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It was the 20th of April, Ijichi’s birthday. No he didn't get an off day, he was at Jujutsu High, Yuji and the other students decided to get Ijichi a cake and a few presents but nothing too big, Ijichi appreciated the nice gestures.
Ijichi didn't really get the time to celebrate his birthday anymore, his work was too demanding, especially working with Gojo. He thought his birthday was going to be the same as all the others, some of the students would remember it maybe and wish him a good birthday same with his coworkers.
But it wasn't just the same old birthday today, as he learned later on…
It was 3 pm in the breakroom, Ijichi was enjoying the cake the kids got for him. It wasn't a big cake, it was just a medium chocolate cake with the words “Happy birthday” written on it.
Ijichi didn't eat sweets often but chocolate was his favorite, he didn’t have sweets often because of Gojo, and he would take any sweets he saw. So Ijichi savored his cake. He had a moment of peace for a while… until Gojo walked in… “Heyyy Ijichi!” The taller man said with a shrill voice. Ijichi grew to hate and dread his voice, it either meant Gojo wanted something or wanted to pester him, sometimes it would be both. Ijichi shut his eyes in annoyance. He already felt a slight headache coming on, he opened them back up and slowly turned to look up at Gojo already standing in front of him. “...What, is it Gojo?” Ijichi spoke with a soft monotone voice. He didn’t want to make his current mood known, Gojo would’ve just laughed.
“I remembered your birthday! And I got you something!” Gojo said with a piercing smile.
This was probably the first time in a long long time Gojo even thought about giving Ijichi something, let alone a long time since he gave him something. “You got me something, Gojo-san?” He said in a confused tone. Gojo nodded. Ijichi noticed he had something behind his back. Ijichi was fully expecting a forehead flick, and that was his gift, but that wasn’t the case.
As Gojo revealed what was behind his back was a tray of brownies, revealed with a smile on Gojo’s face. Ijichi was surprised by an actual gift, he smiled slightly. “W-Whoa Gojo-san, this is actually nice of you to give to me, I love chocolate.” he said, reaching his hands out towards the tray to grab from Gojo, but Gojo held onto it even as Ijichi’s hands were under it. “I do need to make a note…” Gojo said slowly. Ijichi went back to being confused, he was slightly worried too.
“These brownies are made with something… Special if you know what I mean…” Gojo said with a chuckle. Ijichi frowned, his eyebrows lowered. He sighed “They’re not made with a laxative are they?” “GOD NO, WHO OR WHAT DO YOU THINK I AM IJICHI!?” He said offended with a shout. It caused Ijichi to flinch a little. “They’re actually made with… um…” Gojo slowly moved closer to Ijichi’s ear, holding his hand in front of his mouth to make sure it reached his ear only.
“They’re made with weed.” Ijichi’s eyes widened in shock.
“Weed!? On school grounds!? Are you crazy Gojo-sa-” he said, being shut up by Gojo who put a hand on Ijichi’s mouth. “Listen, just stay in here and eat them. I promise you won’t get in trouble. And please keep your voice down.”
Ijichi nodded as Gojo released his hand from his mouth. “A-and if I don’t like them?” Ijichi asked a bit more calmly. “Then I’ll eat them. I actually cook these on almost every 4/20 for myself. I just thought maybe this time I’d share with someone, and since your birthday happened to be on 4/20… My first weed sharing partner should be you.” He said with a grin.
“B-but even if I did, using non medical weed is illegal in Japan! If we got caught w-we could-”
Ijichi said, but he was stopped by Gojo’s finger pressing against his lips in a shush manner.
“Again, be quiet about it and do it in this room, it’s perfectly harmless and it’s in brownies for a reason… And honestly who the fuck cares? It’s just a plant.” Gojo said with a laugh.
“Hell maybe if you do like them, Shoko could join in on 4/20 as well, someday. It might even help her nicotine addiction too.” he said looking up thinking as he headed towards the door.
Ijichi looked down at the brownies. Ijichi was a simple guy, well mannered, he didn’t get to do anything out there, either because he didn’t want to or couldn’t because of his position. And weed was definitely one of the things he couldn’t do. Well now that he’s off, he wondered how it would feel, it is perfectly fine to be adventurous once in a while…
“Well I’ll leave you two alone…” Gojo smirked, referring to the brownies and Ijichi. “I’ll be back much later to see how it goes. Bye bye!”
Gojo left chuckling to himself as he left.
Ijichi put the brownies down at the counter, they were already cut and nine in total. He looked around and listened if there was anyone coming or if anyone was entering the room, no one was around and it was completely quiet, Ijichi felt safe enough to take a brownie and sit down.
He drew his mouth near the brownie for a nibble still feeling slightly afraid, he bit off a small piece, It tasted sweet, and was pretty pretty good surprisingly, who knew Gojo could make decent brownies, he usually has other people get sweets or food, so one could assume he couldn’t make something that good.
He took a few more bites till the brownie was halved, about twenty minutes later he started to feel… something. He was standing up checking his emails on his phone when he started to feel it coming on, he felt thirsty so he got a cup of water and decided to sit down, he was sweating slightly, he took a few more sips of his water whilst he rubbed off beads of sweat off his forehead. He was trying to check his phone, but it seems he couldn’t focus too well on the words in the messages and emails, so he decided to just look at his photos, check his social timelines at times. He decided to get the half eaten brownie and ate the rest of it, and then started eating half of another brownie. At this point he felt lazy, giggly, and non-verbal, as he went to sit back down in the chair he sank into it’s comfort like a rock, the other half of the first brownie seemed to be hitting too.
He checked his emails again deciding to respond to one from Yaga, he tried to type something coherent something along the lines of “Yes Yaga, I’ll get to it” but when he tried to format his words into text all that was typed was “yeag”
And then sent.
Ijichi put his phone down, took off his glasses, and stared off into space, thinking of random things and giggling to himself about them, things Gojo did or said to him, things the kids say or do at times…
His anxiety and worries all drained away, this was probably the most stress free he’s felt in so so very long, his brain was in a field of summer grass rolling and blue skies with birds.
He felt so happy at this moment in time, he started tearing up a small bit with a smile.
He managed to get up and get the other half of the brownie and eat it, then went for another brownie and ate it whole. He ate three brownies out of nine so far. He was deflated on the chair at this point, bloodshot eyes, spacing out, couldn’t even move, he was very high, too high, but there was nothing to worry about, he wasn’t in pain, just mega high.
This was in the span of an hour or so,
Eventually Gojo returned. “Ijichiiii, soo… How’s the brownies-” He spoke, then suddenly cut himself off, surprised about how high Ijichi became. Gojo quickly looked at the tray of brownies seeing there was six left now, “Ijichi… you ate fucking three of them?” Gojo said with a concerned tone of voice, and concerned look.
Ijichi just looked up at him, with a stupid grin on his face. “I did Gojo-san…” he said with a giggle at the end. “You’re like, mega high now, why did you eat that many?!”
“I just got hungry, very hungry” he said, his head towards the ceiling.
“Ijichi, you were supposed to eat half of one brownie… Hell that’s enough to get me high!”
Gojo said, shouting lightly. “I-I was? I just got super hungry when I ate half… then I ate the other half… then I ate two more.” Ijichi giggled.
Gojo went to the fridge to get a water bottle for Ijichi, walking over to him and throwing it into his hand. “Please drink water, you must be very thirsty by now” Gojo chuckled slightly.
He sat in the chair next to him, looking down at the floor giggling. “Soo, do you like getting high?” Gojo said, looking at Ijichi. “A little maybe…” he said giggling again. “Well the next time you try them, promise to only eat half, because you get wayyy too high eating three.” Gojo said smiling. “I will Gojo-san… I should probably bring food the next time I do.” Ijichi said with a stupid grin on his face. “Well that’s that…” Gojo said walking out of the room, as he was, he took a glance at Ijichi’s phone. “And hopefully whatever you sent in those emails wasn’t too embarrassing…” Gojo chuckled as he left the room.