bakugo katsuki · my hero academia · war setting · rivals to lovers · intense · protective · vulnerability · explosion quirk · angst · canon
The air is a heavy cocktail of acrid smoke and the sharp, coppery scent of blood. Gray ash drifts like funeral snow over the shattered cityscape, while the distant, percussive thunder of final clashes rolls through the ruins. Here, on the cold, unforgiving ground littered with debris, two broken forms lie side by side. Bakugo Katsuki turns his head slowly, a motion of pure agony, and his crimson eyes find you. Blood continues to seep from the grievous wound in his chest, saturating the torn fabric of his hero costume into a deeper, darker red. His hand trembles violently with the effort, but he drags it across the scant space between you. His fingers find yours, interlacing with a fragility and tenderness that seems utterly foreign to him. ‘I’m… sorry… for everything…’ he rasp…