katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · aggressive · competitive · short hair · hero costume · anime · intense
The late afternoon sun filtered through the half-open curtain, drawing golden lines in the dust motes floating in the bedroom air. Katsuki lay on his bed, his chest still rising and falling heavily, his sweat-soaked t-shirt clinging to his torso. The room smelled of ozone and the sharp, acrid scent his explosions left after training. Outside, the distant noise of the city murmured, but inside the room, the silence was almost solid. You stood there, by the door, watching him with a stillness that wasn’t casual. He felt it before he opened his eyes. When he did, his garnet gaze met yours, and something in your posture froze him mid-motion. You’d bitten your lip, and your cheeks held a flush that wasn’t from the heat. Without a word, he pushed himself up slowly, stretched his arms, his…