Nagisa was about to get up and to tell Karasuma that he won't take the mission, Nagisa realized that he still wasn't fine with it at all. His legs were tied to the ground and he wasn't able to make a single step.

-Akari...Akari...Akari...-

He wasn't able to think about anything else and the more he thought about it the more his chest started to hurt. There was something pressing against his chest harder and harder and in the end he wasn't able to hold it in anymore, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Nagisa fell on his knees and started to scream as loud as he could.

After letting out all the emotions he had gathered inside him, Nagisa just kneed there and stared at the wall for almost an hour. He didn't feel like moving at all. He wanted to reject the mission but he wasn't able to. No matter what was going to happen, he still wanted to see her. He'll just protect her with his current identity and then disappear forever.

Knowing that Akari and him were probably going to be on separate ways in the future, he still wanted to know what kind of person Akari was going to get married to, so he opened the folder again. The last thing he could do was to make sure that her husband would take care of her.

To all the fans surprise, Mase Haruna has revealed the last name of her future husband was "Shiota" …

Nagisa froze in place… coincidence? Or was Akari really…

He kept reading and when he got to the last page, he saw a picture of a young lady with his mother! Akari was getting married to… him. A person who was dead…

Without him realizing, tears started to drop from his eyes and made the picture wet. He wasn't ready for this emotional rollercoaster. And the fact that Akari was willing to marry him as a dead person made him want to kill himself. "Sorry..." Nagisa cried as he held the picture of Akari and the chocolate box against his chest.

Akari had grown a lot as well. She stopped dyeing her hair so it became black again. On top of that, Akari grew just about as tall as his mother and she was around 165cm.

The next thought made Nagisa laugh at himself. Akari wasn't completely flat anymore. It still was nothing impressive, but it wasn't completely flat anymore.

Karasuma had added quite a lot of pictures of Akari at the end of the folder. Pictures where she was acting and pictures when she was interviewed. Seeing these pictures didn't make Nagisa feel better at all though. Akari definitely got more beautiful… she became more elegant and mature… way too mature in Nagisa's eyes.

Akari always was a cheerful person and loved to smile… but in all these pictures, there wasn't a single picture where she was even close to smiling.

This was everything that was included in the folder and that also meant that Nagisa was allowed to start his mission anytime he wanted to.

Nagisa walked out of his room back into Karasuma's like a zombie and told him that he was going to leave. It has been half a year since Nagisa had left this building. They weren't allowed to leave except in cases of missions and Nagisa didn't go on a mission for half a year now.

What was also worth mentioning was the fact that Nagisa was actually extremely rich right now… the special unit didn't work like all the others. Each mission had a fixed bounty and since Nagisa went solo on missions that were meant for groups the entire time, he got to keep the entire payment just for himself.

On top of that, the units were allowed to keep 30% of the money that they were able to get during the mission, but only if it was gained though actions related to the mission of course. And considering Nagisa completed every mission in less than a week, he had saved up quite a lot in these two years.

-Guess I'll have to look for some cloths first… -

Nagisa didn't got any new clothes ever since he joined the government. Everything that was related to the mission was handed to him by the government. But in most of the cases, they all got destroyed during the mission. And the ones that were still whole were all suits or tuxedos. He had no casual cloth.

He was kind of nervous getting back into society after two years. "Well let's get myself something to wear first." Nagisa looked at himself, right now he was wearing a white training shirt and some large trousers, kind of like a hipster.

Said and done Nagisa walked out of the facility though a secrete tunnel and on to the next main street, got in a cab and headed straight into the city's biggest mall. He didn't know if it was on purpose or by accident, but he ended up going into the same store he went to with Akari on their first date.

Nagisa didn't gave much thought what to wear, but since it was almost November, he needed something that would keep him warm, not that he needed it.

When Nagisa looked at him in front of the mirror, he spaced out. White shirt, dark blue coat, light blue jeans and brown boots. Just purely by instinct, Nagisa somehow got the exact same outfit Akari chose for him two years ago. And it looked even better on him than it did back then.

After all his shoulders got a lot wider and his physique wasn't feminine at all anymore. He didn't realize that himself, but Nagisa actually started to look pretty good. A well trained and defined body, above average height while his face still had this gentle touch to it. Even if he still had long hair now, nobody would mistake him for a girl anymore.

Nagisa hesitated a bit before deciding to go with it. There was no way Akari would recognize him just because of his outfit and even if she did, he could just deny or talk around it. Nagisa walked to the counter and payed for his new outfit, got back into the changing room and dropped his old cloth in a trash can.

What really bothered Nagisa on his way out was that he was getting way too much attention. Especially from girls around his age. Nagisa wasn't used to that! When he walked in this mall two years ago, nobody even realized that he was there!

Nagisa felt relieved when he got out of the mall. All this attention was getting him to feel really uneasy. Now that he had everything ready, Nagisa had to get to Akari. And Karma was the one who is supposed to introduce him to her.

Nagisa also got a new cellphone from the mall. He grabbed it out of his pocket and called the number he still had in his memories from two years ago.

"Hello? Akabane Karma speaking." Nagisa had a faint smile on his face hearing Karma's voice. He had actually met Karma quite a few times in his facility, but hearing him as an about to be free person again felt different.

"Hello Akabane-san, unit 284 here." Nagisa spoke into the phone. There was no need to change his voice. In the two years Nagisa had gone through his voice break and there was no way Karma would be able to reveal him just by hearing his voice.

"Oh, hello there…" for some reason Karma didn't sound really amazed, as a fact he sounded somewhat annoyed.

"Karasuma-san said that you would introduce me to Yukimura-san?" Nagisa ignored Karma's weird attitude and asked him.

"I wouldn't call her by this name if I were you. She'll instantly hate you." Karma replied still not being exactly friendly. "But it's your call, where are you right now?"

"At the mall." Nagisa replied calmly while actually being surprised.

-She'll hate me if I call her Yukimura-san?... Akari… -

Akari was living these two years while putting way too many burdens on herself. And Nagisa was responsible for all of them. "Hmm I happen to be nearby, I'll come and pick you up." Karma said after hanging up almost instantly.

"Ehh hello?" Nagisa was completely confused. Did he do something to offend Karma in the past? But there was no way! He barely even talked to him.

Karma arrived in a silver BMW M3, it was quite a decent car and at the same time it made Nagisa think about getting a car himself. He already learned how to drive and got a license just for the sake of the missions.

"Hello unit 284, oh wait it's you!" Karma didn't even bother to get out of the car to greet him but seemed quite surprised when he saw him.

"Hello Akabane-san, nice to meet you. And yes it's me, we've met a few times before." Nagisa greeted him with a smile.

-We've met so often you don't even know Karma… -

"No offense but I can't believe they are actually sending a rookie." Karma was kind of upset seeing Nagisa.

"Rookie?" Nagisa lifted his brow a bit hearing Karma's statement. In his facility Nagisa was the well-known ace of the entire group. It looked like Karma didn't know much about the special unit.

"I don't know, but to be fair I'm pretty confident I can take on two of you at the same time." Karma definitely wasn't amazed seeing Nagisa.

"Ha." Nagisa got a little mad, was Karma always like this? This was supposed to be the first time they actually meet.

"What's there to laugh about." Karma rolled his eyes and asked him. Nagisa really didn't know why, but Karma seemed to really hate him.

"Let's put it this way Akabane-san, from meeting you till now, I had 134 chances to kill you and you wouldn't even have noticed what happened." Nagisa shook his head while shrugging his shoulders. And this was only in his state right now, if he hadn't lost his abilities you would have to add a few zeros to that number.

"Well let's see you try…" Karma's words were stuck in his throat. "When did you…" Nagisa was surprised that Karma actually noticed. There was a thin piano wire wrapped around Karma's throat. Nagisa just had to slightly pull the string and Karma would be dead.

"Hmm not half bad, at least you noticed. But just saying, this wire was hanging there since the beginning of our conversation." Nagisa had a smirk on his face, he was lying, he just attached it to Karma's neck after threatening Karma. "So Akabane-san, do you mind telling me why you're disliking me so much?"

Karma let out a long sigh, "Well at least you're capable, it's just that I asked to take the mission you're taking right now but they decided I wasn't qualified for it."

"Huh, just because I got the mission you want?" Nagisa's anger disappeared hearing this. Karma just wanted to be able to protect Akari himself, probably because he didn't trust any strangers.

"I don't really care about the mission itself, but I feel like I'm breaking a promise a made to a friend." Karma said with a troubled look on his face.

"…" Nagisa went silent, Karma was still hanging on to that promise? The promise to take care of Akari?

Nagisa started to struggle, Karasuma did say that he was allowed to tell Karma his true identity if there was the need since Karma was part of this mission and if Karma wouldn't cooperate because of having a grudge towards unit 284, it would make Nagisa's job extremely hard.

"...Thanks Karma, you didn't break any promise." After struggling for a while Nagisa decided to tell him. Nagisa was confident, even if Karma didn't cooperate, he would still be able to keep Akari safe. But he really didn't want his best friend to hate him because of himself.

"…" Karma stared at Nagisa with confused eyes, he couldn't understand what Nagisa was saying, why did Nagisa suddenly talked like as if they knew each other for a long time. And who was he to say that he didn't break any promise?

"I'm back… sorry for the two years Karma." Nagisa smiled at him as he removed the wire.

"…" Karma obviously still didn't trust him and was eyeing him with cautious eyes.

"You can call Karasuma-sensei or Koro Sensei to check… I was with them the entire time." Nagisa let out a long sigh.

"Are you really…" Karma's voice was trembling but he still grabbed his phone and called Karasuma-sensei.

Karma spoke as soon as Karasuma picked up the phone not even giving him time to introduce himself. "Karasuma-sensei! Unit 284, is he really…"

"… I should've expected you to cause him trouble right from the beginning. Yes, he is." Karasuma let out a long sigh, "but remember Karma, you're not allowed to tell anyone!"

"But how come I never knew!" Karma was still not convinced, he had access to almost the entire databank, he also checked Nagisa's profile once and it said something completely else.

"Have him explain it to you Karma, I can't say too much." Karasuma replied and hang up.

Karma instantly looked at Nagisa, "Karasuma-sensei can't tell you since there is a chance your call was being monitored. My profile was fake… no one actually knows I'm still alive expect for Koro Sensei, Karasuma-sensei and Bitch-sensei. Well I guess we could add you if you would believe me." Nagisa shrug his shoulders while having a faint smile on his face. He was pretty excited to see how his reunion with Karma would be.

"Uff!" Nagisa suddenly felt something slamming against him and send him flying. And then someone grabbed him by his collar.

"YOU FCKING ASSHOLE!" Karma screamed at him as he punched Nagisa in his guts! "DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH WE SUFFERED!" Karma face was twisted from all the anger.

Okay... that was definitely not how Nagisa imagined his reunion with Karma. "Urgh!" before Nagisa realized that Karma actually punched him with everything he has got, Karma already slammed his knee into Nagisa's stomach.

"You think I didn't want to come back!? I couldn't! If I did EVERYONE WOULD BE DEAD!" Nagisa took a few deep breaths and also kicked Karma against his chest.

Karma took a step back and spitted onto the ground. "Oh really, and what has changed now huh?! Why are you coming back now!" Karma yelled at him charging at him again.

"They are targeting you guys again… they are coming for you." Nagisa took a deep breath to calm himself down and said after dodging Karma.

"Aha? So why is it fine now for everyone to die? So you're only coming back to die with us?!" Karma was still angry.

"No one has to die now." Nagisa now grabbed Karma by his collar and pushed him against his car, it felt weird to Nagisa being almost as tall as Karma.

"Oh really! What has changed in these two years?" Karma smacked his head into Nagisa's.

"Urgh… I can force Koro Sensei in his absolute defense mode on my own now! How is that?!" Nagisa yelled back at him.

"Great! So what… wait what?" Karma didn't understand Nagisa quite clearly.

"Koro Sensei helped me to drag out most of the potential I got from the tentacle cells." Nagisa explained, "plus the organization doesn't know I'm still alive either, they don't even know that the government already knows about their existence, why do you think no one was send to check the ruins except for Koro Sensei."

"So you can defeat Koro Sensei now?" Karma still found it hard to believe.

"If it were an assassination, yes, I can kill him, easy. In a head on fight, no, but I can still keep him busy for 30 minutes." Nagisa said with confidence.

"Show me." Karma was still not convinced.

"I can't, at least not right now."

"What do you mean you can't?"

"I kinda overused my ability in my last training session with Koro Sensei. Let's say I have a cooldown on my abilities, but because I overused my ability I'm having aftereffects right now.

"How long?"

"8 more hours."

"Then show me in 8 hours… I'm going to beat the living hell out of you if u can't."

"If you want to do that you should do it before I get my power back." Nagisa grinned at Karma.

"Can I see that as a provocation?" and there was the smirk Nagisa remembered, the smirk that he hated so much in the past.

"You could, just let me tell you, even right now I could fight Karasuma-sensei." Nagisa's grin became even wider, he was having fun, it has been a while they've provoked each other like that.

"Are you implying that I don't stand a chance?" Karma lifted one brow still smiling.

"Maybe?" But Nagisa interrupted Karma before he could say anything back "Sorry Karma, but let's cut this crap for now… I… want to see her." Nagisa was still smiling but it seemed a little forced.

"Are you going to tell her?" Karma spaced out for a second and asked Nagisa with a serious face.

"I want to, but…"

"So you're not."

"Koro Sensei told me not to… he has something planned." Nagisa looked down at his feet while gritting his fists.

"Well to be honest it's none of my business, but just saying, you're gonna have consequences."

"I know, but it's still better than getting her killed isn't it?"

"…"

"So are you driving me or not?" Nagisa punched him against his shoulder.

"Jesus it's so weird that you're about as tall as I am." Karma punched Nagisa back and laughed.

"True, two years ago I would have to punch upwards." Nagisa also started to laugh.

On their drive Nagisa they talked a lot about what happened to the class in the two years. Most of them had started their studies, while Kurahashi and Yada were on a work and travel trip in Australia. Karma was part of the ministry of defense now and Akari, she obviously went back to acting.

But when Karma asked Nagisa how he had spent his two years Nagisa went silent. "It's nothing to brag about really…" Nagisa forced a smile on his face.

Surprisingly, Karma didn't budge Nagisa any further. "Don't you want to how Kayano-chan is doing?" Karma asked Nagisa, he didn't know why, but this entire time Nagisa was kind of avoiding talking about Akari.

"I do… but I'm also afraid to hear it… I know that I made her suffer." Nagisa looked out of the window. "Nice car by the way."

"Hah… don't change the subject like that Nagisa, but still thank you." Karma let out a long sigh. "Well it doesn't really matter. You are going to see her soon anyways."

"…" Nagisa didn't answer, he was still struggling thinking about how he should behave when meeting her.

Alright :D who predicted the person Akari was going to marry was "dead" Nagisa? What do you think about it? Should I add scene that have a similar touch in the future or should I let it be? Tell me what you prefer in the reviews :P

Anyways, at least Karma knows Nagisa's true identity. And in the next chapter Nagisa is going to meet Akari again! As always, thank you for your support and I'll see you in the next chapter ;).