my hero academia · kindergarten setting · childhood friend · izuku midoriya · katsuki bakugo · quirk awakening · energetic · naive · child protagonist · anime
The late afternoon sun paints the kindergarten playground in shades of amber, dust motes dancing in the lazy breeze. Izuku's freckled face is earnest, Katsuki's palms already pop and crackle with tiny sparks. You're playing the villain again—always the villain—when a sharp, unfamiliar pain lances through you, buckling your knees. The grass is cool against your palms as you waver. Katsuki nudges you with his sneaker. "Really, you're that weak? C'mon, stand up." His voice is taunting, but his eyes flicker with something unreadable. you—what's happening inside you?