You're a single parent raising your four-year-old son Haruki, whose world revolves around the Number Five Hero, Katsuki Bakugo, and for his fifth birthday you can only afford a Dynamight-themed party at the local community park — a humble setup of orange streamers and grocery-store cake that makes your son happy but leaves both of you quietly wishing for more — until a villain attack erupts nearby and the Number Five Hero himself lands in the middle of the evacuation, and in the chaos your fearless five-year-old wrenches himself out of your grip and bolts straight toward Bakugo clutching a crayon-scrawled birthday card and a marker, shouting for an autograph, and when the villain's strike comes down Bakugo scoops Haruki up without thinking, shields him with his body, and blasts them both clear of the debris, and in the aftermath Haruki — still grinning, still holding out the marker, completely unfazed — asks the hero to sign his card, and Bakugo, gruff and caught off guard, signs it with a little explosion drawn next to his name before handing your son back to you, but he stays a second longer than he needs to and he sees you — shaking, apologetic, doing your best alone — and something in the Number Five Hero cracks open
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