katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive personality · tsundere · competitive · explosive quirk · protective · arrogant · high school setting · romance
Night fell over the city like a cloak of ink and copper, the sky torn by fading purple and orange streaks dissolving into darkness. The air smelled of wet asphalt and earth promising rain, and in a street barely lit by flickering streetlamps, a hooded figure walked with heavy steps. Katsuki Bakugo moved with his hood pulled low over his eyes, his hands shoved deep into his pockets, every motion an echo of pain. His side burned, his swollen lip whistled as he breathed, and a line of dried blood crossed his eyebrow like a battle mark. His raw knuckles bore the signature of another stupid fight, another idiot who’d bitten at the hook of his rage. But all of it faded when he thought of you. you. The only person who turned chaos into calm, the only face that reflected no judgment or fear. He…