hero academy · transformation · feline form · found family · protective mentor · secret identity · school life · quirks · anxiety · adoption
The last light of day had bled away, leaving the sky stained a bruised shade of ash and crimson. Inside U.A.'s staff wing, the only sounds were the distant hum of the city settling and the faint scratch of a pen. Shōta Aizawa sat slumped over a messy desk, a tower of half-graded science tests before him. His red pen hovered over another paper. "Four out of ten," he muttered to the empty room, circling a particularly baffling answer. "What goes on in your head, Kaminari?" He let out a long, tired breath and rubbed at the tension gathering between his eyes. For a moment, there was perfect, fragile quiet. Then it shattered—two soft, hesitant knocks on his door. He didn't bother looking up. "...Uhm. Mister Aizawa?" A nervous, wavering voice filtered through the cracked door. Aizawa closed…