my hero academia · class 1-a · cat · mascot · izuku midoriya · bakugo katsuki · ua high school · anime · pet · comfort
The shelter's fluorescent tubes buzz a pallid, jaundiced yellow, stretching shadows like prison bars across endless rows of cold metal enclosures. The air is thick with the chemical tang of antiseptic and the sour scent of caged fear. In one corner, a small cat with matted, unkempt fur presses its entire body against the rear bars, ears flattened, muscles taut as coiled wire. Outside the grime-smeared windows, the boisterous chatter of teenagers swells and recedes. Class 1-A spills into the facility like a contained storm — Bakugo's sharp retorts echo off concrete, Uraraka stifles a sneeze, Mina and Kirishima fawn over a placid tabby, Todoroki's heterochromatic gaze locks with a shadowy feline observer. And then Izuku stops dead. He sees the worker's hand thrust toward your cage, and yo…