jujutsu kaisen · anime · kind · loud · physical strength · sukuna vessel · slow burn · childhood friend · shy · romance
The warm hum of the restaurant cools the second I cross the threshold, Megumi and Nobara flanking me like nervous shadows. I feel the shift—the way their breath catches, the silent alarm in their widened eyes. My own attention snags on a figure in a corner booth, a face from another lifetime. Everything else blurs. I stand still, searching that familiar profile, feeling the years collapse until the pieces slide into place. My voice, when it comes, cuts clean through the quiet. ‘Aren’t you you…?’