The Honored One - SATORU GOJO

four.

riko yells her need to be with everyone longer and i put my hand on her shoulder.

"you deserve to go more places than just okinawa" i say. geto laughs and stretches out his hand. "you deserve to live your life."

"let's go home, riko"

"yeah-" a single shot rings off of the bricked interior and the small girl's body slumps onto the floor.

"r... riko?" my mouth hangs open and i fall to my knees, my hands reaching out to the young girl.

"no... this can't be.." i start to hyperventilate and grab her hand and her bleeding head.

"all right! good show!" a voice rings out. i look to see toji.

"how... how did you even get here?!" geto's voice holds anger and disbelief as do my eyes. how the hell is he even standing?!

"huh? how? oh!" toji leans the handle of a gun to his head to scratch a part. "i killed satoru gojo."

my heart drops to my stomach and i feel vomit coming up, not knowing whether it's from toji killing gojo or the overwhelming smell of blood spilling all over me.

"that can't be true!" i yell out. his eyes fall to me but quickly go back to geto who is ready to engage. i can't join in. i don't have control yet.

"enough talk, die!" geto starts to use his cursed technique and toji holds his gun up. they start to fight and i look down at riko who i've pulled onto my lap. they follow each other like a game of tag and i grab riko and lift her up.

she needs to at least be taken out of here.

"you must fight! you must join in!" he demands. shut up! i can't! i have to at least do right by riko! i look around as to not get too close to their fight and i go around to another tunnel. geto please be okay! gojo... please be alive!

i come out to the other side of the tunnel and i see geto about lay a hand on toji but i see a blur of movement. geto stands still before collapsing onto the ground.

"geto!" i cry out. riko almost slips out of my hands and i put her down.

"you're a sorcerer, you'll be fine, i won't kill you since i don't know what'll happen to the cursed spirits inside you and that'll be a pain the ass to deal with" toji sighs, putting his foot on geto's head. "make sure to thank your parents for me.. but you guys, with all of your blessed talents, lost to a monkey like me who can't even use jujutsu."

he turns around and locks his eyes on me.

"hm? they didn't tell me you were going to be here," he says, taking steps into my direction. "you're that y/n kid that old bastard brought in, your parents sold you into that damn clan."

i start to lose my sight in my left eye. i can't keep it in right now. riko's blood has stained my entire clothes and seeped its way to my skin, the feeling of wet clothes has me feeling defeated and a mess.

"your own son will soon follow that same fate, correct?" he's out. he can't be out but my will to keep it together is fading. toji's face changes and for a second, it's a face of shock that quickly turns into an amusing one.

"he won't be following that fate but now i see why they had to have you," he chuckles. "you're not even fully manifested."

"toji ze'nin... i'll have my rope wrapped around your neck."

"i go by fushigiro, old man."

Cursed Technique: The Executioner

able to use simple cursed techniques with her rope, a cursed spirit has attached himself to y/n and acts as the executioner with high-grade cursed spirits and even human beings.

encountered special-grade curses in her village after a festival that ended in chaos.

25 injured
1 fatality

the executioner has a will of its own, still obeying their vessel to a degree but once having the opportunity to be out, he does as he pleases with the restriction of finding a wrong to execute justice. to anyone(due to not being conquered by y/n).

domain: unknown.

He executes others in a public manner, inspired by public executions of the 1800s, he uses 'The Noose', 'The Guillotine', and 'The Crucifixion'

y/n cannot stay fully conscious while the executioner is out, half of her face starts to distort as she tries her best to hold him back from fully manifesting, again, due to lacking control.

witnesses and survivors of the festival event recall seeing a hooded figure being followed by a black fog and dragging the child vessel with him.

his ability to have attached to a young child is unknown, his existence is confidential to even the jujutsu higher ups.

everything is black. i can feel myself moving around and taking hits but i can also feel myself curled up on the floor of my subconscious. i have to get up.

riko is dead. geto is dead. gojo... is dead. what happens now? is shoko in danger?

"hey! get back out here!" flashes of what's in front of me appear and it hurts my head. "get back in control."

who is that? i feel the hands on my shoulders but i can't feel the floor below me. i can almost see what's in front of me. it's toji.

"hey kid, stop letting this bastard drag you around" i raise my head to him and see that he is slowly disappearing into me. my vision becomes clearer and i can finally feel the ground. there is blood going down his head and he huffs. "i'm only letting you go because you ended up somewhere you shouldn't have been in... my son won't do the same and your parents shouldn't have given you over to that scum of a clan."

my body is unable to move, the only thing that is keeping me up is toji.

"you need to not that let bastard out again, they'll definitely put a bounty on your head and you'll be crazy to think i won't take it and succeed" toji puts me down and hoists riko up. no.

"don't take her! please!" i plead, crawling towards him with the bit of energy i have left. "she's a kid! leave her with me! please!"

he ignores me and continues to leave me there. i lay my head on the ground and let the exhaustion take me.

-

i wake up in the infirmary with shoko and geto sitting side by side. my head does a double take.

"geto? shoko?" i try to get up but a wave of pain hits my head, forcing me back down.

"y/n! relax, i took care of you so just rest up" she says. my eyes stay fixated on geto.

"geto, you're okay" he gives me a smile and comes close to grab my hand. "what.. what about gojo?"

"he's fine, he's reached his potential" he says simply. did toji not strike him right? my mind flashes to riko and toji.

"i'm sorry, i couldn't stop toji a-and he took r-riko-" geto cuts me off with his index finger held up to his lips.

"don't worry about any of that, we took care of it" he says. i don't believe him. he looks different. shoko says she'll be right back and we stay there in silence.

"are you okay?"

"what do you mean?"

"you look... conflicted" i answer, trying my best to find the right word. his eyes look like a storm. his hand squeezes mine and i can't help but smile.

"i'm glad you're okay and i am fine, it's just this summer heat" he says. the summer heat huh?