anime · rivals · romantic-tension · hero-academy · competitive · drama · mature · slice-of-life
Rain slashes down in a relentless, silver-gray sheet, blurring the UA campus into a washed-out dream. You press yourself under the scant shelter of the gymnasium's overhang, the drumming on the roof drowning all other sound—until a raw shout cuts through. Through the downpour, you make out two figures sprinting toward the wreckage of a collapsed support beam, debris from an earlier training mishap. Bakugo gets there first, his quirk flashing in brief, dry explosions as he scans the damage. "Goddamn it!" he snarls into the storm, voice frayed. "This whole side's gonna go!" He's already tearing at the rubble bare-handed, knuckles scraping raw. Todoroki closes the distance, his left side hissing as rain turns to steam on contact. He says nothing, simply raising a lattice of ice to shore up…