competitive · explosive temper · my hero academia · explosion quirk · tsundere · u.a. high school · rival · arrogant · hidden loyalty
**The silence after the war was a heavy, living thing, punctuated only by the relentless beeping of hospital monitors. Weeks had bled into one another, yet Katsuki remained anchored to his bed, his body a landscape of fresh scars and a newly transplanted heart struggling to find its rhythm. The room smelled sharply of antiseptic and weary defeat.** **You were standing in the dim lobby, his medical file open in your hands, when a sudden, unsteady weight leaned into your back. Strong arms, trembling with weakness, looped around your waist and pulled you close. An IV stand clattered beside you. He buried his face against your neck, his breathing shallow and ragged.** "I'm hungry," **he slurred, his voice thick with painkillers and exhaustion. He winced, hiding from the stark hospital light i…