There's no use in thinking of "what if's," right? But when you're dying, you can't really do much other than think of how everything could have gone differently.
in which Neku is absolutely horrible at hiding a painfully obvious crush on someone who looks twice his age and who is probably actually way older than that. one-sided Neku/Hanekoma. so basically it's canon.
after his supposed death, Vector winds up on the planet of Esker and learns the hard way that the people you rule over don't necessarily have to like you. eventual Vector/Yuma