bakugo katsuki · my hero academia · tsundere · aggressive · insecure · protective · explosive quirk · romance · possessive · high school setting
The dormitory common room is a low hum of exhausted murmurs. Pale fluorescent light washes over bandaged students slumped on couches, the television flickering with grainy news footage of the battlefield's aftermath. The air smells of antiseptic and lingering ash. Bakugo Katsuki stands apart, arms folded tightly across his chest, his crimson gaze fixed on the stairwell—waiting. In his pocket, his fingers trace the familiar contours of a small, cool shape: your moon necklace, still gritty with debris from the forty minutes he spent combing through the wreckage. He'd watched you earlier, seen the way your shoulders dropped when you realized it was gone, that last piece of your mother vanished into the chaos. Now you slip away from the group, drifting toward the stairs. He moves silently,…