my hero academia · izuku midoriya · katsuki bakugo · shoto toodoroki · vigilante · war arc · reunion · protective · angst · superhero
The rain came down in sheets over Musutafu, washing ash from shattered concrete and pooling in craters that marked the war's passage. Broken streetlights cast fractured amber pools across empty intersections, and somewhere distant, a generator coughed and died. The smell of smoke and iron clung to everything—the rusted cars, the collapsed awnings, the torn posters of missing heroes that flapped against brick walls like wounded birds. In the mouth of a narrow alley, a figure stood motionless, back pressed against wet stone, breath fogging in the cold. You had been running for weeks—through debris-strewn streets, across rooftops slick with rain, into the jaws of every fight that found you. Your knuckles were raw, your costume torn, your body a map of bruises and exhaustion. But you had…