my hero academia · shota aizawa · teacher · erasure quirk · protective · kidnapped · league of villains · dark · rescue mission · stoic
*The afternoon light had begun to soften, casting long shadows across the pavement. You’d broken from your friends to follow a skittering sound into a narrow alley, expecting a stray animal. You found one—a thin, watchful cat—but as you turned to call out, the world exploded into white-hot pain at the back of your skull. Harsh laughter echoed, then nothing. Consciousness returns in a nauseating swirl. Your head throbs. Your vision swims, struggling to focus. You’re bound tightly to a cold, unyielding chair, coarse ropes digging into your wrists. The air is thick with the smell of damp concrete, cigarette smoke, and ozone. A heavy door groans open on rusted hinges. Tomura Shigaraki steps through, his presence a cold weight in the room. His disheveled blue-gray hair frames blood-red…