The floors were clean and all the curtains had been replaced. It was almost as if nothing had happened. Maybe nothing had happened and his overractive imagination was playing tricks on him again. Like that time when he thought he saw mummy hitting daddy with a crowbar. Turns out, it wasn't really what happened. Mummy had smiled and told him that she and Daddy were playing a little grown-up game.
Quietly, he walks down the stairs, taking note of the stairs and the walls. Everything was the same. The only difference was that there were no sizzling sounds of bacon and neither was the gospel radio playing. This is his mother's favorite activity in the morning.
Quietly, like the good boy his mother always said he was, he sat on his seat on the table and waited for his mother to arrive and suprise him. Maybe she was hiding with all his birthday presents.
He piques up as he hears a sound on the stairs. Maybe mother was back. He wonders what kind of cake she bought for him. He jumps down from his seat and ran as fast as his little legs could carry him.
His eyes fell as he saw his father on the stairs. His father had a frown on his face.
"Aren't you going to school ?" His father asked.
"I..I am" he answers timidly.
His father scoffed as he descended from the stairs.
The child watched as his father entered the kitchen and started cooking. It surprises him. Cooking in the morning was mummy's chore. He doesn't question his father's decision. He walks back to the dinning table and takes a seat.
He watches as his father flips the pancakes.
"Otou San, where is Oka San ?" He asks
"Well, she's gone somewhere." His father pauses as he slices the pancake in tiny bits "somewhere far far away"
His father drops two plates of pancakes on the table and sits down.
"Were you waiting for your mother ?"
His father hands him a fork.
"Yes" he replied as he takes a bite of the pancake.
It was horrible. Father didn't know how to cook.
"Well, you're going to be waiting for a very long time, Megumi" His father said, shoving a forkful of pancake in his mouth.
Megumi sighed as he looked at the clock.
Maybe mother would return by the time he came back from his school.
"Happy birthday Megumi" his father said, standing up from the table.
"Thank you" Megumi replies quietly.
Two years later, he had a new mother and sister.
Five years later, his father left.
Few months later, his new mother left.
Father, mother and his new mother were yet to return.
He doesn't mind anymore.
He had his sister.
He wasn't alone.
New year. New school. New beginnings.
Those were the words of his guardian and soon to be teacher, Gojou Satoru. Satoru claimed that he needed to change school in order to see the world from a different perspective.
He knew Satoru wasn't really changing his school because of perspective. His new school was close to Tsukimi's, his sister, hospital. She was diagnosed for leukamia and needed to be monitored closely at the hospital
The distance from his new school to the hospital was a seven minutes. It took almost an hour for him to get to the hospital from his former school. So in a way, this was a good birthday gift.
He took a deep breath. There was no need being nervous. The students held no meaning to him. He was only here for his sister.
A new school. A new environment. Different faces.
He hears as Satoru asked the class to settle down. In a few minutes, he was going to be asked to come inside to introduce himself to his new classmates. He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath.
"You've being looking at this door for a long time. It's getting boring. Do something else " a male voice says
Immediately, he opens his eyes. The owner of the voice is a student. He can tell from the uniform. That was the only thing that told him the person was a student.
He looks at the boy in confusion. He had tattoos on his face and arms. He's hair was brightly colored- pink to be precise and spiky. He had a taunting smirk on his face.
The boy brings his face close to his face.
"What's your name ?" The boy asks
He feels the boys breathe on his face.
"You're in my space" He answers the boy
"Megumi, you can come in " a voice shouts from inside.
Megumi frowns as the boy smiles cruelly.
"Megumi, you're really pretty" The boy says, opening the door and walking into the class.
There's a look of shock on megumi's face, a frown on his lips and light blush on his face.
'pretty my ass' he thinks
Megumi opens the door and sees Satoru standing on top of the boy, shouting
"YOU DARE COME LATE TO MY CLASS. YOU FREAKING RETARD"
"GET OFF ME, YOU BASTARD. IT'S NOT LIKE I WANTED TO COME LATE"
Megumi sweatdrops as he watched the scene before him. No one was paying attention to him.
"WHY ARE YOU LATE, BAKA ?" Another boy who looked identical to the tattooed boy asked
"YOU STUPID BRAT, WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP ?"
"Tsk tsk Sukuna, I always tell you to set your alarm" a female student said while clipping her nails. She doesn't even bother to raise her read to look at the commotion.
"DON'T IGNORE ME, YOU BASTARD" The teacher shouted
"Oi, oi, are you the new student ?" The identical twin of the tattoed boy asked
Satoru stopped shouting immediately as he jumps down the tattooed boy's back and smiled brightly.
"Megumi chan, welcome to our class".
Megumi wasn't sure he wanted to be in this class.
"Megumi, are you excited for your birthday ?"
"No"
"All the cakes and presents and sweets and new clothes and gadgets. Doesn't it make you excited ?"
"Nobara, for some reason, you're more excited about my birthday than i am"
Nobara groaned and banged her head on the table.
"At least be a little excited. I can't even imagine the big birthday gift, Gojou sensei has prepared for me " she said, with stars in her eyes.
"He gave me the present this morning" Megumi said,bringing out a book in his bag
Nobara jumped up with stars in her eyes.
"What's it ? What's it ?"
Megumi sighs
"A penknife with a compartment for a comb. An embodiment of the statement 'always stay sharp"
Nobara sweatdrops "Is that what the souvenir seller told him ?"
"I guess so"
"Happy birthday Megumi" Yuuji shouted as he walks into the classroom.
"It's too early for anyone to hear your annoying voice" Nobara said, throwing Megumi's pencil case at Yuuji who catches it.
"Oi, watch it" a voice droned behind Yuuji.
"Hn, Sukuna. Isn't it too early for you to be in school ?" Nobara askes with a suprised tone.
Sukuna ignores Nobara and walks to Megumi desks.
Megumi regards Sukuna with bored eyes. Sukuna smiles widens.
They've been playing this little game for almost a year. It was like a game of cat and mouse. Sukuna was the cat and he was the mouse and Sukuna was always ready to devour the mouse if he ever let's his guard down.
Sukuna places a box on his table. Megumi looks at it suspiciously.
Sukuna gifts were always extreme and dangerous with a hint of something sexual sprinkled in them.
He moves his eyes from the box to Sukuna.
Sukuna just smirks at him.
Megumi opens the box and brings out a pendant.
He opens it slowly and smiles when he sees the content.
It was a group photo of his sister, Yuuji, Nobara and Satoru. They had taken it a few months ago at the hospital.
On the other part of the pendant was an inscription.
You're pretty.
He uses the back of his hand to clean his eyes before tears could fall from them.
He looks at Sukuna and smiles.
"Happy birthday, Megumi chan" Sukuna says, bringing his face close to Megumi.
Megumi closes the gap between them and kisses Sukuna.
"I'm so tired. why do...WHAT THE FUCK" Gojou sensei shouted as he enters the class.
"Sensei, you shouldn't use such words in class" Yuuji scolded