crying, i’m talking writhing in satoru’s arms as you break down finally letting all of the weight of the jujutsu world crumble on you.
“there’s something- something rotten inside of me.. something wrong!” your already shaken body, shakes even more at the realization of your words.
satoru stills, because he’s already lost his best friend, oh suguru, how could he lose you, and lose both of you forever? he couldn’t have this.. this defect spreading around to those he’s loved. he couldn’t stop it the first time, but he’s sure he can now.
his eyes are tearing up, and Satoru swears he can sense all that negative energy radiating off of you in tidal waves, like they’re trying to pull him in too.
“no, baby, there’s absolutely nothing rotten inside of you. don’t ever say that..” his hands cradle your face like you’re glass, like you could break at any moment. “This’ll pass, it’s just your emotions talking!”
and you could shatter. you’ve all witnessed how suguru just snapped out of nowhere. but there were signs. no many signs ignored and yet, nothing prevented it.. no one prevented it at all.
his words have no affect on you, instead you cry even more because he can’t even understand or fathom what this feeling was like. what feeling rotten and wrong felt like. what being used, and used over, and over again did to you. no because as the strongest, he had to push those feelings aside and follow instructions, orders, as do the rest of you, but to an extreme. because if he’s not the strongest who is he?
he’d be nothing, and that’s why he couldn’t ever understand this crushing feeling in your chest. because he has a future already paved and carved for him. satoru gojo had the entire world on his shoulders, and he still doesn’t even blink. how strong and will-powered you wished you were.
“you don’t know that, you can’t know that! i-i’m! Satoru I can’t! s’all too much!” and as if that didn’t make his heart shatter your next words did, “I miss him so much, ‘toru! I can’t- I miss him! it’s not the same.. why?? why?”
And it’s as if the universe finally allowed him to process his emotions about everything. he missed suguru geto so so much. he missed his best friend and their playful banter. he missed the way you and geto would play fight because you liked to test him. he missed going out to dinner with you, shoko, and geto, just for you to steal bits and pieces of their food because it ‘tasted better’. he missed how geto would not hesitate to protect you, and watch over you if satoru wasn’t around.
And then he realizes your hiccups have stopped, but he can still feel the wet of your face- oh? why are your hands reaching up to wipe his face? and then he feels his own cheeks wet with his own salty tears.
he didn’t even realize he’d started crying. He just leans into your hands and sighs now though. trying to find a way to answer your previous questions of why?
“I miss him too.. I don’t know why..” he whispered your name softly, “I wish I knew.. but you can’t do the same thing ok?!” he looks at you so determined.
those blue eyes a bit bloodshot. his nose scrunching up to sniffle as he tried to compose himself in front of you. his eyebrows are furrowed, and he’s leaning into your space now, face to face, mere centimeters.
he can still see the tears cascading down your own face, and as much as it hurts him to see you like this, to be able to be the person you become vulnerable like this with, was more than an honor, and he’d make sure you never felt this way again.
and as far as promises go you were sure you wouldn’t break it, at least for now.