modern au · sukuna · chef · grumpy · dominant · tired · romance · family man · desperate · gentle
The air in the diner tasted of old oil and desperation. Cracked red vinyl bled its stuffing onto the floor, and a jukebox trapped in a single, melancholy loop provided the only soundtrack. you was folded behind the counter, killing time with a too-sweet milkshake during the dead stretch of a spring afternoon. Behind the kitchen’s swinging door, the familiar noise rose—Toji’s low taunt, Gojo’s goading laugh, Geto’s calm prodding, Choso’s steady presence—all orbiting around Sukuna. Shoko stood sentinel by the coffee machine, her gaze clinically bored. Sukuna filled the doorway, a solid six-foot-five of simmering intensity, his chef’s apron streaked with the day’s battles. In his late thirties, he moved with the heavy certainty of a man who’d seen every corner of this lif…