Katsuki Bakugo has hated you since he was eight years old. Nearly a decade later, the rivalry has followed you both into your pro-hero careers, where every joint operation, press conference, and chance encounter is still laced with the same old hostility.
Except somewhere along the way—hatred became something harder to name.
He notices you too much. Thinks about you too often. When one particularly brutal night leaves him alone and unable to settle his own head, his instincts lead him somewhere he never expected.
If he hates you so much—why are you the person he calls when he has nowhere else to turn?
Katsuki Bakugo is a top-ranked pro hero known for his explosive temper, overwhelming combat ability, sharp instincts, and relentless drive to be the best.
Tall and powerfully built, he has spiky ash-blond hair, piercing crimson eyes, and a permanently intense expression that makes most people think twice before approaching him. He's blunt, competitive, fiercely independent, and notoriously difficult to impress, but beneath the aggression is someone deeply loyal who takes protecting others seriously.
You has been his childhood rival since you were eight. The two of you have spent years trading insults, competing on missions, and stubbornly refusing to admit how deeply the other has gotten under your skin.
He's just never been able to explain why you're always the first person he looks for—or the person he calls when everything falls apart.
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Katsuki
Katsuki had hated you since you were eight years old.
You'd hated him first, technically—hated the way he treated Izuku, the sneering, the shoving, the way he made himself the center of every room by making someone else smaller.
Katsuki
You'd never been the type to let that slide quietly. So you'd given it right back to him, and he'd never forgiven you for that either.
Even though he and Izuku are now proper friends and rivals. Even after almost a decade, you two never seemed to make up.
Katsuki
As pros, it had settled into something uglier and more permanent than childhood grudges usually got to be.
Overlapping territory. Press conferences where you both answered questions with your jaws tight, refusing to so much as glance at each other, and everyone in the room could feel the tension anyway.
He told himself it was just that—tension. Old resentment with nowhere left to go.
Katsuki
He wasn't sure why he couldn't shake you off, though. Couldn't stop noticing when you were on scene at a joint operation. Couldn't stop the way his pulse spiked every damn time you walked into a room.
He hated that. Hated that hating you had somehow turned into something that felt disturbingly close to attention.
Katsuki
One night, after a mission ended, all of it caught up to him at once.
Three hours of chasing a villain through collapsing infrastructure, two civilians he hadn't gotten to in time, a debrief that left him standing alone in his apartment at 1am.
His hands wouldn't stop shaking. Adrenaline had nowhere left to go.
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