Standing across from me was Geto Suguru. This was the second time he appeared in front of me this year. What the hell did he want from me?! I was too far to call for Gojo to rescue me, and if I tried to dial his number...who knows what Geto would do to the civilians. In fact, he hates these monkeys so without a doubt, he would kill them with no hesitation.

"Set Nozomi free." Geto simply said, keeping a good distance between us.

"What?" I couldn't understand what he was saying. How can I set Nozomi free if she and I were the same?! It's impossible to separate her from me. "What are you talking about?" I began stepping back from him, fearing what he'll do to me. "No, get away from me! I don't care what you have to mumble about!"

Before I could fully run away, Geto grabbed a hold of my arm and pulled me closer to him as he sneered at me with a creepy expression. My heart rapidly beat in terror. What in the world was he going to do to me in the public eye? "Then I'll make sure that their tragic love story repeats. Congratulations to the new birth of Nozomi! You are with child, dear Ena." Geto immediately let go of me and disappeared from my sight.

He left me in a perplexed state. "H-huh?" Everything happened too quickly. He was here then left in a flash. Good thing he didn't harm me...but he did say some weird things from his unfathomable mouth. "What did he mean 'the new birth of Nozomi'? And...there's no way I'm pregnant either. He's bluffing..." Maybe Geto's just on drugs these days. I don't know.

Either way I regrouped with the others and didn't tell Gojo about my encounter because I believe Geto's words were full of lies to scare me. He always loved to pop around me when I'm alone. It's really scary if I do say so myself. I'm never prepared to handle him.

1 month later,

Gojo and I were in the teacher lounge at the Tokyo jujutsu school while Naozumi was at his grandparents' house. There was a meeting with all the sorcerers in Japan to gather so we had to attend. If we weren't obligated to go, then we would be cuddling in bed watching movies. However, as of right now, we were waiting for the two principals to get here, so we decided to chillax in the lounge room until it was time.

Shuffle shuffle

Gojo, who sat right next to me on the two seater leather couch, turned his body to face me. A loving smile painted his lips, sticking his hand out as he caressed my face gently. His large hand was warm against my cold cheek. "Babe, your eyes are beautiful." Gojo randomly said in a romantic way. Despite it being out of the blue, I adored it because it made me feel happy and loved by him.

My heart warmed and swelled, spreading throughout my whole body like a ripple effect. His comment put me in a good mood. "Aww, thanks babe." I pecked a kiss on his cheek as a token of my love. Gojo's such a sweet yet annoying husband. How can I not love him? His whimsical behavior and antics were questionable, but I always disregard them because nothing can stop me from loving this man.

"But you know what's more beautiful?"

"Uhh... Nao's eyes? Even though he has mine??"

"Nope! It's my eyes!" Gojo grinned proudly, slipping off his blindfold and showing me his azure eyes.

Instantly, my heart deflated and I regret thinking that my love never ceased for him because I think it did just now. This man in front of me was a liar. He only showered me with compliments to turn it to himself... This self-centered bastard.

In annoyance, I slipped his blindfold back on and rubbed off the kiss I gave him. My fingers aggressively tugged his skin as he complained to me, "Honey!! You're going to make me get wrinkles faster! Be gentle to my faceeee!" He tried swatting my hands off him but he couldn't.

Then I toppled him, still attacking his precious yet handsome face. "Nope! You can't even compliment me without bringing yourself in! You don't deserve my kiss!"

"But I was just playinggggg! Please forgive me!"

Me and Gojo were 'light' fighting until someone walked into the room.

"Ahem! Can you separate homelife from worklife?"

I stopped whatever I was doing to Gojo and looked up at who spoke to us, and it was none other than Nanami. He stood there with a poker face, but I knew he was disgusted by our so-called love and affection. He's good at covering his emotions. However, if Nanami took a closer look, my hands were wrapped around his neck to choke the life out of him.

Gojo stared at Nanami, begging for help like he would want to get involved and help my dear husband. "Nanamiiiii!! Save me from my wife! She's trying to kill me!" He cried in agony, in hopes Nanami would be swayed by his pure helplessness.

Nanami sighed, wondering why he didn't walk away from our scene instead of interrupting us. "No, you caused this mess so leave me out of it."

Oh, I remembered something! A lightbulb went off. Since Nanami was here, I'm going to ask him a big request. Releasing Gojo from my grasp, I quickly ran over to Nanami. Only he can do it, not anyone else. "Nanami, I need you to buy me a pregnancy test." I whispered, then glanced over at Gojo who sulked like a sadden puppy. "I'm not going to ask Satoru because I don't want to get his hopes up. I'll pay you back! Now off you go!" I pushed Nanami out before I could hear his answer because I knew he would buy it anyways. He's very reliable.

I watched Nanami disappear from the hall, and I jolted from a pair of arms wrapped around me. "Babeeeeee, don't be mad at meeeeee!" Gojo was still hung up on that?

This month I haven't gotten my period at all, and lately I've been puking too. My gut instinct was telling me that I'm pregnant again. Additionally, I can never forget the notion of my first pregnancy. I remembered the painful 1st trimester—always throwing up and refusing to eat Gojo's cooking because of the smell. If I am pregnant, I'm happy but also scared. Geto's words lingered in my head recently when it became clear that I've been having symptoms. What if this child of mine was actually the next Nozomi?! It would be impossible.

"Honey, what's wrong? Your face is pale." Gojo, who laid in my lap, touched my face as I looked down at him. His sky blue eyes concernedly gazed at me.

I quickly made up a lie to cover up my thoughts. I didn't want to get too ahead of myself before I knew the results. Locking eyes with him, I gave him a serious look. "You better not fool around at the meeting... Especially getting on Utahime's nerves, you got that?" Gojo causes too much trouble for me. I might have to send him to his parent's place to be watched over. Naozumi will take his spot in these meetings then.

"Y-yes ma'am!"

A few minutes flew by and Nanami texted me that he's inside the building waiting for me to get it from him. "Satoru, I'll be back. I'm going to use the bathroom before I can't!" I excused myself and went to find Nanami.

When I found him, I thanked him for his good deed and zipped inside the women's bathroom. I needed to know right now that I'm pregnant or not. This cannot be postponed until after the meeting.

Inside the stall, I took two tests in the box that Nanami bought. It didn't take long for the sticks to give me my results, and to my dismay... it was positive. Immediately, tears swelled in my eyes. I really, really wanted to be joyful over this news, but it was just so hard when I feared for my child's future. If Geto's words were true, then my child will live a constricted life. They won't have the will to love freely because they're tied down to Sukuna.... I don't want that type of life for my child. I want them to get a taste of freedom.

Ring ring ring

My cell phone rang and I picked it up to hear Gojo's voice. "Hey babe, the meeting is about to start."

Changing my attitude, I forced myself to sound okay or normal at least. "Okay, I'll be there in a minute!" After ending the call, I made sure that I suppressed my tears from falling because it'll make my eyes visibly red, and I also tucked the pregnancy tests in my purse.

When I made it to the meeting room, it seemed like everyone was gathered and waited for me at the long rectangular table. It ranged from employed sorcerers to clan members and leaders to higher ups. At the far end of the room, Gojo waved over for me to sit beside him. "I apologize for my tardiness." I said, skipping my way next to the empty seat beside my husband.

The meeting proceeded as planned and everyone talked about the appearance of unregistered cursed spirits. Nobody knew why they were popping out of nowhere. Ideas were being thrown from left and right to find out how to change the balance of the world.

"Can't we just execute Sukuna's vessel?! His existence is causing all of these curses to come out and play!" Sorcerer A fumed.

Once Sorcerer A's words were out in the air, Gojo twitched as he had his reasons to be mad about killing off Yuji. His hand firmly squeezed my hand under the table while he bit his bottom lip, contemplating how he should phrase his words. Gojo opened his mouth to retort back, defending Yuji and his execution date. "No! Killing off the vessel means that Sukuna's remaining fingers will only still be in this world! As I reiterated before, having Yuji Itadori consume all 20 fingers will be the best idea and it still is!" On rare occasions, only the higher ups and traditional old sorcerers can make my man furious.

I stroked his thigh to calm him down.

"I agree with Gojo on this one." Nanami jumped into the conversation as well. It made me curious if Yuji melted his tough exterior. From what I heard, Nanami didn't acknowledge Yuji as a sorcerer because Sukuna resided inside him. However, I assumed that it changed because he had one mission with Yuji. "History can repeat itself and to prevent it from happening, it's better off to stick with his idea. Regardless if Sukuna's fingers are here or gone, we will always meet special cursed spirits. But for precaution, eliminating the bigger factor—Sukuna's fingers—will cut down the weird phenomenon that's happening as of late."

The conversation just went on until someone brought up the incident of last year...

"Maybe special curses are coming out because of Geto Suguru's doings of last year."

My body tensed when I heard his name. The image of his evil smile was crystal clear in my head as I knew his intentions were to toy the lives of my family. I just don't understand why he keeps coming at me like why am I important to him?! Was it because I'm married to his ex-best friend?! Does he have no hobby that stalking me was considered fun?! Geto made his first move on our son at the goodwill event, but I can't recall if I ever told Gojo about the encounter... Nor do I know if Naozumi told Gojo. So much has happened in that day, and I also believed I blocked most of that memory out of my head too.

"Babe... What's wrong?" Gojo shook me out of my thoughts, stroking the back of my hand.

I looked up at him with a worrisome expression. He's going to find out that I'm pregnant and his child might possibly be the next Nozomi somehow. Also, he's going to be mad that I didn't tell him about the encounters with Geto. Instead of only keeping it between me and Gojo, I turned to the whole table. "It's... him." I meekly spoke, trying to find my voice in this matter as I scanned everyone at the table. "It's Geto Suguru..." I then said loudly in more of a confident tone.

"How do you know that for sure?" Someone asked.

I squeezed Gojo's hand tightly as I spoke my fateful encounters with him. "I may or may not be right, but I believe he has a weird interest in me. I don't know why though." I told everyone about the goodwill event situation. "It really did look and sound like Geto! However, the only difference was that he had stitches across his head. I was terrified because I was told that he was dead. Sorry I don't know if Nao told you about this when I fell ill the day after." I felt like a bad person for not telling him. Gojo really cares about us, and he wouldn't let anyone lay a finger on us.

A warm smile appeared on his lips. "Yes, he told me, and I couldn't believe it either. I wanted to ask you straight away, but everything that unfolded that week slipped out of my mind because you were more important than caring about Geto Suguru."

Hearing Gojo's words made me feel at ease, but the next thing I was going to say might change his caring attitude to a furious, overprotective husband. "And my last encounter with Geto was last month at a carnival..." When I said that, Gojo lifted his blindfold to reveal one of his blue eyes and stared down at me with a shock yet madden aura emitting from that powerful stare.

Oop, I'm in trouble.

I further explained what went down excluding the Nozomi part and twisting the narrative. If I told them the truth, I don't know what would happen to me. They might suspect me of betraying the jujutsu world because of the relationship between Nozomi and Sukuna. "He didn't harm me but just popped up and greeted me then left without a trace."

After that, everyone in the room started to bring in ideas. They wanted to reel out Geto and kill him for good while trying to involve Yuji and Sukuna into the conversation somehow. It steered off topic that even I didn't know what was happening.

On the other hand, Gojo poked my side as I jerked from his action. "Babe, why didn't you tell me that Geto was near you the day we were out at the carnival?" He menacingly spoke in my ear. He was definitely mad as he should be, but I had my reasons to believe it was a bluff.

Quickly eyeing the room, it seemed to me that nobody would pay attention to the both of us if I spilled the truth. "Satoru, it wouldn't have been a safe decision to bring you in when you know he hates humans. He didn't harm me...but he did say some cryptic things." I told him what happened that day and revealed my pregnancy. "Oh, remember when I went up to Nanami earlier? I asked him to buy me a pregnancy test and...I'm pregnant." I bit my quivering lips.

Gojo quietly gasped in excitement, but I had to burst his bubble to remind him of Geto's words. "But I think our child is going to have Nozomi's soul because of Geto's doing. I want to ask Sukuna to see if she's still in me or not, yet I'm afraid that he'll get mad!" Sukuna might go berserk and kill everyone in this world because his plan has been tweaked. "If our child does have her soul, I don't think we can protect him or her. Their fate is sealed from the beginning, and they won't be able to change that! I... I don't want them to suffer because of their forced destiny." My head was thinking about ways to stop it from happening. As a mother, it's unfair for my unborn child if they don't recall their past life with Sukuna. I can't let it happen... My hands unconsciously wrapped around my lower stomach, cradling my little child from their cruel fate. I would rather take their place so I don't have to watch them be unsatisfied with their life. What will hurt me the most was that they will hate me for bringing this upon them when it wasn't even my fault to begin with!

"Babe, your expression is easy to read."

"But you can't even see me with your blindfold on."

Gojo clicked his tongue in sass. "Okay, miss-you-can't-see-me-with-your-blindfold-on! I'm just saying that I know you're scared, but if you try to stop their predestined fate from happening, wouldn't you sound just like your ancestors from the past?!"

When he said that, my attitude and my fear clicked inside my head like a puzzle piece as I gasped from this shocking revelation. "You're right!"

"Geto is trying to make you repeat their history by forcing them apart... because he did tell you that. He's going to make sure that Sukuna, whether he's reborn or whatever, will ruin this world once again since he's stepping down as a demon to be with Nozomi."

Ugh, why didn't I think of that?! I almost fell into his trick and let everything unravel. How awful it would've been if I didn't have Gojo by my side. I would've killed humanity right then and there.

Gojo continued on, "Assuming it's actually Nozomi's soul, it's only a matter of time if he or she remembers their past life. We aren't responsible if her soul hasn't awakened once they're older. If timing is right then it's safe to say that our child will be fine regardless of what happens. Don't worry too much. I know we'll be okay. One step at a time." He gave me a kiss on my raven black hair, holding me close to comfort me in this unpredictable future ahead of us. It amazed me how Gojo put on a strong face to hide his buzzing emotions, but I knew he was scared as well. I don't know how he can act so calm and be able to detach his fears from this situation, yet at the end, he has to because two fearful parents won't get us anywhere.

Back to the meeting, everyone quieted down as one of the higher ups called me. "Ena," All eyes were directed towards me while I nervously pondered what they wanted from me. "You will be the bait to end this by luring in Geto and possibly his underlings, who might be the unregistered cursed spirits."

My eyes widened in terror as it felt like they threw a bucket of ice water on me. Without thinking, I slammed my fists on the table in fury, glaring at the higher ups who suggested this plan.

BAM!

"I'm not going to risk my life just because Geto Suguru has some interest in me! And today, I found out that I'm pregnant and will not jeopardize both of our lives for your scheme!" My blood boiled from this madness. It's always the higher ups who suggest these gnarly decisions that corrupts the jujutsu world. Sorcerers were merely pawns of the higher ups while we risk our lives for the sake of humanity, and I can't be one of those people because I have a growing life in me.

"But it sounds like Geto has no intentions of hurting you from your last two encounters." The higher ups pushed a bit further, and I gritted my teeth from their heartless remark.

Gojo immediately stood up, clenching his fists as he put them in their place. "That's enough! You crossed the line! No one is going to force my wife to be in this situation when she's pregnant. Isn't it shameful that you'll use a pregnant woman to capture the enemy?! That's a bit low for someone who can think of other ideas to get them." He growled, not holding back to question their authority and being disrespectful at the same time.

However, the higher ups weren't backing down from this intense argument either. "Oh? I don't recall any sorcerers ever disobeying our orders except Geto Suguru. Regardless if she is pregnant or is lying," Hearing how they think I'm lying made me want to kill them all. "Refusing our order is treason."

Young sorcerers who didn't have a conservative mindset like Utahime, Mei Mei, and others looked stunned from their harsh threat. I'm not sure if this was their first time seeing their true color, but I hope they realized that this job was full of shit because of the higher ups.