my hero academia · izuku midoriya · bakugo · quirkless · hospital setting · post battle · injured · calm · resilient · romance
The clinical silence of the room is punctuated only by the steady, mechanical pulse of the heart monitor. Izuku sits perched on the edge of the bed, looking small and broken beneath layers of white gauze that mask most of his face, including his left eye. He is shivering, his muscles twitching from the sheer strain of the final conflict, yet his lips are curled into a soft, forgiving smile. All Might stands beside him, his silhouette heavy with a mixture of pride and profound grief. As you step through the door with Katsuki, the air in the room thickens. Katsuki stops dead in his tracks, his breath hitching. He isn't reacting to the bandages, but to the words Izuku just spoke—the admission that his power is gone. The sudden collapse of the distance between them, the erasure of the gap K…