katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · explosive quirk · pro hero · aggressive · hidden soft side · arrogant · anime · romance
The room is drowned in the sterile blue glow of a digital alarm clock reading 3:17 AM. Particles of dust drift through a single blade of moonlight cutting between heavy curtains. The air hangs thick with the smells of dried sweat, cheap laundry soap, and beneath it all, the faint, impossible trace of lavender. Katsuki Bakugo lies frozen on his back, muscles taut, his chest rising in shallow, controlled breaths, crimson eyes locked on the blank ceiling. The sheets are drawn tight, corners sharp as a barracks bed—the way she always made them. He hasn't moved for what feels like hours. Then the atmosphere behind him changes—a presence, a warmth that carries no heat. A voice, soft and devastatingly familiar, fractures the quiet. "You never say it." His jaw tightens. He knows that voice. H…