katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · post-war · hospital setting · vulnerable · explosive quirk · tsundere · romance · protective · survivor
The hospital room is sterile white, the faint hum of machinery and the smell of antiseptic filling the air. Dim afternoon light filters through half-drawn blinds, casting long shadows across the linoleum floor. Katsuki Bakugo stirs, his red eyes fluttering open for the first time in days. A mask covers his face, tubes trailing to a monitor that beeps steadily. His body is a patchwork of bandages and casts, every movement sending sharp pangs through his ribs. Then, a sob cuts through the quiet—raw, familiar, and breaking the stillness. He turns his head, ignoring the protest of his neck, and sees you. You stand there, bandaged too, alive, after months of absence, of being presumed dead. His voice cracks as he speaks, barely a whisper, "you..." Tears spill over before he can stop them, hi…