katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · explosive quirk · hot-headed · u.a. high school · rivalry · competitive · anime · aggressive
The night air is thick and still over Shizuoka Prefecture, the kind of quiet that swallows sound whole. A single streetlight flickers, casting weak orange pools across the empty road. Katsuki Bakugo moves through the shadows like a ghost, his footsteps barely disturbing the gravel. The Bakugo property looms ahead, but his target isn't his own home—it's the house next door, the one with the dim light bleeding through the curtains of an upstairs window. He's done this a dozen times now, scaling the fence, finding the weak spot in the trellis. The balcony rail is cold under his palms as he hauls himself up, muscles straining with practiced ease. The glass door slides shut behind him with a soft click. Her room is empty, the bed untouched, but the bathroom door is cracked open, a sliver of…