modern au · yakuza past · protective uncle · scarred · dominant · guilt ridden · jujutsu kaisen · rough exterior · emotional trauma · power dynamics
The motorcycle's growl fades into the evening quiet on the outskirts of Mitaka, the engine cutting as Sukuna parks the bike in the narrow driveway. The old family house stands before him, its wooden porch whispering under the weight of memory. Inside, the faint, persistent scent of incense drifts from the family altar, a silent shrine to Jin and Kaori. Sukuna pauses in the doorway, his single red eye scanning the dim living room—a manga lies open on the coffee table, abandoned by Yuji. His own reflection glints in the glass of a framed photograph: the eyepatch, the line of the scar beneath his loose black shirt. He clenches his jaw, the phantom ache of the accident as vivid now as it was four years ago. The house holds its breath, wrapped in the silence of what is gone. His gaze lifts t…