wasteland, baby! [fushiguro megumi]

25: a beginning to an end

october 2018

koinokuchi canyon – yasohachi bridge

third person pov

it didn't take long for itadori and kugisaki to catch up with the pair lying beneath the bridge after fighting their own battle with the two cursed wombs. with scars and bruises tattered across their faces, along with the burning wounds that laced around kugisaki's left arm, they were relieved to see that their friends weren't having it as bad as they were, though the sight of the couple passed out together did send them panicking.

"fushiguro?! mizuki?!"

megumi jerked up at their voices, startling keiko who had also passed out beside him as he got up from her lap. "you're back ... glad you two are okay."

"YOU SCARED US HALF TO DEATH! WE THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE DEAD!"

too loud, shut up ...

"keep it down ... my head hurts." megumi's strained voice blurted out of his throat coarsely while keiko simply groaned.

"don't fall asleep with sukuna's finger, it's too dangerous." kugisaki frowned.

"how did you know about the finger?"

"do you even have the energy to hear me out?"

"let's just contact nitta san already, we're all exhausted. we have to seal the finger immediately or more cursed spirits will gather." keiko brushed her skirt off as she got to her feet, ignoring the incessant pounding in her head.

"oh! shall i eat them instead?" itadori brightly chimed in.

"they're not leftovers!"

"we don't know how many more fingers you can eat, but since you look the least worn out i'll let you take it. like i said, don't eat it." megumi weakly stretched out his arm to hand the pink haired boy the crusty thousand year old cursed object.

he's talking to me like i'm a dog.

as soon as itadori's hand reached out, a mouth appeared on his palm and took in the finger in one big bite, sending the boy into a momentary flurry as he absorbed another finger's worth of power.

"we told you not to eat it!" megumi and kugisaki yelled almost instantly while keiko darted forward to grab his face as she pulled open the second eyelid beneath his own, hoping to see sukuna's vile red iris.

"you're fucking asking for it! spit it back out!" keiko shrieked as she shook itadori's head violently while staring into sukuna's blank expression on the side of his cheek, her own eyes threatening to choke the boy if she could. itadori could only let himself be swung around like a puppet before an infuriated screech echoed from above the bridge.

kugisaki finally peeled keiko off the pink haired boy as the group gazed up to see a furious nitta yelling for them to get back. they were definitely about to get a real lashing once they're back for sneaking off to take on a mission when they were instructed otherwise, not to mention itadori and kugisaki had unintentionally roped in two innocent civilians during their fight.

"do all of you have any idea what you've done?!" yaga's low growl boomed through the room as the first years were sitting on their knees before him after getting patched up by shoko.

"fushiguro, i expected no less from you. taking on such a dangerous mission on your own, then dragging your classmates along? what were you thinking? i understand that you were worried about your sister, but rushing in head first with no backup is too reckless! a special grade mission should be handed over to grade one sorcerers and above, it didn't matter if mizuki was there, she wasn't even supposed to be fighting!"