HunterGG12
Recent bookmarks
-
turning pages (the narrow road to the deep north) by tangerineseason
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
30 Sep 2024
Tags
Summary
For here he was, standing in front of the gate of his homeplace, but it was not the home he yearned for.
“I thought you two were going to be forever,” was Megumi’s sheltered admission whispered close to his heart, beating itself bloody against the cage of Suguru’s ribs as the boy’s words unfolded a distant memory in the present, a pilgrim from the past wandering through the oceans of time to remind him of its buried existence.
“Because lovers are travellers of eternity,” he had reassured Megumi once, the child half asleep on his chest after a nightmare, soothing murmurs of the tale Suguru had told to console him lingering in the quiet night.
“I am sorry we let you down,” he uttered in the boy’s hair as the memory dissolved in the burdened air, leaving him with a decayed taste of hypocrisy in his mouth.
[Or: a break up of his parental figures leaves a 15-year-old Megumi questioning his place in their lives.]