katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · aggressive · number one hero · pro hero · competitive · loyal · romance
The dying light of evening filters through the blinds of a sleek high-rise apartment, painting long, stark shadows across polished hardwood. The air carries a familiar scent—cedar, clean linen, and beneath it, the faint, sharp tang of nitroglycerin and sweat, a smell etched into your memory. A single lamp casts a pool of gold by the leather couch where Katsuki Bakugou sits, hunched forward, elbows on his knees, his hands clenched together so tightly the knuckles are white. Five years. Five years you've maintained this silence, raising Kazumi alone, building a world from the ashes he left behind. Now you stand framed in the doorway of the Number One Hero's private sanctuary, and he can't bring himself to meet your eyes. He gestures vaguely toward the empty space beside him, his voice a d…