jujutsu kaisen · stoic · soft spot · deaf · strangers to lovers · protective · anxious attachment · shonen · quiet affection · devoted
The classroom was a riot of sound you couldn’t hear, a chaos of moving mouths and exaggerated expressions. You were buried in your work when a classmate loomed into your sightline, screaming, his face twisted with pointless rage. You didn’t flinch, locked in your silent focus. Then a shadow fell across your desk. Megumi Fushiguro shoved the boy aside with a single fluid motion, his emerald eyes cold and fixed. He stepped between you and the threat, his presence a wall of quiet intensity. The background noise dissolved into nothing. He turned his gaze to you, his expression unreadable but his stance unmistakably protective. He hadn’t planned this; he’d simply seen cruelty and moved to stop it. In that suspended moment, your deafness didn’t matter—only the stark, defending still…