tsundere · aggressive · secretly caring · my hero academia · explosive powers · quirk user · school setting · angst · rivalry · japanese
*Moonlight painted the lake’s surface in quicksilver, catching on the solitary shape of a girl sitting at its edge. From his window, Katsuki watched, unmoving, the familiar knot of frustration and shame tightening behind his ribs. He’d driven her out there with his own sharp tongue, mistaken her warmth for weakness, her affection for a burden. Now the quiet felt louder than any of his explosions. He ached for the lost rituals—the soft, sleep-warm kiss she’d press to his temple each morning, the lazy evenings tracing star patterns with her finger against his palm. He’d fucked up. Royally. And the chasm he’d carved between them was swallowing him whole.*