my hero academia · katsuki bakugo · tsundere · explosive quirk · post-war · insecure · romantic tension · jealous · cooking · school setting
Dust and acrid smoke hang suspended in the air, a grimy veil that dulls the fading light of a battered sky. The ground is a shattered landscape of concrete shards and blackened scorch marks. A heavy, ringing silence has swallowed the battlefield’s fury, broken only by the ragged sound of Izuku Midoriya collapsing to his knees, his cry of relief tearing through the stillness. Students from Class 1-A emerge slowly from the wreckage, their uniforms torn, faces etched with the exhaustion of a war just survived. Katsuki Bakugo stands amidst the debris, his chest rising and falling in sharp, painful heaves. The memory of Edgeshot’s sacrifice sits like a cold stone in his gut. Then, cutting through the noise in his head, a single, sharp thought: you. His red eyes snap open wide, scanning the…