Chapter Text
Third's POV
*Cringgggg*
The sound of an alarm rings through the air as a white-haired man groans. The man repeatedly punches the silence button on his phone with his finger, feeling extremely tired from the mission he had yesterday
"F*cking son of a-"
The man cursed when his phone fell from his bed to the floor, still ringing the alarm loudly. His long arm stretched from the bed to the cold of his floor as he retrieved his phone. He squints from the brightest of his phone, at 09:45 pm. Great, he's late for work
TIMESKIP
His days just feel like a plain sheet of paper. Mission- teaching- eat- sleep- repeat. Nothing interesting for real, not since... the man shook his head. God forbid him to be stuck in the past again. His only salvation is sweets now. He can't live without them. He happily skips to the kikufuku stalls as he buys his favorite flavor- edamame and cream
But his joy was short-lived as someone called him. He grumbled and checked his phone, finding Megumi's icon. He sighed and answered it
"I couldn't find it", the sound of a deadpan teenager resonating from the phone. "Eh?"Satoru absent-mindedly answered
"The instrument shelter is empty", the emo teenager sounds pissed. To humor the teen, maybe, Satoru replies nonchalantly
"Really? It's funny. Did it go for a walk?"
"I'm gonna hit you", the teen replied, and here our lovable Satoru decided to be a pain in the a**
"You can't come back without that"
Then he hangs up the phone. Miles away from him, the teen vows to hit his teacher when it's on sight... even tho he never succeeded
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Satoru innocently whistles as he walks through the park to find a bench so he can eat his dessert peacefully while thinking about his life
It's not like he has anything against poor Megumi. Well, maybe he has. The kid is getting more and more resembling his dad. Satoru shuddered at the reminder that he still could feel the phantom pain from the life-threatening scars that he received from that man
But he didn't do this kind of thing to Megumi only. He does this to all of his students, so no. He ain't against Megumi. He ain't that special. The higher-ups would love to call him an imbecile for it, but Satoru would like to call it tough-love
Or maybe he is just lazy
Whatever, continue
Satoru finally found a perfect bench near the water fountain with fewer people. Wonderful
He threw his butt on the bench and sprawled his long limbs all over the bench. His body feels sore. No matter how much he used RCT (reverse curse technique), those draining feelings were never completely gone. This is a rare time for him to get a rest like this, and he likes to use his time to short out his mind
He hums a random song in his mind that always feels familiar but no recollection of hearing it anywhere. And just like every time he hums it, he can feel a slight sting on his ring finger
He glanced to his left hand, absent-mindedly tracing a mark that he had already had since birth. The mark is a black band-like ink wrapped around his ring finger like a real ring
People would oftentimes mistook him for a married man because of it. Some people asked if it was a tattoo, but no. It's a birthmark... just a birthmark, Satoru said in his mind. No matter how much he denies or tries to fool himself, he knows that there's something behind them. Something big
'Soulmate, huh?'
Satoru mused in his mind. 'Bullsh*t', he scoffs. If there is a soulmate, then where are they?
His mind flashed back to the sight of a man with black hair and a lovely smile. His one and only. If there is a soulmate, he's pretty sure he's the one. But soulmates didn't leave each other... right?
Satoru grumbled he couldn't believe he reminisced about him again. 'Whatever, what will I achieve while thinking about him anyway?', Satoru scoffs
'But what if soulmates are real? But I just haven't found it yet?', he thinks in the back of his mind, and his birthmark stings from the thought
1 minute... 2 minutes... 5 minutes...
Something is wrong. He can feel it. A slight shift of curse energy in the air. His birthmark can't stop hurting. Satoru put his focus on pinpointing the curse energy with his six eyes, east? No west...
'MEGUMI!'
Satoru abruptly stands. His six eyes tell him that the threat is near Megumi. Even tho his six eyes called it a threat, his heart thumping with something else... longing
Satoru shook his head and immediately teleported to Megumi's location. The poor teen looks beat up. He covers his anxiousness by acting goofy
"What's going on?", Satoru asked calmly even tho he felt his ring finger sting like a bit*h
Megumi looks startled by Satoru's sudden appearance, "Gojo-Sensei, why are you here?!"
"Yo! I wasn't planning on coming either. Wow, you're all roughed up! Let's show the second year! Hehehe~"
Satoru said playfully while snapping a hundred pictures of a poor beat-up teenager
"So, did you find it?"
"Um...", suddenly another teen on the roof called. Satoru widens his eyes behind his blindfold. The kid looks familiar. He didn't know who, but somehow... something was calling his soul
"Sorry, I ate it", Satoru snapped back from his trance and looked at the salmon-colored haired teen in disbelief
"Seriously?"
"Seriously"
"Seriously"
Satoru hummed and tilted his head while walking closer to the teen. Completely not invading the poor teen's private space
Satoru hisss inside his head, his finger feels like it's gonna fall off. He masks it up with a laugh
"Haha~ Really, it's combined with you. That's hilarious", he takes a step back
"Anything wrong with your body?"
"Um- no?"
"Can you exchange with Sukuna?", as soon as Sukuna's name rolled on his tongue, he could feel it again... a foreign sense of longing
"Sukuna?", the teen said in confusion
"The curse that you ate"
"Well... I guess so"
"Alright, give us 10 seconds. Come back to us after 10 seconds", he said while doing a little stretch
"But...", the teen hesitates
"Don't worry, I'm the strongest"
"Megumi! Catch!", Satoru throws him his bag of sweets. "This is?", Megumi asked
"Kikufuku from Kikusuian. It's a Sendai specialty, and it's very delicious~ I highly recommend the edamame and cream flavor~!", Satoru said cheerfully like a salesman
'I can't believe this guy just brought a souvenir when people out here are dying', Megumi deadpan in his mind
"It's not a souvenir", the teacher comments as if he just read his mind
"I'm gonna eat it on the train home-", suddenly he was interrupted by someone calling his name
"Satoru?"
To be continued