SAVE ME NOT
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Prelude to a Soul by parsnips_and_meth
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
19 Jan 2026
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At first, he thinks: nightmare. He's never known him to have them, but today Satoru fought a man-shaped, grinning beast, pulled Riko from the quicksand of a cult and felt the cold weight of her in his arms - died, scared, alone. Suguru sees sleeplessness in their future. But when he nudges him onto his back, Satoru is awake. His eyes are open. His face is tacky, wet. He's bitten into his lip so hard that it bleeds a trail from the corner of his mouth.
When Suguru lunges for the table lamp, it illuminates an off-white face warped with pain.
No. Agony.
(The adrenaline wears off.)
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- Part 1 of SAVE ME NOT
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SOUL I (AVOW) by parsnips_and_meth
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
23 Jan 2026
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Satoru's sitting on the exam table, stretching his leg out with a resistance band, but he stops mid-extension to blind Suguru with an expression of pure adoration. His sunglasses are wonky, and he pokes his tongue out in greeting. He looks well-rested today, softened at the edges. Unburdened and boyish.
“Suguru,” he coos, making grabby hands. His whims are a riptide; Suguru is standing between his knees before he even knows how he got there. Satoru pushes his sweat-slicked hair back from his face and sharply pinches the hollows of his cheeks. “You look so tired. Is it the heat? You know, we were just talking about you.”
Suguru blinks stupidly. “You were?”
“Yeah,” Shoko says, a pipette in her hand. She carefully deposits a single drop into one of the test tubes, and the cursed blood fizzes. “You look fucking awful.”
(On grief, and its many dimensions.)
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- Part 2 of SAVE ME NOT
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“Why do you sound pleased to see me? You left. You told me not to look for you.” She shoves at him again, and this time he lets her go. “You left a note like some well-meaning lover, you colossal asshole.”
“Please,” he begs, “not here. Let’s… let’s go home, okay? We can talk there.”
Unfathomable rage. “Home?”
He seems to realise his mistake, eyes tightening with shame. Home. Salvation in the shape of two teenaged prodigies, in the shape of a hardened teacher and a grieving boy and a dead underclassman; something a young Shoko had stared up at the ceiling and dreamed about, so easily given, just as easily taken away. Home. The antithesis of loneliness. The foundation of safety.
Shoko peels off her right glove and slaps him pink across the face.
(Shoko refuses to be left behind.)
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- Part 3 of SAVE ME NOT
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He supposes he can be too loud. Annoying. Occasionally unhinged. He’s never cared too much about these things before, but Megumi’s rejection is a particularly brutal beast, and Satoru is unfairly irritated, because beasts have always bowed down to him. This should be no exception. But it is, and his desperate attempts to change Megumi’s mind only serve to make things worse.
(A new set of crayons in a rainbow of sixty-four? Untouched. A nightlight in the shape of a spaceship, to keep the dark at bay? Unplugged. Ginger and yuzu soda? Gone flat. He’s had to start using Suguru as a middleman just to get him to accept the offerings - the Shinto priest at the Megumi shrine.)
But not even Suguru can convince Megumi to unpack his rucksack. It stays hidden at the bottom of the wardrobe, black, zip broken. Ready for running.
(The radical act of healing your inner child.)
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- Part 4 of SAVE ME NOT