Koi No Yokan (gojo x oc)

Juju Stroll: Infinite Void

Men and women dressed in suits gave her odd looks as they passed by, a high schooler standing near the crosswalk for over two hours. Kaede waited patiently, pacing now and again when her feet would tire, until the third hour struck, and she finally sat down. Her limbs felt heavy, abused from the endless days of travel and missions. When a curse was exorcised, another would spring up halfway across the world, then another. She doesn't remember falling asleep, until Satoru is there shaking her shoulder. The air had become cold, the light of the sun replaced by bright screens fixed to the sides of buildings. Her neck feels stiff. "What time is it?"

"Around eight, I think."

They had agreed to meet around three. Kaede doesn't make mention of it, though, and embraces him. "I missed you."

He breaks apart from her, speaking excitedly, "I finally did it."

"Did what?"

"Domain Expansion."

"That's," she struggles to find the right word, "Good."

"Come on," he takes her hand, pulling her from the spot she'd been occupying for five hours, "I'll show you."

"What about dinner?"

"Dinner can wait," Satoru pulls her through the crowded streets, turning a corner into a relatively vacant alleyway. Then without warning, he braces Kaede's shoulders and teleports them into a woody area she doesn't recognize.

The brief sensation of the air being ripped out and forced back into her lungs makes Kaede groan. "I told you to warn me when you're going to do that."

"Ah, right, sorry." Satoru takes hold of her hand, raising his other. He crosses his middle fingers. "Domain Expansion: Infinite Void."

Kaede feels the world around them slowly fade away, the ground slipping into nothingness, and the air turning still. She'd never been inside a completed domain other than her own, and loathed the helpless sensation. Everything in sight turns to bright light, bursting into clusters of fog and what looked like galaxies swarming amongst one another.

She feels the safe tug of his palm. "What happens if I let go?"

"Your brain gets fried," he says, somewhat playfully. "The void rushes all the information of existence through you, lets you feel everything at once."

"Making it nothing essentially," Kaede concludes, noticing that like her own domain, Satoru's is unusually cold.

"Isn't it cool?" he says. "I finally figured it out on my mission this morning."

Kaede stares out into the celestial abyss, "So this is what it's like then? Being given the information the Six Eyes does, but not the tools to understand it."

"I forgot how smart you are," Satoru smiles. "I haven't actively imbued any of my techniques. Most likely I'll never have to."

"Because our techniques are passive," Kaede, feeling she's been given too much credit, understands only because her innate domain works in a similar manner. Once inside, curses freeze because they can't make sense of the broken down linearity of time. Only someone with the Forward Sight could make sense of the mess, directing these broken strands the way they pleased. "It's a little... lonely, in here, don't you think?"

"Well, we are the only ones here."

"But inside your head," Kaede says, "Do you feel lonely?"

Satoru releases his domain, exposing them to the open air. "Not when I'm with you, no." Yet, he lets go of her hand when he says this, knowing he can't stay for longer.

Kaede smiles weakly. "Well, I'm glad you figured it out. Are we going back to Shinjuku now?"

"I can drop you off there if you want, but I'll have to get going after."

"Where?"

"They called me in for a mission starting tomorrow morning," Satoru says, in what Kaede's eyes appeared to be, rather shamelessly. "Besides, I want to work out all the kinks in the Domain Expansion."

The reality of the situation, in which she waited five hours for less than twenty minutes of her boyfriend's time, does not occur to Kaede. She nods in feeble disappointment, and without complaint asks him to drop her off at the school instead.

an: if you're at all confused about the timing of this chapter i highly recommend you reread chapter 27 "before graduation" :)