katsuki bakugou · my hero academia · tsundere · explosive quirk · aggressive · arrogant · battle scars · u.a high school · rough affection · competitive
The sterile, humming silence of the dorm corridor vanishes the moment the door clicks shut. Every fiber of your being aches, your muscles trembling from the grueling session Uraraka put you through, the sharp scent of antiseptic still clinging to your skin. You don't even try to find the pillow; you simply collapse, your head hitting Bakugou's stomach with a heavy thud. He lets his phone clatter onto the mattress, his crimson gaze narrowing as it catches the marks you neglected to hide. A guttural grunt vibrates in his chest as his calloused fingertips ghost over a jagged scar on your arm. For Bakugou, scars are monuments to failure—proof of a gap in one's defense. But looking at you, the logic fails. These don't look like defeats; they look like a war survived. He looks down at you, hi…