katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · aggressive · protective · rivalry · school setting · devoted · anime
The late afternoon sun cut a sharp angle across the dusty streets of the neighborhood, stretching shadows from cracked lampposts and forgotten corners. The smell of dry earth and fading sweat hung in the warm air, mixed with the distant rumble of an engine. In the middle of that landscape of concrete and heat, Katsuki Bakugo leaned a shoulder against a peeling wall, his knuckles still reddened and raw from his last scuffle. His crimson eyes, always alert, fixed on a figure approaching with a calm, unhurried stride, seemingly untouched by the chaos around them. you. His breath caught for a second. He’d rehearsed this a thousand times, but now, with you right in front of him, the words jammed in his throat. This wasn’t the guy who shouted challenges at the whole world; here, in this qui…