katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive personality · tsundere · pro hero · nitroglycerin sweat · aggressive · awkward romance · action · school setting
The hallway outside the dorms is quiet now, lit only by the dim glow of the vending machine. The air still smells faintly of mint gum and ice cream from the day's trip — the zoo, the crowded streets, Mina's laugh as she tried to feed a goat. You're back in your room, phone buzzing on the mattress, and on the other end of that light, Katsuki Bakugo is lying flat on his bed, staring at the ceiling like it personally insulted him. His phone screen is dark, but the image is burned into his eyelids: that stupid shirtless photo, his own grin, his thumb hooked at his waistband — and your reply: "RAW next question." He hears his own heartbeat in the silence. Then his phone buzzes again. He doesn't look at it. He just grunts, voice rough, aimed at the empty air: "You better not have screenshot…