Chapter 3: Premature Death

"Ryomaaaaaa!" Said Haibara running towards a boy with black hair and gray eyes. He's as tall as Nanami and he's wearing their uniform jacket open with a white tank top under it.

The boy rolled his eyes with a hint of amusement as he saw him "Yu Haibara! It 's been a while!" They high-five and smiled. His eyes land on Sakura and Nanami "who is the hot girl?"

"Oh… she's Sakura Gojo," he said as they walked towards them.

"Gojo? As the same clan as Satoru?" He nodded, "is she powerful?"

"Hell yeah" Ryoma smirks.

"Good, I want to train with her" they reached them and waved "hi Nanami! Good to see you again and who are you?" He asked Sakura with a nice smile.

"I'm Sakura Gojo but Haibara already said so… who are you?" She asked, making sure he knew she saw him asking about her and knowing she was a Gojo.

He smiled "I'm Ryoma Takaba, I was on a mission and the curse spirit was hard to find" he sighed "we had to look for days before I finally found it"

"That sucks…" she said looking at him, he was good looking, she can't deny it but his attitude was disgusting so she still preferred Nanami.

The following months were busy for them. Sakura had to go on a mission with Ryoma and some other missions with Nanami or Haibara. But one day she was left to do a mission on her own and it was quite difficult but due to her status as a special grade, she could do it alone.

The second year students were sent to look for Mei Mei and Utahime because they were lost for too many days looking for third year students.

Nanami and her made a promise to go to the restaurant after her return.

While she was on that mission, her friends Haibara and Nanami were sent to protect the Naha airport while Gojo and Geto left to find the housemaid of the Stellar Plasma Vessel, which was a special mission for them.

When she arrived, Satoru and Suguro arrived holding the body of a girl, a little younger than she is. Both of them were covered in blood, the houses around the main entrance were destroyed and her brother's face and Suguro's face were down.

"W…what happened?" She asked as Nanami walked behind her and tap on her shoulder

"I will explain to you later" he said in a whisper and took her somewhere else.

Shoko was there too as they told her about everything that happened, or at least what Suguro told them, but of course they needed an update since Satoru wasn't dead as the other man said.

"So Satoru unlocked the Reverse curse technique on the verge of death?" Shoko nodded "how is Suguro?" asked Sakura leaning on the wall.

"I can't tell… his eyes seem lost and far away from here" the brown haired girl sighed.

"Shit... I'm sure they were destroyed, that girl was a little younger than me..." she said a little sad.

The two boys walked towards them and Sakura ran towards them hugging Satoru first, then she hugged Suguro who was more in need of a hug. She just hugged him, putting her face on his chest.

Shoko stood next to Satoru and he wrapped an arm around her. She let him do so. He wasn't as affectionate as Suguro but whenever he sought contact, it meant that the mighty Satoru Gojo needed a hug.

They stayed like that for a couple more minutes until Suguro pulled away softly and kissed her forehead "thank you mini Gojo" it was an affectionate nickname everyone started to use to her, especially from the second year students.

"You are welcome" she smiled then turned to the others "what about we have a sleepover?" She said looking at them "only the five of us?"

They turned to Satoru and he nodded, smiling "Sounds like a great idea" he smiled a bit absent.

"Where's Haibara?" Asked Sakura to Nanami.

"He left to see his grandma. He asked for permission to Yaga sensei" she nodded looking at him.

That night they spent it watching movies, playing video games and even doing a karaoke contest.

At two at night Sakura woke up to drink water and when she was heading back to her bedroom she turned her head and looked at the backyard where she saw Suguro.

She headed towards him "you should be sleeping, tomorrow is hiking day" she smirked sitting next to him "and I don't want to drag a sleeping beauty"

He chuckled softly "sorry… I couldn't sleep" he said, looking at her. Then he didn't say anything for a whole minute looking up at the sky, then he said "she had your eyes… And your attitude" he looked down "Satoru and I felt like we were protecting a powerless version of yourself and I know it sounds stupid or cheesy but it is true and... Watching that... Monkey" she never heard that word from him referring to non sorcerers, for some reasons, hurted her "killing her made it worse"

"Suguro..." He looked at her "we are sorcerers and our job is to protect those who are weaker than us" she locked eyes with him "calling them monkeys sounds awful and disgusting" his eyes opened wider than she ever seemed them opening "I can understand that you are hurt but..."

"You are right..." he said, interrupting her. He was the one who always tried to teach Satoru to care for the weak and try to protect them and now... He was calling them monkeys "I shouldn't have use that word and I'm sorry Saku..."

She sighed "I understand that you are angry Guro... But try to find peace so that we can't always save everyone. There are three special grade sorcerers in the school and neither of us could save that girl"

Suguro smirked a little and looked at her "since when did the little sister become so wise?"

She blushed and punched him softly "don't be silly... I'm serious"

"I know Saku" he smiled and wrapped an arm around her shoulders "thank you. You are the best" he kissed her temple and she laid her head on his shoulder.

"No problem and if you need someone to talk to... I'm here"

"I know" he said and both remained there for a couple of more minutes until both went back to sleep.

Suguro felt a little lighter but still was bitter towards the non sorcerers and felt uneasy about that hatred but he knew that Sakura was there for him.

The next day was fun, they spent it hiking and making fun. They invited the Kyoto guys and Satoru kept making fun of Utahime and Suguro was closer to Shoko who was also defending Utahime from Satoru.

Nanami and Sakura couldn't believe those were their sempais but still were amused but them.

After that they left for their houses and the following month was relaxed for them. They spent their summer break in between missions and hanging out.

Suguro and Sakura became closer as she was there to support him. Nanami was also very close to her as her usual mission partner.

They were getting stronger and in their second year someone put their eye on Nanami to become a grade one sorcerer.

Meanwhile Satoru was getting stronger, he learned how to use his infinity more efficiently and how to keep his six eyes working without having to turn off his technique like with Toji.

He was getting more missions alone, leaving Suguro by himself, but luckily he had Sakura who was there for him.

"Suguro, Sakura" said Yaga sensei looking at them "I'm aware that right now the high profile missions are done by Satoru since he increases his power and control over his technique which led to give him more solo missions and not be with you Suguro and Sakura is the only special grade in second year so... I want you" he said looking at her "to work with Suguro as his supporter. And I know you are strong enough to deal with the missions by yourself Suguro but I need the girl to work on harder missions"

"No problem sensei. I don't mind and I'm pretty sure that she will be very helpful"

"I'm thankful for the opportunity sensei" she smiled and looked at Suguro then back at Yaga "but what about Nanami? He's my usual partner"

"He's going to join Mei Mei to become a grade one sorcerer so you but in the meantime he will work with Ryoma or Haibara" she nodded.

"Sounds good then" she smiled "I'm sure we can be a great team" she looked at Suguro who also smiled.

The following months were hard for them. They had to fight tons of curses and they spent the rest of the day training. She even copied Ryoma's technique called Entropy.

Ryoma could create chaos and disorder where the techniques and curse weapons' effects don't work as they should be and he can cause degeneration of the barrier which because a great defense against domain expansions, curse energy draining which is added to the user, when Sakura copied this, combined with her high curse energy, turned her into a big container of curse energy and the last ability of entropy is inverted regeneration, which allowed him to stop the reverse curse techniques within his area of effects.

She managed to copy this one and now, with Suguro as her training partner, she was able to control it.

"Satoru, you are getting stronger. I noticed that you are using better the infinity" she told him one morning at their apartment.

"Yes, I wanted to keep it on so I don't get stab again but I couldn't figured out how to do so with getting tired so I decided to use reverse curse to keep my brain fresh and the glasses helps me to not getting tired as I can see body and curse energy information all at once" he said as he drinks a sip of his juice "I noticed that you copied another cool technique" he smiled at her.

"It's pretty cool and it's quite strong"

"I would like to see it in action. By the way, you are working a lot with Suguro..."

"Yeah... Yaga sensei told us we were going to work together since you are doing missions by yourself and he wanted me to be with another special grade sorcerer" he nodded looking down.

"He and I are losing our friendship... I feel like he still can't forget what happened last year and we haven't spoken since then about it"

"He's struggling with it. He doesn't like the non sorcerers and I'm the one dealing with them whenever we go on a mission. I told them he's shy so they don't bother him but... I'm afraid he might snap one day" she sighed looking down.

"I understand... I had horrible thoughts toward non sorcerers when I retrieve her body and I even wanted to eliminate all those fuckers but... He told me not to..." He signed looking at his sister "please keep him on the right path. I will do my best to talk to him too" she smiled and held his hand.

"I promise it, Satoru"

After that conversation Satoru and Suguro had a thoughtful conversation. Normally they had those kinds of conversation to debrief everything after a mission but this time it was about unspoken feelings.

Satoru's guilt at not being able to protect Riko and Suguro's anger because he should have been there with him in order to fight together but they decided to go separate ways and Toji used it to his advantage.

They decided to stop looking at the past all the time and focused on the future. They still have Sakura to look after.

Haibara and Nanami left for a mission far away and so did Suguro and Sakura.

The two special grade sorcerers arrived a day early and were training when they were called by the teacher Yaga.

They headed to the morgue and there was Haibara's dead body. Nanami told them it should have been an easy job for them but the curse was actually a grade one, almost touching a semi special grade.

Sakura headed to Nanami, stood between his legs and wrapped her arms around his neck as he was sitting, giving him a hug. He laid his face on her chest and she could feel the man's normally serious and collected, crumble before her. She held him tight and cried with him.

Suguro was angry, how was it possible to mistake a semi special grade curse to a second grade? After Nanami calmed down, Sakura went to Yaga.

Anger reflected on her face "I want to exorcize that curse myself" she said looking at him.

"Satoru will deal with it"

"No sir. Let me go... I can do it" she said with some tears falling down her cheeks.

He sighed "ok go... But Suguro will be there too" she nodded and dragged the black haired man with her.

They headed to the location and there the curse was destroying things and killing people.

Sakura started to fight that cursed spirit with all her power. She was using the Entropy to slowly get weaker when the curse tried to use a domain expansion, it didn't have the curse energy to do it.

Allowing her to use, for the first time, her own domain.

"Domain Expansion" she said doing sighs with her fingers "Bandit's Library"

The space turned into a huge library, full of books. She extended a hand and a book appeared on her hand, on the cover it said "Entropy: degeneration"

By instinct she set that her guaranty hit will be degeneration, so the curse spirit and everything in her domain, except form her and someone she's touching will become older and weaker while it is in her domain.

It became older in seconds and turned into dust, so the moment this happened, the domain ended and she felt in Suguro's arms tired.

They went to the assistant's car "is she ok?"

"Yeah but she used a domain expansion and even with her high count of curse energy, a domain needs a lot of energy and she dealt with the curse on her own" he nodded and let Suguro lay her on the back seat of the car then he got in and put her head on his lap as they headed back home.

She slept the rest of the journey and woke up when they arrived at the school. Suguro was sleeping as well, laying his head on the closed window.

"Gu...Guro?" She said rubbing her eyes, looking up at him "what happened?"

He woke up rubbing his eyes too and looked down at her "oh hey Saku" he smiled and looked out of the window "we are almost arriving at school"

"What happened to the curse spirit?"

"You defeat it with a domain expansion" he smirked at her and she blushed softly then sat next to him "you did an amazing job and today, I was your support this time and I'm so proud of you" he smiled and hugged her and she hugged back.

They walked out of the car and headed to their friends. Suguro got her a coke and one for himself as they shared everything.

After that, Nanami seemed disappointed in the school but decided to stay there to finish his classes and go to business school. He will quit being a sorcerer.

He told this to Sakura while they were eating in their usual restaurant.

"Ken... I understand that you are disappointed, I'm too and so are Satoru and Suguro but we can change it when we became stronger enough to eliminate them"

"Satoru already can do it but he can't stop the bureaucracy and the stupid need for power of some people" said Nanami closing his fist in anger.

"I will support you, Ken. And if you don't feel well as a sorcerer, I understand that and I'm going to miss you" she held his hand and he kissed it softly and she blushed.

"Thank you. I will remain here next year and then will go to business school" she smiled and nodded then they went back to school.

Nanami decided to stop accepting missions and only focused on his studies but he continued to train his body and techniques with Sakura and Ryoma.

One day Sakura was sent with Suguro to fight a curse spirit in a small town. They discovered two little girls that people started to blame for the curse attack.

Sakura made sure to protect them and take them out of the box they were put into while Suguro dealt with the curses.

She was so sweet to them that she easily gained their trust. After a couple of minutes Suguro joined. She could tell his face seemed disgusted by the non sorcerers.

"I should kill them" he whispered to her when they got out of the car after the two girls fell asleep.

She held his hand and interlocked their fingers "no... Suguro. They were just scared and didn't understand how that works. We need to take them back to the school and maybe raise them" she looked at him "if you kill them... You will become an evil sorcerer and neither Satoru nor I will kill you"

He squeezed her hand and looked at her "ok I won't kill them. But I don't think I can deal with non sorcerers anymore so I might just work at the school"

"Good then. And I will help you with that and with those girls" she kissed his cheek and they left. He wrote what happened to let the higher-ups know his decision to take care of the girls and stopped to deal with non sorcerers after what happened in that village.

Meanwhile Satoru took in Megumi Fushiguro after talking to the Zen'in clan about their deal with Toji. The two best friends decided to change the Jujutsu world with the new generations and Sakura will help them with it.

OOooOOooOO

I decided to let the Hidden Inventory arc, but I changed the outcome of it. Suguro won't turn evil thanks to our new character but he will take care of those two girls like in canon events, but still Haibara needed to go for Nanami's character development. While Satoru will take care of Megumi and his sister. I imagined Satoru, Suguro and Sakura raising Mimiko, Nanako, Megumi and Tsumiki.

We don't know when Nanami left the school but in my headcanon he left after he graduated since in Jujutsu High they have normal classes too, and thought so because Shoko got into medical school so she must have a good school record.

I hope you liked this one.