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Amber eyes stared at the happy couple in false glee. They watched as the scowling red haired man gave a small smile at the exasperated looking dark haired man by his side. Said red haired man felt the stare on him and he turned his face and met the amber eyed stare with his red eyes.
Yuuji grinned brightly at his twin brother, giving him a peace sign. Said twin just huffed and rolled his eyes fondly.
The attention of the two men in suits was soon taken away by others, and like always, Yuuji was forgotten and blended into the crowd.
The bright smile on his lips melted away and his amber eyes dulled, looking empty.
Yuuji walked over to the glass ledge and leaned on it, looking down at the shining lights that was the city at night. He toned out the cheerful noises in the background, escaping into his head.
It wasn't like Yuuji wasn't happy for his brother and best friend on their big day... It was just...
Yuuji was in love with them. Both of them.
Strange and disgusting, right?
He and Sukuna had been together from day one, through thick and thin. They only had each other when their parents and grandfather died in a car accident. They only trusted each other and relied on each other.
Yuuji didn't know when he fell in love with his elder brother, but he did. Head first.
Sukuna was everything Yuuji wasn't. Smart. Handsome. Popular.
Even though Sukuna was the scary sibling out of the two of them, he was more talented than Yuuji, succeeding in everything that he did.
Sukuna was the Itadori who had a dumb brother as a pest.
Yuuji kept his feelings for Sukuna hidden and unsaid. He always felt the sharp stab in his chest when Sukuna had girlfriends. It always hurt him to see the one he loved so much looking a little bit happy with someone else that wasn't him.
He had forgotten how many times he curled up in his bed at night and silently cried into the dark room, hugging a pillow to his chest tightly. The next morning, he greeted his brother and everybody with a bright smile.
After high school, Sukuna was offered an admission abroad - as expected. Yuuji saw him off at the airport, willing himself not to pull his brother into a goodbye kiss. He waved Sukuna off, tears prickling at the corner of his eyes.
Yuuji schooled in Japan, gaining admission into a top school where he met Fushigoro Megumi in his class. He tried to befriend the young man on the first day, and Megumi just gazed at him with bemused eyes.
Megumi didn't have much friends, so Yuuji, like the good soul he was, tried his hardest in being Megumi's friend. And it paid off.
Soon, the both of them were hanging out, then Nobara joined their gang. The three became best of friends, which made him grin and smile truthfully.
Like Sukuna, Yuuji fell in love with the stoic young man. It wasn't until Nobara pointed it out that Yuuji realized that it was true.
Yuuji was afraid that if he told the dark haired man, he'd be rejected and their friendship would be over. He begged Nobara not to say anything, and the woman agreed with a heavy frown.
When Sukuna came home for the holidays, Yuuji enthusiastically introduced Megumi and Nobara to him.
Yuuji saw the sparks that flew between his brother and Megumi, but he ignored it. He assured himself that nothing was going on between the two of them, but the evidences became too obvious to ignore.
The way Megumi brought up Sukuna in their conversations and how he talked about his brother was of someone who had a crush. Sukuna... he didn't hide it.
When the two began to date officially, Yuuji's world crashed and burned.
With a bright smile, he congratulated them. All the while he was making pleasantries with them, Nobara kept throwing sad glances at him.
That night, he curled up on his bed, his head on Nobara's laps as he cried into her stomach. The woman just gave him the comfort that she could.
Yuuji tried, he really tried so hard, to be happy for them, but he wasn't.
He couldn't.
His heart hurt so much that he just wanted to fold into himself and cry to eternal sleep.
As the pinket kept staring blankly at the sight below him, he was unaware of the glances thrown at him.
Nobara, who had a pained look on her face as she looked at him from where she stood, was about to make her way to the pinket when he stepped back and started walking away. She and Maki exchanged worried looks before her fiancée jerked her head for her to go after her pink haired friend.
Nobara gave Maki a kiss on the cheek before she hurried after the pinket.
Megumi and Sukuna, who had noticed everything, gave themselves a look before they excused themselves and followed after Nobara.
They didn't make it on time, seeing as the pinket was already in an elevator and on his way down. Nobara was harshly tapping at the elevator button, waiting impatiently for another one to come. The three hurriedly entered inside and they were on their way down.
When they got to the bottom floor, Yuuji was already making it out of the hotel. Nobara loudly called his name, hurrying after him.
Nobara felt an unknown fear grip her at that very moment and she knew something bad was about to happen. She called out to her friend again, but the pinket was truly out of it, walking away with his eyes blanked and unfocused.
"YUUJI!"
Sukuna's loud voice broke Yuuji out of his trance and the pinket came back to himself.
Only to meet the headlights of a car.
The next thing Yuuji knew was pain as he was thrown far away by the impact, and he rolled so many times on the pavement, breaking bones and limbs.
Green and red eyes watched in shock and horror as Yuuji started to bleed on the road, limbs twisted into odd angles.
"YUUJI!" Nobara screamed out before running over to the pinket. She gently took his head and laid it on her laps. She looked around widely and screamed, "Someone call the fucking ambulance!"
With tears streaming down her face, she whispered softly at Yuuji, promising him that he'd be okay.
Sukuna and Megumi moved into action and they ran over to the two. Megumi shakenly brought out his phone with his hands bloody and dialed the emergency line. His voice was shaking and he had a look of hopelessness.
Sukuna was on his knees and had Yuuji's hand in his, speaking to him in an unusually soft voice.
The driver of the car kept apologising, tears streaming down her eyes.
Yuuji just kept staring at the sky, blood dripping down from his nose and lips. The pain soon gave way to nothingness and Yuuji felt everything turn into background noise.
How usual for the stars to shine so bright that night. It was quiet beautiful.
Nobara and Sukuna's eyes went wide when Yuuji's chest stopped rising and falling, and his deep, wet breathes ended.
"Yuuji..." Sukuna weakly called out. He placed his hand on Yuuji's chest, and when it didn't move, he flinched back as if burnt.
Yuuji's amber eyes had gone dull and unseeing. A single trail of tear was still there, creating a clear line on his bloody face.
With a shaky hand, that was stained with Yuuji's blood, Sukuna took his brother's cheek into his palm.
Yuuji looked so calm and beautiful, eyes crinkled as if happy and content.
"Oi... gaki..." Sukuna called out again, taking his brother's corpse from the blanked out Nobara.
Megumi's phone fell from his hand, his green eyes wide with disbelief.
Sukuna pressed Yuuji's head to his chest, staining his already bloody suit with more blood.
"No..." Sukuna whispered out with wide eyes, which had tears dripping down slowly. "No..."
Not Yuuji too. Not him too.
The red head closed his eyes shut and buried his nose into that blood matted hair that still smelt of fresh peaches. Low sobs started to escape from the red head, who clung to his brother, not wanting to let go.
The others in the reception seemed to hear the commotion and ran down. Maki ran over to her fiancee, who was looking at her friend with a disbelieving expression.
Minutes later saw everyone staring with eyes either filled with sorrow, disbelief or blankness as Yuuji's corpse was loaded into the ambulance.
No one even cared when the driver was taken into police custody, only staring numbly at the retreating vehicle which blared its siren of death for all to hear loud and clear.