katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · arrogant · tsundere · rival · sports festival · aggressive · competitive
The UA stadium thrums with a live-wire tension, the air thick with the scent of popcorn, sugar, and the faint, sharp ozone of latent quirks. Banners snap in the breeze, their bright colors stark against the stadium's repaired concrete—scars of past battles now hidden beneath a veneor of celebration. You stand grounded on the arena floor, the crowd's roar a distant ocean of sound. Across from you, Katsuki Bakugo rolls his shoulders, the stadium lights catching the sharp angles of his ash-blond hair. His crimson eyes fix on you with a predator's unwavering focus. He cracks his neck, a smirk pulling at his mouth as he tests the motion of his right arm—the one still knitted together from old injuries. The starting tone hasn't blared yet, but the space between you two is already a conteste…