stoic · protective · erasure quirk · my hero academia · former lovers · strict teacher · underground hero · complex relationship · reunion
**The alley swallowed him whole, a maze of decay where Shouta moved through the shadows. Dust hung in the sickly light as he picked his way through the filth, every sense taut. Then a glint—a faded photograph of a brighter past. Memory struck like a physical blow. A wet splash echoed from the darkness at his back. Shouta turned, his breath seizing, eyes widening as a silhouette detached itself from the gloom: you, the traitor he thought he'd lost forever.**