Satoru sat in his office, playing around with one of the pens he was supposed to be using for paper work when the door burst open to reveal Himari, his daughter making trumpet sounds to announce her presence
"I brought sweets!" She grinned
"Himari what are you doing here?" Gojo smiled, immediately trying to seem cheerful infront of her
"Gojo, you know you don't have to pretend to be happy all the time" Himari sighed "Getos back so it's only natural that you'd be feeling down"
"I'm fine" Gojo reassured her
"No you're not" She shook her head "because you're the strongest you feel like you can't show any weakness both physically and mentally which leads to you bottling up, but that never works and eventually poof!" She said making a visual representation with her arms
"You'll break! And then what will happen?"
Gojo could only muster a proud smile at Himaris conclusion "you know me so well"
"I was kind of raised by you" She reminded him, causing the six eyes bearer to laugh
"So how are you feeling about it all? Especially his new family" Gojo asked, Himari cutting him a slice of cake
"That doesn't matter" she stated "what's important is how you feel"
"See! Now you're sounding like me" Gojo gasped "I really did raise you" he noted, Himari sticking her tongue out
The duo's conversation was interrupted by Himaris phone ringing causing her to take it out and reveal a rhinestone hello kitty phone case
"You changed your phone case again?" Gojo blinked
"Of course" Himari said in a matter of fact tone before bringing the phone to her ear "Gumi!" She cheered "how come your calling me?"
"Himari, could you please come to the feild" Megumi said in an extremely calm tone
"Why?"
"Panda and inumaki stole my hoodie, and they're trying to fit it on this fur ball idiot"
"Calling your big sis to save the day? Classy megumi" Maki laughed
"Whatever" Megumi grumbled
"Awe of course I'll help you out gumi" Himari grinned
"There you are Himari!" Yuta sighed, "I have no idea how to stop those two and maki refuses to help fushiguro"
"It's nearly on!!!" Panda cackled as him and Inuamki tried to fit the hoodie over his head
"Stop that!" Megumi yelled, a yellow semi transparent triangle appearing and touching pandas flailing arms chasing him and Inuamki to shoot into a tree branch, Himari grabbing onto megumis hoodie and leaving the bear to fall down a bunch of branches
"Tuna...mayo" Inumaki grumbled,
"Here you go Gumi" Himari smiled, chucking the hoodie at her 'moody brother' as her friends liked to call him
That moodiness had only understandably increased since tsumikis curse
"Don't call me that" he muttered "but thank you" He sighed, noticing the bag she was carrying "what's in the bag?"
"Oh I was thinking we could have dinner together so I went and bought onions, butter, bananas and gelatine!"
"Right.." Megumi blinked "why don't we just get takeout instead?"
"Geez megumi you hate my cooking too?" Himari sighed
"Define hate"
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"Did we run out of butter?" Himari muttered to herself as she rummaged through the fridge at odd hours of the night
"Himari?" She heard a voice say, at first chalking it down to one of the vessles only for a hand to reach out a tap her
"Himari?" Yuta repeated once more, Himari staring at him with wide eyes
"Oh yuta sorry, I thought you were.." She offered him a weak smile
"What are you doing up?" He asked, thinking it over and then realising why she was up "ah I see" he nodded, having answered his question himself
"What about you yuta?" Himari asked
"Oh I don't really get that much sleep" Yuta scratched the back of his neck
"Yeah I can tell" Himari nodded "those eye bags give it away"
"They do??"
"Yeah but they add to your look" Himari stated, now looking in the cupboard for more things to add to her late night concoction
"they're cute" she hummed, yuta could feel his cheeks heat up at that statement
"Thanks" he smiled, his eyes darting away from the girl
Rika
"You can ask about that guy you know?" Himari spoke, startling yuta "Gojo might not feel comfortable talking about him but I'll try and answer" She smiled
"You always seem to know when I want to ask something" He said with amused smile "but I just wanted to know, what he was to you? Since he seemed to know you pretty well"
"Wow okkotsu you're asking me a lot of questions about myself, should I be worried?" Himari joked
"No no! I'm just curious"
"I'm pulling your leg." She said plainly, having no energy to smile since one past vessle had decided to scream bloody murder
"Suguru geto was a classmate of Gojo, shoko and nanami" Himari answered "and he was there when Gojo found me"
"Since I was raised at jujutsu tech until Gojo graduated I was around him a lot and he was the best" She smiled, recalling her time with him
"He was?"
"Yeah he was nothing like he is now" Himari shook her head "but honestly, it's jujutsu societies fault he turned out like that" she hummed, yutas eyes widening
"The higher ups don't care for us at all, which leads to students especially, being overwhelmed, overworked and having to see their friends die all the time. And there isn't any support system in place"
"It's only natural that after a while he began to detest non sorcerers for being the reason him and his comrades had to take on these missions. Even I could see that at like six" Himari concluded
"So then, do you hate non sorcerers Himari?" Yuta asked, Himari staring at him blankly
"I'm not too sure about that" She answered "I only really became a jujutsu sorcerer because I realised I could fight, and if I could fight I could help Gojo and everyone else. Which also meant getting rid of this system"
"But when it comes to non sorcerers, I'll help them..but I'm not too sure" She yawned "it's terrible I know, especially for you to hear since your whole things peace and love"
"No! I admire how honest you are with your personal beliefs despite what I might've thought" Yuta stated "it's so you, not caring whether or not I would dislike you for it"
"And I don't dislike you, far from it" He smiled "i became a jujutsu sorcerer to help others instead of harming them, so I'll help you create a better jujutsu society! Or something like that" yuta said with an awkward laugh
"Quit saying you admire me" Himari spoke, thinking back to that white room "I'm really not that admirable"
She wasn't the one he should be admiring, if anything she found him admirable
Yuta was more than a capable fighter, more than a cog, he was a hero, he was a good person who instead of choosing to selfishly run away or even find a loophole to getting rid of his curse would rather stick with rika until he could free her
To take on such a burden was truly astonishing
Himari knew she could fight, that's what she'd been familiar with for a majority of her life, but she wasn't a good person like yuta
In such a cruel world he was a beckon of hope, she loved seeing him improve everyday
Someone that was so alike to her yet simultaneously so different
They both had their own burdens but whilst Himari was a jujutsu sorcerer out of her loyalty and love for Gojo, yutas was out of his love for rika and humanity
That same humanity that Himari couldn't bring herself to fully forgive
That same humanity that she tried so desperately to detach herself from was what yuta so desperately clung onto
"Huh?" Yuta blinked, watching her get out some more ingredients "what are you taking out?" He asked
"Lemons, some left over beef stew, oat milk and butter" Himari smiled
"What type of meal can you make from that..." yuta muttered
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DECEMBER 24th 2017
THE DAY OF THE NIGHT PARADE OF A HUNDRED DEMONS
"Try to keep the destruction of buildings to a minimum. There is a chance some civilians haven't managed to evacuate. If you find any get them out of here" Principal Yaga stated
"Gojo are you listening?!" Yaga yelled, panda grabbing into inumaki and Himari
"Let's start moving" He spoke, the two students nodding
"It's better if we split up and cover more ground, geto has sloth of curses ranging in grades so don't underestimate them" Himari said
"Salmon!"
"Okay!" Panda said with a thumbs up
"How old are you two?" Ijichi questioned as he examined the many corpses hung upon the dingy alleyway
"We're fifteen"
"You're just kids, you still have a chance to turn back" Ijichi spoke
"can you even tell the difference between good and evil?" He challenged
"Mimiko isn't that guy like super annoying?!" Nanako questioned
"Should we hang him Nanako?" Mimiko smiled
"You have no idea how sorcerers are treated in places that aren't even on the maps" nanako jeered
"Good and evil? Save it. Master geto says white is black and he's right. We believe in the world master Geto envisions" Mimiko stated
"If you get in the way" Nanako began
"You'll get strung up." Mimiko declared
"That's a shame" another voice spoke "I might've actually agreed with you if it wasn't for fact I'm on the polar opposite side" Himari stated
"Because whatever Gojo believes in is what I go by. And right now you two are threatening one of our most trusted directors"
"Hey mimiko she looks familiar" Nanako spoke
"You're the girl master geto was talking about, Himari" Mimiko said with wide eyes
"Oh yeah!" Nanako gasped "how can you side with monkeys after what they did to you too?"
"Who said I'm on the monkeys side? I'm on Gojos side." Himari spoke as she quickly made a triangle sign with her hand, blocking whatever attack nanako had tried to use on her and causing the girls to find themselves frozen for a short period of time
This gave Himari enought time to grab ijichi and throw him into a dumpster a few meters away
"Ijichi you should run! You're too weak to fight and it's be no use if you died!" Himari yelled
"You really are Gojos daughter" ijichi sighed, taking the girls advice
"Don't try us Himari!" Mimiko yelled as a large rope tried to wrap around the red head prompting her to take out her blade and cut through it, placing it back in her scabbard and running towards the girls
She had no intention of killing or even seriously injuring them, rather leaving them unable to fight for the rest of the battle to preserve more windows lives
Just as she was about to connect her fist to mimikos face, a loud crash caught the three girl's attention, each of them looking up to see Gojo fighting
"Miguel?! What are you doing here?" Nanako questioned
"What does it look like" Miguel murmured, getting up to face satoru Gojo once again
"How many decades do you think it took the sorcerers of my country to weave this rope imbued with cursed energy?" Miguel smiled
"Like I care. I can outmatch it in about one second" Gojo said, raising his hands, destroying a curse that was coming his way and three apartments complexes in the process
"I feel bad for the builders" Himari tutted, jumping up and leaving the girls behind in order to wait for Gojo
If he was fighting like that, that meant he was trying to get to geto fast
"Himari!" Gojo yelled, kicking Miguel a few meters away and giving him enough time to create a circle around the girl
"Can't explain it fully but I sent panda and Toge to help yuta and maki since the might die, Sugurus there, so go help them whilst I deal with this guy!"
"Eh?!" Himari blinked, the next thing she knew, she was at jujutsu tech, surrounded by the battered and bruised bodies of maki Toge and panda
"I was wondering when you'd show up Mari, then again I really don't want to have to fight you" Suguru sighed, bringing his arms up to avoid a kick from Himari
"You're fast!" Geto smiled
"And you're out of your mind" Himari said in a cold tone, ducking down and balancing on her hands, landing a kick to geto face before he grabbed her leg and flung her into a building, Himari using her palms to bounce off of it and punch the male in his face
"Where'd you learn all these tricks from? Satoru?" Geto asked, as he took out a horde of cursed spirits, Himari taking out her sword and cutting up a few whilst creating small disk like triangles that took out the rest
"No, I used to watch you during your martial arts training" She stated
"I see" Geto smiled "well you know, you can't beat the body that taught you those skills" he hummed, kicking Himari in the face and summoning two special grade curses
"I won't let it kill you" He smiled "just injure you"
"Good L—" A large orange beam tore through the curse followed by another beam, catching geto off guard "did she just emit pure cursed energy.." he muttered, Himari falling back into the ground
"Yeah I did, now I understand why people don't recommend it" She coughed
Maybe she could produce another one, but the toll the first two had on her body left her susceptible to Sugurus attacks
"You really are wonderful Mari!" He smiled, a huge distorted curse emerging from behind him
"I'm glad, to have been apart of your life, even for a measly two years"
"Maki?" Yuta blinked
"Panda?"
"Inuamki!?"
"Yuta...run away"
"Hi-Himari??"
"Fight yuta" Himari coughed out, completely contradicting toges words
"if you don't win you'll die, and the only way to win is to fight" She managed to get out, blood seeping through her clothes
"B-but..you guys"
"Take a deep breath." Himari spoke, opening her bloodshot eyes
"Nows not the time to be emotional"
Yuta did as she told him, drawing his sword and looking at geto
"Rika!!" Yuta yelled as the queen of curses appeared from
"You're going to die."
"I'm going to kill you"