Megumi Of Ten Shadows: CH032

-CHAPTER 32-

-ZENIN MAKI POV-

Maki blinked awake and yawns as she sits up and stretches. Her loose shirt hanging off of her shoulder by a centimeter.

Idly, she sits up and does her morning routine, brushes her teeth, drinks her coffee, and takes a shower…

It was a peaceful morning. Summer had just ended and with it had ended the season of the year where a lot of Cursed Spirits manifested. This was the so-called slow period of the year for the Jujutsu Sorcerers. Most took a vacation or rested during this period…

It was a rare day when she wakes up drowsy. Maybe she had binged too much anime yesterday…

Then, she realized what today was and a subconscious smile spread across her face. Date… I’m going on a date with Megumi today…

Life as a Jujutsu Sorcerer was tough. Oh god, it was so tough. Sometimes she felt like a small fish in a lake full of sharks. But her spite and anger wouldn’t let her quit it. It was her goal, to become the sorcerer that everyone who claimed to be her family said she couldn’t be.

To remain strong and tough in front of all the challenges, she repressed many of her emotions… It made her act cold and harsh- even to those she cherished.

She winced as she remembered Mai… But she soon shook it off.

It was a miracle that her friends had stuck by her despite her bad personality.

She had found solace in them. The quiet but helpful Inumaki, the loud and supportive Panda, and the shy but determined Yuta…

They were all like her in some ways… Cursed. Yet determined to establish their own place in the world.

And then... That Idiot came crashing into my life. She couldn’t help smile fondly remembering that idiot.

Her first impression of Megumi was that he was her total opposite. He had an infamous Inherited technique and talent in spades, he sounded arrogant as heck despite his tries to be humble and he loved to show off…

But she couldn’t even say anything bad about that. Because she had seen personally how hard to trained, how he pushed his body and technique to the brink of collapse just to accomplish a goal that no one had any idea about…

It made her realize how similar he was to her.

And that made her curious… And the rest was history.

He broke through her tough exterior and burrowed his way into her heart…

She was never interested in love… Didn’t believe that she would ever have something like that in her life… But that was the funny thing about life isn’t it? How unpredictable it was.

Ting! Ting!

Talk of the devil… She smiled as she read the message from him.

{Idiot-gumi <3: Good morning sunshine!}

{Idiot-gumi <3: Excited for today? You know I am :p}

-And then he sent her a selfie of him in nothing but a towel-his chiseled muscles shining in the morning light -smiling cheekily at the camera.

She blushed red and furiously types back.

{You: Don’t send those kinds of pictures to just anybody you idiot!}

{You: And good morning to you too!}

Within seconds he replied back.

{Idiot-gumi <3: Oh? Are you flustered Maki? And you’re not just anybody Maki. You’re precious to me.}

Her jaw clamps down and she grits her teeth as a stream of steam escapes her ears, her face bright red as she imagines and almost hears his voice in her head. But… Was she smiling?

{You: I’ll murder you.}

Megumi replied back quickly.

{Idiot-gumi <3: If my words make you happy then I will gladly welcome death J.}

“That-that idiot!” She mutters aloud, her blush even more prominent now. How can he write such things without any shame?!

But a small part of her admitted to herself that it made her feel fuzzy and warm… But she shook her head furiously. No! I will not let his dark arts work on me!

But before she could type back a furious reply, Megumi sends another message.

{Idiot-gumi <3: Will be waiting for you by the station! Don’t be late! Got to go now, have to shower! Xoxoxo}

And the online symbol beneath his name disappeared as he logged off, leaving her suffering alone in her intense emotions.

She shakes her head, calming her strongly beating heart, and mutters. “Idiot… You can’t just say stuff like that and bail out…”

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-FUSHIGURO MEGUMI-

“Why did I do that?!” I asked myself as I hid my face- burning red from embarrassment -on my pillow.

It was the first thing that had popped up in my mind when I read her text. But only after sending it did I realize how embarrassing it was…

This is what happens when you watch too much anime or k-dramas…

It was cringe, too forward and embarrassing. “I’m pretty sure she thinks I’m a creep now…” I moaned to myself as I shook my head.

“Haaa…”

In the end I sighed. “Can’t do anything about it now.” I muttered. I’ll just have to deal with it as we move.

Today was not going like I had wanted it to. Already I had to put off seeing the sunset at the Tokyo Sky Tree because turns out it just had to be closed for maintenance today!

Couldn’t they do it any other day of the week?! Nope we have to do it today!

I guess my fool proof plan wasn’t so fool proof after all. He once again sighed heavily. Thankfully, I’m good at adapting to the situation.

Let’s hope I can save this date…

Though… Where was the smell of burning coming from?

I stiffened as I realized what it was… and robotically turned my head to look at the expensive white shirt that I was straightening out with an iron for the date… The iron that I had forgotten that I left on the shirt and forgotten to turn off…

“Shit!” I curse as I hurry towards the ironing table and quickly pull the plug out, almost tearing up as I see the shirt ruined with a huge hole in its middle.

I guess anxiety even gets the better of Jujutsu Sorcerers sometimes…

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-Akihabara-

I leaned back at the wall in front of the train station of Akihabara. Wearing an extra large Metallica t-shirt with some blue jeans. My plan was to dress up more formally… but that was ruined when my iron decided to burn through it.

And since so much bad luck had kept coming for my so-called “plan”, I decided to take the hint and ditch it entirely.

Good thing I hadn’t told Maki about the plan earlier and only to meet me at a train station… Or else that would’ve been an awkward conversation.

Then catching her silhouette from the corners of my eyes, I saw the lithe figure of the green-haired bespectacled Maki coming out from the gates of the train station.

A warm smile filled my face as our eyes met and I couldn’t help but chuckle and have butterflies in my stomach when I saw her beautiful form.

That’s just so much like her…

She was wearing a form-fitting Black Sabbath T-shirt, and ripped black jeans, with a leather purse hanging off of her shoulder. Her round glasses and dark-green haired only made her look more gorgeous.

She glared at me as she power-walked towards me, a prominent blush on her face. Looking at me up and down, she asks with narrowed eyes. “How did you know what I was going to where?”

I smiled teasingly. “I wouldn’t know anything about that Maki… Are you sure you haven’t copied me?”

Her expression flushes. “Come here you little shit!” She shouts as she jumps to pummel me and I just laugh heartily in response.

Pow! “This is for the message from the morning!” She pouts as she half-heartedly punches my shoulder.

“Hahaha!” I chuckle and faux-wince as she punches my shoulder again. “Ow! Maki atleast wait until we’re married before you start with the domestic abuse!”

I froze. Fuck me and my mouth!

“…” Maki looks at me speechless and still before her mind reboots and steam explodes out from her head. Her expression darkens as she slowly walks towards me while gritting her teeth. “Y-you… YOU IDIOT!”

Uh-oh… I’m in trouble. I chuckled nervously and said. “Please be gentle?”

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A/N: And that’s a wrap! Again, this is what happens when you have nothing but anime, movies and TV shows to take inspiration for romance from. Writing romance is probably not my strong suit.

Press F for my non-existent love life.

Aside from that, this was probably my most hardest and easiest chapter ever to write till date because I had to rewrite this three times until I nailed it the last and wrote it all in one day.

Thank you and welcome to all the new (and old) patron for joing and supporting me, your presence is invaluable.

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