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Yuuji and Gojo. Go on a mission.
They're fighting and in the middle Yuuji starts to freak out.
Gojo looks over and he's tugging at his sleeves his pockets just crying to himself "Where is he? Where is he?"
Gojo look to the curse they're fighting and sees it's holding up a shiny necklace.
Gojo knows that necklace, he was the one that managed to find it for Yuuji. For him to carry a small amount of his mate Nanami's ashes so they would always be together.
Gojo didn't like this at all, especially not with the way the curse was eyeing it now.
He needs to be careful so he can retrieve it and exorcise the curse. But that goes out the window when Yuuji let's out a piercing cry and collapses, the curse smirking with hatred.
Gojo didn't think twice.
The thankfully abandoned building glowed a sickening blue as it collapsed on the curse and Gojo teleported with Yuuji back to the school.
Immediately he takes them to Shoko. While Yuuji is physically unharmed from the outside, his body is catatonic from shock.
That's when Yaga comes in.
He explains to Gojo, that he'd just gotten word from one of the higher ups who assigned the mission
The notice coming conveniently late was a warning that no mated individual should confront this curse, as one of it's techniques is bond removal.
Gojo wants to vomit, another sick ploy against Itadori as if he hasn't lost enough already.
He relays the news to Shoko, who confirms that Itadori's scent gland is indeed unpunctured again, his scent no longer baring any claim of an alpha. She's crying when she speaks.
Gojo takes a heavy seat. At least Yuuji was stabilized here.
After a week and a half and he's still not awake, Shoko attempts to wake him.
That's when Sukuna appears, informing them that Yuuji's to stay in his domain until his mind can process the loss of his mate. Sukuna tells them he's not well enough to be present in the world yet...
Gojo eventually goes back to the rubble of the sight. And finds sitting atop a crumbled concrete slab, yuuji's necklace laying there perfectly. Gojo turns to the sky and whispers a thanks to Nanami.
He's the one to clasp it back on Itadori's neck.
Gojo forces weekly updates out of Sukuna. And the curse seems soft... Almost motherly, and Gojo remembered the king of curses used to he an omega himself, it went unsaid but it was clear Sukuna viewed Yuuji as his pup as of late.
Yuuji doesn't wake up. His friends are in and out. They'd moved the hospital bed to his old bedroom, so Shoko could still use her ward but Yuuji would be monitored.
It's clear Itadori is wasting away.
Gojo makes the decision then to find the remaining fingers.
Sukuna glares suspiciously at Gojo and the mouth on Itadori's palm swallows each one.
All 20 are in Yuuji's weakened body, and Sukuna doesn't even try and come back out.
It goes unsaid again, that there's only one more option.
Clearly Yuuji can't stand to live without Nanami, whatever coping he'd managed had been wiped out by a stupid second grade curse.
Gojo brings him somewhere nice. Carrying him bridal style as they walk through a Sakura lined path.
Laying Yuuji down in the soft grass.
Gojo comes back alone, leaving a scorch in the earth. Nothing left, he wouldn't have a repeat of Geto
Sadness hangs over the school, and for all he hates it Gojo polishes a bottle of sake off and cries for the first time since he was a child.
It never should have been like this