and usually both already had them.

The trope runs on dramatic irony and denial; readers watch two people perform casualness while every gesture betrays them, waiting for the arrangement to collapse into the relationship it always was.

Common scenarios: Rule three is no sleepovers, broken by week two, or the moment one of them gets asked out by someone else and the arrangement abruptly stops feeling casual.

About This List

5,213
median words
65%
complete
21,517
top kudos
~21 minutes
median read time

This list of 20one-shot Friends with Benefits fanfics spans 94,259 total words. Kudos range from 2 on the newest entries to 21,517 on the most established. 65% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (10 of 20 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Friends with Benefits · Bestiality · Best Friends · Alternate Universe - Modern Setting · Alternate Universe - College/University.

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