SKIN & BONES / RYOMEN SUKUNA

24

—— before ——

A dinner banquet held in honor of the Uri clan.

To announce that their only blood,

The heir to the entire dynasty,

The love of his life,

Was ready to marry,

And it won't be him.

A parting gift from my mother.

One last fuck you. Of course.

But it wasn't like he was complaining nor was he completely forced to sit through this.

Sukuna didn't have to be here. He really didn't.

But life has proven to him that he was a dog. A chained domesticated dog. That if he was a good boy, then he would get rewarded with a treat.

And all my mother had to do was dangle a bit of alone time with me, and he took it.

Even if that means enduring this utterly pointless courtship party.

"You can leave now." I stated feeling him still looming behind me as I walked into the already crowded courtyard.

"I think I prefer to stay." He replied sarcastically "Looks fun." Another sarcastic comment.

Immediately I turn to glare up at him.

"If you ruin tonight....," I warned. Those maroon eyes darted back down to meet mine. "I will never forgive you."

I don't need him causing a scene, because of his overly aggressive nature.

I refuse to allow him to undermine me at every turn,

He wants to have a miserable life? Fine. But I won't!

"Well it's a good thing I'm already past forgiveness Isn't it?" He replies as I roll my eyes. "What's one more thing to add to your hit list?"

"Of course." I answered, with a lackluster tone. "I should've known better than to expect anything less."

He doesn't respond to that.

Because it's not fun to fight with me if I let him win. It means I am done with this conversation.

I am done with him.

And I've refused to speak to Sukuna after he started sleeping around.

Listen to anymore reasoning. In my eyes, he was a stranger. The man i loved was never there in the first place.

He's essentially lost everything.

Ironic actually.

Because he's the strongest man alive now, but the weakest to me. To gain everything that he wanted and all it took was sacrificing the one thing he did it for, me.

Amazing karma. Really. He thinks. Because my fucking life is just a joke.

Sukuna picks up one of my parents expensive Saki bottles and downs enough of it,

Enough that it will trigger another fight with me.

He's gotten fairly good at pushing my buttons. (Almost like a new sport for him)

"It would be nice if you aren't a drunk right now" I remarked earning an upturn of his lips around the rim.

It takes much more than one to drown an immortal being but having to explain his tolerance to me is useless when I won't even listen.