Shidou didn't let Gojo recover or say a word. He pressed forward, attacking with fast jabs as Yuji looked on in shock. As a finishing move, he tried to attack with a devastating right hook, putting all his strength into it, to end the fight as quickly as possible, but Gojo suddenly blurred and grabbed the right arm of Shidou and pulled, spinning him around to hit a backhand to the face.
Bam
Gojo backed off, watching as Shidou tried to regain his bearings with a smile. His left cheek was bruised, which was slowly turning purple.
"You were too impatient, Shidou," Gojo said lightly. "Next time, if you see an opportunity like this, I want you to think more thoroughly. But great job on hitting me - I guess you can really back up your words. Still, as your sensei, I can't let you embarrass me in front of another one of my students, so I apologize for what I'm about to do to you."
"Are you seriously trying to teach me while fighting?" Shidou asked.
"Of course I would," Gojo replied with a shrug. "Isn't that what teachers do?"
'Was he holding back? He somehow got much faster, I couldn't even track him, no i must be hallucinating, maybe my body is a little tired after all those jabs, yeah, that's it, and what was that move he did? Shidou thought as he regained himself.
He slowly closed the distance between him and Gojo instead of attacking right away, learning from his earlier mistake.
'His perception is something else, for it to win against my six eyes, what a monster.' Gojo thought.
Gojo suddenly kicked up a huge amount of dirt and grass, which obscured Shidou vison for a little bit, but it was more than enough for Gojo. He grabbed Shidou's arm and slammed his palm into his stomach, making Shidou spit. Then, he proceeded to hit four more powerful palm strikes, sending Shidou into the air while being grasped.
"Always make sure to focus on your surroundings, never underestimate how useful taking advantage of the environment can be."
He let go of Shidou's arm and then hit a vertical fist to his gut, and then a palm strike to his cheek, sending him crashing to the ground. Shidou got up slowly with his face covered with red marks from Gojo's palm.
"Wing Chun, right?" Shidou said, a faint smirk on his face.
"Ho? You figured out my martial art technique," Gojo said, a grin spreading across his face.
"Show me, Shidou," he added, stepping forward. "How do you plan to use this information to your advantage?"
'I must adapt.' Shidou thought.
He closed the distance between him and Satoru slowly again, and then he tried to grab his arm, but Gojo easily dodged it. Shidou then attacked with a palm strike, but Gojo deflected it.
'Fuck I can't hit him.'
A snowy landscape then appeared in Shidou's mindscape. In front of him was a giant mountain that dwarfed his own, and he could faintly see a figure above the giant mountain who would have been unnoticeable if it weren't for its piercing, icy blue eyes.
'Gojo.'
Shirou then started climbing the mountain, desperate to reach the peak, even as his fingers grew numb and turned purplish. He eventually reached the top, but just as he did, the Gojo figure faded away. The mountain landscape then changed; he was at the bottom again.
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Gojo attacked with another palm strike towards Shirou's cheeks, but instead of hitting it, Shirou did the same move, pushing both of them back. Gojo thought it was a fluke and attacked again with a vertical punch, but was met with the same vertical punch from Shirou.
'He's copied Wing shu but it's not just that he somehow got faster? no he didn't, did he combined his boxing footwork with Wing Shu as I did, but for it to synchronize perfectly in such a short amount of time...Yuta, Hakari, it seems you have a new rival.' Gojo thought, smiling.
Gojo and Shirou clashed again, and it was just as he expected; every single move he made, Shirou would counter it perfectly, despite being able to read him using his six eyes. It was almost like fighting himself, but he noticed that Shirou was getting tired; it seemed like copying his moves was taxing on his body, so he decided to overwhelm him with a flurry of attacks that would make him run out of juice or knock him out.
'If he relies on his footwork to overcome my speed, then how would he react in the air?' Gojo thought.
He jumped up in the air and hit Shirou with a spinning heel kick into a hook, which completely caught Shirou off guard. Despite his perception being enhanced, it had a weakness, and it was speed.
Gojo then did a tornado kick, into a backhand, straight punch, hook, then multiple slaps across the face, punch to the mouth, punch to the chest, and then another slap, throat punch, backhand, punch to the gut, and then another backhand, and then four straight hooks that sent Shirou flying into unconsciousness.
Yuji went down and immediately checked up on Shirou, lightly slapping his face to wake him up.
'Sensei took it too far.' Yuji thought, frowning slightly.
Eventually, Shirou woke up and instantly slammed his hands on the ground, clenching his jaw so hard that it hurt. He was trying his best to control his rage; he had been embarrassed two times by Gojo in total, but this one was the biggest embarrassment of all.
He had lost in hand-to-hand combat, his bread and butter; it was something he was so confident in that he genuinely believed he was the best fighter back in his previous world.
'What is the point? He's perfect at everything. What the fuck was Gege doing? I'm up against a Gary Stu.'
Shidou reflected on his goal, which was to surpass Gojo.
'Could I even achieve that, to truly surpass him i have to not only be able to beat him in a fight but be better than him at everything. I can't even beat him in hand-to-hand combat, and I don't know how talented I am in Jujutsu. I'm I chasing a pipedream, is this what it feels like to be weak?'
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A/N: Sorry for the delay I was on a three day trip and didn't have the time to write, just got back home today and sorry for the short chapter, I wasn't really feeling motivated during the time I was writing it but I didn't want you guys to be waiting long, I'll make sure the next chapter is extra long.