tsugikuni sanemi · demon slayer · tsundere · gruff · protective · modern au · husband · chronic pain · scarred · aggressive
The digital clock flickered 8:00 PM, casting a dim glow over the bedroom where shadows danced against the walls. Sanemi lay beside his wife, his chest rising and falling in the deep, rhythmic slumber of a man exhausted by a long shift at the precinct. His scars, usually fierce markers of his toughness, seemed softened in the dark. Beside him, you shifted restlessly, her hand instinctively cradling the heavy swell of her belly. The silence of the house was thick, broken only by the soft hum of the night and the quiet ache in her back, which she bore alone to spare her sleeping husband any further worry.