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A.N: I don’t own these characters. Just the sad emo emotions I have from their canon versions lol. I wrote this to make for all of our broken shipper hearts. Enjoy.
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Other People
By Moonishbeamie
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“Yuuji.”
“Yeah?” Yuuji responded, not looking up from his phone. He was scrolling through celebrity gossip posts, which Nobara found so cheesy of him, but at the same time so oddly cute and human and it made her heart warm.
“Do you ever wonder what it’d be like if things were different?” She asked leaning into his shoulder as she stroked his arm.
“Different how? Like you and me somewhere else instead of in our bed different?” Yuuji questioned clicking his phone closed and dropping it into his lap before looking down at her.
“Different like, if you and I weren’t Jujutsu Sorcerers different.” She responded looking down at his arm and running her fingers over the veins and scars lining his skin.
Yuuji sighed and shifted to wrap an arm around Nobara.
“Hm, I guess I never really thought about it. I can’t really imagine what our lives would have been like if we hadn’t gone to Jujutsu tech. Why, do you?”
“Sometimes.” Nobara closed her eyes and sunk into Yuuji’s chest.
She had to admit that there were a lot of times when she thought about it. When she almost died. When she thought Yuuji died and almost every time they lost someone important to them. It made her question if she would have experienced so much loss had her life gone down another path or if they were always destined to lose those closest to them.
“Yeah? What do you think it would’ve been like?” Yuuji asked snapping her out of her train of thought.
“Comfortable.” She responded. “Probably boring… but comfortable… and safe. I’d probably sleep a lot better.”
“And you don’t sleep good now?” Yuuji grinned leaning his face into the space between her neck and shoulder and wrapping an arm around her waist.
“No.” Nobara responded pushing Yuuji away, but holding back a smile. “Not with your annoying butt always taking up space on the bed.”
“Aw, come on. You like me taking up your space. And you like my butt.” Yuuji threw a leg over the comforter she was wrapped up in and pulled her into a suffocating embrace.
“Yuuji!” She yelled turning away in an act of annoyance and defiance but eventually gave in, turning back to him and placing both hands on his face to return the gesture with a kiss to his lips.
“See, you like it. And you like me.” Yuuji responded grinning as he locked gazes with Nobara who’s nose was now inches from his.
“Yeah, yeah. I like a lot of things.” Nobara resolved pulling her hands away and turning to reposition her pillow.
She closed her eyes attempting to command herself to sleep when she felt Yuuji’s arms snake their way around her waist again.
“Bara.”
“What?” Nobara replied, her eyes still closed, but her consciousness entirely awake.
“Do you really think it would’ve been boring?”
“What would?”
“If we had a normal life. Like other people.” Yuuji muttered, leaning his head against her cheek and pulling her into his chest.
“Yeah, I do.”
For a while, they said nothing before Yuuji spoke up again breaking the silence.
“I think you would’ve been like some big shot store manager or something.”
Nobara snorted and laughed as she started imagining it.
“What? I’m serious! You like shopping. And your bossy. It makes sense!”
“Excuse me, I am not bossy. Also, I like how being a store manager is your idea of being a big shot.” Nobara said side eyeing Yuuji as his hair tickled her face. “You remember what we actually do for a living right?”
“Hey, it’s not easy working in customer service. Jennifer Lawrence played a store manager in a movie once.” Yuuji responded confidently.
“I think that was an airline attendant.“
“Still pretty big shot if you ask me.”
“Why don’t you ask Jennifer Lawrence to be your girlfriend then.” Nobara responded, tugging at the blankets.
“I did. I’m still waiting for her to respond to my email.”
“You’re ridiculous.” Nobara laughed pulling the blanket off of Yuuji entirely.
Yuuji crossed his arms behind his head and leaned back against his pillow in defeat.
“What would you have been?” Nobara muttered, still turned away from Yuuji and curling up with the comforter now tucked up to her neck as she closed her eyes again.
“Probably a dad.” Yuuji replied looking at Nobara’s back.
Nobara opened her eyes and turned her head to look at Yuuji.
“You would’ve been a dad?” Nobara asked with a tinge of wonder in her eyes.
“Yeah. Why do you sound so surprised?” Yuuji smirked.
“I don’t know. I guess I just wasn’t expecting that answer. Maybe a basketball player or a pirate is more of what I had in mind.”
“That’s because you’ve been watching too much One Piece and Kuroko’s Basket.” Yuuji smirked at her.
“Why? Don’t you think i’d be a good dad?”
“Sure I do.” Nobara replied pulling herself into a seated position.
“I’m just surprised that that’s the first thing you thought of.”
“I dunno. I guess since I didn’t really have a dad sometimes I think about what it’d be like if I were one.”
Nobara gazed at Yuuji as he pondered in thought.
“So, I guess in another life i’m the working mom and you’re the stay at home dad.” She added.
Yuuji laughed. “Exactly! And we’d have pancakes every Saturday.”
“Yeah? What else would we do?”
“We’d watch all the best movies together and go to see the ocean and the whole way there we’d do carpool Karaoke.”
Nobara laughed and her heart warmed even more as she imagined it.
“I’m a horrible singer.” Nobara confessed.
“But you’d build the better sand castle.”
Nobara smiled and leaned into Yuuji again, throwing an arm across his stomach and hugging him to her.
Being in love with Yuuji made her realize a lot of things. She didn’t know if it was his unwavering optimism despite how cruel fate had been to them, or the fact that they still had each other despite losing everyone else. But, she figured even if they weren’t like other people in this life, they could still be happy.
“Yuuji.”
“Yeah?”
“You know we can still do that in this life too.”
“We can?”
“Yeah.” She reached up, kissing him again, leaning into his lips and pulled back to look at his surprised face.
“But, if you’re going to get me pregnant you’re going to have to make a lot more pancakes.”
Yuuji’s eyes lit up as he realized what she was telling him.
“Ok, it’s a deal.”
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I have been writing nothing but filthy smut lately so I wanted to write something completely sappy and fluffy to heal our broken Itakugi hearts.
Please comment and let me know how you liked this or if you just wanna vent with another crushed shipper I’m here for that too lol. 💔🥺
Also check out my fic Devour if you’re looking for something on the kinkier end lol. 😏
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