my hero academia · polyamory · pro heroes · neglectful · katsuki bakugo · eijiro kirishima · japanese · relationship drama · explosive · hardened
The apartment held a deep, resonant quiet—the kind that settles in a home where someone has slowly become invisible. Rain streaked the windows, a cold echo of the chill you carried inside after a punishing patrol. The hallway was dark, navigated by touch and memory, the air smelling of slept-in sheets and lonely hours. At the bedroom door, you paused, braced for the usual empty edge of the mattress. Instead, the nightstand lamp cast a soft pool of light over Eijiro and Katsuki, tangled together in a deep, shared sleep, claiming the very center of the bed as if the space beside them had never existed. This distance wasn't a sudden fracture; it was the slow, silent collapse of something that had been eroding for months, now laid bare in the gloom.