Destined to Collide - Inumaki Toge

1. First Kiss

The year is 2018, Spring. Flowers falls dreamily everywhere, creating a very scenic view up the mountains area. And it was just a few days prior to the start of the new school term. The school was quiet as usual, and this year, there will be a new transfer student in the Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College.

Unlike the rest of the new students, this particular one gets to enroll straight into the Second Years.

A black car stopped just outside of the college's main entrance. Gojo Satoru stepped out with all his pomp and eagerness to introduce the new student to his group of students in the school.

"Annnnd we're here!" the white haired Gojo Satoru exclaimed happily. "Welcome to your new school! And dorm. You're just in time to join your new group! It's the start of the year and you'll be joining the Second Years!"

Ijichi stepped out from the car and motioned kindly for the girl behind the car seat to get down too.

"It's alright, Tsukigami-san," the older man said to her. "Your registration with the school is completed by Gojo-san earlier already. You're all good to go."

"Thank you, Ijichi-san, Gojo-san," the girl said gratefully and stepped out of the car.

Gojo Satoru laughed. "It'll be Gojo-sensei from now on, Tsukigami. Or Gojo-sensei the Great if you'd like!"

"Gojo-sensei the Great then," the girl replied nonchalantly. Ijichi and Gojo froze.

What a godsent! Thought Satoru.

"Wait, for real?" Gojo cried in disbelief. Never he had a student willingly look up to him so quick into the school's session. Happiness blooms in his heart as he felt lightweight and over the moon for the praise that boosted his ego that he could no longer contain in his heart. "For real, real?"

The girl smiled, eyes twinkling at the whitehaired sorcerer. "Not really, Gojo-sensei."

His heart breaks into a million pieces.

"You're so mean, Tsukigami-kun!" Gojo cried in an overdramatic disappointed whine. "'Why are you so mean, Tsukigami! It's only your first day! Don't you want to be the teacher's favourite?"

The girl turned around halfway through the steps and smiled at the white-haired sorcerer. "I'm sorry, Gojo-sensei. I never said I was nice."

Ijichi almost chuckled. Gojo could very well finally found a student who could reign down his dramas. She just needs to maintain that meanness and it will all be a good dose of medicine for the eccentric sorcerer.

As she walks up the stairs towards the courtyard, Ijichi turns towards Gojo Satoru and asked, "Aren't you supposed to bring her around the school's compound? It's her first day here after all."

The sorcerer smiled. "I never promised her that. All I did was offer to send all her luggage into her new dorm room. Plus, she's young. She'd want to explore some stuff on her own."

"Did you tell her those restricted places?"

"Whatever for? Students are supposed to be allowed all the freedom of curiosity. That's how they learn and grow, Ijichi-san. Plus, she's smart. She'll know the boundaries."

"It's surprising how quickly she comes to terms with the death of her clan," Ijichi pondered contemplated openly. "Being the only one left, she will be the attention of every power hungry clan leaders in Japan."

Gojo inserted his hands into his pockets and stares at the gradually disappearing back of the new student. "Survival of the fittest. She's the only one left of the Tsukigami clan. She had to buck up quick and accept the fact that this is her world now. As to being the only one left, that means she has the final say in her suitors. She'll be fine, Ijichi."