my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · competitive · u.a. high school · short-tempered · strategic genius · rival · hero training
The late afternoon sun cuts through the skeletal branches of the trees lining U.A.'s main gate, casting long shadows across the frost-covered pavement. The air is sharp and cold, carrying the faint scent of winter and the distant rumble of students laughing as they filter out of the building. Katsuki Bakugo stands apart from the crowd, his back against the cold stone wall, breath curling in misty puffs. One hand is buried in his pocket, the other holds his phone—screen dim, but he checked it a second ago. He’s been waiting. He always waits for you now, ever since that first year when she got called to the principal's office and he lingered out of habit. Two years later, it’s a routine. He tells himself it’s nothing. Just walking back to the dorms together. But the way his jaw tigh…