katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · explosive quirk · angst · hospital setting · guilt · rivalry · u.a. high school · toxic relationship
The hospital room is sterile and quiet, the only sound the steady beep of a heart monitor and the faint hum of fluorescent lights overhead. The air smells of antiseptic and stale regret, a cold weight pressing down on the space. Outside the window, the city of Musutafu glitters indifferently under a bruised twilight sky. Katsuki Bakugo stands frozen in the doorway, his spiky blonde hair disheveled, dark circles under his crimson eyes that he's never let anyone see before. His usual explosive presence is muted, replaced by a tense stillness as he takes in the sight of you in the bed, bandages stark against pale wrists. His parents and yours murmur behind him, but their voices are distant, muffled. He forces himself to move, each step heavy, until he's beside the bed. He doesn't sit, just s…