NADA - Geto Suguru X OC X Gojo Satoru

Leaving

"Suguru san?" She broke him out of his trance.

"Zenin??!"

"Please don't tell anyone." She kissed his face, "oh, please?"

"Can you go back?" Suguru asked and she shook her head "I ran away because they didn't want me there. They had my mother killed... There's no way I can go back." Her soft voice made him feel terrible.

"You must know someone."

"I don't." She said "the elders didn't want me there and my father left."

"What... was he like?" Suguru hesitantly asked.

"He had me very young, but... I'd say he was pretty okay. He taught me how to fight a little" she smiled "and he told me I had great potential. Ah! He'd be so disappointed if he saw me now."

"What's there to be disappointed about? You're doing so well." Suguru was making lunch.

"That smells delicious" she peeked into the pot "how are you so good at this?"

"That white-haired cretin bullies me to cook for him."

"He seems like a nice friend."

"That he is." He paused. He'd been meaning to tell her something for a while but he didn't want to since he wanted her to have her time with mourning the kids she'd so dearly taken care of.

"Tell me." She said as she set up the table, as if reading his mind. She didn't even have to look at him to know that something was bothering him.

"Its... nothing", he wasn't sure how she'd react to it.

"I want to leave my current place of work" he didn't know why he was so scared to tell her. He was expecting her to ask him what would matter more than saving people, what would make him quit a job he should be proud of doing.

"Is everything okay? Do they bother you too much?" She never failed to surprise him, "why didn't you tell me anything?"

"I didn't want to bother you with... all this going on. I know it's a lot for you and I-"

"I'm sorry you thought you couldn't talk to me." She placed her smaller arms around his torso "you're very special to me, Suguru san" her voice made his heart strum.

"I love you" he leaned closer to her as he held her chin, his thumb gently traced her lips, "I promise I'll make this world a better place for you."

"You don't have to do any of that" she placed a small kiss on his lips, making his ears go red "it's already better with you around".

Over lunch, Geto told her about how conflicted he was with what Mei spoke to him about. He asked her what she thought about non-sorcerers and if they even deserved to live. "You had to run away because they thought you attracted curses." He hated them all by then "and then they attacked you and the kids."

"They all have cursed energy" she mumbled. She didn't want to not tell him about it anymore.

"What?"

"The children." She said as tears filled her eyes "Haruto... had even exorcised a curse."

Geto's eyes went wide as he watched her heave anxiously, "I'm so scared someone will come for them again. I don't know how to teach them to control their cursed energy, I've never been to a sorcerer's school. I'm terrified for them."

He hated how common it was for sorcerers to be persecuted by non-sorcerers, "I'll fix this, Yuriko. I'll fix it all".

"You know..." She was deep in thought, "my father never had cursed energy, and he still managed to kill a handful of sorcerers. I don't have cursed energy either but I can manifest it somehow, I'm still far away from perfecting my techniques." She said and it hit him who her father was.

"TOJI??"

"You've heard of him?"

"Satoru and I had to fight him", he bit his lip and she didn't want to ask anything more, even though she wanted more than anything to know about him.

"Say... I don't have any cursed energy of my own. Would that make me a bad person?"

Geto looked at her in disbelief before he began laughing, "I can't think of anyone who'd say that."

"If you go to my village, they'll tell you all about it." She said with a small smile on her face and it hurt him. He laughed along but he hated it. He smiled at everything she said...

And hated it.

Every inch of it.

How she had to suffer through what mere mortals without any cursed energy put her through. What she'd been reduced to, because they failed to understand her; recognize what a beautiful person she was.

And the kids.

What had they done wrong?

"Monkeys." He mumbled as he drank the tea she made for him, the warm liquid steeping down his throat, fortifying his mind. The calm taking over as he looked at her, the life he was going to have, the people he was going to lose.

"I'm going to quit." He said.

"Will it make you happy?"

"You make me happy." He said, embarrassing her, "and the kids make me happy."

"What will you do next?" She asked.

"How about I help you?" He said "I was looking forward to spending more time with you anyway."

"You'll get annoyed after day 3, I can promise you that." She said making him pout in disappointment "you can't even sit still for five minutes. Let me know what you like in a job and I'll look around for you?"

"Don't make promises you can't keep. I'd spend every single day with you and love you even more," he said, "as for work, I want to be a Buddhist monk."

"What?" She wasn't expecting that. "That's it?"

"The simple life does it for me" he said. He didn't want to tell her the particulars of it. "I have a mission tomorrow. I'll tell them about quitting first thing in the morning and finish my last mission."

He also didn't want to tell her that he was going to her village for the mission. Everything seemed to be falling in place for him, like perfect pieces for his puzzle.

"You seem very excited." She said before pausing, "are monks allowed to have girlfriends?"

"Who cares what anyone thinks, baby?" His hands made his way up her shirt as he cooed in her ear.

"I'll even fuck you in the monastery."