Overflow 2: A Gojo & Geto Tale

Chapter 36: Both

I wait patiently rubbing my fingers lightly on his soft skin.

"Ok." Satoru nods quickly.

"Okay. Bed?" I take his hand softly.

"Yes." He doesn't meet my eyes but he lets me lead him out of the dojo and back home.

Back home where I will sit on the bathroom counter and wait for him to get done showering. Where I will coax him to bed. Then lay against his back and rub his arm and chest until I feel him finally give in to his exhaustion. He'll snore lightly into his pillow and thats when I am able to drift back to sleep myself.

POV Gojo

"Gojo?"

My eyes open and I sit up straight in my chair. My students are all staring at me.

"Where was I..." I cough and scan the book in front of me.

"You were telling us about a smallpox curse you exercised." Mimiko tilts her head accessing me.

"Right, right! So with a curse like that you obviously have to be weary about making contact with it directly. In today's era, we have medicine to cure all sorts of diseases so one like smallpox probably wouldn't affect the population too much except for small rural towns or poverty stricken ones." I straighten out my navy button up.

"That was a special grade though...so we would never be sent on those missions." Nanako twirls her pencil in between her fingers.

"Some of you may get there. Even first grades are sent out when we are low on sorcerers." I stand up slowly and lean on the podium so I stay awake.

"Who has the potential to be a special grade?" Yuji waves his hand.

I look over my students.

"Whoever works the hardest and wants it. I do not suggest it." I yawn. "Ok you guys are free for the day. Make sure you do your workouts in the dojo! I am watching that."

Nanako and Mimiko give me hugs before they run out together. The three others walk out joking and making plans for supper.

Oh to be young again...

"Hey."

I look at the door and Suguru holds two takeout containers. His smile is wide and genuine while he wears grey slacks and a white shirt. He has one side of his hair tucked behind his ear while the other shifts forward and traces his jaw.

"You are the best." I sit at my desk as he places the container in front of me.

Suguru pulls one of the students chairs over so he can sit near me as we eat.

"Your classes done for the day?" I twist my fork in the noodles.

"No, it's only noon Satoru." Suguru rolls his eyes and picks through his chicken.

"Oh right..." I probably shouldn't have released them so early...

I do trust them to do their dojo training which at the moment is way more important than learning history.