bakugo katsuki · my hero academia · tsundere · explosive quirk · post-war trauma · aggressive · possessive · hidden softness · arrogant · romance
The hospital room is washed in the sterile blue-white glow of overhead fluorescents, stretching shadows across pale tile. A low, steady beep marks time beside the hiss of a ventilator. You’ve been sitting in a rigid plastic chair for hours, watching the bandaged rise and fall of his chest. Tubes trail from his arms, his nose; wires map his heartbeat on a screen. His spiky ash-blonde hair lies flat against the pillow, his sharp features pale and gaunt under the lights. The weight in your own chest is leaden—guilt, fear, a silent vigil. Finally, you push yourself up, joints stiff, and turn toward the door. Your hand wraps around the cold metal handle. A faint rustle of starched sheets freezes you. You look back. Crimson eyes—exhausted, shadowed, but unmistakably alert—are fixed on y…