RINTOBER : [ beyond cognition ]
suna rintaro x reader
word count: 457
tags: fluff
warnings and a/n: not proofread because when do i ever? wrote this on the whim and i thought we can start RINTOBER! on a fluffy note. other features of RINTOBER like the header and masterlist will follow when i'm no longer too busy.
suna rintaro can never understand the dynamic that is you—y/n. not the cogs in your brain or the way you have him all figured out. not even while being your three-year long boyfriend.
suna doesn't understand the effortless way you don't miss a "thank you," a "please," or a polite, bright smile to the person over the counter; he doesn't understand how you're so shy yet you'd always gather up the courage to tell strangers when their bag is left and forgotten open—"someone might take advantage," you'd say, and his hand would grasp yours slightly tighter as you walked.
neither does he think he can understand the way you offer your time, your full thought, your comfort to the lucky ones who get close enough to you for that privilege. suna doesn't understand how you do it, how you get people to open up to you so easily without trying, how they hand over their trust to you like a candy—he does think it's something about your face, though, and the way you nod with your eager gaze, always so ready to listen. the way you offer your thoughts yet ask enough questions first before your lips part as you start to provide an answer.
suna rintaro can't begin to wrap his head around how you fell in love with him because he can surely understand why kita shinsuke fell in love with you back in high school. he can't begin to understand how you got around to pick him, though. how he's the one you subjected to your adoring gaze, your spontaneous whispers of "i love you," or your way of caressing his cheeks in the softest of ways.
he doesn't understand how lucky he is to come home to you and your light kiss—when you whip your head towards the direction of the door, eyes brighter the moment your gaze lands on him—the very jump on your feet to stand in front of him on the tip of your toes, both hands on either side of his face and just like that, you melt the sensation of his sore muscles away with a kiss on his lips and with the smile he feels against it as you pull away. nevermind that he's full of sweat from training or if he even had a scowl plastered all over his face as he closes the door to your shared apartment, you never fail to show him the eager way you love him.
but when you tell him you made dinner for the both of you to eat together, tell him you have his favorite flavor of jelly sticks, tell him to, "wait a second, rin. i'll prepare a bath for you, yeah?" he thinks he can understand at least one thing.
when he has you wrapped in his arms, his face buried in the crook of your neck, suna rintaro can surely understand one thing about you above all:
you love him; and he loves you too—beyond any way he can attempt to decipher.
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