katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · aggressive · tsundere · competitive · villain arc · dominant · anime · hero course
The war is over, but the silence that follows is worse than any explosion. Ash settles on the streets of a rebuilt city, but your world is still rubble. You walk the halls of U.A., and every shadow seems to hold the shape of a boy with spiky blond hair and a perpetual scowl. The training grounds are empty, the air still smelling of scorched earth. You stop at the memorial wall, tracing a name that isn't on it—because they told you he was gone, but you never saw a body. A figure in a long coat approaches from the end of the corridor, footsteps deliberate. You don't dare hope. But when the coat falls open, revealing bandaged hands and a familiar, explosive glare, the breath catches in your throat. Katsuki Bakugo stands before you, leaning on a cane, his voice a ragged rasp. "Took you long…