June 2018:
Satoru and I are headed to Megumi's room to see him off on a mission. There's a second grade curse in a hospital that needs to be exercised. Megumi has been going on more and more missions on his own since i've been staying home. Yaga and Satoru both kept true to their word and made me stay home from work after the gender reveal. Probably a good thing though. I need to rest more for the last few months and prepare the house for our son.
The last two months have gone by so quickly. We've had so much to do and with Satoru going on the occasional mission for a week at a time and still training Megumi, I've had to do a lot of prep on my own. Nothing too hard really. Just baby proofing all the furniture and cabinets, buying clothes and diapers, buying a few toys here or there. I even painted a really cute dinosaur mural on the baby's wall. Satoru got me to add some Digimon to it too. He did get pretty mad at me when I put the crib together one night out or boredom while he was away on a mission.
Since then, I don't do a lot of prep by myself.
We knock on Megumi's door and he opens it pretty quickly actually.
"Hey." He says.
"Hey guy, ready for that mission?" Satoru says excitedly.
"Ready as i'll ever be. Did you send me that location?" He asks.
"Nope, sending the ping now." Satoru says looking at his phone.
But instead of texting him quickly, he raises an eyebrow and smirks.
"Change in plans. One of my contacts just got back with me with the location of one of the fingers. We need to go retrieve it. And by we, I mean Megumi." He says smugly.
Megumi groans, "aren't Sukuna's fingers like, super powerful? Like special grade powerful, meaning it attracts high level curses?" He asks.
"Yup! Which makes it a perfect opportunity for you to fight something higher than a grade two or three curse. Time to put that training to use!" He says enthusiastically.
Megumi groans, "alright fine. Ping the location and i'll head there."
"Sending it now." Satoru says messing with his phone.
We hear a dinging noise from Megumi's phone and he stands and walks to the door.
"Alright, fine. See you guys later then." He says.
"Have fun, and don't come back unless you find it." Satoru says.
I sigh and roll my eyes, "Megumi, please be careful." I tell him.
"Yeah yeah." He says as he walks away.
"Satoru, you could be nicer." I tell him.
"Eh, i'm not the sentimental type." He says.
I roll my eyes, "says the guy who sure seemed pretty sentimental to me last night."
He chuckles, "only for you."
I smile warmly and look on my work phone at the info about Sukuna's fingers. I know a lot about it already, but I just want to confirm it myself.
"So," I start as I look at the file, "any curse could ingest this and gain more power?" I ask.
"Yup. Could potentially make them special grade." He says.
I look back at him quickly, "and you sent Megumi to go retrieve it?" I ask.
"Yeah, what's wrong with that?" He says casually.
"Satoru, he isn't ready to fight a special grade curse. He can barely survive a first grade." I tell him.
"He's Toji's son. He'll be fine." He tells me.
"You say that until he gets hurt." I tell him.
"Quit babying him. He's much older than when we took him in. He's grown a lot, and this will make him stronger. Besides, you and I trained him. He's learned from the best of the best. He'll be okay, trust me." He tells me and places a kiss on my cheek as we walk back to our apartment.
I groan, "I know I'm not his mother, but we took him in when he was little. I still love and worry about him like he's our own." I say and take a breath, "fine. But if this goes south, you're in for it." I tell him seriously.
He chuckles, "what are you going to do?"
"Obviously, I can't hurt you. But if he gets hurt, you won't stop hearing 'I told you so' for months." I tell him walking beside him, "Satoru." I say seriously and stop him, "I can't lose anyone else I love." I tell him in a worried tone.
He sighs and his face grows serious too, "I know. And you won't. I promise."
———
"What do you mean it isn't there?" Satoru asks Megumi on speaker phone.
We were sitting on our couch in the living room going over lesson plans Satoru needs for Megumi and what we should do with the finger.
"The stevenson hutch is empty." Megumi tells him.
"What? For real? That's hilarious. Maybe it took a midnight stroll." Satoru says jokingly.
"I'm going to punch you." Megumi says.
"Well, no going home until it's recovered, okay?" Satoru says and then hangs up.
"Satoru!" I say annoyed.
"Like I said, he'll be fine. I'm sure it's around there somewhere." Satoru says flippantly.
I roll my eyes, "and if it isn't?" I ask.
"Ugh, you worry too much. Everything will be fine. If he needs hell he'll tell me." Satoru says looking at our notes again.
I sigh and continue looking at our notes with a yawn. Satoru notices and I see him smirk out of the corner of my eye.
"Tired?" He asks me.
"A little." I say.
"C'mon, lets go to bed then." He says.
"What about our lesson plans?" I ask.
"They can wait. You need sleep." He says standing and picking me up.
"Satoru I can walk." I tell him.
"I know. Let me just do this for you." He tells me.
I sigh and smirk rolling my eyes. Like I said, he can be thoughtful sometimes.
He puts me down in my bed and gives me a gentle kiss on my lips. He climbs into bed next to me and hugs me close to him placing a hand on my stomach.
"Think of any names?" He asks me.
"Yeah actually. What do you think about Niko?" I ask him.
He is silent for a moment before kissing the back of my neck, "Niko huh? Niko Gojo. I like that." He says.
I smile and my eye lids grow heavy, "our little Niko."
Finally I fall asleep thinking of our son.
———
Satoru wakes me up getting dressed in his work uniform. I sit up and wipe my eyes squinting as I look at him. I look at the time and it's later in the day.
"What's going on?" I ask him.
"Megumi has been gone a while. I'm going to head out to check on him." He tells me.
"Is he hurt?" I ask him concerned trying to get out of bed.
"Whoa whoa whoa, where do you think you're going?" He asks me.
"I'm going with you." I tell him.
"No you aren't. I can handle this, you and Niko need rest. He's fine, I promise." He tells me sitting me back down and kissing me on the cheek.
"How do you know?" I ask.
"I'm Satoru Gojo, I know most anything." He tells me
I know he's fibbing to me just to get me to stay here, but I decide to trust him. He's right, even if something was wrong i'm in no shape to help no matter how much I want to.
"Fine. Please be careful." I tell him.
"Always am." He says.
He kisses me gently and heads out. I hope everything is okay. I can't stand the thought of something happening to Megumi. I lay back down and try to sleep again, but it never comes. I'm restless all night. I can't help but have a weird feeling about all this…
