NADA - Geto Suguru X OC X Gojo Satoru

I'm Keeping It

Yuriko and Satoru barely mananged it everyday. He brought her food and stolen fruits, sneaking around so nobody would find her. She'd almost regained her strength but couldn't bring herself to speak much. All she did was listen to him talk. He'd opened up to her after he saw her respond better to him. He'd told her how he had no friends because he was born with a special gift. He tried his best to explain his "Limitless" and "the Six Eyes" to a 4 year old. She was very smart her age and understood what he said, even with his shitty explanation.

"Strong?" She softly asked.

"Very!" He smiled wide.

He was just grateful that his house was on the edge of the forest, his estate big enough to keep the prying eyes away, with no neighbours. That way he was assured that she would be hidden.

"I guess you're my friend now" he said and she nodded with a small smile on her face.

"Yuriko... what are we going to do about you?" He gently caressed her head as she ate the persimmon he'd given her. She knew she couldn't stay there forever and promised herself that she'd leave as soon as she regained her strength. Her mother had told her to run and she was going to do just that. She'd begun to understand the amount of effort and sneaking around it required from Satoru to keep her alive and she felt terrible. She cried herself to sleep every single night. Not a day went by where she didn't miss her mother, where she peeked through the cold, dusty planks, hoping that her mother would come looking for her.

"Let's make a promise!" He said in excitement. His stoic facade had worn off long before he proclaimed her as his best friend.

"A promise?" She softly asked.

"A promise that once we grow up we'll find each other", he said and she immediately nodded.

"I'll find you, Yuriko!" He said with a big smile on his face, "Once I grow up I'll find you and give you a better house to live in!"

Her eyes went wide with what he said.

"A BIIGG HOUSE!" He assured taking her frail hand and pulling her pinky "You'll never have to be hungry or cold again". She nodded with tears in her eyes as he wrapped his pinky around hers.

She always listened to him when he had something to say, good or bad. Sometimes she opened up to tell him a few things and he was more than excited to hear from her. She eventually told him about his mother and where she was from. He couldn't help but feel gutted with what she said. He also knew that she wasn't going to stay forever.

Little Satoru's rendezvous went on for weeks until she was almost fully healed. She didn't have the heart to tell him that she was going to leave. She planned on leaving without telling him but when her eyes fluttered open every single morning, she just couldn't bring herself to. She was as gullible and naive as any 4 year old.

"Satoru, we need to visit the priest at the shrine in the evening, don't run off into the woods again" his mother said as he looked at her with an almost disappointed look on his face. He wanted to see Yuriko and bring her dinner.

Satoru was in a hurry all through their visit and it bothered his parents a little, but they let it slide knowing he was a kid who had no interest in going to a shrine.

By the time they were back, there was a huge commotion near his house, more specifically where Yuriko was. Satoru's eyes widened as he mindlessly bolted towards her, surprising even his parents, "YURIKO!"

'No no no no no, please no'.

The people who were after her from her village had found her. Satoru looked at the rubble the shed had reduced to and tore his way through the crowd. "YURIKOOO!"

"Stay back, kid! She attracts spirits!" One of them said but Satoru wouldn't stop. He knew it already. When he saw a cursed spirit lurking near her place one day, he almost killed it, but when he saw how it behaved around her, he was convinced that she could exercise some control over it. He tried to figure out how she could do it if she didn't have cursed energy. He tried and failed several times. And since not everyone could see curses, he didn't see a reason to ask.

"Get back!" When Satoru's eyes radiated in the night, everyone stepped back. He quickly pushed the rubble off of her and pulled her out, seeing new bruises on her again. His parents didn't understand what to say.

As Satoru's Limitless activated without him even knowing, it scared everyone around him, even his own parents, "you don't want it, do you???!" He held her arm tight as he asked the villagers who came in search of her. Satoru didn't even sound like himself anymore. "I'm keeping it!"

"Satoru!"

"I'M KEEPING IT!"

His cursed energy soon began seeping uncontrollably and everyone gathered there began running away from the scene.

"SATORU!" His clan members were worried if he would go out of control.

"Satoru" he felt a small hand press against his back and all his pent up cursed energy vanished into thin air.

"Huh?" He looked at her, unable to comprehend what happened. "Are you... okay?" He asked and she nodded.

The Gojo clan had a meeting that night and they wanted Yuriko present there. But after much rebellion from Satoru they agreed to not bring a child into this.

The clan meeting went on for longer than Satoru wanted. He didn't understand most of what was said but gathered that she couldn't stay on the estate anymore. In disappointment, he ran out to see her again, hoping to strike a deal into having his only friend stay. Just for a little longer, even if it was for another day.

But she wasn't there. She wasn't anywhere. He knew she wasn't. He felt the void. He knew his emotions were at its peak after having lost her, but the void also had a different effect on him, physically.

She wasn't a cursed technique user. No, she wasn't. That's when he realised what she did to calm him down in an instant.

She nullified it.