Chapter 36

"What… where am I?"

Trigun's head was trashing right now. He was bleeding from his nose, lip and other areas, and yet… he couldn't remember what had occurred. "Why am I bleeding?!" Then his hand ached like crazy!

"AAAHHH! Why is my hand broken!?" he went into his stack of things, he took out a small elixir and drank it down. His wounds began to heal and yet his hand needed more time.

Taking in his surroundings, he then remembered where he was.

Taking in some of the local scenery, Trigun was wondering the mall and was considering doing a live stream from there. Yet, before he did, he paused and noticed a rather lavishing young lady sitting in the food court. Her medium length, wavy white here just… stuck out to him. Not to mention, she was at the right age in his mind. "Not fully mature… just my type!" he said with a greedy grin.

He had the prefect system too, since after all. He did this all the time back home. He would approach the young girl, flatter her with compliments and even buy her something if she hesitates, then, when he gets her out those doors, it's fair game!

Yet, as he was making his move on this girl, he couldn't help but shutter.

As if death itself lingered over his shoulder.

"HEY! Who said you could sit next to my niece!?"

He turned and saw a rather… good looking older man. Granted, he didn't appear THAT old and yet, Trigun couldn't help but feel he was a lot more experienced than he looked. He tried to brush off the confrontation and get on the uncle's good side.

Then… well… his head was splitting from that moment on if he tried to recall what happened.

"That was her uncle huh? Yet…" he then remembered something.

The young woman spiked in curse energy suddenly as he got too close for comfort to her or something. Yet, when it did spike, he realized he had sensed it somewhere before.

It felt like Gojo clan energy!

Gojo…

Trigun managed to linger about the mall, he used his live streaming equipment to keep an eye on the girl and her rather powerful uncle. However, he realized he was dealing with Gojos the moment he saw the other two at her side.

One had his father's face to a T, and yet he had medium length flat hair, that was white at the roots and yet turned black half way down and to the tips of his hair. The other had short, black hair and yet he bore a rather confident grin, which he has seen and been made aware of from the live streaming of Sukuna VS Gojo battle from the culling games.

"Are these the children that were spoke of? They should still just be children right?"

Yet, they are young teenagers.

The girl… he couldn't take his eyes off of. "She's pure isn't she? Mmm, to get to you I go to go through your uncle and brothers huh? I best get rid of the uncle first, he has no curse energy and yet…" he paused a moment.

There was no sensation of curse energy coming off the three children either. "Their mother is Yua Tooru… bah, no wonder I can't sense their power, they have their mother's ability to hide it!" he growled.

Either or, Trigun would wait them out. They just need to finish their shopping trip and then, he will strike before he loses his chance at obtaining a Tooru wife for himself…

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Sukuna knew he was still linger.

As strange as it was, he could sense it somehow! But, he also knew not to reveal his hand either. So, after lunch, they continued on their shopping trip without much issue. "What the hell was with that creep?" Rook asked aloud.

Mochi bunched up, she was nervous at the notion and it made her shutter.

"Don't know, don't care." Sukuna said bluntly. "He shows his face here again… well… let's say I can still do certain things from back in my prime…"

"Thank you Oji…" Mochi said gently.

"Don't be thanking me, if anything happened to you, your mother and aunt would be the ones beating the shit out of me."

He also knows he has to behave himself, apparently his little brawl caused an incident, Shin had to explain to mall security what occurred. Luckily, some people near by saw it all happened and vouched for him. So, one CAN cause destruction in the mortal setting as long as there is proper justification… and those who saw the incident can verify what had happened.

'Good to know, I can play this to my advantage… then again it was just like the dragon slayers, tell a good enough lie and they will eat it up… curious still… how Shin still managed to convince them that I did everything out of defense for Mochi…' it's good to have a strategy like this on hand. Since times change and so do abilities.

They continued to shop, however he was having trouble with Mochi.

She is embarrassed by her body change.

Despite this, oddly enough, Sukuna had experience with this situation! When he was young in fact, Mother Tooru was helping tend to the young girls. He was in the other room but could hear everything that happened. They were asking question about their bodies altering, for a moment he assumed with was some sort of technique.

In reality, he was learning about puberty.

"I know it's scary and it's strange, but you have everyone here to help you. If you are not certain speak with myself or one of the ladies here. It would be better if we assisted you."

When they left, he was rather offended.

"You mean, I can't help!" he demanded of Mother Tooru.

He never understood why she burst out laughing to his question. But she then sat him down… and explained puberty to him.

'To think I had to learn that…' he thought to himself.

But the way she is acting, he hasn't quite seen before. But, oddly enough, he understands why too. It's a drastic and sudden change for a young girl. She may not know which way is up at this point, which is why he has been rather direct with her. If she is too embarrassed to ask, he does for her. The underwear incident though, he figured he should not have stepped in. But, she was comfortable in what she had and needed more. However her shyness got the better of her.

'We need to get her confidence up, if not, her technique may backfire…' he thought to himself.

"Oji, look!"

He peered over as Mochi found something she liked. "Do they have your size? If they do, try it on" he said.

She nodded and went to see for herself as to what they had to offer.

As they did, Sukuna wondered about and heard people whisper. "That has to be him isn't it?"

"There is no mistaking a face like that…"

He's heard that before, yet, he turned to see where the whispers came from. When he made eye contact, the people froze. "Can I help you?" he asked.

It was two young women, they approached cautiously before pointing behind him. "Is… is that you?" one asked.

He turned. Sukuna paused oddly as he found a poster of himself in those strange clothes that made Chusi smile and blush. He only wore them for such a reason, and yet… there is a poster of him in said clothing.

"Yes" he said bluntly and went back to looking around.

"Uh… can… can we have your autograph?"

Once more, he paused to the question. Sukuna peered at them and sighed. "I don't do those," he said and tried to be gentle with the rejection.

They were taken aback. "Oh… sorry for bothering you…"

"You can take a picture if you want,"

This, made them freeze. "Really? We can?!"

He waved them forward. "Let's do this,"

This was rather gracious for even him, he took five pictures with the ladies before they went on their way happily. Sukuna on the other hand peered about, the three children were about ready with their purchases.

"They ain't bad kids, but there has to be a way to help Mochi…" he was most concerned about her.

"Oji, we're ready!" Shin called. "Let's go do your thing now"

"About damn time!" He left the clothing alone as they walked out of the mall. He paused before the entrance and turned to the children. "We're being watched, that punk ass hasn't left yet" he whispered to them.

Rook was smiling. "Can I this time around?"

Sukuna denied him. "I don't get out much as it is, this punk is mine, you can have him next time. Besides, the 'beating' I gave him was nothing more than a few bitch slaps." He said bluntly. "In short… I'm not satisfied with his punishment."

Rook nodded and stepped back. However, he saw an odd look on Shin's face. "What's with you?"

Shin peered at him oddly. "Uh… you called Mochi your niece." He said gently.

"So?"

"Are you acknowledging us as family now?"

Sukuna was silent… it was the first time he has said something that is even remotely considered a family name. "Perhaps… it may have just slipped out. Why? Is this creepy too?"

He was stunned as the three shook their heads no.

"Actually… I felt safer when you said that," Mochi said honestly. "To me, it sounded like I was family and… you wanted to protect your family. I am honored"

"Tsk, you won't be saying that since you are mature enough to know what I did back in the day." Sukuna muttered. "Let's go get my booze!"