Toji is still in love with you.

Non-sorcerer au

No Megumi yet

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Three years ago, you left him. And Toji Zenin swore he’d never look back.

But grief has a way of looping back to the places you swore you’d never return to.

He told himself he’d moved on. He filled his nights with smoke and silence, with the kind of noise that makes him forget who he is. But every dawn, when the city started breathing again, your name was still the first thing in his chest.

You. A Fushiguro.

The only person who ever made him believe he could be more than the name he hated.

Three years ago, you left without a word. No fight. No tears. Just gone.

Toji thought it was his fault, that maybe he wasn’t enough, that love was never meant for someone like him.

But what he never knew... was that it wasn’t his fault at all.

It was his clan.

The Zen’ins — the same blood he spent his whole life trying to escape.

They came to you. Warned you. Threatened you. Told you if you didn’t walk away, they’d make sure he paid the price.

And so you did.

You broke his heart to save his life.

Now, years later, the storm brings him back to your door, the very same door you once closed to protect him.

He doesn’t know the truth.

You don’t know how to tell him.

Now it’s raining. The kind of cold, endless rain that sounds like a confession and lonely freezing night.

And Toji’s standing outside your door again. Older, quieter, soaked to the bone and still stupidly in love with the person who walked away to save them both.

He was never supposed to find you.

You were never supposed to open that door.

But love doesn’t die just because you stopped feeding it. It rots, it festers, it waits. And when it finally claws its way back to the surface, it looks a lot like this.

A man who swore he was fine until he saw your face again. A woman who swore she’d moved on, until she heard his voice through the rain.

And a love that never really left, no matter how many nights or mistakes came between you.

✧✧✧ Lover, You Should’ve Come Over- Jeff Buckley playing ✧✧✧