𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐋𝐄 | Itadori Yuji

XIII

CHAPTER XIII: in sickness and health
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Nobara and Yuji arrive underneath the bridge and find Megumi unconscious, which worries them.  Megumi suddenly wakes up, "Oh, you're back. I'm glad you're fine."

Relieved, Yuji and Nobara both yell at Megumi for scaring them.

Suddenly, Yuji remembers Sora being taken out of the mole-curses' domain. He began turning nervously to every side, noticing Sora nowhere in sight.

"Geto-sama! She-! Someone—!" Itadori began stuttering, not finding the right words to explain the situation which made the two other students panic.

A loud thud shaken the ground beside them. The three first-years slowly and nervously glanced up only to find a large caterpillar-like curse,

"I thought we exorcised them all!" Nobara shouts angrily as she gets in her fighting stance. "wait!" Megumi yells, placing his arm in front of Kugasaki as Itadori steps over to the curse.

"What the hell are you doing, Yuji?!" Nobara shouts in anger, not finding it the right time for him to play games. The curse glances down to Yuji who was looking up to him as he stopped. The caterpillar curse shared a glance to the two classmates behind before kneeling to Itadori's level.

He opened his arms, revealing unconscious Sora in the middle. The curse let out a gurgle, motioning Yuji to take her and he stepped over to Sora. Nobara watched confusingly with Megumi with the shocked expression by her side.

Itadori took Sora in his arms as she rested her head into the crook of his neck, leaving her fresh blood on his uniform. Yuji backed away, his eyes on the unconscious girl in his hands as the curse stood up and was quick to disperse in a shadow.

The pink haired turns to his classmates and a gasp escaped Nobara as she brought her hands to her mouth, while Megumi's lips parts with his eyes widening.

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Upon their return to the school, the first-years inform Gojo of the curses and how Sora must've been fighting with an unknown one to which their sensei suspects that it must been one of the Special-Grade curses that entered the school's veil on the Goodwill Event.

Sora thrashes her head to the side of the nightmares that have been torturing her and the blurry vision of Suguru from her childhood. Her vision kept switching between Mahito and hers fight to the smile of her brother as he waved her over.

Sora's eyes slowly open and her vision began to clear as someone entered her healing ward. Her eyes spot the familiar red sneakers as the person made their way to the other side of her bed while Sora followed.

"Oh, you're awake." Yuji states, slightly shocked, but also relieved.

Sora's glance turns to Yuji's worried face. "What..What happened?" She mumbled out with her raspy voice, licking her dry lips and her eyes squinting from the sudden light of the room.

"Well, besides us defeating those curses, you have two broken ribs, a small concussion and, fully healed hands to which..you didn't have before." Itadori counted her injuries as Sora let out a frustrated sigh. She lays her head towards him on the pillow as Yuji notices her expression.

"Something happened..didn't it? When something pulled you out of the domain, just like Kugasaki." Itadori states.

Sora brings her hand to her head with as she hissed at the pain that travelled through her head. That was probably what he meant with concussion. The Geto slowly brought herself to sit with Yuji trying to help only for her to deny.

"Say hello to Suguru for me...Sora."

Sora glanced down to her hands and wrists who were wrapped around with a bandage only her fingers seen.

"He..." Sora mumbled, her eyes switching glances to each of her palm as the memories of the fight were starting to get clearer in her head. Itadori leaned his head to the side to notice her nervous face, only for Sora to unexpectedly turn to him with tears stinging her eyes.

Sora crashed into Yuji's embrace, burying her head into his shoulder and pulling onto his hoodie as she sobbed. "He knew my brother's name, Yuji. He knows who I am and I-I felt s-so scared and weak."

Itadori let the information enter his ears before slowly pulling her away from him. Yuji sat down beside her, carefully placing his hands on her shoulder with slight fear and rage hidden in his eyes. "Who..did this?" He questions.

Sora's tears continued dropping like waterfall with her hands lightly shaking from remembering his grin. How she felt, like she was going to be stomped on like an ant.

"Mahito."

Yuji's lips parted from his name coming out of her mouth. The man that killed Junpei and was so close to murdering Sora, too. They want to take every person that Yuji cares about, starting with the most important ones. First Junpei and now; Sora.

Yuji placed his left hand on the back of her bandaged head and carefully pulled her to him. Sora was shook by this sudden affection from the vessel of Sukuna. She was in a weak state and every person needs someone to hug them now and then. Sora was glad that her someone, was him.

The Geto wrapped her arms around Yuji's waist and buried her face into the crook of his neck. Itadori's eyebrows furrowed and his jaw clenched from anger as he lightly placed his jaw on top of her head.

He wants to kill Mahito now more than ever. Break every bone in his body, cut off the hands that touched Sora and pull out the tongue that had spoken her name. He forgot about how wished to make up for that fight that he lost against the stitched man, no...now, Itadori wanted Mahito gone, he wanted him to feel like an ant being stomped on just like how Sora felt with him...and Yuji will make sure of it.

Sora pulled her head away and glanced up to Yuji who looked down at her, his eyes softening as he held his tears from seeing how bruised and scarred her face was from the fight. "Thank you, Itadori-kun." She whispered.

Yuji softly smiles down at her and Sora rests her head down on his shoulder, "You can call me Yuji. Just Yuji."

"Okay," Sora nodded. "Thank you, 'just Yuji'. You can call me Sora."

Itadori let out a chuckle, "Alright. No need to thank me, just Sora."

Sora let out a chuckle to which Yuji froze at. He carefully grabbed her shoulders to which left the Geto shook and confused as he faced her,

"Did you just... laugh?" He questions. "N-No, I- I didn't." Sora responded, shaking her head in denial, not wanting to admit the truth. "I heard you." Yuji was quick to respond. Geto shook her head in denial, biting on her bottom lip—a small curve appearing at the side of her mouth.

Noticing this, Itadori let out a gasp and pointed his finger to where she smiled. "You just did it again! See?!You smiled, admit it!"

"N-No—!" Sora cut him off, throwing a light tantrum as Yuji began repeating the words, cutting her off. "Sora smiled, Sora smiled~!"

Sora filled her cheeks with air, slapping her palm against her mouth as she let out a snigger. "Wow, she can even laugh!" Yuji gasped shockingly.

After a second of silence and Itadori's risen eyebrow in wonder, Sora bursted in laugher—filling the ward with it, added by Yuji's loud chuckles.