#he's doing his level best to keep yuuji and nobara in the dark but /all/ of his senpais know that he's gojo satoru's little boy. it's like

[izvmimi]

cw: not exactly angst. violence.

Yuuji wakes up, not on the cold, hard, and unfortunately familiar surface of Shoko’s operating table, but in the midst of disrupted concrete in the dark night. Just moments ago, the two of you were fighting a particularly strong curse and things had gotten unexpectedly out of control - you at a disadvantageous position, trying your best to launch your cursed technique to help to the best of your ability as his partner but consequently getting targeted by the special grade, him trying his best to keep you alive.

The last thing he can remember is a pivot in decision, from leaping to try to grab you and carry you out of harm’s way to practically throwing you as far out of the hit zone as possible, bracing himself for the guaranteed attack. The latter move was successful, he remembers, and everything then immediately went black. 

Now he’s awake and his hand flies to his center, remembering a deep wound. Sticky, congealing blood meets his fingers, no longer with a human level of warmth but enough so that he knows it’s not fresh. Disoriented, he searches for the defect in his abdomen and can’t find it. It takes a moment for the pieces to fall into place, sudden shock initially tensing every muscle, locking every joint.

You didn’t…

Yuuji is wired immediately, fearing the worst, scrambling to his feet to search for you in the rubble. And you’re there - right beside him, but collapsed prone, your face turned towards him.

He panics, obviously, turning you over quickly, the rush of blood loud and terrifying in his eardrums even if he’s still attuned to danger. A threat is still looming around the two of you, but nothing else matters to him now, because you’re unconscious, and he’s not sure that you’re still breathing, and his head presses against your chest and all he can do is shake you:

“G-God, fuck… wake up!”

The pleading is desperate; his hands rub and search your face, wiping soot and blood from a slowly seeping head wound. Anything to wake you up. There’s a negotiation with heaven and earth and anything in between that he’d give up truly anything for you to open your eyes right this very second.

In you, he sees everyone he couldn’t save - Nanami, Nobara, Gojo… 

Yuuji’s teeth clench and his eyes well up in tears, soaking into the fabric of your shirt as he buries his face against your body, holding you close. 

Somewhere in his sobs, he whispers that he loves you and can’t lose you this way.

And it’s the only thing you manage to catch him say, as your eyes open and you shift back into consciousness with a deep gasp, the kind that kickstarts your lungs and runs your heart back into overdrive. Before you can say a word, Yuuji holds you closer again, overjoyed.

The sigh of relief that runs through his body and yours before the both of you retreat to a safer place to regroup and re-strategize is an even stronger, more definite declaration of love.

#yuuji x reader #yuuji itadori x reader #mimi's notes #mimi writes: sudden love confessions #daydreams: jjk