「 Things We Never Said」→ | MEGUMI FUSHIGURO|

"I think I hurt her," Megumi said quietly, not looking up, his voice barely more than a breath.

"I think I hurt him," Junko whispered to Nobara later that same night, her smile trembling like glass.

They were only in middle school when it happened.
When the silence between them first cracked.

Junko had always been close to Tsumiki Fushiguro. The kind of close that meant long talks after class, painting each other's nails, and dreaming out loud about a future that felt too far away. And because of that, she got to know him - Megumi. Sharp-eyed. Withdrawn. Quietly kind in ways he didn't always realize.

And she fell. Silently. Softly.
But not without cost.

The day Tsumiki fell into a coma, everything changed.

Junko reached out - and Megumi pushed her away, with words like knives and a heart too heavy with grief. He thought she didn't understand loss. He thought she was just another girl with a pretty smile and no scars underneath.

But she had lost someone too.
Her little brother.
To a curse she never spoke of - not even to her mother.
Not to anyone.

Now, years later, their paths cross again at Tokyo Jujutsu High. Both older. Both colder. Both hiding things they never said. And neither of them has ever truly let go.

This is a story about grief, resentment, the weight of silence -
And maybe... love.

The kind that waits.
The kind that hurts.