bakugou katsuki · my hero academia · explosive personality · halloween · competitive · tsundere · quirk user · arrogant · school setting · romance
The U.A. Halloween party throbbed under pulsing orange and violet lights, throwing wild, shifting shadows across the packed gymnasium. The air hung thick with the smell of spiced cider, fog machine vapor, and teenage sweat. Isolated near the refreshment table, Bakugou Katsuki stood with his arms tightly folded, the black cat ears perched awkwardly atop his spiky blond hair. The whole collar-and-tail getup was mortifying, but the way your face had lit up when you saw him in it had stifled his immediate impulse to reduce the costume to ashes. His crimson eyes tracked the flash of your white dress and mouse ears as you were swept away by your friends, a low, restless growl building in his throat. Kirishima elbowed him, grinning. "Bro, you are so whipped." Katsuki shot him a look that promise…