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Chifuyu huffed incredulously as he watched Takemichi stare at Hina from afar as if she’s not his girlfriend.
“Stop with the staring, Takemitchy! She’s yours already! Just say when and where and she’ll be there!” Chifuyu scolded, smacking the back of Takemichi’s head in the process.
Takemichi only narrowed his eyes at Chifuyu before returning his gaze back to his girlfriend, a look of awe written on his face.
“You won’t understand, Chifuyu. We are in a relationship but she has her life and I have my own life! I don’t wanna waste her precious time…” Takemichi mumbled, shyly waving back as Hina waved at him when she noticed him looking at her.
“Gosh you’re a lost cause…” Chifuyu mumbled, facepalming. Takemichi who heard that was suddenly super offended, crossing his arms over his chest and letting out a little ‘hmph!’ Chifuyu only raised an eyebrow at his best friend’s behaviour.
“What? What do you expect me to do after you act like that?” Chifuyu deadpanned, clearly done with Takemichi simping for Hinata.
Takemichi, for some reason, thought it was funny to flick Chifuyu’s forehead. Chifuyu immediately started rubbing his forehead, grumbling and wondering how that flick actually hurt.
“Well, Chifuyu, put up with me simping from afar just this once, please? I’ve suffered enough watching you simping for Baji-kun so deal with my simping too.” Takemichi casually said, going back to staring at Hinata dreamily.
“Okay.” Chifuyu huffed.
Wait-
“SINCE WHEN DID I SIMP FOR BAJI-SAN FROM AFAR?!” Chifuyu suddenly tugged on Takemichi’s collar, making eye contact with Takemichi who was silently praying to god to protect him from Chifuyu’s wrath.
“Eeep! Don’t beat me up man!!” Takemichi wailed, trying his hardest to take Chifuyu’s hand off his shirt.
Sometimes, Chifuyu wondered if he should teach Takemichi how to fight before he actually died because someone beat him up.
“Just answer the question man!” Chifuyu grumbled, letting go of Takemichi as the other boy scrambled back to fix his clothes.
It was silent for a while until Takemichi cleared his throat, as if getting ready to tell him a story.
“Well, remember that one time when Baji-kun punched the shit out of that dude who threatened Mikey-kun?” Takemichi started, observing Chifuyu’s reaction.
Chifuyu, as expected, lit up, his eyes sparkling.
“OF COURSE! BAJI-SAN WAS SO COOL! HIS MOVEMENTS LOOKED SO CALCULATED AND SMOOTH AND- HAVE I TOLD YOU HE’S THE COOLEST?!” Chifuyu exclaimed, feeling proud of Baji, the first division captain all of a sudden.
Takemichi grinned, his eyes forming crescent as he chuckled,
“See? You’re simping without even noticing that you’re simping!”
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Chifuyu’s head was a mess.
After Takemichi had dropped the bomb on him, his head failed to function ever since.
Takemichi even had the nerve to say ‘everyone’ knew how infatuated Chifuyu was towards Baji!
(“Stop joking around, Takemitchy! It’s not funny!”
“I’m not joking around! What? You want proof of you simping-”
“SAVE IT! Am going home.”)
“Oi. Fuyu. What ya thinking about?”
Baji’s voice immediately pulled him out of his thoughts, reminding Chifuyu that they’re currently having their recess at the school’s rooftop.
“Nothing. Just some weird stuff Takemitchy brought up when we were talking yesterday.” Chifuyu explained, his eyes looking around him before they landed on Baji.
The two of them were sitting cross-legged side by side, leaning against a wall. A clean bento box was placed between them and each of them had their own water bottle.
Chifuyu’s eyes stayed on Baji’s side profile, actually realising how handsome Baji’s side profile looked.
Yeah he got that funny getup of his lame ponytail and the thick glasses but he actually look kinda cute-
Wait-
Cute?
Before Chifuyu could snap himself out of his trance, his eyes went back to Baji who was saying something, yet none of Baji’s words were being processed because all of a sudden Baji decided it was a good idea to let his hair loose and took off his glasses.
Chifuyu literally stopped breathing.
Has he always been this good-looking? Has his fang always been so prominent? Why was his hair so pretty? And his eyes? Gosh his eyes were really pretty-
“Fuyu? You good?” Baji’s voice, once again, snapped out of his epiphany. Chifuyu looked into Baji’s eyes, wanting to apologise for not responding only for his breath to hitch because Baji was looking into his eyes and-
Gosh his eyes are really pretty-
“Oi! You’re staring!” Baji said and squished Chifuyu’s cheek, effectively taking back Chifuyu’s attention from simping-
Crap he was actually simping-
“Time’s up. We have to go to our classes.” Baji said, putting his hair into the same lame ponytail and thick glasses.
I can’t get the word ‘cute’ out of my head-
“Let’s go, Fuyu.” Baji urged and stood up, Chifuyu scrambling to follow after he snapped out of… whatever he was experiencing right now.
Right… simping…
They were about to go their separate ways when Baji called out to Chifuyu.
“Yes, Baji-san?”
“Hope you enjoyed the view.”
Chifuyu couldn’t stop blushing at all during the next classes, Baji’s wink and chuckle engraved in his head and playing again and again like a broken radio.
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Chifuyu came to the conclusion that it was normal to simp and gawk at Keisuke Baji.
Like,
Look how fine Baji looked just by breathing and doing literally nothing!
A Toman meeting had just ended, so everyone was everywhere. Most of them are going home, though some of them stayed and chatted around with each other.
Takemichi was called by Mikey a little earlier.
So now Chifuyu was left alone.
He came here with Baji actually. On Baji’s bike.
He wondered how he didn’t die from staring at an attractive creature named Keisuke Baji during the whole ride.
Chifuyu stayed seated on a ledge, staring at a group of people who were chatting nearby.
One of them being Baji of course.
The captains of the divisions were chatting about something, but he couldn’t decipher or hear whatever they were conversing about.
Thus, his ‘reason’ why he opted to stare at the first division captain.
Wow he’s actually really pretty like look at that hair! I really wanna play with his hair what the heck- Oh wait- I’ve played with his hair plenty of times already! Gosh Chifuyu get a grip of yourself-
“Yo! Chifuyu! Why are you staring at Baji-san like that?!”
Chifuyu literally jumped when Hakkai’s loud voice reached his ears, feeling Hakkai’s hand on his shoulder.
Chifuyu immediately turned his face to Hakkai, feeling himself cursing at the boy inwardly as he felt the tips of his ears reddening.
Both at being exposed AND feeling a certain someone’s gaze on him.
“Hakkai please stop doing whatever you’re about to do-”
“Baji-san! I think Chifuyu wanted to tell you something!” Hakkai cheerily called out, looking proud of himself as if he had helped a friend.
Well, he hasn’t. At all.
“Fuyu!”
Oh gosh he’s not ready for the humiliation of being found out-
Chifuyu, bracing himself for the worst, turned around and tried his best to mask his flushing face,
“Yes, Baji-san?”
He felt himself flushing even more when he caught Baji’s eye smile, Baji’s grin making himself tremble even more.
“Take a picture! It’ll last longer!”
Chifuyu’s just glad Baji simply told everyone that Chifuyu staring at him was simply an inside joke he and Chifuyu shared.
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Chifuyu can’t do this anymore.
“Yeay! Beach time everyone!” Hina cheered, grinning over to Takemichi who was a flustered mess.
Chifuyu really can’t do this anymore.
Who in the world asked for a beach episode?
“Oi! Fuyu! Takemitchy! Come here! We haven’t changed our clothes yet, remember?!” Baji’s voice dragged Chifuyu out of his miserable thoughts before Takemichi grabbed Chifuyu’s hand and dragged Chifuyu towards Baji.
Chifuyu decided it’s weird how fast Takemichi let go of his hand since Takemichi should know how terrible he’s feeling right now.
“Takemitchyyyy why did you let go of my handdd? You of all people should know how miserable am feeling right now-”
Chifuyu instantly stopped whining when he felt a hand, larger than Takemichi’s, holding his. The hold itself felt especially different to be compared with Takemichi’s hold.
Chifuyu felt his brain short circuit when he realised who’s hand was holding his.
“Hmm… That might be true because apparently, you haven’t told me you’re feeling miserable at the moment.” Baji spoke, leading the way as his eyes lingered on Chifuyu’s flushed face.
Gosh his eyes help-
“Uhhh it’s nothing important, Baji-san!” Chifuyu stammered, feeling Baji’s hand squeezing his. Chifuyu tried his best to find something else to pay attention to.
And he actually did.
Chifuyu successfully managed to make eye contact with Takemichi, that traitor, who was following Hina around like a puppy. Upon the eye contact, Chifuyu’s eyes seemingly twitched when Takemichi mouthed a ‘sorry’ to him.
Chifuyu’s about to ruin the whole man’s carrier-
Without realising, he had tried to take his hand out of Baji’s hold, trying to get revenge on a certain someone when he almost collided with someone else.
Lucky for Chifuyu, he didn’t collide with that someone.
Because Baji had pulled Chifuyu backwards and into his chest, and Chifuyu really can’t deal with the heat from the sun and Baji himself pressed flush together-
“Sorry!” Baji had apologised on his behalf while that random person just waved a hand in dismissal before continuing with his day.
Umm I’m pretty sure I won’t collide with anyone else so can Baji-san just let go of me before I combust-
“Oi. Chifuyu.”
Chifuyu felt shivers down his spine when he heard Baji’s voice right beside his ear.
Oh gosh his voice I’m-
“Why are you so determined to go to Takemichi? He got his own girlfriend. Let them have some time for themselves.” Baji reasoned, his hold on Chifuyu’s hand feeling tighter.
Chifuyu pondered the tone Baji had used to tell him that.
He sounded…off…
Without noticing, Chifuyu had started staring again.
I really should take a picture of Baji-san because he looks reaallyy cool and attractive as hell bathing in the sunlight like this-
“Oi.”
Gosh he ended up staring again-
“Y-yes, Baji-san?” Chifuyu stammered, feeling his cheeks heat up like freaking usual.
“Make sure you get all the photos you need today, okay? Going to the beach with the whole gang is a really rare opportunity.”
Chifuyu managed to successfully capture tons of pictures and promised some people to give them copies of the pictures.
Let’s just hope no one asks why so many of those pictures have Baji in it or why there are too many pictures of just Baji.
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“How many times have I told you to not pick on random pricks, Baji-san?”
“Do I look like someone who listens to what others say?”
“No. But you look like someone who’s smart enough to not make stupid decisions.”
They kept on going back and forth as Chifuyu tenderly helped clean Baji’s new wounds.
Apparently, Baji was pissed off by some pricks who were insulting Toman. So he decided to beat them up. As a supporting reason, he said he was in a bad mood so they had it coming.
Chifuyu only sighed as he made last touch ups before finally closing the first aid kit and putting it back inside Baji’s bathroom.
They were currently lounging around in Baji’s room since, a few hours prior, Chifuyu was studying with Peke J when he got a phone call from Baji.
Honestly, the wounds were not that bad since Baji was super strong to begin with, but Chifuyu still wanted to treat them.
There’s probably the fact that Chifuyu could stare at Baji without being noticed so it’s kinda like a ‘killing two birds with one stone’ situation.
Though now that he’s finished treating Baji’s wounds, he has no excuse anymore.
Since when was Chifuyu so adamant on staring at Baji even-
“Thanks, Fuyu.”
Baji’s soft voice immediately and effectively caught Chifuyu’s attention, his heart hammering wildly in his chest as Baji’s smile was automatically saved in his memory as ‘one of the most heart warming smiles I’ve ever seen in my whole life’.
A low chuckle grabbed his attention this time-
What’s up with Baji managing to get his attention all the damn time-
And once again, Chifuyu found himself staring at Baji.
Again.
Gosh this staring thing really won’t stop at all. Am not even trying to stare-
“It’s okay. I kinda got used to it. Surprised how you had just noticed that you kept staring at me.” Chifuyu hear Baji chuckled in amusement-
Wait-
Did I really just said that out loud-
“Well, I’ll just go make our dearest peyong yakisoba for us to share!” Baji exclaimed before sending a heart numbing smile towards Chifuyu and leaving the room.
Chifuyu really can’t calm his heart-
“Oh. And Chifuyu?”
Chifuyu felt himself holding a breath as he internally wondered how Baji could managed to get him every single time-
“You should’ve given me some of the pics you’ve captured at the beach! The guys kept saying that I look super cool in them!” Baji teased and he actually had the audacity to wink.
Chifuyu might as well just died at the spot.
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“Baji-san!”
Chifuyu delivered one last punch on the random dude who was trying to attack him before the dude finally blacked out.
Baji and Chifuyu were walking down the streets when some dudes sneak attacked them from behind.
Apparently, these dudes were friends of the pricks that Baji had beaten up a few days ago.
(“I’ve told you to stop wasting your time on random pricks, remember?”
“Yeah. Sometimes. But then again, because I beat those pricks up, we get to have a little fun for ourselves, yeah?”
“Whatever you say, Baji-san.”)
Though the dudes weren’t really that tough since even Chifuyu didn’t really get too many wounds.
Baji was probably untouchable.
And, as Chifuyu had thought, Baji really did come out untouchable.
His movements were calculated, smooth and on point. He could literally predict where the opponent would attack and what he should do to make the fight actually last.
Baji looked like he was dancing to a beat Chifuyu was not familiar with.
Baji-san is so cool!
“Sorry but that’s the end of the show, Fuyu!” Baji had announced, smiling smugly as Chifuyu was caught staring for the nth time that month.
Chifuyu simply grinned and followed Baji out of the random alley they decided to fight in, feeling his heart beated a tad bit faster when Baji turned to him and smiled cheekily.
He really was simping right from the start.
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“Baji-san! Why did you think I was a good guy when we first met?” Chifuyu asked, munching on a mouthful of food.
Baji hummed, discreetly eyeing the sauce at the corner of Chifuyu’s lips.
“Because you spoke normally to me? Honestly, you helped me write a letter so didn’t that count as something that a good dude would do?” Baji answered Chifuyu’s question, still eyeing the sauce that was on the corner of Chifuyu’s lips.
He should really be glad that he could stare more subtly than Chifuyu.
Once they had finished their shared peyoung yakisoba, Baji still found himself staring at the sauce that was still on the corner of Chifuyu’s lips.
For God’s sake that thing is damn-
“You got something on the corner of your lips.” Baji had said. Well, he planned he was supposed to do just that.
Though his body said otherwise.
Baji’s fingers instantly went and wiped the sauce of the corner of Chifuyu’s lips, his fingers grazing that soft lips and oh my gosh I should really get out of here before Chifuyu realised that I’m staring-
“B-Baji-san?”
Chifuyu’s voice broke Baji out of his trance, immediately retracting his hand as he tried to maintain his composure.
Baji cleared his throat when he heard the other giggled-
God dang it he giggled-
“Hope you enjoyed the view!” Chifuyu chirped, his tone was not teasing at all. He just sounded genuinely happy and-
And Baji wouldn’t have it any other way.
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