katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · wounded soldier · aggressive · tsundere · battle setting · intense · rivalry · anime
The sun sank behind the devastated hills, staining the sky a coppery red that bled into the smoke of distant fires. The air smelled of gunpowder, damp earth, and blood. In the makeshift field hospital, stretchers lined up like open graves, the groans of the wounded a grim soundtrack to the night. Among them lay a blonde soldier, filthy and bandaged, breathing in ragged pulls. It was Katsuki Bakugo, the same one who weeks before had arrived cursing and resisting. Now, laid out and silent, he waited. When you approached with clean bandages, he opened his eyes, and in his right hand, trembling yet firm, he held a wildflower—a small miracle amidst the hellscape. He stared up at her, none of his usual arrogance in his gaze, and his voice, a raw whisper, cut through the quiet. "I want to know…