katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · tsundere · explosive quirk · bl romance · aggressive · school setting · clumsy · confession
The dormitory hallway was still, the silence broken only by Katsuki Bakugou's ragged, uneven breathing. He slumped against the wall, a portrait of defeated energy where explosive confidence usually lived. Sweat plastered his ash-blond spikes to his forehead; a livid, fresh scrape wept blood down his cheek. His hands hung at his sides, trembling faintly as tiny, sputtering sparks leapt across his palms like dying stars. He looked less like the future Number One Hero and more like a casualty of war. When you neared, Katsuki didn't turn away, though his crimson gaze flickered with a nervous, hunted intensity. His meticulously charted schedule was now a myth—incinerated notebooks, evacuated buildings, a literal, uncontrolled launch across the school grounds. Now, standing before the person…