Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Jujutsu Kaisen medias!
A/N: There are some sensitives themes in this chapter like trauma and violence you have been warned!
Come clean
Three second year students from Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College, was in the middle of finishing their mission. When their phone suddenly chimed alerting the three students.
"Salmon" Sigh the boy with off white hair, that seems to use food as means to communicate with his classmates, and they seems to understand what his saying
"Let me guess it's Gojo-sensei again and his food porn!" the girl commented, she had dark green hair that she put in a ponytail pushing her eyeglasses to see more clearly, she saw a curse spirit on her way and slash it with her naginata.
"Well he always makes time to go site seeing in between missions, you know to relieve some stress."
"He's the strongest Jujustsu sorcerer in our current era Panda! Since when is he stressed?" Panda finished off the last cursed spirit.
"Well as they say Maki-chan, "With great power comes with great responsibility." Panda quoted
"You're watching too many movies for your own good!" Maki admonish Panda. Then they heard a gasp from their fellow classmate and look at him.
"Hm… what's wrong Toge?"
"Roasted Seaweed! (Check your phone!)" Toge exclaimed to them. He hold out his phone to Maki and Panda they squinted the grainy photo, showing Gojo's face with the blindfold down and the image stopped just below his chin.
Maki swipe her phone and open up the group message for second year under Gojo. Maki groan. Gojo-sensei had post a lot of photo that it was loading pretty slow clearly the signal is scant since they are in the mountains she raise her phone high to get a little bit of signal, in order for the photo to load.
"Panda quick! Let me stand on your shoulders!" Panda bend down a little and wait for Maki to jump on his shoulders, he felt her foot and he stand straight, Maki was desperate for the photo to load that she prayed to any deity to make it fast.
Then a minute pass by the photos loaded and she skipped the other and go directly to the last one, Panda and Toge was hovering behind Maki's phone waiting for the damn grainy picture to clear up! Gojo-sensei clearly had someone with him in the photo.
"Come on already!" The suspense was killing Maki, the image clear up and what they saw is obviously a selfie of their sensei with his annoying smile there was a beautiful woman beside him looking up to their sensei with wide honey-brown eyes and a blush dusted her cheeks, Maki squinted more and saw it.
Is sensei blushing?Maki thought, they look like straight up from a shojo manga! Only one thing was on their mind and they were really curious who this woman is.
"Who is she?"
They all asked aloud but only the passing of the wind was their answer. Well there is only one way to find out, Maki scramble to find the only person in school who knew their sensei better, she click the person's name and furiously type in her chat box:
"FUSHIGURO! We need to talk!"
They scramble to the awaiting car to take them on their next mission, which is thankfully with a better signal.
Before Maki, Toge and Panda received the photo…
Gojo was treating his students to a Sushi restaurant and took photos with them in their various state of being teenagers, they had picked up his third student in Harajuku who was a crazy country bumpkin he to admit the girl had steel on her, after he settled them in their respective dorm room, he took out his phone and scroll for the second-year message group, he post some photo's with the first year and added a text:
"Meet your new kohai! Treat them well kiddos!"
He added some food shots and a photo of him and Socorro after their lunch. He added a caption just under the photo.
"Catching up with a friend from five years ago."Then he turn off his phone and pocketed it.
He will be gone for a few days for a mission that the executives gave him. He won't be able to supervise his first-year student when they have their official mission, he just hope whoever gets assign to them will be able to support them. He proceeds to the school clinic to catch up with his former classmate who was the attending physician of their school, he arrived at the clinic and without a knock he barge in to see her in her desk with her hands on her head nursing from a headache, he could see the dark circles of her eyes due to lack of sleep overall she look like shit.
"Hangover Shoko?" Gojo asked
"Yeah…I didn't realize that I drink a whole bottle of sake and past out…" Shoko paused and shuffle the documents in her table to make room. Gojo knew that Shoko suffered insomnia as well as alcohol, it was a miracle that she could still function at work even though it was pilling up with how much the executives are pushing more work on her. Simply put she is the only one here to be able to do reverse-healing cursed technique and that what makes her a valuable asset but at a price, her health is slowly declining and Gojo is afraid that she might collapse due to exhaustion.
"I have something for you to look into…" he pulled out Megumi's herbal tea that Socorro made and handed it to her, Shoko examined it open the lid took a few sample and smell it.
"…the woman I met five years ago made that, she actually made it for Megumi after he was banged up with his last mission, surprisingly it healed Megumi's injury as well as replenished his cursed energy." Shoko stared at him wide eyes clearly surprised on his explanation.
"You said it healed and replenish Megumi's cursed energy." Shoko repeated and rubbed her temples to ease an incoming headache, she is going to kill Gojo if this is all an elaborate hoax! Because if this is true then it will be a huge help for them for their war efforts against cursed beings.
"So have you come across a drug like these?" Gojo asked she look at Gojo incredulously
"Gojo if I have known that there is something like this out there, I wouldn't be like this! An over work alchoholic!" She stare at him dead in the eye challenging him that if this is a joke she will seriously murder him.
"No! I'am not pranking you!" Gojo defend himself he pouted "I even tried her pill, which can heal bleeding wounds and bruises in a matter of seconds, although it didn't replenish my cursed energy."
"I'm not believing you until I see or try it myself, so what do I do with these?"
"Just put hot water in it, you can only see the effects after you drink it all up." Gojo explained
Shoko pulled a cup under her drawer, she poured the contents in the cup and fill it with hot water, the aroma of the tea was diffuse within the clinic, it had an earthy fragrant, then she brought the cup to her lips and narrow her gaze suspiciously, Gojo only raised his hand in surrender, without hesitation she drink the whole contents and after that she felt it, the familiar positive energy slowly spreading throughout her body, she could feel her exhaustion, her headaches and muscle pain slowly left her body. She look at Gojo and thought"The prick isn't lying it's the real deal!"
As Gojo observe Shoko he could feel her exhaustion left her body, the dark circles and eye bags are gone and her dry pale skin had turned to a healthier glow, overall she looks more alive. She quickly faces Gojo that clearly states"were is this woman!"
Then suddenly Shoko fell forward and Gojo scramble to catch her in time, he check if something is amiss but he couldn't see anything wrong, just Shoko sleeping soundly. He carried her and place her in the bed. He was worried that it had some bad side effects, he was panicking now.
"SHOKO! SHOKO! This is bad…"
He grab his phone and dialed the person who is the only person who is knowledgeable with her craft. A few minutes and the person answered the other line.
"Socorro-san where are you?!"
Socorro was nervously tapping her finger to calm her nerves. She was sitting in a seat assigned to her in the bullet train and was waiting to arrive in Tokyo, the intercom announced that she will be arriving at exactly five minutes, she was fuming in her seat thinking about the phone call she received four hours prior her departure for Tokyo via bullet train.
"What! You let your colleague test the medicine that I gave Megumi?! You moron! That medicine was catered only for Megumi alone! You can't simply take someone else's medicine and drink it! Its dangerous! Tsk watch her closely I'll be there after four hours!"
"Okay I'll have Ijichi-san pick you up!"
She stepped out the train station and looked for someone, when a slick black car stopped right in front of her, the car window roll down and a stressed looking man was looking at her while wiping sweats in his forehead.
"Are you Socorro-san?" the man asked
"Yes, that's me." The man unlock the door "I'm Kiyotaka Ijichi, Gojo-san's colleague. Please get in."
Socorro opened the car door at the back and let herself in, she hadn't received any news with the patient, so she asked on Ijichi for the status of the patient.
"As of now she's still sleeping, and Gojo is with her."
She breathe a sigh of relief, the first four our mark has passed and nothing major happened and it's a good sign. She really need to thoroughly lecture them not just Gojo but also the victim who was actually a doctor.
After a few minutes past, they arrived at the Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College she got out of the car and took out her luggage Ijichi offered to take her backpack and they strolled the hallways in a hurry to the infirmary where Gojo and the patient was lying.
"We are very sorry to disturbed you at this hour Socorro-san." She waved at him
"No problem Ijichi-san."
They had arrived at the infirmary and Ijichi opened the door for Socorro to step in and took out her coat and place it on a nearby chair, she immediately eye the patient who was resting in the bed. Gojo was about to speak when she cut him off.
"Not now Gojo-san! I have work to do."
She didn't realize Gojo's companion who was the principal and Gojo's superior. She take a seat beside Shoko and activate her all seeing eyes checking every vital organ's that she suspected that might be affected by the drug. She sigh in relief and sagged at the chair, this was the most nerve wrecking ordeal that she had experience in this whole trip.
"I'm Masamichi Yaga, the principal of this school. Is she going to be okay?" a deep baritone voice and clearly not Gojo asked her.
She stood up and turned she look up to the tall man with sunglasses and goatee, she take one last look at Shoko and she replied.
"Yes she's going to be ok, actually the drug itself was healing her, I'm surprise she hasn't collapse yet with how she abuse her body, I could see she has a lung damage from excessive smoking and her liver might give in though if she doesn't stop her drinking habits, but I suspect the reason why she hasn't collapse yet is because she's constantly healing herself, I can see faint traces of a reversed-curse energy, is she a reverse cursed healer?"
Masamichi Yaga was shock to hear from this woman, that one of his former student was on the verge of killing herself, he clench his fist in guilt, that he was not able to do anything because simply they were under employ and worst, Shoko is the only one with a reverse cursed healing ability.
"Yes, she is, but why isn't she awake?"
"She'll be awake, well I estimated about twenty-four hours and it's a side effect Yaga-san I recommend not to wake her to have her body recover itself. We often do these in extreme cases by putting a patient in a coma and have the drug and body heal itself."
Yaga bowed his head to the woman, he was grateful for her help and now that Shoko is going to be fine. He notice at first when she barge in that he can't feel anything from her and that her eyes was honey-brown and right now it was a sharp light green jeweled eyes he kept his silence and observe the woman scolding Gojo for his stupidity, and the guy just laugh her off. Then he'd seen it the little gestures and body language they make. Yaga had never meet this woman before, and the way they talk to each other shows that they have a past, he can't help but asked.
"When did the two of you meet?" The two stop talking and look at Yaga,
Gojo's sunglasses had slip down his nose revealing his Rikugan then he look at the lady and saw her eyes. There! He saw its similarities and the consistency of their eyes albeit with different color. Now here he was more unnerve when both pair of eyes are watching him.
"We bumped with each other five years ago. She was on her way performing her task as the head of the family." Gojo answered, he left the part where she was smuggling a native flora in their country.
The little shift of the woman's posture caught Yaga's attention, which means Gojo is leaving something out. But to hear that the woman was a clan head from a different country, spark his attention. Actually when the news that Shoko had collapse due to testing a medicine that Gojo brought. He was beyond furious, but when Gojo explained to him the situation he was surprise that there is something out there that could potentially help with the efforts against cursed beings, the dwindling of competitive shamans are slowly declining mostly not from battle but from fatal injuries. That's why Shoko was a valuable asset and to have her compromise was a big blow for them.
"Ah…no I'm still a proxy my father is still the head of the family, I'm only managing in his stead since he's not always around. He is quite very busy." Socorro explained
If what he deduce are true, then the Gojo clan was looking elsewhere for a bride and he could see it in his eyes that the woman who calls herself Socorro was a potential candidate, no she is the real deal her eyes are proof of that, could this be the rumors he heard from the executives, another family with a Rikugan that the upper echelons has been so tight lip about?This is bad! Yaga could feel it in his bones the world was already wary of the Gojo clan when Satoru Gojo was born, much more so when he had ascend himself as the most powerful jujutsu sorcerer of this era. And now this? He could see Gojo's eyes on him reading him with the Rikogan. And the little shit had the audacity to smile. He cleared his throat.
"Socorro-san, I apologies to bother you but can you look after Shoko? While Saturo and I talk, he had to leave for a mission in a few hours and I will be briefing him." Yaga asked, Then the woman close her eyes and smile.
"No it's no problem Yaga-san, I'm actually planning to stay and watch her over anyway." When she opened her eyes gone where the light green eyes and was now replaced by honey-brown, along with her curse energy.
She can switch it off?
"Sorry about this, I'll try to bring something when I get back." Gojo apologize to Socorro and she only give him a deadpan stare.
"We will be leaving now Socorro-san." Yaga bowed and left followed by Gojo.
When they were outside and away from prying eyes and ears Yaga look back and stare at Gojo.
"You have a lot of explaining to do Satoru." Gojo smirked
"Yeah I know."
Megumi woke up from a chat notification, he reached for his phone by his bedside table to check who chat him when Maki's chat profile picture pop in the screen he tap the notification and the chat said:
"FUSHIGURO! WE NEED TO TALK!"
He tried to think of anything that might prompt his senpai to chat out of the blue. He then type:
"What do you want to talk about?"
Maki sent him a photo but the image was loading. Then another chime.
"Do you know who this is?"
He could feel his senpai's impatient words.
"The picture is still loading Senpai."
Then the picture load but it was still blurry so he squinted on his phone, he could tell its Gojo-sensei's selfie, a few seconds and the picture cleared. Oh!
"That's Socorrro-san, we met her at Sendai after recovering Sukuna's finger."
"What is her relationship with our Sensei?"
"I don't know, go ask him senpai."
"HUH?! Oh come on!"
"I'm going to bed now senpai."He turned his "do not disturb" mode.
Megumi shuffled in his sheet and tucked his blanket. He had a long day ahead tomorrow and he surely needs his sleep. While Maki was fuming on the other line and was disappointed that she can't even smack the cheeky kid.
Twenty-four hours had passed and when Shoko open her eyes she can't put a finger on what she is feeling now. When she stretch like a cat and her eyes go wide, she had never felt good like this before, it was like she was reborn again she smiled in euphoria it's been so long since she felt like this. Then she notice someone in her peripheral, there was a woman sitting in her office table reading something from a pocket notebook and was marking it with highlighter.
"How are you feeling Shoko-san?" The woman's thick accent was prominent and it caught her off guard.
Then the woman turned to her, revealing light green eyes examining her. Shoko cut to the chase and directly ask her.
"Are you Socorro-san?" The woman nod
"I would like to ask for a few questions Shoko-san if you permit."
"Ask away."
"When was the last time you smoke?" the woman started
"Ten years ago…" Shoko smoothly lied, but the woman's unnerving eyes show that she didn't buy her lie but kept her silence.
"How often do you drink? Maybe like how many bottles of alcohol in a week?"
Shoko hesitated, she hated this kind of probing questions regarding her health, and she's a doctor and reverse-curse healer for goodness sake she knew her body more than anyone.
"Maybe about 3 bottles…I'm not sure." She lied and again the woman stared with her annoying privy eyes, and then she sigh.
"May I know your weight and age?" the woman ask again thankfully without those privy query, she gladly provide with honesty answers.
Then the woman wrote on her pocket notebook and started to reach for her backpack in which she pulled a wooden box and a small jar. She opened the box and she could see six assorted glass jars in rows of three, she open the empty small jar and place it beside the box. Shoko was fascinated watching the woman work. She could see the woman meticulously fill the empty teabags with equal measure and she made a total of six teabags and proceed to write in her pocket notebook and tore the sheet. She stand up and handed Shoko the teabags and note.
"Follow the instructions written in the note Shoko-san." She smiled and was now staring at the honey-brown eyes of the woman.
Huh?!
Socorro was starting to clean her things and checking her supplies, she didn't expect that she would be using her emergency kit in this trip. She take a look at Shoko in her peripheral, Socorro knew from the start that Shoko will be a very difficult person to deal with, she didn't buy Shoko's answers the moment she became defensive so she usel open ended questions and didn't comment on her lies. She knew them far too well, especially with doctors.
"Who are you Soccoro-san?" Shoko interrupted her thoughts. She turned to her and smile.
"I'm just a pharmacist Shoko-san." Shoko was now interested, not a doctor?
"I'm really interested with your craft, and it's my first time witnessing a practical compounding of a drug. So how is it that your drug had almost the same effect as my reverse-healing technique…"
Shoko is now geeking out on Socorro the two of them hit off and was now talking animatedly that they didn't realize Ijichi had arrive and was now calling Shoko's attention. He was sweating profusely and he is a nervous wreck.
"Shoko-san we had an emergency a student is injured from a mission." Ijichi informed,Shoko and Socorro had stop talking and look at him.
"Which student?"
"First-year Kugisaki Nobara."
Two men in black carried an unconscious girl in a stretcher and is being transferred to the available bed. Shoko then walk to Kugisaki's bed and started the process of treating her with her reverse-cursed healing technique. Socorro watch Shoko work and she was fascinated seeing her in action. Then the men and Ijichi quickly move out and told them they are picking up the rest of Kugisaki's team.
Socorro was worried that they were sending basically children in dealing with curses, she can't blame them, shamans where rare and shamans with skill are basically rarer. She remembered her brother going for his first mission at the age of thirteen with their great great granduncle, he came back a different person gone where his innocence. She was cut off by her mussing when Shoko called for her to follow her to the morgue, Socorro prepare herself for the worst.
Gojo was beyond pissed he was furious! He just got back from his mission when he heard what happened to his first-year students. He clenched his fist to calm himself, and now he resorts in bitching Ijichi about the whole bigotry in the world of sorcery. That's the only thing he could do right now bitch talk the old crones from the higher ups.
"It was on purpose, wasn't it?" Gojo's voice was calm but deep within him he felt a raging storm of emotions in his chest.
"You say that, but.." Ijichi stammered he didn't know how to respond to a bitching Gojo.
"Dispatching first-years to rescue five people with unclear information on whether they are alive or dead…" he scratch his nape in frustration and continue to rant.
"And on top of that, making them go against a high-grade opponent…its unreal! I did the impossible and granted Yuuji an indefinite postponement on his death penalty. What's really messed up is that you stealthily disposed of him in my absence, with the help of a high-grade curse. That's what this is, isn't it?"
Ijichi was now shaking with how Gojo was roasting him, this is above his pay grade. And it seems he is not even done with him, even with the blindfold obscuring his eyes he could feel its scrutiny. If looks could burn he would have been incinerated right on the spot.
"Shall I go ahead and murder all those guys at the top?" Gojo asked seethingly
Then Shoko and Socorro stepped in the morgue, Socorro could see that Gojo was tense and his hands were shaking in anger it was one of his students that died she wondered who?
"Don't pick on Ijichi too much, its hard having to stand between us and the higher-ups." Shoko defended Ijichi and the poor man's shoulder seem to relax.
"I don't give a damn about the guy's hardships!" Gojo was practically seething.
Socorro just stand beside Ijichi and keep to herself it's not her place to intrude on somebody's business that she had no knowledge about. Then Shoko approach the steel table where the corpse lay she pulled the blanket down and Socorro was not fully prepared to see Yuuji Itadori's body laying with a gaping hole in his chest, she silently gasp. It was the sweet kid she'd meet in Sendai the Vessel of Sukuna.
Gojo avoid her gaze as he saw Socorro gasp in silence even in periphery he could see her shock, but he needed to suck it up and bear with it.
"I can dissect him however I want right?" Shoko asked Gojo nonchalantly.
"Make use of him." Gojo sound heartless, but he have to hold himself together or everything he worked so hard will fall apart and he doesn't want to disappoint the people that had believe in his cause.
"I will. Who do you think you're talking to?" Shoko prepared the necessary tools.
Socorro had found herself a chair and sit in silence, she picked up her notes to distract her from the surroundings, but after a few minutes she was still in the same page and can't help but feel Gojo's sneaking glances, she could still hear him spew colorful insults to his superiors and she can't help but be thankful that she and her brother didn't belong to any organization, they only had their family to worry about.
"You know…I have a bad personality, don't I?" Gojo has calmed down somewhat and was now grumbling.
"I know." Answered Ijichi without hesitation. Gojo pout
"I'll seriously slap you later Ijichi…" Gojo warned, Ijichi was starting to sweat again.
"Why would someone like me who doesn't have the characteristics of a teacher, take a teaching job in a Tachnical College? Ask me?" he ordered
"Why is that..?" Ijichi stammered
"I had a dream…" Gojo started
"A dream you say…?" Ijichi humored the man just to stop him from badmouthing the higher-ups least someone heard them.
"I'll hit reset on this shithole that the world of sorcery is in." he steepled his hands under his chin and continued.
"It's easy to slaughter all the guys at the top. But they would just be replaced, and nothing would change, anyone who'd simply kill the higher-ups wouldn't gain any followers. That's why I chose education…" He paused and was thinking about his students on the forefront of his mind.
"To raise…strong and clever comrades."
Gojo was now saying his piece of mind, by now Socorro had stopped trying to read her notes, and listen to Gojo's monologue and she was impress, she sneak a peak at Gojo from her notebook and saw him in a new light, gone where his nonchalant and playfulness that associated her with Gojo, actually she had seen a lot of sides of Gojo today. She didn't peg him to be a compassionate and caring teacher to his student, he was one of those nurturing type of teachers. She smiled his students are really lucky to have him as a teacher.
"Hey you three, I'm going to start." Shoko put her gloves on with a snap and was perplex to see their reaction. "What are you looking at?"
Then by miracle Yuuji Itadori had raised up from the steel table behind Shoko. The four of them were gobsmacked and speechless. Itadori Had raised from the dead.
"Woah! My dick's hangin out!" Was itadori's first words after waking from the dead.
Ijichi was a stuttering mess and was going in shock, Gojo smirked and admonished him.
"Your being noisy Ijichi." He chuckled, and Socorro could see his shoulders relax and was now grinning mad, and was now walking towards Yuuji. Socorro can't help but smile in her seat she was glad that the kid was alive. Shoko was the only one disappointed since she can't dissect him, and Yuuji politely asked for clothes.
"Yuuji! Welcome back!" Gojo was radiating with happiness
"Yo! I'm back!" Yuuji grinned and raised his right hand for a high five and Gojo clap hands with Yuuji.
Socorro excuse herself from their happy reunion but Gojo stop her, she paused and look at him, he look afraid from what her trained eye could see. She smiled up at him and told him that she will be in Shoko's office to get her stuff.
"Wait for me after I talk to Shoko and after I take Yuuji in our hideout." Gojo explained she smiled and nod her head.
"Don't worry I'll wait for you." Gojo smiled content, and she blushed.
I think I had a lot to think about.
As she walk through the corridors she can't help but think about Gojo and his proposal, then wondered why she was hesitating she knew all along that she had feelings for him way back five years ago. What is she afraid about? Gojo had definitely had feelings for her and he was quite clear about it. So what is she going to lose? The question lingered behind her mind.
When Gojo found her at Shoko's office she was seated at Shoko's table engross in reading her pocket notebook, he knocked the opened door to catch her attention, she look up at him and smile she stood up and put her beige coat and sling her backpack, she strolled her luggage towards him and he took it from her hands and she smiled in thanks.
"Do you have anywhere to stay here in Tokyo?" he asked and she shakes her head at him
"Nope, I was in a hurry and it kind of slip my mind." Gojo apologies to her.
"You can crash in my place for the night."He offered
He didn't know but he was nervous, he didn't want her out of his sight, and with all the commotion happening, the higher ups might caught wind of her already, and he didn't know what he will do if something happens to her, he expect that she would refuse and tell him he didn't want to intrude, but to his surprise she agreed.
"I called for the car to pick us up, they are already waiting outside."
When they arrived outside she didn't expect for a slick black car and a chauffeur opening the door for them.
"Good evening Gojo-sama, Oujo-sama…" the chauffeur greeted Gojo and Socorro, she blinked up at Gojo when she heard the chauffeur called him –sama and raised her left brow in question.
She get in the car followed by Gojo, she settled herself inside and they waited for the chauffer to buckle his seatbelt.
"Where to Gojo-sama?" the chauffeur asked watching Gojo by the rearview mirror.
"To the estate Kenta-san."
"As you wish Gojo-sama." Then the chauffeur rolled up the divider to give them some privacy. Gojo take off his blindfold and replace it with a very dark tinted sunglasses. This was the Gojo she remembered five years ago. He glance at her sideway and saw her glance his way with a knowing smirk.
"I smell old money…" Socorro commented, he smiled cheekily well two can play the game.
"Look who's talking…" Gojo rebuked
"Have you been snooping around?"
"Nope I deduce, though I admit I did try to find you but surprisingly you're particularly hard to find." He actually regretted that he didn't ask for her number or even her full name. Even Mei-mei had found nothing and was starting to question him if she really exist.
They seated in silence and enjoy each other's company, when they had arrive at the estate Socorro can't help but wonder if she was taken back in time and glance back at Gojo he was smiling at her innocently. Then she saw an old lady in black kimono bowing at Gojo.
"Welcome home Bocchan, ojousama, this way please." The matron gestured for them to follow.
"Have her things delivered to the room next to my mine." Gojo commanded a servant.
They follow the matron that lead them to the drawing room where a tea had been set with various sweet snack, in a traditional Japanese short table, they took a seat and Gojo wave the matron to signal her to leave them alone.
"Well I didn't expect you to be a very old money…" she jest, Gojo was watching her with his sunglasses down to reveal his light blue eyes.
"You don't seem surprise…" she raised her eyebrows for him to elaborate. "…well that's a good sign for me, it means you're not intimidated, have you thought about my proposal?" She sigh and took a sip at her tea.
"Yes I have…" She paused and look at him with her jeweled eyes, his heart skip a beat. He waited with bated breath, and she continued.
"…but I have to come clean first before I agree." She look away her cheeks dusted with a blush. He can only nod at her in response.
"I'm sure you have notice my eyes." She started and look straight to his light blue ones and he nod.
"Yes I have…Is it the Rikogan?" he asked
"So you call it Rikogan here? Well in my family and in some legends we call it "The all-seeing eyes" actually you and my brother had the same exact eyes even the technique you use are exactly the same." She sip her tea to water down her parched mouth and was glad that it was still warm. Gojo was surprise to hear that she had an older brother with a Rikogan.
"It's in our oral tradition by my mother side of the family, we don't keep records we recite and memorize them, that's one of the reasons why no one knows about us, only rumors or hearsay. This is to protect us." She looked saddened, Gojo reach for her hand and hold it in his rubbing circles on the back of her hand to comfort her. then she started her tale.
"A thousand years ago, a God had come down to earth and became human, he was always travelling helping and healing people, and telling them the true meaning of life. Then one day he stumbled upon three blind men, begging for him to restore their sight, two of those men were siblings and the other one was an acquaintance. When the God heard them he restored there sight and ask them to use their sight to help others in need. It was said that the eyes gave them the power of immense sight that they could see things very clearly and see things that others cannot. And one day the other man who was their acquaintance separate from the siblings, since then they haven't heard nor seen the man ever since. We thought it lost forever or worst captured…"
This is where Gojo witness pure fear etched on her face, he squeeze her hand to comfort her and to tell her to take her time before she compose herself and continued with her tale.
"…we were actually haunted by a cursed being that we refuse to name, since saying its name is a curse itself. If Ryomen Sukuna is the King of Curses…" she chuckled hollowly "…then this curse creature is the God of Curses."
Socorro starts to trembled in fear, and without thinking Gojo pulled her in his arms wrapping his arms tightly around her, it was as if she had seen this creature in the flesh to have this kind of reaction. Socorro looked up at him in tears and whispered:
"And I have seen it with my brother and mother…it had attack my great great granduncle, he was holding the creature back to give us time to escape but it had catch up with us and then our mother quickly pushed us to the wormhole that she prepared to send us back to my father's Laboratory…before the wormhole close I had seen it eating my mother alive."
After telling her family history Socorro buried her face in Gojo's shoulder and inhale his scent to calm her nerves while Gojo was rubbing her back in comfort. he stared into nothing processing what Socorro had told him, he was taking it all in and he steeled his resolve he hug her tightly inhaling her scent. Then for a few minutes Socorro looked up to him.
"I don't want to burden you with our problems Gojo-san…" Socorro's voice trembled
"Satoru, just call me Satoru" Gojo leaned his forehead unto hers sunglasses gone and he gaze directly into her jeweled eyes, staring directly into her soul.
"…I had loved you from the very first time we'd meet, and that thinking something might happen to you because of the curse that's been haunting my family for centuries. Is too much for me to bear."
Gojo tilts her chin and kissed her deeply and passionately, then he broke the kiss and stare at her eyes unwaveringly.
"I told didn't I? No matter how heavy your family burden is, I will still marry you Socorro."
He smiled at her, and her eyes widened she blushed beautifully. Then she circled her arms around his neck and lean forward to kiss him with much fervor. They shared a passionate embrace that night that left them both breathless.