Chapter Text
Chaos Family
[7:42 AM]
SugarRush: GUESS WHOS BACK BITCHESSSSS
SugarRush: wait u guys r kids
SugarRush: GUESS WHO BACK GUYYSSSSSSSS
HoneyThief: about 90% of thsi gc is cursing ur fine
KingBigBack: FUCK R CLASSES STARTING AGAIN
SugarRush: nah thats tmr
Makiroll: oh yea how'd the event go
SugarRush: the higher ups look like wrinkled babies
SugarRush: my cousins suck ASS
SugarRush: they did the weird ritual thing i could not give two fucks about
SugarRush: my cousins REALLY SUCK ASS
SugarRush: so nothing new
Tuna: huh
Tuna: so
Tuna: me (an emthpa) thnks that u dont like ur cuosins
SugarRush: they're a little silly (not) sometimes
Makiroll: WAIT IS ONE OF THEM THAT BITCH WHO CAN NEVER NOT SHOW OFF HER JEWLERRY
SugarRush: YES LMAOOOOO
HardcoreGoth: seeing maki and sensei bond is weird
HoneyThief: wait who r u talking abt
SugarRush: ok story time!!
SugarRush: so one of my cousins is like raeaaaaaaaaally stuck up
SugarRush: thinks everyone loves her
SugarRush: like no one wants you gurl :/
KingBigBack: gojo sensei hater arc???
SugarRush: >:)
SugarRush: ANYWAYS DONT INTEEURPT
HoneyThief: ok bro :/
SugarRush: so like I didnt do NOTHING to her
SugarRush: but she hates my guts
Tuna: ok nohting new htere
SugarRush: rude but whatever
SugarRush: so her ass can nver stop stalking shit
SugarRush: like no one cares!! especially not me!!
SugarRush: flashbacks to when she tried to frame me for murder </3
KingBigBack: WHAT
Tuna: HELLO???
HoneyThief: OMG WE GOTTA STOP BRUSHING OVER THIS CLAN SHIT BRO
SugarRush: its ok i was like 8
Tuna: THTSA WOSRE SENSEI
Makiroll: real ngl
Makiroll: thats bad timing isn't it
HoneyThief: ok bro were not doing this anymore
HoneyThief: idk what shit yall have gone thru but thats not ok
Makiroll: it was a long time ago im fine now
HoneyThief: thats not how it works?
HoneyThief: it doesn't matter how long ago it was bc its still fucking important
HoneyThief: u cant just deny ur trauma and pretend it never happened Maki
Makiroll: it doesnt matter bc im not with them anymore
KingBigBack: shouldnt we talk abt this in person
HoneyThief: stfu
KingBigBack: ok
Makiroll: i dont plan on being their slave anymore and thats all that matters
HoneyThief: no bc ur still obv affected by what happened to u there
HoneyThief: u cant ignore it and pretend it never happened
Makiroll: Don't you dare fucking talk about this this shit like you know at all what it's like
Makiroll: It doesn't matter if I'm strong or worthy or powerful because the clans will never see that because I don't have a skill
Makiroll: It doesn't matter what the fuck I do if I'm not the best
Makiroll: It doesn't fucking matter what happened to me before because all dwelling on that will do is bring me to the bottom of the pyramid and Im not fucking risking that
Makiroll: Clan life is brutal and I'm not going to come out on top if all i think of is that
Makiroll: I can't afford the luxury of being affected because I'm not some sort of fucking god like sensei
Makiroll: I don't even have a fucking skill
Makiroll: I cant go back to being treated like dirt at the bottom of someones fucking shoe so I will ignore it all I want
Makiroll: I am not less then so Im not thinking about a time where I was
Makiroll: So lay the fuck off
[Makiroll is offline]
Tuna: ...so that was soemthing
HardcoreGoth: ur not helping
Tuna: IM SORRY
HoneyThief: shit now I feel bad
HoneyThief: did I push her too far?
Stabby: u didnt know
Stabby: its not ur fault
Stabby: just give her some space
KingBigBack: is this a good time to mention that i accidentally set our lunch on fire while trying to cook
HardcoreGoth: YUUJI
KingBigBack: IM SORRY
Maki is sitting at one of her favourite places on the Jujutsu High campus; a small, practically abandoned shrine in the middle of the woods. The thing is worn with age, and there are vines and moss shrouding the whole thing. She came here regularly, when the constamt hum of everything became far too much for her to handle. It was calm, it was nice, and it was hers.
And that is precisely why Maki is not at all happy when she hears footsteps tread lightly towards this sacred place of her's. She made her displeasure clear by flipping them off. A hearty laugh rings out from behind her, and the tall figure comes around to sit beside her at the foot of the shrine. Maki does not bother to speak to her teacher, instead squeezing her eyes shut and burying her head on her knees. Satoru, strangely enough, does not disrupt the silence.
"Why are you here." she croaks softly, after a few minutes of steeping in the bubbling quiet between her and her teacher.
Satoru hums. "Just came to check on you. How you holding up? Can't have been easy, letting that all out."
And for some reason, Maki rages. Her anger boils in her chest, bubbling and rising to the surface to spill out between her lips like tar and fire, like broken glass and unfufilled vows.
"What would you know?!" Maki snaps. "What would the ever perfect, ever glorious Six Eyes know of failure? All I've fought for my whole life is to be seen! All that I've done, all that I've dedicated myself for, all that I've sacrificed, for this!" Maki grips at the fabric of her uniform till her knuckles turn white. "And yet all they'll ever see is a useless girl without a skill because that is all that will ever matter! Nothing else! How can I be worth anything at all if I am not strong?!"
By the end of it, her chest is heaving with the weight a burden far too big for a girl so young. Satoru stares behind his blindfold, unflinching in the face of her anger, of her rage (of her grief, for what could have been). He waits until her breaths have evened out once more, staring at into the trees before he speaks.
"When I was your age," Satoru starts, "I had a mission with... a friend of mine." He sounds so uncharacteristically solemn that Maki has to turn to look at him properly for the first time since he sat down beside her. He had slipped off his blindfold, at one point, and Maki can see grief and loss and something else she can't quite name in his enchanting eyes.
"And there was this girl we had to protect. Bratty as the rest of you, she was." Satoru laughs emptily. "We were going to save her. The higher ups wouldn't have like it, but we were going to save her." Satoru breathes in a shuddering breath, like it pains him to even think of.
"We failed. She died."
Maki is more stunted by the bluntless of it than anything else. There are no dramatics, no teasing, no making something out of nothing or vice versa. All she hears is an oldened grief, a scab picked at over and over and over again.
"What I'm trying to say," Satoru continues, "is that I've spent many a year wondering if things could've changed if I had been enough. If I had been less."
The man smiles at Maki after the quiet admission, like something so vulnerable from a living god doesn't rock her to her core.
"For those people, Maki, you will never be enough. Ever. Neither will your classmates, or your underclassmen, or me. It's not wrong to strive for more, but don't forget about yourself either. You do that, and you'll be exactly what the higher ups want you to be." Satoru smiles. "People care about you here, Maki. Your friends don't expect you to be anything but yourself, and neither do I. Don't forget that.
"I'm proud of you, kid,"
The words take Maki's breath away. I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you.
Perhaps her efforts weren't so useless after all.
Satoru leans over to ruffle her hair affectionately, to which Maki scowls half-heartedly and swat his hand away. "Come on back, won't you? Your friends have been worried."
Maki allows herself the smallest of smiles. Her classmates. Her friends.
"Yeah. I'm coming."
Chaos Family
[8:38 AM]
[Makiroll is online]
Makiroll: hey
HoneyThief: Maki Im so sorry
HoneyThief: I was trying to help but I pushed you way too far about something so sensitive
Makiroll: its okay
Makiroll: Ok its kinda not
Makiroll: Honestly you were right and ignoring it isnt gonna help
Makiroll: But nows just not the time
HoneyThief: Ofc
HoneyThief: I'm buying you katsudon though I still feel bad
Makiroll: Can't we just make it?
HoneyThief: Unfortunately SOMEBODY burned down the stove
KingBigBack: IM SORRY
Makiroll: Are you fucking dumb
Tuna: anddd shes back!
Makiroll: Shut up
Tuna: ok
Stabby: So uh how are we fixing the stove?
HoneyThief: Sensei's credit card duh
SugarRush: oh alright then
KingBigBack: so
KingBigBack: can yu get me some too
HoneyThief: kys