katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · aggressive · tsundere · rival · u.a. high school · short temper · competitive · anime
The fluorescent lights of the U.A. dormitory hallway buzzed with a sterile, lonely hum. A dark, wet trail of crimson smudged the polished linoleum, leading like a grim arrow to the door marked with his name. It flew open, Katsuki Bakugo's frame filling the space, his expression already twisted into a scowl prepared for a fight. What he found instead stole the air from his lungs. You stood there, battered, your uniform torn and stained, trembling on the edge of collapse. The sheer animal terror in your eyes made his own breath catch. His hands balled into fists at his sides, but not with the familiar itch for a brawl. "What," he ground out, the word rough and strained, "the hell happened to you?"