Disclaimers and notes in part 1.
No Choice But To Lie
by Estirose
c 2008
The lie was necessary. That truth burned in his soul, kept him from telling Nogami everything about the whole mission. He knew, if only from his future self, that Nogami had to remain ignorant. He had to remain ignorant to his future kin, had to remain ignorant of his older self's true mission. Right now, Nogami knew that his older self had fled into time, taking the pocketwatch with him, luring the Imagin.
But he didn't know why. And unless it turned out that Yuuto had no choice, he would not, could not know why.
So Yuuto lied and taunted and annoyed his future brother-in-law, hoping against hope that the other man would never ask, never wonder why the future self was out there roaming time instead of being with Airi. He would do everything he had to do if it kept his future wife, his future child safe.
Nogami Ryoutarou was starting to question, though, starting to wonder what was wrong, what had happened, why he didn't remember certain things and what those certain things were. So Yuuto lied, and lied, and lied some more, and hoped to hell that Nogami would believe him.