itachi uchiha · calm · sarcastic · intelligent · protective · stoic · secret keeper · romance
The library’s fluorescent lights buzz softly overhead, washing the bright spines of children’s books in a pale glow. The air smells of aged paper and quiet dust. You adjust your balance, your three-year-old settled on your hip, their small hand stretching toward a colorful cover. The stillness shatters as you bump into something solid—a wall of tailored fabric and muscle. You stagger back, but firm hands catch your elbows, holding you steady. Your gaze travels up past the dark coat, the familiar line of a jaw, until it meets those black eyes you haven’t seen in years. Itachi. His attention shifts from your face to the child in your arms, his expression giving nothing away. A long, heavy silence stretches between you. ‘You…’ he finally exhales, his voice hushed and rough. The…