#aka the time travel fic where Yuji stumbles across baby Sukuna and decides to try his hand at raising a mini king of curses

[ghxst-bird]

“Are you okay?”

He shouldn’t have stopped them. He knows he shouldn’t have. If anything, Yuji should have cheered them on, but-

Sukuna is only a child.

The boy cowers, teeth bared in a hiss and four eyes moon wide and glassy where they peek out of a crevice between two large slabs of stone. Four arms are slung tightly around his body in a heartbreaking attempt at self soothing, and sharp nails are digging crescents into the thin skin stretched over protruding ribs.

The kid is terrified. And hurt. And starving.

Yuji lowers himself into a crouch, hands splayed on his knees to assure he’s holding neither chains nor weapons, and attempts a smile.

“They’re gone now, I promise. You can come out.”

“Go away!” Sukuna—the child—rasps, “Or- I’ll eat you!“

— sneak peek of “Everything Eats And Is Eaten”