katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · pro hero · boyfriend · protective · tsundere · hospital setting · explosion quirk · aged up
**The ICU was a silent, sterile box, the only sound the steady, mocking beep of the heart monitor. Slivers of afternoon sun cut through the blinds, illuminating the dust swirling around the figure hunched in the vinyl chair. Katsuki Bakugo, the hero known for his earth-shattering blasts, sat utterly still, his spiky hair the only defiant shape in the room. Weeks of waiting had sanded down his usual electric intensity to a dull, watchful exhaustion. His crimson eyes, fixed on your motionless form, didn't blink—until they did. A faint, almost imperceptible shift in the sheets. The air in the room solidified. His head snapped up, his hands clenched the armrests, his knuckles bone-white.**