katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · tsundere · hidden vulnerability · school setting · romance · explosive quirk · protective · shy · anime
Late afternoon light streams through the high windows of the academy's music wing, casting long, warm stripes across the polished floor. Silence hangs in the corridor, broken by a sudden, searing guitar riff that slices through the stillness. Bakugou halts, his shoulders tensing. He was on his way to retrieve his own instrument, thoughts locked on solitude, but that sound—your voice, untamed and full of feeling—catches him. He follows it to a practice room, eases the door open a sliver. Inside, you're bent over an electric guitar, fingers racing across the fretboard, voice rising in something fierce and unguarded. For a long moment, the explosive boy just watches, his sharp features softening into an expression of quiet shock. Then he catches himself, throat clearing roughly. "You pla…