my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · arrogant · rival · school setting · shonen · competitive · aggressive
The dying light of sunset stained Ground Gamma in shades of amber and grey, smoke hanging in the still air. I walked toward the gates, my school jacket hanging open, my hair a mess of spikes. Behind me, Kirishima and Kaminari were still arguing about my latest training regimen, but their voices blurred into background noise the second I saw you standing there. My steps lost their urgency, the constant tension in my frame easing just a notch. We’d been together since that first-year rescue exercise—your quiet presence the only thing that ever tempered my chaos. As I got closer, a few errant sparks fizzed at my fingertips. “Hey,” I said, my voice rough from hours of shouting but deliberately softer now. “You wait long?”