#until sukuna manages to wake up tsumiki

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A 'Time Traveller's Wife' kinda AU this time! The time-travelling premise of it I mean, not the entire story/plotline AU. Endgame Sukugo but with some past SatoSugu implications. It also kinda leans heavily on that 'Love you for my entire life; mourning me for the rest of yours' post too. Also a bit of a nod to Shiwa sung by GUMI.

This either happens a year before JJK0 happens or during the year between JJK0 and canon JJK starting. Dunno how it happens- either a weird curse/delayed curse attack or a cursed object- but Satoru, somehow, ends up in the past and in front of a starving little, nameless boy.

This is the first meeting between Gojo Satoru and Ryoumen Sukuna, whom Satoru names/calls Ryou. Something something shenanigans, relationship building, falling in love (Sukuna), realisations (Satoru finding adult Ryou/Sukuna hot and thinking that he could easily fall in love with him). Unfortunately, it only lasts a year on Satoru's side even though it was Sukuna's entire human life for him (short for us but respectable for Sukuna's era). And their last meeting is when Sukuna is dying- dunno from what, author's choice, but I feel like being a bit tragic here.

Satoru is late, again, and it's breaking his heart enough that he's crying as he's holding Sukuna. And Sukuna, in an attempt to ensure that Satoru would never forget him... asks if Satoru would marry him (remembering a conversation they had once about nosy Elders and omiais badly disguising political plays and eugenics that segued into how marriages had changed by Satoru's time). Satoru says yes but the reason behind it changes depending on when this happens.

Before JJK0? Satoru has fallen in love with Sukuna as well and wants to call Sukuna his husband even though they won't be married for long. He'll be a widower for longer than he's been a husband when he's back in the future.

Between JJK0 and JJK canon? Just lost Suguru and is now losing Sukuna. And while he was able to at least have Suguru's body to bury, he won't even get that with Sukuna and at least this marriage will leave him something as well other than the feelings.

Either way, Satoru is left behind and mourning. He's still happy when Sukuna embeds his own CE around Satoru's ring finger and the teary smile on his face before he disappears back into the future is the last thing Sukuna sees before he dies- alone but not lonely.

And then canon begins and is only derailed because Sukuna feels the 'ring' he put on Satoru and now wants to focus on his 'wife' and his step-kids.

Unless it's a canon divergence in which Sukuna did become the King of Curses but only for a short while. He 'disappeared' and left behind his 'Fingers' but actually managed to do some sort of weird shit and figured out a way to make sure that when he reincarnated as 'himself', he would be able to remember everything. The Fingers were kinda like some sort of seal array/markers that would keep 'himself' in tact through the centuries until he was born in the same time as Satoru.

The only reason why he was able to stay away for so long instead of heading straight to his spouse was because he was busy hunting down his 'Fingers' for himself and staying under the radar. Something was nagging him to do this first before he remembered everything. And then his nephew found one of his fucking Fingers- the last one, in fact- and he needed to shake it out of him.

And that was how Sukuna and Satoru met again. Bonus points for Sukuna going 'Oh, it's you, you're the one I've been looking for.'