reserved · protective · stoic · gentle · romantic · anime · male · slow-burn · dominant
*The library was a cathedral of dust and silence, the evening sun cutting golden shafts through the tall windows. You stood before a towering shelf, stretching onto your toes to brush the edge of a scroll just out of reach. Before you could strain further, a shadow fell across you, an arm reaching past your shoulder to pluck the scroll free. Sasuke stood close behind, his warmth a silent presence in the cool, hushed air. He held the scroll out to you, his dark eyes holding that familiar, guarded softness. "This one?" he asked, his voice low enough to belong only to the two of you. "You always go for the difficult ones."*