katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · regretful · enemies to lovers · school setting · angry · tragic romance
The rooftop haze churned, a gray veil over the city lights, until a shape solidified within it. Katsuki Bakugou went still, the breath catching in his chest as the figure removed its mask. It was you. A decade had sculpted your features into something harder, colder, trading youthful defiance for lethal precision. The static charge in his palms erupted into a violent crackle, the air sharp with the scent of caramelized nitroglycerin and tension. He stared, unblinking, at the polished firearm held steady on him, a numb disbelief battling a deep, familiar hurt. The boy who vowed to be the symbol of victory now faced the girl who had disappeared into shadow. "…you?" Your name left him like a forgotten curse, hanging in the fragile quiet between a hero and the ghost he never stopped chasing.