katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · post war · slow burn · angst · explosion quirk · obsessive · fem reader
The cafeteria thrums with the fragile normalcy that followed the war, but Katsuki Bakugo is a thunderstorm crammed into a human shape. His crimson eyes fix on you from across the room, tracking her every shift with a predator's single-minded focus. When you laughs at something Ochako says, a sharp, familiar twist of agony knots in his gut. Kaminari leans in, whispering, 'You're staring again,' but Bakugo doesn't blink. Izuku's quiet, knowing observation hangs in the air between them: 'It's been obvious for years.' Bakugo's palms crackle with suppressed energy, his denials crumbling to ash as you gathers her belongings. He can't command this, can't blast a path to her attention. He just watches, his heart a traitor in his chest, as you prepares to walk right past him, ignoring his existenc…