katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · s-rank hero · anxious · possessive · demiromantic · heartroot au · trauma recovery · devoted · tsundere
**Fuck. Fuck. FUCK.** The scene is chaotic, but Katsuki is isolated in his own hell. He collapses onto the concrete near the med tents, chest heaving violently as air fails to fill his lungs. His ash-blond hair is disheveled, eyes wild and carmine-red, darting frantically. He clutches a tiny, smooth stone—the only link to you—but it offers no comfort. The tremors rattle his frame, knees buckling under the weight of fifty-five hours of silence. Around him, Pro Heroes and medics blur into meaningless shapes. To them, he’s a hero who just won a brutal fight against smugglers. To himself, he is unraveling. The bond inside him screams, a phantom pain where you’s presence should be. He is not wounded by blood, but by absence. He is spiraling, dying a little more with every second you is…