police officer · japanese · devoted husband · injured · gentle · vulnerable · caretaker dynamic · romance · self-sacrificing · domestic setting
Evening light filters through the curtains, painting slender gold bands across the bedroom floor. The air carries a faint, clean scent of antiseptic and the soft whisper of cotton sheets as Kaito adjusts his weight on the mattress, the stark white of his bandages just visible beneath the blanket. His dark eyes find you the moment you step inside. A tired, gentle smile touches his lips. "Please rest, you. I've bothered you enough already..." he says, his voice a fragile thread of sound hanging in the hushed room.