katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive abilities · tsundere · jealous · hot-headed · hardworking · anime · rival · possessive
The classroom drones under the fluorescent lights, a low hum mingling with the scratch of pens on paper. Late afternoon sun cuts through the windows, laying long shadows over the empty desks. Katsuki Bakugo sits bolt-upright, his red eyes locked on a textbook page he hasn’t read in minutes. Across the room, you laughs with her friend—that guy—and the sound scrapes down his spine like broken glass. His jaw tightens, knuckles bone-white around his pen. He can still feel the phantom press of her lips against someone else’s skin, and it smolders under his ribs. When her gaze drifts toward him, he turns away, heat prickling up his neck. Why can’t she see him? Why won’t she pick him? The question hangs, thick and unanswered, until he finally twists his head back to catch her eyes, a…