Chapter 41

By the next day…

"Why did Suiryu ask for us to come to this too?" questioned Eso. "This must be serious, we're not students…"

It was early the next morning. Junpei and the brothers all got a mass text from Gojo sensei, stating Suiryu is holding a meeting and EVERYONE has to be there, no exceptions.

The brothers were all worried and wondering what was going on, yet earlier, Choso appeared to be… oddly happy. "Choso?" Junpei asked the moment he woke up.

He bore a proud grin, as a single tear fell from his eye. "He back… I can feel him, and yet… our connection, it's strained…" he said as he placed his right hand over his heart. "Something happened to Yuuji…"

Since then, the brothers woke to the message they got, they ate something quick before going to one of the many board rooms the school has for meetings. They walked in to see the other students had arrived before them. Principal Yaga froze as the brothers came into the room. "Why are you here?" he asked. Despite his tone being a little gruff, he did try to sound curious.

"We got a message from Gojo sensei, even the brothers got one stating Suiryu called this meeting. So we're here." Junpei said innocently enough.

The brothers all took a seat as Gojo was the last to arrive. But that smile on his lips was rather unnerving. What was he smiling about?

"So what's going on, sensei?" Megumi asked.

"Oh… you'll see…" he said with a coy grin.

"This isn't good…" muttered Mika. "Whenever sensei acts like this…" But she stopped talking the moment Suiryu arrived. He opened the door and closed it quickly as he looked about the room to confirm who was here. With a sigh, he turned to the bundle that rested on his left shoulder. Gently he placed it on the ground… it moved.

Whatever the hell that was, moved and then… a little hand came out of the blanket.

That hair was unmistakable…

"Say hello to Yuuji Itadori, baby dragon…" he said and peered at the room.

"Goddamn…" muttered Yaga as he appeared to be battling a massive headache at this point. The girls blushed as Yuuji peered up at them and smiled. He had no teeth still but he made cute little chirps that sounded like a laser gun.

Junpei turned to the brothers… why are they just as smitten as the girls are!?

"Seriously? That's Yuuji? What the hell happened to him?!"

Suiryu shrugged his shoulders to him. "Well, he has made it to the cultivation point, Sukuna's memories of this just came to me this morning… sorcerers who have reached this point, either went insane since they couldn't return to their true selves, or they starved to death. I thought he would have killed them, but apparently, he enjoyed watching sorcerers suffer in such a state, he didn't even bother to kill them…" he muttered.

Yuuji crawled about for a bit until he sat there and gave out a sharp. "UMPH!"

"I wonder what that was for…" Junpei muttered until she appeared.

Kitsune froze as she peered about the room. "Young master? Young master is still alive?!" she asked and looked for him.

"Umph!"

Suiryu pointed to the ground, there, her eyes peered down at baby Yuuji. She gushed all over him, praising him for his accomplishment on becoming a baby dragon. It became a rather startling love feast. Not to mention, when they learned a baby dragon chooses their guardians, panic followed as Kitsune announced, if Yuuji picks her, she is taking him away!

Despite the brothers' protest and Suiryu's outright yelling at her for being this way, things took a turn when Itadori came to him after his feeding. He approached Suiryu oddly and then… he began to rub his cheeks on his leg.

Kitsune appeared mortified.

When Yuuji wrapped his wings around himself like a blanket, he peered up at Suiryu. Once he was picked off the ground, Kitsune explained Suiryu was chosen as the guardian.

But apparently there was a caretaker spot open as well.

Suiryu placed him back on the ground as he tried to hash it out with Kitsune, when Yuuji made his way around the table, no one saw Choso lean down and pluck him off the ground!

Junpei did though.

Choso even went as far as tucking Itadori into his robe, oddly enough, he laid there quite contently for the moment until it was discovered that he had Itadori. Choso somehow made himself the caretaker!

When the meeting ended. The brothers were quick to retreat back to their dorm. The moment they closed the door, the looks on their faces… they were excited!

"Choso… we actually have an opportunity now!" cheered Sho. "I never thought…. I never thought," he said as the tears began to form.

In fact, all the brothers were like this.

"What's with you guys? Are you okay?" Junpei asked.

Choso nodded to him. "Little brother… the one thing, we all have wanted to do, is to be a true older brother and help raise the youngest to be the best they can be. We never had that chance before, and never thought we would have such an opportunity. But now… it has been given to us!" he said through his happy tears. "We can help raise him…"

That's… that's what this is all about?

He never realized how important this was to them.

Junpei didn't feel the same way since he never had siblings himself. But, to see the look of happiness in their eyes… he nodded to it all and smiled. "I never knew what it would be like if I was an older brother… I suppose this is a learning experience for all of us."

"Indeed… we need to learn how to take care of a baby!" protested Noranso.

"Oh I can help with that. I took home economics in high school. We had to raise a fake baby for the class. I can help. But I think our main focus is going to be how to change Itadori when we get our turn to look after him. Let's see…" Looking about Junpei remembered the plush toy won back at the festival Gojo sensei took them too. For the rest of the day, he taught the brothers how to put a diaper on the plush and had them pretend it was Yuuji!

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He would check on Suiryu later that day.

After getting Itadori situated, Suiryu had been on the computer. He happened to have walked in on him looking over various videos playing on the computer, tablet and two phones. His demon eyes were open as he took in everything! "Suiryu?" he called.

"Focusing, not now," he protested and waved him off.

Junpei left but was stunned that he was this focused. All the videos were on taking care of an infant, from bottle-feeding, diaper changing and any sign of illness to look for in a baby if something were wrong.

He was very committed to that!

All the while though, Yuuji was left in the hands of Fushiguro. For a strange reason, Itadori doesn't trust Gojo sensei…