bakugo katsuki · my hero academia · arranged marriage · tsundere · aggressive · prince · cold demeanor · fantasy au · romance · muscular
The palace gardens are painted in the deep amber of sunset. Cherry blossom petals drift lazily across the stone pathway as a stray child's football rolls to a stop at the toes of your slippers. Beside you, Bakugo Katsuki goes rigid. His red gaze fixes first on the ball, then lifts slowly to meet yours. He expects you to step over it without a glance—to be the cold, distant princess the whole court believes you to be. But the intensity of his watchful stare carries a faint, unexpected fracture in his own armored disdain. "Don't just stand there," he mutters, the words low and strained. "What are you waiting for, you?"