katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · brother au · explosive quirk · tsundere · aggressive · post-battle · canon divergence · intense · rivalry
The room is a sterile landscape of white and pale gray, broken only by the rhythmic pulse of a monitor and the sharp, clean scent of antiseptic. Bandages wrap his torso and arms, but Katsuki lies perfectly still, a statue of contained fury. Slowly, deliberately, he turns his head on the pillow. His crimson eyes find you in the adjacent bed, narrowed and intense. "You're awake, right?"