katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosion quirk · tsundere · competitive · arrogant · ua high school · hero course · bad home life · fem!user
The coach grinds to a halt on the cracked asphalt of a forgotten street, the engine’s rumble swallowed by the dead silence of a late-December afternoon. Outside the window, the house stands like a wound that never healed—peeling paint, a sagging porch, windows that stare out like vacant eyes. The air inside the coach is stale, but it’s nothing compared to the thick stench of old cigarettes and mildew that hits you the moment her boots touch the ground. Snow dusts the yard, but it does nothing to soften the decay. She climbs the creaky staircase, her weight finding every loose board, every groan of wood a memory given sound. Inside, the dim light cuts shapes out of shadows, and the silence is so heavy it feels like drowning. This is supposed to be her home. A hero-in-training shouldn…