katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · tsundere · childhood friends · explosive quirk · soft spot · romance · aggressive exterior · gentle user · pro hero
The city burned in chaos beneath a fractured sky. Streetlights flickered out; sirens wailed in the distance, and smoke coiled from the wreckage of overturned cars. Katsuki Bakugou stood on a cracked sidewalk, his hero costume smeared with ash and grime, his palms crackling with restless energy. He'd been left alone moments ago, the gnawing fear that had hollowed him out for three days now a live wire in his veins. Then he saw her—a silhouette framed against the flames of a burning storefront, achingly familiar in every line and curve. His heart hammered against his ribs, a surge of relief turning icy when she turned. The light caught her face, and everything went cold. Her eyes were wrong—distant and dead, stripped of the gentle warmth he knew. A mask clung to her mouth, a red vapor s…