A Choice (and other things they lost along the way)

Mild Threats.

A/N: AH!!! A Gojo POV! And a Sakura POV!!! Sakura, I love u bb, but I will always make you suffer. And then give you hugs.

Gojo is just like so confuzzled rn tho

____________________

Mmm. Satoru felt the mochi melt in his mouth delightfully. He really should go to that shop more; they have the best mochi. He saw both of his 'alive' students look at him weirdly, but he ignored them. They wouldn't understand.

At chance, he looked over to the library that was around. It was painted a dirty red, surrounded by some truly impressive trees. The town that they were in was small, so he'd never been to their library. Maybe they would have something about the weird thing that stalked him? No, they wouldn't know anything that he didn't.

At chance, he looked at the library. At chance, he saw the girl, or curse, or something, that was sitting inside. It wasn't normal. It wasn't normal and Satoru should have known it because he specialized in things that weren't normal. He should have at least heard of a pink-haired girl-curse that controlled it's cursed energy even more tightly than he did.

Satoru changed his course to the library as if he was doing it accidentally and looked at the library-girl more carefully. She was wearing clothes about three sizes to large for her and had muscles (or the illusion of) that suggested combat training. They were the age of his students- maybe a year or two younger but old enough that if she were human he should have been notified about her. Her hair was even brighter than Yuuji's, not dyed, and the air around her radiated cursed energy.

The steps were a dusty brown, and for a smaller town, it had a large library. Satoru pushed open the door and saw the girl without any walls between them and it was even more unsettling than it was before. He should have known her. She definitely had a body made of flesh, but he didn't rule out the possibility of her being a curse, because her cursed energy was moving around in ways he's never seen before. It was almost like it was trying to follow her blood vessels.

She was looking at a book- about child laws- with bewilderment, almost like she had never seen anything like it. Which. Hm.

Swallowing his mochi, Satoru sauntered over to the girl. He kind of wanted to go over and shake her and demand answers because no, you don't just get to exist like that, you need to be known.

Crouching down to her, he smiled, "Hey, who are you?" From the door, he heard Nobara mutter something that sounded like 'no tact'.

The girl startled badly, whipping her head over to him with speed that could rival a sorcerer. "Wh-what?" She stuttered. Satoru could understand her hesitance; stranger danger, after all!

Satoru persisted without change, "Who are you?"

She seemed to have calmed down a bit, at least enough to squint at him questioningly. "I'll... tell you my name. But only if you tell me yours first."

Well, that basically confirmed that she wasn't familiar with the Jujutsu world. Could still be a curse though, just a really new one. Doing the mental equivalent of a shrug, Satoru smiled, "I'm Gojo Satoru!"

The girl squinted some more, then looked down to her book again and whispered to herself, 'Not another one.' Satoru had a feeling that he wasn't supposed to hear that, but he was just special for being able to. But... another one? Was there someone like him? Maybe a clan member?

And then the pink-haired girl looked him in the blindfold, smiled a fake smile and lied to his face, "My name is Senju Tsubaki."

Satoru deflated at the lie. "Aw, Senju-chan, I thought we had a promise..." He whined. It was more confirmation that she really had no clue who she was, because no one would just lie to the Six Eyes. To be honest, she was one of the best liars that he had met, but like, Six Eyes.