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[ this IS nice. he's roasting with, well, not love but at least mild concern. ]

Don't worry, I'll try not to make a habit out of talking to you. Just...

You can't turn back now, Satoru. You wanted this. You let it happen. You're the strongest. Survived us all.

You don't get the luxury of faltering anymore.

Take care of him for me. Both of them. Hypotheticals aside...

Sometimes there's no choice at all. I know you know. I think they're close, or already there. Where saving one is the same damn thing as saving none.

( well. we suppose that's close enough for him. we'll take it. )

I don't mind you talking to me.
So much.

( this is weird. but we're going along with it. )

Is now when I ask when you got so bold about using given names, Toji?

( somehow that feels more natural than 'fushiguro', but maybe it has something to do with the fact that yuji hasn't called megumi anything but since they met. )

I'm taking care of them for both of us.
Just so you know.
And I think they're so close neither of them knows how close.
But I'm sure they'll figure it out for themselves one of these days.

Maybe.

[ it still doesn't sit right, not being hated. to be given any consideration at all. he'd been worried, there at the end. that megumi would have a hard time from everyone to spite his father's memory. not worried enough to live any other way, not really able to change everything about who he was and how he lived, but. worried.

and here gojo is, not hating him. not clarifying that he's taking care of toji's son out of gojo's own attachment by now, but simply reminding that it's an undertaking gojo maintains for them both.

toji was so sure gojo would spite him for his phrasing.

he doesn't understand this man. ]

I really have no fucking clue why you don't hate me, but. thanks. I guess.

anyway, I can call you 'six eyes' again if you like that better.

I'd encourage helping them figure it out before they learn it the hard way.

[ like when one of them dies. ]

( if it makes you feel better, toji, there had been a time when he wanted to hate you. for everything you'd done in your past, for putting your son up for sale like the only thing he's good for to you was to make a profit — but he's had time to let things sit, let them simmer and then boil down to essentially nothing.

he's had a lot of time to think, as it were.

and if it makes you feel even better, there is a whole host of people that don't understand him. he prefers it that way, most of the time. let him stay some manner of annoying-ass enigma that nobody gets, let alone wants to. )

That makes two of us.
Humans are really odd things, if you think about it.
But I figure if someone can hate for no real reason, they can do the opposite just as easily.

Call me whatever you want, within reason.
Just don't call me late for dinner.

( yeah, yeah, he fucking went there. who'd have ever thought he would be sitting here making a dad joke in fushiguro toji's general direction? not him. )

You know they don't even call each other by anything other than their family names?
They would die for each other, and they both know it.
And they're still at that stage.
Sometimes I worry about our future, if these children are going to be a part of it.

they're just fucking idiots, no one's perfect or good at everything, etc. reverse heavenly restriction of zero brain.

[ toji also thinks he's funny. but he's pondering the issue, because he likes a good puzzle. problems to pick at are like a meat stuffed pumpkin in his enclosure. ]

I could probably fix half the issue. I'm 'fushiguro' too, so. could just start loitering and wedging myself between them whenever I hear the name. bet that'd get them to drop it quick.

'itadori' though...

[ toji mulls on it, and he mulls on it, and— ]

stop me if I'm wrong but your students are definitely used to you acting like a goddamned clown, right?

( he likes to think his children aren't complete idiots ... but ... together they seem to be, don't they? okay, okay, he's going to hear you out on what you have to say --

he reads the last bit of that message more times than he should, probably, because there is no lie there and it makes him laugh for the realization, even if he knows well that he plays himself off as someone not to be taken seriously.

toji would, perhaps, know this by now, wouldn't he? hm. )

They're used to a lot of things, but that one in particular ... maybe.

( pause for dramatic effect! )

What are you suggesting?

just start answering to 'itadori'. what are they gonna do about it? bet you could be like "oh no I'm sooo old my old man hearing is going I SWORE you said gojo-sensei" and they'd have no choice but to deal because I'm sure it's not the dumbest shit you've pulled.

[ have we mentioned this is what it sounds like when toji likes you okay. ]

( that sounds incredibly suspicious but neither of you are very in with what it sounds like when either of you like someone.

but look you've got a good thought going on here.

hold that thought while he processes it. )

Hmmm.
Has anyone ever told you that you do a pretty decent impression of me?
Should have gone into stand-up.

( case in point: you're growing on him. and not exactly like a parasite. )

I think you might be onto something.

I'm genuinely embarrassed for you. incidentally, that's also how I keep my impressions nice and accurate, glad you agree.

anyway once they get pissed and confused enough respectively they should theoretically adapt from there, right?

Isn't embarrassment meant for those also have shame?
Regardless.

( he only mentions it because he rarely is possessed of shame himself, but that's neither here nor there. )

Theoretically, yes.
But how much faith do we have?

eeeehhh 30/70 pass/fail but 30% is better than zero. if it doesn't work we can come up with something else.

big fan of shotgun marriages, honestly.

Don't shotgun marriages usually involve a pregnancy?
I don't think we're going to have to worry about that ...

eh with curses who can say. and wasn't there something about the kid being sukuna's vessel?

anyway it's the 'take responsibility for the mess you've made with my kid' angle.

I really hate that you have a point with the curse thing.

Don't make me think about that.

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