Baseball

The uncomfortable bed he was currently sat on wasn't great, it wasn't bad, just not great. He laid his head back against the cold white wall behind him.

He was shirtless as he let Shoko Ieiri work on the worst of his wounds, he winced as he shifted slightly the wounds protesting.

Back in the forest he couldn't even feel the wounds after they happened. He sighed as he thought back to the fight, he honestly wanted to fight Hanami as well but that would disrupt some major development for Itadori.

But it's probably best he didn't join in, he remembered back to when he was carrying an unconscious Maki. He nearly laughed at the memory of his adrenaline suddenly leaving, he almost dropped Maki and he would have if it wasn't for Panda.

He smiled at the memory of Panda carrying Megumi, Maki and himself on his shoulders. The memory did raise another thought in him.

"How's Megumi and Maki?" He asked Shoko, he knew they were fine in Canon but butterfly effect and all, but he was also just curious how they were doing.

She replied quickly and bluntly "They are both fine, Megumi has been fixed up and Maki was simply so exhausted she passed out so both of them are on bed rest."

"Can I see them?" He asked, he wasn't exactly sure he was bothered to see them but he was mainly curious and wanted a distraction from the pain of his wounds.

The response was quick and blunt once more. "Yes, but you should have some rest yourself first, these wounds are nothing to scoff at" she sighed as she continued healing him.

She looked exhausted and it made sense, she was one of the only people in the world who could heal others with cursed energy, he looked up at the ceiling and started to think about medical Ninjutsu.

The shifting of cloth alerted him to her standing and he looked over to the Doctor. "Alright you're done, you need to stay here to rest, those wounds will hurt for a while." She turned to leave before she turned her head and said over her shoulder "Make sure to take your antibiotics!".

A smile made its way onto his face before he slowly moved from sitting and made his way into laying down on the uncomfortable bed, he winced as his freshly healed skin complained but eventually laid down and closed his eyes.

—-

He felt himself stir awake slowly, he yawned as he carefully sat up and leaned back against the uncomfortable beds headboard. He heard cloth shifting and quickly turned his head in surprise.

"Oh, hey Maki" he said, surprised to see her in his room, she was just as surprised to see him awake, she jumped at his voice and turned to him in surprise.

She blinked before speaking "Hello" she visibly swallowed "well uh I was here to let you know about the baseball game" Boruto furrowed his eyebrows.

"Are you sure about that?" He questioned with a slight smile "don't worry I know why you're really here" he said with his smile turning into a grin.

"What, you do?" She questioned hesitantly, her eyes seemed to slightly widen behind her glasses.

He leaned back while putting his hands behind his hand before he mockingly nodded solemnly, his grin still on his face "Yep, you're here to thank me of course. I did save you after all" he sighed "I even carried you all the way back".

He watched her face go deadpan before she said one thing that shattered his illusion "Panda told me you almost dropped me and that he had to carry you back as well" and it seems she had stolen Boruto's grin and put it on her face leaving Boruto to stare at the ceiling.

"Well I'm sure Panda was uh, overwhelmed so he probably remembers it differently" he smiled before speaking again "But the point still stands that you passed out in my arms and I had to heroically carry you to medical assistance"

She snorted before replying "Ha…ha. Very funny but I only came here to let you know about the Baseball game, it's happening tomorrow so let's hope you're all healed up for it." She said as she stood and started to leave.

He nodded at her and smiled to himself before laying back down on the cardboard this place called a bed.

He turned back to her as she spoke once more "Thank you." she said in a soft tone as she left and closed the door behind her quickly.

'Huh…that was odd'

—-

"So are you excited about the game?" Boruto asked his fellow yearmate Itadori. Who responded with a smile and a nod.

"Yep! I can't wait, I haven't played Baseball in ages" he said with a grin and a bounce in his step, damn Itadori was way easier to speak to than his bloody teammates.

He was on the bench waiting for his turn to Bat, Maki had just come back after her hit was caught by the girl on the broom.

"Huh that's cool I guess" Boruto mused to himself "anyway Itadori glad to officially meet you, I know we met when you and Gojo Sensei found me on that roof, but that was brief and I didn't even get your name." Boruto replied as he was intending to have a decent relationship with Itadori.

Itadori met his eye with a grin "Ah yeah nice to meet ya! Guess we already know each other's name already though, so uh what's your type of woman?" Itadori asked with his eyes narrowed.

Boruto almost laughed out loud but noticed Itadori was dead serious, and then it was even harder to contain his laugh. "Huh well that's difficult, let me think for a moment" he would have laughed if he didn't notice Todo was now staring intently at him.

Where the hell did Todo come from? This wasn't his bench! He also realised most of the bench were listening in on his answer. "It's fine if you prefer men, however I still want to know your type" Todo said randomly, his eyes narrowed.

Boruto shook his head as he continued to think, ignoring Todo's statement.

Huh if he answered wrong Itadori and Todo might jump him, he almost laughed again at the mental image he grinned before he answered. "Hmm well, I do like older women especially when they have bigger boobs" he nodded as he finished his answer.

He could have just said the same as Itadori and Todo did but he wasn't just going to copy, plus he also wanted to see both of their reactions to his taste.

He looked over to see Todo sagely nod before he went back to doing whatever he was doing previously, he turned to Itadori to see him grinning "Yeh that's an alright answer" Itadori suddenly got up from his seat "Yes! My turn to bat!"

He looked to his left to see who was now sitting next to him and saw Maki who seemed distracted, he inched over to her and wanted to start a conversation. It was quite boring without Itadori.

"You wanna spar after this?" He asked her. Sparring with her was always fun after all.

He nudged her with his shoulder when she didn't respond and she jolted and turned to him "what?" She seemed agitated and distracted, which was odd.

"You good? You seem pretty distracted." He asked her to which she turned away with her cheeks a shade of pink.

'Her cheeks are pink…She's blushing! That means only one thing in anime' his eye was wide at the thought. "Don't worry I'm uh just thinking of someone" she said as her cheeks only darkened more.

"Who?" He asked curious to who was on her mind.

"Oh uh…Yuta, yeah uh Yuta he's a second year" she answered which made Boruto's shoulders slouch.

"Who's Yuta?" he asked bluntly, of course he knew who Yuta was but he couldn't reveal anything odd about his knowledge.

"He's a second year, but he's strong, like way stronger than me and even stronger than you-" he didn't even continue to listen as she rambled on about Yuta.

Fuck that guy, never liked him anyway.

—-

All the way in Africa a sorcerer was in the middle of training and suddenly stopped as he felt somewhere in the world someone had suddenly gained a very large amount of Hatred for him.

"Huh that was weird" he shrugged it off, it was probably just a random curse.

—-

"-sane I mean it's super insane how much cursed energy he has, do you know he has more than Goj-" Maki rambled on.

Was she still talking about Yuta?

As soon as Itadori had finished his home run Boruto had left the still talking Maki mid speech to have his go with the Bat.

He walked over to the batting spot and grabbed the metal baseball bat, he quickly made sure to test its weight before he turned to the Mechamaru machine pitching.

He stood ready for the Ball, he pulled the bat back behind his shoulder and watched as the ball came flying at him.

The ball would regret being sent at him.

He swung.

The ball was sent flying, flying so far that no matter what the ball did it would never be able to get back to this stupid baseball pitch.

The ball would have to start its own family wherever it currently is, because no way in hell is it ever coming back to its current ball family.

Maybe he sent the ball into Yutas head 'huh that would be great' he thought to himself as he dropped the bat and walked around the pitch.

Seriously fuck that guy.