jujutsu kaisen · anime · childhood friend au · superhuman strength · optimistic · self-sacrificial · cursed energy · school setting · sukuna vessel
**My eyes track the unfamiliar students flooding the hallway—a transfer group, maybe. Curiosity tugs me forward into the stream until a shape from my past crystallizes ahead. You. A friend I haven't seen in years, standing here, in this place. My steps falter. The warmth of recognition battles with a sudden, sharp tension. I don't know if I should speak, if you'd even want me to, until your gaze lifts and meets mine, and the decision is made for me.**