Better with you - Gojo x Geto

Chapter 8

-Gojo POV-

As I put the washcloth on a sick Suguru, I grab a chair from his desk so that I can sit beside him and take care of him. I don't have much experience with taking care of people. When I got sick as a kid, my mom would pat my head and make me food, that was all I could remember. Well, some easy to digest food was a good start.

I head into Suguru's small kitchen and look up a recipe for chicken noodle soup. Even though it's something really simple, I know he likes it as sometimes when we go out for lunch, he orders it. As I'm gathering up all the ingredients (Which I'm surprised he has) I decide to also make him some tea. Suguru always drank tea, like a habit. Everyday when he would come back and I would be hanging out with him, he would drink some.

I put all the various ingredients into the pot with the chicken broth, and start mixing. This is definetely not a 5 star meal, but It's something comforting for him. After I'm done cooking the soup and making the tea (Egyptian licorice mint) which takes about 20 mins, I bring all of it to him. "Suguru?" I whisper. "Suguru wake up. I made you some food." I say, slightly louder. He opens his eyes the tiniest bit and looks really unwell.

"Ehhhhh?" He mumbles. "Satoru? That you? Isn't there school?" Suguru says quietly. "Yes, but I'm here to take care of you Suguru. You're clearly really sick. I made you some food." He nods in confirmation. Normally, he would tell me that I don't need to worry about him and that I shouldn't miss school, but he seems to tired to even talk that much. "Ok, sit up a tiny bit so I can feed you." Without protest about me spoon feeding him, he tilts his head up and opens his mouth a little.

I feed him some of the soup and his expression gets a tiny bit more pleasant. "It's good, Satoru." I think I'm going to remember that line forever, even while being sick, and even if I feel bad about thinking this, he looks really cute. I keep feeding him the soup, and soon it's finished. "You can lay back down now Suguru. Sleep well, I'll be right here." He lowers himself and slowly rests his eyes closed. Out of instinct, I start patting his head and brushing his hair with my fingers.

Soon, he falls asleep with me right beside him. I really hope he feels better soon.

-Geto POV-

As I slowly open my eyes, I try to remember why I was still sleeping. I remember falling asleep after hanging out with Satoru and having a horrible rest because of how sick I was feeling. I look over at my clock and see it's... 11:30 at night?! How long have I been in bed for? As I don't feel sick anymore, I start sitting up and turn my body to stand up, but I get startled by Satoru sitting beside my bed sleeping.

That's right, I briefly remember waking up to Satoru feeding me something, but I don't know what time it was. He stayed beside me this entire time? That's  basically 14 hours! How much does he care about me to stay for that long? "Satoru, wa..." I figure instead of walking him up, I should just carry him to his apartment. He must be really tired after taking care of me all day.

I pick Satoru up in my arms and he is surprisingly light. As I'm walking towards my door, he grabs onto me so that he's basically hugging me while I carry him. We are really close together. I hesitate for a second. For some reason, I don't really wanna bring him back to his apartment anymore. And I don't even have a key, so he should just stay with me in this apartment!
(Geto's mind "forgot" about just taking Satoru's house key from his pocket.)

As I decide where he should sleep, I decide that my bed would be fine. I couldn't make him sleep on the couch after taking care of me so much! We would just share the bed, that's a very normal thing for best friends to do. As I lay Satoru down, I lay down beside him and feel really nice about being so close to him. He grabs onto my back, and since I've already slept so much I expect to just stay awake but I don't.

I fall asleep again almost immediately, with Satoru still holding onto me.

-The next morning (Gojo POV)-

"Ehhhh..." I slowly wake up to find myself really warm. It feels like I'm holding onto something, but I can't tell what. The last thing I remember is taking care of Suguru and then sitting beside him for awhile... I look around and see I'm in Suguru's room and... in his bed and... that thing I'm holding onto... THATS SUGURU.
What??? "Suguru? You up?" I ask as I move a bit away from him.

Even though waking up holding onto to Suguru in his bed was one of the greatest experiences of my life, he absolutely can't know that and I don't want it to be always when he wakes up. I shake him a bit to wake him up, and he quickly does. "Satoru? Why are..." he's probably wondering why I'm beside him in his bed, and I am too. There's no way I climbed in beside him right? He was gonna ask me now. Oh no.

"So uhhh... when I woke up after feeling better, I saw you sitting beside me and thought that you would uhh... be cold sitting there! So I put you into bed with me because that's a normal thing that best friends do." Suguru says this all kind of fast, and it seems pretty out of character for him to act like this.

There's no way he really just thought I was "cold". That wouldn't make him sleep in the same bed as me.

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☕️<— the tea Gojo made, sitting forgotten on Geto's bedside table.
I should make it have a villain arc now! The tea will be getting cursed.