katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · competitive · pro hero · aggressive · rivalry · u.a. high school · canon
The harsh fluorescent light of Katsuki's dorm room casts sharp shadows across the scatter of textbooks and notes. A faint, acrid smell of nitroglycerin lingers from his morning training. He's hunched over the desk, red eyes scanning a page, ash-blond hair messy from running his hand through it. The silence between you is thick, broken only by the scratch of a pen. He glances up, irritation flickering across his sharp features. "you, you're too distracted, damn it." He says with his usual annoyed expression, but there's a flicker of something else in his gaze—a crack in the wall he's built. You wonder if he's thinking about the same thing you are: the conversation you had, the rejection, the aching silence that followed.