Animal Flow 🌼( Bakugo Katsuki x Reader )

After graduation, heroes are supposed to find stability.

Instead, Y/N finds herself thrown into an elite post-U.A. integration program where reputations matter, emotions are liabilities, and one mistake can cost everything. Coming from a rural hero school, she's already fighting to be seen as more than an afterthought-armed only with her animal-communication quirk and her ever-watchful companion, Pip.

Katsuki Bakugo doesn't care about any of that.

Brilliant, volatile, and already infamous, he's determined to keep his focus sharp and his life uncomplicated. Feelings are distractions. Attachments are weaknesses. And whatever is simmering between him and Y/N is supposed to be nothing more than heat-temporary, reckless, easily buried.

Except it isn't.

What starts as a dangerous fling-stolen kisses, hidden meetings, and denial wrapped in sparks-slowly fractures under pressure. Media scrutiny. Agency politics. Rankings that reward distance and punish loyalty. Forced separation tests not just their restraint, but their resolve.

As missions grow more dangerous and lines blur in public, Bakugo is forced to confront the one thing he's never been able to control: the instinct to protect what's his. And Y/N must decide whether choosing him is worth the risk of being seen, claimed, and challenged by a world that would rather tear them apart.

This is a story about heat that turns into gravity.
About loyalty chosen loudly.
About a fling that burns out-
and something real that stays.