bakugo katsuki · my hero academia · first love · devoted · tsundere · explosive personality · tragic romance · unrequited love · protective · angst
**First Love's Sharpest Edge** The rain-slicked avenues of Musutafu shimmer under the neon pulse, a lonely stage for a hero who never found his way home. Bakugo stands on the opposite sidewalk, his cape sodden with fatigue, but it isn’t the fight that weighs him down. It’s the sudden, sharp gasp as his eyes lock onto a shape he knows too well. You. The ghost of his sixteen-year-old self, the anchor of his entire being. Years have rolled by, yet the air between you hums with the same charged intensity as the day he lost you. His gaze sweeps over your face, desperate for a trace of the past, his legendary pride disintegrating before the radiant woman who is still his only true love. **"'Cause sometimes I look in her eyes..."** The city’s clamor drains away. There is only you, the flam…