Barbarian King! Bakugo x Servant! Reader
Fantasy AU
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Courtship

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This was requested by VeraLisle44 !
I hope you enjoy!! :33

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Third Person POV
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There once was a kingdom with two rulers who had a son—their soon-to-be, and only, heir of the palace.

The kingdom was settled in a luscious valley between various mountains, with the tallest of those holding the cavern palace of the almighty royal family.

Once the prince was of age, he became the sole ruler of this kingdom.

His name is Katsuki Bakugo, and this man...he needs a queen.

This tale is reciting the meeting and relationship building of Katsuki and one of his mere servants.

YN LN.

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Katsuki, who currently stands at his bedroom window with his arms crossed, glares out at the bustling kingdom beyond. His kingdom, to be specific.

With an irritable, yet heavy, sigh, he swivels around and begins marching towards the door of his room, gruffly ordering his personal guard, "I'm going to walk the halls. Stay here until I need you."

Kirishima nods, standing tall as the king exits the room. He then releases a huff as the door falls shut, a small puff of smoke blowing out of his nose from the action, before he counts to twenty in his mind.

Once he's sure that the blonde has left, he himself exits the room as well, intent on keeping watch over his bonded companion.

The perspective is then switched to a new one; one where we follow one of the most esteemed Bakugo family servants.

YN hums as she sweeps the halls free of any dirt tracked there throughout the day, giggling as her bonded companion—a tiny, black scaled dragon—flies around her, causing her hair to briefly follow the short breeze.

Shaking her head in amusement, she continues with her task, losing herself in the melody that she has found herself singing.

Unknowingly, the king mindlessly wanders towards the source of the voice, only partially paying attention as he found it.

It doesn't click in his brain that there was another person with him just yet, but this was about to change in one abrupt moment.

As he went to stroll past the servant girl, she twirled with the broom in his direction, accidentally tripping him in the process.

The pair both then snapped out of their stupors, the girl swiftly catching the male by his left arm and using her strength to cease his descent before it could fully begin.

Katsuki turned his chin to chide the girl, but his anger washed away the second his ruby eyes met hers.

Stunned, he shifts his right leg so that he may stable himself more, and YN releases the pressure from her hand on his arm, allowing said hand to slowly fall off of him.

Her gaze discovers the bond marking on his upper left arm, and she immediately recognizes it as the king's, which causes her heart to practically drop out of her chest in fear at this realization.

She takes a step back, trembling as she lowers herself into a small bow, quietly stuttering, "M-My king! My upmost ap-apologies!"

Her little companion flies up to hover above her right shoulder, proudly following her example and performing a bow as well.

Katsuki blinks, recovering from his shock as he straightens his spine, pulling his left arm to bend behind his back with his right bending at his front as a formal gesture.

Clearing his throat, he lowly states, "You may rise. You have nothing to be sorry for, dumbass."

YN returns to her prior stance, clutching the broom with both hands as she nods, murmuring, "Thank you, sir."

"Just don't make the same mistake again," he growls, sounding more calm than the girl had anticipated, then he storms away, leaving her and her dragon companion in the hall.

Suddenly, as Katsuki is passing by an archway into a new hall, he's startled by a teasing voice calling, "Looks like you've made a new friend, Bakugo!"

Relaxing his tense muscles, he twists around and hisses, "Quiet, shitty hair! She could still hear you!"

After a pause, he furrows his eyebrows at his companion, "Didn't I tell you to wait in my room for orders?"

Kirishima sheepishly chuckles, walking forward to move alongside the king, his arm casually slung around the man's shoulders as he responds, "No need to dwell on that! The point here is your interaction with that shy, servant girl back there!"

"Yeah? What of it?"

"Oh, I don't know, the way you pulled the whole formal posture move on her?" Kiri sing-songly requites, mimicking Katsuki's exact movement from moments earlier.

Needless to say, Katsuki gave his best friend a hard jab in the side, to which Kiri barked out a loud laugh and yelled, "That's not very manly, Bakugo!"

YN, hearing this exchange, softly laughed to herself, going back to her duties with her cheeks dusted a light pink.

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As the clock ticked on, Katsuki and YN had managed to bump into one another many times throughout the course of the next few months.

So much so that they had not only began to form a friendship, but also a romantic interest in one another.

These feelings grew to the point where Katsuki has finally had enough of idling by, of simply dancing around the subject.

Swallowing his pride—and his nerves, although he would never admit it—he asks Kirishima, "Hey, shitty hair. How do I get YN to fall in love with me?"

With a shark-toothed grin, Kirishima exclaims, "Why, I thought you'd never ask!"

"Just fucking tell me!"

"Chill, man! Okay! You could try courting her?" he suggests, leaning against Katsuki's huge bedroom dresser. "You know, try to win her affections using different methods! That's the most manly thing to do!"

"...Fine."

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METHOD ONE:
Letters
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YN yawns, stretching as she enters the servant's quarters, when she notices an envelope sitting on a table by the door with her name on it.

Curious, she gingerly picks it up and goes to settle on her bed, carefully tearing it open to reach its contents as the other servants subtly gather around her.

She pulls the note out and begins to read it to herself aloud, discovering that it was sent by the one and only King Katsuki Bakugo.

The girl can't help but to stifle a laugh at some of its contents, her face burning brightly as her heart races.

"What a dork," YN mutters, a goofy smile adorning her lips as she allows herself to fall back on her bedding.

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METHOD TWO:
Gifts
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As YN goes throughout her days, she continuously stumbles upon red roses with ribbons that have her initials on them.

However, with each red rose is a different piece of expensive-looking royal jewelry, which is how she realized it's Katsuki doing this, or items for her dragon companion, or even little trinkets to remind her of times she's spent with the king.

These roses occur sparingly, so she never knows when she may find another one, and she looks forward to each and every one of them, elated that he is thinking of her just as much as she is of him.

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METHOD THREE:
"Hangouts"
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YN steps along the winding path of the royal garden with Katsuki in tow, watching as her companion bounces about in the air with Kirishima, who is in his dragon form.

Her companion then shoots up high in the sky and proceeds to dive straight to Earth, spinning as it transforms into a bigger dragon to match Kirishima's size.

She grins wider as Kiri joins her companion higher in the sky, happy to see them having fun together.

Then she begins to feel a nudge on her right hand, to which she glances at and notices that it was Katsuki, who was silently asking to hold her hand.

With nervous movements, she nudges him back and he instantly intertwines her fingers with his, pulling her closer to his frame as they continue to walk.

YN's mind is filled to the brim with racing thoughts; to the extent that she hardly realizes that Katsuki had bent down and picked one of her favorite flowers in the garden.

"Hold still," Katsuki demands as they halt their strolling, and she does as told.

He uses his hand to brush the hair out of her face and places the flower behind her ear, causing the girl's breathing to hitch.

"There," he states, cupping her jaw for a short moment before completely dropping his hand.

She shyly dips her head, squeezing his hand as they go onward.

That's when Katsuki inhaled with an open mouth and started coughing.

YN looks up at him in concern, but he holds up a hand and, after a few more hacks, spits out an insect into his palm.

Both pause, staring at the insect, before YN starts to laugh hysterically, Katsuki merely glaring at said insect the entire time, trying his best to not be embarrassed.

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METHOD FOUR:
Training
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"You're getting pretty good at this," Katsuki compliments, holding his sword to YN's throat. "But not good enough to beat me."

YN breathes deeply, smirking, "Who said that the fight was over?"

Before he could respond, YN swiftly pushed her lower half up with one foot on the ground as the other kicked his hand so that the sword was not aimed at her neck anymore.

Then, she rolled in the opposite direction and stood up, simultaneously grabbing her own sword off the ground and proceeded to clash weapons with his.

Afterwards, YN swept Katsuki's foot out from under him, the shock causing him to fall, which, to catch himself, he had to drop his sword, thus leaving him and YN in opposing positions to how they were previously.

Katsuki tsks with a sneer, "You were already dead, dumbass."

YN tilts her head, lightly touching his throat with the tip of her sword before removing it, cheekily responding, "You never touched my neck with your sword. You hesitated. Therefore, I win."

He lets out an "I-don't-believe-this" sort of silent, airy laugh, before he jokingly remarks, "You sly bitch."

"Guilty," YN sweetly retorts, reaching her free hand out to assist him.

He accepts, and she tugs him back onto his feet, leaving the two abnormally close to one another, only mere inches between them.

They, noticing this fact, just stare at one another in awed silence.

That is, before YN flickers her gaze behind the man, back to him, and then raises her free hand, once again, to shove him backwards with a playful smirk.

Katsuki stumbles and falls off of the arena's ledge, letting out a surprised yelp as he goes, only to come flying up on the back of her companion in it's larger form.

YN giggles at his startled expression, and he lightly glares back at her before shouting, pointing his index finger at her triumphantly, "You better run, princess! Because if I catch you, you're dead!"

With a joyously fearful shriek, she drops her sword and sprints off into the distance, Katsuki chasing her on her very own dragon.

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METHOD FIVE:
Dancing
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"I'm not sure about this, Katsuki..." YN anxiously trails off, staring off into the crowd of nobles on the dance floor.

"Come on, we've practiced for this," he reassuringly responds. "You've got this. I know you do."

With a burst of confidence, YN takes his outstretched hand, letting him lead her to the dance floor as the nobles begin to part for them.

Each step she takes makes her heart pound even louder; each thump sounding like thunder cracking in a storm.

Now in the middle of the crowd, YN and Katsuki face one another.

His right palm reaches to rest on her left hip, her left on his shoulder, with their other hands clasped in the air as they begin their choreographed waltz in unison.

As the music and lively chatter grows in volume, YN forces herself to block it all out and focus on her dance partner alone.

Eventually, with this tactic, she finds herself having a great time.

The pair have a quiet conversation as other nobles join in on the dancing, and the evening seems to be going spectacularly.

It is, really, until one step backwards causes a domino effect by Katsuki knocking into the back of another noble.

One by one, all of the couples fall down until a pair end up crashing onto the buffet table, which breaks under their weight and completely destroys all of the food and drinks that were available.

Katsuki and YN, still standing at the clear point of where all of the chaos started, peered at each other before they ran off together, the other nobles shouting—and some running—after them.

As YN struggles due to her heels, Katsuki just picks her up bridal style and continues towards the open balcony doors.

"Kirishima!" Katsuki screams over the noise, and the red haired male darts ahead of them onto the balcony.

Kirishima then vaults over the railing and disappears, the crowd gasping and yelling more in response.

Katsuki, now on the balcony, tosses YN over the edge and vaults over himself.

The two land on the back of Kirishima in his dragon form, all of them hastily flying away from the scene of the disaster created in the Todoroki's royal castle.

YN's companion lands on her shoulder and wraps around the back of her neck, relaxing into her as she and Katsuki start laughing maniacally at the events that just took place.

Kirishima even does the same in his own dragon-y way, finding the whole ordeal to be just as amusing—yet equally as humiliating.

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Knock! Knock! Knock!

"Come in," Katsuki drawls, adjusting his shirt collar as YN enters his bedroom.

"Katsuki?" YN inquires, causing his eyes to snap over to her. "May we talk for a moment?"

"YN," he says, walking over to her and gesturing to his bed. "Of course."

She sits, and he joins her.

"I need to tell you something," she informs softly, twiddling her thumbs in nervousness.

He takes her hand and rubs the back of it with his thumb, attempting to calm her nerves as he nods, quietly waiting for her to continue.

"I..." she mutters before raising her voice to a normal volume. "I have feelings for you. Romantic ones."

Silence ensues for a minute before the man speaks.

"Oh my gOD!" he heartily proclaims, a tad irritated. "I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET YOU TO SEE THAT I LIKE YOU FOR FUCKING WEEKS AND NOW YOU CONFESS?!"

YN, after being taken aback for a moment, starts to laugh, shouting back, "WELL EXCUSE ME FOR BEING A LITTLE DENSE YOU GODDAMN POMERANI-"

Before she could finish, Katsuki slammed his lips onto hers, engulfing the two into a passionate kiss.

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C O U R T S H I P
{ Barbarian King! Bakugo x Servant! Reader }

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Hope you all enjoyed!! And sorry if the writing is still a bit off, as I haven't been writing very often at all! XD

-CastrarWolf