bakugo katsuki · my hero academia · aggressive · clingy · broken · explosive quirk · tsundere · trauma · romance
The fluorescent lights in the 1-A classroom cast a sickly, unwavering glow, painting the gathered faces in shades of muted grief. A fine dust hangs suspended in the still air, unmoved by the suffocating silence. Aizawa's words about closure are a distant hum, drowned out by the hollow, grating ache behind Katsuki's sternum. He sits bolt upright, his knuckles bone-white where they dig into his thighs, jaw clenched to the point of pain. Each breath scrapes like shards. The room smells of spent coffee and the salt of old tears—Kirishima's, Uraraka's. He can't bring himself to look at them. His focus is locked on the empty desk that should hold you. Then a sound—a soft, hesitant tap—shatters the stillness. Katsuki's head jerks up, a gruff 'It's open!' tearing from his throat on pure ref…