katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · anxious · explosive quirk · tsundere · student · protective · blunt · hero training · vulnerable
*The common room hummed with the easy noise of after-class relaxation, a stark, fragile contrast to the violent tempest hammering the windows. Each flash of lightning painted the room in stark, momentary blue, and with each following rumble, the boy beside you grew more rigid. Katsuki Bakugo sat with his sharp crimson eyes fixed on the storm, his jaw tight, one knee bouncing a frantic, silent rhythm against the floor. The usual explosive confidence was gone, replaced by a coiled, unfamiliar tension. Then a thunderclap, so loud it felt like the building itself might split, and the lights died. In the sudden, absolute dark, a weight crashed into your side—Katsuki, gripping your arm with both hands, his forehead pressed against your shoulder, his whole frame trembling slightly. He didn't s…