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Satoru changed after Shoko collapsed.
Not suddenly.
Not dramatically enough for strangers to notice immediately.
But the people who loved him did.
Because Gojo Satoru had always carried anger.
Bright, reckless, sharp-edged anger hidden beneath jokes and arrogance and impossible strength. It existed back when they were teenagers too—every time another child died young, every time the higher-ups treated sorcerers like disposable weapons instead of people.
But over the years, life softened parts of him.
Love did too.
Children especially.
Akari asking him to braid her hair while sitting in his lap.
Haru climbing sleepily onto his chest during thunderstorms.
The baby curling tiny fingers instinctively around his own.
Home gentled him in ways nothing else ever could.
And maybe that was exactly why this fury felt different now.
Because it wasn’t theoretical anymore.
It was personal.
The system nearly took Shoko from him.
Again.
Just like it nearly took Suguru.
Just like it almost swallowed Haibara and Nanami and every child forced into becoming a weapon too young.
And suddenly Satoru found himself unable to tolerate it quietly anymore.
The higher-ups noticed first.
Because one afternoon, less than two weeks after Shoko returned home, Gojo Satoru walked into a council meeting carrying his sleeping newborn against his chest.
And smiled.
Which terrified everyone immediately.
One elder actually looked offended.
“This is an official meeting.”
Satoru adjusted the baby blanket calmly.
“And?”
“You brought an infant.”
“I’m multitasking.”
The room already felt tense.
Good.
Satoru wanted tense.
Because for years these people sat comfortably inside protected rooms while children bled for them. While Shoko healed bodies until her own started failing. While sorcerers broke themselves apart piece by piece because nobody else would carry the burden.
No more.
The elder’s expression sharpened.
“You were summoned here to discuss the recent incident.”
“Ah yes,” Satoru replied pleasantly. “The incident where the medical wing collapsed because you people refuse to train and support enough healers.”
Silence.
The baby yawned sleepily against his chest.
One council member frowned.
“Watch your tone.”
Satoru smiled wider.
Everyone in the room felt cursed energy spike immediately.
Terrifying.
Vast.
“Oh,” he said softly. “I think we’re way past tone policing.”
The temperature dropped.
Several elders stiffened visibly now.
Because there it was.
Not playful Gojo Satoru.
Not the strongest sorcerer behaving irresponsibly.
Something colder.
An angry god finally tired of asking politely.
“You overwork children until they collapse,” Satoru continued quietly. “Then act surprised when the system starts failing.”
“Shoko Ieiri chose her profession.”
“And who built a profession where one person carries thirty-two lives alone until organ failure.”
Nobody answered.
Because there wasn’t one.
The baby made a tiny sleepy sound against his chest.
Satoru looked down automatically, expression softening instantly.
That contrast frightened the room more than anything else.
Love and fury existing simultaneously inside the strongest sorcerer alive.
Dangerous combination.
“When my daughter grows up,” Satoru said softly while adjusting the blanket around the baby carefully, “she will not enter a system that believes self-destruction equals duty.”
Silence.
“And my sons,” he continued. “Will not watch people they love collapse because this society treats exhaustion and sacrifice like heroism.”
The pressure in the room sharpened hard enough several weaker sorcerers visibly struggled breathing.
One elder finally spoke shakily.
“Are you threatening us?”
Satoru tilted his head.
“No.”
A pause.
Then smiling again:
“I’m informing you.”
Back home, Suguru already knew how the meeting went before Satoru returned.
The bond practically vibrated with righteous fury all afternoon.
Shoko sat cross-legged on the couch leaning on his shoulder while Akari attempted teaching Haru how to “fight dramatically.”
Which mostly involved screaming.
Suguru physically looked exhausted.
“They’re yours.”
“Obviously.”
The apartment door opened moments later.
Satoru walked in still carrying enough residual cursed energy tension to make the air hum faintly around him, but the baby clutched tightly to his chest.
Akari immediately pointed.
“Papa angry.”
“I’m always angry.”
“More angry.”
Accurate.
Suguru looked toward him quietly, taking the baby in his arms, whose idea was it to take a baby to the meeting, well a furious omega right after birth though it and Suguru knew better than to question him.
“How bad.”
Satoru removed his shoes with deeply controlled violence.
“I may have threatened governmental collapse.”
Shoko snorted.
“May have?”
“They deserved it.”
The omega crossed the room afterward and leaned down automatically to kiss the baby’s forehead first.
Then Shoko’s.
Then Suguru’s.
Grounding himself.
Home.
Only afterward did some of the tension finally ease from his shoulders.
Suguru watched him carefully.
“You okay?”
Satoru laughed once under his breath.
“No.”
Honesty again.
Always honesty now.
The omega sat heavily beside Shoko afterward, exhaustion finally surfacing beneath the anger.
“I kept thinking about you unconscious in that hospital bed,” he admitted quietly.
Shoko’s expression softened instantly.
“And I realized something.”
The apartment quieted.
Even the twins sensed the shift.
Satoru stared down at the baby sleeping peacefully in Shoko’s arms.
“I don’t want our children growing up thinking love means destroying yourself for everyone else.”
The words settled heavily through the room.
Because there it was.
The real reason beneath all the fury.
Not politics.
Family.
Protecting the future from inheriting the same suffering they survived.
Suguru reached over slowly and tangled their fingers together.
“You’ll change it.”
Satoru looked toward him.
The alpha’s expression remained steady.
Completely certain.
Because if anyone could drag the jujutsu world kicking and screaming toward something better—
It was Gojo Satoru.
Not alone anymore.
Never alone again.
Several days later, the baby finally received his name.
Which became unexpectedly emotional.
Mostly because nobody could decide anything.
“Absolutely not,” Shoko said immediately.
“What’s wrong with Renji?!”
“It sounds like he’ll commit tax fraud.”
“That’s profiling.”
Suguru physically snorted into his tea.
Meanwhile Akari suggested “Panda” repeatedly while Haru quietly offered “Toru,” which nearly made Satoru cry on the spot.
“No,” the omega whispered emotionally. “My son loves me.”
“Your son also ate paper yesterday,” Shoko reminded him.
“Gifted behavior.”
Eventually the entire family ended up at Nanami and Haibara’s apartment again surrounded by babies and snacks and complete chaos.
Ren slept against Haibara peacefully while Akari climbed all over Yaga like an emotionally aggressive cat.
The baby fussed lightly in Suguru’s arms.
Tiny white hair.
Mismatched blue-brown eyes already opening more steadily now.
Nanami watched quietly for several moments before speaking.
“What about Sora.”
Silence settled instantly.
Everyone looked toward him.
The alpha adjusted his glasses slightly.
“It means sky, it goes well with his siblings’ name.”
Satoru blinked once.
Then twice.
And immediately burst into tears.
“Oh no,” Haibara wheezed laughing. “You got him.”
Suguru covered his face smiling helplessly.
Shoko beamed with eyes sparkling.
Because yes.
Sora.
Sky.
Open and endless and free.
Everything they wanted for him.
Satoru looked down at the baby in his arms with trembling warmth written across every line of his face.
“…Sora,” he whispered softly.
The baby yawned.
Akari gasped dramatically.
“Baby like it.”
“Clearly,” Nanami replied dryly.
Haru climbed quietly into Suguru’s lap afterward and looked toward the newborn thoughtfully.
“Sora stay too.”
The room softened instantly.
Because yes.
That was the hope, wasn’t it?
Not just survival.
Staying.
Growing.
Living long enough to become something gentler than the world that raised them.