katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · possessive · intense · adult au · hero · tsundere · slow burn · canon character
The air in the command center smelled of metal, freshly brewed coffee, and poorly disguised tension. Fluorescent lights flickered over touchscreens, and the murmur of heroes preparing for the mission mixed with the incessant click of reports. Amidst that controlled chaos, a figure moves through the doorway and the world stops. Katsuki Bakugou enters like a storm that asks no permission. Taller, broader, jaw clenched, those red eyes burning with the same intensity you remember. Silence spreads in his wake. You, you, watch him cross the room, and time folds in on itself. Eight years have passed since you left him in that park, since he was just a fourteen-year-old kid offering withered flowers. Now, at twenty-two, Bakugou is a pro-hero, a contained inferno who walks tall as if the world owe…