Best Short Friends with Benefits Fanfics
Friends with Benefits novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 20 Short Friends with Benefits Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with friends with benefits and falls in the 10,000–50,000 words range.
We Wear Chains on the Weekend
by surveycorpsjean
Well, in a day of revelations, it turns out that Izuku isn't as vanilla as Katsuki previously thought. Unfortunately, that fascinating discovery is overshadowed by Izuku's dumbassery, because he has zero concept of aftercare. "Don't go to anyone else," Katsuki says, because screw it. He can do a bet
Are You Flagging?
by soidade
“Look, I’m just asking, okay? Not– I don't mean anything by it. But, uh.” His eyes darted back and forth, then he leaned in close to Steve. Steve had gotten used to that, kind of. The guy had no concept of personal space. “Are you flagging?” Eddie finally finished. Steve shook his head slowly, eyes
A Convenient Impracticality
by firethesound_HP_archive
Somehow Harry ends up agreeing to a fake relationship with his ex-nemesis-turned-friendly-acquaintance-with-benefits, except for some reason it involves an awful lot of actual dating and, sadly, not much sex. Confused? Harry is too, but when has anything with Draco Malfoy ever been as straightforwar
Then there's the landing
by Sharleena
The thing about Figure Skating is that it's the most brutal sport disguised as something incredibly beautiful to look at, something elegant and frail.Just like Kim Taehyung.
heads or tails
by liknow
Minho and Jisung are sick and tired of being virgins. There's an obvious solution to that.or: Two best friends decide that it only makes sense to lose their virginity together. What doesn't make sense is the way they can't seem to keep their hands off each other after that.
(i love you) it's ruining my life
by NicoleDilona
“Let’s recap then- You admit that you and Charles Leclerc have been involved in a sexual relationship for the past two years. You describe this as a ‘long-term, exclusive, friends with benefits’ arrangement, in which you estimate you usually sleep with him at least twice a week. Oh, and in your own
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
by poisonivory
After years in the future with the Legion of Super-Heroes, Jon is finally back in Damian's life, and Damian's determined to keep him in this century. If that means a little fooling around between friends, so be it. It doesn't have to mean anything.(It just might mean everything.)
sting of a wasp
by brightbolt
"You’re a virgin,” Gideon said, testing it out. "Huh." Harrow didn’t like the sound of that huh. She knew Gideon’s noises, and that was a thoughtful, sinister huh. That was the same huh she’d made before putting canned tuna in Crux’s work boots. Her eyes narrowed. “What.”Gideon cocked her head to th
Six Little Rules
by RubyCaspar
“There would have to be rules,” Amy said. Jake looked surprised for a moment, and then smirked. “Friends with benefits, Santiago-style,” he teased. “Okay, hit me.”(Or, Amy and Jake sleep together and completely fail at putting it behind them.)
being with you makes the flame burn good
by innoguilty
“You let people watch?”"Not really." Angel smirks, his tone slightly defiant, “are you asking because you want to?” Aki and Angel get closer after the incident with the Bomb Devil.
Blow my whistle, baby
by Puchirus
Akira pulled out a long, black strip of cloth from his pocket. A blindfold. "If you want... put this on, and I'll let you... get off with my mouth. You can pretend I'm a girl from your class or whatever." Akira offered. It was a crazy suggestion. Ryuji stared at him in stunned silence, slack-jawed a
i wonder if you'd take it slow
by fraudulentzodiacs
Leon expects a snarky, asshat response from Tkachuk. Instead, he listens to Tkachuk over footage of himself playing with his mouth open in shock.“I think he’s a great player.” Tkachuk tells the interviewer. “I think he’s, uh, having a great year. I think both of them together is a really great one-t
i've got a badge and the power to play
by cryptonomica
“But that’s weird right? It’d be weird?”“Nah,” Taehyung says, confident in his drunken state. “Friends can help friends. That’s why it’s called friends with benefits. The key to a good friend with benefits is no kissing, and I’m not going to kiss you, so.”But Jimin really, really wants him to.
Bad Habits
by mitigates
“You two have hooked up, right?”“Yes and it was awful.” Kevin grimaced at the memory.“Beyond awful, Kevin is a fucking rabbit.” Neil chewed thoughtfully. “Or like fucking a rabbit, I guess I should say.”“You’re- you’re- fuck you, Neil, you’re like fucking a pillow.”“Got a lot of experience pillow fu
Friends With Benefits
by MidnightStorm6593
"Don't tell me you said what I think you just said." "Oh, come on," he says, rolling his eyes. "Don't tell me you've never thought of it."Okay, so maybe she had. Once. Or twice. Or maybe a few times. But that had been back when he was just Older Sexy Danger Guy™ and not a crazy, sometimes homicidal
what's your pleasure
by sybilluv
How many people has she done this with? Dozens, probably. She's a master of getting people into her web, Panam bets. With the way she's looking at Panam so patiently, that sly little smirk on her full lips that she could just—Fuck. Alright, so maybe something might happen between the two of them ton
Summer Nights
by chickycherrycola
On the heels of a messy breakup, Maka Albarn finds herself at the end of her junior year in college trying to pick up the pieces of her broken heart and fit them back together. When her roommate drags her to a frat party, an unexpected hookup with her handsome, tattooed, guitarist friend Soul leads
Bound by Metal
by uralittlebrat
Crime has been rising in Republic City, and Aang can't keep dealing with it all on his own. But when Toph visits Republic City for a Team Avatar reunion, an idea sparks in Aang's mind. "Toph, what if you established an official police force here in Republic City with your metalbenders?" "Woah, what?
Private Collection
by ridgeness_17
Armin just started his new job as a stylist at Celsior Firm, full of dreams and ready to make his life a story worth telling. But the glamorous office is run by Levi, the notoriously sharp-eyed Chief Editor, and the hours are longer, tougher, than he imagined. He also didn’t expect the man he tried
the roots of something greener
by sonnywrites
It's not that Jake loves Rooster, because he doesn't. It's the knowledge that whatever Rooster sees when he looks at Jake, it's not something he wants to keep around. Jake should be used to it by now, the effect he has on people. He has a big mouth and an even bigger ego, things that most people can
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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
This list of 20short Friends with Benefits fanfics spans 611,028 total words. Kudos range from 73 on the newest entries to 33,710 on the most established. 75% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (18 of 20 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Friends with Benefits · Friends to Lovers · Alternate Universe - College/University · Smut · Getting Together.
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