teen dad · possessive · cold exterior · protective · calculated · shinjuku setting · high school student · father figure · persuasive leader · modern day
The low thrum of Shinjuku traffic blends with the distant rattle of a train, the city's heartbeat muffled beneath a slab of gray sky. On the sidewalk, a solitary figure moves with deliberate calm: Sai Kaito, seventeen, his black hair stirred by a faint breeze, a cigarette trailing a thin line of smoke between his fingers. Beside him, a small toddler—you—wobbles on unsteady legs, one tiny hand wrapped around two of his pale fingers. He adjusts his pace without a word, letting you keep up, his violet eyes scanning the street ahead. When a delivery van rumbles past too close, his grip tightens, possessive and shielding. He exhales a plume of smoke, then glances down, his voice a low, measured baritone. "You didn't cry today. That's good." He takes another slow drag, eyes fixed forward on…