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“So you pretty much adopted the sorcerer killer’s kids?” Geto asks, looking at the white haired idiot in front of him like he might actually be completely insane.
“Basically. Although it’s more like we did cuz once I can convince them to live with me they’ll move into the apartment with us! We’ll all be one big happy family!” Gojo says, grinning wildly under the dumbfounded gazes of the pair.
“ Huh? ” Shoko and Geto respond at the same time.
“Well obviously I don’t want them living on their own, they’re practically babies. But I figured both for safety and everything this wouldn’t be a bad place. And that way there’s always someone around to watch them.”
“And you didn’t think to ask us first?” Shoko leans in with a glare, cigarette dangling from her fingers.
“Well uh it all happened so fast, and I figured you two would be fine with it because well we love helping those in need! Right?” Gojo cheers and shrinks under their glares. “...and because I’ll owe you guys some favors?”
The duo share a look and after a moment both let out a sigh, immediately prompting Gojo to cheer. “You need to give us actual advance notice before we need to watch them then, since I’m assuming you were gonna ask about that next, right?”
He nods, smiling widely at the pair. “Of course! This is gonna be great! You’ll love them! In facttt, they should be getting out of school soon so we should get going!”
He’s practically pushing them out the door, the pair groaning at the suddenness and forcefulness of Gojo.
“Satoru you could’ve warned us we’d be meeting them now ” Geto sighs, his loose hair bouncing from the movement while Shoko breathes out smoke from her cigarette, already resigned to going along with it.
“Yeah but where’s the fun in that? I’m providing a fun surprise!”
“Mhm, sure you are.”
Gojo leads their group to the school to pick up the siblings, ignoring the groans and complaints of his friends, although even with his normal energetic and aloof personality they can tell he’s anxious about everything, and that anxiety is only increasing the closer it gets to the end of the school day. Gojo animatedly waves and greets two dark haired children once they enter his vision, one girl and one spiky haired younger boy, who looks perpetually grumpy. He looks even more annoyed when Gojo leads the pair to where Geto and Shoko are waiting.
“Tsumiki and Megumi, I’d like you to meet my friends, Suguru and Shoko!” He proudly exclaims, shaking his hands and kneeling to add to the presentation. Tsumiki giggles, amused by the man as always, and walks over to introduce herself. She’s clearly the more open of the two and seemingly a polar opposite of her brother.
Meanwhile Megumi rolls his eyes and lets out a sigh that no six year old should need to be holding, which amuses Shoko even more. He offers a short wave in greeting and moves his glare to Gojo, very unamused with his antics. “At least tell me they aren’t as dumb as you?”
Geto and Shoko burst out laughing at the abrupt insult while Gojo holds his chest in mock pain and then whines to the others. “Heyyyy you guys are supposed to be on my sideeeee”
“Sorry Satoru, but can you blame us? And it’s Megumi right?” Geto grins and asks, turning his gaze to the boy, which gets a half nod in response. “Well Megumi, we’re much smarter than him so no need to worry!”
Shoko nods in agreement and Megumi surprisingly gives them a half smile while Gojo whines some more about getting ganged up on by the three of them. “Tsumiki is the only nice oneeee, she doesn’t hurt my feelings like you bullies.”
He wraps his arms around the girl, pulling her into a big hug which makes her laugh and nod in agreement. Gojo rocks them side to side in the hug and continues to whine. “That’s it, extra dessert for Tsumiki tonight!”
“That’s not fair!” Megumi groans while his sister cheers, still eyeing everyone but Tsumiki warily, unsure of what to make of the new people and clearly just annoyed with Gojo.
“Fineeee Megumi you can have it too…IF I get a hug.”
“Absolutely not.”
“Pleaseeee, just a quick one?”
“ No,” He grumbles, smacking away Gojo’s hand while Shoko and Geto are cackling with laughter in the background.
“Anywaysss, you guys hungry?” Tsumiki nods and Megumi just shrugs while Gojo grabs their hands (Megumi tries and fails to get free of the man’s grip), and the group heads to get something to eat, Geto and Shoko sharing an amused and knowing look while they follow behind.
Later that night, after dinner and messing around the house, the siblings are fast asleep while the trio lounges around the kitchen, chatting idly.
“So, what do you guys think?” He asks after a bit of silence, uncharacteristically nervous still.
“They’re actually great, and Tsumiki is very sweet,” Geto hums.
“And Megumi hates you so we can bond over that,” Shoko teases, the pair sharing a look as Gojo lets himself sag in relief, shoulders loosening for the first time all day.
“Yeahhh, I’ve been slowly working on that but as you can tell he’s not much of a fan yet. The kid is tough though, and he really cares about his sister. Wary of everything too, but I mean I’m sure you could tell. They haven’t exactly had it easy. But I really wanna be there for them, make sure they have everything they could need, that sorta thing.”
Shoko hums at the show of sincerity and leans back against the wall. “Good thing you have the pockets for that haha. Although I’ll also assume they have not taken you up on your offers to buy a lot for them yet hm?” Gojo nods again so she continues. “I’m sure they’ll come around more and more. Plus Tsumiki really likes you already, which is also a plus for getting to Megumi. But either way, I think you’re doing well so far. It's not easy being a parent, especially when you’re a high schooler.”
“And now you’ll have us to help you out, so it’ll get easier. But if you surprise us with another adoption ever again we’ll hurt you Satoru,” Geto smirks and Gojo grins up at the pair, eyes peeking out from his glasses and sparkling happily as he rocks his chair against the table.
“I’ll do my best, but no promise haha. And thank you guys for this, it really does mean a lot,” He cheers quietly so he doesn’t wake up the kids, hopping up to wrap them both in a hug before they can avoid it. “Big, happy family, just like I said!”
They both hug him back and the trio stand there for a moment, enjoying each other’s presence.
“You told Yaga yet?”
“Nope!”