Deep Blue Sea

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ꜱᴇᴠᴇɴ

And here you are, sitting in a dark room and watching movies with Itadori Yuji -- Sukuna's host. You squished yourself towards the opposite end of the couch, hoping that you've given him enough personal space, in which he glanced at you nervously every time you tried squishing yourself further away.

"...(name)-senpai, are you okay?" Itadori asked carefully, as if afraid that you might pounce at him if he asked the wrong question.

"I'm fine," you blurted out.

He is more polite than the first time he talked to you, well... it was not exactly him that was talking. You remembered how Gojo told him to introduce himself, but the moment he opened his mouth, another voice spoke for him.

"You're shorter than I remember," he said.

In response, you karate chopped good teacher Gojo who happened to be standing next to you.

"Why me?" He cried out, clutching his side in pain.

"Senpai, I'm so sorry! Sukuna's does that sometimes and I can't control that!" Itadori started bowing frantically.

"I-It's alright!" you had to stop him before he smashes a hole in the floor.

"Heh," a different voice rang, coming from Itadori's...face?

You could see a mouth there right before he slapped himself, which made you jumped in surprise.

"I'm so sorry!" He apologized once again.

"Well I mean," Gojo spoke up, "you are pretty short," with that, he earned another karate chop from you.

Later on, he told you to stay here and watch over Itadori while he goes out and 'work'. Though one benefit you got was that he promised that he will do your job for you so you could rest. And here you are, trying to challenge the limits of a human by curling yourself up as small as possible.

The concerned look on his face suddenly made you become aware of how stupid you looked, so you straightened up immediately. Your sudden movement made him jumped in surprise, resulting in the cursed corpse punched him in the face. Then you hurried up and tried to grab the cursed corpse, but ended up tripping over a can and fell onto the floor. You both laid there without a word as another can dropped on top of you. You never knew film appreciation activities could be this chaotic.

"I'm sorry," he apologized as he rubbed his chin.

"Don't apologize," you sat back up slowly, "it's my fault, I shouldn't have startled you."

"No no," he scratched his head, "I could've controlled my cursed energy better."

"It's really my fault, I could've stopped it."

"No, I'm the one who should be sorry."

"Don't be, I really should've prevented that from happening."

"Senpai, I-" His sentence was cut off when the cursed corpse punched him in the face once again.

"Stop interrupting me!" He yelled and yeeted the cursed corpse.

You quickly caught the doll and input some cursed energy to calm it down, "sorry again," you suddenly felt really bad for Itadori, is it too late to call the child protective service?

"No, it's really not your fault," he paused as if pondering on something before continuing, "How about let's just stop apologizing? We're going to keep apologizing if one of us doesn't stop," He grinned at you.

You blinked, then you smiled, "sure."

After hearing your agreement, he took your hand and shook it firmly, "then we're friends now!"