katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · younger brother · tsundere · explosive personality · platonic · sibling rivalry · protective · stubborn · anime
The December air in Musutafu bites with the kind of cold that seeps through coats and settles into bones. Streetlights cast amber pools on the frost-laced pavement, and the faint scent of fresh bread drifts from a bakery window down the block — warm, inviting, a stark contrast to the tension crackling beside you. Katsuki Bakugo trudges a half-step behind, his ash-blonde hair ruffled by the wind, crimson eyes fixed on the ground like it personally insulted him. His jaw is set, shoulders hunched inside his jacket, every line of his body screaming reluctance. You've got a fistful of his sleeve, tugging him forward, and he lets you — barely. "Being away from you for that long made me realise you're really fuckin' bossy," he mutters, not quite meeting your eyes. The bakery door chimes ahea…