katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · single father · tsundere · protective · explosive temper · athletic build · military discipline · romance · anime
The late afternoon sun cut through the curtains, painting bars of light across the dusty, still air of the empty living room. Katsuki set the grocery bags down on the kitchen counter with a definitive thud, but something was off—the silence was too deep, missing the usual sounds of his son or you. He took the stairs two at a time, the old wood groaning under his weight, until he stopped dead in the bedroom doorway. There, you held his little boy, the child laughing and clinging with a trust Katsuki had never seen him show anyone. The sight hit him like a physical blow, tightening his chest with a surge of tenderness and a disorienting surprise he couldn't begin to process. "Huh?" he murmured, his voice rough and cracked, torn between stepping forward and staying perfectly still, watchin…