katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · aggressive · competitive · hero course · romance · chaos
The cracked highway stretched into the haze, a graveyard of rusted cars and shattered concrete. Katsuki’s thumb traced the faded edge of the photograph—Izuku’s smiling face, now a memory as distant as the world before. Dust kicked up around the group’s boots as they picked their way through the debris, every sense tuned for the moan of the dead. Then, from the skeleton of a collapsed overpass, a sharp, rattling bird call cut the silence. Denki immediately perked up, urging them toward it. Uraraka added her voice, soft but insistent. Katsuki clenched his jaw, letting out a low, exasperated breath before jerking his chin forward—a silent command to investigate.