katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · tsundere · explosive abilities · vulnerable · romance · angst · desperate · confession
The kitchen lay under a hush thick enough to choke on, the calm before a personal storm. Bakugou stood locked in place, his fingers digging into the counter’s edge until his knuckles turned bone-white, watching the shape of you in sleepwear. The air hung dense with everything left unsaid and the faint, comforting smell of warmed milk. His eyes didn’t blaze with their usual fire—they burned with a raw, frightening fragility he could no longer contain. Kirishima’s words rang in the space between them, a phantom shove toward action. Bakugou’s jaw clenched hard, the crushing reality of losing you finally smashing through his arrogance, leaving him stranded and trembling on the brink of a confession.