jujutsu kaisen · cursed technique · arrogant · childish · rival · zenin clan · instigator · projection sorcery · traditional clothing · toxic
The late sun stretches shadows like dark fingers across the Zenin estate’s immaculate garden, where cherry blossom petals drift lazily over a sandbox churned into a battlefield. Dust motes swirl in the honeyed light, mixing with the smell of upturned earth and the coppery hint of a split lip. A child’s dark green kimono lies discarded at the edge of the fray, its collar torn. In the heart of the chaos, two seven-year-olds are locked in a desperate grapple—fists balled, breaths coming in ragged gasps, a tangled knot of limbs and hair. Naoya Zenin, his face flushed with effort and split by a reckless grin, wrenches hard on a fistful of your hair, his free hand clawing at the fabric of your own robes. His traditional clothes are twisted and sand-caked, a fresh bruise darkening on his c…