Unrequited

Ch. 20 - New Page

Your mind was stuck in thought while you waited for your brother to return. You had nowhere to go, not knowing where your brother lived to warp to his place - so instead, you hung around the campus library with your nose deep in books on contracts and divorce.

So much time had passed on you almost thought you were forgotten about. Your eyes grew tired of all the reading you had been doing, all for naught considering you couldn't understand any of the jargon.
You allowed your head to rest on your forearms that were folded atop one of the tables toward the back of the library, quickly drifting into a light sleep.

"Y/N," you heard a familiar voice ring through your ears, groggily picking your head up from the table. Your head slightly pounded from falling asleep under the fluorescents.

"Hmm?" You slowly blinked to adjust to consciousness to find a crop of blonde hair in front of you. "N-Nanami?" You sat immediately up.

"Hi," he gave a sweet smile of relief upon seeing your face.

You darted from the chair and wrapped your arms around his waist, his arms returning the embrace, allowing your face to fall into his chest. You laughed happily and muffled into his button-up.

"I'm so sorry I never called after that day," you looked up at him, nearly sobbing as he kept his relaxed facial expression - the sweet smile unwavering. "Naoya's been keeping me under his eye since then...but...but guess what?! He broke the contract, we're getting divorced!" Kento's eyes glinted with interest at your words. You quickly nuzzled your face back into his shirt. "We can finally be together."

"Finally?" His voice shifted into something a bit different, more hostile. "Y/N, you've always been mine."

You looked up, suddenly disturbed by the change in tone, only to find yourself tightly embracing Naoya who wickedly looked down at you - a smile of deviant success on your face. You ripped yourself from his body only to find yourself still sitting at the library table, completely alone.
You heard a strange vibration on the wood, still adjusting to your surroundings after such a nightmare.

"Hello?" You picked up your phone without checking the name, the culprit of the vibration.

"Hey," it was your brother who sounded somber, "I'm back now, at the morgue actually. If you want to come by, we can go home together."

"M-morgue? What happened? Who's..." You panicked, mouth going dry to think it possible to be Kento.

"Something happened on the students' mission, Sukuna went rogue. Yuji...he's...he passed away," you could tell your brother was torn to pieces yet again. How much more pain can this man take? All while taking care of your dumbass, too.

You refused to hesitate, leaving all the books on the table, and sprinting to the morgue - too tired to do any warping, especially for such a short distance.

When you arrived, Satoru was sitting on an examination table while Kiyotaka sweated in front of him. Shoko was no where to be found, but a body clearly laid under a sheet on a nearby table.

"...and on top of that, making them go against a high-grade opponent...it's unreal," Satoru finished the sentence he was in the middle of before acknowledging your presence, a simple glance from behind the black blindfold.

"You say that, but..." Kiyotaka trailed off, shaking like a leaf.

"I did the impossible and granted Yuji an indefinite stay of execution. What's really messed up is that you stealthily disposed of him in my absence with the help of a high-grade curse. That's what this is, isn't it?" Satoru clearly had anger in his voice. You felt as if you walked in on something you shouldn't have. You had never heard your brother speaking so seriously. "Even if the other two died, you thought doing something to spite me would kill two birds with one stone, didn't you?"