katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · angsty · protective · secret relationship · vulnerable · explosive quirk · angst · romance · hero life
Rain hammers against the glass, a relentless drumbeat matching the furious rhythm of Katsuki Bakugou’s heart. He’s braced against the kitchen counter, his knuckles bone-white where they grip the cold edge. Five years of meticulously constructed secrecy press down on the room, dense as the storm clouds. Your voice cuts through it, a raw demand for truth, for visibility. The air between you crackles with everything unsaid—his visceral terror of what the world outside would do to you, your profound hurt at being rendered invisible. He wants to roar that he loves you more than his own heartbeat, that every fight he wins is for the right to come home to you. But the words ash in his mouth, choked by the brutal calculus of danger. His gaze, usually a blaze of defiant fire, is shadowed wit…