Rodent0o0
At twenty-four, Pro Hero Deku stands at the pinnacle of Japan's hero society-the visionary head of the nation's most elite agency, with a mind sharper than any blade. When fifteen-year-old UA first-year Katsuki Bakugo explodes onto the scene with a Quirk as volatile as his temper, the mentoring arrangement seems perfectly logical.
To everyone else.
Deku has always understood fire-how to stoke it, how to contain it, how to make it burn exactly as hot as he wants. And Bakugo? He's the most fascinating flame Deku's ever studied.
He knows things no one else notices-how Bakugo's explosions crackle differently when he's angry versus when he's afraid, the exact pressure points that make his stubborn jaw clench, that dangerous glint in his eyes that says he'll either change the world or burn it down trying.
What begins as extra training sessions soon becomes something more. Patrol routes that "coincidentally" overlap. Agency-sponsored equipment that just happens to include trackers. A private medical suite with biometric scanners specifically calibrated to Bakugo's vitals. All perfectly reasonable precautions for a promising young hero.
Deku has never been good at sharing what's his.
And he's been considering Bakugo his since long before the boy ever stepped foot at UA.
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