CHAPTER 45

"Yes, please... and make three." Toji passively said through his phone before he put it down on the coffee table, "Do you want something else?" he asked Y/n who's currently sitting on the couch with her legs on the same table.

"Massage my feet," she spoke sassily as she stared at Toji behind her expensive shades with a hanging price tag with four 0s, and in front of her were expensive stuff she told him to buy even though she didn't even like it or needed it. There were fancy, leather funny-looking jackets, some weird boots, and some fur fashion coats she's currently wearing.

Her order was obediently obeyed by Toji, he kneeled down to the level of her foot and gave her a massage despite the fact that he had never done it before, "Three takoyaki will be here in any minute." He said contentedly.

Y/n scrutinized him behind her shades, she couldn't think of any reason why Toji is acting this way since she woke up. He was kind, sweet, caring, and gentle all this time. She even tried to anger him by asking stupid things yet, he's still passive and willing to do and get whatever she wanted.

'Was he guilty because he was too rough at me last night?' she thinks. 'Well, he should. My body's covered with hickies and some bite marks, and I can't feel my legs because of him. And until now I'm leaking! How many times did he come anyway?!' She sighed. "Have you done the laundry?"

"Ahh yes, I'll give Mushi a bath later, he got soaked last night," he responded.

Y/n felt her cheeks heated up from his last statement so she cleared her throat to clear her impure thoughts, "Mushi, the worm?"

"Yeah, it's my toy."

"So, you will wash your toy." She repeated, to confirm what he just said.

"No, I will give him a bath." This causes Y/n to crease her brows from curiosity and confusion. "Okay, you can now... give him a bath." She replied as she retracted her foot from him, still curious on what he was about to do.

She then followed him in the bathroom as he gave Mushi a bath, and she couldn't help but laugh because she treated the stuffed toy as if it was alive. The way he even gently rubbed its head with a soap made her laugh out loud, "Toji! What are you doing?!" she hollered in between laughter, "Just throw it in with the other sheets!"

"I can't, that's going to ruin this," he responded passively. "I don't want that."

Her laughter died down, "W-Why do you care about that anyway?"

"This is the only memento I got from my mother before she died," he responded, there was no hint of sadness in his tone, but Y/n felt like there was something he's hiding.

She sat down on the rim of the tub and watched him scrubbing the toy, "May I ask what happened to your ...parents?" She asked, but she received no answer, just an abundant silence embraced the both of them. "O-Oh, you don't have to answer if you're not comfortable about it, by the way, I'm sorry for prying in." She laughed apologetically. "Do you—"

"Do you want to go out and shop or enjoy around? I mean... I'll accompany you." Toji told her, which immediately lightens up Y/n's expression, "You do?!" she chimed.

"Y-Yeah," Toji was taken aback by her sudden outburst, he doesn't know why, but he wanted her to be that way everyday. He wanted to see her all smiley and laughing, all jolly and happy.

"I'll be ready! You should too!" She beamed and ran out of the bathroom to get ready.

They were about to go out when Y/n remembered that they needed some disguise for their own safety, so like any other cliche disguise, she settled for a white cap and a black face mask, "Let's go!"

"Do you really think no one will notice me here?" Toji asked her, referring to his funny-looking shades in the appearance of the word ROOK, and his cap has cat ears on it, and his shirt has 'bounce' printed on the chest part.

"Yes! no one will notice you if you... look... like that." She drawled as she saw what kind of disguise he puts on. Toji on the other hand trusted her and they went on their way.

Their whole day was filled with mostly Y/n being noisy as she is and Toji having her back all the way. They went to malls, had fun with the games, bought some dress and souvenirs -which was of course carried by the big bear- and some crepes, watched a movie together and spent some time at the public library and museum. There was not a boring minute with him.

"That was so fun!" she chimed as they walked down the road. "When I see Yuji I'll take him there for some crepes!" She literally butchered the pronunciation of crepes by saying all the visible syllables.

"That's pronounced as krep," Toji informed her in a low voice without making her look like a complete idiot.

"As long as the spelling is right, then that's– oh look!" she beamed when she saw a stall at the corner of the street, where different street foods were aligned, "I know this, this is uhh... Dalgona candy!"

"Dragona what?"

The man chimed as he saw Y/n getting closer to him, "Come here, young love birds! If you manage to break the toffee candy around the preset shape without breaking the whole thing, you will win this limited edition, giant dalgona bear!"

Toji can see from Y/n's eyes how struck she was when she saw the giant bear of dalgona. Which made internally smirk, 'I'll get this one...'easy peasy.'

"Mister, I'll try one," Y/n paid for her own dalgona toffee and proceeded with utter care and focus, but she didn't finish it because of a few pokes and it broke. Toji did the same, but both of them ended up having a contest to see who had broken more dalgona. "Crap, I've spent too–" she was cut off when she heard Toji growling.

"Oi, old fart, give me another fucking dragona." He growled, his glares were digging holes on the man. Yet, after another batch of broken dalgona he was losing his temper, so the mister said, "You can now have this dalgona bear, young man, you've spent more than the actual price of that." He ended up giving the dalgona bear to them, to which Y/n thanked him, "Enjoy on your date!" the man shouted, waving his hand.

Y/n waved her hand back but Toji bowed his head because she glared at him when he called the man an old fart. Although he can't believe that she made him apologize to someone he doesn't even know, he still liked it because it made her happy. He was used to being all big and tough, but when it comes to her, he's a whipped wolf.

"Have you tried street foods before?" Y/n asked with an idiotic smile on her face as she enjoyed the craftsmanship of the candy.

"No, we're used to eating food made by international chefs and such." He only mumbled.

This caused Y/n to stop from surprise, "You did not..."

"Yeah–" Y/n yanked him towards a street food vendor, making him open his mouth and said, "Here, eat this."

Toji could only sigh at her, "Who the fuck would fry a tangerine and sell it?" he groaned as he looked at a sizzling orange ball with a furrowed brow. The vendor could only internally cry at his demeanor.

"Just try it!" Y/n blew the steam out of it before pushing it closer to Toji who currently had a grim expression on his face, "You don't want it?" This saddened her expression so he immediately ate the street food from the skewer stick without any word. "Do you like it?"

Toji grimaced at the sour taste of vinegar, but still proceeded to chew, making his eyes glisten from delight, "It's good." Another type of street food Y/n showed her, "What do you think it is?" she asked.

"Uhm..." he scrutinized the dark appearance of it before deciding to name it hilariously, "it's a grilled chocolate." Both vendor and Y/n laughed together at him, "No, this isn't chocolate, it's the blood of the condemned souls searching for the light." She said with a grim expression, initiating another pit of laughter. "Look at this big alpha getting scared!" The vendor hollered in between laughter.

"Who told you I'm scared..." he asked but ended up as an intimidating statement which silenced the vendor.

Their times trying different types of street food had ended, "Where are we going now? Are we going home now?" she asked.

There was a moment of silence for Toji at that moment, because he never thought that someone would call his boring and lifeless condo a home when he doesn't even considered it as one, "Nope, we're going to Megumi, I told him to take Itayuji in–"

"We're going to see Yuji?!" she exclaimed, barely even letting him finish.

"Yeah..."

The two of them went together to Megumi's apartment. The ride was silent but comfortable, however, Y/n doesn't even know who Megumi is, but none of that matters to her as of now because all she was thinking about was her friend.

Toji barely parked his car when Y/n opened the door and hopped out of the car and went straight towards the building, "Y/n, wait. You're not gonna get in!" Fushiguro yelled at her but she was too focused to even hear him, resulting for him to growl, "That woman..." he followed her towards the entrance where she's having an argument with the guard.

"What do you mean I can't?"

"Miss, yes, this is a public property but..." the guard eyed her from top to bottom, "not for anyone,''

"Wow, so you're saying I look too poor to get in?" She scoffed at her, making a quotation mark in the air as she emphasized the word poor, "Look at my shades," she said pointing at the shades she's wearing bought by Toji, "Can't you see it's branded? I swear, I've been in a place much larger than this, it's owned by the Fushi–" she was cut off when Toji put his hand over her mouth.

"Why do you always have to be caught up in trouble without me?" He whispered in her ear, though her response was muffled by his voice. His attention immediately went to the guard, "She's with me. We're here for Megumi Fushiguro." He said before walking past him, but the guard put his baton out and blocked them from entering, "I will call the police to take you instead, weirdos."

Toji rolled his eyes when he realized that he's wearing that stupid disguise that's why they didn't let them in, he pulled his ROOK glasses to reveal his face and glared at the man before saying, "Are you happy now?"

The guard felt the literal horror when he saw his intimidating face, and all he could do was to point his shaky baton to Y/n so he could also have a look of her face. Y/n was pulling her cap off when Toji put his huge hand over her head and pushed it back, "She's with me, that's all you need to know." He said before storming off, making the guard let out a breath he didn't know he was holding all this time.

"This is my first time in this job and yet I failed," the guard whined to himself, "and why are Fushiguros scary? This is all crap, after this day I'll treat myself with onigiri with okaka..."

Meanwhile, Megumi and Toji were having a staredown contest at the younger Fushiguro's doorway, "Who are you?" he asked them. Making Toji finally snapped out and pulled the glasses harshly away from his face with a very irritated look, the veins on his neck were popping from beneath as he refrained himself from lashing out because of how stupid he really looked.

"Yuji!" Y/n shouted from outside the doorway but still in front of Megumi.

"What the–"

"I'm going in," Toji barged in while holding Y/n on her shoulders.

"Yuji?" Y/n wandered her eyes yet found no trace of her friend, "Yuji's not here."

A/N:

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