Today I started this chapter at work during a break, and I don't know why, but the words kept spilling out. So here is a new chapter. Hope you don't hate me for ending it like that…

(Y/N) barely made it on time to her shift at the bar. She was surprised by Gojo. As soon as they made it out of the bullet train in Tokyo, he had told her:

"You need to hurry if you don't want to be late for work."

She wasn't expecting to hear that. She assumed he wouldn't want to get her out of sight, but then again, he must have finally concluded that she would only leave if he told her about her parents.

Anyway, it was already night, the bar was calm, only two couples were sitting on the couches. The bartender wasn't surprised by Shoko not showing up there that night. She had learned that the medic was working at the school. In her place, Gojo showed up. He took a seat by the counter and she soon got to him.

"Are you here to have a drink or something else?" She asked.

Satoru just couldn't resist messing with her. With his usual smile, he asked: "Is that how you greet a customer?"

(Y/N) went along with his request, not wanting to let him get under her skin. She put on a charming smile and just pretended the man she had spent some nights together, was just another customer.

"Hi handsome, what can I get you?"

"A cinderella please."

She took a tulip-shaped glass for his mocktail filling it with some ice. Then, she squeezed a lemon and an orange. Pouring the juices into the glass, she added pineapple juice, grenadine, and some ginger ale.

Bringing him his sweet mocktail, she asked: "How is Megumi?"

"As good as new."

"And Itadori?"

"He did well at his presentation with the principal and he's now a student of mine."

Sharing a friendly conversation whit Gojo made her feel almost like they were on good terms again, so she asked:

"Have you decided what to do with me yet? Will you hand me over to the higher-ups, or are you telling me what I want to know?"

Satoru took a sip of his drink first before answering:

"I will tell you what I know, but I want something in return."

She assumed it wouldn't be money... "What do you want?"

"With Itadori as my student now and my responsibility as a sorcerer I'm going to be busy, so I want you to help me."

"Help you teach?" She said, not quite understanding what Gojo wanted from her.

"Help in training, yes, but also on my missions sometimes. And then I have a condition. After you take your revenge for your parents, you will owe me."

'That bastard.'

How could she know what she was getting herself into when he wouldn't tell her what he wanted from her? Well, she didn't have many options.

"Ok, deal." She gave him a handshake to seal their pact.

"So how do we do this? Shall I come to the school at the time we used to train?"

"No, we will keep our training session. I want to improve your abilities so you can be useful to me in the future."

"Hum, but with my job, I don't have much time. Or do you expect me to quit?" She said half-joking.

"Exactly."

(Y/N) was perplexed. She liked this job. Well, she liked the aspect of having a normal life, even if it was just for a few hours, she could forget about all the stuff around curses.

Satoru saw her struggling, but he was expecting that. "If you worry about money, you will get paid for helping me."

"Didn't know the principal would approve paying a curse user..."

"Oh, he won't. I will be the one to pay you. Just tell me how much you make with your tips and I will cover that."

Well, there wasn't much she could say to refuse him. He had left her without arguments.

"Fine, but I will stay until my boss gets a replacement. He has been nice to me so I don't want to just leave."

"Fair enough, but till then I expect you to show up at school at our usual training time."

The next Friday was the first time (Y/N) stepped through the barrier that protected the school grounds. She wasn't feeling confident to do so, but Gojo had assured her that nothing would happen. Apparently, he had requested permission for her to get in, of course with a fake Alias. She was once again Yuna right now.

She looked in awe at the surroundings, taking her time to search for the training grounds. The poorly drawn map she got from Satoru didn't help her much to find it...

Then she felt a familiar cursed energy behind her. Turning around, she was faced with the usual stern-looking man in his nice suit. She let her lips curve up into a smile.

"Hey Nanami, good to see you."

"So it is true, you really are a curse user..."

Her smile dropped, remembering that she also lied to him.

"Sorry to lie to you, but I had my reasons. Hope you can forgive me."

She couldn't figure out if Nanami was mad at her or not because his face remained the same, but he still offered to help her.

"You look lost, maybe I can help you?"

"Yes, please. I need to get to the training grounds. Gojo only gave me this map but I can't figure it out."

Before answering her, he looked at his watch.

"I'm still early so I can show it to you."

"Thank you. My real name is (Y/N) by the way, but here it's best you keep addressing me as Yuna..."

"I already knew your true name, Gojo has already told me."

They walked silently for a while, but (Y/N) just needed to know.

"So, by helping me out, does that mean you're not mad at me?"

He looked at her questioning. "For you to lie about your name?"

She nodded.

"No. You tricked Gojo, which I found very amusing."

She couldn't keep herself from laughing out loud.

"Really, I thought you were friends."

Without being fazed he replied: "He is my senpai and one could probably say we are friends, but he can be quite annoying."

She smiled again. 'Who would have thought, Nanami can be funny.'

"I'm sorry to tell you this, but I don't think I really fooled him. He always knew something was off with me."

"Hum, maybe. But he had discarded the possibility for you to be a sorceress."

As they walked, a waste field began to show. "Here we are. Just go down those stairs and you're on the training ground."

They said their goodbyes before (Y/N) stepped down to the field. She immediately saw Megumi and Yuji with an orange-haired girl. The shinigami user was the first to see her.

"What are you doing here, Yuna-san?

Yuji was clearly confused. "Yuna? I thought her name was (Y/N)-san."

The conflict seen on Megumi's face made the woman question herself if Satoru had told them that she would show up to help train them. So she clarified everything, well, everything according to the lie.

"I'm (L/N) Yuna (Y/N), but I definitely prefer Yuna. I don't know why Gojo-san introduced me to you as (Y/N)." She told Itadori and the others, hoping they would never use her true name again on the school grounds.

"And who are you?"

"Kugisaki Nobara."

"And what are you doing here?" Itadory was just too curious to not ask.

"Your sensei is apparently very busy, so he asked me to help out with your training."

"So do we call you sensei too?"

"No, please don't. Yuna-san is more than enough."

"Are you Gojo sensei's girlfriend?" The question Nobara asked so bluntly was on both of the boys' minds too. They had held back to ask but were quite curious to know.

"Girlfriend? No. We are just... Friends, acquaintances. Nothing more. I just happened to have free time, that's all."

Finally, their sensei made it to the field. "Ah, good, you already explained things, right Yuna?"

"Not really. I only told them I'm here to help out. You never told me what you expect of me."

After pairing up (Y/N) with Yuji and Megumi with Nobara, the sorcerer disappeared again, leaving them to train alone.

Rubbing her forehead, (Y/N) just thought: 'What else was I expecting. He just left everything to me and just went slacking off...'

The best she could do now was helping out the kids. Seeing that the other pair had already begun to spar with each other, she made Yuji attack her.

"Show me your moves, kid."

Reluctantly, Itadory attacked, but he was holding back. Although (Y/N) could see his lack of coordination, she also felt that he had a lot more strength. Making a mental note to teach him a proper fighting technique, she made first sure he would use his full strength.

She let her cursed energy freely and extended it outward of her body, creating a suffocating pressure for whoever was around her. Poor Yuji freaked out, not knowing what was happening.

"That pressure you're feeling right now, it's me, my cursed energy. With it, I can fortify my body and protect myself, so you don't hold back, understand?"

The other teens stopped their fight because of confusion about the strong presence of cursed energy. They were surprised to see that the source for it was Yuna, the woman they felt not the slightest bit of energy even when they shook her hand. The light shimmer of her odd tattoo was also fascinating. Itadori soon recovered from his shock and once again started to attack, now with full strength.

The sparring session went on and (Y/N) began to understand Yuji's abilities better. She began to think back when she learned to fight and thought how she would try to teach it to the boy because she wasn't sure Gojo would help her out...

Sometime later, all three students and the bartender were catching their breaths.

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm done. I need to go home and prepare for work."

The days passed and (Y/N) kept going to the school before her shift. Mondays and Tuesdays, when she didn't work, she would usually train with Gojo before or after helping out with his students. She had got attached to them. They were so fun, so unique and it filled her heart with pride seeing how they had grown that much in only a couple of weeks.

Things with Gojo were more or less the same. The training sessions with him now were just as frustrating as they were when she had to suppress her cursed energy. Even now all powered up she couldn't even make a hit on him.

'That stupid infinity barrier. There must be a way to breach it.'

It was Tuesday, one of her days off. Her boss had finally contacted someone knew, so she only had to work till Sunday. She was once again sparring with Gojo in the training room because of the bad weather. After a while, he stopped the fight.

"Okay, let's see if you can make progress with your domain expansion."

Gojo had helped her train her domain expansion, but until now, she wasn't able to create a complete one.

Before she focused on her cursed energy, she shook her body loose. Then, conjuring all her negative thoughts, her frustrations, her hate, she made her hand sign and felt how her domain began to be created around her.

The empty room manifested around her and Gojo. A while ago she began to believe that this room was her old bedroom back at her parents' home. There was where she felt the safest... But it was difficult to be sure.

Then something happened. The walls of the room were now complete with the floor and the roof all closed. She could feel how her cursed energy filled up all the space in it. She could close her eyes and feel exactly where Gojo was standing, the slight rise and fall of his chest from breathing was barely noticed when looking at him, but now, (Y/N) could feel it.

"That's it!" Satoru exclaimed with enthusiasm. "Now, attack me."

'How should I attack him? Does it even matter? His barrier is impenetrable.'

Now that she thought about it, she could feel his barrier, the infinity that was part of it... But that infinity was now inside her finite space, where her cursed energy was everywhere...

'Can I maybe...?'

She had an idea. If she couldn't penetrate his barrier, then she had to attack from the inside. Focusing on his forearm to prevent any eventual harm to vital organs, she focused on creating the most basic form she could think of. She formed a metal spike right through Gojo's arm.

Pain shot through Satoru's right forearm. It was such a foreign feeling that he almost didn't acknowledge it was happening until he looked at it and saw a metal spike. He was shocked that (Y/N) could actually hurt him. An ominous feeling started to rise in him. He wanted to know how she did it. He needed to know what the breach was of his impenetrable barrier...

(Y/N)'s energy was at the end. With that attack, she couldn't keep up her domain any longer. Her knees gave in and she started to fall to the ground, but Gojo stopped her fall, but not in a nice way. He pulled her against the wall. She could feel his intense stare even through the blindfold, his killing intent almost suffocating her.

"How. How did you manage to hit me?"

"I-I..."

Her stutter made him realize what he was doing. He suppressed his cursed energy while trying to get his emotions under control, which was difficult...

Now being able to talk again, (Y/N) said: "I don't know. I thought that since your barrier is impenetrable I should attack your body directly from the inside out... And somehow it worked."

The sorcerer was impressed with her. He never had thought of that possibility. His admiration for her made him forget about how their relationship was right now, he just wanted to kiss her...

Without giving (Y/N) any chance to refuse, Satoru kissed her, his tongue invading hers right away, which was open in surprise. He kissed her forcefully, pinning her onto the wall until he realized what he was doing. He couldn't just force her to kiss him, that wasn't right. So he stopped...