→ 𝐀𝐔✨ even with the all seeing six eyes at his disposal, the world's greatest jujutsu sorcerer did NOT see this one coming.
→ written from mar. 2021 to present
Merely a few hours later, a snoring Yūji was rudely awakened by the sound of someone banging on his bedroom door.
"Huh? Fushiguro, what is it?" Yūji groggily got out of bed and opened the door for his guest, only to see Megumi flanked by their third classmate, Nobara Kugisaki. Both looked genuinely alarmed, but it took Yūji a few seconds to put together why they were there together.
"What are those things on the table?!" hissed Nobara, whose usually well-kept orange hair was tangled and hastily pulled back into an awkward little bun. Like her two classmates, Nobara was wearing her pyjamas, which consisted of a matching pink silk top and pants, as well as fluffy pink bunny slippers on her feet. Megumi and Yūji were both wearing the same coloured shirt and shorts, and instinctively moved away from each other upon realising they were matching.
"Fushiguro said that Inumaki-senpai and Panda-senpai were the last ones there," complained Yūji, rubbing his eyes with a loud yawn. "I just thought those were their things, or maybe Maki-senpai's."
"Oh, really? Why would any of them own a car seat, Itadori?! WHY?!"
"Well, who are we to judge- OUCH!"
Yūji was cut off as Nobara grabbed him by the arm and yanked him out of his room, dragging him down the corridor to the shared living space. As they emerged from the hallway, the second-year students were already huddled around the table and ogling out the items in curiosity. Just like the first years, the second years were also still in their pyjamas- if it weren't for the looming threat that the items on the table posed, it could have been a fun morning to take photos of everyone looking like they had just rolled out of bed.
"Morning, everyone!" greeted Yūji, wincing as Nobara released his arm from her grip. "Inumaki-senpai, Panda-senpai, those aren't your things?"
"Nope, not mine."
"Okaka."
"I guess there's only one thing for us to do to find out," said Maki seriously, reaching out and grabbing the cover on top of the car seat. "Everyone, stay alert."
"Got it!"
The students all readied themselves in case of a surprise attack, watching closely as Maki threw the black cover into the air. As Yūji's eyes drifted into the car seat to see what atrocity awaited them, his jaw dropped in complete shock.
"EH?!"
"WHAT?!"
"Tsuna?"
Similar reactions from the other students followed suit, with none of them able to believe their eyes. Nestled comfortably inside the car seat was not a bomb, nor a fledgling curse, nor a decapitated head, as they had all been expecting.
Who would have guessed that inside a car seat, there was...
"A baby?!"
The sleeping infant couldn't have been more than a few months old, and had been wrapped very carefully in a thick, fluffy, white blanket. It was wearing a pastel pink bodysuit decorated with small, yellow sun motifs, and wore a matching hat, mittens, and baby booties. Other than its mysterious appearance in the students' common room, it looked harmless and relatively innocent considering the furor it was causing.
"What the hell?! Who left a baby here?!"
Chaos broke out between the students as they all attempted to make sense of the situation, but none of them were able to come up with a logical explanation.
"What about the bag?! What's in the bag?!"
Yūji leapt forward and undid the main zip on the duffel bag, driven by absolute bewilderment to find answers. It revealed nothing suspicious, and was jam packed with all the essentials required to care for a baby. Diapers, baby wipes, spare clothes, and even a large tin of baby formula- everything you could think of to look after a baby was in there, yet its contents left them with more questions than answers.
"I don't get it," mourned Yūji, pulling at his hair in sheer confusion. "I don't get it!"
"Why didn't you say anything before?!" exclaimed Megumi, reaching out and slapping Yūji on the back. "You didn't tell me that there was a baby on the table! I thought you were talking about leftover food!"
"I didn't know it was a baby either! I thought it might've been a car seat, but then I thought that didn't make sense, so then I thought maybe it was just a weirdly shaped bag that belonged to Inumaki-senpai or Panda-senpai!"
"Are you stupid?!" jumped in Nobara, grabbing Yūji and putting him in a headlock. "Are you seriously STUPID?! You saw this last night and didn't do anything?!"
"Oi, calm down!" called out Maki loudly, reprimanding her juniors as she joined Yūji's side and began to extract items from the bag. "If you're too loud, you might wake it up."
"But, Maki... what if it's not...?" Panda's question earned a hushed silence from his schoolmates, who shared wary glances.
"Have a look." Nobara roughly shoved Yūji forward, breaking the uncomfortable silence and giving him the job that no one else dared to do.
"Kugisaki!" exclaimed Yūji in annoyance, glaring at the brunette over his shoulder. "Why me?!"
"Well, if it's not alive, then we can blame you for not checking when you saw it last night!"
"That's not fair!"
A fresh argument broke out between the students, during the midst of which the baby was finally brought to its senses. Its face contorted in an expression of discomfort as the volume in the room increased, and a few seconds later, it had burst out into a loud cry.
"Shit!" Too little too late, the arguing students all fell silent, yet the baby's shrill cries continued.
"Do we pick it up? Does it need a hug?" asked Panda gruffly, towering over the baby and holding out his arms. Maki shook her head, pinching the bridge of her nose as the first years continued arguing in the back ground.
"Someone get Gojō-sensei," sighed the Zenin, simply aghast by the bizarre circumstances.
The only thing that the students really wanted was the chance to enjoy their summer break, especially since they didn't receive many to begin with.
