old fashioned lover boy | megumi fushiguro

chapter 6 ​1⁄2 : special ( ｡>⤙ <｡ ）

His legs shook impatiently on the cold glass tiles, the smell of the hospital filling his lungs everytime he took a breath. Megumi sighed, glancing at the clock back and forth in a constant pattern. He switched from the clock to his phone to his watch, over and over again, grunting at the clock's hands as they took a step further.

Great, I missed it, her birthday, he rumbled inside, sinking his face into his pale palms, then looking up at the hospital bed where his bedridden sister was resting, her hands laid flat on her stomach, her breaths were almost unheard.

I hope she recieved the flowers, does she even like roses?

I wish I could see it in person..but on the bright side, maybe it's good chance after all, to catch up with Tsumiki.

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Due to an unfortunate slip-up, Megumi ended up spending the girl's birthday in his sister's hospital room, which isn't anything bad, only that it was a false alarm and his sister was still unfazed, lying there with a smile upon her face.

He began speaking with these weird mutters, almost like ranting to his sister, "Ijichi-san thought you were unwell so I rushed here, sorry it's so sudden, but it was a false alarm. I'm glad that you're fine, but...I missed a birthday of someone whom I care for. No-no, not a lover or something..like, it's complicated," he said, with frantic breaths and pauses in between, "That guy, really. Oh right, let me tell you about this girl, big sister. We've got quite some time today after all."

As usual, his sister didn't react, she was still bedridden, as it has been for a while now. No meeting would make a difference, and it was still him alone in that scary hospital room.

Megumi took a deep breath and slipped his watch off on the table, taking hopeful glancea at his sister. She was in a deep sleep, and he hesitated too even though she wasn't awake since saying these things out loud was a big deal.

"She..she's a classmate of mine at Jujutsu High. Not that tall and looks pretty quiet and kind. But boy...when you get to know her..she can be pretty tough and loud! She gets along well with everyone, when I mean everyone, I mean..the teachers, everyone from Tokyo and Kyoto, even people we meet on our misions and strangers,"he started to force these words out, but before this loverboy noticed, he got carried away with his words.

On and on and on, went his list of things he loved about her.

1 : " This girl, she has silky brown hair, like yours! It's mesmerizing really, how she..she styles them everyday, it's so...elegant? And these brown eyes of hers, its shade's the same as honey or almond, you would get lost in them..you know..if you stared for too long."

2 : "She's not as crazy as Itadori, you know that guy I told you about before, about saving people. She got this strong sense of justice...but she knows well, that you can't save everyone. But she tries, she really does.."

3 : "Her personality. It's so addicting and relieving. Talking to her, your stress will go with the wind. I love talking to her, and I know you will too.I don't know how she does it..I mean...no one does, it's her spell."

4 : "The way she's in battle. You have to see it sometime, her hair flows in the wind and her weaponery's swift and skillful, it's breath-taking, I love how she's merciless to curses, but holds back with our upperclassmen, it's not good to do so but she cares so much."

5 : "She's so observant, she knows things about me I don't even know myself. She would surprise us all with things we like...things we never directly told her about! She's crazy careful and kind, I just can't get enough, to be blunt..."

Those were the reasons, well not all of them, it's not even a tad bit of his list, the few reasons why he had fallen for her, this particular girl.

"Oh, and did I forget to mention her name? Remember this, sis, I'd love for you to meet her, when you wake up, so please do....stupid sister. It's Yuki. Chihara Yuki," he smiled.

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"I-I even..I even told the moon about her, Tsumiki."

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He whispered and getting all flustered up. What am I even saying, he rubbed his eyes with great pressure.

His head slammed on the side table, before ending the sentence abruptly as a rushed and paced Ijichi stormed into the room, catching a glimpse of his final words, the guy peered his head through the room's door and asked, "What about Yuki-chan? Megumi-kun?"

The boy flinched, and almost falling on his back. Holding on to his metal chair for balance, he snapped at his senior, "Ijichi-san, what was that for?"

"Sorry for interupting your conversation with Tsumiki-san, Megumi-kun. That seemed quite important I believe!" winked the glasses guy as he got a glare from the uniformed raven, "Anyways, the hospital just informed me about her situation, seems like she's doing just fine, though, there's still no sign of her breaking out of that coma. This morning there was a shut down in one of the devices, but it should be fine now."

Megumi let out a breath of relief and laid back on his chair, "Ah, yes, my sister. Thank goodness, thank you Ijichi-san. I got here as fast as I could."

"Tsumiki-san seems to be just fine, don't worry! We had the doctors come in for check-ups, you really shouldn't worry and stayed at the school. It's dangerous."

"Ijichi-san it's fine. She's my sister and I'm responsible, after all."

The guy informed him once again, "You should return to the school now, due to the teachers' demands. Just go, she's doing great. If she wakes up, I'll call you straight away."

"Thanks, I appreciate it a lot."

His phone dinged, and a notification popped up on the screen.

From Yuki : Thanks for the flowers, I really love them!

The corner of his lips curved, as he locked the phone and dropped in inside his pockets once again.

"I feel really bad for making you miss Yuki-chan's birthday because of a mechanical mistake, anything you want to do or go before going back?"

"Sushi, sweets, maybe gift-shopping for her maybe?"

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A trip to ensure his sister's safety was more than enough to lift the weight of his shoulders, as he believed that she'll definitely..wake up.

"No,no, I'm good," he smiled with his eye genuinely relaxed eyes, "I know just what I want to do when I return."

To return to Yuki's smile and see her with the gift, of course. I mean, where else as relaxing could he possibly prefer?

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*author's note

thanks for reading this far! i included tsumiki because i loved seeing her in the anime! episode 23 had me shook. she's so pretty also, and her story's mad interesting!

- miu