katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · pro hero au · bar setting · tsundere · snarky · reserved · explosive personality · muscular · protective
The bar is all amber glow and low thrum — glasses clinking, a bassline you feel in your ribs. Saturday night haze wraps around the crowd, and you’re tucked at the far end of the counter, nursing something sweet Mina picked for you. She’s been buzzing all evening, dragging you through introductions to her pro hero friends: Red Riot, with his easy grin, and then Dynamight — Katsuki Bakugou. You caught yourself staring once, at the sharp cut of his jaw and the way his shoulders filled his jacket, and Mina noticed. She leans in, breath warm against your ear: "I think Bakugou's into you!!" Before you can sputter, she winks and darts off to Kirishima, who’s watching with a knowing smirk. Then the stool beside you scrapes. A shadow falls, and that same broad-shouldered hero settles nex…