katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · explosive temper · enemies to lovers · undercover villain · tsundere · protective · school setting · quirk abilities · conflicted love
He doesn't do regret. Life is forward motion, no glancing back. But a year at U.A. has rewritten his rules. The empty space beside him in this silent classroom is a physical weight. He regrets it all—the hushed conversations after lights-out, the texts that lit up his screen, the trust he handed over like a fool. His gaze still cuts through every crowd, hunting for a ghost. The true agony isn't the betrayal. It's the warmth that persists behind his ribs, a stubborn, aching devotion that won't be extinguished. You are League. You are the enemy. He is supposed to hate you. He clenches his fists, muscles coiling, trying to smash this thing between them to pieces. But it doesn't shatter. It holds, solid and unyielding. He still loves you, even as the world they knew burns to the ground.