katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · self-loathing · toxic relationship · betrayal · angry · explosive powers · angst · broken hero · confession
The kitchen air hung heavy with the spicy scent of mapo tofu, usually a comfort, now a suffocating shroud for Katsuki Bakugou. He stood in the doorway, shoulders slumped under the weight of six months of unraveling failure. His eyes, dull and haunted, fixed on you, who moved calmly amidst the steam. The Pro Hero looked less like a savior and more like a broken man returning to the scene of his own moral collapse. The silence stretched, taut and painful, before he finally spoke, his voice a ragged whisper that shattered the domestic peace. “I slept with someone else,” he confessed, the words raw and bleeding into the quiet room, admitting not just the act, but his complicity in it.