#zenin toji and zenin shiki are both powerful

[yuesya]

Seriously, what kind of introduction is that?!

This is Zenin Shiki, my murderous clan head.

Sumire gives Toji a look. Has he finally lost his mind?!

… Except… the thick-headed man clearly doesn’t seem to think there’s anything wrong at all with what he just said. Which only feeds into Sumire’s exasperation with him. Yes, she’d known that Toji’s family situation was rather complicated, but he’d spoken fondly of his young clan head, hadn’t he? So why would he go and say something like this?

“Your kill count is higher than mine,” Zenin Shiki’s voice is cool and measured. Factual, and with no particular inflection in her tone.

Sumire blinks. The young clan head doesn’t… seem to be offended…?

“Yeah, ‘cuz I’m older than you,” Toji responds, with a note of something akin to amusement in his tone. “Oh, I’m planning to take Sumire’s surname, too. She’s not marrying into the Zenin Clan.”

“Okay.”

Sumire’s jaw drops open. The girl just– just like that–?!

“Shiki-sama!” Unlike the white-haired girl who remains completely unmoved, the other man in the room with them sounds appalled. “Even despite his– his… brashness, Zenin Toji is a member of the main family. Something like this is ridiculous, you cannot possibly allow–”

“I can allow what I want.”

“This isn’t proper,” the man insists. “The Zenin Clan would be ruined if all its members marry out like this! And to a woman? You need to reconsider this.”

“I don’t care for keeping sorcerers who don’t want to be here,” Shiki states boredly. “And if none of the Zenin Clan’s members wish to remain with the clan, then it’s better off disbanded anyways.”

“But–!”

“If you have a problem with any of my decisions,” the girl continues, “Then issue an official challenge to replace me.”

The man’s face turns red, then white. Eventually, he lowers his head. “… Surely you jest, Shiki-sama.”

“It’s not a joke. You’re welcome to try if you think you can kill me.” Despite the chilling contents of those words, the girl sounds utterly unconcerned. But is it confidence, or apathy? “… Or if you don’t mind dying, I suppose.”

The man splutters incoherently.

Sumire, on the other hand, can only gape at the young girl. Even though Toji had mentioned a bit of what his young clan head was like to her before, she still finds herself dumbstruck by what’s playing out in front of her eyes.

“See? Told you that you didn’t need to worry about anything,” Toji nudges her gently, then turns towards the white-haired girl again. “You don’t mind that I’m discarding the Zenin name and marrying a civilian, right?”

“Your romantic pursuits are not my concern,” Shiki responds blandly as she returns to her paperwork. There is a brief moment as she writes down a few lines on the paper in front of her, and then sets the document aside. “… Congratulations, Toji.”

“Thanks,” Toji grins. “So, can I expect an expensive wedding gift?”

“Toji, what in the world do you think you’re saying–”

The girl lifts her gaze again, ignoring the other man entirely. “Am I getting a wedding invitation?”

“Well, duh?” Toji gives the girl a look that’s usually only reserved for idiots. “‘Course you are.”

“… Then yes.” Shiki reaches out for a different pen, and starts writing on another document. “I’ll bring a very expensive wedding gift.”

“Nice.”

Sumire looks between her smug-looking cousin, his calm-faced clan head… and the sole person who appears to have many protests, who wears an expression that makes it seem as if he wants to turn around and bash his head against the wall.

… Despite the fact that the other man is clearly against Toji marrying her like this, somehow Sumire can’t help but feel pity for him in this moment.

[yuesya]

I know you said that the sorceror world would lose their minds when BastardAU!Hina has Megumi and his CT came in, but can I ask some more specific details at how the Gojo and Zenin clans react to this woman who somehow, consistently produces once in a lifetime powerful children, multiple times? Like, once people found out about Megumi's 10 Shadows, would retrieval attempts on Hina (and her miraculous ability to birth powerful sorcerors like fSN Zenjou) start up? Toji'll never run out of targets.

“You’ve received the reports, too, haven’t you?”

Zenin Naobito leans back in his seat, lazily swirling the bottle of wine in his hands as he snorts. “Oh, just come out with it already. That’s not what you called me here to say, is it?”

Across from him, Gojo Hisayasu gives him a sharp look for his attitude. Naobito ignores it, though. They’re both clan heads; they’re on equal footing, here. And out of the two of them, Naobito is the stronger sorcerer.

“Get to the point.”

The other clan head does not look pleased, but forces himself to swallow his ire and move forward with the conversation, just as Naobito knew he would. “… Hina’s youngest manifested his cursed technique. It’s the Ten Shadows. On behalf of the Gojo Clan, I must know: What will be the Zenin Clan’s response?”

Ever since the fiasco that was the mother of the Gojo Clan’s honored one running off with Toji, the Gojo Clan had been in a state of constant panic. Because Toji hadn’t just taken the woman with him; no, Naobito’s nephew didn’t do things by halves, even despite being a non-sorcerer. He’d gone and snatched the boy for good measure, too! Depriving the Gojo Clan of their long-awaited Six Eyes and Limitless, which subsequently sent the entire clan into an uproar.

Unfortunately, Toji’s reckless actions had brought some heat down on the Zenin Clan, too, which meant that Naobito was also obligated to send out some men to hunt down his wayward nephew. But it was only a token effort, just something to smooth things over with the Gojo Clan on the surface. Naobito had been highly amused when the Gojo Clan failed to recover their Honored One despite their best efforts. Again and again and again, they just kept losing repeatedly to Toji.

Toji, who didn’t have a single drop of cursed energy in his body. The disgrace and ignominy of it all must be killing Hisayasu, hah!

The Gojo Clan was desperate to recover their Six Eyes and Limitless, despite the possibility of it becoming ever more distant with each passing day. They were currently the weakest of the Three Great Families, and everyone knew it. The constant clashes with Toji certainly hadn’t done the dwindling number of their sorcerers any favors over the years.

“Hina’s youngest inherited the Ten Shadows. What will the Zenin Clan do?”

Hisayasu isn’t doing a very good job of hiding his apprehension. It’s understandable, though. If the Zenin Clan decided that they wanted to claim Toji and his stolen bride, then the Gojo Clan wasn’t in a good position to fight against them. Even though they undoubtedly would fight, tooth and nail.

“The Zenin Clan won’t interfere with the Gojo Clan’s efforts to reclaim Gojo Hina and Gojo Satoru,” Naobito says, amused, as he addresses the other man’s obvious concern. “As for Toji’s children… that’s none of the Gojo Clan’s concern. This is an internal matter for the Zenin Clan to deal with.”

Say what you want about Toji, but there was no denying his taste in women. He wasn’t the first Zenin to steal a Gojo bride for himself, but he was the only Zenin who found himself a bride who consistently gave birth to powerful children. And that was rare.

Gojo Satoru, the firstborn; Six Eyes and Limitless. Zenin Shiki, the daughter; unnamed cursed eyes and an unnamed cursed technique that allowed her to slaughter an entire division of the Gojo Clan’s sorcerers upon activation.

And now, Zenin Megumi. A boy who’d inherited the prized technique of the Zenin bloodline, the Ten Shadows.

Ogi must be seething with jealousy at Toji’s good fortune, hah!

Naobito tosses back another long draught of liquor, feeling the liquid burn in his throat. Hisayasu makes a face at the ‘uncouth’ behavior, but Naobito honestly couldn’t care less about the opinions of a man who was on verge of leading his clan into ruin.

Hmm… maybe it was time to visit his wayward nephew, and see how his little fugitive family was doing.

[yuesya]

Shiki might not be in the same weight class, so to speak, as Toji, but in the same age au I feel like she would probably make up for that in sheer unadulterated rage, would this be a scenario she'd be able to do a black flash or two, would she be able to win, I know she might just be able to unwittingly stall but I can't stop thinking about Satoru assuming Shiki hates them and him coming to seeing her whailing on the guy who killed him, alternatively seeing her enter a fight they both know she probably won't win for him

His body feels light, when he wakes up again. Cursed energy thrums through his core, reversed and tingling in his limbs. The blood on his clothes makes the fabric stick disgustingly to his skin, but he's not bleeding anymore. He won't bleed again, not anymore.

Throughout the heavens and the earth, I alone am the Honored One.

Satoru opens his eyes.

The first thing that he sees is a dark blur -the unmistakable form of the man who'd cleaved him open with that strange cursed tool, then stuck a knife into his head. Good, he hasn't gone far. He's not going to have a chance to get the drop on Satoru again.

The second thing that he notices-

A white whirlwind, tumbling into a messy roll and skidding across the ground. Dainty feet plant firmly into the stone steps before the momentum is even fully bled off, and a white-haired girl promptly launches herself back in the Zenin man's direction-

Crimson splatters dot the ground liberally in her wake.

Blood.

That's... Shiki's blood.

... Shiki. Wait, what in the world is she doing here?? Isn't she still supposed to be in Kyoto? Why is she-?

The man roars. A powerful blow connects against the girl's side, and she's sent flying once more. Idiot, idiot. Someone with physical capabilities like that is a terrible matchup for Shiki, who requires close-range physical combat for her technique to be effective. Can't she see that? Is she blind? Doesn't she know that she can't-

The Zenin turns, and Satoru's thoughts stutter to a halt. There's blood dripping down the man's side, his entire right arm severed at the shoulder. And, on his torso... there's also a long slash that looks suspiciously similar to the injury that Satoru himself had sustained.

He... doesn't know what to think about it. Shiki holds no fondness for him, and the feeling is very much mutual. But even so, it's...

...

Across on the other side of the field, his cousin lands in a crouch, and her head snaps up. He's never seen her with that sort of expression before -usually, Shiki is either impassive like a porcelain doll, or wearing a look of faint irritation. But in this moment, there's a fierce snarl on her lips as she glares-

With only one eye.

... There's nothing but a bloody, gaping hole on her face, in the place where her left eye used to be.

Before his mind has even caught up with what he's doing, Satoru finds himself surging to his feet, Blue and Red building in his cursed energy.

[yuesya]

Bastard AU is giving me LIFE!!! and i have so much questions like how would be the dynamic between satoru shiki and megumi? In fact what would be the elders reaction when they learn that hina gave birth to not one but THREE powerful sorcerers...???

Actually, how would muneyoshi's reaction to toji be? I don't think he's going to be too happy about being cuckholded by a guy without a shred of cursed energy

Megumi is probably really young when he realizes that he's the One Sane Person out of his siblings. Satoru and Shiki are both various degrees of unhinged, and very much Not Normal.

There's probably an ongoing joke in the family that Megumi is the one who takes after Hina, while Satoru and Shiki both take after Toji. (Yeah, Satoru isn't actually blood-related to Toji but. That's part of the joke.)

Jujutsu world pretty much loses their goddamned minds when Hina gives birth to a kid with the Zenin Ten Shadows. Because this is on top of Satoru's Six Eyes/Limitless and Shiki's {REDACTED].

Muneyoshi hates Toji. Not just for the shame ("Look, that's him, that's the man whose wife ran off with the Zenin Clan's non-sorcerer failure-") but also because Muneyoshi, in his own twisted, pitiful way, genuinely loved Hina and Satoru. And he loves them, still.

Muneyoshi regards Toji as the one who 'tore apart his family,' never mind that Hina had already been increasingly upset and distressed with him when he refused to listen to her and kept going along with the elders' plans to make Satoru into the perfect tool.

[yuesya]

Something I found as ironic in Zenith of Star AU. If we take it that Shiki Death Perception would make her the next in line for Gojo, that would mean all three big sorcerer family's heir would either be from someone who cut tie with them or people the family judge as worthless. Think about it. Kamo Noritoshi mom was a mistress. Fushiguro father was Toji who the Zenin judged as worthless. Now, Shiki's dad would be someone who want to cut tie with the sorcerer world and the Gojo family.

Lol funny coincidences, huh? ... Although the thing about it would be, both Kamo Noritoshi and Fushiguro Megumi inherited family techniques. Blood manipulation for Kamo, and Ten Shadows for Fushiguro, I think? Jujutsu that runs in the Kamo and Zenin bloodlines.

With Shiki here, it's a completely new technique manifesting in the family. A powerful technique, to be sure, but it would be a deviation from 'tradition' and that might not fly over so well with some of the elders.