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Nanami has to exorcise a curse as his test for his grade evaluation and gojo is the one supervising him. Nanami kento present grade 2 sorcerer and 2nd year student at Jujutsu high school completed his mission successfully and exorcised/defeated two grade two and semi grade one curses without any hitch but before nanami could pull himself out of the place the residuals of one curse which was the size of a baseball bat fell on Kento and rubbed off on him before he could get rid of it, like usual he just sighed and he treaded towards the exit where he saw his senpai. Finally, he took a sigh of relief as this was the conclusion of his assessment . Nanami dropped his weapon and following the suite he fell on the ground everything getting blurry infront of him, the last thing he heard was his senior calling his name. Shit he fell unconcious hell with everything.
Gojo ran towards him, "no no no don't go dying on me now nanami" he caught up on him before he could hit the ground, holding him up with difficulty he moved towards the manager who was waiting for them in the car.
Nanami woke up to the whispering noises, pungent smell of antiseptics he knew where he was,so he tried to wiggle his fingers but sudden surge of pain ran through his left hand and shoulder he might have injured it when he fell down, he absentmidedly moved his hand and hissed which caused the people at the other corner turn their head and in an instance they were over his shoulder, giving him concerning looks. It was Haibara who asked him first,
"Are feeling alright kento, you scared us it's been more than three hours but you were still out of it." Yu said exasperated and worried.
"He is fine now, it was mostly due to sleep deprivation and overwork. he'll be all right after some rest. I've asked Yaga sensei to put him off the duty for at least two days" Shoko said.
"Yeah make sure to get some rest now nanami-kun" Geto said with his usual charming smile.
Nanami listened them in silence while his mind was wandering around the third senior excluding geto and shoko, why was he not saying anything?, he looked at him and the other boy was already looking at him, their eyes met,
'Ah those shinny ocean blue eyes if only he could tell him, the hold those eyes had on kento, how he had been slave of them since he first met those precious, limitless eyes, what would happen than?'
To his utter surprise his senior who always had anything to say no matter how superfluous was astonishingly quite, why? and he stayed that way until all of them left nanami so he could get some rest before leaving for dorm.
For the first time nanami had trouble falling asleep, his body was hurting and sore but he still couldn't sleep, his mind wandering again and again thinking about those white locks and with every passing second they got more unreachable, exhausted he finally landed into the valley of sleep to dream again of the beauty he couldn't touch.
After his days off he came back and everything went just normal except for one change, gojo was not teasing him anymore, more like avoiding him whenever and where ever he could.
Nanami tried to brush it off at first but it was a drastic change in his senior' attitude especially how much he loved teasing him, he couldn't ignore it anymore. It wounded him more than he could imagine. Kento was aware of his crush on his senior but he was also very aware of how gojo would not be interested in him so kept this secret to himself not even sharing with Yu, and he shared almost everything with him after he opened up to him.
So, Nanami decided to take the leap of faith and ask gojo directly the cause of his disregard. And he found the oppurtunity the very next day after they were leaving the training hall.
"Gojo senpai, did I offend You the other day while I was out of it" he asked flatly.
It tool a minute for gojo to decipher it all and find his footing "No, why would you think that?" he questioned him
"Was it anything else?, Did I puke on you, cuz I remember the curse which fell on me, made me nauseous."
"Asbolutely not" the other boy retorted.
Now kento was anxious if it was not any of these than there is only one thing that could have happened he thought, and he himself had no idea why he thought so or maybe he was hoping that it had happened.
"Did I tell you I like?" he bit his tongue, 'dammit' and gojo' mouth was hung open at the declaration he didn't even try to close it.
"So that was it you might have been disgusted right, some one weak like me with no background confessing to you, I apologize for causing you discomfort senpai I never intended to tell you any of it but.."
Gojo cut him off mid sentence, "wait a minute I never looked down on you and never have I ever thought you were weak, you did not do anything to offend me and never did you confess you like me, It was just me, I was mad at myself I couldn't help you and you were unconcious for almost three hours. It was all so tough for me, what if you never wake up and felt so stupid and powerless." gojo kept on ranting for a while and suddenly he had this revelation.
"Nanami you like me?"
"Ah yeah I guess now that the cat is out of the bag no need hiding it."
"Oh my goodness", gojo laughed and kento just stared at him.
"what"
"Haha nothing, nothing at all that you need to worryy my dear kohai" and he ruffled his hair and unexpectedly his junior didn't censure him for that.
"But you can just ignore this conversation I guess we are fine now, right?" kento asked.
"Yeah we are completely and positvely clear on that", he chuckled "just one more nanami I like you too, actually maybe more than you do." he said while getting so close that tips of their noses brushed against each other.
nananmi took few steps back instinctively, "No you don't, and you are not serious right?"
"I'm as serious as dead man" he smirked
Nanami' expression twisted into dislike at his senior' dead humor
"So can I ask out you out on a date?"
Kento wasn't even sure about this whole thing yet and getting asked out by his crush, sure he was on cloud nine right now but he still wanted to be sure it was not just his wild imagination or a dream
He stepped forward and stood head to head with his senior and leaned in forward," can I kiss you"
"Huh" and gojo noded.
Nanami tilted his head slightly, placing his lips soflty on the oh so soft lips of the other guy and pecking them gently he moved back, slowly treading far "This Friday after school sounds good to me, make sure to pick me up."
Nanami was no where to be found when Gojo cameback to reality from his trance and played every scene in his mind about what just happened. Realising he will be going out with Kento and this soon, he touched his lips absentmindedly, 'it wasn't even a proper kiss' and smiled well he will have plenty of time and kisses for now he wants to make sure he and nanami has the best date ever and obviously he had to share this with his friends who have been listening to his lovestruck whining.
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It was a very familiar white ceiling
"Kento, hey can you hear me?, Shoko he's up", the man sitting beside him spoke hastily.
"Stop throwing tantrum in my clinic", Shoko said irraitated at the sudden outburst of noise, taking one last darg of cigarette and moved closer while putting it out. After examining her patient carefully she prescribed him with mild pain killers and rest.
"Are you sure he is alright, no other lingering effects?" Gojo asked in a panic-striken tone.
"Don't make me repeat myself Saturo" Shoko chided him.
"Kento look at me, you don't feel any pain or discomfort anywhere right?, you hit your head with the pole pretty hard" Gojo said while caressing his hair and softly touching slightly raised surface on right side of his head.
Nanami felt his heart swell even after all these year this unearthly and elegantly beautiful man was same, perturbed about this whole situation even though they go through this on daily basis. He felt so thankful and proud simultanously for taking the leap of faith and giving them chance ignoring the facts that how they are both polar opposite of each other and how the other man iso so full of himself, nothing stopped them. Kento even finds his objectionable actions adorable sometimes, of cousre he will never tell this to his lover it' his secret.
"I'm fine Saturo. I just want to go home rest in peace " as he said that he tried tried getting up while continuing his sentence " although I did miss you and would like look at pretty face and listen to all your whining while holding you but I'm tired".
Gojo looked at him and at shoko and than again at him, confused " you know we are still at clinic, I knew something was wrong you must still be going through some post excorsism consequences, don't get up"
I'm extremly delerious due to drugs to worry about my surrounding and too old to feel embarrased to beside that I'm fine, are you going to help me or not?" he asked.
If it was another ocassion gojo would be grinning from ear to ear, kento being so bold about them was not a sight that could be witnessed easily, though he could be very expressive person in private. So, gojo just sufficed at a small smile
"If you say so, but what if it gets serious when we get home?"
"we'll see" nananmi said looking at shoko asking for her words.
"Yeah I think nanami is right there is nothing to worry about" she said "now leave both of you"
"okay hold tight now" gojo held nanami firmly so he can warp them and with blink of an eye they disappeared leaving the medic behind.
She sighed and shrugged her shoulders while mumbling to herself " nothing they can't handle afterall they have dealt with it before" and busied herself with her new research on new specimen she recieved the other day.