Cataclysm [jujutsu kaisen fanfic]

chapter twenty eight

WARNING
Gruesome details.
read at your own risk.

when Shoko reached the hospital, she thought Satoru and Yuji would already arrived, but no one but a teenager sitting there with eye blackened and purplish cheekbone she assumed received good punches in the face.

from afar, she could sense his distress, even the look give it away.

once she walked closer, the boy looked up to her.

"you are.."

"i'm Ieiri Shoko, her colleague." he nodded rather absentmindedly as he looked over at Tomoe again, eyes still closed unconscious.

Tomoe noticed his face tightened, anger and guilt washed all over his face.

"if only i'm stronger.."

she looked down to his shaken hands.

"it's okay." the boy looked up to her immediately which surprised her. there was a look of hope from his eyes, she cleared her throat.

she did not mean to give him hope. she thought reassuring him with that words would be appropriate right now.

"...she will get better."

her heart beats subsided once he nodded and looked away.

there would be no guarantee that she would heal Tomoe. the female had proven hostile many times after she started working by her side.

maybe Tomoe in coma would not be so bad.

then again, Tomoe had gone through so much. if she truly wanted her to just stay the way it is, why would she run half the yard to get to Satoru to inform the news ?

it was quite hard for her to look up to Tomoe, her heart was wavering.

"why did you not take down Itadori Yuji's condition ?!" Shoko threw the paper onto her table, her eyes glared towards the pink haired female, much older than her, pointing her lips like a teenager getting caught red handed.

"i was distracted."

"doing what ?" Shoko replied almost instantly, making Tomoe stared at her for a moment before she replied.

"Yuji-kun needed a new uniform, so I was making one for him."

Shoko looked at her from the corner of her eyes, and noticed how her face always had the hint of mischievous, had a such an honest smile on her.

she looked up to Tomoe, and her heart tore apart at her condition.

scratches covered atop of bluish bruise, from a glance alone, she knew they were from different causes.

she was a medic after all.

her chest shaken as she inhales.

"kid, where is the other two persons that arrived first ?" Shoko asked.

Kaoru silent momentarily, trying to remember who she was referring to until he was reminded of Satoru and Yuji.

"they both went out."

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Satoru landed on one of the building as he looked down to the sketchy place. there was some people standing outside he assumed guards to the front door.

then, another figure landed next to him, looking down on the same place;

both without indicating any other look other than the look of attempting murder.