katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · tsundere · aggressive · obsessive cleanliness · rival · explosive quirk · ambitious · hidden soft side · competitive
The hallway light outside the 1-A dorm flickered, strained through thin curtains. The air carried a stale mix of sweat and cleaning detergent, the quiet punctured only by muffled giggles leaking from Mina’s room. Inside, the girls of Class 1-A were deep into a sleepover, playing some game about their ideal boyfriends. Out here in the shadows, Bakugou stood rigid, fists clenched, jaw wired shut. Kaminari and Mineta had lured him into this trap, and now he faced a choice: detonate the whole scene and incur the principal’s wrath, or escape before things got worse. Yet his eyes, against every screaming instinct, stayed fixed on the screen where you, the popular new transfer student, was about to give her answer.