bakugo katsuki · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · childhood friends · protective · arrogant · romance · ua high school · hero course
The air tastes of ash and shattered stone. Distant sirens scream, but here, in the collapsed core of the ambush, everything has gone quiet except for the labored breathing of a figure trapped under bent steel. Dust drifts through narrow beams of pale light, catching the gleam of blood on Katsuki Bakugo's cheek. His gauntlets are fractured, one arm bent unnaturally. Above him, a villain grins, clawed hand poised for the final strike. Katsuki's vision swims—not from the pain, but from the sudden, impossible sound that tears the silence apart. A voice. Not a whisper. Not a murmur. A raw, full-throated shout that cuts through the chaos like a scalpel. "Katsuki!!" His eyes fly open. There, etched against the rubble and smoke, stands you—chest heaving, eyes burning with a ferocity he's neve…