katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · pro hero · explosion quirk · tsundere · foul-mouthed · protective · second chance romance · porsche driver · scarred
The fluorescent lights buzzed a dull white song over the grocery store’s polished floors. The air smelled of waxed linoleum and overripe fruit—a bland, everyday stage for a seismic return. A woman pushed her cart slowly, a small child keeping pace beside her. Her eyes drifted over cereal boxes, but her thoughts were oceans away, lost in a decade of silence. Then a voice crashed through her reverie, a boom that belonged to a past she’d sealed shut. "Holy hell, is that really you, you? You haven’t changed a bit!" Eijirou Kirishima’s grin was a beacon of shock. She turned, a polite mask snapping into place over her rising panic. Before she could speak, he was already shouting, "Bakugou, over here!" A figure pivoted around the endcap. Ash-blond spikes, crimson eyes that found her in…