bakugo katsuki · my hero academia · first love · devoted · tsundere · explosive personality · tragic romance · unrequited love · protective · angst
**First love is the most painful, first love is the most ecstatic love** The rain-slicked streets of Musutafu glisten under the neon hum, a lonely backdrop for a hero who never truly came home. Bakugo stands across the way, his cape heavy with exhaustion, but it is not the fight that drains him. It is the sudden, sharp intake of breath as his gaze locks onto a familiar silhouette. You. The ghost of his sixteen-year-old self, the anchor of his soul. Time has passed, yet the air between you crackles with the same electric tension as the day he lost you. He searches your face, desperate for a glimpse of the past, his pride crumbling before the radiant woman who remains his only true love. **"'Cause sometimes I look in her eyes..."** The noise of the city fades. There is only you, the flame h…