Itadori is ... very protective of the people he cares about. And Sukuna is very, very dangerous. Technically he's already scheduled to be executed for being the vessel in the first place but it's kinda been put on hold.
that protectiveness would be great if the kid could think his way out of a wet paper bag. anyway, couldn't give two shits about what happens to sukuna or his vessel.
I personally don't care what happens to Sukuna beyond finally being able to deal with him accordingly. Itadori, I'm rather fond of. And would prefer nothing happen to him.
As far as I know ... They're best friends. There could be something more to it, but what do I know?
I'm still waiting for someone to tell me why itadori thinks he has to die for megumi.
but if you need someone to clue you in, both of them are very convinced the other one couldn't possibly want to date them, a totally normal thing for boys who are only interested in being friends to be fixated on.
Is it at all possible that they are both, in fact, not the brightest crayons in the box? Megumi is generally so much more perceptive than that. Itadori ... I genuinely love that boy but sometimes I think he's the densest human being on the planet.
thank god I was starting to wonder how many times you dropped my kid on his head after you got custody.
I asked if being sukuna's vessel caused brain damage but beginning to think it's a pre-existing condition.
anyway you better not be hiding anything from me about itadori thinking he has to die for megumi. do you actually not know what's going on there or are you avoiding the question because you hate me?
You can't just go around asking if things cause brain damage, my god. But Itadori means well, in everything he does, even if he sometimes doesn't go about things in the smartest way.
I'm not hiding anything from you, you have my word on that. And I don't hate you, either. For ... reasons beyond my comprehension.
But unless it has something to do with the way time works here as opposed to back home and I am missing something, I would assume it has something to do with his wanting to protect Megumi from Sukuna.
huh, no kidding? now I'm gonna have to stop fucking with you, shame.
[ he was so sure. now he's out of a hobby, damn. ]
think maybe the kid is just too uh
[ he's trying to be nice now, because gojo doesn't hate him. he's trying so hard. ]
simple to accept that you can just beat the snot out of sukuna if it comes down to it?
oh shit wait does this have to do with you being dead? fuck I forgot in the middle of everything else. did you die? megumi told me he's clan head of the zenin now. that was only supposed to happen if you died or became otherwise incapacitated or whatever.
No kidding. Looks like you're going to have to find a new hobby.
( a for effort on the front of being nice. we're proud of you, toji. )
The problem with beating the snot out of Sukuna is that he is possessing Itadori. He has no physical form to manifest on his own. ... Though his original one was pretty terrifying, I have to admit. But that would also mean beating the snot out of Itadori, and there is no way I'm letting that happen. Unless I have no other choice.
( even then, he's going to be big mad about it.
but. hold up wait a minute what. )
I'm not dead, last time I checked. But now Itadori being all sniffly when he first saw me here makes more sense. I have no idea what I did.
my deal with the geezer was megumi gets to inherit the clan ahead of that little shit naoya if you died or got incapacitated at any point after he died. wrote it up and stuck it in the will, iron-clad.
either something serious happened to you or naobito located whatever hole he shoved his basic human decency in and even knowing you I'm more willing to bet on the first thing.
look, I don't care about the details of whatever you've got cooked up in your crazy little head about sukuna and his vessel, if you're attached to the host then good for him. I trust you to get it sorted.
[ he's trying to say he has every confidence that gojo will take care of sukuna while protecting megumi and probably even save itadori somehow while he's at it so he's not fussed about the details, but that's how it's coming out. still trying. trying so hard. ]
but if you're fucking dead then we all got big fucking problems.
( forgive the delay in his next response, he's mulling all of this over and over and over and over in his head, because now he's kind of itching to ask both megumi and yuuji what they aren't telling him but at the same time.
it's their right to keep things to themselves if they choose to.
make no mistake, though. he will protect those boys with everything in him. not because, as their teacher he is essentially responsible for them, but because he genuinely loves them. as long as he's around, nothing bad is going to happen.
so he thinks. )
This just means that I have a lot of questions I'm not going to get any answers to, even if I ask. I'm getting the feeling they aren't telling me something on purpose. And it's their right, really. It isn't mine to pry. But I think things are a lot more dire for them than they were for me before I woke up here.
[ if text could convey how dry toji's tone is right now, satoru's device would be turning to dust in his hands. ]
I know you don't need me to fucking tell you that even you being 'incapacitated' is a pretty significant problem for all the idiots counting on you to wipe their own asses. which, last I checked, was clocking in at about 90% of the people who know you.
( why does his device suddenly feel like it's full of grains of sand? what an interesting phenomenon. )
No, I don't. But lingering on the thought of it isn't going to do me any good if I don't actually know what happened, and if the kids aren't saying anything, that means bottom line ... That we're in trouble. And it's not as if I can do anything about it while I'm here.
[ all is quiet, but he can't sleep. this bed, even with satoru in it, laying just inches away, has never felt so big and vast. and suguru had never felt this painfully, achingly alone in years.
in the silence of the night, he allows himself to be weary, to want to be comforted. after all, he had been holding himself together all damn day.
( it's funny, almost, how easy it had been to acclimate to sharing such a small space, given no other option; they haven't been this close in over a decade, and somehow it still feels like they're back in school together, and nothing has changed.
he's awake when that voice comes, though facing away from him makes it easy to delay his response and give it over to coming back around to full consciousness. he doesn't turn yet, but he does rustle the covers around them slightly to acknowledge having heard him at all. )
[ nothing has changed, and everything has at the same time -- but they slot in with each other easily, as if suguru had never left, as if satoru hadn't moved onward.
suguru is quiet for a long, long moment. then, a soft, weary little half chuckle. ]
I'm tired.
[ no glib comments, nothing. he turns onto his back, staring up at the ceiling. ]
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