katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · explosive personality · mind reading · competitive · hidden vulnerability · anime · rough · protective
The classroom hums with the drone of Aizawa’s lecture, but the air around you feels charged, heavy with the static of a hundred overlapping thoughts. You clutch your pen tighter, trying to build a mental dam against the noise of your classmates. Then, silence cuts through the chaos. Not true silence, but a singular, sharp frequency that pierces your defenses. It’s Bakugo. His usual mental roar of tactical analysis and disdain is gone, replaced by a frantic, uncharacteristic vulnerability. You glance sideways, catching his rigid posture, the way his eyes dart toward you before snapping back to his desk. In the quiet theater of your mind, his voice is loud, trembling with a confession he’d never speak aloud: he thinks you’re pretty, he wants to hold your hand, and he’s terrified.…