Bits and Pieces (Jujutsu Kaisen AU)

Chapter 1-6

Afterlife: Shika

Terminals at the airport represented the many lives of everyone alive in Japan. When a person dies, their Terminal no longer belonged to them. The number that represented them now represented someone else. Cause of this, these numbers would get reused. But representing those who were alive weren't the only thing they could do. The digits of the terminal were random. No one shared the exact same, but if the first two were the same, then that meant the two souls were twins. But the reaming digits wouldn't match them just the first two. A pair of twins I once knew had terminals F862686 and F848553. If the remaining five digits were the same, then that meant something else entirely. That meant the souls weren't twins, but they weren't strangers. They we're...

"They're soulmates." I stated, glaring at Otoha.

I had visited her in her estate immediately after Suguru had arrived here. The last seven days of the year would be celebrated tomorrow. Instead of my normal routine, I was confronting Otoha.

She was sitting at her desk pouring herself some tea as she looked at me, seeing me across my arms and keeping my blank stare.

"... who?" Said asked.

"Satoru said Suguru. They're soulmates."

Otoha chuckled as she put down her kettle and picked up her tea. "How do you know that?"

"Their terminal numbers are the same. Everyone knows the last five digits of a terminal number means soulmates if their the same." I scoffed.

"And what's the matter with that. Surely you didn't wish to tell me such useless news." Otoha said as she stopped her tea.

"You can't separate soulmates. In life or in death. The deals off."

Otoha froze her sweet and stoic demeanor faltering. "Seriously." She glared.

I chuckled. "Trying to separate soulmates is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. No scratch that. More, like trying to find a strand of hay in a pool of needles. Dangerous, and a waste of time."

Otoha looked at me as if trying to process my words. She smiled, still not believing me. "I see.... I'll inform Riho then."

I looked at Otoha walking away as she continued to smile. She wasn't scaring me, I just refused to be near her. I made my point clear. I left her estate not able to contain my amusement. That look in her eyes. That utterly disbelief like a wrench was thrown in her plans, along with the entire machine being disassembled. That cured my boredom.

My place was getting rather boring. Toji had moved in with his wife two years ago, and Juri moved in with her husband a year before that. Now that Suguru was here, Juri offered him a place at her home, and he refused. I hadn't seen him since then, which was only a few hours ago. I wasn't going to go after him, not anymore. But Tatsuko would. He killed people and cursed them to death. People who kill people upset Tatsuko, and she usually punished them. I saw it plenty of times before in my time here. Souls after souls pleading or sticking to their Morals as Tatsuko took away their souls' existence, sending them into Enternal limbo. Suguru was safe for now from Tatsuko. She was too busy with planning for the last week of the year to send anyone after Suguru. But by the next year, she'd find him. She'd kill him. She'd move on.

"Shika!"

I turned around seeing Juri push through the crowd to get to me. She stopped in front of me, clasping her hands as she spoke with her heavy breaths.

"Have you seen Suguru?" She pleaded as if begging for a yes.

I looked at her. That worry in her eyes genuinely. I couldn't help but get... annoyed. I clenched my fist as I stood up tall.