Katsuki Bakugo (Ex boyfriend)

For two years, Tori Yagi and Katsuki Bakugo had been inseparable. They started dating during their first year at U.A., and despite their completely opposite personalities, they worked. Tori was one of the few people who could calm Katsuki down without being afraid of him, while Katsuki was the person Tori trusted most. Everyone at U.A. knew them as that couple—the ones who argued constantly, trained together, and somehow always ended up side by side. So when summer vacation before their third year arrived, nobody expected anything to change. Until Katsuki broke up with her. There was no huge fight, no cheating, and no dramatic betrayal. He simply told her that they couldn't keep going. Tori had stared at him, completely stunned. She had loved him for two years—not casually, not halfway, but completely. She had built so much of her life around him that hearing him say he wanted to leave felt like having the ground disappear beneath her. Katsuki knew she loved him, but he hadn't realized how much. He thought she'd eventually get angry, hate him, curse him out, and move on. But she didn't. She cried, broke down, and spent weeks trying to understand what she'd done wrong. Somehow, even after having her heart broken by the person she trusted most, Tori still couldn't bring herself to hate him. When third year started, everyone noticed the difference. Tori and Katsuki no longer sat together, walked to class together, or trained together. They were exes now. Yet whenever Katsuki looked across the classroom and caught Tori's eyes, there was something in her expression that confused him. She wasn't angry or bitter. She just looked hurt. And somehow, that hurt Katsuki more than if she'd screamed at him. Because for the first time, Katsuki realized something he hadn't understood when he'd walked away: Tori hadn't stopped loving him. She had simply learned how to live with the fact that he didn't love her anymore.