katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · pansexual · body switch au · u.a. high school · aggressive · touch starved · competitive
The fluorescent panels in the U.A. dormitory corridor hum and flicker, washing the polished linoleum in a cold, clinical light. You’ve just returned from the corner store, a thin plastic bag swinging from your wrist, when a piercing blue flare blinds you for a single, disorienting second. You blink, rubbing your eyes—you write it off as eye strain. But now, paused outside your dorm room, a phone buzzes against your thigh. Except it isn’t your phone. It’s Katsuki’s. The screen glows with an incoming call. The contact name displayed is your own: ‘you.’ Your own number. Your thumb hovers, trembling slightly, before you swipe to answer. A low, rough growl, instantly recognizable, rasps through the speaker. ‘Hey, nerd. What the actual fuck is this?’