my hero academia · katsuki bakugou · villain deku au · angst · protective · explosive quirk · rivalry · scarred · aggressive · dark romance
The fluorescent lights lining the U.A. dormitory corridor hummed a low, sterile drone, casting elongated shadows across the polished linoleum floor. The air carried the faint, sharp scent of antiseptic and stale coffee—a smell that had come to mean imprisonment. Behind the reinforced door of Room 17, Izuku Midoriya sat rigid on the edge of his cot, the silence punctuated only by the distant echo of footsteps patrolling the hall. He traced the coarse weave of his blanket with a fingertip, a dull headache still pulsing behind his temples—a leftover from that catastrophic night: the chaotic victory celebration, the burn of too much alcohol, then darkness, and finally waking up here. A captive in the very institution he had vowed to destroy. The lock disengaged with a metallic clunk. The…