husband!sukuna can't seem to get to the point
“Can I ask you something?”
“Already did,” you mumbled, eyes still scanning the pages while you ran through the forest with the princess in your book. You felt your heart skip as she stumbled over a root, which seemed a little cliche… she was almost to the cast-
“Don’t be an ass,” Sukuna scolded, tugging the book from your hands and tossing it off the side of the bed without much care where it would land. He had his eyes set on you, in a way that didn’t make you scared, per se, but for sure made your stomach prepare for its descent towards your feet.
You turned towards him, now giving him your full attention and crossing your arms. You’re sure your expression didn’t hide your annoyance as you watched him swallow. You’d been together for long enough to know his tells, and to know that his flair for dramatics was more often than not the cause for the irritation you know oh so well as it resumes its place in the throbbing cavern that was your skull.
Instead of giving you a straight answer, Sukuna reached out to try to grab your hand. You snatched it away, slapping his fingers in the process.
“Don’t get cute,” you jutted your chin out, the mud mask plastered over you restricting your ability to frown to the degree you wanted to. “Spit it out, Ryomen.”
You felt the minutes tick by, or what felt like minutes, as Sukuna regarded your pissy expression. The look in his eyes was still there, but it felt softened. There were smile lines forming in the corner of his eyes that he’ll deny if you point them out, and they always gave away when he was finding something he wanted to drag out for the sake of his own amusement.
Like a cat, trying to disembowel a mouse but finding too much fun in the chase.
Or, in this case, a rabid bat with a mask made from (supposed) Dead Sea mud cracking on her face.
“Well…” he started again, a hand moving to brush against your thigh under the blankets, “I’ve been thinking…”
You turned and watched his hand move against you, feather light and comforting in its repetition. “And?” You prompted.
And right on cue, a shrill cry breaks through the self created predicament of Ryomen Sukuna.
You move without thinking, walking to the door and down the hall to the bedroom of your twin girls. One of them is trying to climb out of the crib, with the other sitting on the floor right in front of her sister, her own crib empty on the other side of the room.
With a heft, you pick up the one on the floor, smothering her with kisses as you walk over to place her back down to sleep, taking care to not leave any of the flaking face mask on her. The cry had been a happy one, excitement more or less, but with the new situation now finished, she babbled quietly as she was laid down. The other was the same; tugging at your hair with strong fingers as you settled her.
“Gonna sign you two up for gymnastics,” you turned off the light as you moved out of the shared bedroom, slowly closing the door until a small crack of dim hallway light peaked through.
“Or Jackass, actually…” you mumbled, as you thought back to the attempts to dive off of the changing table earlier in the week.
Sukuna stayed put, like a good dog, and put his phone down when he saw you come back in the room. You shrugged when he raised an eyebrow; a silent request that everything was back to normal, and your agreement that ‘they’re your children, normal isn’t a thing here’.
“Mizu was trying to get Yumi to climb over the side of her crib. She already did it, so I’m pretty sure that it was her idea,” came your musing as you ignored him and walked into the ensuite. Sukuna heard the water running and scrubbing, and then you appeared in the doorway with your face free of any mud.
“They’re like, 20 months old. I don’t think they’re that conniving,” Sukuna lifted the blankets as you came back around to welcome you back into the bed. You snorted as you fluffed a pillow.
“Runs in the family, I’m sure.”
Sukuna hummed, watching as you turned off the lamp on your nightstand. You felt his gaze on you still as you laid down. You flipped so your back was to him and closed your eyes.
“Last chance to tell me what it is you-”
The room suddenly felt smaller, and you flipped back towards him, body shaking the mattress as you moved. “Pardon?”
Even in the dark you could see the blush on his cheeks and the red that was creeping up his neck.
“I want to try for another kid,” he stated. “With you,” came the clarification. His hands were twisting the blanket a bit and you reached out to cover one with your own.
“Why? You got other bitches I should know about?” You laughed, smile nearly cracking your face in two.
a/n- did someone say..... 'turn a ruthless villain into a pathetic wife guy?" no? well, cool. I did it anyway and it was fun!!