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"Tsu! Tsu! Tsu!" Yu was yelling my name as she came running down the hallway, rounded the kitchen door, and flew into my arms.

"What is it?" I asked her.

"Yes, Yu, why are you yelling this loudly in the morning?" My grandmother asked her. She began to breathe heavily, trying to catch her breath.

"A…man…boy…person…school…you…" I cocked an eyebrow at what she said and stood up from my chair.

"Wait here."

"Wait, Tsu, what if it is someone bad?" My grandmother worried. I waved at her over my shoulder and said,

"Are they really going to attack a sorcerer?" With that, I walked down the hallway and towards the front door. When I opened the door, I was even more confused to see Satoru Gojo standing in front of me with his hands in the pockets of his jeans, a black tunic on, and his circle rimmed sunglasses on his face. I noticed how good he looked in his regular clothes, which surprised me because I knew that he was good looking in his uniform but seeing him relaxed was a new experience. "Satoru?"

"The one and only!" He happily grinned at me.

"Why are you at my house?" I questioned this arrival because this was something that had never happened to me before.

"I figured that you would be coming back to school today, so I thought that I would see if you wanted a ride since we drove you here on Friday."

"Wow, um…that's really nice of you, but I can take the bus and the train again – I don't mind." I tried to reject his offer, but I could tell that he wasn't going to take 'no' as an answer.

"I think you should feel so honoured that me, Satoru Gojo, has come here to take you to school." He smirked at me with that egotistical smirk that he mastered. I rolled my eyes at his comment.

"If this is supposed to be a nice gesture, then you're not supposed to say something like that." Satoru completely ignored me and began waving to someone behind me. I turned around to see my grandmother, Yu, and mother all looking around the corner to see me speaking to the famous white-haired sorcerer in training.

"Hello! I have come to take Tsu back to school, if that's okay?" He asked my family for permission. Yu immediately walked into the middle of the hallway, stood with a wide legged stance, arms to her sides and fists clenched as she bellowed,

"Please take her and make sure she gets there safe! She is a nice older sister, and we would like her to have a nice boy in her life!"

"YU!" I yelled at her. Satoru laughed where he was standing, and I could feel that my cheeks were beginning to redden at this moment.

"I guess you are Yu! Tsu has told me about you."

"It better be nice things about me! I'm not an annoying little sister." Yu stated.

"Have you eaten? Would you like something to eat?" My grandmother came around the corner and asked.

"He's clearly eaten! He wouldn't have left his own place if he hadn't eaten." I told my grandmother.

"Actually, I would-" My hand immediately swung out and my palm landed on Satoru's mouth.

"I'm going to grab my things and leave now." I told my family. I removed my hand from Satoru's mouth and brought it back to my side. Until I immediately turned my head to look at him, then looked at my hand, looked back at him, and back at my hand. "I touched you?" I questioned him more than myself.

"I figured that it wouldn't harm either of us if you did." He brought his glasses down and winked at me.

"I can't stand you." I grumbled before walking back into the house and closing the door on him. I walked down the hall to where my family were all looking at me.

"Tsu, is that your boyfriend?" Yu asked me.

"No! He's just a boy from school." I explained to her.

"Is that the Gojo boy? The really powerful sorcerer?" My grandmother asked. I couldn't help myself when I immediately rolled my eyes. Yea yea, people are always so excited to see him, but no one thinks we're a powerful family anymore.

"Yes." I walked past them and went to my room to grab my bag, but they followed me.

"You should train with him." My grandmother encouraged me.

"I already train with the whole class." I said.

"But then you will get stronger, and you will be able to show everyone just what we can do." She explained to me.

"I'm already doing that!" I frustratingly yelled as I swung my bag over my shoulder. A sigh escaped my lips as I turned around. "Sorry for yelling." I apologized. My grandmother shook her head and walked towards me, holding my hand in her hers and cupping my cheek with her other. I was 5'6, but she was 5'3, so she looked up at me slightly as she said,

"You had to grow-up very fast because of your father. I will never be able to fix that, but I know that you are doing a great job bringing this family back to glory."

"Thank you." Yu hugged me and I wrapped one arm around her. "Okay, now let me go and don't follow me outside because I know what you guys are like." I teased them. When I left my room and made my way to the front where my shoes were, I slipped them on and looked past my sister and grandmother – looking for my mother. I knew that she wouldn't be there because she always disappears when I'm about to leave the house, but a part of me always hoped that one day she would come say goodbye. I said my goodbyes and left the house.

At the bottom of the drive, Kenzo was waiting for me with the door open while Satoru was already sitting in the car. I thanked Kenzo and sat in the car next to Satoru. He put his phone back in his pocket before turning to look at me.

"Why are you here?" I asked him.

"You know, you could thank me for coming to get you." He tsked at me.

"I didn't ask you to come to my home, Satoru! Do you know what boundaries are?" I shook my head at him.

"Of course, I know what boundaries are, think about my technique." Disbelief was written all over my face.

"Your technique doesn't come into this. You don't just come to my house unannounced. It's not very polite." Satoru shrugged his shoulders at me. "Thank you, it is a treat to be driven to school. As you probably noticed, I don't have anyone in my house that drives."

"See! I knew you would like this!"

"You are ridiculous." I groaned as I sat back in my seat and looked out the window. Kids were out with their families, walking the streets, laughing, arguing, and living their lives. I could feel the ball of jealousy begin to form in the pit of my stomach as I watched them. Why couldn't my life be different and less complicated?

"Hey, are you okay?" The blue-eyed teenager asked me.

"Yea, I'm fine." I answered.

"I'm sorry if I overstepped, I just-"

"It's not that." I cut Satoru off. "I always have a hard time at home, so when I head back to school, I usually spend it trying to refocus myself."

"I get it." I could feel him change his position in his seat next to me. "I have a lot of people watching me all the time, so I like to just relax in the car to be honest. It gives me time to actually be alone." Satoru didn't know, or maybe he did, but he said exactly how I felt. He was probably being watched because people know that he is going to be the strongest sorcerer of our generation, so they watch with anticipation of his successes. However, I knew that people watched me with disgust, hatred, and with anticipation to watch me fail at everything I do. Which is what pushed me every day to train, so they could all be disappointed.

"Exactly."

Soreness covered my entire body as I got out the shower. I rolled my shoulders back and stretched my arms above my head. The hot water from the shower didn't help to relax my muscles. A curse escaped my lips as I got changed because I realized that I must had overdone my training the day before. When completing hand-to-hand combat, it's important to not overdo it because you end up giving yourself a bad injury, but as I stretched out my back, I noticed that my hip was hurting.

My mind raced back to how I ended up falling, landing straight on my hip in an awkward angle, which was probably the reason why I was sore there now. Begrudgingly, I made my way to the nurse to have it looked at. Our teacher told us that we would be going on missions in the upcoming days, so I wanted to make sure that I was going to be fine.

The nurse had a look over me, used some of her cursed energy to help with the healing and sent me on my way. I thanked her and began to make my way back down the hallway to head to one of the many rooms I could practice my cursed energy, but was stopped when Suguru came up to me.

"Tsu, there you are!" He smiled at me as he reached me.

"Hi, Suguru. What's up?" I asked him.

"Me and you are going on a mission together right now."

"Right now?" I questioned.

"Right now, so let's get going!"

Suguru and I arrived at an old, abandoned house. The story we were given was that the entire family was brutally murdered there years prior, but no one else ever moved in. However, the local kids kept going into the house and some would come out saying that they had seen weird things happen in the house and others were reported dead because of a 'freak accident.' It was a three-story house, the windows were boarded up, the lawn was completely overgrown, and the outside looked like it had been peeling off for years.

"If there was a place that screamed, 'I died here,' it would be this place." I said as we looked at it.

"It is pretty creepy, isn't it?" Suguru asked. We walked together into the house. When we walked in, we could smell the damp that was clearly under the floors and in the walls. Also, there were cobwebs and dust everywhere.

"Should we split up?" He asked me. I looked at him at my black-haired classmate and shrugged my shoulders.

"Can do." I answered. With that, I went upstairs and Suguru took the downstairs. The floors creaked as I walked around. I reached deep down into the pit of my stomach to try and send my energy out, so I could feel where the curses were hiding in the house. After walking into a few bedrooms, I heard something scurry above me. I looked up and heard thumping. "On the third floor!" I yelled out to Suguru as I broke out into a run and made my way up the next flight of stairs. When I got up there, I heard a thud behind the second door to my right.

Immediately, I ripped the door open and saw a large centipede looking curse. It had green slimy skin, and it was as large and wide as the room. The way it moved within itself, made it look like it was an infinite loop. Immediately, I unsheathed my Damascus blade,

"Lunar Aura: Damascus."

My cursed energy covered my sword just in time because the cursed spirit in front of me shot forward. Its large mouth opened as it made its way towards me. Its teeth were as long as my legs and as sharp as my blade. The last thing I wanted was to be caught in its teeth, so I jumped up, dodging its first attack and brought my blade down to land straight in its skin. A high-pitched screeching sound came out of its mouth.

"Tsu!" I looked up and saw Suguru was standing at the door, eyed wide open as he looked at me. I tried to pull my blade out of the curse, but it felt like it had tensed its muscles, keeping my blade stuck in its skin.

"God damn it, let me go!" I yelled at it. I could hear Suguru begin to call his cursed technique, but the curse screamed again, threw the front of its body back and then went straight through the floor, taking me with it. I kept hold of my blade as it landed on the second floor and wood scattered around me, one piece catching my cheek.

"Gravity Manipulation: Push!" I yelled as I kept one hand holding the hilt of my blade and the other hovering over the curse. My energy shot me away from the curse and I was able to bring my blade with me. My back slammed into the ceiling above me and I went crashing face first into the floor.

"Woah, Tsu! Are you okay?" Surguru asked me as he appeared at my side. He helped me get back up.

"Yea, I'm definitely going to be left with a bruise." I complained. Suguru ran forward to go attack the larger curse. Just as I was about to move, I felt something come out of the wall next to my head. It all happened in slow motion, the turning of my head to see another curse come flying through the wall, how fast I raised my Damascus and slice through it, just to have it explode green slime at me – leaving me covered. "Fuck." I looked up and saw that Suguru had managed to tire out the big centipede curse in front of us. He was getting ready to deal another blow, but I noticed that another smaller curse was coming out of the wall by his head. It was too far for me to slice with my blade, and I was too far away to reach him in time. Without thinking, without practice, my right hand reached out as I said,

"Shadow Manipulation: Copy!" It was almost like I could feel the curses shadow in my hands. With my hand in front of me, palm facing the curse, I closed my hand to make a fist and I felt the shadow of the curse follow my movement. The black shadow covered the curse and smothered it out of existence. Surguru looked to me, his loose strands moving with him.

"Tsu, that was-"

"Not now! Let's rush the curse now!" I yelled as I brought my Damascus out in front of me as I sprinted to the curse. Curse energy engulfed me blade as I yelled and thrusted it into the curse, which Surguru releasing his curses onto him. I kept pushing my blade deeper into the curse until we heard a loud bang and the curse popped, leaving a rain of green slime, so that we both ended up covered in it. Suguru and I were left looking at each other with shocked faces, knowing that we had now killed the curse that was causing so much trouble.

"Tsu, you did amazing!" He complimented me.

"Thank you-" My words were cut off as I felt my knees give way, but Suguru made it to me within record time, wrapping my arm over his shoulders and his arm around my waist, propping me up.

"Come on, let's get out of here."

When we arrived at the school, Suguru immediately went to wrap his arm around my waist, but I let him know that I was able to walk. We walked up the stairs to the entrance of Jujutsu High School and was met with Satoru and Shoko.

"Hey, how did it go?" Shoko asked us with her hands behind her back.

"Well, we did it! We just got a bit…messy." I answered as I shrugged my shoulders. The green slime had begun to harden and was now making it harder to move, so Suguru and I knew that we needed to get our clothes off and to take showers.

"Tsu is forgetting to mention that she was able to kill a curse with its shadow!" Suguru congratulated me. Satoru and Shoko both looked at me with surprised faces.

"What? That's amazing!" Shoko excitedly clapped her hands together.

"Thanks." I rubbed the back of my neck awkwardly. "It was only a little curse-"

"Don't put yourself down. You couldn't do that before, so good for you." I looked at Satoru and could feel his piercing blue eyes looking right into mine. "Really Tsu, good job." Then, I embarrassed myself like how I normally did. My knees buckled underneath me, a part of me thinking that this was because Satoru was looking at me so intensely, but I knew it was because I used so much cursed energy today doing a technique that I hadn't properly mastered. Almost like he knew it was going to happen, Suguru wrapped his arm back around my waist and wrapped my right arm around his shoulders – propping me up once again.

"Sorry." I apologized.

"Are you okay, Tsu? What happened?" Shoko asked me with concern in her voice.

"I think because I've never been able to use my Shadow Manipulation to the extent I did today, it took a lot of my energy." I explained. Satoru walked over to the other side of me and wrapped my left arm around his shoulders and wrapped his arm around my waist. Feeling Suguru's touch felt different from feeling Satoru's. Suguru held me a bit tighter, while Satoru's touch was gentle – making sure to prop me up without making me feel like I was being extended in any way. Standing in between the two teenagers made me realize just how tall they both were compared to Shoko and myself. I looked up to Satoru and he looked over my head to Suguru while he said,

"I can take her to the nurse."

"It's okay, I was already doing it." Suguru looked at Satoru with a cocked eyebrow, almost confused as to what he was doing, but so was I. The white-haired teen looked down at me with a cheeky grin on his face,

"Come on, I know that Tsu would like the strongest sorcerer to look after her." With that, I could feel my face distort as I looked at me, confused as to why he had to bring his ego into every conversation.

"If you're not going to be humble about it, then I would prefer Suguru." I stated. His mouth dramatically opened.

"Why are you trying to break my heart?"

"Is it your heart or your ego that's bruised? Do you know the difference?" I shot back at him.

"Right then." With that, Satoru pulled me out of Suguru's grasp, lifted me up, and put me over his shoulder.

"Put me down! What are you doing! Oh my God! You're so infuriating!" I protested his movements, but he just laughed at me. With my fists, I tried banging his back to get him to put me down, but Satoru was not budging one bit. "Shoko! Suguru!" I yelled back at my two classmates as Satoru walked away from them. They both just laughed at the situation I had put myself in.

"Maybe now you'll learn to not be so rude when someone is offering to help you." Satoru stated as he walked me into the school.

"But you always bring your ego into everything." I complained as I continued to try and wiggle out of his grasp, but we both knew that I wasn't going to win. When I finally stopped moving, I noticed how he smelt. The smell of sandalwood, earth and a little bit of musk filled my nose, and I couldn't help myself when I felt like I could be wrapped up in this scent for a little while longer. He had his right arm wrapped around my knees, so then I wouldn't slip off him. Satoru had a firm grasp on me, but I knew that he was taking care to not squeeze me too tight.

"Oh Tsu, I thought you were beginning to get to know me a bit better than that." He said.

"What if someone sees us?" I asked out loud, disregarding what he just said.

"First, we go to a school that barely has anyone in it. Second, it's not like we're doing anything wrong. Third, unless you would like to?" With that suggestive comment, my body immediately froze in place, and I felt my blood stop running throughout my body. I couldn't believe that he would make a joke like that, he knew it was inappropriate and that there was no need to do it.

"Sh-Shut-up." I stuttered. My body jiggled as he laughed, walking through the doors of the medical wing. As soon as the doors closed, Satoru began to bring me back down to my feet, but this entailed me sliding down the front of his body. My feet touched the floor, Satoru's hands were delicately placed on my hips, my hands were on his shoulders, and I looked up at him. He was 8 inches taller than me, but there was a part of me that felt like he was too far away from me. He dipped his head down slightly, looking at me over the rim of his glasses and I saw his piercing blue eyes again – which had always been stunning. His eyes darted from my lips and back up to my eyes, but when I saw the smallest smirk begin to form on his lips I was brought back into reality and remembered where we were.

"Gojo? Keitoku?" Hearing our last names made me immediately spin around to see the nurse standing behind me.

"Nurse Aikawa! Hello." I felt my whole body stiffen with the embarrassment that was filling me. Satoru moved his hands from my hips, stepped next to me and lazily wrapped an arm around my shoulders.

"I brought Tsu in because she's feeling a bit wobbly after her mission." I shook his off me and walked towards the nurse with kind eyes and her hair always in a bun.

"Come with me, let's have a look at you." She smiled at me. As she began to walk away with me following her, Satoru called for me,

"What do you say, Tsu?" I didn't say anything, instead I raised my right and threw up my middle finger. The last thing I heard before going into the examination room was his infectious laugh that left me with a small smile forming on my lips.


Oh gosh! What a moment they've shared! What do you make of it?