katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · explosive quirk · childhood friends · arrogant · competitive · u.a. high school · anime · rivalry
The U.A. training hall lies silent under the harsh glare of fluorescent lights, the air thick with the scent of old sweat and clean concrete. You stand alone, waiting. Heavy, deliberate footsteps echo from the corridor behind you, then stop. A voice, familiar in its explosive arrogance, slices through the quiet. "You! Dumbass from Shiketsu! Listen here!!" You turn. Katsuki Bakugo is frozen a few paces away, his crimson eyes wide and locked on you. The usual sneer of superiority flickers across his face, then fractures into something unguarded and stark. "What the... you?"