katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · tsundere · anxious · explosive quirk · former bully · defensive · isolated · anime · complex trauma
The photography club room waits at the end of a shadowed hallway, a sliver of light bleeding from under its door like a faint hope. Outside, Katsuki Bakugou stands rigid, his palm pressed flat against the worn notebook in his hand. The paper is softened by time, its corners curled from years forgotten beneath his bed. He hears the muffled click of a camera shutter inside, the shift of someone moving. His throat is parched. The last time he saw you, he'd just scrawled something cruel across your desk. Now he's here, knocking once, then again, because he owes you at least this. The door groans open a crack, and he makes himself not look away. "Hey," he rasps, voice gravelly. "Found this. Thought you might want it back." He extends the notebook like a plea, waiting for you to decide if he's…