Playing God (Sukuna x Reader)

Chapter 16

Sukuna watched her, analysed her movements, she became depressed in an instance. This was an interesting site, but he didn't honestly expect her to become like this. Although he loved to see her suffer and wanted this reaction from her, it didn't feel right. Seeing her like this made something within him stir up, it was not a good feeling.

He thought she would just run away from him again, that was his initial thought. But she did not do this. The first thing on her mind was to track him down first, and not escape from the cage he left wide open for her to make a golden opportunity to leave. He was somehow pleased by the way she stayed and tried to look for him, but on the other hand, seeing her suffer like this made his stomach churn in all kinds of directions.

He should not be feeling sympathy for her, he shouldn't feel bad, but why did he? He was not supposed to respond to a reaction like this. He was not the kind of person to do that. The moment he saw her lip bleed, his lips also became a bright red. The metallic taste filled up his senses, he was not too fond of the taste of his own blood pouring from his lips, it was quite unsettling for him.

As Y/N lowered her head down to the ground, his shoulders became heavier from the guilt. He didn't know whether he should step in or not, but he did not want to appear weak in front of her, he did not want to show any other sides of him, he couldn't. He cannot let himself down like that, he could not forgive himself if he ever showed some sort of care to a useless human being, those types of emotions were a disgrace to a cursed being, it was utterly barbaric in his perspective.

Hiccups came from her pale lips, they were such a pathetic sound, a weak sound, from a useless mortal being. Sukuna stared at her more intensely, if she kept up that position of being a ball in the ground, she will start to have bad posture, Sukuna doesn't want her body to be damaged in any way, he would likely feel it himself and also have the same affect on him.

Y/N started to move her head up, it looked like she was finally done, but she wasn't. What she did next, Sukuna did not expect. She hit her head onto the ground hard, her forehead started to gush out blood. It was not something he wanted to see at all, especially from her. Sukuna set himself back and thought to himself for a moment, he didn't know whether he already broke her or not. Was she that upset that he left her? He should be happy with the results he got, but he wasn't. She can't continue to be like this.

She grinds her head onto the ground slowly but hard. The wound on her forehead was getting worse each second she was doing this. Stop. He did not want to see anymore. He did not allow himself to see more of this. She should not be like this. He did not want this, nor did he want any more wounds on his own body.

Sukuna emerged from the shadows swiftly. He marched right up to her and grabbed both sides of her arms and pulled her up to face him. Their eyes stared at each other in pure shock. Sukuna didn't know what to say next, but he knew he should probably wake her up from the madness she created herself first.

'What the fuck are you doing?" This was a genuine question, one where he was extremely curious to know the answer to. But will he get the answer? Her eyes were still so wide from the shock that he was here, here well and alive right in front of her. Sukuna was getting quite impatient from her staring, he just wanted a simple answer to his aggressively sincere question, now.

Y/N still couldn't comprehend the situation, it was like she was stuck in space. Her mindset was all blurry and fuzzy, she wasn't able to think straight, she didn't even know if Sukuna really was in front of her right now, all she knew that her mind may have been playing tricks on her. If he really was, she wouldn't know whether to feel relief or discouraged.

After such a long pause, Y/N replied. "I don't know... are you really...?" She cut herself off as she reached out to place both her hands on his cheeks. Both her thumbs were placed at the side of his lips, she wondered what happened to them, he could have bitten it, but he did not seem like the type to do that.