[ discontinued ] 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐓 ; satoru gojo

31. akira yamagata

akria yamagata was born with a cursed gift that manifested itself at the age of five years old. he had awoken something in his bloodline that not even his own family knew of.

it was when he was at school that he began to see odd creatures everywhere- school, the streets, stores. the only place he was safe at was his house, or he thought so for a while.

his life was pretty average besides for the cursed spirits. he had himself a couple of friends in class and parents who loved their child back. but that was before the incident.

it was simply a birthday party gone wrong in many ways. one second they were all messing around in the living room of the yamagata house, since it was akira's seventh birthday, and then there was a large blue deformed monster inside the house the next.

and guess who was the only person able to see the cursed spirit reaching for the little girl with a brown ponytail?

"watch out!" akira pointed, "there's one of those monsters behind you!"

the brunette was confused when she felt herself being picked up by an invisible force. as she hung in the air, everyone else could only stare in horror and confusion.

she let out a scream when being able to see the monster, they all did. the girl was thrown across the living room and the cursed spirit then gripped akira's mom, EIKO YAMAGATA.

the black-haired woman almost died that day, everyone who attended did. then someone came to exorcise it, a jujutsu sorcerer who didn't reveal their identity. and it was when the people in town started calling akira some sort of demon that they moved.

they moved again, again, again, and again.

everywhere they went, eiko and SADAO YAMAGATA couldn't escape the monsters their son was seeing. it crawled at their skins knowing that there was an invisible cursed spirit nearby.

so they got rid of what reminded them of these creatures. at ten years old, akira was left behind in the city of nairobi all alone. no place to call home and somewhere where japanese wasn't the main language.

he thought things were going to well. his parents grew very distant in the time they knew of curses. their new attitude when announcing a vacation away was odd.

just how much did it disgust them that they were willing to spend so much money just to abandon their child?

it was when the sun was setting that akira was losing hope. his parents left him with nothing, not even parting words besides 'you're on your own now'. and it hurt, it hurt a lot to be abandoned by the ones you love.