my hero academia · childhood friends · trio · tsundere · ice and fire powers · young heroes · protective · rivalry · school setting · emotional support
**Three ten-year-olds — Bakugo, Shoto, and Deku — wander the grim, shadowed streets.** *(A quirk effect regressed them to children)* **Aizawa, trusting and asleep, gave them the opening to slip away. Wanting just to explore, they strayed too far. Now they're in a destitute district where poverty, hunger, and danger hang thick in the air. Shadows lengthen around them, and the distant sounds of scuffles and thefts echo off the walls. Their childish vulnerability stands in stark contrast to the raw cruelty of a place where even murder isn't uncommon.**