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When Satoru told Ichiji that the Jujutsu society right now was like a bargain market of rotten Mikan, he told the truth. Satoru didn’t even conceal his disdain in his voice. Why should he? He was the strongest, and nobody could touch a single hair on his body without permission. The upper up knew his disdain for them. They knew that Satoru wanted to…eradicate the system right now. But what could they do? They could only worship the ground Satoru stood on just because Satoru was on their side and not losing some marbles like Suguru.
However for the first time, Satoru really considered to kill all the higher- ups right now because a boy. A mere teenage boy in the cusp of puberty who died.
“That was why I chose to be teacher. To raise strong comrades. Hakari and Okkotsu have potential to be on par with me.” He said as he looked to the pink hair boy who laid on the cold surface motionlessly, lifelessly.
Yuuji was one of those too. The one who could surpass him if he wanted. Satoru was serious when he told Megumi that Yuuji was a talent that born in 1000 years. What kind of boys who could suppress The King of Curse inside his body relative easily?
The higher ups, the arrogant Fools, the traditional fools, the fools in general were so afraid that Itadori Yuuji’s existences would be threat for them. They lost in their fear and failed to see grand possibility.
Satoru saw a possibility to control Sukuna’s power without destruction. If Yuuji was hosting Sukuna, Sukuna’s curse energy would rub on him too. It would permeated to his pore and bone, Yuuji would be able to use Sukuna’s technique while controlling the Great Demon inside him. Wasn’t that marvelous?
Wasn’t the idea revolutionary? To find one person who could contain strong curse. The perfect vessel maybe later they could make Yuuji passed the ability to contain Sukuna to his descendant. Then new power will rise.
It would make the jujutsu world became more interesting.
Yuuji would be one of Satoru greatest ally to make revolution inside the Jujutsu society. And if Yuuji lost control later? Satoru was the strongest, he could just exorcise Sukuna, Yuuji wouldn’t mind Yuuji was good boy who eager to do the right thing.
But now…
Satori heard all the dark urge inside him to just kill the higher ups. “G-Gojo-san….” Ichiji stuttered.
Satoru laughed in glee when he saw Yuuji woke up from his death. The hole on his chest was closing and he commented about his dick hanging out.
“Yo! Yuuji! Okaeri.” Satoru high-fived his student.
Yuuji gave him the huge smile, “Tadaima.”
Satoru’s grand dream hadn’t destroyed. He still able to raise Yuuji as a strong comrade. The Teen still had long life to live for
***
Satoru walked beside Shoko who complained about she had to change the report.
“Sorry Shoko, can you leave the report as it is?” He requested.
“Eh why?” Shoko asked.
“I want to give Yuuji time to gain the minimum power necessary before he’s targeted again.”
“So you plan to keep Itadori completely hidden away?”
“No I’ll have him comeback on the Goodwill event.”
When Shoko asked him why, he really told Shoko the honest reason. No one was allowed to the events of youth from young people. Yuuji, with great potential he might have, he was still young people. A mere teenager that should enjoy all the youthful foolery.
Satoru cared for Yuuji’s wellbeing. As much as he cared about his other students. However that didn’t mean Satori didn’t see how easy to make Yuuji did what he wanted when he saw the Hero-worshipping attitude that Yuuji had.
Satoru was used to people that flatter him. He knew he was the strongest and he knew that people worshipped his power and feared him. He loved it. He got drunk with it and he used it for his own selfish desire, but when it came from Yuuji. It tasted different.
The boy really hailed him in high regard. He trusted Satoru to be the strongest not by seeing Satoru’s power. No. Yuuji had never seen Satoru’s power before. Yuuji also wasn’t someone who grew up in Jujutsu society, he was just a boy who trusted Satoru’s power because Satoru said so.
The naivety was endearing almost foolishly endearing. Who trusted Satoru just because Satoru said so?
Probably that was why Satoru brought Yuuji when he faced the stupid special grade curse. He told Yuuji that he wanted Yuuji and others to be able to defeat that type of special curse, but at the same time he just…
He just wanted to show off. To prove it to Yuuji that his Teacher was the greatest and Yuuji wasn’t wrong to trust Satoru. Satoru could help him, Satoru could make him strong and Satoru could defeat Sukuna when Yuuji lost control of it.
Satoru wanted Yuuji’s trust one hundred percent if not more. Even if Yuuji couldn’t trust himself to control Sukuna, Satoru would do that in Yuuji’s place. Yuuji just needed to listen to Satoru.
Satoru hit two birds with one stone, Making his student strong and a damage control so Yuuji wouldn’t turn his back on Satoru when the time Satori put his plan on motion. He had said before even if he killed the higher ups now, nobody would follow him later. Now, he had at least one people who would follow him until the end of time.
Satoru would protect Yuuji until Yuuji could stand strong on par with Satoru so no one, even the higher ups’ lapdog would take Yuuji’s life again.
Satoru ignored some ugly roar that arouse inside him when someday he found Yuuji cook dinner just for two of them. Yuuji wore the apron and he was making the meatball for nabe. Yuuji turned and smiled, “Sensei, Okaeri. How is your mission today?”
Satoru shut down the monster inside his head. The ugly dark twisted evil who whispered he was Gojou Satoru, the honored one, the mortal god, the owner of Six eyes, the strongest living organism in the world so his words were law and right. He could do every sins on earth and still be forgiven.
No. Satoru refused to listen to them. He held nothing but pure affection and care for the kind youth in front of him.
Satoru knew he was lying to himself.
***
Zenin Maki wasn’t stupid.
As mentor and Jujutsu Sorcerer Gojou Satoru was the best person to learn from. As a teacher maybe not, and as a human being, Maki would question every motives Gojo Satoru had. Not that Maki had right to judge, she became the sorcerer out of spite too.
Gojo Satoru always had favorite students each grade. He cared for his every students but Maki could see he had favorite. Third year, Hakari. Second Year Okkotsu Yuuta, and the first year Itadori Yuuji.
Weird.
Maki thought it would be Megumi. Megumi was practically the superior one from the third year. Maki didn’t say Kugisaki Nobara and Itadori Yuuji was weak but in term of Jujutsu technique, Megumi was far ahead from them. He inherited the Shadow technique from Zenin clan. Maki thought Megumi would be like Yuta.
She was wrong.
After Juppon Grandprix or whatever bullshit that Satoru wanted, she could see clearly Satoru’s favorite was Yuuji. Maki questioned why? Was it because the boy had super human strength like Maki? Was it because the boy hosting Sukuna inside his body? Or because the boy was on the same stupid wavelength as Satoru?
Maki didn’t need to wonder why for so long. She heard what Yuuji told Kamo.
I am a lonely person, I want to die surrounded with lot of people.
What a foolish reason! But at the same time, what a reason that made you want to hug that boy with stupid pink hair. The boy was tough but kind at the same time. Even if he had to die, he would protect people. Who the hell disregards their own life for saving one person? Who the hell didn’t calculate the loss and the gain before helping others?
The boy probably the perfect embodiment of self-sacrificing. He lived because people needed him. Who the hell wanted to burden themselves with those stupid obligation? However Itadori Yuuji took that responsibility in one stride.
People like Itadori Yuuji shouldn’t join the Jujutsu world, he deserved to live innocently outside this fuck up world. Just why Yuuji’s body had the ability to hold Sukuna?
Maki wasn’t a soft hearted person. She would spite on her clan head grave if she could. Hell she would even wear red dress and doing flamenco dance on his grave but sometimes when she saw Itadori Yuuji who laughed around That blindfold idiot, Maki felt great pity, protective instinct and an urge to weep for the innocent that might lose from the pink hair boy.
Sooner or later.
***
Iori Utahime hated Gojou Satoru for most of the time. But she would follow him too like Shoko if he ever made a revolution in Jujutsu world. Utahime might hate Satoru but she and Shoko trusted him until the end.
Iori Utahime knew that Gojo saw the student he supervised not as student but as fellow comrades too. A strong comrades who would help him on the revolution or whatever he plotted later. Gojo had always said they were all talented.
Utahime admitted Gojo was right. All of his students were talented. Utahime didn’t know how Gojo just got all the talented student. Probably because Gojo Satoru was reckless idiot who choose his student based on ability and curse technique rather than the reputation and safety.
Take the example Okkotsu Yuta. The boy was destined to get executed but somehow Gojo used his influence to postpone the execution. In the end, they freed Rika, the special grade curse that haunted him. Okkotsu made the mutualism pact with the special grade curse and he became special grade sorcerer.
So when Gojo postponed the execution of Itadori Yuuji, Sukuna’s vessel, Utahime was sure Gojo knew what he did. Honestly Utahime hated when the higher ups wanted to kill a mere child. A teenager who was just having bad misfortune of hosting a great curse like Okkotsu and Itadori. They were just children who coincidently had dangerous power. Why did they have to die?
Maybe, that was one of the reason why Utahime would follow Gojo Satoru.
When Utahime saw Itadori Yuuji for the first time. Utahime hated the fact that Higher-ups wanted this one boy die. He was just…he was just a young boy with lot of potential. He deserved to live longer than 15 years. Utahime, for the first time, was grateful the boy was under Gojo’s protection. No one in Jujutsu world could ensure the boy safety but Gojo Satoru.
Utahime was sure of that fact until she saw Gojo deactivated his infinity so the boy could hug him but kept his infinity around the others. It should be sweet that someone who had God Complex could let his guard down until Nanami Kento said, “He doesn’t see Itadori like a child.”
Utahime confirmed it by herself, “Stop looking at him like creep.” Utahime chided him.
“Nee Utahime, have you ever thought to have someone just for you?”
“Marriage?” Utahime snorted.
Gojo laughed out loud, “Not marriage. I don’t believe in one piece of paper that could bind you!”
“Then what a lover?”
Gojo looked up to the sky, “Lover huh? Not in that sense. But isn’t it nice to have someone who selflessly sacrifice anything for you? Someone who stupidly kind to only care about you.”
“Are we talking about Sukuna’s vessel?”
“You talked with Nanami, didn’t you?”
Where the hell Gojo knew about that? Then it held no meaning to beat around the bush. “Touch him, I will kill you.”
Gojo laughed out loud, “Impossible. Utahime is weak.”
“Then I may as well die trying.” Utahime was afraid of Gojo. Yes, she was terrified of how much power Gojo had, Gojo just needed to snap his fingers and Utahime would die without trace, but wasn’t death better than letting something unspeakable happened?
“28 years Utahime, noone cares for me but for my power.” He said. “28 years and then this boy showed he genuinely enjoys my existences even without my power. Why can’t I have him for me alone?” Gojo sounded like petulant child.
“Because you are adult and he is a boy.”
“Age is not matter in Jujutsu world. We can send kids to kill and perhaps to get killed but this…you would kill me for this. It isn’t fair Utahime.”
“Life isn’t fair. You got Limitless technique and Six eyes, you can live with this limitation.”
“Then I should just break the limitation.”
Utahime felt the hair on her back stood up. She didn’t know what type of limitation that Gojo wanted to break? The Jujutsu world? Utahime? Or moral compass in general? Utahime didn’t know and Utahime was too scared to know. “For few years.”
And as Utahime said the last words, she felt sick in her stomach, “Just wait until he became adult.”
“18?”
“In some part of world, 18 is adult. 16 in Tokyo,”
Utahime vomited that night, she felt like she just enabled something sick in order to maintain some sanity in God like creature of Jujutsu world. Utahime wept for Itadori Yuuji who caught into the twisted Jujutsu world and get an attention from the twisted God like creature just because of his kindness. Utahime sobbed until she pulled herself together by assuring herself she did it for the greater good.
***