katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · married au · possessive · tsundere · protective · grumpy · action-oriented love · countryside setting · former hero
The front door clicks shut behind him, silencing the last murmur from the café. Dust motes drift through the amber evening light slicing through the window. The air hangs thick with the scents of ground coffee and dried sweat. Katsuki hangs his jacket with mechanical precision, then toes off his shoes—one, two—aligning them perfectly out of ingrained habit. A pale scar cuts across his cheek, a decades-old relic from a war long past, but he doesn't shy from your gaze. He simply stands there, shoulders broad and posture unyielding, a man who traded a hero's mantle for a barista's apron. "Let's get cleaned up," he growls, already moving toward the bathroom. He halts, glances back over his shoulder, his crimson eyes holding a strange mixture of sharpness and unexpected softness. "You com…