Long Shadows
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Growing Pains by metri_zin
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
21 Aug 2025
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Summary
“Is she still sleeping?”
“Yeah. Keep your voice down.”
“I don’t want to hear that from you,” Megumi huffed, shuffling forward with a hot chocolate clearly meant for Tsumiki wrapped in his pudgy hands. Satoru held out a hand for it – she wouldn’t know what she’d missed – but Megumi locked eyes with him and took a large, loud gulp.
Brat.
On any other day, Satoru would fight him for it, pull the cup directly into his hand with blue and spill hot chocolate everywhere. It was his damn couch anyway, he’d paid for it, and he’d just get them another one. But today Tsumiki was in pain and asleep, and Megumi was using it against him. Opportunistic bastard. Maybe he really was his father’s son. Or maybe he was starting to take after Satoru.
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Tsumiki's having her first period. Satoru is having an internal nostalgic crisis. Megumi's having none of it.
Or, a melancholy introspection on what could have been if Satoru had made different choices.
Series
- Part 1 of Long Shadows
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Megumi watched him come. Once, Yuuji had been a light show. Dazzling, bouncing every which way, painfully bright. A little too much for Megumi, who didn’t dazzle easily. It had been all too easy to wrap himself up in the boy, to let himself want, to clumsily sew their bones together so he couldn’t leave like his parents and Tsumiki. He still remembered Yuuji’s doubts about staying together during the Culling Games. How Megumi had trampled over them and made a mess even Gojo couldn’t clean up – a mess he’d escaped unscathed but for some scars that made it hard to look in a mirror. Scars Yuuji had traced with his finger the first night Megumi had finally woken and found he could not sleep again without nightmares.
Series
- Part 2 of Long Shadows