The Path to Hell or Salvation || Sukuna x Reader

Prologue: Sealed

Yuji's p.o.v

The fire was everywhere.

My body ached and my muscles were sore. It was getting hard to breathe through the flames soot and dust lingering in the air. I groan and force myself to look up. Megumi and Nobara lay still, Megumi faced down on the pavement and Nobara on her back with her broken hammer beside her.

"Guys?" I asked, my voice cracking. A large shadow outlines through the flames, the embodiment of evil makes his way toward me. 'Dammit I have to do something, anything!' my thoughts screamed as I begin to crawl away from him. My fingers dug into the ground as I tried everything in my remaining strength to get away.

"Not bad brat, but I expected a challenge after all the wit and sass you threw at me," his voice hummed as the ground shook beneath his feet. His aura is suffocating, it feels like a thick fog no one can breathe through.

I feel him press his foot on my back, causing me to yell out. "Get up Itadori," his voice said in a mockingly sweet tone. He presses his foot down harder and I hear a sickening crunch from my back, causing me to yell out in pain.

"Pitiful, I am free and all I get is a bunch of children trying to kill me. It was fun while it lasted brat." I can feel Sukuna raise his foot off of me and I glance back to see his foot high in the air, ready to crush me like I was an insect. I close my eyes, bracing myself for the pain until I hear screaming.

I open my eyes and see a familiar woman. Her expression is full of anger and hate, her eyes slashed, she couldn't see. She rushes towards Sukuna and jumps into the air, holding what looks like a crowbar. Sukuna holds up his hand and fire bursts out of it. No, that's it, she's dead no one can survive his blaze.

But my eyes widen when she bursts through the flames unharmed. How? Her curse energy covers the crowbar as she attempts to hit him. He pulls away from me and blocks all of her attacks.

"I thought I killed you maggot," Sukuna smirked. He grabs her broken sword and throws it to the side with her still holding on to it.

She skids across the ground but uses the half-broken sword to stop herself from going anything further. Blood rushes down her face from the long slash across her eyes. I cringe in pain and disgust as she grips her head tightly.

"A slash across the eyes is going to take a lot more if you want to kill me," she hissed.

"Y-Y/N?" I weakly called out. What was she doing here? I haven't seen her in months. She looked completely different, her body had lost dramatic weight, and she looked more stressed, and overall worn out. Before she looked happy and healthy, but she's changed.

After she killed Nanami.

"Big talk, what are you going to do now that I took your eyes? All Seeing Sorceress?"

Her face contorted into disgust as he called you the title Yuji knows she despises so much. All-Sight, she has the gift, or as she told Yuji it was a cursed gift. Whenever he would ask you to look into the future for him so he could know if he defeated Sukuna once and for all, you sent him a spine-chilling glare. You told him, every time he asked, that telling him would cause the future to change, a small knowing will cause a butterfly effect and things could get better or worse.

"Knowing the future is not all roses and daisies."

That is what she would tell him every time he praised you for your talent.

"I think I'll be fine," she hums. Yuji watched as curse energy flowed through the sword, the energy then formed around her as she smiled big.

"Enjoy your freedom now Sukuna because this is all over for you!" she yells, smiling like mad as she holds up her weapon to him.