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24 Days of Satosugu 2023 Day 22 - Jelly

Suguru has been searching for Satoru for the last ten minutes. It shouldn’t be this hard—Suguru knows all of Satoru’s favourite spots and even most of his hiding spots. And yet it seems as if Satoru simply vanished from campus without saying anything to Suguru and he doesn’t like that thought.

Doesn’t like it one bit.

His last option is Shoko; he didn’t try her before because Satoru hates her workplace, always saying that it’s giving him the creeps and so he never voluntarily steps foot into there. But even so, maybe Shoko knows something about his whereabouts.

“Hey, Shoko,” Suguru calls out, stepping into her office and freezes when not only Shoko’s eyes find his, but Satoru stares at him as well, before he hides something behind his back.

“You’re here,” Suguru breathes out and Satoru lets out a nervous laugh.

“Haha, I am, surprise?” he tries, which only makes Suguru frown.

“What is going on? Are you hiding something from me?” he wants to know and Satoru hides the thing behind his back even more before he takes it out, showing it to Suguru as if it means nothing.

And really, it should mean nothing, because it’s just one of Shoko’s stethoscopes.

“Are you sick?” Suguru asks, because why else would Satoru come here and Suguru isn’t actually sure if his reverse energy technique is able to heal normal illnesses.

Something to ask for later, for sure, he thinks as he files that thought away and watches how Satoru shoves the stethoscope into Shoko’s hands.

“Nope, not at all, I’m perfectly peachy,” Satoru rushes out, saluting at Shoko before he bumps his shoulder to Suguru’s and then simply marches off.

He leaves silence behind and Suguru turns with an accusing stare towards Shoko.

“What is going on here?” he demands to know because that sure as hell was more than strange and Shoko shakes her head.

“I am not getting into your relationship drama,” she breathes out, putting the stethoscope down.

“Drama? Relationship?” Suguru’s voice goes a little bit high at the end. “What is even going on, Shoko, you know we’re not in a relationship.”

He tries to laugh it off but slams his mouth shut when he realises that he sounds just like Satoru a few minutes before.

“Sure. Because normal people act the way you do,” Shoko says as she shakes her head. “Listen, he’s not hurt and he’s not doing anything to hurt you. Is that enough?”

It’s not, not at all, not when Satoru so clearly is keeping something from him; something that Shoko is privy to, even.

“No,” Suguru plainly says and Shoko gives him her best glare.

“Well, sucks for you then. Now get out, I’m actually busy and do not have the time to babysit both of you.”

Suguru bites his lips so he doesn’t snap at Shoko, and he decides that he will probably have more luck with Satoru.

Shoko is immune to all of Suguru’s charms; Satoru very much is not. He might have to abuse that to find out what the hell is going on here.

Suguru runs after Satoru and he knows him, so it’s not actually that hard to find him again. He very predictably ran off to Suguru’s room instead of his own, as if that isn’t the first place Suguru would check when he’s in search for Satoru.

“What is going on?” Suguru demands to know the second he steps into the room and Satoru looks at him with the same big eyes as before.

“How did you find me so fast?” he wants to know and Suguru rolls his eyes at him.

“Please. I know you, Satoru. Of course you’d go here first. What were you doing with Shoko?”

“Nothing,” Satoru shoots back, giving Suguru his best smile. “I was doing nothing with her.”

It hurts, to have Satoru lie to him like that and Suguru lets his face fall. There is instant regret in Satoru’s eyes and it does make Suguru feel a little bit bad to force this, but the thought that Satoru is keeping something from him sits unpleasantly in his chest.

“Satoru,” he breathes out for good measure, too and Satoru opens his mouth before he snaps it shut again, the look of regret turning into a glare.

“No, you’re being unfair,” he accuses Suguru. “You know I can’t say no to you.”

Suguru shrugs, completely unrepentant, because he knows that he’s not playing completely fair but he really couldn’t care less.

“So? Are you going to tell me?”

Satoru seems to think that over for a moment before he shakes his head, though he does come closer to Suguru.

“Think of it as a gift, okay? I’m not ready to give it to you, yet.”

Suguru clicks his tongue at that because that, too, is unfair. There is no way he’s going to pry now.

“Then at least don’t lie about it to me,” he still chastises Satoru. “Say that, but don’t lie.”

Some of his earlier pain must show in his words because Satoru apologetically presses his lips together before he steps close and drops his head to Suguru’s shoulder.

“I’m sorry. I won’t do it again,” he promises and Suguru believes him, like he always does.

“Okay, then.”

He’s actually more than curious what Satoru is intending to gift to him, what isn’t yet done and what needs Shoko’s presence, but he’s no longer going to pry.

Satoru will finish whatever it is and then he’ll give it to Suguru and it will all make sense.

Suguru believes that.

~*~*~

“Here we go,” Satoru says, the curse already in view, but he still turns around to Suguru, raising his hand and waiting for the customary high-five they do these days right before they rush into a fight.

Suguru isn’t even sure how this started or why they are doing it, but he’s hardly going to leave Satoru hanging so he slaps his hand against Satoru’s who gives him a cheeky smile for it.

“Loser does the report,” he then says and darts off.

Suguru doesn’t rush after him, because it’s always him who does the reports anyway and there is no real rule to what makes someone the winner during their fights so Satoru will find a way to make Suguru the loser anyway.

Still, this little game motivates Satoru do finish this quickly, to work hard, and really, what more does Suguru want?

He makes his way over to the curse more slowly, keeping track of Satoru all the time, ready to assist him with his impossible stunts and it’s not long before Suguru has to throw out a fly head to break Satoru’s fall.

Suguru allows himself a moment to shake his head at Satoru’s antics before he really gets into the fight and then it’s on.

The curse doesn’t really stand a chance, not against the both of them, even though it’s trying its hardest. The destruction around them is quite significant at this point and Suguru is glad he at least remembered to put up the veil this time.

He really does not want to get yelled at by Yaga again.

“Watch out!” Satoru yells at him and Suguru moves out of the way just in time to avoid a bunch of rubble being thrown his way.

He notices a few pieces almost gliding off him, that’s how close it was and he vows to get his head into the game.

If Suguru gets hurt, he can’t do the report and then Satoru will yell at him.

Suguru wouldn’t want that to happen, and so he makes sure they exorcise the curse in no time at all.

He still ends up writing the report, of course, but Satoru is smiling at him, so it’s all good.

~*~*~

A special grade curse really is a whole other number, Suguru thinks with despair, because this curse has been leading them around for the better part of two hours. It’s smart enough to see through all of their plans and by now Suguru is getting tired.

Tired enough that he misses the next attack of the curse.

He sees it coming just a beat too late, sees the claw it throws out at him and Suguru already knows that this is it. He will be speared clean through and not even his and Satoru’s customary high-five for good luck is going to change anything about that.

“Suguru!” Satoru yells, also a beat behind the curse and definitely not in reach to change anything about this and all Suguru really can do is brace himself for the impact.

Except—it never comes.

The claw stops mere inches from his chest and it seems the curse is caught just as off guard as Suguru himself because it stumbles over its many feet and Satoru takes that opportunity to exorcise it once and for all.

Suguru can do nothing but watch, his knees feeling like jelly and his heart pounding in his ears.

That attack should have killed him; the claw should have gone straight through him and Suguru should be dead right now.

He doesn’t understand why he isn’t.

“Suguru! Suguru, are you hurt?” Satoru rushes out, his hands fluttering over Suguru’s chest and he only relaxes when he doesn’t find the blood he clearly was expecting as well. “Thank god, it worked. It worked, it worked, thank you,” he mutters, his hands resting on Suguru’s chest and Suguru fights the urge to sink down to the floor.

Shock really is a bitch.

“Can we go home?” he asks, not caring about anything now that the curse is exorcised and Satoru nods frantically.

“Yes, Shoko needs to check you over regardless, come on, I’ll teleport us.”

“Do you still feel up to that?” Suguru can’t help but to ask, even though he needs to be home right this moment and Satoru gives him a shaky smile.

“Of course, Suguru, I can do anything, you know that,” he reassures him and before Suguru can argue, can tell him that he, too, is only human, Satoru has already teleported them home.

“I’ll have Shoko come here, go sit down Suguru, please,” Satoru says and Suguru feels slightly detached from himself.

He has never been this close to death before and escaped without a scratch and he honestly can’t wrap his head around the fact that he is still safe and sound.

Suguru thinks Shoko comes and goes, but it doesn’t really register for him. The next thing he really knows is Satoru pressing a cup of hot chocolate in his hands.

“Here, drinks this. Shoko said it might help.”

“What’s the verdict?” Suguru asks and Satoru’s face falls slightly when he realises that Suguru wasn’t really paying attention.

“Shock. You’re all good, except for a severe shock.”

“I see” Suguru gives back and takes a sip of the hot chocolate.

Satoru encourages him until the entire cup is empty and it’s only then that it hits Suguru.

He could have died.

The shaking starts in his fingers but soon it travels all over his body.

“Satoru,” he gets out, his voice shaking as well and Satoru is right there, taking his hands in his.

“You’re good, Suguru, I promise. Shoko said to expect this, okay, it’ll pass in a moment.”

Suguru tightens his grip on Satoru’s hand, wills him to stay right where he is and it still takes him a moment to sort through his thoughts.

“How are you feeling?” he asks Satoru which makes him huff out a laugh.

“You had a near-death experience and you’re asking me how I’m doing?”

“Yeah,” Suguru says with a frown, feeling more like himself by the second. “You teleported us all the way back. Did you have hot chocolate?”

Satoru’s eyes dart to an untouched cup on the table and Suguru sighs, before he takes his hands back.

“Go get that and bring a blanket, too, I’m cold and I want you here with me on the couch,” Suguru decides, because his hands feel like ice right now and he thinks the comfort is not going to hurt at all.

“Alright,” Satoru whispers and does as Suguru told him to.

Suguru only really relaxes when Satoru is pressed to his side, sipping his own hot chocolate, a blanket covering them and keeping them warm. Suguru doesn’t hesitate to drop his head to Satoru’s shoulder, trying to get as close to him as he can get but he frowns when recalls something.

“You said it worked. What worked?” he wants to know, remembering the panicked way Satoru checked him over and Satoru freezes at his side for a moment, before he goes soft again.

“Surprise,” he weakly says. “That’s the gift I was working on for the last couple of weeks.”

“What is?” Suguru asks for clarification because this doesn’t make much sense and Satoru rotates the cup in his hands.

“I’m sharing Infinity with you,” he finally admits and Suguru’s head flies up.

“What?”

He can’t believe what he’s hearing right now but Satoru only gives him a small smile.

“I can’t make you control it yet; I wanted it to be like a little charm that you can activate at will; I’ve been practicing with Shoko but it proves difficult to make it do that. So I have to activate it for you. I didn’t want to tell you about it yet, because it’s not perfect, and so today—for a moment I thought it would fail you.”

“The claw couldn’t touch me because I had Infinity on,” Suguru mutters, still trying to wrap his head around that. “Because you share that with me.”

Satoru seems almost embarrassed by that, even as he shrugs.

“Is this how the high-five before a fight came to be?” Suguru wants to know, because that only started recently.

And coincidentally it aligns with Satoru’s strange behaviour.

“Yeah. I thought it’s a fail-safe way to allow me to touch you, so I can switch it on without having to tell you about that yet. Like I said, it’s not really ready. I wanted it to be perfect.”

“Satoru,” Suguru breathes out, hiding his face in Satoru’s neck again. “It is perfect. It saved my life today, how much more perfect do you want it to be?” Suguru doesn’t give Satoru a chance to answer that. “And besides. You’re always allowed to touch me, you should know that.”

To make his point clear, Suguru reaches up and carefully takes one of Satoru’s hands still cradling the mug before he laces their fingers together.

“If it’s you, you’re always allowed,” Suguru mutters and smiles when Satoru squeezes his hand.

“I wasn’t sure and there are only so many ways I can sneak in a touch before you become suspicious.”

Suguru doesn’t mention that he probably would never have gotten suspicious about something like that, because he enjoys every single touch Satoru gives him, so he would have never questioned it. Instead of saying that, he presses closer, still.

“Thank you for sharing your Infinity with me,” he mutters, daring to press a kiss to Satoru’s throat and he feels it flutter when Satoru sighs out.

“If it’s you, I’ll share everything I have,” Satoru gives back just as quietly and Suguru’s heart almost beats out of his chest when he feels Satoru press a kiss to the top of his head.

They stay like that for a long while, sharing space and warmth and love together, and they don’t even part when they eventually go to bed.

From then on, Satoru will activate Suguru’s Infinity with a kiss, even long after he manages to make it so that Suguru can activate it himself, because Suguru won’t have it any other way.

It’s a good way to start a battle after all.

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