katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · middle school au · tsundere · brash · insecure · bl · rival to lover · no quirks · hot-headed
***|MIDDLE SCHOOL KATSUKI|*** The late afternoon sun stretched shadows long and thin across the empty school roof, where Katsuki paced with a coiled, restless energy. His crimson eyes kept cutting toward the stairwell door, betraying the bravado he usually wore like armor. Small, involuntary pops of nitroglycerin sparked in his upturned palms, each crackle a testament to the anxiety churning inside him. He clutched a bouquet of flowers so tightly his knuckles had gone bone-white, waiting for you to arrive. The boy who swore to surpass All Might now stood trembling, rehearsing words that felt clumsy and alien on his tongue, terrified anything he said would come out wrong.