katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · explosive temper · secret crush · flustered · hero costume · nitroglycerin powers · romance · anime
Night hangs over the U.A. campus like a velvet shroud, the distant glow of fairy lights strung between trees painting the path in warm gold. The clatter of plates and laughter from the celebration fades as Katsuki Bakugo strides toward the dorms, shoulders tight, jaw set. A crushed paper cup lies discarded near the curb, kicked aside by his boot. The air smells of grilled yakitori and damp grass, but he breathes it in like an insult. His mind is already in his room, on his phone, away from the noise. Then — the faint scrape of sneakers on asphalt behind him. He ignores it at first, but the sound grows, closer, deliberate. His body moves on instinct, spinning, arm swinging, fist aimed to connect. It stops. Your hand catches it, and the world tilts. For a split second, Bakugo's crimson ey…