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grimmjowkurosakidrake · 3 years

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Ichirin no hana

Sumary: For the @soulmatebingo 2021. Megumi doesn't get pretty flowers falling over his head when he encounters his soulmate for the first time. Instead, he gets the fractured petals of a wretched soul rotting away, like the feeling of his first love.

Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen

Relationships: Megumi Fushiguro/Sukuna Ryoumen, Megumi Fushiguro & Gojou Satoru, Megumi Fushiguro & Itadori Yuji

Megumi sees his firsts petals when Gojou shows him one of Sukuna’s cursed fingers for the first time.

He’s twelve when small white petals with a yellowish tin on their center fall over Megumi’s mess of dark, black hair and he doesn’t understand what is happening to him.

He knows about soulmates, but as far as Megumi is aware, most people only have full blooming flowers fall over their heads as they encounter their soulmate for the first time, or whenever both soulmates are going through a deeply emotional moment.

It is rarely a one sided experience, as the flowers are a physical representation of your soulmates emotions. It doesn’t happen over nothing and there are no documented instances of people only having petals fall over their heads.

When Gojou sees the petals, he smirks like it’s the best thing he’s seen in a long time. “Plum petals.” He grins, picking up one of the petals on Megumi’s head and twirling it around his slender fingers. “It seems that even fractured souls are able to feel loyalty.”

“I don’t understand.” Mumbles the young boy, looking up at Gojou and expecting an answer out of him. Believing in the man even when he knows that he shouldn’t. Gojou doesn’t love him, he’s not genuinely worried about him or anyone, actually.

“You don’t have to understand, Megumi-chan.” He sings songs, ruffling his protégé’s head and letting all the petals fall off as he does it. “Just know that your soulmate wants you as much as you want him.” Whispers the white haired man.

“But I don’t know him.” Wonders Megumi. There’s no one here besides himself and Gojou, and there’s no way that the stronger sorcerer in history is his soulmate. Not because Megumi doesn’t deserve the stronger sorcerer in history as a soulmate but because they’ve known each other for years already.

“Don’t worry your pretty little head about it.” Smiles Gojou indulgently. “Maybe the day will come when you’ll have to worry about your soulmate, maybe you’ll never have to.” He smiles. “Either way, having you around will only prove to be interesting.”

Megumi doesn’t want to be interesting, he just wants to meet his soulmate. He desperately wants to be dear to someone, to be loved by someone.

The idea of a person loving him more than anything seems novel to him. He swears he will love this person just as passionately, if only, he could meet him.

The idea rots like his first petals over time, as he slowly begins to understand why the petals only appear near Sukuna’s remains. But the need and the unwelcome love sickness never go away.

When Megumi passes Itadori on the courtyard of his former school he can faintly smell the scent of plums around him before feeling Sukuna’s presence all over the boy.

In the end, he ends up following the scent of plumps, unable to actually follow the pink-haired boy’s crazy running abilities.

When they finally talk face to face, one single petal falls in between them. The remnants of a fractured soul, loyal even after death. “Itadori Yuji, right?” He asks, completely ignoring the petal falling in between them.

Itadori Yuji is not his soulmate, he was too stupid to understand his circumstances before but now, after years searching Sukuna’s cursed fingers, he understands exactly who is his soulmate.

Itadori-kun is not his soulmate, but he has a part of him on his possession.

The boy doesn’t seem to understand this, his eyes opening in surprise, almost sparkling with joy at the sight of this one single petal. “Did you see it?” He asks, bright emotions filling his voice with cheer and wonder.

He suddenly breaks the distance amid them, taking Megumi’s hand in between his own.

“It’s not what you think.” Counters the young sorcerer. “We are not soulmates.” He clarifies, managing to break free off Itadori’s hands, even when at his words, the boy frowns.

“But how do you know?” Asks Itadori.

Megumi ignores him, getting his phone out of his pocket “I’m sorry but we don’t have much time, the cursed object you have in your possession is very dangerous. Hand it over right away.” He orders, his voice hard, trying to be as cold as posible with the boy.

“Cursed object?” Mumbles the pink haired boy, looking at the picture on Megumi’s phone, who pockets it as soon as Itadori gets a good look at the picture. “Oh! I found this!” He exclaims happily. “I wouldn’t mind giving it to you but my sempai has it.” He sighs finally, throwing an old looking box right into Megumi’s hands.

The box that Itadori ends up passing to him is empty, he only followed it because of the feeling of Sukuna’s lingering cursed energy. (The lingering smell of plumps in the summer).

They quickly run all the way back to Itadori’s school togheter and as they arrive at the entrance of it Megumi tries to leave the pink haired boy behind, really. But a part of him is actually relieved to see him jump and break his way into the school, saving both, his classmates and Megumi himself.

He’s surprised more than anything, Itadori-kun is stronger and faster than most sorcerers, yet the cursed energy around him is abysmal, almost non-existent.

When Itadori-kun eats Sukuna’s fingers without even flinching Megumi almost whishes Itadori was strong enough to fight the cursed spirit, but he can already smell the ume flowers raining over him like a storm waiting to happen.

The screeching laugh that comes from deep within Itadori’s chest is maddening, the cursed energy has him choking, almost reaching for air.

He feels whole all the same, even if his body tells him to run, to get as far as possible from the beast, the predator, waiting to eat him up.

His soul, his heart, tells him to stay, to never leave his soulmate.

He can’t even begin to understand his own feelings.

A part of him wants Sukuna to ignore him, to lose himself in between his thirst for blood and soul hunger.

Another part of him wants the monster to notice him, to take him in between his claws and to never be away from him again.

“I knew it!” Exclaims the cursed spirit, ripping off Itadori’s shirt. “Light is best appreciated in the flesh!” Oddly he still looks human, just Itadori full of tattoos and grinning like a maniac. But the aura around him is different, even if his cursed energy weren’t so overwhelming, the sheer blood thirst around him are a dead give away as to what exactly he has in front of him. “Now… Where is the people?” He asks to no one, his face and nose moving like a blood hound. “Where…?” He starts but stops himself just as he sees Megumi.

The creature possessing the sweet boy he’s just meet, fully opens his fours eyes just as he sees the young sorcerer. Red spidery, higanbana flowers falling over the monster’s head.

A deep love, dead before it could even start.

#jujustu kaisen #soulmatebingo21 #megumi fushiguro #sukuna ryomen #jjk itadori #sukumegu #jjk #sukufushi

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