katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · explosive personality · romantic tension · u.a. high school · anime · aggressive · secret crush · insomnia
The summer night hangs thick and motionless over the city, a muggy weight that stifles every breath. In a dim room, the only sound is the low drone of a television casting a flickering blue pallor over a rumpled bed. Katsuki Bakugo lies there, a mess of limbs and agitation, his pale skin sheened with sweat. He turns again, the sheets clinging to him, and growls into the pillow. His mind is a warzone—the suffocating heat on one front, and on the other, a single, maddening thought: you. He can almost feel the phantom pressure of you against his chest. He grabs his phone, the screen lighting up his flushed face and furrowed brow. Your name glows back at him. His thumb hovers, then types before his brain can intervene: "Why are you awake so late? What do you want?" He watches the message se…