ex! nanami who comes to you drunk.
it was a mistake, really. he shouldn't have let satoru convince him to go out for drinks, and he shouldn't have drank so much, and most of all, he shouldn't have come to you at three am, drunk out of his mind.
you were awake, of course. nanami knew that you’d be awake, and maybe that's part of the reason he found himself going to you.
besides the fact that he missed you of course.
the knocks that come at your door are languid and soft, you almost think you imagined it but nope, they come again and this time you sure you heard it.
you get up and head towards the door quietly, before opening it just an inch to see who it is, only to be met with a familiar mop of blonde hair.
nanami looks at you and your breath hitches because he's as beautiful as you remember — although he looks a little unkempt, with his tie loosened and his hair a mess with red blooming on his cheeks, and god, you could kiss him right now.
no, nope. you shouldn't be thinking like that, he's your ex now.
“nanami.” you utter out and he tries to pretend that the usage of his last name doesn't send a pang through his heart.
“y/n.” he says, looking at you with those stupidly beautiful brown eyes of his that you can't possibly resist.
“what-what are you doing here?!” you exclaim, sort of agitated that he came to your apartment at three am, “and — oh my god, are you drunk?”
he gulps, “sort of. can i come in?”
you hesitate. the logical thing would be to tell him no, that he wasn't allowed at your place anymore and that he wasn't welcome to your hospitality, that the both of you were an old story now. but the emotional thing? the emotional thing would be to let him in and take care of him, shower him and get him into more comfortable clothes and —
“okay.” you say, opening the door wider for him to come in.
he stumbles in, and you help support him and god, just feeling the warmth of his body against yours brings back old memories that you've long since buried.
you guide him to the couch where he plops down on it.
“what got you so out of character?” you ask, almost shyly as you shift from one foot to another, trying not to look at his lips.
“gojo.” he simply says, sighing.
“...right.” you mumble, unsure of what to say before you quickly head to the kitchen, ignoring your racing heart.
nanami, on the other hand? he's definitely having cardiac arrest.
because you look as ethereal and soft as he remembered — of other-worldly beauty that he could not comprehend yet he sees you as you approach him with a glass of water in your hand.
“here.” you say, handing it to him and he gulps, his fingers brushing against your knuckles so subtly yet enough to make his heart flutter.
he doesn't know what made him come to you — maybe it was the fact gojo ditched him, or the fact you lived so close to the bar he was at, or maybe the simple fact that he just missed you, and longed to see you again.
he gulps down the water, trying to keep his eyes off of you.
a few moments of silence pass and he can feel your gaze boring into him.
“i can tell you have something to say.” he mumbles, finally looking up to meet your gaze as you shyly look away — he smiles at your bashful self, “what is it you have to say?”
“uhm…” you stammer, “just, uh, what brought you here?”
nanami stiffens but he knows you'd emerge an answer, after all, it's been almost nine months since your initial break up, and this is the first time he ever broke ‘no contact.’
“right.” he mutters, “just…had nowhere else to go.”
“oh.” you utter — it's a blatant lie, you know that, and you know it was just a stupid excuse to see you, yet you don't call him out on it.
after all, maybe, just maybe you wanted to see him too.
“right, oh.” he hums, getting up from the couch, “i should probably go.”
“no!” you blurt out before you could think.
“...no?” he questions, raising an eyebrow.
“just, uhm…” you stutter, fiddling with your fingers, “it's pretty late and quiet out there, and uh, you have nowhere else to go and uhm, y'know —” you cut yourself out, sighing, “just stay the night, nanami.”
he chuckles to himself — you've always been a stuttering mess whenever you were shy or so, and this was definitely one of those occasions.
nanami thinks that he misses you, like a lot, more than he can describe. but he also knows that this entire break up was his fault.
if only he hadn't overworked so much, then maybe things would be different now.
“thank you,” nanami finally says after a moment, “for your hospitality.”
“don't thank me.” you mumble, “just make yourself comfortable, okay?”
“goodnight.” you say softly.
nanami smiles, “goodnight.”
he may have lost you for the long term, but for tonight? he'll just dwell on this interaction, because at least he got to see you one more time.
one more time before he went off to shibuya.
but he promises himself, he promises himself that after he's done with whatever in shibuya, he’ll come back to you.
he'll make you his again.