"Gojo...why the hell did you invite me if this cursed spirit is for Geto?" Shoko asks me in a bored tone. We're sat across each other at a pair of desks in our classroom while we play koi-koi and wait on Suguru and Takara to arrive.
"Because this isn't just for Suguru to get a cursed spirit, I also wanted to have a movie night with my friends. Koi-koi." I say as we continue our current round of the card game.
"Shit, does that mean you consider me to be your friend?" Another familiar voice exasperates; I turn to see none other than Chiko standing in the doorway.
"Aw, don't be like that~ after all, wasn't I the one you came crying to when Iori rejected your love confession?"
Chiko flushes red and starts sputtering, "Shut up asshole! Clearly I was having a lapse in judgement!"
"Woah, no way, you're into Utahime-chan? Aren't you like thirteen or something?" Shoko questions the boy further with, "Oh are you into older women?"
He grimaces at this, his face completely flush, "I'm fourteen and age has nothing to do with it! I just find her singing to be...quite beautiful that's all..."
Shoko lights a cigarette before remarking, "Points for having a wholesome reason for crushing on her but you're way too young for her to be interested in you."
"Yeah...she said as much." Chiko sulks in a desk behind us.
"Probably for the best, she has a nasty temper and I doubt a kid like you could handle that." I comment before winning another round of koi-koi; to that I have not only Chiko pinching my cheek but also Shoko pinching the other.
"How dare you insult a lady! What's wrong with you?!" Chiko scolds.
"And what the fuck was that last move Gojo!? If I find out that you were cheating-"
"Oh boy, what did Satoru do this time?" Suguru cuts off Shoko's interrogation; he's standing in the doorway with Takara holding a bag of tokoyaki and a cup of green tea.
"Takara-chan!! These bullies are being mean to me!!" I pout and fake a tear in her direction. Takara is the weakest link since she's so innocent and oblivious to other people's bad sides; more specifically my bad side.
She walks over and places her bag of food down before signing to her younger brother, Chiko, don't be mean to Satoru. He's sensitive.
"But...Takara...he's Satoru...if anything he's probably an undiagnosed psychopath." Chiko weakly tries to argue with his sister.
That's a rude thing to say, Satoru is just a harmless eccentric. Now apologize. The Kubo heir demands.
Chiko blushes before pathetically muttering, "Fine...I'm sorry or whatever."
I hug onto Takara, "I knew I could count on you to have my back! Oh and can I have a bite of your tokoyaki?"
Suguru whacks the back of my head before pulling Takara away from me, "Absolutely not, I bought that tokoyaki for Takara. Not you, Gojo."
"Everyone is so mean to me and for no reason~" I dramatically feign sadness.
"I can name a couple reasons..." Chiko mutters under his breath.
"Ok Satoru, where's this cursed video tape you just had to interrupt my date with Takara for?" Suguru glares at me; indicating that I probably interrupted them while they were getting hot and heavy.
"Fine, fine. I just wanted to get my friends together for movie night but everyone is picking on me."
Takara lightly pats my head before handing me one of her tokoyaki. Suguru shakes his head at this, "Babe...you're way too easy on this idiot."
It's fine, since it's Satoru. And my stupid heart pitters and patters at this notion.
Her boyfriend simply sighs through his nose, "Fine...Satoru just play the video already."
I loudly sigh before I begin my lengthy explanation on the cursed spirit we're going to be up against, "Ok so from what I can see with my six eyes, this curse was placed on mainly horror movies so that the spirit could take on the same shape as the movie's monsters. This movie, Uzumaki, has also been cursed as such. And this specific curse has grown into a nice and healthy grade two."
"Enough of the pageantry! Play the movie already!" Chiko jeers at me.
Takara raises her hand to get my attention before signing, Didn't we used to read that manga back in elementary school?
"Yes we did! But there is also a live action movie that was made six years ago!" I explain to her. "So all we have to do is watch the movie and wait till something happens."
"Sounds easy enough." Shoko dully remarks.
"Well then, let's get this movie night started!" I exclaim before popping in the cursed VHS tape.
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We're an hour into the film and still no curse. What's worse than this hyper enemy tension is the sexual tension between Suguru and Takara. My focus shifts from the grotesque body horror playing on the screen to my best friend holding Takara in his lap; closing himself and Takara away from me. Screams ring and echo in the ominously silent classroom. Suguru kisses the back of her neck as Takara covers her face out of embarrassment. Her ears are bright red. The wailing and screaming from the movie tunes all other sounds out as I become absorbed with the horrible realization that Suguru doesn't want anything equal with Takara or myself frankly. He wants total control over each of us separately. Strangely I feel something screaming within me. Something that has been repressed for a very long time. His hand slides down her thigh, getting ever so closer to her flower. Takara shifts and squirms around uncomfortably and somehow that is what pushes me past my boiling point. I kick at the back legs of Suguru's desk, causing him and unfortunately Takara to startle forward.
Suguru glares back at me and mouthes a silent, "What?"
I whisper back to him, "Pay attention to your surroundings. It's coming." Just as I give that vague warning to my friend, a spiraling tendril like hair starts to attack the room from small television set. These spiral tendrils start to envelope most of the room. I call back to my friends, "Is everyone alright?!"
"Yeah we're all fine, we managed to all react in time!" Shoko calls back to me as we all come together and stare down the foe before us.
"Well Suguru, go on and do your thing." I taunt my friend.
He returns a knowing smirk before stepping forward to face off against his new prey.
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Golden Scars
Fanfiction(Gojo x oc x toxic Geto) Kintsugi: the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending it with lacquer and dusted gold. The flaw is seen as beautiful instead of something to be ashamed of. "I just miss my mom." Those were the last words ever s...
