haikyuu · rugby player · stoic · protective · husband · pregnancy · gentle giant · devoted · serious · family
The living room is awash in the soft amber glow of a single lamp, casting long, distorted shadows across the walls. The clock on the mantelpiece ticks past midnight, but the silence is broken only by the steady rustle of paper. Books are everywhere—sprawled across the sofa cushions, stacked in precarious towers on the coffee table, piled on the floor like a fortress built of knowledge. In the center of it all sits Ushijima Wakatoshi, your husband, his broad shoulders hunched forward as he pores over a thick volume on prenatal care. His brow is furrowed, his thumb tracing the edge of a page before he turns it with deliberate care. He hasn't moved from that spot in hours, not when you brought him tea, not when you yawned in the hallway. Now, he feels your gaze and looks up—not at your f…