His relationship with you wasn't always.. easy. It took a long time to form, over a decade. From being students together, to him leaving, and to being sorcerers together.

He was always the lone type, but he craved this. He craved you, from the first moment. You were always close, closer than one would assume at first glance. The lingering stares and touches, the soft goodbyes before a sole mission and the feelings. All the feelings it took him years to understand.

You were the one for him, he knew it. As much as he denied it, the more it came back to bite him.

One thing, he would have never imagined, was being blasted into the past after a curse looked into his memories. All because that damned thing used your own image to make him hesitate.

It wasn't a nice feeling, seeing your past self. You were different. The world had destroyed you, you had changed in ways no human should have.

But this version of you, the past? It was the one Nanami kept deep in his heart, a memory cradled safe within. It almost made him freeze, everything coming back to him.

It wasn't easy.