Arrogant hearts [ 傲慢な心 ] : Gojo Satoru

Chapter 8

"Y/N!" the voice made you turn to see Gojo coming out of the restaurant, one hand in the pocket the other waving at you.

"oh, Gojo, I almost forgot you were here" You smiled slightly, tilting your head.

"hmm... I think I have too much presence for someone to forget me, you know? I am too handsome to be forgotten" he shrugged with a smirk

you scoffed while playfully rolling your eyes "Sometimes I wonder, how much confidence you carry on with you"

"oh, gosh... you won't even believe how much" he replied in a mock-serious tone. "so? he's your boyfriend? it's quite quick for someone who has zero social skills"

"oh, gosh... you wouldn't know how my social skills go so high when I want something desperately" you replied in the same tone he did.

"you wanted a boyfriend desperately?" he raised an eyebrow.

"Did I?" you asked loudly, trying to change the fact that you almost told him you've never had a relationship.

"well, you said your social skills go high when you want something desperately, sounds like you wanted a boyfriend so bad... and that also sounds like you've never had a boyfriend in a long time" he looked at you intently, trying to catch you if you were trying to lie. "or maybe, never had one" he added.

curse yourself for letting that slip. curse yourself again that you can't lie smoothly.
you cleared your throat while looking at the car park. "well, what I mean is... I do have social skills when I want something... I didn't specifically say what I wanted" You shrugged slightly.

his eyebrows furrowed 'Okay, I'll act like I believe it' he thought to himself. "you still didn't answer me though? Was that your boyfriend?" Gojo asked. he couldn't believe all this doll-up was for someone so normal, and not for someone special like himself.

"he's m-" you cut yourself, remembering how Gojo was your senpai, even though you liked it or not... you should always follow in their footsteps... you looked at him and smiled cheekily "No comment" 

his eyes were wide waiting for your answer, and when he heard your answer... he sighed while closing his eyes "Well, at least you are learning something from me" he smiled slightly.

you chuckled "I wanted to do that for some time now" his eyes softened as he saw you laughing, genuinely, it seemed so, so real.

"I can see that" he replied, acting all high and mighty "You are a good Kouhai, you should consider yourself lucky to have someone like me as your senpai, Y/N"  

you nodded eagerly, mockingly "True, true words" 

he laughed as he watched you nod "Fine, at least tell me that guy's name?" he smiled, acting like he wasn't thinking about paying the guy a small visit.

"Watanabe Akio, why do you even need his name?" 

"uh... he wasn't that handsome" he shrugged, not knowing what he should say.

"The what?" you looked at him, raising an eyebrow "He's handsome, the most handsome guy I've seen after coming to Japan"

"wow, you are such a liar" he replied after leaning in closer to your face with a smirk "I am the most handsome you saw after returning"

controlling your cursed energy, you placed a finger on his forehead while pushing him back gently. you noticed again... your heartbeat was normal. "I do not want to say 'yes' to that, but it's true, yeah, he was second handsome" You shook your head slightly with a small smile

he took a deep breath as he straightened his posture again. 'you don't know how good it felt to hear that from that pretty mouth of yours' he thought while looking at you with half-lidded eyes, a seductive gaze, which you returned, adding a small smile.

"good, you should agree, it's like so obvious" he shrugged, his gaze returning to normal.

"Anyway, why are you here alone here? I don't know why a handsome guy like you came to such a fancy restaurant alone" you asked, while crossing your arms as you looked around for any sign of Ijichi-san.

he sighed softly "You see, I have so much money to spend... so I just come to restaurants like these to eat when I have nothing better to do" he replied in a calm and serious tone, though it was laced with a hint of playfulness.

"ah, right" you mumbled, uninterested by his income.

"come on, don't be like that," he said with a fake pout "What are you looking at?" he asked, seeing your interest was not at him, but at the carpark

"Hm?" you looked at him, "Ijichi-san told me he'll be here by now, I wonder why he's this late"

"ah! That's what it is" he smiled, he had threatened Ijichi to be late, of course, knowing you only had contacts with Ijichi for an assistant supervisor. "I wonder" he added, "why don't try texting him?" 

you nodded and texted him asking how long it would take for him, and he replied saying the traffic was bad and it would take time... you sighed. "I feel bad for even asking him to do these personal stuff of mine" you mumbled

 "no, it's fine" Gojo replied 

"don't act like you are in his place," you said with a sour face. 

"hm? he agreed to do it because he was free today" Gojo shrugged

"tch," you looked away.

"How old was that, Watanabe?" he asked, making you look back at him 

"you sound so interested in him, I hope you don't pull off anything," you said with a small frown

"I won't," he said with a serious tone "At the moment" he added with a smile

"no, I don't know his age, but I think he is younger than me" you shrugged

"so he's not your boyfriend..." he muttered to himself, he knew it wasn't possible for you having contacts with someone from Japan while being in the US... specially someone who's a non-sorcerer. and even if it's someone from your middle school or someone from your childhood, you couldn't get someone's contact information that quickly, and that Watanabe and you looked so awkward at first...

"huh?" you looked at him with a small frown "I shouldn't have answered you"

he laughed softly "and... that means you and Nanami is not in a relationship either"

"and how did you deduct that, Sherlock?" 

"my dear Watson, if that Nanami and you are a thing, you wouldn't go out with the guy in the first place" he smiled 

"ah, yeah, right..." you were a little, a tiny bit impressed with his deduction "but what if I am cheating on Nanami?" you smirked

"you are not the type to do that" he replied simply with a shrug.

"what do you know about me?" you looked up at the sky, with a small sigh, a small smile playing on your lips

"and you wouldn't come out to eat with Watanabe if Nanami was your boyfriend"

you looked at him "that's true" you nodded.

"will you tell me who he is now then?" he smiled

"my mom forced me to go on a blind date with him, I didn't expect him to be good looking though, I didn't have any excuse to turn him down... 1 point to mom this time" you chuckled 

"didn't have any excuse?" he asked, tilting his head slightly "make one"

"huh?" you raised an eyebrow "what do you mean?"

"make an excuse" he said, looking down at you, his sunglasses sliding down to his nose.  "if you really don't want to date, you would make something up..." he added 

"I guess that's true" you nodded... "maybe I like the guy"

Gojo held you by your shoulders gently while looking deep into your eyes.