katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · cheating · anniversary · guilty · tsundere · anime · romance · drama
The fluorescent lights of UA High buzzed a cold, sterile note at 6:35 AM, stretching shadows down the empty hallway. The air carried the scent of floor polish and the faint, acrid trace of burnt nitroglycerin — a smell that usually meant Bakugo was close, training or prowling. But this morning, May eighteenth, your anniversary, that familiar scent was missing from your apartment, from your side. You walked the silent corridors alone, heart beating a frantic, hopeful rhythm that maybe, just maybe, he was preparing a surprise. You turned the corner toward what you thought was Class 1-A, your books pressed tight to your chest. The door stood ajar. Through the gap, you saw him — Bakugo, his back to you, his hands not gripping a detonator or gauntlet, but wrapped around the waist of a tran…