Youji/Asuka: Their Love is so Canon
For start, she asked him on a date. Sort of. He thought it was a date but then it turned out he was just her cover for one of her detective missions. It was the best date he ever had. Nothing beats exciting like getting shot at. Looking back, he now knows he wasn't just a random guy-to-sit-besides-her-at-the-restaurant-table. It was a test. He thinks he passed, since they kept seeing each other, not romantically at first, just as friends and after a while she invited him to help her with her little one-woman-agency.
Of course he was attracted to her. He was twenty, he was attracted to anything that even remotely qualified as pretty. And she was pretty, that quiet unassuming beauty that sneaks up on you and then hits you over the head when you're least prepared. And never leaves you alone. But that wasn't it at all. They connected. Before her, he always thought that stuff about halves coming together was just crap you tell girls to get them to bed. Now he knew she truly was his other half. The better one. Completing his virtues and covering for his faults. She made him strive to be a better man, so he would be a proper match for her, because she deserved the best.
His efforts paid off after about a year and he was convinced he was the happiest man that ever lived. It was wonderful. Sure, they fought even more now, but they always made up and that was worth all the yelling he had to endure. She was even cute when she was angry with him and if he was honest with himself, their arguments worked well to damp down his sometimes overflowing temperament. He knew she knew how to handle him, and he was OK with that. It was a proper start of a most wonderful relationship.
Then she died.
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