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It was starting to get annoying.
Nobara twitched and scratched her head, snapping at her sensei who seemed to be enjoying himself with all the attention he's been getting.
They were walking down the district, randomly lazing around after dinner. They had a quick mission when Gojo-sensei called them up to grab dinner. Now, they were done eating and were just walking around.
Nobara was window shopping. Yuuji was trying every claw game they passed. And Megumi would crouch down beside them while he waited and read a pocketbook.
As Yuuji yelled at the game for the millionth time, Nobara's gaze drifts to her sensei who was talking to a couple of women.
Hm. She arched her brow.
Then, Yuuji finished up, defeated once again. But never, not ever deterred!
Because they passed another claw machine, and he was at it again.
And again, Nobara's eye ticked. Gojo-sensei was laughing with a different set of women.
What the hell?
She looked around her. And she sees a lot of guys her age passing by. And no one. Her frown soured. No one was hitting on her.
She looks at the two doofuses beside her. And wonders if it's because of them.
So, she walks far behind them this time around. That Yuuji had to yell at her, asking her why she was so far back. And Megumi stopped, thinking to wait up for her as she caught up. Maybe she bought something, he thought.
To their surprise, Nobara just shooed them away. And Yuuji and Megumi didn't know why, but they felt offended.
Did she not want to be seen with them? They narrow their eyes at her.
Soon enough, Nobara chuckled, a guy approached her. A handsome one too! Ha! I knew it!
You're not the only pretty person here, sensei! Wahaha!
"Excuse me,"
Nobara hid her smirk.
"Yes?" She tucked her orange hair behind an ear, acting cute.
"I hope you don't mind, but,"
Nobara internally chortled. And her hand already reached down her purse for her phone. My number? You want my number? She laughed her head off - in the inside.
"I love your outfit!!"
Nobara nearly crushed her phone. And, her eyes snapping at Gojo, sure enough, he was still getting hit on!!!
"What the hell?!" She cried at a surprised Gojo. The woman had already left. "Why do you keep getting hit on?!" She demanded.
And Yuuji and Megumi share a confused look.
Gojo, on the other hand, just laughed his head off.
"I can't help that I look this good, Nobara!"
Yuuji's eyes widen. And Nobara and Megumi held back the urge to punch their sensei.
"It's always been this way~!"
"What?!" Yuuji cried in awe.
"What??!" Nobara spat in jealousy.
"I've been cute since I was a kid!" Gojo poked his cheek and gave them a toothy grin.
Nobara didn't believe him.
And Yuuji kept asking for photos. He wanted to see his sensei as a young boy!
"It's true~!!" Gojo laughed his heart out at their suspicion. Since when has he ever lied to them? These kids! (≧▽≦)
Then, Gojo disappears right in front of them for a second.
And they weren't impressed when he popped back in front of them with jazz hands, wagging back and forth a thick, enveloped package. With a laugh, he chucks it to Nobara, telling his disbelievers, "Open it if you think you can handle how cute I was as a kid." He grins at them.
And Nobara hissed. And Yuuji jumped in excitement as his teammate unsealed the envelope.
With a sour frown, as they flipped through the pictures, Nobara was going through them fast - in hopes of finding a stupid ugly photo of her annoying sensei as a kid; chucking the photos to Yuuji next who kept grinning and laughing and skipping beside his giddy sensei, telling him, exclaiming with every picture - you look so cute, sensei!!
I did, right?! Gojo laughed with him and ruffled his hair. And the two idiots just kept skipping and laughing.
This just annoyed Nobara even more.
She couldn't accept how cute her sensei looked!!
How this seemingly laid back, cool, quiet kid morphed into her irritating sensei was beyond her.
"Neh," Yuuji suddenly called out to them, stopping from jumping like a firecracker; when Nobara hands him another picture. His brows knotted, noticing something with the recent photos he was receiving.
Gojo looked over his shoulder to the photograph. And Nobara arched a brow.
"Who's this girl?"
Yuuji held out the printed photo to his sensei. Beside him, Nobara pursed her lips, thinking the girl looked oddly familiar.
"She's been in the pictures for a while now." Yuuji knotted his brows.
"You're right!" Nobara flipped through more photos. "This one has the girl alone!"
She laughed.
"These pictures are just all her now!"
"You never told told us you had an onee-san, sensei!" Yuuji grins up at his sensei. "You're holding hands here! So cute!"
"She's pretty cute, sensei." Nobara conceded. "You both look cute together."
"Sensei?" Yuuji accidentally drops a picture. And Megumi picks it up with a sigh, taking his eyes off his book for once since the three idiots have been causing a stupid scene in the sidewalk.
"Gojo-sensei's an only child." He tells his classmates simply as he hands Yuuji back the picture. "The girl's Iori-sensei..." He awkwardly cast his eyes at his sensei who had been quiet for some time now, himself taken aback, surprised by the photoset.
And Megumi, scratching his head in annoyance, knew exactly why.
"WHAT?!" Nobara and Yuuji cried out and shot through the photos with such determination and speed.
"Why would you have so many pictures of Iori-sensei, Gojo-sensei???!!!"
"Isn't it obvious??!!" Nobara yelled at her stupid, naive classmate. "He obviously had a crush on her!!!!!!"
Suddenly, Gojo starts snickering. And Megumi takes a step back, not wanting to get caught in the mess that was about to unfold.
Then, with one sure tug, Gojo swipes back his pictures.
"What?!" Nobara cried out. "I wasn't done!"
"That's so cute, sensei!!!" Yuuji grinned at him when Gojo also takes his pictures back from Yuuji. "You had a crush on Iori-sensei?"
"I never would've known with how you treat her now!" The red-haired vessel laughed goodheartedly. Beside him, Nobara sneered.
It all suddenly made sense to her now. Why he'd be how he was around Iori-sensei.
She saw nothing but an annoying kouhai crushing on his senpai.
It was pathetic. She frowned up at her sensei.
"If you like her, you should drop the act, sensei." Nobara told Gojo, who she saw frown for a millisecond; before laughing his head off. And slowly, she thought, she was slowly but gradually starting to understand her sensei. "You keep playing around too." She narrowed her eyes at him. "Don't you want to date, Iori-sensei?"
The disappointment on her frown was potent. And, she was about to tell her sensei off more, when Megumi suddenly said;
"They already did." He offered from his book.
And Nobara and Yuuji's eyes snap at him in surprise. And Gojo smacked Megumi's head, teleporting away before the two could hound him.
So, Megumi cursed his quick tongue, so they, the aghast Nobara and the stupefied Yuuji - they hounded and shook and cried into Megumi's ears instead - demanding, demanding!! he tell them every. Single. Thing. He. Knew!!!!
Urgh. Megumi groaned to himself. This is why he told himself to just read his book......
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