Sukuna x Y/n || An Ancient Bond

33.Sukuna

"W-What do you guys mean?"
Did I hear that right? Am I dreaming? Did they just say they wanted to stay with me. . . with us?

"We meant what we said Y/n."
They sounded sure of themselves. Like it was just the next natural choice for them.

"You guys want to spend the rest of your life with curses like us?"
I ask.

"Yes."
They all replied one after another.

Sukuna was not happy to hear that. But for some reason I was. Maybe I had grown soft. Maybe I liked them more than I thought.

"You do realise that you will be a burden on us right? On Y/n?"
He was blunt. Truthfully but sharp.

"Suku-!"
I stop halfway. I know he wasn't wrong. They will only be able to be with me until a fifty...or luckily a hundred years more at best. Being around me and him will only put them in danger. It's a foolish dream to hope for the best in what little time they have left.

I grit my teeth. Before I could speak Nobara places her palm on my mouth.

"We know." She looks at my hands and holds them.

"We know that it puts both ourselves and you both at risk being together. We don't know how long can we live in peace again." Megumi frowns.

"We still want to be with you Y/n."
Yuji places his hand on top of Nobara's.

"Hey don't leave me!" A tall man busts through the door and tackles the kids.

"You sure are energetic this early in the morning Gojo." I barely managed to avoid him coming onto us like a hurricane.

"I remembered that I owe you an apology Y/n. But it's fine since we're friends and friends don't need to apologise right~?"
He winks.

"You're not worthy of Y/n's friendship Satoru."
Sukuna smirks at him.

"I am-!"
He rebels.

"No, you're not Gojo. I've never thought of you as a friend. But merely an annoying pest. You're an acquaintance at best."
I deliberately dismiss his cry.

"Pfft- Pest-"
Nobara laughs and Yuji tries to comfort the man pretending to be hurt by my comment.

At least being an idiot helped him recover fast from yesterday's event even if it was a fake smile or fake confidence he would be fine. Why?

Because he has us.

And we all left the hospital the following week. Of course, we had no idea what we wanted to do yet so we all stayed together at the same mansion just trying to figure out what was now left for us? Dreams? Power? Status? To count our Accomplishments?

It was irrelevant. To wish for a normal life and lie to ourselves would be the hardest thing to do. So we didn't.

Months passed by everyone was tired of now 'living comfortably' they wanted more.

"So are you sure you wanna do this?"
I ask them. We were all sitting together at the dinner table.

"Yes. We can't stay here forever Y/n. We're not saying we want to leave but doing nothing just sitting at home and lazily waiting our lives away is not our style, ya know?" Nobara wipes her mouth with a handkerchief.

"Well. I'm not going to stop you. But what have you planned to do?"
I ask.

We formed something similar to a 'Mafia' and took care of the curses around us and occasionally in different regions of Japan and little by little we had achieved what we wished for.

A moment of peace.

And now that it was possible they wanted to focus on their own lives. Who am I to tell them how to live their lives?

"I'm going to become a firefighter. It was my dream to become one. Until that day I met Fushiguro and became Sukuna's vessel. . ." Yuji glanced over the table and stopped when his eyes met mine.

"I see."
I knew he didn't wish for any of this. No one did. They all wanted normal lives. And now they could maybe have a glimpse of that.

"And I plan to take a shot at becoming a fashion designer! I'm not waiting for my life pleasing others." Nobara places her bag on the table and passes the pamphlet to me.

"I-"
Megumi hesitates.

"Yes, Megumi?"
I give him a warm inviting smile.

"I. . .want to try teaching. To prevent what happened to us to the future generations of Jujutsu sorcerers."
He had a firm gaze. Like this was his dream all along. It made me a little sad and happy at the same time. To want to go back into that hell and reform it was not going to be easy.

"I'm going to help him."
Gojo looks at him and they all look at him startled by his words.

I laugh.

"I predicted you'd say something like that."
He actually wanted to destroy the rotten Jujutsu system and reform it so that no one would suffer. And maybe he could accomplish it. But now with Megumi's support, he would definitely succeed.
No one would be able to stop them now that the higher-ups are gone anyway.

Sukuna takes out a huge box from under the table and asks me to open it.

It was a cake with all our names written on it.

"To our future."
He lights it up and takes some of the whipped cream rubbing it on my lips and kissing me to wipe it off.

We celebrated that night. Driven by our passion and dreams we move forward in life together.