My Mayumi

realization

Nanami and Mayumi would spend no more than a week on campus. Nanami wanted to leave sooner, but Mayumi wanted to celebrate her birthday with her new friends. She wanted a princess/curse theme birthday party with her favorite foods, such as pizza, strawberry mochi and apple juice. Nanami took great attention to detail in decorating their residence with pink ribbons, princess pink balloons and detailed curse portraits. He took even more time curating an outfit for Mayumi to wear. As Mayumi's beloved servants (as she called them on the invitation) arrived, they were told to put on tutus and lesser extravagant dresses. Nobara and Gojo worked the lights and cameras as Mayumi came out of her room. She wore a poofy pink dress embroidered with flowers and detailed patterns and had a large crown that was decked out in glittery replicas of known cursed objects, including Sukuna's finger. As the others oohed and ahhed over her outfit, Mayumi posed away for pictures. She was excited to share this day with people other than her father.

"Princess Mayumi, why don't you open your gifts now?" Nanami playfully bowed. He led Mayumi to a large mountain of presents.

"So many!" Mayumi exclaimed, overwhelmed with joy. She smiled and thanked those who gifted her such wonderful things. She especially loved the cursed corpse Principal Masamichi gave to her. It was a large pink bear, with glitter paws which was trained to grow with Mayumi and protect her at all costs. But, the present Mayumi treasured most was the one Nanami gave her. It was a silver locket necklace in the shape of a heart, which held a picture of Nanami holding up a peace sign with pink sunglasses on as a younger Mayumi would eagerly try to finish a large cone of melting strawberry ice cream. Mayumi would grow never to take it off.

As Mayumi napped, Nanami would clean the dorm and take the garbage out. For fear that Mahito would come back, he left Mayumi with Gojo and Itadori as he took out the trash and ran some errands.

Mayumi danced around with her cursed corpse and play games on the floor with Gojo and Itadori. In the middle of one of her games with Yuji (Gojo went to the restroom), tattoos appeared on Yuji's face.

"Mayumi, how wonderful to see you!" Sukuna sarcastically claimed.

"Who are you?" Mayumi said without looking up from the game. She realized the change in voice.

"I'm the guy from the hand. I wanted to apologize for getting off on the wrong foot the other day. I'll admit, I was impressed when I angered you. Do you know what happened that day?" Sukuna played with one of the pieces from the game.

"The cloud?" Mayumi asked, now looking at Sukuna.

"The cloud, yes. The cloud you had is only seen from those who are members of my family."

"I don't think so. I only have Papa as family and he doesn't have it."

"You have to have a mother. Your mother is related to me."

"You know my mommy?"

"I know your mommy very well. I think she'd be very happy to see you! All you have to do is eat this, and we could do a magic trick and you could see her and meet your other family too!" Sukuna pulled a finger from Itadori's pocket.

Mayumi took the finger and carefully examined it.

"Can you cut it up for me?"

"No." Sukuna impatiently answered.

"Just eat it, you want to meet your mommy right?"

"Well-"

Gojo finally came out of the bathroom to see Mayumi chewing on half of the finger.

"Mayumi, no! Spit it out!"

Mayumi panicked and did as Gojo told her.

"But the man with the tattoos told me to eat it so I could meet mommy!"

Gojo, unaware of the identity of her mother, gave a confused expression before finally realizing.

"Shit, Nanami." He muttered to himself.

Nanami came back to a seemingly peaceful yet oddly quiet dorm. Mayumi was in a deep sleep, as well as Itadori. Gojo stood a few feet in front of the door.

"Nanami, do you know what you've done?"

"No?"

"Your daughter almost ate this." Gojo held up Sukuna's finger. Nanami snatched it and put it back in the seal, which was on the table.

"What the hell, Gojo? You were supposed to be watching her. You were supposed to be watching them!" Nanami pointed to Itadori.

"Sukuna wants your daughter to eat a finger so they can merge. He knows Mayumi has potential as a curse or a curse user."

Nanami went pale in the face. In that moment, he pondered his choices as a parent.

"How could I let it get this far?"
"Why didn't I teach her morality?"
"Why didn't I teach her anything?"

All these questions ran through his head as he tried to wake Mayumi. Gojo remembered and walked over to the sleeping girl and put two fingers on her head to wake her. Mayumi yawned and smiled at the sight of her father.

"Mayumi, can we talk with you?"

"Sure!"

Nanami took a second to collect his thoughts.

"Yumi, you know that our world is different. You know about jujutsu, you know about cursed energy, you know about curses. But I failed to help you understand that these things are bad. I did not want this life for you, but sadly, you've entered it. You must train and figure out your technique to help us defeat curses. I know you see them as your friends but they are enemies to the world. Papa will be right by your side to help you through it, all the time."

"Okay Papa!" An uninterested Mayumi shrugged and walked off.

"What happened to putting off work?"