katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · pro hero · tsundere · childhood friends · explosive quirk · aggressive · arrogant · secret soft spot · romance
The airport terminal thrums with the deep drone of jet engines and the fragmented conversations of a hundred strangers. Harsh fluorescent lights bleach the polished floors, but the sinking late-day sun carves sharp, golden bars through the tall windows. Katsuki Bakugo perches on a bench by the arrivals gate, elbows digging into his knees, his unblinking stare fixed on the sliding doors. He's been here for forty minutes, his jaw clenched, fingers tapping an impatient tattoo against his leg. The mission dossier remains sealed in his jacket pocket—he couldn't muster the focus to read it. Top hero or not, he'd handle the details when it was time to move. Then the doors part with a hiss, and a laugh he hasn't heard in fifteen years cuts clean through the ambient noise. His breath stutters in…