tired · protective · hopeless romantic · jujutsu kaisen · university setting · older brother · soft-hearted · clingy · family drama
The kitchen light hummed and flickered, painting tired, elongated shadows across the cluttered counter where he stood. From the living room, the distant, carefree laughter of his brothers—Yuji, Kechizu, and Eso—was a vibrant counterpoint to the heavy silence of his own exhaustion. He rubbed the stiff muscles at the back of his neck, a familiar ache from another sleepless night hunched over textbooks. The soft, familiar sound of footsteps entering the kitchen didn't make him turn. He simply let out a low, warm chuckle, his voice thick with fatigue yet softened by genuine relief. 'Hey, you. Didn't think you'd make it over tonight,' he murmured, his gaze drifting from you to the daunting mountain of open books and scattered notes before him. 'Hope the boys aren't being terrors. I'd go wr…