Geto Suguru acts all cool, but if a cat rubs against his leg, he’s done for.
Geto Suguru carries himself with a kind of effortless grace, the kind that makes people watch him when he walks into a room. He is refined, deliberate—every movement measured, every word placed with precision.
Even next to Gojo’s blinding presence, Suguru stands out.
He is composed. Poised. Untouchable.
At least, that’s what he wants people to believe.
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You find out the truth by accident.
It is late, and the two of you are walking back from a mission, your uniforms still stained with dirt and exhaustion. Tokyo hums around you—neon signs flickering, traffic rolling past in waves of sound.
And then, out of the shadows, a cat appears.
Small. Scrappy. Orange
It rubs against Suguru’s leg with the kind of shameless affection only a cat can muster.
And he—he, the ever-composed, the ever-serene—freezes.
For a second, just a fraction of one, you see his carefully constructed persona crack.
His eyes widen. His breath catches.
And then, in the softest voice you have ever heard from him, he says:
“Oh no.”
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You do not expect what happens next.
You expect him to shake it off, to maintain his image of effortless control.
But instead—
Instead, he crouches down, tentative, as if in a trance. The cat, delighted by its new victim, purrs loudly and presses itself against his hand.
Suguru, the second-in-command of the strongest duo of Jujutsu sorcerers, lets out a breath like he’s been punched.
You stare.
“Are you—”
He looks up at you, eyes wide, as if you’ve caught him in something scandalous.
“Shut up.”
You don’t.
Because Suguru Geto, the epitome of cool, is now fully on the ground, scratching behind a stray cat’s ears like it’s the most important mission he’s ever been given.
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“You like cats.”
“I tolerate them.”
“You literally melted back there.”
Suguru exhales, pinching the bridge of his nose. “It’s not—” He pauses, searching for a way to maintain his dignity. Fails. “They’re just… very soft.”
You watch him, amusement curling at the edges of your mouth.
“Soft?”
He looks away. “Yeah.”
You tilt your head, studying him. The way his hands, so often used for violence, had moved so gently through the cat’s fur. The way his entire body had relaxed in a way it rarely did.
And suddenly, you realize—
It’s not just about the cat.
It’s about what the cat represents.
Something small. Something vulnerable. Something that asks for nothing except warmth.
Suguru has spent his life being strong. Being in control. Being the protector.
But here, in this tiny moment, with a stray cat rubbing against his legs—
Here, he lets himself be soft.
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You expect him to forget about the cat.
He doesn’t.
The next time you pass that alley, he slows his steps, scanning the shadows. When the cat appears again, he sighs—long-suffering, dramatic, resigned.
“Guess I should feed it,” he mutters.
You smirk. “Tolerate them, huh?”
He ignores you, already kneeling, already reaching into his bag for the remains of his lunch. The cat, as if sensing his weakness, immediately begins twining around his arms.
You watch as he lets it. As his fingers curl absently into its fur, as his expression softens into something unbearably gentle.
You watch and wonder—
How many times has he wanted to be taken care of like this?
How many times has he wanted to be something small and loved?
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It doesn’t last.
Nothing ever does.
One night, weeks later, you find him standing in the alley alone, his hands empty. His shoulders are set in that careful way that means he is holding something back.
“The cat’s gone,” he says, and his voice is neutral. Too neutral.
You don’t know what happened. You don’t ask.
But the way his fingers twitch at his sides—the way he stares at the empty ground where something small and warm used to be tells you enough.
For the first time in a long time, you see something raw flicker through him.
A reminder that Suguru Geto does not get to keep soft things.
Not in this world.
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He never mentions the cat again.
But sometimes, when you pass pet stores, you catch his eyes drifting. Sometimes, when you sit together in silence, his fingers will tap idly against his knee—like he is remembering the feeling of fur beneath them.
And one night, long after everything has shattered, when you see him again across enemy lines, you wonder—
Does he still stop for stray cats?
Or did he learn, in the end, that love is never enough to keep something safe?
You do not ask.
And he does not say.
But when he walks away, his hands curl—just for a second—as if holding something that is no longer there.
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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸
So, fun fact (not so fun actually)—
this fic was actually inspired by a stray cat I used to see near my coaching center. it wasn’t mine or anything, but it was just… there.
A little Orange-Brown thing that had somehow become part of my daily routine. I had even mentally named it Kaju (because obviously, I was never going to not name a cat I saw every day lol).
Sometimes, if I had extra money, I’d buy a packet of biscuits (ParleG) and toss a few her way. Other times, I’d just look at it like we had an understanding. It was easy, unspoken. Just a thing that existed.
And then, one day, she wasn’t there.
At first, I figured she’d just wandered off somewhere, maybe found a new spot, doing something a cat would. But a few days later, I found out she’d been hit by a car. By mistake, of course. Just one of those things that happen.
And look—I wasn’t devastated. It’s not like I’d expected her to stay forever. But still… it sucked. The street felt different after that, like some tiny piece of it had been removed without warning. It’s funny how you don’t realize you’ve grown fond of something until it’s just gone.
Maybe that’s why I wrote this. My boi Suguru feels like the kind of person who lets himself care, even when he knows better. Even when he knows things don’t last.
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Anyway, what about you guys? Ever had something like that happen? A small, unspoken attachment that disappeared before you even realized how much you liked it? Feel free to share—I’d love to hear if we’ve got some common circumstances. 🎀
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—The Violet Hours—
The thing about truth is—it never arrives politely.
It kicks in the door, pours wine in your mother’s good china, and asks if you’re still pretending.
—From Journal Of Elora Haventon, 1975
When she was nine, Elora asked her father if power made people kinder.
He gave her a polished smile and said, “Power makes people busy, darling.”
That night, she wrote in her diary: 'So kindness is a hobby, I guess.'
She never stopped watching after that—quietly, precisely, like a girl measuring the world before deciding whether it deserved her.
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Birth : Haventon Manor, Outer London— 12th October, 1960, 2:06 AM
Age at Hogwarts acceptance : 10 years, 11 months
Date of death : 21st July, 1979
Place : A quiet field, still dressed in flowers. (Some say it was meant to be a celebration. Others say it was the last peace before the war found her.)
Known as: "The Ghost They All Knew"
Appearance : Dark hair like spilled ink. Eyes the color of twilight before storm—too blue to be black, too violet to be safe.
Sharp in mind. Silent in grief.
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Jennifer Vance : Her first real friend. A half-vampire Ravenclaw girl who laughed like she was already bored of eternity. She once gave Elora a gold locket. Elora wore it even after her heart stopped.
Remus Lupin : A quiet understanding. They spoke like people who knew how to wait. She figured out his secret long before he confessed it. A bond built on books, trust, and not needing to explain.
Sirius Black : An occasional clash of fire and ice. He thought he could make her laugh. A boy who mistook silence for mystery, and misread indifference for elegance.
Adrian Del Marlowe : The boy she was meant to marry. The only one who saw her quiet ache and didn’t ask about it. He just handed her books and soft smiles instead. They wrote each other letters.
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There’s a portrait of her in Haventon Manor.
Visitors say it’s just a painting, but something about it feels too alive—like the violet of her dress might rustle if the wind blew the wrong way.
She’s smiling. But it’s the kind of smile you only wear when you’ve learned how to survive.
And yet still—
no one survived 'The Violet Hours'.
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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸
So yeah. Elora Haventon. She's been living rent-free in my head for months now—quietly, politely, the way ghosts do. at first, i thought she was just another side character. and then suddenly she had a name, a cursed locket, an entire tragic backstory, and this way of looking at the world that made me go oh. so here she is: the ghost they all knew. my third OC (yeah, we’re deep in it now lol I think I’m addicted to tragic girls with sharp minds and deadpan humor), and maybe the one closest to my chest.
she’s sharp. ironic. too observant for eleven. the kind of girl who would sit quietly at a political dinner table and memorize everything—not because she wants to be part of it, but because she’s already writing it all down in her head. her voice came to me so naturally it was a little scary. like she’d been waiting for someone to finally let her speak.
what inspired her? honestly? that song Dollhouse. you know, the whole smiling-perfect-family thing but under the surface it’s all porcelain cracks and red wine stains and quiet disappointment. that’s Elora. a girl raised in a house where truth isn’t forbidden—it’s just considered bad manners.
i’ll be posting more of her story (it’s called The Violet Hours, and yes, it gets worse), but for now, here’s a little introduction. if you’ve ever been the quiet girl in the room, the one watching more than speaking, the one trying to hold yourself together with pretty manners and sharp thoughts—i think you’ll get her.
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feel free to scream in the tags, message me, ask questions—i literally love talking about her. just bring tea or trauma. both work.
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"Do you know what the most dangerous piece on the board is?
A pawn that refuses to stay one."
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Petyr Baelish never told me I was shaped.
He didn’t have to.
The thing about growing up in the shadow of a man like him is that you begin to understand silence better than words. You learn the meaning of a glance, the weight of a pause, the way power curls itself around a room like smoke, barely visible but impossible to ignore.
I was ten the first time he let me sit beside him while he played cyvasse against a visiting merchant.
It was not a lesson, not officially. Petyr never wasted time on things so direct.
But when the game was over and the merchant had left, my father turned to me and asked, as if it were nothing, “Did you see how I won?”
I hesitated. “You trapped his dragon.”
He laughed, shaking his head. “No, sweetling. I let him believe he was winning. Until he wasn’t.”
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I learned quickly after that.
Petyr never told me to watch. But I did.
I watched the way he spoke to lords, all soft smiles and careful charm. I watched the way he moved through a room, unassuming yet ever-present. I watched the way people underestimated him, the way they dismissed him as nothing more than a minor lord with a sharp tongue and sharper ambition.
I watched the way he let them.
And I watched the way he won.
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The first time I played cyvasse against him, I lost.
I was eleven, and I had thought myself clever. I moved my pieces with confidence, mirroring the strategy I had seen him use before.
He beat me in seven moves.
“Why? I asked, frowning at the board. “I did everything right.”
His fingers traced the edge of a pawn, thoughtful. “Did you?”
I looked again.
And then I saw it—the mistake. The opening I had left without realizing it.
The moment I had lost, before I even knew the game was over.
Petyr smiled, reaching out to smooth a hand over my hair, his touch as light as his voice. “You learn quickly, Rowan. But so do your enemies.”
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I did not trust my father.
I respected him. I studied him.
But trust? No.
Petyr Baelish was not a man who inspired trust. He inspired awe, perhaps. Caution. Admiration, in the way one might admire a well-forged blade.
But never trust.
And he knew it.
Which was why, I think, he never asked me to.
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I let him shape me. But only so far.
I let him teach me how to speak, how to smile, how to make a man believe I was harmless even as I unraveled his secrets.
But I also watched.
I watched him as much as he watched me.
Because if he was making me into a tool, then I needed to know what kind.
A dagger is not the same as a key. A shield is not the same as a lockpick.
And I did not intend to be used blindly.
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“You are too clever for your own good,” he told me once, when I was twelve.
I only smiled. “I wonder where I got it from.”
He laughed at that, shaking his head.
But he did not answer.
Because he knew.
And so did I.
Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸
This chapter focuses heavily on Rowan and Petyr’s dynamic—the push and pull of power, trust, and manipulation between them. She plays the role he expects, but beneath it, she’s always watching, always learning. It’s a complicated relationship, built on something that resembles loyalty but is laced with too much calculation to be love.
I wanted to explore that tension—how much of her father’s influence she accepts, how much she resents, and how much she quietly resists.
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Let me know what you think! Does their relationship feel as layered as I intended? Feel free to comment, share your thoughts, or ask any questions about Rowan!
✨Bye and take care, hope you all have a good day ✨
Nanami Kento does not go out of his way to frighten children. It just happens.
There is something about the way he exists—tall, severe, measured in movement and speech—that makes small creatures wary of him. Dogs hesitate before wagging their tails. Babies squirm when they sense his presence. And children, most unforgiving of all, take one look at him and decide he is someone to fear.
It is not something he does on purpose. It is not even something he particularly minds. But it is something he has noticed.
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The first time it happens, he is twelve years old.
He is at a family gathering, the kind that drags on forever and smells like heavy food and too much perfume. His mother has given him a task—keep an eye on his cousin’s toddler while the adults talk.
He does not like children. He does not dislike them, either. They simply exist, in the way that birds and passing clouds do—present, but not worth much thought.
The child is small, unsteady on his feet, and when he sees Nanami, he immediately bursts into tears.
Nanami does not know what to do. He has not done anything. He has not spoken, has not moved. He has simply existed in the same space as this child, and yet, somehow, this is enough to warrant terror.
His mother scolds him later. "You should try being friendlier. Smile more."
Nanami tries. It does not help.
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Years pass. He grows taller, sharper, more deliberate in his actions. He learns to choose his words carefully, to measure his tone, to move with the kind of efficiency that makes the world a little more tolerable.
But the pattern remains.
Children do not like him.
He is sixteen when he volunteers at a local library, mostly because it is quiet and does not demand much of him. One afternoon, a group of children comes in for story time. The librarian, a woman with a kind face and tired eyes, asks him to help.
Nanami sits down, book in hand. He does not make any sudden movements. He does not raise his voice. He simply reads.
Halfway through, a child starts crying.
The librarian pats Nanami’s arm. “Maybe try sounding a little less... serious?”
He does not understand what she means. He is reading the words as they are written. He is being careful, thoughtful. Isn’t that what people are supposed to want?
But when he looks at the children—small, fidgeting, casting wary glances at him—he knows.
They do not like his voice.
They do not like his face.
They do not like him.
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He does not try again for many years.
It does not come up often. His life is not the kind that requires interaction with children. His job is not safe, not kind, not something that should be seen by those who still have softness left in them.
But then there is a mission—a simple one, supposedly—and he finds himself standing in a half-destroyed street, staring down at a child no older than six.
She has lost her parents.
She is shaking.
And when she looks up at him, all wide eyes and trembling hands, she does not cry.
Nanami does not know what to do with this.
He kneels, slow and careful. “You are not hurt?”
She shakes her head.
She is too quiet. Too still. He recognizes this—shock, fear held too tightly, the kind that makes people collapse hours later when their bodies finally catch up to their minds.
So he does something he has not done in years.
He smiles.
It is small, just the barest movement of his lips, meant to reassure, to make him seem less imposing. It is an effort. It is, he thinks, something that might be kind.
The child’s face crumples.
She bursts into tears.
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Later, Gojo laughs so hard he nearly falls out of his chair.
“You made her cry by smiling?” he wheezes, wiping at his eyes. “Man, I knew you were scary, but damn.”
Nanami sighs. He regrets telling him.
“Maybe it was a bad smile,” Gojo continues. “Like, creepy. Serial killer vibes.”
Nanami does not dignify this with a response.
But later, when he stands in front of a mirror, he tries again.
He does not smile often. He never saw the point. But now, looking at his own reflection, he studies the way his face shifts, the way his expression pulls at the edges.
Does it look unnatural?
Does it look forced?
He does not know.
He does not try again.
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Years later, when he is older, when the weight of his own choices sits heavier in his bones, he finds himself in the presence of another child.
This time, he does not smile.
This time, he simply crouches, keeps his voice steady, his movements slow, and waits.
The child does not cry.
Nanami exhales.
(It is enough.)
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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸
You know, I think I might be Nanami. Or at least, I deeply relate to his struggle with children. I don’t know if it’s a lack of patience or just the sheer confusion of what am I supposed to do with this tiny, unpredictable human? But yeah, I struggle.
Case in point: My maternal aunt once asked me to watch over my toddler cousin, Riya, during a family gathering while she cooked. Simple, right? Should’ve been easy. Except, the moment my presence registered, she started crying. And I mean, really crying. And what did I do? Nothing. I just stood there, because what do you even do in that situation? Pat her head? Start singing? Apologize for existing?
Anyway, that incident stayed with me, and when I wrote this, I couldn’t help but channel some of that energy into Nanami. The man just exists and children find him terrifying. I get it.
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So yeah, let me know—do kids like you? Or are you, like me (and Nanami), just out here unintentionally scaring them with your mere presence? Drop a comment, share your thoughts, and let’s collectively figure out how to interact with tiny humans.
✨ Bye and take care, Hope you all have a good day ✨
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"They call me Baelish’s girl. A whisper behind silk fans, a name spoken with knowing smirks and hushed amusement, as if I am some pet my father keeps in his pocket, trained to play his games. But I am not a pet. Nor a pawn. Nor a fool. I am something else entirely—though, if I were wise, I would not admit to what."
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I was born in a brothel, though no one in court would ever say it aloud.
They would whisper it, of course, behind painted fans and smirks, in the same breath that they called me Baelish’s girl. Not quite a lady, not quite a bastard, something between a shadow and a secret.
My mother was a whore. She had hair like autumn and eyes like the first bloom of spring—Catelyn Stark’s ghost in a cheaper dress. She was beautiful in the way that made men reckless, and that, I suppose, was her first and final mistake.
I do not remember much of her. A voice, soft and humming. A hand, cool against my forehead. The way she smelled—lavender and something warm, something fading. When I try too hard to summon her, she dissolves into candlelight and smoke.
She died when I was four.
No one ever told me how. Some said illness, some said an accident, some said a jealous man who did not take kindly to her affections being divided. Maybe it was all of them. Maybe it was none. I used to think that if I asked my father, he would tell me, but I never did.
And perhaps that is the truest thing about us—our relationship was built not on what was said, but on what we both refused to say.
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Petyr Baelish took me in, but he did not raise me.
No, I think I raised myself.
I learned early that silence was my strongest armor. That men would mistake beauty for softness, that kindness was only currency, that power was not about strength, but about knowing which strings to pull and when.
I watched my father, listened to him, memorized the way he twisted words into something sweet and sharp all at once. I learned when he lied and when he only made people think he was lying. I learned that truth is a weapon like any other.
And I loved him, in my own way.
How could I not?
He was the one who took me from the filth of that brothel, who dressed me in silk, who gave me a name that people whispered with something like fear. I could have been nothing. I could have been dead.
Instead, I was here. In the capital. In the court. In the game.
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The first lesson my father ever taught me was this: Power is an illusion, and the best illusions are the ones people choose to believe.
He told me this when I was seven, sitting across from me at a table too grand for two people alone. His fingers toyed with the stem of his wine cup, a casual gesture, but I knew better than to think my father’s hands ever moved without purpose.
"Tell me, Rowan," he had asked, voice soft, almost amused, "do you know why men follow kings?"
I had hesitated, uncertain. Because they must? Because the king commands them? Because that is how the world works?
But even then, I had understood that my father rarely asked questions to hear simple answers. So I did what any good daughter of Petyr Baelish would do.
I smiled and said, "Because they choose to."
He had leaned back, his expression unreadable. Then, after a long pause, he had nodded. "Smart girl."
I had known then that I had pleased him.
But what I did not know—what I could not know—was how much that lesson would shape me.
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Court life was a performance, and I was a fast learner.
At first, I was merely the little shadow at my father’s side. A girl with clever eyes and a too-sweet smile, always listening, always watching.
The lords dismissed me. The ladies pitied me. But Myrcella Baratheon found me interesting.
It was not a friendship in the way of stories— no promises of forever—but I was her lady-in-waiting, and she was the closest thing to a true friend I could afford.
She looked up to me, I think. She liked how I carried myself, how I never shrank away.
I exist in the spaces between. A girl who listens more than she speaks, who watches more than she acts. I am careful. Cautious. A shadow in silk.
And yet, I am not invisible.
She calls me her dearest friend, her wisest lady-in-waiting, though she is far too young to understand what wisdom truly costs. She clings to my arm and tells me her dreams, her hopes, her childish fears. I listen. I nod. I smile when required.
“You’re not afraid of anything,” she once told me.
And I smiled, because I had already learned that fear was not something you showed. It was something you used.
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Joffrey liked me too, in his own way.
Or perhaps he just liked that I was never foolish enough to cower before him. I knew how to speak to him. Knew when to flatter, when to feign laughter, when to let him think he had won.
He once asked me if I was loyal to him.
“Of course, Your Grace.”
It was the only answer he wanted.
But later, when I was alone, I thought of my father and all the times I had asked myself the same question.
Was I loyal?
To whom?
my father?
To myself, I decided. That would have to be enough.
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People think power is won in battle, in blood, in steel.
But I knew better.
Power was a whisper in the right ear. A secret traded at the right time. A name spoken in the right room.
It was knowing when to smile and when to strike.
And I was my father’s daughter, after all.
Even if I was trying, so desperately, not to be.
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Greetings, Dreamers and Readers ✨🌸
So, here it is—chapter one of Life and Lies of Lady Rowan Baelish. Honestly, writing this introduction felt like stepping straight into the viper’s nest that is Westeros. Rowan’s childhood, her mother’s death, and her first real taste of court life—this chapter lays the groundwork for everything she’ll become.
I wanted it to feel real, not just as an origin story but as a reflection of how survival shapes people differently. Do you think it captures that? Does it need more? Less? Let me know your thoughts—I’d love to hear what you all think.
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Comment, ask questions, or just scream about the chaos to come. I’m here for all of it lol.
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The Brightest Lie :
Everyone said Gojo Satoru was the strongest.
They said it like a blessing, like a curse, like a song.
Satoru knew the words by heart. Had known them before he even knew himself.
He thought — if he had a grave someday — they would carve that phrase into the stone before they ever remembered his name.
The Strongest.
The Brightest.
The Untouchable.
(And if he shattered under it — well, that wasn’t anyone's business.)
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It was winter when he met her.
Snow clung to the stone sidewalks like stubborn ghosts.
He had slipped out of the school that night with nothing but his jacket and a vague, gnawing ache he couldn’t name.
Tokyo was a graveyard at midnight.
Only vending machines and stray cats witnessed him.
He found her by accident — in the empty park near the bridge.
She was sitting on a bench with a cane resting against her knee, her head tilted up like she was listening for something beyond human ears.
For a moment, he thought she was a ghost.
Tokyo was full of them, after all.
But then she smiled — small, real — and he realized she was just... living.
“Cold night,” she said, voice soft.
He blinked behind his glasses. “Yeah.”
She didn’t flinch at his voice. Didn’t bow, didn’t whisper, didn’t freeze.
Just turned her face toward him with a polite kind of curiosity.
“You lost?” she asked.
Satoru laughed under his breath.
Lost.
If only it was that simple.
“Nah. Just walking,” he said, slipping his hands into his pockets.
She hummed, brushing snow off the bench beside her.
An invitation.
For reasons he couldn’t explain — not even to himself — he sat down.
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Minutes passed.
The snow kept falling in slow, weightless drifts.
He kept waiting for her to ask.
For the inevitable flicker of realization.
For the fear, the reverence, the edge.
It didn’t come.
Instead, she asked, “You have a name?”
He hesitated. Then said, “Satoru.”
She nodded like it meant nothing and everything.
“Nice to meet you, Satoru. I’m Aki.”
(He realized, distantly, she was blind.)
The idea bloomed in his chest like a strange, painful flower:
She doesn’t know.
She didn’t see the white hair that marked him like a warning.
She didn’t see the height, the swagger, the way space bent politely away from him.
She didn’t see the "Strongest Sorcerer" at all.
Just a man with cold hands and tired shoulders.
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"You always walk alone?" she asked after a while.
"Yeah," he said, shrugging. "Better that way."
She tilted her head, thoughtful.
"You sound lonely."
He almost laughed.
Almost told her about centuries of history tying themselves into nooses around his throat.
Almost told her about dying friends and dying enemies and the way his students looked at him sometimes — like he was a god and a monster and a brother and a curse, all in the same breath.
Instead, he said, "Maybe."
Aki smiled a little. "Lonely isn’t always bad. Means you’re still waiting for someone."
"Maybe," he said again, softer.
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They sat like that until the streetlights buzzed and flickered.
Until the sky turned a bruised, electric purple.
Until Satoru forgot for one brief, staggering moment that he was supposed to be anything other than human.
When he finally stood to leave, she smiled up at him — clear and unburdened.
"Thanks for keeping me company, Satoru," she said.
He wanted to say something back.
Something stupid and raw and real,
like no one’s thanked me in years or stay blind a little longer, please.
Instead, he just shoved his hands deeper into his pockets and said, "Yeah. You too."
Then he walked away, leaving only footprints behind him.
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Later, standing at the top of the bridge, he looked back once.
She was still sitting there — small and bright and terribly, terribly human.
And Gojo Satoru — The Strongest — felt something splinter in his chest.
Something old.
Something breakable.
He pressed a hand against his heart like he could hold it still.
Like he could hold himself still.
You’re not meant to want things, a cruel voice inside him said.
You’re not meant to need.
But under the falling snow, for just a moment, he let himself wonder:
If someone could love him — not the title, not the strength, not the salvation he was supposed to be —
just him—
would he even recognize it?
Would he be able to stay?
Or would he run, the way he'd always run — bright and blinding and lonely —
until even the stars forgot how to find him?
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The city swallowed him up.
The night closed behind him like a door.
And Gojo Satoru — myth, weapon, miracle —
kept walking.
Kept pretending.
Kept being the brightest lie the world had ever told.
-----
Gojo Satoru believes in a lot of things.
He believes in power—his own, mostly, because there’s no one else on his level.
He believes in choices—the ones that shape people, the ones he never really got to make.
He believes in change—though he’s never quite sure if he’s the one causing it or just watching from the sidelines.
And above all, he believes in sweets.
Not just as food, but as a philosophy. A worldview. A moral compass.
"Everything you need to know about a person," he tells you one afternoon, legs stretched across your lap, "can be determined by how they rank their desserts."
You raise an eyebrow. "You have an actual ranking system, don’t you?"
"Of course I do!" He looks almost offended that you’d doubt it. "Do you think I just eat sweets randomly, like some kind of amateur?"
You do think that. Because Gojo has never exactly struck you as the kind of man who puts deep thought into anything besides fighting and annoying people.
But the way he says it—the sheer conviction—makes you pause.
Because he isn’t joking.
Not even a little.
S-Tier (Divine, Transcendent, Life-Changing):
Anything made with yuzu. "The perfect balance of tart and sweet," he sighs, as if discussing fine art.
Hokkaido milk soft-serve. "The texture, the purity—it’s poetry in frozen form."
Mochi. But only when it’s fresh, hand-made, and "the exact right level of squishy."
A-Tier (Excellent, but Not Godly):
Dark chocolate. "Because I have class, obviously."
Honey-drizzled pancakes. "Good enough to die for, but I’d prefer to live and eat more."
Dorayaki. "Childhood nostalgia and deliciousness? Unbeatable combo."
B-Tier (Enjoyable, But Flawed):
Pocky. "Overrated, but respectable."
Strawberry shortcake. "Soft, fluffy, sweet—but lacks the complexity of superior desserts."
Dango. "A little too dense sometimes, but still solid."
C-Tier (Edible, But Only If There’s Nothing Else):
Cotton candy. "Pure sugar, no depth."
White chocolate. "A coward’s chocolate."
Anything overly artificial. "If it doesn’t melt on my tongue like a love confession, I don’t want it."
F-Tier (Crimes Against Humanity):
Licorice. "If you like this, I don’t trust you."
That one brand of cheap convenience store cakes that always taste vaguely of regret.
"Diet" versions of anything. "Why even bother?"
-----
"You thought about this," you say, stunned.
Satoru nods sagely, like a monk revealing the secrets of the universe. "Of course. You can tell everything about a society by its desserts."
You snort. "Enlighten me, then, Oh wise one."
"Gladly," he grins.
And then he launches into a full-blown dissertation on the philosophy of sweets.
How dark chocolate is for people who like complexity, who appreciate depth, who understand that sweetness is best when paired with bitterness.
How mochi is the ultimate symbol of comfort—soft, nostalgic, always better when shared.
How artificial sweets are like artificial people, all flash and no substance, messing into nothing the moment you try to hold onto them.
He talks, and talks, and talks—gesturing wildly, hands moving as if he’s sculpting his thoughts into the air.
And you watch.
Because for all his ridiculousness, there’s something fascinating about him when he’s like this.
So alive.
So present.
So real.
People forget, sometimes, that Gojo Satoru isn’t just a force of nature, isn’t just a god wrapped in human skin.
He’s a person.
A person who finds meaning in small, silly things.
A person who cares—even if it’s about something as absurd as a ranking system for sweets.
And isn’t that what makes him human?
-----
Of course, the problem with having such a strong opinion on sweets is that Satoru will fight to the death over it.
Metaphorically. (Mostly.)
The first time you mention liking white chocolate, he gasps so dramatically you think he might actually pass out.
"Are you saying," he demands, "that you willingly consume LIES?"
"It’s not that bad—"
"It’s sugar pretending to be chocolate! A fraud! A scam!"
You roll your eyes. "Oh please, mister ‘pocky is respectable.’"
"Pocky is respectable," he says solemnly. "It is an experience. A ritual. A sacred bond between snackers."
You don’t even know what that means.
And yet, an hour later, you find yourself in a heated debate over whether yuzu or matcha is the superior flavor.
(For the record, you argue for matcha. He calls you a heretic. You tell him to go to hell. He tells you they don’t serve sweets there, so he’s not interested.)
-----
It’s stupid.
It’s so stupid.
But it’s also… something else.
Something warm.
Something easy.
Something that makes your chest ache in a way you don’t fully understand.
Because for all his strength, for all his burdens, Gojo Satoru is still this.
Still a man who will fight over desserts like it’s a matter of national importance.
Still a man who will wax poetic about the spiritual significance of mochi.
Still a man who will argue for hours, just to make you smile, just to keep the conversation going, just to have something—anything—that isn’t war, or loss, or the weight of being him.
And somehow, impossibly, you are the one he’s chosen to do this with.
Not the world.
Not the students.
Not the endless cycle of duty and expectation.
Just you.
Over something as ridiculous as sweets.
And isn’t that, in its own strange way, the most intimate thing of all?
-----
At the end of the day, it’s not really about the ranking system.
(Not really.)
It’s about the fact that Satoru chooses to care about something so small, so human, so pointless and beautiful.
Because if he can care about this, if he can make room in his world for something as silly as a favorite flavor, then maybe—just maybe—he can make room for other things, too.
For laughter.
For lightness.
For the quiet, simple joy of being here, being alive, being with you.
And that—more than any ranking, more than any argument, more than any philosophy—
is what really matters.
-----
They send you in after the damage is already done.
You’re not a hero. You’re what comes after.
The body bag. The Suture. The ghost that cleans up after gods.
You were trained to fix what can’t be fixed.
To close wounds that were never meant to be opened.
To make dying quieter.
And that’s when he noticed you.
Not because you were brave.
Not because you were powerful.
But because you never flinched.
Even when he stood over you, soaked in someone else’s blood, smiling like he was born to ruin.
You didn’t look away.
That’s what got under his skin.
That’s what kept him coming back.
-----
You didn’t speak to him with reverence. You spoke to him like someone who'd seen too much to be impressed anymore.
“Move,” you said once, knee-deep in what used to be someone’s liver. “Unless you’re going to help.”
He tilted his head like a dog hearing thunder.
“You’re awfully calm for someone standing in a massacre.”
“It’s Tuesday,” you said.
-----
You were the kind of person the world forgets until it needs you.
Invisible until someone starts bleeding.
And maybe that’s what made him stay.
You never looked at him like he was legend or apocalypse. You looked at him like he was inconvenient.
That kind of irreverence should have made him crush you.
Instead, he lingered.
-----
The first time he watched you lose someone, you didn’t cry.
You didn’t scream. You didn’t pray.
You just pressed your hand to the boy’s cooling chest and whispered, “I’m sorry.”
Not to the gods.
To him.
He saw the way your shoulders locked, the way you didn’t breathe for a full minute. Like maybe if you didn’t move, you wouldn’t feel it.
You didn’t notice him watching.
He didn’t speak.
But later, you found the curse responsible strung from a tree, head twisted the wrong way.
It had taken you three hours to get there. Sukuna must’ve gotten there in two.
-----
You weren’t kind to him. That’s not what this is.
You were honest.
He once asked, casually, why you didn’t run like the others.
“Because I’ve spent my whole life cleaning up after men who think violence is the only language worth speaking.”
“You think I’m just another man?” he said, voice sharp.
“No,” you replied. “I think you used to be.”
-----
And that haunted him.
Because he’d burned down whole cities just to forget that—
-----
The first time he touched you, you were bandaging his side. A jagged gash from something that didn’t know better.
You didn’t ask why he didn’t heal it himself.
He didn’t ask why your hands shook a little.
But when your knuckles brushed his ribs, he stilled.
Not because it hurt.
Because it didn’t.
And that scared him more.
You didn’t make him human.
You reminded him he still was.
That was worse.
-----
He started showing up more. Missions you weren’t supposed to survive. Places no one should be. You’d find him in the aftermath, leaning against rubble, watching you with that same expressionless violence in his gaze.
Sometimes he asked questions.
“Do you believe in saving people?”
“Not anymore.”
“Why still try?”
“Because someone has to.”
“You always do things that don’t work?”
“I stayed talking to you, didn’t I?”
He laughed. It sounded like breaking glass.
-----
It was never romantic.
But God, it was intimate.
The kind of intimacy that doesn’t look like love.
It looks like two people who can’t lie to each other anymore.
-----
You started dreaming about him.
Not in soft ways.
In recognition ways.
His voice in the dark. His blood on your hands.
Your name in his mouth like a secret he hates knowing.
It wasn’t love.
It was something older.
Like grief. Like guilt. Like home.
-----
One night, you asked him something you’d never dared to ask anyone.
“Do you think people like us get better?”
He didn’t answer for a long time.
“No,” he said eventually. “But sometimes we get understood.”
You nodded.
You didn’t speak again for hours.
He didn’t leave.
-----
You told yourself it wasn’t connection. Just mutual ruin. Two broken things orbiting the same grave.
But then you got hurt. Badly.
And he lost his mind.
Not loudly. Not with roars.
Just with silence.
The kind that feels like a closing door—
When you woke up in a makeshift shelter, your wounds stitched with unnatural precision, he was already gone.
But outside the door, you saw what he left:
A trail of bodies. Eyes gouged. Faces melted. Blood spelling out a name.
Yours.
-----
You didn’t thank him.
You never did.
But the next time he appeared beside you, you didn’t ask why.
You just said, “You’re late.”
And he replied, “You’re alive.”
-----
You don’t belong together. You know this. You knew it from the start.
He is the myth that devours the world.
And you? You’re the woman who keeps trying to tape it back together.
But sometimes he sits close enough for your knees to touch, and doesn’t flinch.
Sometimes you reach for the same gauze at the same time, and your fingers linger.
Sometimes, you both exist in the same silence.
And it feels like the closest either of you has ever come to peace.
-----
He once told you that your eyes made him feel guilty.
You said, “Good.”
-----
You never tell him you love him.
But once, while half-conscious, he whispered:
“You’re the only thing I’ve ever seen that wasn’t ugly.”
You never bring it up again.
But you remember.
-----
You won’t survive this.
He might.
But not you.
And he knows it.
And that’s the tragedy.
Because for the first time in his life, he doesn’t want to win.
He wants to keep.
And the world doesn’t let men like him keep people like you.
---
But for now—
You sit in the rubble.
He watches you patch another dying sorcerer together with trembling hands and exhausted breath.
And he thinks:
Your violence reminded me of home.
But your silence reminded me of being known.
And he hates you for it.
And he keeps coming back anyway.
-----
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