Chapter Twenty-Nine: Dead Leaves

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Yuji feels his world rock as his body is flung over someone's shoulder. It's dark, he can hear footsteps echo under their assailants feet. He forces his eye lids open, despite how heavy they feel. Everything is a blur as he tried to stay awake.


"....and what make you think we can trust him?"


Yuji tries to focus on listening as he tries to regain feeling in his body. He feels his body dropped onto a hard surface, making him bite back a wince as his head is slammed onto it. He tries to watch where Hanami is carrying you, but the tree curse leaves the room. 


"It's bad enough we attack Sukuna's bride to be, the most important question is do we anger a God or Sukuna?" 


There was a heavy silence at the question. Yuji knows better than anyone to piss off someone like Sukuna, hell he would rather face Chaos alone than to face Sukuna. Especially when it comes to you.


"Relax we didn't kill her, we gave her the option to come with us quietly or we kill Yuji!" a cheerful voice calls out. Yuji would smile if he was able to, knowing that set you off and tried to kill them with all your strength.


"Mahito you knew better than that, it sets her off."


Yuji's eyes scans the room weakly, seeing he's inside of a shrine. He feels his heart pulsate suddenly when he feels a familiar energy inside the room. Sukuna's fingers are in here, with him and given by how strong the feeling is they have a lot of his fingers. 


"When do you think Sukuna will wake up?"


"No idea, you think he'll have our heads for attacking his lady?"


"Most likely, considering Chaos told us Sukuna managed to injure him as well as Y/N, all Chaos did was separate the two and Sukuna got angry."


"....we're going to die."


Yuji tries to stay awake, but he couldn't stay awake and passes out again. 


-


Where the hell were you?


You woke up and find yourself in a room. Tied up in a lot of rope with seals all over your body. You feel your body basically sludge, like your body can barely move. Even without all this seals and whatnot. 


You struggle to move only for the rope to restrict your movement even more. You feel your body ached from where you were stabbed, but where was Yuji and Sukuna? You groan in pain as you tried to imagine any weapon, but you feel your curse energy diminished. 


It was basically non existent because of this seals on you. 


You cough and tried to move your hands to try to at least get them free. Even tried to bend over to bite at the rope didn't help. Your hands were bound behind you, rope is tied around your arms and torso, your ankles are even tied to the ground. 


You glance behind you to see the ropes tied around your ankles are tied to what looks like anchors in the ground. The door to your room opens and there is Mahito, giving you that shit eating grin. 


"Her majesty is awake," he hums, grinning. 


You didn't utter a word as he walks closer to you, holding up a candy bar. "Hungry?" He holds the candy to your lips and you take a bite out of it. 


Only to spit it onto his face, making him look irritated. 


"I am here being nice to the future Queen of Curses and this is how I'm treated?"


"You killed my brother your ass is mine," you hissed, glaring at him. 


With adrenaline now rushing your veins to kill him, you suddenly launch forward, mouth open wide and you bite harshly down on his face. You don't know where you're biting him, but you hear his angry yells, tasting iron in your mouth as you bite down harder. 


You feel his fist slam into your stomach, causing you to let go in pain and gasp for air.  You slouch forward, the pain in your stomach unbearable but you feel satisfied you made this bastard bleed.


"If you just wanted to kiss all you had to do was ask," he snickers, holding his bottom lip. 


You spit out the remaining blood taste in your mouth as you look at him in disgust. Shit you bit his lip? You want to take a bath to wash yourself clean from this sewer rat. 


"I will kill you Mahito, plan on that!" you hissed, feeling anger boil in your stomach. He grins and waves his hand. "Once we get go on with this plan, you'll have a change of heart." 


He leaves you alone in the room and you sigh, feeling defeated as you hang your head low. Great you got captured, you had fun with Sukuna and you got captured. It's horror movie 101, you should've never do anything until this was all over. 


You let your guard down. 


You let out an angry sigh, disappointed in yourself. Your eyes widen when you feel the Earth underneath you shake under you. You struggled to stay still as what feels like an Earthquake rocks you back and forth. 


The room goes still and it made you think that nothing had happened. 


How long were you trapped in this room? Was it days? Weeks? Months? There's not windows in the room which makes you think that was done on purpose. You heard stories of prisoners being kept in rooms with no windows so they can lose track of time. You'll have to rely on how tired you get until they mess that up as well. 


And that also relies on how long you were sleeping. 


Where is Sukuna? Where is Yuji? Where is everyone? Do they know you're missing? How long has it been since the attack on the school? You thought the school was indestructible, but you were proven wrong. 


'Of course you're wrong, remember Mahito stole Sukuna's fingers from other parts of the school to give to him?' you thought, angry with yourself.


If only you didn't have a concussion when you first came here, if only you were strong enough to fight. 


'Wait the seals!'


You couldn't reach your nape, but if you can somehow move these ropes to weaken the seals. If you can somehow get them to fall off the ropes. 


You tried to lean forward, but the ropes behind you stops you from slouching far enough. But you have to try, you have no idea what the curses and what Chaos is planning. 


You grunt and struggle to pull against the rope, feeling it rub painfully against your skin. But it was no use. 


You let out an irritated, angry scream before hanging your head in defeat. What plans do they have for you? 


The door opens and you hear soft footsteps, but you don't bother looking up. 


"Miss can you tell me where I am?" 


The voice sounded like an old man?!


You quickly look up and see an elderly man, looking lost and confused. "Oh dear what is it you kids play these days?" he asked, seeing you bounded in rope. He didn't have any aura that tells you he's dangerous. But why did they have an old man down here in the first place?


'Okay he's not all there in his mind,' you concluded.


"Um me and my brothers are playing cops and robber's," you explain as calmly as you could. "Can you do me a favor and take these papers off and I can help you back home?"


"Lauran's making my favorite stew tonight, I can't be late," he mutters, looking unsure. You quickly shake your head. "You won't be late I promise, it just takes a few seconds I promise." He smacks his lips together and slowly makes his way to you. He starts taking off the seals one by one and you're fighting the urge to tell him to hurry up.


"Oh what about this one?" he said, grabbing the one on your nape.


"No, no!" you quickly said. "Not that one." 


"All done missy!" he said, walking away from you happy he's completed his task. 


Trying to not scare this man you made your claw as small as you can and angle your finger to cut the rope around your wrist. You soon free yourself from the rest of the rope and stand up, feeling sluggish. You rub the sore spots on your body where you were stabbed and feel dry blood, some blood still leaving the wounds. 


"Okay come on Mister," you said, grabbing his hands and leading him out the room. "Let's get you back to your place." The last thing you need is a panicked civilian, so hopefully you can get him, Yuji, and Sukuna out of here without alarming any curses. 


"I am flattered Miss, but I am married," he said, smiling. 


"Oh uh I have a fiancé, I mean let's go see your wife Lauren."


-


Yuji struggles to fight back as they shove Sukuna's fingers down his throat. His screams and protests fell on deaf ears as they hold him down. Whatever they drugged him with is still in his system and he's really weak right now.


"Is that all the fingers?" Geto asked, smiling. 


"Yep, Yuji has successfully ate all 20 fingers." Yuji feels like the room is spinning. His stomach churns as he feels like he's going to barf up those fingers. Which he really doesn't want to because that means he would have to eat them again later. 


His heart beats rapidly in his chest as he feels a rush of energy. It was crashing into him like a tidal wave he was afraid he was going to die just from how many fingers he quickly consumed. 


"Now for the last act." 


Yuji's eyes widen when Mahito holds a a knife, glowing intensely. "Time to free Sukuna once and for all!" Mahito said, excited. 


No...stop....


"No wait-!"


Yuji feels a painful stab in his chest, but that's not the worst of it. It feels like everything in him is being split and torn apart. He let's out a painful yell as everything inside of him feels like it's melting. 


He can hear a low roar and soon laughter. A sudden force knocks Yuji off of the table he was held down on and slamming him into the wall. He struggles to move, feeling the hell he went through still linger in his body. 


He looks up to see a pair of large feet standing in front of him. His eyes slowly looks up to see the familiar white kimono now tightly wrapped around Sukuna's waist. He has two faces and four arms just like Gojo said he would. 


 Sukuna is huge, he thought he would be more of a giant but he probably made himself smaller seeing the room is a bit cramped. He doesn't know if he can beat Sukuna in this form, he doesn't even know how powerful he is. Eyes glowering at him and Yuji feels his words are stuck in his throat.


Sukuna is a wild card, there's no telling what he will do to him.


"Sukuna now that you're free we are ready to-!"


Mahito's words are cut short as Sukuna sends a glare his way.


"Where is my future wife?"


Those words made everyone in the room tense up. When no one replied quickly, Sukuna with the flick of his wrist decapitated Jogo. No one made a move as Yuji's eyes widen when he see Mt. Fuji as a head once again.


But Sukuna wasn't done.


Jogo's head suddenly turned erupted into tiny cubes as if someone shoved his head into some kind of cheese grater. The disrespect continued when Jogo's body ended up being sliced into seven pieces.


"I will not ask again where is my future bride?" 


Sukuna's tone was deep, different sounding than what Yuji was used to. It wasn't a booming, angry yell that would make feet quiver underneath. No it was a smooth, calm tone that would make you worry to not piss off such monster. 


"We'll bring you to her Sukuna-sama," Mahito bows before him. "Shall we dispose of the pink haired brat?" Mahito's grin forms into a twisted one as he feels joy at the thought of torturing Yuji.


"Leave him be."


Yuji's eyes widen in surprise when he said that without hesitation. "I do not need a sitter, tell me where Y/N is and I will head there." Yuji can see the confusion on the curses faces, almost as if they were expecting something else. 


But no one truly understands Sukuna and what his goals are in the end. He doesn't know how long he'll play the role of a "tame beast." What happens if he gets sick of not causing hell on earth around you? Will he go back to being the evil king? Yuji knows you too well that you will not join Sukuna in destroying the worlds.


"Oi idiot, follow me," Sukuna demands which made Yuji hastily, yet wobbily stand on his feet and follow him out of the room. It looks like they're under some kind of bunker, it was a long halls of mazes. Yuji feels on edge trailing behind the King of Curses. 


Whatever Mahito stabbed him with it separated them and into their own bodies.


"So um...is this the part where you kill me?" Yuji asked, getting ready for a fight. 


Sukuna rubs his chin thinking about what to do with the boy. He suppose he can kill him right here and tell you the other curses killed him. However, you are smart you will feel like something is up. No matter how dumb you try to portray yourself as, you can be intelligent when the moment calls for it.


Plus the fact that he doesn't know how hard you will take his death, the two of you share a bond that he can't even comprehend. He knows if one of you are gone, the other will fall. Soulmates if you will.


Begrudgingly, Sukuna pulls Yuji up by his hood, lifting him off of the floor.


"You...are so lucky she cares about you this much," Sukuna mutters, disgust in his words. He let's him go, making Yuji land back on the ground with a huff and fix his hood.


"Okay so what's the big plan here? Rescue Y/N and get out of here and-"


Suddenly an earthquake happens, making Yuji stumble to stay on two feet while Sukuna is unmoving. Suddenly there is a tear that forms along the wall.


"Another tear is forming?!" Yuji asked, shocked. 


"Take a good look kid," Sukuna mutters. "Tears are still forming even though your sorcerers are trying to seal them up." The walls are starting to form large cracks and on the floor. 


"What's happening?! Why are more tears forming?!"


"It's obvious, that idiotic God bit off more than he can chew when he decided to tear through realities."


-


You help the elderly man down the halls as another earthquake happens. You help him over the large cracks on the floor and struggle to keep the both of you up.


"Oh my maybe that young man can help us out," the elder man said, pointing to a curse?! It looks like a level three curse, which would be a breeze if you didn't have to worry about the old man! "Excuse me young one!" 


You quickly grab the old man as the curse throws a ball of curse energy at you two! Okay so not a third level curse, this thing is most likely grade one or a special grade! Thankfully the old man is light, but it's tricky to attack and keep him out of harm's way. 


It became a game of dodge as you jump out of the curse's attacks while also carrying the elderly.


"What an amazing turn of events," the old man happily stated, not understanding the danger he's in. "Say young one would you mind accompanying an old man through a walk in the park?"


"Yeah sure!" you scream, clutching him tight. You find another room and burst in there just so you can finally put the old man out of harm's way. "Okay gramps look I need to take care of a uh wild animal, just stay here."


"Oh Lilly please get me a pack of apple juice when you come back sweetie," he said, smiling at you.


You have a feeling Lilly is most likely a granddaughter but you weren't sure. "Yeah sure, stay right here okay?" You leave the room with the old man humming a tune. He is completely oblivious to the destructive sounds outside the door, the curse screaming, your angry yells, and then silence. 


You enter the room again, covered in blood this time. 


"Okay gramps let's go."


"Lilly dear what on earth happened to you?" he asked, concerned as you helped him up. "Uh I was painting my room and the paint fell on me," you tried to make a believable lie. Another earthquake goes off and you hurriedly help the man out of the room. 


You take one step forward out of the room until something tells you to not take another step forward. You jump back as another curse bursts out from the ceiling, grinning at you.


"Ugh what an ugly baby, that's not your baby right?" gramps asked you.


The curse let's out an insulted gasp and looks angry as you tried to stifle your laugh. "No it's not my baby," you struggled to speak normally. But some giggles slip here and there.


The curse tried to charge at you, leaping from the ceiling. You quickly slam the door shut, making it slam into that instead. "Such a ugly baby," gramps said, walking away from the door. You form claws and pierce through the door, killing the curse instantly.


Hang on gramps can see curses?


You turn around and he's not there?! You look around the room, wondering how on earth did you lose an old man?


"Was he even real?" you whisper, feeling like maybe your losing your damn mind. 


But no you see another door to the room wide open, making your run out of the room. "Oh grandpa!" you call out. You don't see him anywhere down the halls so you aimlessly walk, careful of where you step.


Oh god you hope he didn't fall through the floor!


Suddenly a pair of hands covers your mouth, making you immediately bite down on your attacker. 


"Ow damn Y/N!"


You turn around to see Gojo holding his hand, your teeth marks embedded in his skin. "Gojo?!"


The wrong old man you're looking for, but damn you're really happy to see him.


"I'm here to rescue you love." Without much thought you hold his hand and pull himself to you. Damn you bit him so hard blood is leaving the bite mark. "Sorry about that Gojo, who else is here?" you asked, worried. 


"Me, Nanami, Megumi, and Nobara," he spoke. "When we came back we saw the school in ruin and followed the curse energy that led us here." Gojo is certain it was done on purpose though, he has a very bad feeling. 


It's almost like they all have been led here and that everything is going to end today


The two of you look up as another earth quake happens, making you hold onto him to steady yourself. 


"What is happening out there? How long were we gone?"


"Couple of hours, but Y/N it's mayhem out there. Tears keeps ripping throughout the world it's now appearing in other countries. No matter how many we're sealing up more appear. Let's find the others and-"


"Wait! There was an old man here!"


"We'll look for him too but we're running out of time."


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A/N: I wrote this chapter like four times- still not satisfied with it. 

But my friend told me Sukuna doesn't wear pants so all I imagine is this:


The wind blows

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