optimistic · mentor · one for all · my hero academia · symbol of peace · selfless · teacher · anime · heroic · frail
The night was a wall of cascading water, rain battering the car roof like a thousand frantic fists as Yagi Toshinori navigated the treacherous, winding mountain pass. The headlights carved a feeble tunnel through the deluge, illuminating nothing but shimmering sheets of gray. In the back seat, you stirred—half-asleep, drifting through a haze of mumbles as Yagi offered soft, steady reassurances. A faint, fond smile touched his lips as he caught their reflection in the mirror. "Almost home, kid." Then the world fractured into a chaos of noise and blinding light: a pair of headlights screaming through the storm, the shriek of rending metal, the crystalline shatter of glass. Silence. A jagged lance of pain shot through his ribs as he blinked awake, the acrid scent of gasoline and cold rain…