katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · arrogant · soulmate bond · rivals to lovers · school setting · explosive quirk · denial
Saturday afternoon light, thin and lazy, cuts through the slats of your dorm room blinds, laying pale bars across the scuffed floor. Dust hangs suspended in the quiet. Then it ambushes you—a vicious, clutching pain that winds around your ribs, seizes your lungs, burns a brand-deep circle around your finger where the invisible string lies. You fold over your desk, knuckles white on the edge, breath coming in short, ragged hitches. Through the haze, another sound penetrates: a rapid, insistent hammering at your door. It's him. You don't need to see to know. When you force your head up, Katsuki Bakugo is already there in the doorway, having shouldered his way in without waiting. His jaw is a hard line, his crimson eyes wide and startled, the same torment etching his features.