Beautiful Pain (Satoru Gojo x Reader)

Pool Day

Your POV

I yawned tiredly, stretching as I sat up in my bed. The rays of sun lit up the large, traditional Japanese-style room. I got out from under the covers, albeit reluctantly, and changed into my clothes for the day.

After changing, I slid the shoji door open and walked to the kitchen where I could smell breakfast cooking. "Morning Dad," I greeted softly as I walked over to the coffee pot.

"Morning sweetie," he smiled, moving the potatoes around in the pan. "Are your friends still coming over later?"

"Mhm," I hummed, stirring the sugar and cream into my coffee.

It was currently early August of 2005, and the heat was raging. My family, being one of the major sorcerer clans of the jujutsu world, was quite wealthy. Our home was located in rural Tokyo, surrounded by woods and in the high mountains. We had a large inground pool behind our house where Shoko, Suguru, Satoru, and I spent our summers. Today was no different, and our day was going to be spent by the pool since it was Summer Break.

Thankfully, I didn't have training with our elders today. During the normal school year, I would have to train with the Inazuma elders every other weekend, and 3 days a week during school holidays. Thankfully, today was not one of those days.

When my dad finished the fried potatoes, he grabbed them and a plate of bacon, bringing them over to the table. I loaded a few pieces of bacon and some potatoes onto the plate, thanking my dad for the meal. We talked as we ate, enjoying each other's company.

Suddenly, my phone buzzed. I was almost certain who it was. I picked it up, tapping on the message. I couldn't help but breath a laugh through my nostrils as I read it.

"Satoru again?"

I nodded, "Yeah. Same thing as always."

Satoru had made it a habit for the last few years to text me every morning. It was always the same thing. "Ready to admit your undying love for me?"

And every day I replied the same, "Ready to give up yet?"

Our answers were always the same, "Never."

"I doubt that boy will ever stop," my father mumbled into his cup, sipping his coffee.

"One day, I hope," I sighed, placing my phone back on the table. "Besides, he only wants what he can't have. He would get bored of me sooner or later."

My dad muttered an almost inaudible, "Hasn't gotten bored the last 8 years." I rolled my eyes, not wanting to continue this conversation further.

We finished our breakfast shortly after and I went to go get the pool ready. I often used the pool to help train my jujutsu since water could be used as a help or a hinderance. My clan has three techniques, and I inherited all of them. The three in order of least to most power are Electricity Manipulation, Black Thunder, and Electrogenesis.

Electricity is the basic technique of my clan. Almost all sorcerers in the Inazuma Clan inherit this one. It gives the wielder the ability to convert their cursed energy into electricity. It is essentially shooting out cursed energy in bursts of electricity.

Black Thunder is a technique that allows the wielder to manipulate the cursed energy around them in the form of lightning. They can direct it and change the temperature by how much cursed energy is used. This one is more common than Electrogenesis, being inherited by at least one person in each generation.

The final, and most powerful technique is called Electrogenesis. Electrogenesis allows the user to change the magnetism and current of cursed energy around them at will. Using this technique allows them to cancel out other cursed energy, which can make them immune to attacks or bypass cursed energy barriers. It is very rare and appears once every few hundred years.