07 - Close the Gaps

You widened your eyes in response to Gojo's sudden statement, what did he mean by that? You asked yourself before clearing your throat awkwardly. "Sensei, are we going to go help Yuji out?" You asked as you turned to him after he let you down and began walking ahead of you. "We? Y/N, my beloved student, you couldn't fight off one curse, how do you plan on helping Yuji?" You sighed in response to Gojo's hurtful yet true remark.

You needed more training, not to mention A LOT of training. You wanted to prove yourself to Gojo and show him your capabilities. All your life has been about pleasing people, and you never failed. Pleasing your parents with your academics, pleasing your parents with your soft spoken nature, your brother with your love towards him, your friends..all you ever did was try to please those around you. Pleasing Gojo Satoru may be far more harder..but he's just one more person on the list.

"It's not as bad as you think" Your train of thoughts were suddenly interrupted by Gojo's deep honey voice piercing through you. "huh?" you were confused as to what he was referring to. "Being a sorcerer. It's hard, I lost a lot of people I cared about but I do what I do because I find meaning in it." Gojo paused before walking towards you, you on the other hand froze on the spot. "Why are you telling me this? Honestly I don't know why you have this much hope in me" You softly laughed in response to break the tension that was building up. Gojo bent down on one knee and began to tie your shoelaces which you just realised, were untied. "You don't have to- 

Just as you were about to pull your foot away, Gojo grasped on to your ankle, preventing you from moving it further as his grip on you was very strong. "I don't know myself why I'm choosing to tell you this." He looked up at you but even through his blindfold, you could feel his gaze on you. He gently caressed your ankle after tie-ing your laces. "You remind me of my old best friend, maybe it's your eyes, maybe it's the way you talk. I'm not sure why, you just remind me of him" 

Gojo's voice made it feel like he was genuine, and also genuinely hurt by this. "your best friend must've been a real hottie if you're comparing him to me" you tried lightening the mood, which you succeeded in as Gojo left out a soft chuckle in response. "You certainly have a high self esteem. But he was a good guy if that's what you're asking, ladies used to prefer him over me" You furrowed your eye brows as you heard him say that.

"I don't believe that" Gojo stood up and a slight smirk curved against his lips, making you realise you indirectly called your teacher hot. "Y/n I should give you disciplinary actions for saying so many things in one day" your cheeks began to heat up at his statement. "No! I didn't mean it like that.." Gojo pat your head before he continued to walk. "Alright, come lets go help Itadori" you sighed at your helpless state before following behind. 

"Sensei! Watch out!" Just as you guys reached the second floor, a blast of fire rushed towards you and Gojo. Gojo immediately grabbed your figure before covering you using his arms. He wrapped one arm around your waist and turned his back towards the attacks, his body tightly pressed against yours as you two were inches away from each other. "Watch out Y/n, next time sensei won't be here" You were in a state of shock, confusion, a mix of the two before Gojo picked you up and threw you over his shoulder. "Hold tight" Choosing to listen to his advice, you wrapped your arms around his neck as he decided to turn back around and help his other student, fighting a vigorous battle. 

From your perspective, all you could hear was Gojo's small pants and you could hear Yuji's grunts from the other end, everything else was the view of the plain hard ground. "Yuji. Corner it" You heard Gojo say before he wrapped one of his arms around your thigh, preventing you from falling off. "Hold on" His grip on your thigh tightened before he rushed in to deliver the final blow at the curse him and Yuji were fighting with. It was very difficult to hang on to Gojo with all the moving around, it was very physically exhausting not to mention. "Sensei!" you heard Yuji squeal in excitement.

"you were so cool! This curse seemed to be a grade 1, it's regeneration was a lot faster. " Yuji managed to pull out his words between his rapid panting, trying to catch his breath. "Seems like it,  Itadori it seems like we have a lot of training to do." You could hear Yuji's groan in response. "HUHH? Sensei I've been training, can you please teach me the domain expansion?!" Gojo chuckled in response. "We'll see about that, training first" Yuji sighed in response to Gojo's words. "Oh!-- Hold on, I'm getting a call from Megumi" After saying that, Yuji quickly paced towards the other room towards the left of the second floor.

You just realised you were on Gojo's shoulders, at this realisation you decided to clear your throat to get his attention. "Sensei can you let me down?" you asked, softly. "I don't know, do you think you'll be able to manage walking?" Gojo laughed at his own snarky remark towards you. You decided to try to get down by yourself and lifted your upper body up. Just after doing that, you lost balance and slipped slightly down but Gojo prevented it by holding your hips using both his hands, you on the other hand wrapped your legs around his waist to prevent falling further. You stayed in this position for a few minutes, realising you embarrassed yourself entirely.

Gojo didn't let go and you realised you couldn't feel that small gap you always felt when coming in contact with Gojo. "Sensei..Did you remove infinity?"

NOTE : infinity is a technique used by Gojo that prevents other objects from coming in contact with him, it is used by manipulating space and dimensions, preventing him from coming in any actual physical contact. However, he can manipulate it at any given time by removing it.