His Rival (Part 2)
Pairing: Satoru Gojo X OC, Megumi Fushiguro X OC.
Warning: Age-gap romance (no smut), long post, JJK manga spoiler.
Genre: Romance, fluff, angst.
Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen.
A/N: I know this is an xOC fic but you can read it as a self-insert if you like. And this is a small snippet of my JJK fanfic ‘Lovely & Deadly’ posted on Quotev and Wattpad.
Part 1: The Warmth Of A Cruel Beauty
Part 3: Gojo Sensei & Hokkaido
3rd Person's POV (Tokyo Jujutsu High, before the Christmas Eve, 2017)
"What is it Yuta?" Panda asked when he noticed the ravenette boy stopped following them and was staring at nothing at a far distance, causing the other two first-years to stop in their tracks and look back at him as well.
"Umm… I just had a bad feeling." Yuta muttered out nervously, feeling uncomfortable for some reason.
"It’s your imagination." Maki responded with a shrug.
"Just your imagination." Panda repeated, not giving much of a thought.
"Okaka." Inumaki added with a bored look on his face before they all turned around and started to walk towards the training field again.
"E-Eh, come on guys…" Yuta stuttered out in panic as he felt an eerie presence approaching them closer and closer.
"I mean, Yuta's curse power perception is monkey level." Panda commented.
"Of course, he would be dull with something like Rika at his side all the time." Maki sighed, shaking her head.
"Tuna." Inumaki agreed, nodding his head.
While the students continued their harmless bullying towards Yuta outside at the school gate, inside the school building the 1st year instructor Satoru Gojo and the Principal Masamichi Yaga were standing in a hallway, all guarded and prepared as they continued to stare out at the horizon through the window as if searching for something.
"We still can’t locate Geto." Yaga stated with a frowning face. "You sure you’re not worrying for nothing?
"I’m sorry Principal, but that’s impossible." Gojo replied in a serious yet calming tone. "I have confirmed it at the scene myself. There is no way I would mistake the scent of Suguru’s curse power."
And just then, both of them sensed something eerie had arrived and entered their school campus. It was Suguru Geto.
"Goddammit! Speak of the devil!" Yaga cursed out before rushing down the hallway, shouting out. "All first-class jujutsu sorcerers, gather at the front rotary!"
"How unusual." Maki noted when they all noticed a big bird flew down from the sky and landed just a few feet away from them with a man sitting on top of it.
The unknown man was tall and slim with long black hair partially tied up behind his head while the rest drapes down his back. He had small black eyes and bangs that covered his left eye. His earlobes were large enough to fit fairly large circular earrings. To them, he seemed to be looking like a Buddhist priest because of the type of clothes he was wearing; a gold-colored kasaya garment over black yukata robes while completing his monk attire with white tabi socks and zori sandals.
"Yuta's hunch was right." Panda added as they stared at the older unknown man in utter confusion.
"You don’t look like you’re authorized." Maki pointed out with a frowned face while the man hopped off from the back of the gigantic bird and landed on the ground.
"Haven’t seen that big a curse and all." Panda muttered out.
"Sujiko." Inumaki added.
"Wah, what a big bird." Yuta mumbled out innocently with wide eyes in awe.
"This place sure hasn’t changed." the long black-haired man sighed in a disappointed tone, looking around at the campus, being all nonchalant while ignoring the presence of the four 1st years and the bird beside him then opened its beak and from inside it, a few more people jumped out and landed beside Geto.
"Wow! Geto-sama, are we really in Tokyo?!" a blonde teen girl with hair tied up in a bun asked in an unimpressed tone. "This place reeks of the countryside!"
"Nanako, that’s rude." a black-haired teen girl who seemed to be around the same age as the blonde one muttered out in a low tone shyly.
"Eh? But, Mimiko, you think so too, right?" the blonde from the previous named Nanako questioned the blacked-haired girl named Mimiko.
"Geez, get down already!" a man named Larue, another one of Geto's followers scolded the girls to get out of the bird's beak.
"Hm? Who are those guys?" Panda asked his friends while he and the others stared at their intruders in confusion.
"A panda! So cute!" Nanako squealed out, delighted before pulling out her phone and snapping a few pictures of Panda.
"No, who are you guys?" Panda questioned again before hardening his voice. "Yuta-san here won’t forgive any intruders you know!"
"Konbu." Inumaki agreed with it, trying to scare off the intruders.
"Eh?!" Yuta gasped out in shock and confusion, staring at his friends in bewilderment.
"Just leave already before Yuta-san here beats you guys up!!" Maki barked out in a threatening voice with a serious look on her face, furrowing her eyebrows as well.
"EEHH?!" Yuta gasped out again in shock, but before anyone could realize anything about what was going on, Geto now stood right in front of Yuta and grabbed his smaller hands in his bigger ones.
"Nice to meet you, Okkotsu-kun. I’m Suguru Geto." Geto introduced himself to the young ravenette boy while the other 1st years stared at the older man in shock for how quickly he walked up to them from his previous spot.
'He’s fast!!!' they all thought.
"E-Eh? A-Ah, nice to meet you." Yuta muttered out shyly and politely.
"You possess a truly wonderful power. I believe that a great power should be used for great purposes. Do you not have any doubts about our current world? A world where jujutsu sorcerers work secretly to protect the commoners." Geto stated in a sweet tone which he always used to lure people in, causing Yuta to stare at him in more confusion before the older man moved even closer and wrapped an arm around the boy's shoulder. "You see, I want to correct the contradiction that is the strong having to adapt to the weak. It's so wretched!"
"Sure…" Yuta trailed off, doubting the man's intentions.
"Mankind, the lords of creation, are impeding the steps of its own evolution! It’s nonsense! Humanity needs to review its survival strategy. And for that, I’m asking for your help." Geto went on.
"With what?" Yuta asked.
"I wanna kill every non-jujutsu sorcerer and make a world with only jujutsu sorcerers, you see." Geto replied nonchalantly and the 1st years stared at him in horror.
'What is he saying?' they thought and just then the man himself stepped into the scene to save his students from the curse-user.
"Please do not push your inane ideas onto my students." Gojo stated out in a firm and threatening tone.
"Satoru! It’s been a while!" Geto greeted his former best friend with a wide grin on his face.
"Get away from these children, Suguru." Gojo added with a frowning face as other sorcerers from Jujutsu High also came out to face Geto which included Principal Yaga, Mei Mei, Nanami, and Ino.
"I did hear the 1st years this year were particularly exceptional… I see. So you were in charge." Geto smirked at Gojo before looking back at the Jujutsu High students in order (Yuta, Panda, Inumaki, and Maki). "A special class jujutsu sorcerer, a mutated cursed corpse, a descendant of spellcasters, and… a failure of the Zenin clan."
"You bastard!-" Maki barked out through her gritted teeth in fury but was soon cut off by Geto himself.
"Watch your mouth. A monkey like you isn’t needed in my world." Geto stated in a dark tone, narrowing his eyes at Maki, and this caused Yuta to swat Geto's arm off of his shoulder, his face looking all pissed.
"I’m sorry. I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, Geto-san. But… I can’t help someone who would belittle my friends." Yuta stated in a firm tone.
"I’m sorry. I had no intentions of making you feel uncomfortable." Geto smiled at him apologetically.
"Then, why are you even here then?" Gojo asked his former best friend, stepping in and standing between Geto and Yuta.
"To declare war." Geto replied before raising his voice as he looked over at his opponents. "Gather around everyone! Open your ears and listen well! On the 24th of December! During the sunset! We shall perform a Hyakki Yakou (hundred demons night parade)! The place shall be the crucible of curses; Shinjuku, Tokyo, and the capital of Jujutsu, Kyoto! 1000 curses will be released in each place and their orders will be to kill the trash. Unless you want hell to be painted on earth, then work to death to stop me. Let us curse each other as much as we want!!"
Although people like Gojo, Nanami, and Mei Mei kept their cool and showed no emotions on their dead serious faces, Principal Yaga on the other hand couldn't control himself and simply stared at his former student with frowned face and gritted teeth, feeling all sorts of negative emotions he didn't want to feel; anger, frustration, but more importantly, regret. Because the last thing he wanted to see was the downfall of his former student to the point that there was no turning back.
"Ahh! Geto-sama!" Nanako squealed out all of a sudden, staring down at her phone. "The store is closing!"
"It's already that late?" Geto asked with a pursed lips before looking back at Gojo with an apologetic smile. "Sorry, Satoru. These girls said they would only come if they got to eat crepes at Takeshita street. I’m gonna take my leave. Dear me, for a place so full of monkeys, what’s even so great about…"
"You think I’ll let you go?" Gojo asked, furrowing his eyebrows at Geto.
"Come on now. my free time is all for my cute students." Geto chuckled as he was about to walk back to his team, but just then someone familiar appeared in the scene out of nowhere; someone who no one expected them to be there.
"Suguru?" Nana Osaki, who was in the senior year of her middle school back then, stood at the gate of Jujutsu High with wide eyes and a shocked look on her face.
How long had it been since she last saw him? Almost 10 years, right?
"Osaki?" Yaga called out in shock and confusion with furrowed eyebrows. "What are you doing here?"
"Nana-chan!" Geto grinned at the young girl wholeheartedly while sorcerers and students from the side of Jujutsu High stared at the Osaki girl in concern, getting ready to protect the girl just in case Geto tried to cause any harm to her. "It's been a while! Look how big you've grown! The last time I saw you, I remember you were this small, dainty girl. But now look at you. Turned into a fine, young lady!"
And to this Nana scoffed in response as she walked over to the group of people with a deep scowl on her pretty face.
"What are you doing here, Suguru?" Nana asked in a venomous tone.
"Nana-chan, why are you here? Where is Megumi?" Gojo questioned Nana worriedly, walking up to her as he noticed her still wearing her school outfit with her schoolbag clinging over her shoulders.
"Megumi went to visit Tsumiki at the hospital, so I thought of dropping by to say hello to Yuta senpai and the others..." Nana replied to Gojo without taking her eyes off of Geto. "Didn't imagine I'd run into you after 10 years... Why are you here, Suguru? After all this time... where have you been? It was as if you just vanished from the face of the Earth. Why didn't you come back?"
"I think you already know the answer to why I didn't come back, Nana-chan..." Geto responded, his lips curled up into a smirk. "And to answer your other question, I was here to recruit Okkotsu-kun to help me in forming a new world without the non-sorcerers. Say, Nana-chan... what do you think? Wanna join my side and create a better world for us sorcerers?"
"Like hell, I'm gonna join you!" Nana hissed at him, clenching her fists as Gojo put his hands on her shoulders to calm her down. "My very own father was a non-sorcerer. Do you really think I'll join your side and kill off every non-sorcerer out there? I'm not crazy like you, Suguru! And whatever you're doing is completely wrong, so stop it already!"
"I'm sorry, but this is my final resolve. This is what I want... There's no place for those monkeys in my world, Nana-chan..." Geto replied, suddenly his voice turned low and dark and this caused Nana to stare at him in shock, going completely stunned on the spot.
"I can't believe you're saying things like these..." Nana stated, still in shock, her voice quivered a bit. "You're not the Suguru I know. You were never like this... You were so kind, and compassionate... So loving... But then why? Why?"
The Suguru Geto she knew from the past was a kind and sweet boy. Back then, when they were still students of Jujutsu High, Geto believed that jujutsu sorcerers existed to protect the non-sorcerers and for this, an arrogant teen Gojo always argued with him for being so kind and righteous, further saying that applying reasoning to jujutsu was stupid. Their clash in ideology caused them to argue and clash heads as young men back in the day. Geto was a much more kind and proper young man back then, especially compared to Gojo. He understood the importance of manners and carried himself with dignity as a jujutsu sorcerer. He believed Gojo had far too rude of an attitude in his opinion and despite disagreeing from time to time, Geto and Gojo were still best friends. They encouraged each other to be the strongest and were confident they could accomplish anything as long as they had each other.
But the current Suguru Geto who was standing right in front of her at this moment hated the non-sorcerers, always referring to them as 'monkeys'. He believed sorcerers are the superior race and humanity's next stage of evolution. He was so smug and extremely condescending towards normal humans so much so that he would spray himself with disinfectant if he came in close contact with them. He believed non-sorcerers only had two roles in association with him; money collection and curse collection and if they weren't fulfilling their roles, Suguru would gladly allow curses to kill them without any remorse.
"Is this what my Mom taught you when you were still a student, Suguru?" Nana asked the older man, her eyes glimmering in fury and sorrow while Geto stared at her in amusement as she moved closer to him. "That to create a new world for sorcerers by killing all non-sorcerers? Is that what she taught you?! You're disrespecting her by doing all these heinous acts, do you know that?!"
"Nana-chan..." Gojo called her in a soft tone, trying to pry her off of Geto but she pushed him away, small tears forming at the corner of her eyes.
"You were always so kind and respectful to everyone, Suguru. I refuse to believe that you've turned into a monster like this! In your place, if Satoru went astray and became a murderous criminal, I won't have been so shocked given how his attitude was back then... But you Suguru! You! I still refuse to believe all of these!" Nana cried out and her words stunned Gojo completely, freezing him immediately on the spot.
At that moment, Gojo felt his world had just stopped moving. His breath hitched, probably also forgot how his respiratory system actually worked for a few seconds. Gojo just couldn't stop thinking of what she just said right now; was that how she saw him? Was that how she felt about him? That he was the one who should've gone to the path of darkness and destruction instead of Geto? Gojo knew that he wasn't the perfect man back in the day; he had countless flaws and his attitude wasn't anything likable. He was also aware of the fact that Geto was more popular among the ladies and the children than he himself ever was. But he never imagined that his beloved Nana would feel or think this way about him and this shattered his heart into millions of pieces like thin, fragile glass. Did he really make such a bad impression on her? Was his former personality that distasteful to the point that she thought of such cruel things about him?
Gojo never got to know.
And it wasn't long before the battle took place between the Jujutsu High sorcerers and Geto's team on the day of 24th December, where at the end of the conflict, Geto lost the final fight against the young promising sorcerer Yuta Okkotsu.
"Wonderful. Truly wonderful." Geto groaned out in pain while leaning back against a wall in an alleyway, the right side of his torso, including his right arm, was now gone because of Rika's final attack. "This is indeed a power that can change the world. If I have Rika, I won’t need to be stingy with curses anymore. Next time. Next time for sure!"
And just at that moment, a certain someone walked up to him with a straight look on his face.
"You're late, Satoru." Geto smirked at him mockingly. "To you think you would checkmate me… Are my families safe?"
"They all ran away. You gave the same orders to the ones at Kyoto, right?" Gojo stated in a low flat voice, emotions hardly could be traced right now in his voice.
"Well, it’s because I’m nice unlike you." Geto chuckled out. "You send those two specifically so that they could be done in by me and trigger Okkotsu’s explosion right?"
"It’s because I trusted you. I knew you won’t kill young sorcerers for no reason." Gojo replied with a small smile on his face.
"Trust, huh. To think you still had some that for me…" Geto coughed out with a small chuckle again before tossing an ID card at Gojo which the white-haired man caught the small item with ease. "I’m returning this..."
"That elementary school was also your work?!" Gojo asked in shock as he scowled at Geto, referring to an incident that was caused by Rika some time ago.
"I guess..." Geto muttered out softly.
"You’re a lost cause." Gojo scoffed but then his face immediately softened again. "Any last words?"
"No matter what anyone says, I hate all the monkeys. But it’s not like I detested anyone from the college. it's just that in a world like this, I can’t laugh from my heart at all." Geto replied, letting out a heavy sigh.
"Suguru…" Geto was about to say something when just then someone familiar walked into the scene.
"Satoru! Suguru!"
The voice caused the two young men to look over and see Nana jogging up to them, breathless with Megumi Fushiguro following behind her.
"Nana, wait!" Megumi called out but she didn't listen.
Nana quickly rushed past Gojo and went up to Geto before kneeling in front of the long-haired man and inspecting his wounds. Her eyes and nose were puffy red and her entire face was shaded with the color light pink; it was evident that she was crying earlier.
"Oh my god! Suguru! Your wounds!" she cried out in concern as she touched him with her small shaky hands.
"What are you kids doing here?" Gojo asked, furrowing his eyebrows a bit.
"Nana insisted on coming. She wanted to make sure everyone's okay." Megumi replied with a small sigh while Nana started to use her Reverse Cursed Technique on Geto to heal his wounds.
"I-It won't work, Nana-chan..." Geto stuttered out, his eyes softening at the sight of the young girl. "Please, stop..."
But being the stubborn girl she always was, she didn't stop herself from healing Geto. Geto might be an enemy now, but he was still Suguru Geto; the man she once and still loved. Gojo also tried to walk over and stop her, but Megumi pulled him back.
"It'll work!" Nana countered back, now tears rolling down her cheeks with a scowl forming on her face. "Shoko taught me how to do this! It'll work! I'm sure of it! And after that, we'll take you to the hospital and then-"
Seeing her in this distress broke Geto's heart before he reached out his left hand and gently rested it on her right cheek, halting her on the spot.
"Nana-chan..." he muttered out in a soft tone, brushing her tears away with his thumb and her eyes widened a bit in surprise. "I'm sorry... for making you cry... I'm the worst."
And hearing those words, Nana began to sob ever more than before. There was no way Geto was dying, was he?
"And you should be sorry! Damn you, Suguru!" she cried, yelling at his face, letting out all her anger and frustration on him. "Why do things have to end up like this?! Why?! Just why?! I don't want you to die dammit!!"
"Your words are dangerous, Nana-chan. Sounds like you're in love with me." Geto joked with a soft weak chuckle, coughing out blood in the process.
"And what if I say I am?" she muttered out, looking down with a small blush painting her cheeks and her response caused the three males to stare at her with wide eyes in surprise. "I love you, Suguru, I love you very much... Just as much as I love Satoru and everyone else... I always cared about you even after you abandoned us..."
She reached out and grabbed Geto's torn clothes in her fists before leaning in and resting her head on his bloodied chest, listening in to his final weak heartbeat.
"You, Satoru, Shoko... I grew up having you guys by my side all the time. Each and every one of you means so much to me... I can't bring myself to hate you even if I want to, Suguru... You were my Prince Charming, remember? My one and only..." she added, closing her eyes while snuggling her nose against his skin as a sad smile curled up on Geto's lips before he wrapped his only arm around her petite form.
"Hah… don't say such sweet words to me at the last moment, Nana-chan... At least curse at me a little at the very end…"
“Nana-chan?”
A soothing deep masculine voice spoke up from beside me and I immediately snapped out of my daze. I looked over to my side and noticed Gojo sensei staring at me with confusion and concern in his icy-blue eyes.
Right now, early this morning, sensei and I were simply lounging around and was drinking tea together on the porch of the Jujutsu Tech dormitory while enjoying the cool weather and the sweet light of the rising sun in the morning, something we started to do almost every day ever since I joined Jujutsu High as a student. Somehow it had become our everyday habit, a sacred ritual between me and my sensei.
"Are you okay?" he asked, his voice laced with concern, holding his teacup carefully in his hands. "You were kinda dazing away just now."
"Huh? Oh! It's nothing, sensei." I chuckled out sheepishly, reassuring him. "I'm fine. Just recalling something from the past..."
"Oh?" he asked, showing somewhat interest, peeking up from his circular dark shades.
"Like that one time I threw sand at you while playing at the neighborhood park and your Infinity wasn't switched on..." I stated with a smirk, causing sensei to pout at me in response.
"You're seriously thinking about that right now?! How cruel! Now that I think about it, back then, you were always so mean to me, Nana-chan!" he sniffled, wiping away his fake tears and I rolled my eyes at his childishness.
"I'm still mean to you, sensei. And it's your own damn fault that I'm so cold towards you and only to you." I responded nonchalantly with a shrug, looking away from him before taking a small sip from my tea. "You used to have a very rude personality in the past and not to mention, you would also call me 'snotty-nosed brat'. From what I can recall, you weren't the sweetest person out there, sensei. No wonder I didn't like you back then..."
I thought Gojo sensei would counter back with a snarky comment, but nothing was thrown at me.
Shit! Did I overdo it? Were my words too harsh and cruel?
After a moment of silence, sensei spoke up again.
"Do you still feel the same way about me now, Nana?" he asked in a soft tone and I looked back at him again, noticing the gloom in his voice.
"What?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Remember what you said to Suguru that day in front of everyone? Do you still believe that?" he questioned more and that was when it clicked with me.
Oh, so he's talking about that... Shit! I shouldn't have said something so rude about him that day...
"No!" I immediately squeaked out to clear the misunderstanding and sensei's eyes went wide open in surprise. "I uh... I didn't really mean it, sensei..."
Gojo sensei stared at me in confusion causing me to let out a heavy sigh before running a hand through my raven locks.
"Sensei, back then... in my eyes, you were a narcissistic prick; someone who had a God-complex. You were anything but kind and were absolutely rude to everyone around you. You were never considerate of other people's feelings. You were something that Suguru wasn't. That's why everyone loved Suguru more despite you being superior to him when it came to looks and powers... And because of that, I was left completely stunned when Suguru walked out of our lives like that. I never imagined him becoming someone who'd walk down the path of darkness and destruction. But things have changed now, sensei. I was proven wrong by how much both you and Suguru have changed within the past 10 years. You're not the same guy you once used to be, sensei. How do I put this... umm, you're more 'humble' now, if that makes sense..." I stated, using all the careful words and sentences while trying to make sure not to break his delicate heart again.
"Really?" he asked, his icy-blue eyes twinkling in delight.
"I mean, you're still an idiot and a jerk, but you're okay now..." I chuckled, causing him to pout again. "Also, I'm sorry, sensei... I shouldn't have said those harsh words that day."
"No, it's fine. I don't mind anymore." sensei responded back in a reassuring tone with a smile gracing his features. "I'm just glad that Nana-chan's perspective on me has changed!"
"Don't get your hopes high, sensei." I scoffed.
"But why don't you call me 'Satoru' anymore?" he whined.
"Are you stupid?" I deadpanned at him.
"You still call Suguru by his first name though." he pursed his lips.
"Well, it's because Suguru is dead and ain't my teacher. You, on the other hand, are still pretty much alive and are now my sensei. It would be inappropriate if I called you by your first name." I sighed at the man-child.
"But Maki and Panda always call me 'Satoru' and they're also my students!" he whined out again.
"That's because they don't respect you as a sensei..." I responded back with an eye roll.
"But you do, Nana-chan?! Is that what you're saying?!" he questioned again with excitement, beaming with joy.
"Keep up that attitude and you'll lose my respect as well." I scoffed at him with disgust.
"Aw, man! I really miss the way you call me 'Satoru', Nana-chan." he sighed, leaning back in his seat.
"Then wait until my graduation. I'll probably go back to calling you 'Satoru' once I stop being your student." I responded back to him calmly.
"Can't wait for that day though..." he chuckled out.
"Hey, sensei... Do you still miss Suguru?" I asked, giving him a soft look again.
"I do, all the time... He was my only best friend after all." he sighed, lips curling up into a sad smile and I tilted my head to the side.
"Do you have any regret? Do you still blame yourself for how things had played in the past?" I questioned again in a gentle tone.
"I did regret a few things back then, but not anymore." sensei replied, slightly shaking his head. "I've learned to grow stronger and move on. I stopped regretting and living in the past. Rather I'm moving forward to the bright future and learning to live in the present."
Sensei was lonely, I could tell. Sure he had his peers like Shoko, Nanami, Utahime, and Mei Mei, to spend some leisure time together with, sure he had his students like me and the other kids to annoy the heck out of us in our every training session, even so, at the end of the day, he was still very lonely. He missed his best friend, even to this day, even after everything that had happened in the past.
"Sensei... If you ever feel lonely, you can always come to me. We can talk and you can share your problems with me... I won't say anything to anyone, I promise." I stated, causing sensei's lips to curl up into a bright smile.
"Oya~ Nana-chan's feeling concerned about me?~" he teased and I looked back at him with a dirty glare, already regretting whatever I said a few seconds ago, making him let out a snicker at me. "If you're insisting on keeping me company, you can always join me on my missions."
"Joining you on your S rank missions?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. "Is that even allowed? Will that be okay? I'm still your student, you know..."
"You know I'm the strongest shaman to be alive right now, Nana-chan, and this prestige gives me the opportunity to bend the rules and regulations whenever I want and however I want. No one would dare to blame me for that." sensei responded back with a shit-eating smirk and I furrowed my eyebrows at him in disgust.
"You're the most detestable guy I've ever met in my life, sensei." I scoffed, causing his smirk to grow even wider.
"Thank you, Nana-chan!~" he cooed and my eyebrows twitched in annoyance.
"It's not a compliment, you moron!" I snapped at him. "Who made you sensei by the way? You seriously are not cut out for this job!"
"I know I have an eccentric personality." he agreed.
"You finally admit it!" I gasped out.
"But even so, you still like me, don't you, Nana-chan?~" he cooed again, flashing out his signature mischievous smirk at me and my cheeks lighted up with a small red blush. "Everyone does... Besides, getting people to like me is my specialty."
"What bullshit! No one likes your annoying ass!" I snapped at him again. "You're just great at deceiving people!"
"Thank you!~"
"It's not a compliment!"
And with that, Gojo sensei and I went on back and forth that whole morning like some old married couple with our never-ending bickering.
Later that day
"Woah! Amazing!" Yuji gasped out in awe and excitement as he, Megumi, and I walked through the crowded street of Tokyo city. "So this is Akiba! This is Akiba, right, Nana, Fushiguro?!"
"What are you, a tourist?" Megumi deadpanned at the pink-haired boy.
"What? Are you not interested?" Yuji asked, pursing his lips. "Ah, perhaps you have gone here too many times and you’re sick of it?"
"You’re wrong." Megumi replied in his usual monotone yet annoyed voice.
"Then what’s up with the normal tension?" Yuji asked in confusion.
"I have no special interest." Megumi sighed in response, causing me to let out a soft chuckle in response.
"Huh? Then why did you follow me?" Yuji asked.
"This is better than shopping with Nobara at Ameyoko..." I replied, finally speaking up as we began to recall the short-haired girl's words from earlier.
'Since there's a university close from here, there's a ton of fashionable and affordable thrift stores everywhere!! We've to go to at least twelve of them!!'
"If we went shopping with her, she’ll make you boys carry 100 of her shopping bags and will also drag me to different shops and make me wear several outfits with her... The torture is never-ending." I added with a nervous chuckle.
"That’s true… she takes so long too." Yuji groaned out. "But you don't like shopping, Nana? I thought girls love stuff like this."
"Nana's different. She's not the type of girl to fancy expensive clothes and cosmetics." Megumi explained and my lips curled up into a small smile upon hearing his response. "Hold on. Why are you in Akiba anyway? Do you want to buy something? There’s probably only manga, games, and electronics here."
"Nah, just looking. If I’m going to spend time waiting for Kugisaki to finish shopping, Akiba is the perfect place!" Yuji replied with a bright grin.
"That’s not true." Megumi muttered out, slightly shaking his head.
"Shibuya and Shinjuku are fine too, but watching Akiba on TV feels like another world or it gives off a theme park feel!" Yuji added, looking around his surroundings with amazement in his eyes. "Ah~ There's a ton of billboards and it's lively too. We can meet a ton of cosplayers. Oh! Wow! A huge truck carrying a giant robot just drove by! They look like Transformers!"
"Hey, wait! Don’t go off on your own!" Megumi called out as Yuji began to run in a different direction.
"It's okay, Megumi. Let him be." I stated with a soft smile, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Unlike us, it's his first time living in a big city like Tokyo, so let him enjoy his moments. Also, you need to stop worrying so much about everything, or else you'll get wrinkles at a very young age like Nanami-san. Just relax a bit."
"Well, I can only relax whenever you're around, Nana." Megumi let out a heavy sigh and his response made my heart skip a beat, a small blush slowly covering my cheeks.
"Damn, Fushiguro! The game centers are lined up like convenience stores!" Yuji suddenly spoke up and we directed our attention back to the pink-haired boy.
"That’s because it’s Akiba, Yuji." I smiled at him.
"The maids keep on coming! They gave me a flyer too!" Yuji pointed to the maid cafes in that area.
"That’s because it’s Akiba..." Megumi repeated my words with a heavy sigh.
"Hey, look! There is an ecchi game!" Yuji whispered-yelled in both excitement and embarrassment, pointing at a gaming store. "Hey, Fushiguro, look! Isn't that a billboard for ecchi games? Do you play ecchi games?!"
"Hell no!!" Megumi snapped in embarrassment with a blush forming on his cheeks before pulling Yuji back with his hoodie. "Hey, don't go into the store!"
"Urgh! Can you not pull on my hoodie?" Yuji snapped back.
"There are no other places to pull..." Megumi replied with a shrug, letting him go.
"Dang. That was close." Yuji sighed before a big grin formed on his face. "The temptation is scary! I’m glad you two tagged along with me after all. This area is so crowded that I could get lost. Tokyo is usually crowded, huh? I still don’t know all the train stations."
"No one gets lost just right outside of Yamamoto line, Yuji." I stated calmly.
"Ah, there it is. Your Tokyo knowledge. Naturally." Yuji pointed out with an amused smile.
"You don’t even get lost either, since you come here every day." Megumi chimed in but Yuji quickly got distracted again.
"Hey! Let’s eat some kebab! Kebab!" Yuji stated excitedly, pointing at a nearby restaurant.
"Continue the conversation, damn it…" Megumi grumbled out with a frowned face. "Say, aren't you starting to act like Gojo sensei these days?"
"That similar hyperactive energy..." I sighed tiredly, agreeing with my ravenette best friend.
"Eh? I don't think we are?" Yuji trailed off in confusion. "By the way, I wonder what Gojo sensei does during his day off? I never see him on his day off. Does he go to movies?"
"Don’t know. Only mysteries surround. That person…" I replied with a shrug.
"He vanishes instantly too. Ah, actually I’m not in the mood for the kebab. What should I eat?" Yuji asked himself as he began to look around the place we were at now.
"I should have done something else after all…" Megumi muttered out under his breath in an annoyed tone, causing me to look back at him. "I should not leave Sukuna's Vessel by himself. But why did I even bother to be concerned about him? Plus it's already so crowded… I should have taken a day off…"
"Hey, it's been a while since we hung out like this, Megumi..." I responded back in a calming tone. "Plus, Yuji's a friend, that's why we both bothered to be concerned about him. Now, come on. Stop being a grumpy old man and let's have some fun. Besides, I'm also here with you. Don't you like hanging around with me?"
"You're the only reason I even bothered to step out of the dormitory this morning in the first place, Nana." Megumi mumbled out in a shy tone and my lips curled up into a big toothy smile in pure happiness.
"Okay, then!" I chuckled out, grabbing Megumi by his hand and intertwining our fingers. "Let's get going!"
"Huh? Wait. Where did Itadori go?" Megumi asked, looking around.
"Huh? Yuji?" I asked back, finally coming back to the realization that we lost the pink-haired boy once again.
But it didn't take long before we finally found Yuji again, but this time in an arcade.
"What the hell are you doing?" Megumi asked Yuji in an annoyed tone as we approached him.
"Eh? Playing a game?" Yuji replied, focused on the game in front of him in a coin-operated game machine. "Ah, are you asking what the title is?"
"That’s not it, you special grade idiot!" Megumi snapped and Yuji pursed his lips.
"But, walking around doing nothing is not an ideal way to spend time…" Yuji pointed out before a big smile gracing his features. "I thought the game center would be perfect."
"At least tell us where you are going before you run off somewhere, Yuji." I sighed, crossing my arms over my chest.
"What even is this game anyway?" Megumi asked, narrowing his dark eyes at the computer screen.
"Hm? Battle Corporation Warrior: Business Fighter." Yuji replied with amusement.
"Why did you pick that one?" Megumi asked in confusion but Yuji dismissed his question.
"You wanna give it a try, Fushiguro? Let's battle." Yuji invited him like the ball of sunshine he already was.
"No. I don’t wanna pay money to play that game." Megumi immediately turned down his request.
"Why not? Do you suck at playing games or something? Or maybe you don’t have the confidence to beat me?" Yuji began to tease the ravenette boy.
"It’s not about confidence. I just don’t feel like playing." Megumi scowled, putting his hands into the pockets of his jacket. "The characters are old men wearing business suits and there’s one bossy senior female manager. The person who created this game has good sense overall."
"Eh? Isn't it lame?" Yuji questioned again.
"I’m saying it's ironic. And if you think it’s lame, then why did you pick it?" Megumi asked back.
"Ah, let’s play the game, Fushiguro!" Yuji dismissed Megumi's question once again. "I’m getting tired of playing single-player!"
"No way. I’m not paying to play that game even if I die." Megumi rejected him once again, acting all stubborn.
"I’m telling you! Please! Okay, then how about I pay for you? Okay?" Yuji asked before looking over at me with desperation in his voice. "Nana, convince him, please!"
"Are you serious?" Megumi asked, furrowing his eyebrows at Yuji's innocence yet ridiculousness.
"I’m serious!" Yuji whined out.
"Come on, Megumi. Playing one round won't hurt you." I encouraged him with a smile.
"Geez… Fine, but I’ll pay it on my own." Megumi sighed heavily before taking a seat beside Yuji.
"Thanks!!" Yuji grinned in response before he looked back at the screen of the game. "Which one should I choose? Okay, I got it! I’m going with president Yamada!"
"Then, I’ll go with chief Osaki." Megumi replied before selecting the character and my eyes went wide open in surprise at this; surprised that there was actually a character in the game who had the same surname as me and that Megumi was particularly choosing that certain character to play against Yuji.
"What? You’re going with a default character?" Yuji asked in confusion.
"They may be defaults, but they’re usually the strongest. And besides, they share the same surname as Nana. I feel like they're gonna be a strong character anyway just by seeing the name." Megumi replied nonchalantly and this caused my cheeks to go completely red in color in embarrassment.
Is this Megumi's subtle way of saying that he thinks of me as a strong person?!?!
"Haha! You're totally right! They do have the same surname! I didn't notice it before!" Yuji let out a laugh in amusement and it wasn't long before the boys started to play the game where we had Yuji screaming out at the top of his lungs as he started to attack Megumi's character. "Take this!! Business Card Shuriken!! On top of that, kneeling dropkick!! How about that, Fushiguro?! Is that all you got?! Go! Yamada!! He stopped it, let’s go!! Car company crash!!!"
Even though Megumi was getting his ass beaten for the first few seconds, he surprisingly remained cool and calm and continued playing the game anyway. And it was then when suddenly things started to change.
"Eh? Wait, ah! Wait! Wait, Fushiguro!" Yuji yelled out, trying hard to stop and strike back at Megumi. "Isn't that a special technique? That's a special technique! Hey, I said wait! Fushiguro! Ah!!"
But alas, the game soon came to its very end and Megumi stood as the final victor on its virtual battlefield.
"You lose!!!" deep audio spoke up as soon as the game ended with these words appearing on the screen of the computer.
"You’ve got to be kidding me!!" Yuji screamed out in frustration from his seat. "Eh? Why are you so strong, Fushiguro?! Wait! You played this before?! That's unfair!"
"I have never played this game before." Megumi responded back calmly, letting out a small sigh. "All fighting games have simar tactics. But you, you are not even good at games."
"Are you making fun of me?!" Yuji snapped before shoving some more coins into the machine, getting all pumped up and competitive. "We are doing it again! One more time!"
"Are you joking?" Megumi deadpanned.
"He put in a lot of coins..." I trailed off, sweat-dropping.
Let's just say, in the end, Yuji had spent a lot of money on that game in hopes to beat Megumi but alas, got his ass beaten instead.
"Ah... Why did I spend 1000 yen on that shitty game? I lost too..." Yuji groaned out in frustration, leaning against a vending machine while I bought some drinks for ourselves before I handed them to the boys.
"I literally told you. It's not worth spending money on." Megumi let out a heavy sigh, opening his can of drink. "If you are finally satisfied, we are leaving. You can pass time at game centers but you will end up spending a ton of money."
"You are right..." Yuji mumbled out before his eyes trailed off to somewhere else. "Oh!"
"What is it now? Did you find another shitty game? I'm not playing this time even if I die." Megumi grumbled out with a frowned face.
"No, that's not it." Yuji shook his head as he pointed in a certain direction. "Nana, Fushiguro! Over there! Look!"
"Huh?" Megumi asked when he and I followed Yuji's line of sight. "Huh?!"
"Gojo sensei?" I asked in confusion, tilting my head to the side.
"That's him, right? Eh, I mean what's Gojo sensei even doing?" Yuji questioned more as we watched our sensei playing a game in the arcade, wearing casual clothes instead of his usual uniform with his infamous black shades adorning his face instead of that black blindfold of his.
"He's playing UFO Catcher... He's trying to get some snacks..." Megumi pointed out as the three of us watched our sensei from afar.
"Why? Who comes to a game center alone and tries to get a snack with a UFO catcher?" I deadpanned.
"Don't ask me. I don't know." Megumi simply shrugged in response.
"Ah, he gave up." Yuji pointed out.
"Already?" Megumi and I mumbled out in unison.
"Ah, he's leaving the game center! Let's go after him!" Yuji stated and with that, he rushed out of the arcade with me and Megumi following his trail.
"Hey! Wait, Itadori! Why are we following him?" Megumi asked in confusion, furrowing his eyebrows a bit.
"Well, Gojo sensei is probably on his day off. That's super rare!" Yuji reasoned.
"So? What about it?" Megumi asked.
"So let's follow him!" Yuji suggested.
"How come it comes to that?" Megumi grumbled out again, his eyebrows twitching.
"But the suggestion sounds tempting though. I wanna know what sensei is up to this time." I chimed in, causing Yuji to smile brightly at me.
"Aren't you curious, Fushiguro? You see, I don't really know much about Gojo sensei. What he does in his day off and stuff... Of course, if you don't want to follow him, you could just wait here alone." Yuji stated.
"Come on, Megumi. It's our golden chance to know more about Gojo sensei." I added, pushing him to join us.
"Tch. Fine." Megumi clicked his tongue, finally giving in.
After that, Yuji, Megumi, and I started to roam around to look for Gojo sensei, but couldn't find him anywhere in the crowded street.
"He's not here." Megumi spoke up. "Besides, it's impossible to find him in this crowded city. Let's just give up."
"Ah! Found him." Yuji stated, pointing in a direction.
"Huh? Stop saying bullshit- Oh, you're right." Megumi responded when we found sensei walking down the street on the other side with a crepe in his hands.
"This is amazing, guys. A tall adult is eating an overflowing cream crepe while walking in Akiba in the middle of the day... Would you even do that if you tried?" Yuji asked.
"I won't even think of trying..." I replied, narrowing my eyes at Gojo sensei's figure from the distance.
"Maybe it's some kind of jujutsu training?" Yuji asked.
"Depends on the jujutsu technique..." Megumi shrugged.
"Eh? Really?!" Yuji gasped out in surprise.
"I am kidding you idiot." Megumi deadpanned.
"Ah, he stopped. Vacuum Tube Specialty Store?" Yuji pointed out.
"He went in. He went into some crazy store..." I mumbled out.
"What even is a Vacuum Tube? I heard of it before." Yuji stated.
"It's an electronic component. You use it for old audios or radios." Megumi replied.
"Gojo sensei is an audio mania?" Yuji asked in confusion.
"He is the type of person who listens to music on YouTube. Well... Actually, him being a record mania is..." I trailed off.
"Oh! Gojo sensei left the store. He bought something too." Yuji noted.
"Alright! We're following him." Megumi stated, taking the lead.
"Huh? You suddenly feel like following him, Megumi?" I asked him with a mischievous smirk.
"Shut up!" Megumi frowned at me in response.
"Shoot! We lost track of Gojo sensei." Yuji cried out in frustration.
"He walks too fast." Megumi huffed, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Ah! There he is! Over there!" I pointed out in the middle of the crowded street. "Dang, he stands out since he's tall."
"He's around 2 meters tall after all..." Megumi added.
"He will probably be so good at basketball, huh?" Yuji asked with a chuckle.
"I can't imagine him playing basketball though." Megumi voiced his opinion.
"I agree. Ah, he stopped again. This time, a record shop?" Yuji asked in confusion. "He's looking at some records... What is that? Ba...chi?"
"It's Bach. First a record mania and now a classical lover? This gets more mysterious..." I muttered out, furrowing my eyebrows a bit.
"I feel like he would listen to alternative rock..." Yuji stated. "Oh, he bought something! It looks like a western-style soundtrack... The title! I am curious what the title is!"
"Let's go." Megumi leading us again.
"Guys, what store is it now?" Yuji asked.
"Capsule toy. Basically, it's a gachaponn specialty store." Megumi replied.
"A gachaponn specialty store? There's a specialty store like that?" Yuji asked in shock.
"It exists because this is Akiba." I replied before looking back at Gojo sensei again. "But, after the record store, now it is a gachaponn store. Isn't his range of interest too wide? Ah, look, sensei is pulling a gacha!"
"I don't really want to see our teacher paying 500 yen to pull a gacha... What even is that gacha?" Megumi asked in confusion.
"It seems like it's a mushroom keychain... Ah, sensei opened the capsule. I wonder what's inside..." Yuji chimed in.
"Isn't there a poisonous mushroom? He looks really upset too..." Megumi pointed out.
"You can't eat that!" Yuji gasped.
"No... You normally can't eat a mushroom from a capsule..." Megumi shook his head.
"Oh, he's going to the next store." I pointed out before we all continued to follow him for the next one hour.
"After a gachaponn specialty store, it's an electronics store next... Then goes to read manga at a book store... And then looks for used games on a wagon sale... Doesn't look like he is looking for anything special." Megumi stated.
"Doesn't look like it." I agreed.
"You... There you go again, wearing those silly goggles." Megumi pointed at Yuji. "Where did you buy those?"
"A store with a lot of junk stuff... It says something about measuring your length and stuff." Yuji replied, now wearing some silly goggles and this caused me to let out a small chuckle at him.
"Is your wallet loose or completely broken?" Megumi deadpanned at him.
"A man is a type of living creature who spends money when they think this is it!" Yuji reasoned.
"So then that shitty game is when you thought this is it?" Megumi asked before Yuji got distracted again.
"Ah, Gojo sensei went inside a building! No, Gojo sensei's spirit went into the building!" Yuji pointed out.
"No need to rephrase it." Megumi grumbled.
"Let's follow him!" Yuji stated as he started to walk towards the building.
"Hey, wait." Megumi called out, pulling him back.
"Argh! I said will you stop pulling on my hoodie?!" Yuji snapped at him.
"Yuji, didn't you see the building's sign?" I asked calmly, causing Yuji to look over.
"Eh? Angel Maid Cafe... Show Waru Cupid..." Yuji read the sign out loud before pulling a disgusted face. "Eh? Are you serious, Gojo sensei? What should we do now, guys?"
"It's not what should we do. Waiting outside is fine." I sighed, crossing my arms over my chest while Megumi nodded his head in agreement.
"I really want to see how much he has fun at a Maid Cafe but... But going in there is kinda embarrassing!" Yuji stated, getting all flustered.
"We'll wait instead." Megumi sighed before we started to walk away, but then suddenly out of nowhere the door of the cafe went wide open, causing us to snap our heads around to see what it was.
"Welcome, my Lady and Masters!" a waitress in a maid's outfit greeted us with a sickeningly sweet voice and a blinding smile.
"Eh??" Yuji and I asked in confusion as soon as the maid grabbed the three of us by the back of our shirts.
"Now, come, come! Come to heaven!" she insisted, dragging us into the cafe while we struggled to get out of her surprisingly strong grip.
"Eh? Um- Excuse me-" I started to talk.
"We didn't mean to enter-" Megumi added, trying his best to stop the waitress, but the damage was already done as we found ourselves sitting at a table for four inside the maid cafe with angel wings been put on our backs and a halo tiara on top of our heads.
"Here you go! For two masters and a lady! An invitation to heaven!" the overly excited maid settled us at the table before she walked away to collect the menu.
"Fushiguro, get ahold of yourself! Your eyes are dead." Yuji stated in a whispered tone when we noticed a drained expression on the ravenette's face.
"Shut up. My soul is already dead." Megumi responded back in a soulless voice.
"It's okay. All they did was just put halos over our heads and wings on our back. The maid said it's an outfit suited for heaven. Think of this as training!" Yuji tried to comfort Megumi, causing me to let out a snicker in amusement.
"What kind of training is this?" Megumi snapped, getting ready to leave the place. "Whatever, we are leaving right now-"
"Sorry for the wait, my lady and masters!" the maid came back with menus in her hands. "Here's the menu! For the lady and two masters' first visit, we recommend our Precious Set: Emo-Emo A!"
"Eh? A...? Uh, then- Precious?" Yuji trailed off in confusion, looking down at the menu. "Three, please. With extra emo."
"Understood, Master-Reincarnation!" the maid wrote down our orders before she walked away once again.
"This is kinda important..." Yuji stated and Megumi looked back at him with furrowed eyebrows.
"What is it?" the ravenette boy asked.
"Gojo sensei isn't having fun at all!" Yuji pointed out as we looked over to see sensei sitting at a table beside the window with wings on his back and a halo tiara on his head similar to us, but his monotone expression was telling us that he wasn't enjoying the place much at all.
"Yeah." Megumi agreed.
"He is just eating pancakes while looking at a building's wall outside..." I added in confusion. "That's weird..."
"There's nothing to do here anymore." Megumi let out a heavy sigh. "Anyways, we have to get out of here-"
"Sorry for the wait!" The maid came back again, but this time with our orders. "Here's the Precious Set: Emo-Emo A!"
"Before we leave, let's at least eat this precious set Emo-Emo A." Yuji stated to Megumi before looking down at his plate. "Wait! This is just an omurice!
"Omurice? Is that what they call it outside?" the maid asked in an annoyingly oblivious tone.
"That's right! This is heaven!" Yuji laughed out in joy.
"I am so tired." Megumi groaned out in annoyance.
"But this is kinda fun though." I let out a soft chuckle.
"Alright! Now I will be adding more emo!" the maid stated.
"Adding more emo?" Yuji asked in confusion.
"If you please, tell me an emotional scene from your favorite anime! Without telling me the title, if I feel emotional from the scene, you pass!" the maid explained.
"Eh? Ah, well, how about that male protagonist who idolizes being a hero?" Yuji asked, referring to an anime called 'My Hero Academia'.
"I watch that too! I watch that too! I personally recommend it!" the maid squealed out in excitement.
"There is a complex character with a dad who wasn't able to use his left hand until that scene! I love that scene!" Yuji added, now referring to a fight scene from the Sports Festival arc of the anime between two characters called Shoto Todoroki (the said complex character with daddy issues) and Izuku Midoriya.
"Yes! I know! I know!" the maid squealed out again, getting all pumped up. "The emo is piling up! That hit me right in the feels, so let's begin with the toppings! Single item menu 400 yen worth of potatoes with Emo-potato plus extra emo will be added to the transaction!"
"Yay!!" Yuji let out a loud cheer while Megumi stared at him as if the pink-haired boy had finally lost his mind.
"Here comes the emo! Say it with me... Emo-Emo Mashi Mashi Kyun Kyun!" the maid sang out while doing some weird cutesy poses.
"You... You are really enjoying this, huh?" Megumi groaned out again, throwing a dirty glare at Yuji.
"The Master over there! Say it with me!" the maid then pointed at Megumi.
"Hey, Fushiguro! They'll give you toppings too!" Yuji stated.
"Here comes the Emo-Emo! Let's say it together!" The maid stated before she and Yuji began to sing together while doing those weird poses. "Emo Emo Mashi Mashi Kyun Kyun!!"
"Eh..." Megumi trailed off in confusion, not wanting to be a part of any of that nonsense.
"Come on, say it, Fushiguro!" Yuji insisted, but Megumi still kept quiet.
"Master!" the maid purred out as she leaned closer to Megumi's face, causing a deep blush to appear on his face in embarrassment. "An innocent master like you... is beautiful."
Witnessing the scene being played out in front of me, I couldn't help but feel a bit annoyed as a deep frown slowly formed on my face.
Wait? Why am I feeling annoyed all of a sudden?
Fair skin void of any blemish, tall stature with a slightly muscular body, raven locks, dark eyes, and pretty long eyelashes; Megumi was devastatingly beautiful and gorgeous, there was no doubt about it, always managed to capture me in a prison-like headspace. His beauty was the kind of delicate, almost conventional; beauty that I would want to look at for a long, long time but was also sort of haunting, somewhat unsettling and so I would keep glancing away and then glancing back at him because it was a familiar type of bewitching beauty. Something that would definitely scare me but this fear was kind of nice when I relaxed into it.
And despite his unapproachable aura and brooding mannerism, women never stopped fancying him, desiring him and besides his charming looks, he developed quite a reputation for not tolerating any bullshit behavior. Megumi was fearless, even managing to put rowdy boys in their places by giving them a beatdown for disturbing the peace of the campus with their bullying back in our middle school days. In other words, no one ever dared to mess with Megumi Fushiguro, and this made him quite famous among the female population, all because of his 'bad boy' aura (Even though Megumi wasn't actually a bad boy, and in my eyes, he was more like a big soft grumpy teddy bear).
I felt a hideous, grotesque feeling bubble up in my stomach. Seeing the waitress getting all cutesy and flirty with the ravenette best friend left me reeling. Jealousy left me seeing red and I couldn’t take my eyes off of him. I wasn't surprised that Megumi was getting hit on by this cute waitress, but then again, here I was, in this situation, with these conflicted feelings bubbling inside me, leaving me all confused.
What is this feeling? Why am I getting jealous all of a sudden? What's wrong with me?
"Hear that?! Good for you, Fushiguro!" Yuji laughed out again but Megumi remained quiet, looking away from the maid. "Say something!"
"Well then! Let's take a selfie with the food!" the maid squeaked out, making her way to Yuji with a camera in her hands. "Pardon my intrusion!"
"Eh? Aren't you a little close?!" Yuji asked with a blushing red face, embarrassed. "Stuff like this makes me a bit embarrassed..."
"Experiencing embarrassing situations like this... Make you grow into an adult." The maid stated in Yuji's ears with a flirty voice before flashing out her usual wide smile again. "Here you go! Cheese!"
"Ch-Cheese!" Yuji smiled at the camera with her.
"Thank you very much! Well then, why don't the innocent master over there too... Give it a try?!" she asked, looking back at Megumi.
"Eh?" Megumi asked in surprise.
"Fushiguro, be careful!" Yuji laughed out at Megumi's blushing face again. "You'll get super embarrassed! This... You'll get super embarrassed!"
"Get ready for a selfie!" the maid sang out as she leaned closer to Megumi once again, leaving the ravenette boy embarrassed.
"Fushiguro! It's a selfie! A selfie!" Yuji chimed in again.
"No- I'm good..." Megumi tried to protest but it was already too late.
"Cheese!" And with that, the waitress took a selfie with Megumi.
I didn't even bother looking back at them again as I silently ate my omurice before paying the bills and walking out of the restaurant as quickly as possible. And it wasn't long before the boys joined me outside the cafe as well where I was waiting for them. I pushed back the thoughts of the waitress flirting with Megumi and tried to keep myself cool and composed. The last thing I wanted to feel was such negative emotion called 'jealousy' at this moment.
"Ah! My stomach is full unexpectedly!" Yuji sang out in content. "But the taste was normal."
"Thanks to the potatoes, my mouth is dry..." Megumi groaned out in annoyance.
"I have the selfie but do you want it?" Yuji asked, pulling out the picture that was printed out.
"We are going to a shrine." Megumi stated in a dark tone and I raised my eyebrow at him in confusion.
"Why?" I asked.
"We are burning the photo. Cursed photos are limited to memorial services." Megumi replied, glaring at the photo in Yuji's hand.
"Eh? Even if it's a good photo?" Yuji asked, putting the photo back into his pockets. "By the way, where did Gojo sensei go? We lost him..."
"I don't care anymore." Megumi grumbled out in annoyance, his frown deepening even more.
"No, seriously, where did Gojo sensei go?" I questioned as well, looking around, and just then a minty warm breath hit the cold skin behind my neck.
"What about me?" a familiar deep alluring voice spoke up from behind me, almost like whispering into my ears.
"Kyaa!!" I squeaked out in shock, jumping away from the familiar man.
"Uwaahh?!?!?!" Yuji and Megumi screamed out as well.
"Gojo sensei?!" I stuttered out as the white-haired man smirked down at me playfully. "Since when were you behind us- Wait, huh? Even Nobara is here? How come?"
"Don't how come me, you bastards." Nobara growled out, frowning at me and the boys.
"Eh? Why are you in a bad mood?" Yuji asked.
"Of course, I am in a bad mood! Thanks to you three following Gojo sensei around..." Nobara grumbled out, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Eh? How do you know about that?" the pink-haired boy questioned again.
"Because I heard about it." she replied and my eyes went wide open in realization.
"Eh? So that means... You knew we were following you?" Yuji gasped out in shock, looking back at sensei.
"Are you serious? We were being really careful too..." Megumi muttered out under his breath in disbelief.
"I have good eyes." Gojo sensei responded with a shit-eating grin, puffing out his chest in pride.
"No, you're hiding your eyes." Yuji countered back.
"I'm the strongest." sensei added, his grin widening even more as he emphasized the word 'strongest' when saying it.
"Egoistical man." I commented with a scoff.
"Ah, I see..." Yuji muttered out in defeat, already giving up because of Gojo sensei's narcissistic behavior. "So then, is today your day off?"
"Nope. I have work like usual." sensei replied, slightly shaking his head.
"But you were eating crepes, reading manga, and even went to a Maid Cafe." I pointed out in confusion.
"A Maid Cafe?!" Nobara gasped out in shock.
"When you are like me, you get too busy with work. You can't rediscover the city unless you are working. As you can see, I am still doing my job diligently!" sensei explained to us and I gave him a skeptical look.
"And what is doing your job?" I asked, crossing my arms over my chest.
"Dungeon search." he replied and the rest of us looked at him puzzled.
"Da-n-jyonn?" Yuji tried to pronounce it correctly.
"To rephrase... It is a search of a good cursed spot for the first years to practice. Also as known as a preview." sensei stated.
"Pardon?" I asked, tilting my head to the side.
"A strange rumor arose on an internet horror website regarding the building next to the Maid Cafe. Thanks to an old historic record shop stored inside, the cursed stories' credibilities went up." sensei explained the situation even further.
"Ah! That's why you were looking out of the window even if you could only see the building!" Yuji came to a realization.
"So then, I was planning this for a later date, but since all four of you are here, I thought this is perfect! I will just have them challenge this today!" Gojo sensei stated in excitement.
"Eh?? But, today is a day off-" Yuji started to whine.
"Don't worry. I already moved the abandoned tube amp around the building and investigated by playing the records according to the rumors! You can meet a lively cursed spirit!" sensei reassured us with a wide grin plastered on his face.
"Ehh??" Yuji whined again.
"Can't be helped, huh..." I sighed heavily, shaking my head a bit.
"Tch. Alright. Let's go." Megumi grumbled out in annoyance.
"Wait! Why are you so eager to go, Fushiguro?!" Yuji snapped at him.
"It's way better than playing that shitty game and going to the Maid Cafe." Megumi snapped back.
"Eh? What? You guys went to a maid Cafe too?" Nobara asked, still in shock before looking over at the boys. "Forget Itadori, but Fushiguro too?! You seem calm but you're actually a lecher, huh?"
"It was unavoidable!" Megumi immediately argued back, furrowing his eyebrows even more.
"What do you mean forget about me?!" Yuji cried out.
"Whatever, we are going!" I called out, getting their attention once again.
"Why are you so ready to fight, Fushiguro?" Yuji asked.
"Megumi wasn't able to show off his skills last time at Roppongi." Gojo sensei chimed in with a knowing smirk. "Heh... He can't get over it."
"I am over it." Megumi denied it, but his face deceived his words.
"Dude, you are not over it by the look on your face..." Yuji deadpanned at him.
"You're the type to slowly hold grudges, huh?" Nobara commented with a scrutinizing look in her gaze.
"Anyways, everyone!" Gojo sensei called out again, clapping his hands to gain our attention. "Be careful on the way there! I'll be eating some roasted manju!"
"You're still gonna eat?!" Yuji asked in shock as the others and I started to walk away.
"Hurry up, Yuji, we are leaving!" I called out to him.
"It's not we are leaving!!" Yuji cried out in frustration, catching up to us. "Ahh, dammit!! Goodbye, my day off!!"
"My Ameyoko!!" Nobara cried out as well, depressed that she couldn't finish her shopping properly.
As we all walked away from Gojo sensei, the white-haired man noticed something fell out of Yuji's pocket.
"Yuji, something fell from your pocket-" sensei started to call out, but then realized that we weren't there anymore. "They already left..."
He then noticed the item that fell out of Yuji's pocket was a photo; a selfie of Megumi, Yuji, me, and the waitress, all four of us together.
"A photo?" sensei questioned himself before reading the message written on it. "Megumi-sama, please come again."
And seeing this, Gojo sensei let out a chuckle in amusement, fondness glazing his icy-blue eyes.
"Aren't they living are youthful life, those youngsters." he laughed to himself.
Later that night
After completing the mission, Gojo sensei took us to a nearby restaurant for tonight's dinner, and later then we all came back to the Jujutsu campus before we even know it. Time just flies by so quickly.
"And guess what? Fushiguro was blushing so hard when the cute waitress leaned close to his face!" Yuji laughed as we walked towards the dormitory, causing Nobara to join in the fun.
Even Gojo sensei was chuckling at the ravenette boy in amusement. Except for me and Megumi though. To them, it was a funny experience, but to me, it wasn't. Jealousy was getting the best of me once again. It won't have bothered me that much if they talked about this only a little but given that they had been discussing it and also were constantly teasing Megumi ever since we completed the mission which continued throughout the entire dinner, it was really getting into my nerves at this moment.
Ughh!! I hate this feeling!!!
"Seriously, Fushiguro?" Nobara smirked at him. "Do you like the waitress or something?"
"No. It's not like that." Megumi groaned out in annoyance, but Yuji and Nobara continued to tease him even more.
"It's hard to believe your words after seeing you blushing like that, Megumi." I pointed out, finally speaking up regarding the topic.
"Not you too, Nana." Megumi rolled his eyes at me.
"What? The waitress was cute. She might as well be expecting you to visit that place again." I added with a shrug, trying to be as nonchalant as possible.
"It's nothing like that. I'm not interested in her." Megumi countered back, furrowing his eyebrows at me and this was when things started to get a bit serious.
Suddenly I snapped. I didn't know why I did that, but I knew I just did and there was no turning back from there.
"Hah, really now? You didn't shove her away when she was leaning close to your face. You didn't protest when she was stepping into your comfort zone and insisted you take a selfie with her. You didn't say anything back to her and remained completely silent the entire time. And now you're telling us to believe your words that you didn't enjoy any of that at all? You got to be kidding me now, Megumi." I let out a mocking laugh, causing the others to look at me in confusion and suspicion, but more importantly, in surprise.
Shit! Did I blow up my cover?!
"Hey, Nana. Chill out, girl." Nobara spoke up in a reassuring tone while Gojo sensei and Yuji stared at me with a soft look on their faces.
"Why are you getting annoyed all of a sudden, Nana? And besides, why do you even care?" Megumi asked as he stepped closer to me but I immediately moved away from him.
Why do I even care? That's what he's asking me?!
"You're right. Why do I care? It's not like we're lovers or anything. We're just childhood friends, nothing more, nothing less." I scoffed and Megumi's eyes went wide open in surprise.
"Nana-" Megumi was about to say something, but I quickly cut him off.
"I'm tired now. It's been a long day. I need some sleep." I added before quickly walking away. "Goodnight, everyone!"
But the thing was I didn't go to sleep immediately after that. Rather after freshening up and changing clothes, I found myself sitting on the rooftop of the dormitory, staring at the starry sky of the night.
"I really made a fool out of myself, didn't I?" I groaned out in frustration, bringing my knees closer to my chest, hugging them with my arms around them. "Shit! What have I done?! What is Megumi gonna think now? What are others gonna think? And Gojo sensei..."
Suddenly I recalled Gojo sensei and how he was staring at me with a disheartened expression when I was arguing with Megumi an hour ago.
Fuck! Did I hurt Gojo sensei again?
Why am I feeling this way? What's happening to me?
What do I really feel about Megumi? About Gojo sensei...?
"Nana."
"Kyaa!" I squeaked out in surprise, flinching on my spot before I turned around to see who it was. "Megumi?"
Megumi, now in a long-sleeved t-shirt and sweatpants, walked over and carefully took a seat beside me on the rooftop.
"What are you doing here?" I asked, giving him a skeptical look.
"I came here looking for you..." Megumi replied, his eyes locked up at the stars in the sky.
"What do you want?" I questioned him again, mentally slapping myself for asking that.
Oh my god! Why am I being so annoying today?! Nana, just keep your mouth shut already!!
"I wanna apologize, Nana." Megumi muttered as he looked over at me, locking his dark yet soft eyes into my brownish amber ones. "I... I really didn't mean to hurt your feelings. And I also wanna assure you that I don't have any interest in that waitress or in fact any other woman..."
My eyes went wide open in surprise and my hands started to get all sweaty all of a sudden.
"Oh?" I asked, piping my interest in his thoughts.
"Remember, what I said to Todo senpai that one time? About my taste in women? I wasn't lying when I said I prefer women like you." Megumi added, his lips slowly curling up into a breathtaking smile.
Hearing that my face suddenly began to grow warm and red which caused me to look away from him momentarily in embarrassment.
Flashback (Megumi's POV)
“Do you know why the Gojo and Zenin families are on bad terms?” Gojo sensei asked Megumi, lounging around on his expensive relaxing chair on the porch of the Jujutsu High dormitory while Megumi and Nana stood in sensei's opposite direction with arms crossed over their chests and a confused look forming on their faces as they leaned against the railing behind them.
"Were they always on bad terms?” Megumi asked, tilting his head to the side.
"The worst. I think it was during the Edo period... or maybe Keicho? I forget, but the heads of their respective households killed each other in a fight before the aristocracy.” Sensei replied with a shrug.
"Back then who were the heads?” Nana asked with curiousness and a small smirk formed on Gojo sensei’s lips.
"A limitless cursed technique user with six eyes like me for the Gojo family and a 10 shadows technique user like Megumi for the Zenin family…” He responded back and the kids' eyes went wide open in surprise before sensei looked over at Megumi with a knowing smile on his face, looking up through his black shades. “You get what I am trying to say, right, Megumi?”
In response, Megumi blinked at him for a few moments before speaking up again.
“But why did they fight? What was the reason?” the ravenette boy asked, furrowing his eyebrows a bit causing Gojo sensei to look over at Nana with a breathtaking smirk.
“Their main reason was a beautiful woman from the Osaki clan with whom they fell in love at the same time…” sensei replied and in response, Nana's eyes went wide open in shock while Megumi gave her a surprised look from the side before sensei’s smirk widened a bit more than before, witnessing their reactions. “Doesn't it always come down to the love of a woman, huh, Megumi-kun?”
Upon hearing the question, Megumi looked back at sensei and simply stared at him in surprise and confusion, not knowing what to say anymore regarding this topic.
~~~~~
"Okay. I win again." Gojo sensei spoke up after taking down Megumi in hand-to-hand combat, wearing a cocky grin on his face. "This is unusual. You rarely ask me to train you, Megumi. Are you in a rush after Yuji surpassed you?"
"Well, beggars can't be choosers..." Megumi grumbled out, sitting up from the floor of the dojo room.
"It bothers you that much to rely on me?" Gojo asked, putting his hands in his pockets. "Megumi, listen. I think you have just as much ability and potential as Yuji does. The problem is just your mindset. Megumi, you don't know how to bring out your best, do you?"
"Huh?! Are you saying I haven't been giving it my best?" Megumi snapped, frowning at the older man.
"I am not saying you haven't. I am saying you can't." Gojo replied with an amused smile. "For example, in the baseball game the other day... Why did you go for a sacrifice bunt? Did you want Nobara to advance the bases, even if it meant you would be out? That's a splendid attitude, but Yuji and I would always go for a home run. I am not saying a bunt is bad."
Gojo then started to walk over to Megumi who was still sitting on the floor, legs crossed as he quietly listened to the words his sensei was saying at that moment.
"Baseball is a team sport and everyone has their roles to play." Gojo went on, crouching down in front of Megumi before his expression went serious and his voice deepened even more. "But jujutsu sorcery is an individual sport. Coordinating with other sorcerers is important, isn't it? Sure. But no matter how many allies you have around you, when you die, you will be alone. You can only piece together undervalued data on yourself and the others. You can't imagine a stronger future version of yourself. Maybe that's because of your trump card? You believe that in the worst case, you can resolve everything at the cost of your life. But at that point, forget about me. You will never even measure up to Nanami. Dying to win and risking death to win... are completely different, Megumi. Give it your best. Be greedier."
Flashback ended
Back to Nana's POV
"Be greedier, huh..." Megumi mumbled out to himself and I gave him a confused look.
Be greedier? About what? What is he talking about?
"Megumi. What are you saying?" I asked softly, causing him to look back at me once again, but this time he looked kinda serious as if he was about to say something really important.
"Nana, I need to tell you something..." Megumi stated in a serious tone and I braced myself for anything that was coming toward me.
"Okay... What is it?" I asked as I watched Megumi taking a deep breath.
Must be something really important...
"Nana... I uh... You see, I-"
"There you are, Nana-chan! I was looking for you everywhere!" a familiar obnoxious voice suddenly called out from behind us, causing us to snap our heads around to look back.
"Gojo sensei?!" Megumi and I gasped out in shock.
"Yo!" he greeted us with a grin, joining us on the rooftop. "Oh, Megumi, I see you're here as well."
"What are you doing here?" I asked him, furrowing my eyebrows in confusion.
"I was looking for you!" he replied with a grin.
"But why?" I questioned again.
"Ice cream! Right now, I'm craving some ice cream and I need a companion to come with me to the convenience store!" he responded back before grabbing my arm and pulling me up on my feet. "Now, come on! Let's go!"
"Huh?! Ice cream?! But you just had dinner a few hours ago!" I pointed out.
"Yes, a few hours ago. But now, I'm hungry again and I need sweets!" sensei argued back.
"What a glutton!" I commented with a scoff. "Can't you just go by yourself?"
"No!" sensei whined out.
Such a man-child...
"What are you, a 5-year-old?" I deadpanned before Gojo sensei looked over at Megumi with an apologetic look.
"Sorry for the interruption, Megumi. But I need Nana-chan right now." sensei stated and I furrowed my eyebrows at him in response.
Why doesn't he sound apologetic at all?
"Hey, wait!" Megumi called out to stop the older man but it was already too late; Gojo sensei already teleported me and himself in front of a convenience store nearby the Jujutsu High campus.
What the hell is happening all of a sudden? Sensei is acting really weird now...
"Seriously, sensei." I sighed out tiredly while Gojo sensei grinned down at me in a playful manner. "Just what are you thinking?"
"Aw, come on! You spent your entire day with Megumi and Yuji already! Sensei wants some attention too, you know." he whined out like a kicked puppy.
"Can't you go and annoy someone else instead of me? Like Nobara or Yuji or even Megumi? Or what about the 2nd years?" I asked, crossing my arms over my chest. "Why is it always me? Do I interest you that much?"
"Probably." sensei replied with a smirk as he leaned down close to my face, peering at me over his dark shades, his minty warm breath hit my facial skin while his voice caught in the thin night breeze.
With the light of the full moon illuminating us with its grace, I couldn't help but gawk at the older man in front of me. At that moment, sensei appeared so angelic in my eyes. Fair milky skin with soft white hair and crystal blue eyes, it was no lie that Gojo sensei was the most beautiful man to walk onto this planet. His eyes were so blue that I didn't think you'd ever seen something like them before. His eyes reminded me of the limitless sky above us or the deep mysterious ocean across the land we lived on.
Sensei was the kind of beautiful I'd expect of art galleries and empty space, like what they thought angels would be like if angels weren’t soldiers and prophets first and foremost. But he was kind of a soldier and was also kind of a prophet, so although his beauty was the kind I was most familiar with, I still had detached myself from really understanding it at all, and to me, it was probably better that way. But then again, I scoffed at myself for these mere thoughts of mine.
Satoru Gojo was no angel. He was the devil straight from the pits of hell; a total menace.
"Sensei, are you a lolicon?" I grumbled out in disgust and this made Gojo sensei smirk at me mischievously once again. "Someday, you'll get into trouble for hanging around with your female student like this all the time!"
"I believe it's your fault for not being born earlier." sensei muttered out with a cocky grin, reaching out and pushing a few strands of my raven locks behind my ear before gently brushing his fingers on my cheeks.
And this simple touch of his felt like burning my skin.
"You're clearly not suitable as a teacher." I scoffed again with a blushing face, swatting his hand away from me as another smirk formed on his face upon hearing my comment.
"Thank you, Nana-chan~"
"It's definitely not a compliment!"
I huffed and walked away from him before entering the convenience store to buy some ice cream for this eccentric man. Unknown to me, as soon as I left his side, the infamous cocky grin dropped off of sensei's face and his entire expression went completely silent and monotone.
"Didn't expect you to be a challenging opponent, huh, Megumi..."
To read the whole fanfic, check it out on Quotev and Wattpad -
On Quotev - https://www.quotev.com/story/14002073/Lovely-Deadly-Jujutsu-Kaisen
On Wattpad - https://www.wattpad.com/story/281634331-lovely-deadly-jujutsu-kaisen
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