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His annoying voice ponders in my head, I can't get him out.
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After a tiring day, mission after mission, Gojo has finally got home to sleep. It was quite early though, and Gojo was feeling a little hungry. Lazily, he got up from laying down on his bed and made his way to his kitchen. He opened the fridge door and was quite surprised when he saw a plate of already made hotdogs.
“Weird”
Being to tired to make anything else he picked up the plate of hotdogs that was still warm. Gojo picked up a hotdogs and brought it to his mouth. For some reason, he felt an urge to eat it whole, so that's exactly what he did and immediately after swallowing it whole , pain shot through his whole body.
He dropped the plate, the rest of the hotdogs splattering everywhere. Gojo clutched his stomach as he stumbled backwards. His leg got caught on his coffee table leg and he went crashing down. The table broke under his weight but he just couldn't bring himself to care at the moment. He curled up into a ball, hugging and scratching at his stomach at the same time.
Then, just as the pain came, it left just as fast. Gojo stayed still for a bit, a bit scared that if he moved it would come back but…
It never did.
“Okay, super weird..” Gojo thought to himself. He stood up, his legs slightly shaking. He rubbed the back of his head as he looked down. He decided to leave the mess of the broken table and the hotdogs to tomorrow. He couldn't bare to see another hotdog after that. It occurred to him that he should probably get a glass of water then go to bed.
What didn't occur to him, was to check for any lingering presence.
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It's been a week after his incident with the hotdogs, and things have been the same.
His students practicing, the higher-ups trying to speed up Yuji's termination, Megumi and Nobara getting 10x better at their cursed techniques, and Sukuna's quietness.
Wait
Yuji looks a lot different, and Gojo just can't place his finger on it. Sukuna also isn't disturbing Yuji? Whatever, 1 less headache for Gojo and 10 less for Yuji. It's a win-win! Though, whatever he's planning, Gojo should be able to stop it.
He is the strongest after all.
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Shibuya, October 31st
Gojo is tired, after using his domain, he made a huge risk for the normal people. With all the transfigured humans he really had no choice. Well to his understanding, it also took a toll on those special grades. Well whatever, it all worked out in the end.
Or so he thought
Gojo's eyes widen as the prison realm opens. He takes one step back, then another. He turns around, fully prepared to run when..
“Hey.”
.
.
.
It can't be-
Gojo freezes in his tracks, that voice all to familiar to him.
“Satoru.”
Gojo finally turns around, the voice matching the face.
“Long time no see.”
“It can't be, I killed him with my own hands yet here he stands-” Gojo thinks to himself. “A fake…a transformation technique? No..its really him..!”
The memories flash in his head. Of him and Suguru. Back when life was okay, when he didn't have the burden of being the strongest weighing on him everyday, when he didn't feel the guilt of killing him with his own hands, when-
5…
What?
4…
What's this countdown for?
3…
Gojo wants to move, he needs to move. But his body won't respond to him.
2…
“If I don't move I'm gonna-”
1…
Just as the countdown hits 0, Gojo's legs move. He's out of the range of the prison realm but…
He didn't move his legs.
Kenjaku's eyes widen, then he plays into a smirk. “Oh? I wasn't expecting that.” He tilts his head, taking a step back as he does so.
Just as he's about to escape, he stops in his tracks. His body won't respond to him. For a second, he believes it's Geto's body preventing him but-
He can feel his presence behind him.
“Don't you think your head is too high?.”
As if on cue his body bows, his head pressed to the floor, just as a strong slash of cursed energy comes his way.
Sukuna scoffs, “Immature brat, can't even move to save his life.”
Sukuna's eyes travel to Kenjaku's bowing form. He smirks as he lazily shoves his hands into his pockets.
“I'm bored, think you can entertain me?”
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Gojo's eyes snap open, he sits up from where he was laying. His heart is pounding as he frantically looks around. He's surrounded by darkness. As far as his six eyes can see. Then it hits him. The second soul in his body. How could he not have noticed? The way Yuji looked was different, his face missing something.
“ The scars! The scars under his eyes were missing. How did I not notice?! Me! The all seeing Satoru Gojo, didn't notice such an anomaly!”
His mind flashes back to when he ate the hotdogs, the weirdly warm plate, the fact that it was there in the first place. He hadn't even bought hotdogs in the past week! The urge he felt to swallow it whole. The instant pain he felt afterwards and how fast it left. It all made sense to him now. It was Sukuna's finger! He must have slipped it in while Yuji was sleeping.
“How am I only noticing now? Yeah, Sukuna was oddly quiet. That should have been the first sign that something was wrong. How did I not notice Sukuna's missing presence in Yuji?”
Gojo lays back down, his arms spread wide as he closes his eyes. “I didn't notice his presence was gone because…it never left Yuji in the first place! He doesn't need to immediately switch vessels, I kinda thought he just does that automatically but I guess not.”
“I really need to get in control of my body again before he causes mass destruction, god forbid the things he can do with 15 fingers plus my technique.”
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When Gojo opens his eyes again his jaw drops. His eyes widen as sweat appears all over his body. He can sense that Geto- no Kenjaku's cursed energy is no where to be found. But on the good side, all his students and acquaintances managed to escape once they realized who was in control of his body.
The whole of Shibuya has been brought down to ruins, there's nothing left. Not a single soul remains. Gojo shakily brings his hands up, his head looks down. There's blood. A lot of it. But, it doesn't belong to anyone he loves dearly. That's a good thing but it's also bad. There's slash marks all over the ground, and from the residues, it looks like he somehow managed to merge both domains.
Gojo's in one heck of lecture once he gets back, it really shouldn't be his top concern. But for some reason, it is.