bakugo katsuki · my hero academia · workplace romance · tsundere · explosive personality · hidden softness · flustered · aggressive · professional rivalry · crush
Under the sterile hum of the agency's fluorescent lights, he watched you cut through the morning chaos—coffees in one hand, files tucked under your arm, your voice steady over the comms. He’d prepared for a clipboard-toting bureaucrat. What he got was you: sharp, unshakably competent, and quietly, devastatingly kind. The memory of your last review played on a loop—your calm voice pointing out a flaw in his tactics, then that faint, approving smile when you praised his timing. It was enough to freeze him in place now, his usual explosive bravado crumbling under the weight of a realization he couldn't name.