Annoying At Its Finest

fourteen

"Hey," Shoko said, "did something happen?"

Utahime sat down on her seat and flipped through her notebook containing notes for her lessons. "Nothing."

"Satoru is moping."

"Moping?"

"He came to my office today and sat down. I thought he was going to go on and on about something nonsense, but he asked me if you were mad at me."

Her hand stopped. "You?"

"Yeah. I said no, and he groaned. He said that you may have been only mad at him."

"What? Of course, I'm mad at him. What did his stupid mind made up to ask that?"

"So, something did happen."

She leaned back on her chair and sighed. "We went to this wedding. Then he made all this jokes about marriage. It was just so... infuriating."

"So? He's always like that. What's so unique about this particular event?"

It was really a complicated thought process of why she actually was mad. She laid in bed last night, replaying what happened over and over again. To others, it may just be him messing around, but to her, it has a different effect.

"Short answer is he seems to not take relationships seriously."

Long answer is that he was making her feel that their relationship was just surface-level. Like there's no depth. Marriages are a very serious serious commitment, and he freely messed around. What's worse is that he joked about proposing. Overall, it made her feel that he wasn't serious.

Specifically, she was reminded he wasn't serious about relationships.

Ever since she agreed to date him, she never regretted it. Full of doubts, yes, but there wasn't regret. Over time, he was fun to be with. All those kisses they shared was sweet. All those moments she's with him felt happy. But all that was distracting.

Yesterday, she felt all those doubts combine and made her feel dumb to ever dating him.

And the worst thing is that she's in love with that idiot. If someone you're in love with, jokes about proposing, it'll maddening enough to break up. She wasn't even thinking of getting married before, but attending that wedding made her think.

She was ashamed to think of that. Her gut was right, they shouldn't have gone to the wedding. She was worried of bringing him to this lovey-dovey event, but turns out that she was the one that was absorbed in the vibe.

"You didn't break up?"

That settled on her ears oddly.

"I think... no, we did."

"Why didn't you just say that earlier?"

"I don't know."

Gojo Satoru, the strongest sorcerer and the teacher of promising students, was laying with his head buried in his pillows. He didn't bother greeting the guests who just entered his home.

"Gojo-sensei," Yuuji's cheerfulness rang throughout the quiet place.

"Where is that tall idiot?" Maki's voice followed.

"Why is there a ton of jewelry here? This is women's jewelry, is this mine?" Nobara asked.

"It's probably for Iori-sensei, right?" Yuuji asked.

"What!? They're together?" Maki asked. She seemed to be late on news. Last time she missed something this big was when Itadori "died." Panda and Inumaki is probably messing with her at this point.

"With how he's been lately, something might have happened," Nobara replied.

"He was annoyingly quiet at some point throughout the day. It was so strange." Yuuji's voice grew closer to his room.

"Gojo-sensei, you there?" he asked just right outside the door.

It opened a few seconds later with Maki's hand on the doorknob. "Hey, you! Why was I not informed that you were in a relationship with a very respectable teacher?"

"I'm not."

"You broke up!?" Nobara asked in surprise. Maki groaned and whispered, "Just when I found out, dang it, didn't even get to tease him."

"You three are noisy," he grumbled.

"Gojo-sensei, are you okay?" Sweet and warm ball of sunshine Itadori Yuuji to the rescue.

"You dolt, what do you think?" Nobara rolled her eyes.

"I'm sorry!?" He was confused why she was mad and blurted out an apology.

"This is not a good color on you, Gojo-sensei," Maki commented.

Another voice joined the conversation, Megumi walked inside his room. "Why did you leave the front door open?"

"Wow, Gojo-sensei's room is so tidy! Is it Iori-sensei's arrangement?" Panda asked and looked around.

"Panda! Why didn't you tell me they were dating?" Maki fired at the animal. Panda laughed and ran away with Inumaki following him. They were both in on this.

Three first years were now left inside the room.

"They broke up, Fushiguro," Yuuji whispered.

"Saw that coming."

"Mean!"

"Gojo-sensei!" Nobara yelled and stood beside his bed. "Stop moping around and do something! You're like a dead plant."

"Kugisaki, soften your words!" Yuuji advised.

"Gojo-sensei," Megumi called, "Kugisaki is right. You can't be like this forever."

"I'll take you on that bed, Megumi," Gojo replied with muffled voice.

"Can you even breathe laying like that?" Nobara asked.

"Do you want the principal to call Utahime-san because of you being like this?" Megumi crossed his arms. Nobara kept poke Gojo's back, and Yuuji was panicking.

"Don't call her."

"I said the principal, not me."

"Tell him to not call her."

"I will not because you being like this is annoying."

"Oh, what is this?" Nobara stopped poking him and turned to him. "Is this how you show your care, Fushiguro?"

"Is poking his back endlessly your way then?" Megumi glared at her teasing.

"How subtle, Fushiguro, is that your style?" Yuuji joined in.

"I will kick you off this floor."

Nobara stood beside Itadori and smirked. "Tsk tsk, this is a really cute side of you, how did you not show it any sooner?"

Yuuji nodded, "It was really shocking."

"Panda!" Maki yelled from afar. But a voice, again, joined in. "Maki-san! Don't kill Panda!" It was the popular Okkotsu Yuuta.