what lovers do

chapter 9

 Faculty Office, 10:15 am

Today, Nanami is witnessing something he hasn't seen in the longest time.

The first time he saw Gojo sulking like this, acting indifferent and somber was when Geto left the Jujutsu High, and then after that was when Geto died. Even in their hectic schedules with missions left and right, the white-haired man has always been annoyingly cheerful with his lax attitude to the point of becoming irresponsible.

It is like that time and it's all coming back to him. When Nanami was still working as a salaryman, a coworker of his got into a big fight with his wife. The employee's performance dropped because of a couple of problems at home. Nanami is aware that it's a very normal occurrence in the office or anywhere else. Family matters can range from a kid punching another kid at school or a wife caught the husband cheating or vice versa. But he is a single man and he had never experienced it before so his opinions on that matter are only limited and he doesn't want to appear like an all-knowing piece of shit to speak his thoughts when no one asked for it. Nanami is a man of few words and more actions but today, just maybe today, he can give it a shot.

"You look wasted," a terrible statement to start a conversation which he rarely does with Gojo.

He is not, in any possible way, thinking that Gojo's problems or whatever are about his family. He is unmarried and although it is in Nanami's knowledge that rumors follow the other man like a dark cloud of smoke, rumors such as that he had slept with five different women in the past and that three of them proposed marriage which had Gojo running for his single life. The rumor also includes that he paid the three women 20 million yen not to bother him again. Just a few months ago, Nanami met another woman, someone they got acquainted with when Gojo and him grabbed a drink at a bar in Shinjuku. She was beautiful, charming, and was smitten by Gojo. He didn't particularly pay attention to what the two were talking about and quietly drank. He is a man who prefers reading and silence.

"Uhh, yeah?" Gojo flinches on his seat scratching his temple. He is wearing sunglasses today in alternative with his blindfold.

It's not in his job description to poke his nose into his coworker's life but Gojo's grunt and sighs and overall his aura today is kind of bothering his reading. Nanami is in the best part of the book he's currently indulging and he cannot concentrate, rereading every line in the said chapter, zooming in and out of the words and hidden clues behind those paragraphs.

"You curious? I couldn't sleep last night. I kept on thinking about the movie I watched before going to bed," the older of the two says and yawns. Gojo thinks if it is that apparent that something is bugging him. His thoughts ramble from his clan and Utahime's anger yesterday to that mystery of how her hand bypassed his Infinity. He is sure that he didn't turn it off with all that tension he faced after seeing Tatsuya. Could it be the child?

Wait a damn second.

Gojo heaves and the sound of it bothers Nanami. I didn't see it with my Six Eyes. He taps his fingers on the table and ponders. It must be the child, they can stop the flow of cursed energy? He goes back to that little information about the mysterious child in the Keicho period. They were executed because of killing their family members including their father who was the Six Eyes and Limitless user. If Utahime can stop Infinity because of the child in her womb then no wonder why the Gojo clan fears them. Their clan is known for their boundless energy, without it, they are nothing. But if his theory is correct, it only means that the child is also stopping Utahime's cursed energy, making her vulnerable.

Gojo rises from his seat, the chair creaking onto the floor and Nanami deeply exhales. He marches outside. This is bad . If it's true that this child cannot control their unknown energy, it might end up canceling all of Utahime's energy, choking her into her death.