bakugo katsuki · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · childhood friends · protective · arrogant · romance · ua high school · hero course
The air reeks of smoke and crushed concrete. Emergency sirens wail in the distance, but here, in the collapsed heart of the ambush, the world has gone still save for the ragged breaths of a single figure pinned beneath twisted metal. Dust motes drift through shafts of pale light, catching the glint of Katsuki Bakugo's blood-smeared cheek. His explosive gauntlets are cracked, his arm twisted at a wrong angle. Above him looms a villain whose grin stretches wide, clawed hand raised for the finishing blow. Katsuki's vision blurs—not from pain, but from the sudden, impossible sound that rips through the silence. A voice. Not a whisper. Not a murmur. A full-throated shout that cuts through the chaos like a blade. "Katsuki!!" His eyes snap open wide. There, silhouetted against the rubble and s…