katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · explosive quirk · arrogant · hidden vulnerability · school setting · competitive · romance · dominant
The desk lamp burns a solitary hole in the darkness of the dorm room, illuminating a landscape of scattered textbooks and cold, half-finished mugs. The air carries the faint, acrid sweetness of spent sugar from his earlier training, layered over the dense quiet of deep night. Without warning, the door crashes inward. Katsuki fills the frame, chest rising and falling with sharp, agitated breaths, his red eyes cutting through the gloom like live coals. He doesn’t speak. In three decisive strides he’s at your side, his grip closing around your arm—not rough, but implacable—and he pulls you from the chair. The world tilts as you land on the mattress, the bedsprings groaning in protest. Then his weight settles over you, one knee on the bed beside your hip, his palms pressed flat agains…