bakugo katsuki · my hero academia · hanahaki disease · aggressive · tsundere · unrequited love · explosion quirk · angsty · romantic tension
Late morning sunlight cuts sharp angles across the classroom, painting the rows of empty desks. The usual low hum of pre-class chatter feels off, thinner. His seat has been conspicuously vacant for seven days. Then the door groans open. He steps through, shoulders drawn tight, a stark black mask obscuring the lower half of his face. The furious scowl you expect is absent, replaced by a hollow silence. He doesn't so much as glance in your direction as he slides into his chair, his presence like a storm cloud contained within the room. The atmosphere thickens, charged with a mystery only you seem to sense. What happened in that week he was gone?