katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · dominant · explosive quirk · u.a. high school · secret romance · arrogant · protective · older brother trope
The afternoon sun bled gold over Musutafu's rooftops, but by the time Katsuki Bakugo's boots hit the pavement near the festival grounds, the sky had curdled into bruise-purple clouds. The air smelled of asphalt and distant ozone, that pre-storm charge that made his skin prickle. He'd ridden his bike here on a whim he still refused to name, and now the first fat drops of rain were speckling his shoulders. He sped up. Not because of the rain—he told himself that lie twice, jaw tight. His mind was stuck on you, on the way you'd looked at him earlier at his little sibling's place, on that ridiculous kissing booth project you'd mentioned with that hopeful, nervous smile. He'd laughed in your face then. Told you to fuck off. But now his feet carried him past the carnival lights, past the smel…