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    “That’s an ugly pet you’ve got there,” Satoru comments, peering over Yuuji’s shoulder for a better look at the blob of baby-pink flesh he’s cradling.

    A baleful red eye bores into him. “Gojou Satoru—”

    “I think he’s kinda cute.”

    Sukuna’s comically tiny mouth—made all the more hilarious by how the voice coming from within is still his deep bass—snaps shut, that single eye swiveling back to Yuuji while dripping offense and incredulity.

    “Cute?” Satoru asks, joining Sukuna in staring at Yuuji.

    There’s an unrepentant shrug. “Like a very weird cat. I think he’d be a cat, if he were an animal. You too, sensei. Different types, though. Very different.”

    “You’ve…put a lot of thought into this,” Satoru says faintly.

    “I’ve had a lot of time to think.” Yuuji smiles. The first smile Satoru’s seen from him, and all he can think is that Yuuji should never, ever smile—not like this. “Hey, Sukuna? If I give you the choice to stay with me, you’ll just say no again, right?”

    In one world, death snatches Satoru away from the arms of victory. In this one, his student saves him from the jaws of death.

    But this isn’t the Yuuji he knows.

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    “After so much death and destruction, I never thought I would bring life into this world.”

    “You believe him to be yours?” It was not a mere question of relation, but the possibility of this boy being their master’s direct progeny. Uraume was doubtful in comparison. Rarely had they observed their master indulge in carnal desires without satiating a different hunger afterward. When had there been an opportunity for his prey to escape? The answer was never. Yet, Uraume would concede that they did not know Sukuna all his life. Given their current estimations of the boy’s age, it would mean he was spawned well before Uraume had pledged themselves to their master’s side. Still…

    “His cursed energy and strength alone… The hatred he carried felt far too personal. If not for dishonoring his mother, then what? Not that I could possibly remember who she could be…”

     

    ♦ Uraume observes their master's reunion with the strange and unruly son he never knew he had. A son who doesn't appear to want anything to do with him, yet if that were truly the case, then why did his path converge with theirs?

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    “Hey, isn’t this guy supposed to be dead?” Itadori grabbed Jogo’s severed arm which was holding his chin, and in a blink the flesh and blood practically minced itself into dust.

    A different voice replied, the mouth on Itadori’s cheek, full of sharp teeth and a deep smokey voice. “Kill him then.”

    Jogo leapt back, joining the two sorcerer girls to distance himself from what was clearly Sukuna.

    Itadori was on his feet in a blink, as if he was above the pedestrian act of scrambling off the floor. Head high, the corners of his mouth tugged oddly. He was the same boy Jogo had met while facing Gojo.

    Except standing before him, on this final night of October, Jogo could feel something about the boy’s presence lodge in his throat. Deep and black like murky waters, the weight of being near this Itadori made air in Jogo’s chest weigh him down. Crushing like the mountains crushing the organs and gnashing the bones of an ill fated spelunker.

    Yuji and Sukuna go places--- like a universe that's canon adjacent--- and kind of do their thing. (Can be read as a stand alone)

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    Nothing makes sense here.
    All he knows is that his name is Itadori Yuji, he’s eighty-three years old, the year is 2086, and he is stuck in an alien’s technique. There is no other option.
    There can’t be.

    Or, eighty-three-year-old Itadori Yuji appears in Sendai just a few blocks away from where his fifteen-year-old counterpart eats Sukuna's finger.

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    “You know, everyone’s trying to make me scared of you. I’ve never been scared of anything, and I don’t think I know how to be,” Yuji admitted. He wasn’t sure why. It just felt like the thing to say.

    “Only the weak know fear,” Sukuna replied simply.

    “Are you saying I’m strong?” Yuji grinned around the coke bottle before he took another drink. It was funny in a bizarre way to be having such a casual conversation.

    Sukuna scoffed, “No. You’re just stupid.”

    It took Yuji a while. Mostly because he’d never known anyone like Sukuna, but eventually he understood. Whenever Sukuna called him stupid, he really meant ‘I love you.’

    Alternate Title: Old Man Claims Squatter’s Rights in Reincarnated Twin Brother’s Body. More at Eleven.

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