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While itadori pulled a trash can to the side to look through the next sukuna kept bugging him in the back of his head. “Brat, while this garbage adventure is truly riveting, you can’t keep rummaging through trash for the rest of your life. How long have we been doing this?” Itadori grunted dismissively at sukuna while reaching for an out of date half eaten sandwich.
“It’s only been three weeks suk, and unless you have any better ideas we’ll probably be staying here for a while.” While sukuna definitely didn’t enjoy being homeless and sleeping next to stray cats, he knew itadori didn’t have much of a choice in the matter and decided to give up the argument to think of a solution in his domain.
Back when Yuuji was just abandoned by his parents in the middle of nowhere in some forest, he had run into an abandoned underground mine looking for a place to stay. Coincidentally finding one of sukuna’s fingers, he decided that eating any resemblance to meat was better than the luminescent mushrooms surrounding the forest that almost killed him last time.
Which now resulted in the current situation of a plotting sukuna in his conscience trying to find a way for yuuji to Acquire some food and hopefully a shelter for the night. without murdering anybody.
After an hour of silence itadori started to get irritated at being alone without his guardian, Whining, the 10 year old huffed and crawled around the back of the dumpster to take a nap
“Suk what are you doing being so quiet, this is almost worse than the time you tried to get me to eat that flower shop girl!” Sukuna grumbled under his breath, something about how she looked nutritious.
While he still agreed with his previous statement, trying not to collect any more trauma for the boy to work through and keeping his tracks clean from those damn sourceres would have been too troublesome. Hold on a minute, sukuna suddenly paused for a moment as one of the worst ideas generated in his mind.
“Brat, oi squirt wake up!” Yuuji grumbled
“What is it now suk? Want to break into a house and ransack it, because for the last time I’m not doing it!” Itadori turned away from the opening from the alleyway and curled further into the alley corner.
“no not that but, oh never mind go to sleep. I’ll wake you up if anything happens” that idea should stay in his own head for once, sukuna thought. The little boy grumbled a goodnight and started drifting off to sleep again.
Around 4 hours later sukuna started noticing the signs of rain and took control of Yuuji’s arm to check the temperature.
In the domain he couldn’t feel outside pressures so checking the temperature before rain was essential to see if the little brat was lying about being comfortable again.
While the squirt had been in worse it doesn’t make it any better that the arm he took control over was shivering terribly as well as his whole body.
Sukuna tutted to himself about yuuji before realising that he couldn’t keep his vessel safe like this. He had begrudgingly grown quite attached to the little boy through their endeavours and decided to take care of the child out of pity and the fact that he was stuck to the child for the rest of his little life.
What started as a pass time became his treasure and now sukuna had to do what he thought was best. Even if that meant compromising with the bane of his existence.
“Squirt wake up now” sukuna demanded loudly “you can’t stay like this so I’ve found a solution”
Itadori woke up and yawned while stretching
“what now suk?” Sukuna sighs heavily, dread flowing through his veins as he explains to yuji.
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At about 4:30 am Gojo strolls up to the front gate of jujutsu sorcerer's academy sensing one of the most sinister cursed energies he has ever felt and struts up to the gate fully tensed and alert, expecting at least a special class curse waiting for him.
Looking around satoru finds a soaking small wet child standing at the front gates of the academy, looking around five or six although upon further inspection appears to be around nine or ten and heavily malnourished.
While the many questions arise, the most current one is who this small child is and how he is here. “Hello there little guy, what are you doing all the way out here?” While Gojo is sceptical about this child that radiates pure cursed energy he is definitely more interested than anything.
The child stands for a second and starts muttering quietly to himself before seemingly gaining courage and Turning towards Gojo and steeling himself
“ u-um hello mister Gojo, my friend said that I could get some food here” the child paused for a moment “and maybe a bed? If it’s not too much trouble” And now Gojo was just more perplexed than before. Friend? Mister Gojo? Who was this child’s friend and how did they know his name?
“I’m sorry little man but I don’t think your at the right place” Gojo smiled feeling sorry for the kid
The child stayed quiet for a while with his head down, sniffling supposedly. But when the child raised his head Gojo immediately became more alert than before.
The child had black marking across his arms and face and seemed to have changed his demeanour from quiet and docile to hostile in a second.
While satoru was surprised, nothing prepared him for the child grabbing his collar and yanking him down to his level and snarling
“ listen Gojo this child is about the only thing I care about enough to compromise with you like this, so unless you give this child food, a bed and some fucking therapy then I will rip you limb from limb and destroy everything that you find good in the world”
Absolutely baffled Gojo burst out laughing hysterically. So this was sukuna’s vessel, While it was a problem for him to keep the higher up’s away from sukuna’s vessel, satoru certainly couldn’t leave this kid here alone.
“You've got yourself a deal! I’ll take you in and guide you like the loving parent I was meant to be!” Gojo emphasised with his hands in the air “alright then, I’ll take you to the principal and then we can get you a bath, you reek!” While the sorcerer leaned in and put his hand out to guide him, sukuna slapped it away immediately
“I’m only doing what’s best for the kid so don’t try that shit with me sourcerer, I will rip your world to shreds” Sukuna grumpily strutted through the gates grumbling about how he will always be itadori’s guardian and some sorcerer can’t change anything .