2006.

due to always being with shoko, you never really payed attention to satoru and suguru. they were their own duo. sometimes all four of you would hangout and you’d get along with the two of them— matching gojo’s energy while having reasonable conversations with suguru.

lately, you’ve caught yourself worrying about the two— mostly satoru. you don’t understand why. each time you pass them in the halls, suguru looks as if he’s barely alive and satoru doesn’t notice. he’s dense.

about a day or two ago, you were dragged into the mission about the tengen situation with the high school girl. you played around with her whilst satoru hung over your shoulder, saying lame jokes and complaining.

you also heard about how the same high schooler got killed in front of suguru and how satoru died beforehand.

suguru healed himself, and you saw him pass by to his dorm. you of course checked on him, but he brushed it off. satoru didn’t get back until later— his dorm being closer to yours made you spring up when you his heavy footsteps.

you only heard about him dying— not coming back, so you were shocked when he was walking down the hall with his hands in his pockets, dried blood on his face, his tired eyes not matching his— what seemed like— a good mood.

he stopped short of your door when you called out to him, his focused eyes staying on the floor until you spoke. they went up to meet yours.