#how i feel when i see yuuta win a fight is how i feel when i see naruto win a fight yk

[yuwuta]

as a true geto hater it brings me immense joy to remember that he got packed up by a suicidal anxious loser w/ the power of true love who hadn't even learned his own cursed technique yet and had been studying jujutsu for less than a year

[belovedmusings]

“I’m not going anywhere.”

+ MAJOR MANGA SPOILERS +

Explicit Smut 18+ 🚫Minors DNI🚫

Satoru survived being severed in half thanks to Yuuta’s Reversed Curse Technique and subsequently claimed victory, but you keep reliving the moment you saw him die before your eyes. You wake up beside him one night crying from a nightmare of it, and wanting to make you feel better and remind you that he’s okay and he’s not going anywhere, he lets you take him any way you need him.

Relevant tags: AFAB reader with minimal gendered language, reader insert without using “y/n”, graphic nightmare at the beginning but it’s quick, fix-it, hurt/comfort, soft and emotional sex, handjob, fingering, Satoru’s 6-inch fingers, slow sex, praises and declarations of love, lots of kissing, love bites, riding, unprotected sex, creampie, cockwarming, Satoru’s big cock :’) <3

Music recommended while reading: My Love (Sia), positions (Ariana Grande), Souvenir (Selena Gomez), Religion (Lana Del Rey)

A/N: no I’m absolutely not over wtf happened in ch 236 and yes I’m 100% crazy enough to still believe him when he said he’d win. He’ll win and I trust him. I have to or I’ll go crazy. Here’s this emotional smut to cope.

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He was winning. He was fine, he was smiling and now—

He’s not. He’s not moving, he’s not doing anything but he’s in half he’s in fucking half and there’s so much blood—

You scream. You scream but it sounds like it’s underwater and you can’t breathe, you can’t feel anything but despair and pain and dread and anger and disbelief and fucking devastation. Satoru is— he’s— oh god, he’s—

“Hey.”

You’re sobbing. Tears stream from your eyes but you can’t feel, you can’t see anything, you can’t hear, you can’t exist without him—

“Hey. Hey, hey, hey.”

That voice snaps you back to consciousness, a deep gasp from you following. Warm hands are on your shoulders, and you look up at the source, eyes landing upon Satoru’s concerned face. His beautiful, alive face. What? How?

“Hey,” he murmurs again softly, brows furrowed in worry as he rubs up and down your arm soothingly. “Shh, shh, shh…you’re okay. It was just a bad dream.”

A dream?

“No it wasn’t,” you shake your head, voice broken. The lump in your throat won’t go away as you continue to cry. “You were…you were gone and I—”

“I’m right here,” he cuts him firmly, squeezing your arm. “Look at me. I’m talking to you, aren’t I? I’m fine. Promise.”

Your eyes search his face, his body, and blindly you reach out, touching his clothed abdomen, feeling over it to make absolutely sure he’s not lying. When you feel nothing but solid, warm flesh underneath, even when you touch down to his thigh, you relax, sniffling. He’s completely intact. He’s okay.

You remember then what had happened after he had fallen. You’d gone into a panic, threw up, and blacked out after sobbing uncontrollably after tearing your eyes from the screen that displayed his lifeless body.

When you woke up, you were lying against a wall, Shoko watching over you, telling you that Yuuta managed to get ahold of him while Yuuji and Higuruma were fighting Sukuna. He’d used his Reversed Curse Technique to heal him, and he was up and fighting again, this time facing off with Kenjaku.

It was jarring to see him back alive, like you were seeing the resurrection of a god. But it was okay. He was even stronger than before, and along with the others, he was capable of defeating both of the threats.

His victory had restored balance once more.

He’d come off of that battlefield on his own two feet, sweaty, heavily banged up and exhausted, but he had a brilliant smile on his face that said everything is fine now, and he’d welcomed you into his arms without hesitation.

“Oh god,” you breathe out, “It was a dream. Thank god.”

He wraps his arm around your waist and pulls you in, planting a kiss on your temple.

“I told you I’d win, didn’t I?” He asks, “You gotta trust me, silly. M’ not going anywhere.”

You huff, nuzzling into his chest. “Don’t call me silly because I’m worried about you.”

He sighs softly, rubbing your back. “Fine, fine. But seriously, I’m fine. So no need to worry, okay? I’m right here, however you need me.”

He is. You can feel him in your arms, you can feel him holding you, and yet in your sleep-fogged mind, you can’t help but still retain some anxiety that you’ll wake up again and he’ll be gone for good. That you imagined all of those victories in order to cope. You need to feel more of him to confirm he’s real.

“However I need you?” You ask, drawing back to meet his eyes, gleaming in the dim lighting of the moon. He nods.

“Of course. What kind of boyfriend would I be otherwise? I’m yours to do with as you please.”

You can’t help it; his tone always brings out a special playfulness in you. “As I please? You sound so easy.”

“Easy for you,” he grins wolfishly, and you roll your eyes fondly before sobering up.

“I need more reassurance,” you tell him. “I want to feel you.”

He eyes you curiously, nodding. “Sure thing. What do you have in mind?”

You reach up to touch his face, brushing your thumb between his eyebrows to work out the furrow, then dancing it over his brow bone, then his cheekbone, and finally his lips. You pad it over the soft skin there before leaning up and kissing him, relaxing at the familiar taste of his mouth. He doesn’t hesitate to return the gesture, lips moving with yours in a combination of slow and sensual.

The hand that was resting on his jaw slowly travels down over his neck, where your thumb runs over the column gently, grazing his Adam’s apple a few times before moving on to his collarbone. You explore that spot for a few moments and then massage down his shoulder, over his pec, flattening your palm to feel the beat of his heart.

It calms you to feel that strong thump thump thump against your touch, impassioning you enough to make you deepen the kiss and slip your tongue into his protestless mouth. A soft groan sounds at the back of his throat, and that spurs you on to continue touching him, running your palm over his muscles that were once lithe, but after time spent preparing for battle while he was sealed away to occupy himself, have turned thick and solid. You ghost over the ridges of his abdomen and shiver, feeling each contour through his shirt.

It sends a wave of heat through you and your ministrations turn heavy with desire, finding the hem of his shirt, sliding your hand underneath it and massaging over the hot skin of his naked chest. He groans and guides his own hand from your waist to your ass, clad only in underwear for comfort to sleep, giving it a generous knead.

“Mmh,” you breathe into his mouth, letting him go further to grab your thigh, hooking his hand under your knee and hiking your leg up around his hip.

His tongue runs over yours dirtily as his hand slides back up to the apex of your legs, reaching around to cup your mound through the thin garment over it. His middle and ring fingers massage over that little sensitive pearl just begging to be touched, making you moan softly.

Your lust is deepening by the second and it makes you grow bolder, palm on his abdomen lowering to the front of his boxers and caressing the sizable hardness it finds there. Subconsciously you start to move your hips with his touches, kiss turning sloppy the more you pleasure each other.

The drags of his fingertips get a little too difficult when the fabric over your core gets soaked through, so he easily amends it by slipping his fingers beneath the edge of the article, touching you without any barriers.

“Satoru,” you moan louder as he teases the swollen pearl beneath his digits. He hums in his throat, and wanting to even things out, your hand dips below his boxers, wrapping around the hard and hot erection he’s been sporting since you started kissing him.

A bead of precum at his tip makes the slide a little easier and you feel him start rocking into your hand, meeting your strokes, a breathy groan sounding from him.

He wants the upperhand, of course, so he elects to push two of his lengthy fingers into your entrance, causing you to gasp, spreading your legs wider to accommodate. The man’s digits are long enough to reach your cervix without even trying and he presses pointedly against it, wriggling the tips of his fingers against that sensitive spot teasingly.

“God, Satoru,” you mewl, touching him with more purpose, circling your thumb over his tip.

“Ngh,” he groans in response, moving his hand so that he starts finger-fucking you at a pace, the wet sounds reaching your ears along with the heavy pants from the both of you. You clench around him and he speeds up, abusing that part deep inside of you just with his hand.

You love it when he fingers you but it’s not what you want right now—not truly.

You look up at him, shuddering at the look of unbridled lust pooling in his cerulean eyes. He always gets this certain wild look that gives you goosebumps.

“Satoru,” you manage breathlessly.

“Yeah?” He asks, just as winded.

“I want you inside me. I need to feel you.”

He sucks in a breath and nods, pressing a quick kiss to your cheek before pulling his fingers out of you. He rolls to lay on his back, raising his hand up to his mouth and running his long tongue over the digits coated in your essence, a deep groan sounding after. It invigorates your desire for him and hurriedly, you remove your soaked underwear, freeing him of his own boxers afterward.

He sits up for a moment to get his shirt off, tossing it off the bed and then grabbing your hips, making you straddle his thighs. His hands hook under your shirt and you raise your arms so that he can remove it, the two of you now bare as the day you were born.

He wastes no time in kissing you again, this time more desperately, using one hand to guide your hips over his large cock, the other holding it still. He slides inside as you lower yourself, girth forcing you to stretch generously.

“Fuck,” you breathe into his mouth. You’re familiar with his impressive size by now but it never ceases to light a fire with your nerve-endings, length stuffing you full even before he’s bottomed out. You shudder and push him down to lay out on the bed, following him, breaking the kiss to bury your face in the crook of his neck. His palms grip the tops of your thighs as you lay on his chest, your skin touching everywhere. He’s so warm and sturdy beneath you, you feel like you could stay like this forever, tucked into him, split open on his dick, nestled deep inside you without any effort. You breathe in and get hit with the scent of his skin, musky and sweet in a way that’s unique only to him and completely intoxicating to you.

You push your nose more greedily into the column of his neck, moaning as he starts rolling both of your hips together slowly. Like this, his abdomen provides the perfect firm muscle to grind your swollen pearl on, heightening your pleasure.

He bends his legs to provide himself with a little barrier so that when he pushes your hips down, they don’t have anywhere to go, forcing you to take his cock deeper. It prods at your cervix and forces hot chills over your body, your hands bracing on his shoulders helplessly as he does all of the work.

You inhale deeply as he grinds up into you, walls fluttering around him, eliciting a groan from his syrupy voice.

It sends a shiver through you and wanting to chase it, you flick your tongue out over his collarbone, licking along the flesh to taste him.

“Oh,” he grunts, sucking air through his teeth as you feel him twitch inside of you. Encouraged from his response, you do it again, closing your lips around the spot and sucking. A stuttered breath is pulled from him, your hold on his arms tightening.

Like this, you just feel so safe, so content. He’s all you could ever need. Sure, he’s insufferable sometimes and his personality goes overboard naturally, but he’s never too much for you. He’s serious when he needs to be and so sincere in his sweetness, in his affection—you don’t know what you’d do without him. You thank any god that might exist along with the stars that he survived, that he prevailed and that everything is fine now. Your chest swells with all of the gratitude in the world and it spills over.

“Satoru,” you breathe, feeling tears prick at your eyes, “I love you so much.”

You feel him swallow thickly as his hands rub comfortingly up and down the expanse of your back, kisses being pressed to the top of your head.

“Me too, baby,” he replies softly, voice slightly strained with the distraction of heat around his cock. “I feel the exact same way about you.”

You sigh shakily, littering sloppy, wet kisses over his neck, starting to roll your hips in time with his.

“I’m always gonna be here,” he continues between labored pants, “You…you can’t get rid of me. Mmh—you’re stuck with me for life.”

Your kisses begin to be accompanied by involuntary whimpers, the sensation of him locked inside of you along with his smooth skin rubbing against your sensitive bud starting to overwhelm you.

“I’m gonna…h-hah…love you so much you’ll be annoyed with me,” he continues, sucking air through his teeth, “oh fuck…so glad I have you. I really am.”

You sniffle, a watery smile spreading over your lips. A few tears escape your eyes but this time they’re of joy.

“I’m so glad you’re here,” you say with your entire soul.

“Nothing can keep me down for long,” he assures you, “I promise, okay? I promise.”

You nod against his neck, moaning when he speeds up, hands controlling your movements to meet him thrust for thrust.

“Sh-shit, Satoru,” you mewl, feeling your climax start to approach. His breathing gets heavier and more ragged, chest rising and falling so prominently that it jostles you on top of him, indicating that he’s just as wrecked as you are.

“Fuck, I’m close,” he exhales thinly, “Oh shit, shit, god you’re so tight…I’m gonna…”

You choke on a gasp, eyes squeezing shut. He always rambles when he’s nearing his finish, control on his words slipping, and you think it’s the hottest thing in the world.

“Ngh,” he gasps out, guiding you faster on top of him. You clench at the feeling, nearing the peak—“oh fuck, it’s gonna, it’s—a-ah, ah, fuck…”

You feel exactly when he cums, cock twitching hard as he spills against the entrance to your womb. The feeling of release pouring coupled with his incessant grinding on your mound pushes you to climax, a full body shudder taking over you as you tighten around his member.

He groans at the feeling, giving you another spurt of release, hands moving up to hug you close, pressing his cheek to your forehead.

“That was so good,” he breathes.

You nod in agreement, kissing his neck once more.

You know this is the part where you get off of him so you can clean up to get back to sleep, but you don’t want to move at all. You’re completely sated now, and the feeling of his softening cock inside of you is comforting. Undeniable proof that he’s right here with you in the form of a dull stretch in your core.

“Let’s stay like this,” you tell him, and he chuckles softly.

“It’s just that good, isn’t it?”

You snort softly, raising up to meet his eyes. “You’re such a little shit.”

His smile is lazy and mirthful. “Ah, but I’m your little shit. By law you have to deal with me forever, sorry.”

He shrugs in a way that indicates he’s not sorry at all, and your grin widens.

“I’m happy to deal with you forever.”

His beautiful face is radiant with the next smile he gives you, and when your lips meet in a soft kiss, you realize that all of the anxiety and fear that nightmare had left you with has been melted away.

Satoru is real, and he’s okay. He really isn’t going anywhere. He’s safe and warm and set to live a long and happy life by your side.

When the kiss ends you lay back down on his chest, and he takes to drawing invisible circles over your back with his fingertips, the steadiness of his breath, the sureness of his heartbeat, and his comforting scent all lulling you to a peaceful sleep with the promise of his presence tomorrow.

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A/N: I actually miss him so much to the point where it’s debilitating. I’m literally a widow at this point I might as well put a picture of him in a fuckin locket and wear it like he sent it in his last letter to me, like Gege u bitch that was our husband

Please don’t repost my work but feel free to reblog/share. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed :)

[voxofthevoid]

I've reread 261 and I am not even that sad, just disappointed. Disappointed but not surprised with Gege for going to such length to disrespect two characters at once. Gojou, for obvious reasons of treating him like a monster (wow, Yuuta, I didn't know you thought your teacher was a monster 😐) and not letting him rest even in death. But also the way it was placed? Literally pushing Yuuji to the side??? Unforgivable

I am slightly curious about the domain battle because Sukuna is injured/exhausted to a degree he wasn't when up against Satoru so Yuuta has a slight chance. But I think we will get a chapter for the domain fight -> Sukuna wins but suffers ct burn out and Yuuta dies -> either Maki or Yuuji attack again

I am just so disappointed with the state of the manga I used to love :( Feels like Gege is pulling cheap tricks for the sake of "ha! you didn't predict that!" and being not like other mangas

I understand 😔

I have issues with that entire monster angle; I see why that perception exists and why Yuuta, even when trying to support and defend Gojou, still calls him that. It really drives home the way he's perceived even by people who care about him. It's not even an entirely negative term the way it's used in JJK—Shouko calls all the gathered students monsters once, and it's not an indictment—but in this particular context, it really highlights how other Gojou is to these people.

And honestly? He doesn't deserve that. JJK isn't a story where people get what they deserve, but god fucking dammit, I'm gonna be sad about this all the same. Gojou's death was a tragedy, and now we know his life was one too.

The issues with the execution and timing of this plot development, however, are more objective and also worse. Gege dropped the ball with the timing and the fight structure. Hell, I think Yuuta entering like this in place of Tōdō a couple of chapters earlier might have mitigated the damage. Not entirely, but somewhat. This whole fight has been more lows than highs so far, and I'm usually someone who's fond of extended fights in anime, shonen or not.

I'm also expecting the domain clash to pan out like that, yeah. Which would be boring as fuck. Maybe there will be something interesting there. I sincerely hope so.

Hope TMA is being kinder to you, friend!

[gojoest]

i’m sorry but i need to rant a little about the new chapter and how people reacted to it. i’m so annoyed at how people say no one understood gojo and didn’t mind using him. like the reason shoko didn’t say no is because she thought he was going to win like throughout the whole fight she was smoking so much out of stress. and also yuta - he’s getting so much hate for no reason 😭 yuta was the only one that understood the burden they put on gojo as the strongest and kept treating him as more than his tittle, him saying that he’s willing to be the “monster” is so important because he’s legit calling out the unfair treatment gojo in the jujutsu society and saying that he’s willing to take on gojos burden for the good of everyone, essentially following in gojos footsteps and sacrificing himself for everyone else which is not what would’ve gojo wanted but it’s the consequence of being the strongest and he knows it. essentially imo he’s in the same spot that geto once was, where they are the 2nd strongest so they’re close enough to see how hard it is for gojo and see him as more than just “the strongest”

i agree with everything you said :( it’s flabbergasting to see such hateful reaction in the fandom regarding shoko and yuuta. yuuta’s distress during satoru’s fight with sukuna was more than visible, it was written all over his face the whole time—bc he was dreading the consequences if satoru were to lose. shoko too in her own way (smoking intensely, cigarette after cigarette as you pointed out). just bc she’s not as expressive doesn’t mean she did not actually give a fuck—she believed he’d make it and i feel so fucking sorry for her it’s just so sad how she had to suck it up and dissect her closest friend :( i think deep down nobody really expected satoru to lose but either way they needed a plan b….yuuta’s literally putting his life on the line, i think his visceral reaction when everyone opposed him was bc they were trying to save him—bc 3 out of 4 possibilities yuuta dies—while nobody ever considered saving satoru :( imo too he’s the one person that best understood satoru and the burden placed upon the strongest and now he’ll dive even deeper into that since he’s got his memories too

[itadoriposting]

cant fully speak as i am not up to date with the manga so take this with huge spoonful of salt. as devastated as i have been reading the spoilers, i do have some thoughts. while i can 100% see how people find this last chapter frustrating, and agree to an extent, it does feel almost poetic in it's tragedy imo.

more thoughts under the cut

the satosugu of it all? we have to get this out of the way first. the way that both gojo and getu's bodies were used as tools and weapons to fight on the side of what they believed when they were alive, except it's contorted. gojo gets sealed because he's distracted by kenjaku in geto's body, yuuta appears as gojo because they cannot win without him. even if he lost. they were both just figureheads by the time they died, gods for their devotees to bow before. not to mention the toll on people around them, who have to live with this resurrected and came back wrong and yet somehow didn't come back at all because are you really back if you're just a puppet who's only purpose is to be used? they will always be intertwined. (also not to mention the physical appearances of the stitches, gege really went in with that one.)

also kind of love the call back to are you the strongest because you're gojo satoru or are you gojo saturo because you're the strongest? i've seen a few posts about this specifically in the tag and what the answer might reveal itself as. i don't know what it's gonna be, frankly, and i also don't know what i want it to turn out to be. i just know that it's going to be interesting, especially on the note of how gojo was really just a god to most people. he was The Strongest tm because he could do what no one else could. even he didn't really believe he could be defeated. was that because he was gojo saturo, who was at the end of the day permanently a little smug (though not without reason), or because he was the strongest, so he could simply acknowledge the fact? i don't know!

i think that for yuta and yuji and shoko, in particular, to have a chance at feeling any peace it needs to have been worthwhile. they've all sold their souls to win at this point, to beat sukuna, but especially yuta. who did what no-one else would or could fathom. (we do not support or accept any yuta hate on this blog thank u.) i also appreciate that it ties into the overall narrative of both jjk as a whole and the jujutsu society. it's a tragedy, and it's set up as a tragedy. for even the people who exist and live in this world. i hope that yuta doesn't end up dying as a result of this, though i know it's possible if not almost likely. i think there's a great deal of poeticism about a boy haunted by death once again kind of existing between alive and dead. his brain is alive, his body is dead. has he been a little bit dead since the day rika died? is that still why he can face all of this? i hope he gets a good ending, but i'm not really holding my breath for it. also i think the massacre of the higher ups was LONG TIME COMING. they claimed to want to protect the jujutsu world, but they did so at all costs, and honestly they were wrong often. having yuji itadori put to death when he's likely going to be the one to defeat sukuna. absolutely iconic, no notes. also i think killing the higher ups aligns with what gojo wanted most of all. he often said no one is supposed to take the joys of being young away from the youth, and he protected his students. two of which were going to be put to death by the higher ups if he hadn't stepped in. he said that his dream was to build a world where those kind of sorcerers would be able to run a better society, and hey after they defeat sukuna, maybe they will.

i know i'll have more thoughts about gojo giving consent for his body to be used after death, knowing that he was after all the strongest, but my initial thoughts are just that it makes sense, both for gojo as a character and because of the tragedy of the jujutsu world. death always walks beside them, they're always thinking about it. for someone as strong and vital as gojo, it makes sense to make plans for inevitabilities you can't prevent. especially after what happened to riko and how no one could save her, how gojo's first death lead to hers. even yuji, who has been a sorcerer for less than a year, is constantly thinking about death (and has died a fair few times himself). that's so much of the reason that he even joins the jujutsu world. he wants to have a Good Death and he thinks being a jujutsu sorcerer will lead the way for that. maybe gojo also wanted that. a good death where he was still able to serve people, even beyond it. a death that would mean he was able to uphold the society that geto, not radicalised geto but his best friend from high school, would've wanted.

this became a really long rambling essay, sorry to anyone who clicked under the cut expecting like concise expansion. thank you for reading this for this long if you did! like and subscribe for more of me dissecting the fact that gege akutami is absolutely a sadist wearing a chefs hat and we are all overheating in this kitchen

[gojosbf]

I started following you after 236 because your emotions and posts echoed my sentiments. I love your posts. They make me laugh, they make cry. But most importantly they make me feel like I am not insane to feel this way for something fictional.

I hate the fact that bringing any criticism towards Gege’s writing results in being called a Gojotard. You can like the entirety of something and still criticise certain aspects of it.

I am not condoning all the threats and hate directed towards Gege but fans are allowed to be mad at the direction this story is going. Yes it is Gege’s world but we can have complains about it. That doesn’t make us fake fans. That just shows how much we’ve loved what he has created and how it affects us when it is taken away.

I feel many fans are tiptoeing around it because there are two extremities now in the JJk fandom. One - that will defend anything Gege produces and the other who is so done with characters being killed off and not adding anything to the plot. Both these sides are equally loud and thus polarising this fandom. People were on the edge after how Yuki’s fight with Kenjaku was handled and I think 236 was the final blow that divided the fandom.

I came across one post yesterday where it highlights the huge power difference between good guys and the bad guys with just Sukuna’s power alone. This is minus all the power Sukuna gave up (we don’t know if he got them back after).

It contains spoilers for 237 - https://www.tumblr.com/sleep-deprivedracoon/729649802609082368/jjk-manga-leaks-heavy-spoilers-ahead-please-do

To me, it feels like Gege has written himself into a corner indeed with shattering the ceiling (Gojo’s power was considered the ceiling in JJK power scaling) with Sukuna’s abilities.

What do you think?

i am trying to piece all my thoughts together in this so pls don't mind if it gets too long or loses track a bit.

first of all thank you and we are in this together i feel you I am still trying to wrap my head around the recent leak, until and unless we have proper leaks i will remain in denial about megumi also it's so sad to see how after the massive shock and reaction we got last week we've just given up this week it has become a thing where we are just hoping gege doesn't kill another of our favs and atp this trick is getting too overused to be appreciated (also the reason why as you mentioned we have two extremist side of fandom). i get it. gojo's death and sealing got jjk trending yet again, publicity even if negative publicity is still garnering the intrigue of many more people, not to ignore we have equal amounts of, if not more gojo haters because he was too strong.

now coming back to the story line, yes we are allowed to criticize when there are obvious plot holes and it serves for no purpose other than shock factor. Gojo's death was massively poorly written because all this time gege kept implying that even if sukuna had all his fingers gojo was the strongest (which is why he had to use mahoraga) his plot was gojo and sukuna are AT par with each other which is why this was a big deal and why he had to be sealed so kenjaku could follow through his plans and when sukuna regained his powers gojo wouldn't be a hindrance. now compare that to 236, it says sukuna actually wasn't going all out and NOW sukuna is to reveal his true form. really? really?? when the strongest character you've ever created does not stand a chance against this demon we're supposed to believe that the rest can? his students who are yet to unleash their full strength, the only special grade is supposed to? i mean we can still hope on yuuta because he has rika, the queen of curses and sukuna being the king of curses (love kashimo but as they said he's probably not surviving) but that doesn't seem much of a hope (as much i wish it was).

now coming back to the topic of when was the last time the good guys had a proper win since shibuya? do we really remember it?? (ofc apart from maki and unsealing) the bad guys are still standing strong, we have yet to see atleast one of main villains to fall and when is this going to happen??? it's been over 2 years now just how long are we supposed to keep digesting as "not so shonen" writing? (even mahito's death was just kenjaku absorbing him). i mean yeah it keeps us on edge but you as the author have the responsibility to keep the readers addicted and going and by the looks of it the og fans are dropping it one by one, is it really worth it? is it gege?

ofc course i don't condone the death threats but cmon a frustrated reader watching their favourite characters losing all the time is allowed to express themselves, maybe gege has a plan to turn this around but right now people are allowed to be angry and pissed and confused and frustrated, it's only natural, they cannot just expect people to see evil winning all the time and be alright about it now can they? these people calling others a "gojotard" are here for fun and they understood the premise of the mcs always losing so they root for the overpowered villains and hence enjoy the manga and move along what they fail to understand is that some of us are not capable of switching sides, we are still rooting for trios, the initial sorcerers whom we got attached to and we are tired of seeing them constantly unhappy. you're allowed to complain!! criticism is valid!!!!

and i seriously hope gege has some trick up his sleeves or he's ready to lose a good chunk of his loyal fans because this isn't looking good. we wasted last six months for nothing really, unsealing gojo did not help with anything except a 13 chapter long fight. and the outcome? back to square one!!!! so what was the point of the whole unsealing arc and shinjuku fight? not to mention the lukewarm reaction to his death portrayal and barely a passable explanation. sukuna is very oped currently but i have two bets against him, angel and yuuta (remember when sukuna thought angel was a pain and he wanted to kill them because he thought they could get in way).

i agree with t user sleepdeprivedracoon hakari has to win, there's no way gege is planning to kill him because then the manga is done for and i do not care what others say we are allowed to grieve, complain and make memes and jokes out of this hopeless situation we are currently in because that's literally how this manga is going so others who are so aggressively defending gege need to understand the criticism is valid and these reactions are valid and they need to get off their high horse. the not so shounen excuse is really not that convincing and we are allowed to be frustrated and angry it's a natural human reaction damn it. till then keep reading and remember life gets better but jjk doesn't (surpise us this halloween gege pls)

[ultfreakme]

"Sure. So for Geto it's mostly that I don't like villains with a bigoted ideology and he's too incompetent to even fall in the "love to hate" category. Really, the worst thing a villain can be is incompetent and Geto in Vol 0 is barely better than your average disney villain. Doesn't help that he never gets pushback on his ideals. Gojo tells him in Premature Death that killing people is bad, but that's it. He spouts his bullshit about how genocide is totally necessary and Yuuta stands there like "idk you might be right, but you want to kill people I care about and that's the real crime here". Nobody really engages with his ideology except Yuki I guess, but that was before he became an antagonist. I could forgive that to a degree if he was at least a real threat, but he isn't. You don't get any of that with Geto, he's not even fun to hate because he barely provides any pushback. He's a bad villain and I dislike him as a person as well. His descent into embracing the superiority of sorcerers and resolving to kill all non-sorcerers was well written, but I don't feel for him at all. Good riddance to the guy, I'm glad he's now dead both in body and mind."

I was so sad, when reading this, what do you think?

Hm, I think whomever said this obviously has their own reasons for disliking Geto and I'm cool with that. I really don't want to like, argue this specifically and try to come up with something that's like "um actually, you're wrong" because this is how they view the story and Geto's character. I personally am partial to evil characters as long as I think they're fun. But I do want to engage with this, and I'm thinking that's what you want too Anon?

To break it down:

Geto's incompetent and acts like a Disney villain I understand why it can come off like that. Disney villains usually have simple, straightforward motives, the older 2-D ones acted flamboyant and show-y, in which case Geto fits into it all. I think the OP meant his reasons are shallow but I think Hidden Inventory gives you a perfect, deep insight into his spiral and how he ends up being so extreme. Geto seems incompetent but to put into perspective, he's been working on this cult for 10 years(and is rather successful), when he was fighting Yuuta, he was also technically simultaneously fighting literally every sorcerer in Tokyo and Kyoto. There's been hints throughout the movie and especially in the light novel, that Geto wasn't exactly fighting to win. He's not in his right mind like you can see it in the way he is towards the end of the fight. Gojo says Geto doesn't want to be saved. I think Geto could have survived after fighting Yuuta, he had just lost an arm and yeah that's a devastating blow but JJK characters have moved pretty well for a good while after worse injuries(Nanami was half burned and was fighting, Toji was literally speaking with his guts blown out, Todo had his hand chopped off, there's probably more I'm forgetting). Geto COULD have gotten out but as we established from Hidden Inventory, he would allow Gojo to kill him, that part stands above his own ideologies. It's subtext, but it's like Geto was giving up. He wasn't intending on winning, he even made escape plans for all his cult family members but not for himself? That's not something a man who's sure of victory does.

Geto doesn't get pushback Oh he absolutely does. No one's engaging with him on his ideologies on-screen, sure, but Geto atp is not someone you could reason with. Shoko engages with him, calls him out on how childish he is but Geto doesn't engage he straight up ignores her and just politely chuckles, he doesn't want to. It's a dead-end and that's what extremism does to you. On top of that, it's been explicitly stated that the sorcerers agree with him on some level. Nanami still respects him, Shoko worries about him, Gojo too. Because they know where he's coming from. His end goals are stupid but the starting- getting tired of being exploited and being forced to watch everyone you know and love die for ZERO credit or help, is exhausting. No one pushes back because no one can wholeheartedly oppose the root of his problems and they don't WANT to. If Geto isn't listening, and a good chunk of the adult sorcerers who can speak with him don't want to, what's the point of forcing an engagement? We as the audience know why he's wrong, it doesn't need to be spelled out in a conversation with Geto specifically. There are other parts of the story that engage with the argument itself, but Geto isn't present. Ultimately, the ideology is refuted very thoroughly by Kenjaku, Yuki and Gojo! In the anime episode where Yuuji got his heart-ripped out and is in Shoko's office about to be examined, Gojo tells Ijichi "hey, I could just kill everyone and do what I want but that's inefficient. what I can do instead is build a good, strong community of sorcerers who use trust and teamwork to change the system from within" or smthg like that. That's Gojo refuting Geto's way of working. Yuuta does say "hey back off stop hurting my friends" but like, it's obvious he's also talking about every other non-sorcerer, he's just using his friends as a launch-point. The movie shows Maki specifically because we've built an emotional connection to her, so the idea of a character we and the MC knows personally dying puts into perspective the devastation of Geto's plans. It's hard to understand the effects of killing every non-sorcerer- the scale is too big(it's why kids shows can say "we're ending the universe!" but not "I'm going to rip your mother apart limb from limb", one feels worse), so we concentrate it on one person and now we can imagine the horror every other person will feel.

Geto doesn't give pushback It's because he doesn't give a shit what others think. If you wanna join, go ahead, if you don't, well he doesn't care to convert you. Even with Yuuta, on the surface it looks like recruitment but his final plan is killing Yuuta to get Rika. He didn't even seem serious in his talk with Yuuta. Geto doesn't argue being like "hey MY way is the high way" because sorcerers aren't his final enemy. They can believe whatever they want, as long as they don't get in his way. He lets his cult members and his daughters engage with non-sorcerers and doesn't push his ideologies on them. He doesn't engage with non-sorcerers because their opinions mean nothing to him. Geto's oddly lax about his ideologies(hence the split in his cult family on whether they should respect Geto's body as Kenjaku or follow his ideals, if Geto was stricter this wouldn't even be in question). There's also the fact that Geto's self-aware enough to know that his goals are fucking ridiculous. It's why he doesn't ask Gojo to join him, or even Shoko. Isn't it odd that he points out that Gojo's very capable of following through Geto's plans, but Geto doesn't ask his bff4ever to even consider this? Gojo ASKS him "hey explain yourself" but Geto chooses not to. He's thinking of himself as this martyr who's gonna go on this dangerous, impossible path to create a world where the people he loves, the sorcerers, are safe. His cult, his ideologies, it didn't make him happy. He thought this is the sacrifice that needed to be made and he was willing to bear the burden. His ideologies are like his power; they put him above others by destroying him.

The rest is OP expressing they dislike his character and that's cool, that's their choice and me liking him or contesting this is not to change their minds, just to....idk engage with this because I think it's fun.

I like Geto because of these things. I'm reasoning all this but I know he's evil, irredeemable, but I think he's a prime example of how selflessness can go horribly wrong when you don't engage and communicate. We see how lonely he is, how isolated the JJK society makes their sorcerers. Perhaps this lack of communication and engagement with his ideologies with Geto himself in-story is intentional- I think it is because the manga's all about love and loneliness when it comes to the special grades, the distance power creates.

Thanks for the ask Anon, I think it's best to ignore people who dislike characters we like, it's always going to drive us around in circles trying to discredit or disprove them XDXD(I did this with Jiang Cheng from Mo Dao Zu Shi, and it was really draining after a while).

Geto my belove pookie princess criminal!

[landofzero-archive]

Battle on the Sugoroku Board - Epilogue 2

(Location: “Battle on the Sugoroku Board” program set)

(10 minutes later)

Tsumugi: —What happened, Director-san? You’re looking pale?

Ahaha. Now that you mention it, your phone’s been ringing for a while now, hasn’t it.

I wonder, if the participants who aren’t supposed to lose are losing, then NETV’s people’s phones would be ringing endlessly.

I think it’d be fine to ignore them. Right now, it’s your job to make the program interesting♪

…… If you go on like this, you won’t be able to work in the industry again, will you? Is that really true?

Surely, when “Battle on the Sugoroku Board” is broadcast— it’ll catch the eyes of many people, I think.

In that case, what will the viewers think if they see the current developments? I think we’ll be praised for using our wits and resisting.

Even if there’s circumstances where ES idols are favored by the industry, isn’t it sad to see Natsume-kun and the others now?

It’s more fun than catching glimpses of the program’s true circumstances.

This big turnaround happened because you worked sincerely hard on your production work. The last person to evaluate it is the one who sees that workmanship.

That’s why— I don’t know what other people will say. I, at least, appreciate your work.

“Battle on the Sugoroku Board.” It was a very fun program♪

…… Any time now, NewDi Team and CosPro Team will meet up.

They wanted to use all their gold and support items in a three-on-three battle. It’s a perfect match for “Battle on the Sugoroku Board”’s finale.

Let’s watch it through to the end. I think it would be best to explain what’s happening to the people at NETV later♪

Natsume: FuU…… We managed to defeat thEM.

It truly was a fight to the deaTH. It was a victory we were able to obtain by using up all our wits and iteMS.

Madara: Nice work, Arashi-san.

Arashi: Ufufu. I never thought I’d roll an “18” with the “Triple Dice” and win big. Maybe it’s because of my excellent habits♪

Natsume: If anything, we were saved by the design of the “dice battLES.”

Support items with “Dice” in the name can’t be stackED— it was a relief to see that the idols instructed to fix the match were unable to use multiple iteMS.

If they had used “Triple Dice” or “Loaded DiCE,” we wouldn’t have been able to compete with thEM.

NoW, all that’s left is CosPro TeAM—

After defeating the match fixing idols to the east and weST, we obtained an unused “Detection Satellite”— an item that displays the enemy’s GPS.

They were probably planning on using this and the “Disappearing Mantle” to successfully escape until the final stagES. They’ve got no use for it anyway, so I’ll be glad to use iT.

FufU. LoOK, there’s three GPS signals coming towards uS. It’s probably the CosPro TeAM.

Madara: Looks like they did it. It’s amazing that the CosPro Team also survived under these circumstances.

Arashi: There don’t seem to be any other GPS signals left. At this rate, it seems like it’ll be a one-on-one fight in the end.

Like we discussed before, it’ll be a fair three-on-three battle at the end, and the one who wins two will be the winner— is that right?

Natsume: YeS. As expected, doing a winner-takes-all matCH in this situation would get us nowheRE.

In the end, let’s play a fair team matCH.

As I was sayiNG, it looks like they’ve arrivED.

Ibara: If it isn’t Natsume-kun! We’ve finally done it!

We had two people on our side, so it was quite a struggle. How are you faring?

Natsume: YeS, I feel greAT. Since we’ve come this far, there’s no need to guess what’s going on behind the scenES.

In the eND, I just want to have fun and not think about anythiNG.

Ibara: I see. Since we’re here at the end, let’s enjoy the “Dice Battle” without holding anything back!

I’m also in a great mood now that I’ve been able to administer a good scolding to troublesome coworkers! It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to forget about work and have fun……☆

Arashi: Ufufu. The two of them are getting excited. …… Then, I guess I’ll battle with Yuuta-chan♪

Yuuta: Eh? Me?

Arashi: Yes. We got caught up in a lot of adult stuff today. Besides, we hardly talk to each other, don’t we?

Sometimes I want to play with younger children, so I’d be happy if I could do so with you♪

Of course, I’m not going to lose easily. How about we use all of the items we’ve acquired so far to compete?

Yuuta: Fufu. Then I'll use “Triple Dice” as well. Let’s finish this to the bitter end♪

I also have a “Reroll Card” and “Substitute Doll!” Since I’ve made it here, I’m going to fight with cheat-class items♪

Madara: Hahaha. Maybe it’s because of the match-fixing, but everyone seems to be using items as they please. It’s a big treat♪

Shall we leftovers fight it out, Rinne-san?

Rinne: Alright, I’ll take you up on it!

I was just thinking that we didn’t get to have enough fun♪ Let’s enjoy it ‘til the end♪

It’s an all or nothing do-or-die match between all six members!

Natsume and Ibara: The dice rolls a—!

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[emulation-0]

ok jjk 221 lets get into it

mixed feelings on the unboxing. it was hilarious how unserious they all were and i didn't actually care that much because i love seeing all of them together <3 shoko <3 momo <3 kirara <3 maki <3 miwa <3 hakari <3 hana <3 lowkey i missed inumaki too. twas nice!! but the tone shift was really weird, i was hoping it would be more high stakes than that and it really feels like theyre going back to the 'let gojo handle it' mindset which. feels very much against the point considering the last thought we had from him before the culling game was 'i have faith in all of them.' its like nothing has changed since then.

it's also really weird that nothing has really been said about tengen. all of their actions have been pointing towards them being very untrustworthy and on their own side, and it just so happened that their goals at the time aligned with yuki and co's, but there's just been nothing. it feels very anticlimactic. they knew that gojo could have possibly died upon being unsealed and said nothing, they could've ended the culling game at the beginning and said nothing. like it goes back to yuki getting really mad at them back in ch 201 i think and then just going along with the plan and dying. it feels like there's no point, no fanfare, nobody cares about the really important parts. it feels like tengen's existence was unimportant and pushed aside despite their actions and existence being the reason (or helping the reason) why jujutsu society is so shitty?? idk if this makes a lot of sense but even their conversation with kenjaku in the last chapter... it just feels like tengen means nothing. that's annoying. but anyway

gojo's unboxing was so unserious but i hoped maybe he would go a little berserk when he was actually out. the ripped jacket was cool and i wish gege kept it, that wouldve fucked so hard but he's still suffering the disease of making his men buff when they shouldn't be :/ whatever i guess. up until sukuna showed up it really did seem as if he was going to go berserk which i was so here for!!! especially since the angel was kind of hyping it up. alas it was not to be 😔 which is annoying!!! at least we got a your mom joke? but anyway!! im glad at least gojo vs sukuna is happening first because its not as if kenny really wanted to fight him anyway unless some bullshit with their technique happens like last time with yuki. which would be stupid. but also im not sure how i feel about this upcoming battle though. it would tie back to the 'six eyes and ten shadows killed each other in the past' but one, it feels way too soon for that, and two, i think with the way gojo said 'you? a loser that had to run away from yuuji?' is hinting towards another conflict between sukuna and yuuji. i have many thoughts about this and i'll probably derail later so let's bookmark it here *

gojoken fight would be kind of stupid because if theyre leaving it all to gojo (😐) he would probably just one-shot them. realistically. yuuta coming to fulfill his promise to kill gojo's best friend for him would feel better personally because then his words would actually hold weight lmao and maybe he'll die too!! if gege is continuing his pattern of getting rid of the special-grades (unless he's only getting rid of the adult special-grades which is 😐but whatever!!!) yuuta doesn't really serve a purpose in the story rn anyway besides being gojo's temporary replacement so it wouldn't be a pointless loss either. especially if such a fight would show gojo that his students dont need to depend on him and they have grown in his absence. like he had faith in them to when he first got boxed!! though in that case maybe yuuta's death wouldn't be the best way to express that. unless kids like hakari and maki picked up the slack. idk. my thoughts are a mess rn bear with me here 🙏

* ok so in the last panel too gojo says that he'll win and sure, he could, because sukuna's not even at full strength yet. it makes me wonder where the other five fingers are since if they kill each other wouldn't it be a little pointless if sukuna was missing some fingers? you'd have to get rid of the rest of him through yuuji and that would be stupid. bookmarking this for later also * but anyway!! the game is changed now since sukuna has the ten shadows technique and knows how to use it better than megumi can so theres likely a real chance gojo would get hurt. maybe he'll even lose an eye this time and live to tell the tale considering hana and inumaki got to live (but then again are they really characters in the story anymore? 💀) if he did get hurt that would make it easier for a students vs kenjaku fight to take place as well

and about yuuji. sukuna's not 'running' from yuuji because he's scared but i'm sure that he's wary at least. there was that comment: 'right, this brat is from back then...' which was ambiguous in its meaning (im pretty sure he was saying 'this brat has been strong since back then [pre-sukuna]' or something like that but the possibility of some heian stuff going on is equally interesting!! and weird!!) but yeah. and its not as if being trapped in yuuji was a very convenient place to be anyway. gojo was probably just taunting him saying he was running from yuuji but he is wary of him at least!! especially since he's so sturdy or whatever. so i hope that between gojo vs sukuna someone gets hurt or dies because i think another fight between yuuji and sukuna would be a nice wrapping up. yuuji's active involvement with jujutsu started with sukuna and it would be cool to end it with him, too

not only that but there's also the whole 'if you die i'll kill you' 'so start by saving me, itadori' 'i have a few suggestions about how we can save fushiguro' thing thats going on between yuuji and megumi. we all know it so i guess i won't say it but that's more fuel for the sukuna vs yuuji fight right

* i think gojo is going to lose. if not against sukuna then he's going to lose against something. i'm torn between not feeling great about 'leave it all to gojo' and the adults' feelings that kids shouldn't have to take on adult problems but i think he's going to lose against someone and then the kids will fight so we can have both perspectives? the confidence with which he says 'i will win', the history between six eyes and ten shadows, the one-eye imagery in official arts combined with the weird timing and tone of his unboxing feel like they're spelling defeat but i'm just wondering how it's all going to tie in. like what order are these events going to happen? who's going to do what? how's this going to play out? which isn't even theorizing that's just waiting for the next chapter to come out kldehwjakfdjzhs since gege has dashed all my hopes and expectations. don't even know whos going to die anymore. but whatever!!

this ended up being very long 💀 if i've said anything that was immediately obvious sorry lmao

[missingn000]

Chapter 44 really was amazing!✨️

The Sukuna POV was an emotional rollercoaster except the rollercoaster is on fire and everone is screaming. He is so mentally unstable... Sugur might have won their fight, but Sukuna is winning the "my POV is a mental breakdown" contest (not much of a victory). Like he asks Yuuji if he thinks there is more beneath the surface and expect "no" because he knows how he presents himself and is not even willing to aknowledge that peaople are wrong??? He wants to be a one dimensional charicature so bad... Yikes.

Also he has such theatre kid energy! Everything is a performance with him in such a delightfully devastating way! Giving everyone nicknames to pretend that he doesn't know their names, only for Yuuji to call him out on the fact that he knows who Megumi is? Iconic. Defending the throne of skulls? Peak evil former theatre kid moment.

Sukuna really is putting a lot of effort into this act as a demon with a god complex. Quite a tiring act to hold onto for a millennium... He seems to be aware that he uses his god complex to hide his true feelings when he is lying to others, but when it comes to lying to himself using his persona as King of Curses he seems willfully oblivious. Or at least he was until Suguru used Divine Judgement on him and forced him to face himself and the fact that he is miserable and anyone with enough emotional intelligence sees him as miserable (like Yuuji), not as a god/vengeful spirit/demon crawling from hell/whatever else.

The fact that Yuuki knows that Sukuna is miserable but doesn't want to empathise with him is so... fair enough from Yuuji, like my poor sweet sunshine child deserves to be mad for everything Sukuna did to him and Toge, but also I am reluctantly annoyed because Kenjaku would be so smug about this and he doesn't deserve any second of enjoyment in life.

The new deal Yuuji made with Sukuna is certainly something. Also Sukuna panicking about dying even if he blames it on Yuuji, but also thinking (or refusing to think) that he will finally die is so interesting. King of having emotional inteligence but never using it to deal with his own emotions (valid).

Sukuna thinking about Yuuji's grandfather's last words and how certain he is that they are about him. That will be a devastating revelation, especially for poor Yuuji who just got the world's worst roomate living in his head. Kenjaku should have gotten hit by Mahito with that car.

The fact that Sukuna would have hugged him (even if he denies it to himself)? Peak sad wet poor little meow meow behavior.

"Can you writhe in agony a little quieter?" —> I would say Yuuji killed him with this, if not for "That once upon a time, someone loved you."

The "Don't leave me" that Sukuna will ignore because he is unstable and wants to only have 3 emotions.

I laughed out loud for a full minute at the crocodile story, I can't believe Sukuna randomly decided to help with that. "You limited yourselves with this esoteric plot"🤣 The kids going along with the story he invented too! Sukuna seems like someone that was fond of art, maybe once he gets over the whole being evil thing he can use that one minute he got from the deal to write poetry or something. Yuuji is also fond of drawing and stories now that I think about it. He is also emotionally intelligent like Sukuna. Definetly a weird coincidence.🤔

Sukuna being impressed? by the fact that Shoko would eat an entire tray of cupcakes meant for her children was kind of cute. "Good for her" —> I agree, she deserves it.

Yuuta hearing that Toge was hurt and instantly deciding to move to his school and abandon the "homeschooled by a former cult leader" life, peak gay behavior. You really managed to show his intensity and his progress with that decision.

"The fuck is wrong with you, by the way? You're cursed or something?" —> King of Curses and King of Tact and approaching sensitive subjects with care and understanding.

Poor Megumi? My boy is going through it.

The Tsumiki and Nobara friendship!✨️I am so happy you decided to give Tsumiki an arc! Nobara seeing that the perfect Tokyo girl also has problems of her own is so good for her. Tsumiki seeing that you can be combative and still have friends will be nice for her as well. They can learn so much from each other!✨️

Satoru finally meets his other kids! I am so happy for him and his horrible highlighter clothes. Yuuta even called him dad!✨️The Geto kids joining the training sessions will be good for them, especially Nanako and Mimiko who still need to let go of the stuff Suguru taught them in his post kfc breakup era.

"Satoru slips on his vivid shoes. They’re not so bad once you get used to them! Yuuta’s eyes are totally numb now." Forget killing a little girl for money, Toji's worst act clearly was telling Satoru that orange should be his favorite color encouraging him to wear eye burning neon everywhere.

Satoru's dented traffic cone fashion taste 🤝 Suguru's horrible knitting skills

i am so happy you liked it!! SADFGHJK i feel like sukunas entire EXISTENCE is an emotional rollercoaster, good god this man is a trainwreck. you’re so right, the rollercoaster is on fire, there are no seatbelts in sight, and it’s a never-ending vertical loop. he somehow has getou beat in the mental illness department, which is honestly a feat worthy of praise. or therapy. probably both. he asks questions he knows he’ll get the wrong answer to then gets hurt by those answers, but just keeps asking anyway for the twisted hope someone will see through his facade. he’s such a fucked up theater kid. it’s all a lie, it’s all a performance, but where does it end? how much of it has actually become his real identity in his pursuit to be perceived as such? i don’t think even sukuna knows.

you put it so well — he realizes he’s lying, but to some extent refuses to confront it: either by ignoring the contradictory turmoil inside him or embracing the fact that he’s a liar without acknowledging what he’s lying about. sukuna has a complex past with lying, and we’ll see more of it in his next pov as well as its origins when his backstory is revealed.

yuuji, my poor sweet sunshine. yeah, i agree that it sucks how kenjaku is right — at least at first. he was correct in believing yuuji would make sukuna fall apart, but, perhaps he hasn’t foreseen that yuuji could also be the only one who can put him back together…sukuna on some level realizes this, but he refuses to acknowledge it because that would require admitting he both wants and needs yuuji’s help. but you’re so right, he’s too sad and wet and pathetic to address it as things currently are.

so. that may take time. yuuji is still very resentful, and is having his beliefs challenged for the first time. their new binding vow certainly doesn’t help with it, especially since sukuna immediately antagonized yuuji with it and drove him away from his loved ones further. which of course means they’re stuck with just each other!! an interesting predicament, especially since sukuna wants yuuji’s attention so badly but gets hurt by yuuji every time he actually gets it. wow they’re a mess. god they make me unwell

sdfghjk sorry i always go off when it comes to yuuji & sukuna, they’re def in my top 5 favorite duos in the story. but wahh inuokko have my heart too <333 (though i guess both of them now have different surnames in this story….) yuuta is so accepting, and he finally feels like he understands someone else’s predicament for once, both relating to yuuji and megumi. and yet, both of them are distancing themselves from him and from their own feelings. yuuta has quite the task ahead of him for sure.

and so does nobara! proud of her for offering to help, and for accepting tsumiki’s imperfections, because it comes closer to her realizing even the dignified tokyo girls she admires are just people too.

i snorted at your last two comments lmao. so real, toji really encouraged gojo’s bad fashion in the sweetest yet worst way and now getou’s terrible knitting will make it worse. so happy for all of them.

thanks for reading!!!

[lmskitty]

Can I ask your opinion on a few things about Gojo and Geto :

- So is he (Gojo) really not feel anything with Amanai and Haibara's death?

- How can Gojo not realizing Geto's depression (is it because he always sent on solo missions)?

- I read somewhere that Geto's act to kill all the villagers is because Yuki's words (as if to blame her), and I was like wtf (?)

-If Geto not become a curse user, can he become a sorcerer like Yuki (just do whatever they want and not listening to the elders)?

- Do you think adult Geto can win against Toji?

- "Suguru had earned his status, being one of the most powerful sorcerers in the age, no student would have been able to beat him. Even Yuuta wouldn’t have won if Suguru was at his full battle potential, there was no way first-year students would have won against him if he hadn’t gone easy on them." I read this somewhere, do you agree?

1. I think when Gojo thinks about it he is sad but he's essentially a god. He sees everything, experiences infinity and sees that their lives are a small spec in the cosmos. It's got to be hard to deal with that. I don't think it's that he's unfeeling, he even says sorry but in that moment he can't be mad at anything when he's high AF on all that power.

2. I think that's literally it. Like when he sees him he mentions he looks skinny but I think he also trusts Geto to talk to him, or at least he thinks he can trust Geto to do that. I think it did completely blindside him and he regrets that always.

3. I don't think that was Yuki's intention I think Geto was already broken and seeing the girls treated that way was the catalyst against humanity. Yuki says that idea is not doable but Geto goes with it anyway. I think he latches more onto what Toji says than anything else. Before that fight he talks about protecting non sorcerers, then once Toji has taken everything away from him it's "monkeys"

4. I think if Geto and Gojo had worked it out he would have become a teacher which breaks my heart because he would have been SO good!!!

5. Honestly its hard to say. By 0 he had a 1000 curses so possibly? I'd love to see it.

6. This is interesting because Yuta DOES win so is that a testament to Yutas strength or Geto's? I think if it was against Megumi etc Geto would win. I LOVE the way he fights in 0 so it would be fascinating to see him against Nobara and Yuji.

Oh what could have been!!!!

[twilightmalachite]

Yuuta Aoi - Match on the Way Home

Author: Umeda Chitose, Happy Elements K.K

Characters: Yuuta, Rinne

Translator: Mika Enstars

Proofers: 310mc & meteorgreen

"...Wha~, It's Rinne-senpai! Right when I was wondering what unruly good-for-nothing was trying to talk to me~."

Season: Autumn

Location: Arcade

Yuuta: (Whew, there’s still some free spots left at the fighting stands~![1] There aren't many people here, so I can put my heart into my matches without worrying about taking turns.)

(As always, the character I'm gonna pick is... this little guy!)

(Aw yeah. I just love this guy’s tricky feet strats!)

(There’s nothing like kicking people’s butt with ninjutsu! ♪ Eat this: Flame-Thrower Jutsu! ☆)[2]

(...Huh? Did it just get countered? Seems like today's opponent’s putting up a nasty fight.)

(They keep switching between different meta characters, and their combos are always on point. They switch up their strat each round, too.)

(But I'm not gonna lose! Even if it means pulling through at the very last second, I'll definitely win!)

Some time later…

Yuuta: Heheh, still undefeated~♪

One of them was a close call, but I still had one ace up my sleeve.

???: Welp, I lost 'em all.

Yuuta: (...Wait, that voice… The person on the other side is on their way over here, but that’s...)

(I've got a bad feeling. I need to slip away before he sees me——)

Rinne: Oh-ho? Well if it ain't one of them Yumenosaki kids. S' that you, Yuta-kun?

Never thought I'd meetcha in a place like this. ♪

Yuuta: ...Wha~, It's Rinne-senpai! Right when I was wondering what unruly good-for-nothing was trying to talk to me~.

Rinne: “Good-for-nothing?” Come on now, there’s no need to go that far! Ain’t that a bit too mean?

Why’re you the one with a peeved look on your face, anyway? You’re the one who beat my ass over and over again.

I couldn't even scrape up a single win against ya, Yuta-kun! Haven't I suffered enough~?

Yuuta: I wouldn’t have let you win even if I knew it was you. But hey, I think you put up a pretty good fight, 'kay?

Rinne: Hey, you’re still patronizing me! I toldja, it hurts~!

...Well, whatever. To today’s arcade champion, Yuta-kun—I'll treat ya to some soda. What'cha want?

Yuuta: Eh, you treating me to something feels sorta suspicious. Are you sure you're not gonna turn around and ask for something ridiculous?

Rinne: I won't, I won't! Who do ya think I am? Prizes go to the victors, don't they?

Yuuta: ...Something carbonated, then.[3]

Rinne: How many of 'em? One? Two?

Yuuta: Hm? Yeah, I'm thirsty, but why would I need two?

Rinne: Huh, guess I was right to think it’s just you alone today, and no Hina?

Yuuta: ...Y'know, just 'cuz we’re twins, doesn't mean that we're always together.

Sometimes we go home separately, and sometimes only one of us has a job in the afternoon…

I haven't seen him since he left homeroom, actually. He said he was going to the garden today or something, and left the classroom early.

Rinne: So while Hina's out tending to crops, Yuta-kun's droppin' by the arcade on the way back from school.

You called me a good-for-nothing earlier, but taking a detour to the arcade sounds pretty irresponsible to me, y'know!

Yuuta: What~? This stuff's normal. You can buy and eat at the shopping district, and there's even a live house here you can go to.

Hiiro-kun stops by places on the way back from school, too. Don’t you know about that?

Rinne: ...He tells me plenty about how bright and fun school life is, but he's never told me about his after-school detours.

Yuuta: I’m guessing Aniki takes him around places, since they’re both roommates.

He probably said something like, "I’m sure you got used to school by now! So let’s head on to the next step!"

Rinne: I can imagine that. So have you two been getting along with that lil' brother of mine by doing stuff like that with him?

Yuuta: Yep, we get along. Our class as a whole is pretty close in general.

During the last exam period, we would all stay after class and study together. But this one time, at some point, Aniki sneaked out...

By the time I noticed, he’d gone and bought soda for everybody.

Knowing Aniki, he probably just did it 'cuz he wanted to take a break, really.

(...Wait, at what point did I start talking about Aniki? Why should I bother telling Rinne-senpai all this, anyway?)

...

Rinne: Why'd ya stop? What happened after that? I wanna hear stuff about homeroom and class duties too.

Yuuta: Can't you just ask Hiiro-kun directly instead of me? What’s so interesting about homeroom and class duties in the first place—

Oh, that reminds me. Our class has this new craze where the person in charge of class duties will leave a note in a journal for the person on duty the next day.

Aniki started getting really into it, so he began leaving riddles and making it impossible to read without decoding the message!

(Huh? I started talking about Aniki again. I guess I can try telling him about what Hiiro-kun wrote...)

Rinne: ...Oh, they've got a new medal game[4] here! Yuta-kun, c'mere!

Yuuta: Eh? Why are we going along with what you want?! I thought you told me to continue my stories...!

Rinne: Hey, it's fine! Look, I'll give ya half of the medals I just bought, so let’s play another match! ♪

Yuuta: What do you mean by that?

Rinne: Let's see who can earn more medals in thirty minutes. I gotcha some soda, so now you gotta go for round two!

Yuuta: You told me you weren’t going to do something like this…

(First he pesters me to talk to him, then he says he wants to listen to me, but stops listening halfway.)

(Is it because I only ended up talking about Aniki? No, now that I think of it, it was he who brought up Aniki in the first place.)

...I'm seriously pissed.

Rinne: Where did this come from? Not enough calcium in your system?[5]

Yuuta: Nothing like that. I was just thinking about how irritated I'd be if you beat me in a match.

So you better know that I'll win no matter what..!

Fighting stands, or battle tables (対戦台), are back-to back arcade games commonly found in Japan. They're popular for fighting games, and instead of the side-by-side versus modes often found in overseas arcades, the opponents will stand on opposing sides of a machine. You can't see who you're fighting against on the other side, which is a feature of this set-up.

Fun fact! Yuuta plays this same game with the same character in the !-era story, “Virtual Offense and Defence”, which is associated with this card.

In the card's illustration, you can see that he gets ginger ale!

Medal games are a type of arcade game commonly found in Japan, where money is traded for medals or tokens, which can then be played in games in exchange for more medals. They simulate gambling and are often modeled off of poker, pachinko, and slots, hence Rinne's particular interest.

A side effect of a calcium deficiency (hypocalcemia) can cause someone to act more irritable. The more you know!

[lavenderjewels]

why did geto do so much of what he did in volume 0, it was hilarious but,

[zukkaoru]

♔: Finding the other wearing their clothes - inuokko if you're feeling up to it :)

hello!! here is some inuokko for you <3 no shibuya incident au bc i love living in denial, post-yuuta coming back from africa, & established inuokko

word count: 800

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Yuuta is still half asleep when he walks into the kitchen. He got back late last night from a mission, and now he’s up far earlier than he would like because Maki says late returns are no reason to skip out on training. Yuuta would love to argue with her on that, but he’s too tired to fight.

If he falls asleep on the field, he’s blaming Maki.

“Kelp,” Toge greets as Yuuta walks past, and Yuuta waves vaguely in his direction. “Mustard leaf?”

“‘m tired,” he mumbles.

“Salmon cod roe,” Toge responds, which Yuuta interprets to mean Go back to sleep, then. 

“Can’t. Maki said I can’t skip out this morning.”

Yuuta imagines Toge rolls his eyes, but he’s too busy fumbling with the coffee machine to look and see. Toge doesn’t respond verbally, but a few moments later, he’s standing next to Yuuta. He taps Yuuta’s shoulder, then points back at the table. That is a very clear Sit down and let me do this for you.

“I’m fine—”

“Yuuta.” He points again, movements harsher this time. Yuuta sighs. Another argument he is too tired to win. He trudges over to the table and sits down, resting his head in his arms.

He must doze off again, because it doesn’t feel like very long before Toge is tapping him on the shoulder and saying his name. Yuuta lifts his head to see Toge has set a plate of food and a cup of coffee down in front of him.

“Have I ever told you that you’re my favorite person in the entire world?” Yuuta asks as Toge sits down next to him.

“Salmon,” Toge says. Then, he signs, “I don’t mind you saying it again, though.”

Yuuta smiles. “Well. You are my favorite person.” He leans over and kisses the tip of Toge’s nose, making Toge scrunch his face up. “You—” Yuuta stops. He’s marginally more awake now, which means his eyes are actually working beyond giving him just enough information to make sure he doesn’t bump into anything. So he can see that the t-shirt Toge is wearing is definitely too big for him, and it’s also one that Yuuta bought for himself while he was overseas. “You’re wearing my shirt?”

Toge blinks up at him. He looks down at his shirt, like he’d forgotten what he was wearing, and then his cheeks flush pink. “It was in my closet. That’s your fault.”

“I didn’t put it in your closet.”

“You made me wash it for you.”

“I don’t think I did…”

Toge glares at him, and Yuuta keeps smiling innocently. He probably did leave it in Toge’s room at some point - probably a morning where they were rushing to get ready because they’d slept in and they’d dropped their pajamas on the floor. Toge must have just picked it up and put it in with his dirty laundry, and instead of returning it to Yuuta once it was washed, he’d kept it for himself.

Not that Yuuta minds. Toge can steal his shirts whenever he likes.

“Cod. Roe.” He points at Yuuta’s food. Just eat.

Yuuta laughs. “Okay, okay.” He takes the coffee cup into his hands, letting it warm them for a moment before he takes a sip. He smiles around the cup when he realizes Toge got the amount of milk and sugar exactly how he likes it.

The coffee warms his throat and chest as he swallows. He glances over at Toge. “You know, I think you look cute when you wear my clothes.”

Toge’s face goes red. “Bonito flakes!” he practically shouts as he turns away, covering his face. “Mentaiko.”

“Bold words from the guy who spent all of yesterday’s class signing compliments at me until Gojo-sensei asked if something was wrong because my face was red.”

Toge huffs.

“Togeeee,” Yuuta moved closer, leaning against him until Toge gently nudges him off. He tries to hold a glare, but he’s twisting his lips in a way that lets Yuuta know he’s trying to force back a smile.

Yuuta sets his cup down and leans in for a kiss. Toge meets him halfway, his hands coming up to frame Yuuta’s face. The kiss is brief, but it’s followed by Toge kissing each of his cheeks, his nose, and his forehead, resulting in Yuuta’s own face flushing as Toge’s had moments earlier.

Once Toge is satisfied, he leans back. “You look cute,” he signs, which only makes Yuuta’s cheeks heat up more.

“You’re mean.”

“Salmon,” Toge responds proudly. He points at Yuuta’s food. “Eat, or it’s going to get cold.”

“Okay, okay,” Yuuta chuckles. He picks up his chopsticks. “Thank you, by the way. For making me breakfast. You really are my favorite.”

Toge smiles softly. “Salmon, Yuuta.” Of course. You’re my favorite too.

[nanamin-3]

Black Swan. (6)

Black Swan (6)

summary:  A meeting by chance between two very different people. The attraction is obvious, but will they let the obstacles they face get in the way of each other?

pairing: AU Sukuna x f!reader

chapter warnings: angst, language, pining, fluff, NSFW(ish)

Sukuna groaned as Maki hit the center of the dartboard again. “I win again!” Maki howled with a slap to his shoulder. Seeing Maki head over to remove the darts with a skip, Sukuna turned back towards the table where Yuuta and Y/N where cheering for their significant others. “It was close! Good job!” Y/N said, handing Sukuna his beer. With a huff, he wrapped his arm around Y/N’s waist, pulling her closer. Placing a quick kiss on her temple, Sukuna chuckled as Yuuta nodded along. “Yeah, it was. She usually wipes the floor with everyone, but you gave her a good fight.” Maki came back and leaned on Yuuta, kissing his shoulder quickly.

“Yes, it was a fun game, so we got to do this more often!” Y/N and Sukuna laughed, Maki was no lightweight by any means, but she was looking rosy already. It most likely had to do with all the shots her and Sukuna had been drinking while playing darts. They had come to a bar nearby, nothing too fancy downtown but it was fun, good drinks and music, so they had been having a good time. “Y/N, man, I am so happy you finally found a guy you like! I was starting to think Yuuta and me would have to adopt you! Sukuna, for a moment we thought she might even not like men!” Maki slurred looking at Y/N lovingly. Yuuta flicked her forehead, as Y/N choked on her drink and Sukuna howled with laughter.

Stuttering, Y/N looked at Maki in horror, “I d-don’t think it was that bad! I guess I’m sorry I was always third wheeling with you guys,” she finished with a pout. “Don’t listen to this lunatic Y/N,” Yuuta said with a smile, covering Maki’s mouth with his hand. With a laugh, Y/N walked over to Maki, “You know what, let’s go to the bathroom you need a break, be right back boys.” Taking Maki’s hand, she gave a quick wave as they headed to the bathroom.

“So how long have you been going out with Maki?” Sukuna asked, taking a swig of his beer. “Well, it’s been 3 years now actually, but I’ve known her pretty much since we were children,” Yuuta said with a smile, resting his chin on his hand, “actually, I’ve known Y/N also since we were children.”

“Oh, wow so you guys go way back,” Sukuna said grumpily, more so than he meant. For some reason, this rubbed him the wrong way, if Maki had not wanted to be with Yuuta, Y/N would probably be with him. Yuuta was a nice guy, so he didn’t know why he was feeling this way. He heard Yuuta chuckle and Sukuna looked away awkwardly, “Sorry, I didn’t mean-,” Yuuta shook his head with a smile, “You’re wondering if I ever got with Y/N or something like that right?” Sukuna nodded, he had just met Yuuta but felt he was a stand-up guy and could talk to him openly.

With a faraway look in his eyes, Sukuna was surprised at the loving look that came up on his eyes. “It’s always been Maki for me, even when we were young and I knew what the whole love thing was, whenever I saw her, played with her, I just felt warmth and later knew that I loved her. It also helps that she’s insanely strong.” Sukuna was speechless, the only time he had ever heard someone express themselves this lovingly about a person was Ren of his late wife. “That I can agree with, that handshake is firm,” Sukuna said with a chuckle. Yuuta smiled and nodded, “Yes, when we were younger, I got bullied quite a lot by some kids, and she got them to stop after she beat them up.”

Sukuna’ s respect for Maki grew at that point, he was surprised. “It is weird though; I don’t understand how her, and Y/N are such good friends, being so different.” Yuuta smiled, leaning on his hand again, “I think that that’s the reason they get along so well. Maki is sweet but sometimes loses her cool quick, Y/N is always there to calm her down. I’m sure you know by now, Y/N is a sweet girl, but she is shy sometimes. Kids used to take advantage of her niceness before, and Maki helped her stand up for herself.” They remained quiet for a few minutes, but nothing uncomfortable. They were both taking in their conversation, and the girls that they were with.

“I’m surprised though, Maki said she never went out with anyone. She’s a beautiful girl, and her parents are well off from what she tells me, she’s a catch.” With a laugh, Yuuta leaned back on his stool almost as if thinking how to continue. “Maki told me that she did go on a few dates, but the guys on our circle are kind of nuisances. Since they are born with money, they never really had to work for anything, so they are not the most affable people to be going out with.” With a nod, Sukuna thought back to when he met you and your brother, “Then how did Y/N and her brother turn out so cool? You as well man?” With a small smile, Yuuta shook his head. “you flatter me too much, but I get what you mean about them. They are just nice people, most of it has to do with their father, Mr. L/N. He’s a great guy.”

Taking a long sip of his beer, Sukuna suddenly felt a bit unnerved. He was sure to meet your father the day of Aoi’s dinner, so he suddenly felt incredibly nervous. “Don’t look so nervous Sukuna!” Yuuta said with a chuckle, “it cannot be worse that when he met Megumi, and that was not even Y/N’s boyfriend.” At this, Sukuna looked at Yuuta. “Who is Megumi?” Yuuta couldn’t help but feel a bit nervous at how Sukuna suddenly tensed up. “Never Y/N’s boyfriend if you’re wondering. He’s the son of one of their friends, his parents and Y/N’s mother always tried to set them up and while Megumi was all for it, cause I’m sure he found Y/N attractive, he also liked that her family was rich and liked that if they ended up marrying each other, they would be twice as rich. We would go out as a group and you should have seen him just blowing money on her, it was kind of insane”

Sukuna could feel the dark thoughts coming, what was Y/N even doing with him if this guy could give her everything he wanted. What else could he promise but lame outings to food stalls and restaurants. Even looking around, Y/N and her friends looked so out of place in this seedy bar, he was the only one that fit in with his delinquent look. Looking at Sukuna looking around, Yuuta could not help but feel he had messed up somehow. Quickly thinking of how to correct his error he quickly stood from the stool to stand next to Sukuna. “Even from just meeting you, I can tell you’re a good guy. Don’t even sweat the money thing, Y/N is not like that. She doesn’t care for any of that.” Sukuna just looked away and huffed while finishing up his beer. “She really likes you; I’ve never seen her this excited about someone,” Yuuta said, punching Sukuna’ s arm lightly, in which Sukuna laughed and turned to look at him with an eyebrow raised. “Trust me, Maki and Y/N like to call each other at night and recap their day and ever since you came into the picture, you’re most of the conversation.”

With a smile, Sukuna turned around and faced Yuuta. ‘Thanks man,” Sukuna said with a smile, before bringing on a more teasing tone. “So, Maki is your bodyguard huh?” Yuuta laughed wholeheartedly, happy that Sukuna looked in better spirits. “Before, definitely. But now I can’t let her show me up, right? But I think I’m doing the wrong thing and need to be asking you for advice, how did you get so big?” Yuuta exclaimed. The two started talking animatedly about their workout routines and didn’t notice Maki and Y/N coming back from the bathroom. “Well, it looks like you were right,” Maki said much more sober than before. “Told you! They were going to get along great, I’m glad the double date came sooner than we thought.” Y/N stopped at the bar to get everyone more drinks and a seltzer for Maki. “I can’t believe you have a boyfriend now Y/N. He’s a nice guy but I’ll make sure to give him the talk,” Maki said, while cracking her knuckles. She couldn’t help but laugh, Maki was sure to do that, regardless what Y/N said. As she handed Maki her and Yuuta’s drinks, Y/N was about to protest when she heard a bellow from the front door. “Yuuta, my man!” Turning, she saw Aoi, with Noritoshi and Megumi in tow.

         With a quiet “fuck”, she quickly herded Maki back to their table. She got to the table at the same time as her brother and the rest of them. Handing Sukuna his drink, Y/N quickly went to his side. Aoi realizing they were both there, turned to look at them with surprise, “Sukuna, Y/N! What are you guys doing here? Ah, this is Noritoshi and Megumi,” he said, looking over at Sukuna. With a tight-lipped smile, Sukuna gave them a nod. As Aoi and Noritoshi headed to the bar, Y/N noticed Megumi stayed back, making small talk with Yuuta, while eyeing Sukuna. As Y/N turned to Sukuna to ask him if he was having a good time, they both turned towards Megumi when they heard him clear his throat.

“So, Y/N, this is the mechanic everyone was telling me about?” Megumi sneered. Y/N could feel Sukuna tensing next to him, and while she felt Megumi could use a beating, she could not let this escalate as she was sure Megumi would make sure Sukuna would get in deep trouble. With a smile, Y/N laced her fingers with Sukuna and nodded. “Yes, he owns his own garage, the one near dad’s office. This is my boyfriend Sukuna.” Maki smiled smugly at Y/N as Sukuna turned to look at her, feeling his face heat up. While he agreed with Yuuta that Y/N was not a pretentious person, he was surprised at the pride in her voice.

As Aoi and Noritoshi came back with drinks for everyone, Megumi was fuming at the lack of response from Sukuna and Y/N. He was livid that after chasing Y/N for so long, she would go and get with the first low life she met. Fuming, he took a sip of his beer, moving over to Sukuna and Y/N.

As she was about to ask Sukuna what had happened while Maki and her where gone, she felt Megumi sidle up to her. “So, Y/N, remember when we went to that nice restaurant that overlooked the city,” Megumi purred while leaning into her. She could feel Sukuna tense beside her, his hand gripping his glass harder. “I remember my mom FORCING me to go to that god awful place. Everything was so garish,” she finished with an eyeroll, pushing Megumi softly away from her. She was about to turn and continue talking to Sukuna, but she felt Megumi grab her arm, “Obviously, she wanted you to be with a good person, what are you even doing here…” Throwing a panicked look at Maki, she was about to say something back, when she felt Sukuna pull her behind him.

“Listen man, I’ve been chill about all your little snide comments, but I’m getting tired of them. Either shut up or you and I can take it outside,” Sukuna growled. The atmosphere at the table shifted completely. Everyone looked between Sukuna and Megumi, and while Megumi was not backing down, everyone could see how Sukuna’ s intimidating aura and size was getting to him. “H-hey Sukuna, its okay. Don’t pay attention to him, c-come on,” Y/N quietly said, pulling weekly at his arm.

Y/N was scared at how Sukuna had shifted completely. She kept pulling at his arm, but it was as if she was not there. Looking at Aoi worriedly, he came over and got between Sukuna and Megumi. “Hey, chill out guys,” he said pushing Megumi towards Noritoshi, “Megumi, come on man, if you’re going to be like this then leave.” With a grunt, Megumi downed his drink and turned to head to the bathroom, but before leaving, he turned back and said, “Well Y/N, good thing you’re loaded, cause at least you’ll have money to take this guy out,” he said with a sneer, “which, come to think of it, that is probably why he asked you out.” With that, he turned and left.

Maki and Yuuta turned to look at Sukuna and Y/N horrified. Y/N was still holding onto Sukuna but it seemed that a light had shut off from Sukuna’ s eyes. “Hey, he’s a dick, don’t listen to him,” Maki said, but Yuuta could hear she was missing her usual certainty. With a tight smile and nod, Sukuna reached for his wallet and pulled some cash out, tossing it into the table. Grabbing his keys and phone he turned towards Y/N without looking at her, “You ready to go? Unless you want to stay, maybe you can go home with your brother,” he asked softly. Shaking your head quickly, you grabbed your stuff and headed to Maki and Yuuta to say goodbye. After Sukuna and Y/N had said goodbye to everyone and promising Maki she would call her once home, they headed out to the street.

All this time, Sukuna had not said a word to her. She felt anxious, she wanted to hold his hand and say something reassuring to him, but she had no clue what she could say to make him feel better. She decided to at least hold his hand, if anything, she hoped the closeness at least would be reassuring. As they kept walking towards his motorcycle, she shifted her stuff to her other side and as she was about to reach for his hand, she saw him skillfully maneuver to put his hand on the small of her back and lead her forward.

She hoped she was imagining things, but he probably wanted space. She crossed her arms, and both walked on in silence.

After what felt like an eternity, they got back to his motorcycle and he helped her on in silence. She thought about holding on to the sides to not touch him, but she decided not to, not feeling daring enough. When she felt Sukuna was settled, she snaked her arms around his waist slowly and pressed her cheek against his back.

Closing her eyes, she felt him kick the bike to life and they were speeding down the street towards her house. She couldn’t help but think how such a great night had turned sour so fast. If the walk to his bike had felt eternal, the ride back home when she was finally holding on to him was too short. They pulled up her driveway onto the entrance, and as the bike came to a stop she awkwardly got off.

If Sukuna was surprised, he didn’t show it, but he got off and walked her to the door. Y/N turned and before she could lose her will, she grabbed Sukuna’ s hand. “I really hope you know I don’t think that” Y/N said quietly, “I don’t think that at all.” She looked at his eyes pleadingly, hoping to see a semblance of understanding or acknowledgement, but Sukuna was not even looking at her at all. “Why are you not looking at me? Are you mad at me?” At the sound of her shaky voice, Sukuna couldn’t hold back any longer. Turning to look at her quickly, he cupped the side of her face, caressing her cheek soothingly with his thumb.

“No, not at all,” Sukuna drew in a deep breath, “but maybe they’re right. You deserve to be someone who can take care of you and take you to the best places and buy you pretty things. If you’re with me, what can you expect.” With a frown, you threw yourself at him, throwing your arms around his neck. “Why are you saying that. Don’t say that,” Y/N pleaded. Cradling her neck, Sukuna brought her even closer to him. With a sign, he closer his eyes and told her quietly, “you deserve the world angel. I think its better for you this way.”

Suddenly, Y/N froze. She pushed away from Sukuna and headed towards the door, opening hastily with her keys. Once the door was opened, she turned to look at Sukuna, with tears in her eyes. “You were the first person who treated me with respect and who actually listened to me. I was more than some spoiled brat to you, and I like how you make me feel,” wiping the tears away from her face hastily, she kept going. “You treated me like a person and listened to what I wanted. Everyone always has tried to tell me what to do and feel and for once, you thought about what I wanted. I guess it was just like everyone else.” With a laugh, you turned to go inside, ‘bye Sukuna.”

Sukuna paled. He suddenly realized what an idiot he had been. He reached for her, but the door shut before he could reach her. “Fuck,” he muttered, knocking at the door, and calling her name.

Walking out towards the driveway, Sukuna looked up at the house. Panicking, he didn’t know what to do. He pulled out his phone to call her but figured she would be too upset. He suddenly had an idea, looking for the contact quickly he dialed the number and prayed he would answer. “Sukuna?” Thanking the gods, he hurriedly thought of what he even wanted to ask. “Yuuta, hey man. I can explain later, but are you with Maki, can I talk to her?”

Y/N walked slowly to her bathroom, wanting nothing more than to change into her old pajamas and just go to sleep. She couldn’t stop crying. She figured she had overreacted with Sukuna, this should have been something they could have discussed, but whatever. It was all Megumi’s fault but at this point, she was too sad to deal with this. She looked at her phone, no missed calls, or messages from Sukuna, so that probably meant that he was done with her. She quickly removed her makeup and changed into an old sweater and shorts.

As she walked back to her bed, she turned off the lights and got under the covers. As she felt herself drifting off to sleep, her eyes suddenly snapped open when she thought she heard some light tapping on her window. Staying quiet, she waited to see if she heard it again, but didn’t. With a deep sigh she brought the covers up to her chin and closed her eyes. This time, she heard her name being softly called. Sitting up, she looked at her window in the darkness and saw a hand tapping softly against the glass. Throwing the covers to the side, she got up and walked quietly towards the widow. Looking through, she saw Sukuna perched on the ledge.

With a grunt, she opened her window and moved to the side as Sukuna jumped in, closing the window after him. He looked around awkwardly as Y/N walked back and sat on the edge of her bed. Bringing her knees to her chest, she looked at Sukuna, almost wanting groan at how ethereal he looked under the moonlight. “How did you know which window was mine?” With a chuckle, Sukuna scratched the back of his head. “I asked Maki.” He walked closer to her, reaching out and tucking a strand of loose her behind her ear, taking it as a good sign when she didn’t recoil from his touch. Sitting down next to her, he took a deep breath before beginning. “Y/N, I think you are the most amazing girl that I’ve ever met. I like you so much, but there are a lot of things that you deserve to do and have that I won’t be able to give you,” he rushed. Scratching the back of his head, he ran his hand through his pink hair, “Not yet at least, because I know that the shop can become something big…b-but I think we have something special, and I want to give you everything you deserve.”

Y/N looked at Sukuna, who was facing ahead. Even though the room was dark, the moonlight was seeping through, and she could see a light blush dusting Sukuna’ s cheeks. “Of course, if you still feel like this should be it I- “Y/N turned his face towards her and brought her lips to his. Instantly, Sukuna pulled her onto his lap, her legs straddling him. The kiss quickly deepened, with Sukuna snaking his arms around Y/N’s waist, pulling her closer. As the kiss deepened, Sukuna ran his tongue across Y/N’s bottom lip, causing her to mewl lightly. Breaking apart to come up for air, Y/N brought her hands to Sukuna’ s face and pressed her forehead against his. “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have overreacted,” Y/N whispered, “but I promise you, I have no qualms about being with you. Screw what everyone else thinks, I like you and you like me.” With a smile, Sukuna pressed a soft kiss to your lips, “yeah, fuck ‘em.” After sharing a laugh, Sukuna pulled Y/N back in for a kiss, this time hungrier than before. Y/N dropped her hands from Sukuna’ s face and ran them along his strong chest, stopping at his biceps and holding on to steady herself.

As the kiss deepened, Y/N gasped as Sukuna flipped her onto her back. He kissed her softly, kissing along her jaw. He stopped and looked at her lovingly. The intensity he was looking at her with made her squirm, looking away, she quietly said, “W-what’s wrong?” With a chuckle, he caressed her cheek and turned her towards him, “Nothing, you’re just beautiful.” Blushing, she smiled as she leaned up and kissed him once more, as he pushed her deeper into the mattress, bodies melding into one.    

Sukuna began leaving open mouthed kissed down her neck, his hands massaging the plush skin of her thighs. Y/N felt warm, especially in the pit of her stomach. Searching for any type of friction, she began to grind up towards Sukuna, feeling his erection. Realizing what she wanted, he ground his hips against hers hard, making her moan hard, ‘Oh f-fuck, Sukuna.” Bringing his hand to her chest, he massaged her breast over her sweater. Y/N felt like she was going to combust, continuing to grind her hips against Sukuna looking for any type of friction to find relief to what she was feeling.

As they continued kissing, Y/N suddenly realized what was going on. Pulling slightly away, she turned away “Sukuna, wait, I’m sorry.” Quickly pulling away, Sukuna looked down at her with worry. “Fuck, I’m sorry baby. I let that get too far, I didn’t even ask you if I-I,” he continued. With a small laugh, she covered his mouth with her hand.

“Don’t worry, its just that I-I’ve never…I haven’t done this ever. I’m sorry.” She didn’t know why, but she felt embarrassed. Y/N looked away as Sukuna stared at her intently. “Hey, don’t worry about it, we can take it slow,” he said, bringing them up as he brought her to rest against his chest. Kissing the top of her head, he rubbed her arms soothingly, “whenever you’re ready we can take that step. If you want to do t-that…with me.”

With a laugh, Y/N turned to straddle Sukuna once more and brought her hands to his face and kissing him deeply. “Sukuna, I am so happy I met you.” With a smile, Sukuna hugged her and fell back towards the bed. As they stayed like that talking some more, Sukuna noticed her responses were getting more labored. “Baby, I think I better go,” he said, moving her from his chest to his side and bringing up the covers. Getting off the bed, Sukuna was fixing himself when Y/N sat up. “Will you stay? Don’t worry, my parents won’t be home until late tomorrow.” Sukuna looked at her expectant face, mesmerized by how the moonlight made her seem even more beautiful if that was even possible.

“Are you sure?” Sukuna asked shyly. With a nod, Y/N scurried over and opened the covers for him, “Get comfortable too!” Y/N watched him as he removed his boots and jacket, he seemed to hesitate but then peeled off his shirt and then took off his jeans. Y/N almost salivated at how the moon light bounced off his toned body, highlighting his many tattoos. After what they had just done, Y/N couldn’t help but squirm, feeling that fuzzy feeling inside. Shaking her head, lied down as Sukuna sat on her bed and turned to look at her. “Are you sure about this Y/N? I can head home, its okay,” he said with a smile, caressing her cheek. Pulling his arm, he helped him pull the covers over him. Once they were both under, he pulled her towards him, and Y/N nuzzled against warm chest.

They both stayed quiet, enjoying each other’s embrace. As the night went on, Sukuna felt Y/N’s breathing get deeper. Deciding to finally sleep, Sukuna kissed the top of her head and murmured, “I am so happy I met you too Y/N.”

[ultfreakme]

Hello, I'm new to the jujutsu fandom, I've already watched season 1 of the movie and I'm in season 2 of jujutsu, I also follow the jujutsu manga, I liked your tumblr and started following you, I like your analyzes and you make me understand more jujutsu, thank you. I have a question, don't you think Sukuna is a boring villain, sorry, but he's too annoying, even Mahito is more interesting than him and it's impressive that Mahito gave more weight to the work than Sukuna, Sukuna killed Gojo and his death It had no significance in the work, it's something terrible, I think the author got lost.

Ah thank you so much! Glad the blog could add to the JJK experience!

Personally, I am getting a little tired of Sukuna never being phased. I'd understand his constant victories if we got more insight into his Cursed Technique but we still have no explanation for what he is and how he came to be, very little Sukuna info has been unlocked since the beginning so it feels kind of frustrating for me.

I can't tell what the author is thinking, but I think the number of deaths is getting to us as readers. People just keep on losing and dying with little impact on those that are alive. Deaths had a huge impact at the start of the story. Like S1, Junpei's death shook Yuuji so bad that he entirely changed his way of thinking. But he only knew Junpei for like a day. So when characters like Nanami, Nobara, Gojo and many more people that Yuuji has known for months die, I think equal levels of impact is expected on Yuuji.

But that doesn't happen.

We don't know Yuuji's mental state after witnessing his teacher die. The excessive focus on fights without slowing down to let the characters grieve or process what they've seen is likely impacting how we see Sukuna, his fights, and his powers.

Like why wasn't Yuuji freaking out more when Higurama died? What was he really going through when he saw Higurama and got reminded of Nanami? A moment's pause, just focused on the grief of that could up the stakes and make Sukuna, if not interesting, at least someone we can hate more.

Emotions and character interactions are what gives a story stakes. We care that Gojo died not only because he's the only person who can stand up against Sukuna, but also because he is someone we connected with emotionally from S1. His death will make characters we love devastated.

When you take away the emotion, the sense of loss and don't show that, the fights become boring. Yuuji's still moving and seems to hold the same attitude as the beginning of Culling Games while fighting Sukuna right now after witnessing multiple deaths.

You could say he's hardened his heart and has gone numb to everything but that's speculation as readers, it'd be way more meaningful if we see Yuuji falling into that kind of state, or be shown to have some kind of emotion and reaction.

My one big critique for JJK is pacing. It's fight after fight after fight. Okay, bad take when the manga is literally called "Sorcery Fight" but I am no stranger to manga/anime entirely focused on fighting (I've read a weirdly high amount of martial arts and hand to hand combat manga). Even in most fight-centric stories, we get breaks, we get characters talking to each other. Like how come we STILL haven't gotten a proper, extended interaction between Yuuji and Yuuta that isn't a fight? Has Yuuji even spoken to Maki? How does Ino feel about Choso?

I think it's why I enjoyed the Yuki v Kenjaku fight more. The fight was interspersed with moments of character interaction.

No stakes and impact makes it boring. Sukuna's the most dangerous villain now and he keeps defeating people without proper explanation or faltering in any real way so like, why would we care? Sukuna's going to win against anyone that isn't Yuuji, so what's the point? It used to be fun for me to try to understand how Sukuna does the things he does. I still enjoy watching him beat the shit outta people but i do admit it's getting tiring.

Sure, the CT and Domain expansions whenever an improvement is shown are very cool but it'd help if we could slow down a little and talk about the character interactions. Honestly Sukuna himself can remain a mystery but our MCs should get more backstory and emotional moments.