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[a_darker_path]

"He actually went out for a while. I didn't do anything to Satoru, but if you'd like to come in and wait, I could make you some tea." Suguru is not at all hiding a smile at the expression on the girl's face and trying to look properly chastened at the thread.

"My name is Geto Suguru. I'm staying with him for the time being."

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Alluka blinks but breathes a sigh of relief. She's very glad nothing has happened to Gojo, nothing bad. Going out is a totally normal thing. It's even what she's done here and now! "You call him Satoru," she whispers. "Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh."

She has ideas™ now.

"I would very much like to come in," Alluka declares. "You can have his lollipop if you want. I can always buy him another one."

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"I do. We're friends at home." He confirms quietly. "And while I appreciate the offer, you can hold onto it for him. I'm not nearly the fan of sweets as he is." He moves aside to let her enter before closing the door.

"Have you had lunch?"

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"Mmhmm," Alluka says. Friends. She's sure they're very good friends. The best friends. Friends who are "staying together for the time being." She's read stories. She knows what that means.

"I will do that," Alluka says, "And no, no lunch! I was going to see if Gojo wanted to have lunch, but I'm happy to have lunch with you!" She gives him a smile.

Then, however, she takes in the apartment in greater detail. It's not that it looks that different, really, but it feels different. It feels lived in, not just like Gojo is squatting in an empty apartment building. "So this is how you design a shrine to Gojo," Alluka comments. "This isn't how I imagined he'd make it look."

That's the other reason she visited, to see if he decorated.

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"Do you like onigiri?" It's more of a snack but he can heat them up. "Or I can make you a ricebowl if you have preferences on meat or vegetables." The shrine comment has him arching an eyebrow slightly before he walks into the kitchen.

It's not really a shrine. That's not really something we do unless someone dies."

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"Oh yes! I've never made it, but I know all the ingredients," Alluka grins. Because those are the only words Toge says. "I don't really cook, but Nanika is learning how to bake. She'll probably learn how to cook too. So then there'll be onigiri all the time!" Of course Nanika is going to learn to make Toge's favorite food. He's the one teaching her how to bake.

"I know," Alluka says, "but I told Gojo that cleaning and decorating where you live is like making a shrine to yourself, and I promised to come back and see what his Gojo shrine looked like. You've beaten him to it though." Because taking care of the home is like taking care of you. She's only had a room most of her life, but she took very good care of it.

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"It's not that hard to make if you want me to show you?' He offers, glancing at Alluka for a moment before pulling out the container of rice in the fridge.

"And I see. That makes sense. He said he hadn't been living here that long though."

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Alluka considers the offer. She doesn't care too much about how to cook, but he's offering. Nanika had a lot of fun. "Okay!" she accepts and skips her way over into the kitchen to learn from the boy in love with Gojo.

"No, but it's good he's found a place. And a person. It's more fun living with another person." She declares it so. After all, she didn't move into a place until she had someone to live with. Alluka didn't want to live alone again.

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"It can be." Suguru agrees before setting up the rice cooker, turning it on and then turning back to Alluka.

"Help yourself to the drinks in the fridge. There's tea and juice. The rice'll take about 10 minutes to warm up properly so we can start. Do you have any fillings you want to try?"

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Alluka sets her elbows on the counter, rests her chin in her hands, and stares over at Geto. It suuuuuure can be. It's not quite heart eyes she's giving him. It's transitive heart eyes. Seeing the heart eyes he has.

"Salmon! And tuna! And spicy cod roe! With fish flakes!" She starts ticking off her fingers and trying to remember which ingredients go on the outside versus the inside.

Alluka stands up and goes over to the fridge. When she opens it, she stares. It's... full of real food, home cooked food. "Woooow," Alluka says, "You made all this?" She pulls out a juice to pour for herself.

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He can feel her staring and he's honestly tryinhg to ignroe it for the moment, at least until she moves to the fridge.

"It helped pass the time." He shrugs a shoulder, before reaching around her to pull out some of the ingredients requested before grabbing others from the cabinet, setting them on the counter with the seaweed.

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"I guess you and Gojo really hung out a lot," Alluka says, "To have the Lore for all this." She's happy for them, extremely happy. She was sixteen a couple times in some of the alternate worlds. She remember what older teenagers like to do.

"That helps to pass the time too," Alluka says. She frowns slightly. "Unless you did this all by yourself? Gojo doesn't cook, but was he at least hanging out with you while you cooked?" She sets the juice on the counter but waits to get a glass so she can fix Geto with eyes of concern.

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"He said he had plenty. I've only been here a few days." And while he's met some people, he hasn't been really all that outgoing. Not that he usually is.

"I cooked it, yeah. He was asleep for some of it." As he should be. There are things better left unsaid at this point and he's more interested in seeing Satoru settle than bringing all of that up again.

"Let me get you a glass." He sets one on the counter for her before turning to wash his hands.

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"Oh wow, sharing Lore, that's very a lot," Alluka says completely sure of herself. So it isn't just Geto who's in love with Gojo. It's both of them! That's even better. Yes yes, very good, just as it should be.

"Thank you," Alluka says, opens the juice, and caaarefully pours it into the glass. She leaves the juice out, however, because she will want more. She sips a good amount of the juice.

"When were you asleep?" Alluka asks. Her wide eyes are innocent, but she's paying attention.

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"At night." Because she doesn't need to know how little sleep he got. He got enough to function on and that's what matters.

"Do you live in the building?"

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Alluka gives him a look, sighs exasperatedly, and considers giving him a hug. Perhaps after the cooking lesson. The rice is already warming up, and while she'd eat plain rice, onigiri will be so much better.

"I used to! Now I live on a boat. Catbus was really nice and picked me up and brought me right over here. Super fast."

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"Is that a person?" He refills his tea cup from the kettle and adds a tea infuser.

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"That is a cat that is a bus. A huge cat, a bus sized cat. Has windows and everything. Jumps through Folkmore," Alluka explains. She pulls out her relic and finds a photo of catbus. "See?"

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"And that's safe?" Because looking at the picture now and it's not really giving him the good feelings.

"Things like that aren't really known for being safe where I'm from."

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"Yes, silly," Alluka says, "Catbus isn't from your world. I've been to your world. It's totally different."

She pats him on the arm. "Catbus is from Folkmore and perfectly safe. If you're lucky enough to catch Catbus you can get around Folkmore even faster than the trains," Alluka explains, "You really need to get out of this apartment sometime."

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"I'll keep that in mind." The rice cooker goes off, and he pops it open, finding a scoop for her to use so she can pull out the rice before molding it.

"Don't overfill it, then form it arouned the filling."

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He might need a hug sooner than later. He's very nice and helpful, and Alluka appreciates he's making her a snack. It just seems like he isn't taking care of himself nearly as well. Maybe she can tell Gojo?

"Okay," Alluka says. She fills the scoop until it's flat across the surface, the way Nanika talks about using measuring cups, and pulls the rice around a piece of salmon. It's sticky but kind of like playing with some of the stuff she had as a kid. "Ball of rice. Ball of rice. My family didn't eat these growing up. Rice sure, of course, who doesn't eat rice, but our food was more serious unless I asked for something goofy."

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He moves, gives her more space to make the riceballs as she likes, only offering advice here and there.

"You might be able to find molds at ones of the shops here to make them look different."

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Alluka makes as many riceballs as she can, around all the kinds of fillings. It's a lot of fun and not that hard.

"Molds like animals? Like a panda?" Alluka asks. "Soooo, how long have you known Gojo?"

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"You might be able to find a panda one." Not that he knows every option and he moves to take a seat, half watching her.

"A couple of years. We're students at the same school."