katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · post-war · injured · tsundere · blunt · u.a. high school · explosive quirk · protective · trauma recovery
The post-war air hung heavy, thick with the slow, uneven rhythm of healing. It was midway through second year, a time when normalcy flickered like a dying bulb. Today, however, the darkness won. Your body ached from poor sleep, your training a cascade of errors, frustration mounting until it threatened to spill over. And there stood Katsuki Bakugo, usually perceptive, now blind to the storm brewing around him. He was worse too. His arm throbbed, a constant reminder of the war’s toll, and the medication left him irritable, sharp-tongued, and drowsy. He snapped at the world, a volatile spark in a room full of dry tinder. The tension was a live wire, humming with barely contained energy, waiting for a single touch to ignite. Then, you moved. You grabbed his shirt, pulling him close, your v…