Worlds Away
Chapter 84 – Under the Influence
Nanami, now laying his head across Shoko's lap, rests quietly while her nimble fingers comb through his hair. He wants to leave, to get away from everyone else, to be free from the constant lure of Elska's energy but actions fail to fire. Shutting his eyes, he groans as if a migraine ensues but truly, its due to the repetitious, low-quality bass thumping through the walls.
Burying his face back into Ieiri's thighs Nanami gratefully sighs and allows the serenity gifted from her comfort to pacify everything restless that he's become.
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Nobara has already pulled both Amnessia and Elska to the 'dance floor' which is really just the unfinished room across the kitchen. Every so often, Nobara imposes more feminine moves on the other girls but it's all in drunken fun. This, however, does not go unnoticed.
Choso, Yuuji and Megumi sit around the small kitchen table all three glancing at the ladies in midst of conversation. Megumi hasn't much to say as they catch up though because his stomach is in knots over the awkward game of pretending Gojo isn't there and visa-versa.
Megumi understands that Satoru wasn't himself when he killed Sachiko but there's still an unsettling absence of closure that ridicules his understanding of how to move forward. His green eyes shift over to Amnessia though where suddenly his anxieties feel much less of a feat. When he receives a wink from her while she twirls, a smirk actually finds its way to his lips and causes him to straighten in his seat. At least he has her. He couldn't tell you what his life would look like otherwise.
Choso is attentively listening to his brother talk about a new GTA mod but he can't help but examine how these pretty creatures known as women behave around each other in the right setting. They're majestic, mesmerizing, captivating. Every time Nobara's hand glides across Amnessia or Elska, Choso has to suppress the naughty thoughts it brings him to and eventually upsets himself over Vivian. The arousal became trodden by the memory of her situation causing him to even feel guilt.
'I still have to tell Naoya…', the being now thinks while glancing to the Zenin who's talking with Gojo and Toji. The only reason he hasn't yet is because Satoru made a great point; if Choso brings that up now, they'll have to explain what their plan is with Getou. Everyone agrees that Naoya simply isn't ready for that yet but they're also running out of options that will protect his sensitivity.
"Geeeez Gojo, do you have anything other than shitty techno?!!", Nobara scoffs and tilts her wine spritzer back, "It's not even good! Where the subwoofers?!"
Naoya, who'd been watching them with Toji and Gojo who stand together near the door, exhales greatly, "I'll take over.", but with absolute momentousness. He walks over to Gojo's phone, which is locked by a password so he asks, "Ay, powdered donut, what's the code?" and snickers to the way Satoru pretends to be offended.
"5887286", Gojo proudly explains while bringing mischievous eyes to Elska, who instantly understands its meaning. He bites his lip with a childish sneer and waits for the Zenin to ask it's significance.
Naoya smiles with concentration and jokingly mumbles, "Probably means something wei-", before the key pad lures his eyes into sequence only to rightly spell out, "L, U, V, S, B, U, M"
Gojo cackles as soon as Naoya's twitching eyes jump to him, teasing, "Hot ass password, am I right?"
"Sati!"
"My love, I cannot help myself and you know this.", he turns to Elska with a toothy grin. Naoya smirks with his glossy amber eyes as if he resonates with the inspiration, so Gojo states, "See? Zenin gets it!"
"Babyyy come here!", Naoya's voice is brimming with enthusiasm as he directs her to the middle of the room, "Stand right there for me."
Elska follows his request with curiosity written on her face, "What're we doing?", while he goes to type something into the phone.
"Perfect.", Naoya pushes play and sets Gojo's phone down as Chris Brown's track "Under the Influence" starts.
Gojo snickers and leans over to Toji, "So uhh, do you think his father knows he's like this?", already joking Naoya for how serious he's become, "I personally think Naobito would just fucking die if he were here!"
"I mean…", Toji laughs and shrugs his shoulders, "He's always been kind of a fruit.", and they share a hearty cackle because they know that despite it all or whatever, they both appreciate Naoya for who he is. The Zenin just sets himself up for the jokes all the time. He's too easy.
"Waaaaait!", Naoya barks, waving his hands, "It's all wrong!" Pointing to the phone, he asks if someone could restart it for him; chuckles igniting through the room.
"What are you trying to do, my prince?", Elska giggles from the spot in which she was placed, "Are you drunk already?!" She side-eyes him and teases but there's no denying how cute he is when he gets this way…even if she's the only one that thinks this.
"No!", Naoya shouts playfully, "Well…yes…but that's NOT the point princess!" He stands a few feet away from Elska, shaking out his jitters, "This song reminds me of you baby. I want to serenade you with it.", and leaves the sentence with a charming smile.
Nobara who's dying to see whatever the hell he's about to try and do, helpfully hollers, "Ready when you are!", with the phone in her hand. She's gifted with an appreciative nod from Naoya and thinks, 'How funny would it be if he trips over himself!!!??', but holds her laughter. It's a possibility because Naoya is rather hammered.
The song begins and it charges the Zenin's purpose, Elska can tell by the way he slowly moves to the notes of the intro. To her surprise her prince is showing off actual skill with the way he rolls his body and then strolls, light on his feet to close the distance between them. There're some deeper notes that sound off to which Naoya symbolizes as his heart beating out of his chest and although she's chuckling under her breath, his magnetism grows.
When he struts towards her, Elska thinks he may include her in this show but to her dismay he teasingly curls a light finger under her chin as if he's tempting a kitten into pets. Naoya's hands then hovers around her cheeks where he wastes no time lowering them to frame her body in the dress.
"What the fuck are we watching?", Gojo titters to Toji who is just as perplexed and offers no answer, but that's when Satoru hears the baritone voice, one that's much lower than Chris Brown's and nearly spits out his drink when Naoya spins around behind Elska and sings, "🎶 Fucking Robitussin. I don't know why that shit got me lazy right now 🎶."
Toji hears Megumi cackle at the silliness and it brings warmth to his heart but tells Gojo, "I don't know but he looks like one of those damn wannabe idols.", dying for Naoya to embarrass himself.
"🎶 Can't do Percocets or Molly 🎶"
Gojo howls into his beer bottle with amusement.
"🎶 I'm turning one, tryna live it up here 🎶"
But as Naoya grabs hold of Elska's hair from behind and tugs on it sensually only to casually lay the bundle on her right shoulder, Gojo and Toji both decide to observe quietly.
🎶🎶 Right, right, right 🎶🎶
And then both of their eyes open widely in shock when the beat drops and they become preoccupied by the way the blonde grinds up against Elska.
"🎶 Baby ooh yea, ride it ooh yea 🎶", Naoya sings to her while holding her waist, guiding their hips in a fluent circular motion.
"🎶Bring it over to my place 🎶", he lightly secures a hand around her throat but languidly, rhythmically, drags it down her chest until its resting over her womb.
"🎶 You'll be like, baby who cares 🎶 but I know you care 🎶" , him spinning from behind her so that end up facing each other.
"🎶 Bring it over to my place 🎶", and hooks her lower back so they collide into each other.
"🎶 You don't know what you did, did to me. 🎶", and smiles widely at Elska to communicate that this chorus is why she comes to mind with the song.
"🎶 Your body language…🎶", he ghosts his lips over her own, "🎶Speaks to me 🎶", and pecs her ear. Naoya then moves away to twirl her.
"🎶 I don't know what you did, did to me 🎶", pulling her back in to lick her neck, reveling in her quiet gasp, "🎶 Your body language, speaks to me 🎶"
Amnessia, now filled with enough social courage darts her eyes over to Megumi while thinking, 'Perfect opportunity', and beelines to drag him to the dance floor. She can tell he's nervous so she whispers, "Just follow my lead.", and gets them into a corner after switching the overhead light off, "Look, anonymity!"
She places Megumi's stiff hands on her body and thinks about how Naoya may not be half bad, even if he's getting some of the lyrics wrong. When the verse starts, Amnessia embraces the moment and sings, "🎶I can make it hurricane on it 🎶", while motioning her hips like a cyclone against Megumi and melts to his tightening grip. She wonders if he experienced a rush of desire as well.
"🎶 Somethin'- somethin' make it rain on it 🎶", Nobara giggles as she approaches Itadori, plopping into his lap.
Naoya raises Elska's left hand with his own to bring her attention to their matching rings, "🎶 Tie it up, put a chain on it 🎶" and then laces their hands together, to seductively sing, "🎶 Make you tattoo my name on it 🎶"
Elska is spun and throws her arms around his neck perfectly to which he bends down to kiss her after singing, "🎶 Make you cry like a baby, yeah 🎶"
She gasps into his lips when he sends his thigh between her legs all while feeling the way he choreographs their bodies together. He feels so natural, so pleasing, strong and she stands zero chance of resisting him.
Gojo, mystified by this impressive demonstration, studies the pair. His eyes glow along with Toji's when Naoya removes his knee and trades that to hike her thigh as high as it would go over his hip. Naoya grinds into Elska so deeply that it makes his own mouth water and conjures ramifying ideas. When he turns his head to view Toji the giant is chugging the rest of his beer, spilling some and commenting on the meaty grip Naoya has on her ass.
🎶🎶 Let's go pro and make a video 🎶🎶
A silver eyebrow lifts, and Gojo deviously grins.
🎶🎶 Make you cry like a baby, yea 🎶🎶
Satoru was in the middle of trying to update Toji on Getou's situation which is a conversation he is invested in after Toji explained what happened with Elska and the Titer robes earlier.
"Do you see how good they are together??!", Gojo randomly asks as he can't help but think the song is the stream and Naoya and Elska are the water that flows through it. It's extremely sensual and inviting.
🎶🎶Let's go pro and make a video 🎶🎶
Gojo is absolutely spellbound by this side of Naoya but he adds, "My love doesn't even dance!", with a dash of envy.
🎶🎶 Baby ooh yea, ride it ooh yea 🎶🎶
🎶🎶 Bring it over to my place 🎶🎶
Toji has to adjust his growing member while observing Naoya dipping Elska back, only one of her feet touching the ground while the other carves the air with allure. A low moan leaves his lips when his cousin's fangs form and then watches the blonde trail his nose down between her breasts as she bends further.
🎶🎶 You'll be like baby, who cares? But I know you care 🎶🎶
🎶🎶 Bring it over to my place 🎶🎶
Her weight rests in the hands of Naoya and this emblematic display of their trust for each other is almost as breathtaking as their unbridled passion. Elska's back crescents perfectly as Naoya finally meets the section where the V in her dress converges and places his lips to her skin for a sustained period of time. Her fangs form as well when Naoya exposes her leg from the shackles of the dress and roughly glides his hand up.
🎶🎶 You don't know what you did, did to me 🎶🎶
Nobara slaps the table and hastily whispers, "Are you guys seeing this right now??!!!", with wide amused eyes. She's always known Elska to be far more conservative in front of others so this has become quite bizarre. She contemplates on how Naoya usually likes to keep their personal life behind closed doors as well but the severity of everything currently eludes her.
🎶🎶 Your body lightweight, speaks to me 🎶🎶
Yuuji smiles to her, his hand stationed as blinders across his forehead, blocking his view, "Nope!" He wishes ignorance were really his case because unfortunately Sukuna has manifested on said hand and is sparing no detail about them.
Nobara glances over to Choso and fails to control herself, partially thanks to the alcohol, and bursts into laughter. He's completely zoned into Naoya and Elska, not even blinking and with parted lips, damn near on the edge of his seat.
🎶🎶 I don't know what you did, did to me 🎶🎶
She searches the room to find if anybody else is catching this but the hilarity fades when Nobara notices Toji and Gojo with that same, intense stare as the being. It's like they're in a trance and the strange, dark vibes she's picking up on allow her to sober up instantly. 'What the hell is that smell?'
🎶🎶 Your body lightweight, speaks to me 🎶🎶
Nobara jolts when Choso randomly launches to his feet and she becomes even more freaked out because it looked as if Gojo and Toji were about to lunge for the dance floor at the same time.
'What the fuck is going on here?', she worriedly asks herself as she's never seen them all act so strangely. She'd assume they were pissed off if their expressions weren't all mixed with anticipation, hunger and yearning. She jostles Yuuji to get his attention.
🎶🎶
Satoru whimpers to the way Elska's hands tangle into Naoya's hair as he licks a stripe back up her between her breasts. The faintest aroma of the scent surrounds them as it pulses out in tiny amounts.
'They're practically fucking right now!', Gojo thinks as Naoya and Elska are two pieces of cloth away from making love with this performance. He isn't mad however, not at all. There's always been something about Naoya that really sparks something grander in Gojo, something more raw and unhinged. He now wonders if he's not alone in this because the intensity being scavenged from his love's other turned is indisputable. There's no way Satoru is about to interfere because at this rate, he knows he'll have Elska mewling out their names by the end of the night.
🎶🎶
Elska whimpers into Naoya's mouth to which she receives a delicious hum. The way his hardening flesh feels grazing her entrance brings her urges that she'd not care to admit to, like fucking him right there in front of everybody. She could move her panties over, free his member through that wonderful slot and slide him right where he belongs and she tells him this through thought. The half-lidded, glowing gaze she's given in response to that nullifies every single inhibition. His hand slips under her dress across her rear and then down to blanch his fingers along her dampened panties. In this moment, no one else exists but her pheromones billow through her body, threatening to ensnare all.
"OKAY! Get a room!!", Nobara thwarts her arms in between them, "We're literally right here!!!" She couldn't stand how intimate that was getting and knows that if she'd left it alone, shit would've gotten really weird, really quick. 'What the hell?', she contemplates on how creepy Elska's other turned were getting but sighs relief when they suddenly seem back to normal.
Elska gasps and covers her mouth when she looks around to see everyone's eyes on them. She's embarrassed by the lewd gestures her and Naoya were waltzing through and shrieks aloud but is quickly engulfed by her prince's arms where his rumbling voice drowns everything else as she tucks away into his chest.
"Baby…", Naoya chuckles sensually in a whisper, "You're so wet…"
Amnessia controls her face but turns inward to Megumi, her muffled voice rationalizing, "Oh my God!", over having witnessed Naoya's attempted intrusion, "Did that really happen just now?!"
Megumi glares at the Zenin, confused by his own territoriality with Elska as he holds Amnessia, the girl that actually has a grip on his heart.
"Maybe we should leave soon…", he offers the pretty Titer while swaying them together to the rhythm of no music at all.
Naoya's phone starts to ring in his pocket so he takes it out and studies the name on it for a second before putting it back in. He's not interested in clan business right now and makes this known as he drunkenly backs Elska against the wall, caging her in. Naoya leans down and hums as his tongue breaches her mouth, his hands groping her breasts.
"Fuck princess…", he groans into a tipsy giggle, "I'm reallyhorny right now!"
Elska feels his phone vibrating and hears Nobara apprehensively declare that they should still get a room. Against her wishes, she grabs Naoya's wrists and forces him to stop caressing and advises, "Maybe you should take that call my prince."
She doesn't want him to leave be but if he doesn't she's not going to be able to control herself. He's stoking quite the fire and its apparent as her eyes wash over her turned who she's afraid will react without considering the others.
Naoya refuses initially but she adds, "The sooner you're done with that, the sooner we can get back to this.", and winks before she pulls him down for a kiss, "Go take care of business my beloved prince."
Naoya exhales as if he's blowing on something to cool it down. It's rare for her to refer to anyone other than Toji as her beloved even though they're all technically her 'beloved turned' so that hit home. The Zenin figures it's probably because Toji was her first and respects that but hearing it being directed at him only hindered his ability to walk away. He listens though because despite himself currently, the duties of the head must be fulfilled and he's ultimately grateful she took this stance.
Naoya answers the phone walking towards their bedroom while whining, "Maki, I swear I am working on those policies as we speak!", but briefly stops and clenches his fists. He's being scolded.
Elska snickers to her prince's behavior but walks over to her water bottle near Gojo's phone. She downs it in an attempt to quell the raging hormones and thinks, 'Perhaps if I swam off the coast of the place they call Antarctica, I would cool off.'
It's not her body temperature she's trying to snuff out though, it's her lust. She's been put in all of these teasing situations today with Naoya and Toji so she's on the brink of insanity as her turned nature requires their physical affections. Long arms wrap around her though and the voice that enters her ear weakens her knees.
"Didn't know were a dirty dancer, my love…", Gojo titillates with his mischievous tone before securing hands in questionable areas. He shivers to her intensity, wanting to feel her slick dripping onto his skin and asks, "Mind if I enjoy some of those moves too?"
Amnessia felt the flattening of Megumi's mood when Gojo came over to their side of the room. It bugs her too; she doesn't want the younger Fushiguro made to be uncomfortable when they were having such a good time. She looks up to Megumi and cups his cheek, thoroughly catching him off guard as his face reddens. Standing on her tippy toes, she initiates their first kiss. She's guessing he was too stunned to react at first but he's soon applying pressure back which makes her abruptly pull away and ask, "Want to leave now?"
Megumi nervously looks around the room and makes eye contact with Nobara who mouths, "Go you, dumb ass!", encouraging him greatly. "Yea, let's go.", he holds his breath as he grabs Amnessia's hand and storms towards the door.
"Have a good night, you two.", Toji taunts as they leave and cackles deeply to the humiliation on his son's face. Right before the door is closing behind them, he yells, "Take good care of my boy!!", and imagines Megumi's face when she retorts that she plans to. Nobara's high pitched squeal force his eyes to squint but he comprehends why she's excited, they're all in that way for Megumi.
"Hey, umm Toji?", Choso cautiously approaches while fidgeting with his shirt. When the giant asks what's up, the being morosely continues, "When are we going to talk to Elska about Getou?"
Toji stretches his neck to the side, remnants of the previous spell they were under still lingering in his senses, "Gojo and I decided that tomorrow would be best. It's already getting late and we know she'll want to go as soon as she finds out." When he notices the worry weighing the being's face, he asks, "Do you miss him that much too?"
Choso gives a half smile and clarifies, "No but I'm concerned. When Amnessia and I went in there, he screamed not again like he's been forced to suffer over and over…"
"I thought you said that stage was protecting him though?", Toji is now more attentive and is waiting to understand the issue.
"It's shielding his consciousness but I think it can only keep him self aware and intact if he's made to relive things that stain his identity.", Choso frowns, "Like things he'd never be able to forget because they were so impactful."
Toji lowers his beer, "I don't think that fucker needs more trauma, he's already pretty fucked up.", and although his words were harsh, the sentimentality was present as he spoke. That's when he sees Naoya grumbling his way back into the kitchen with a complete 180 in mood, "What's wrong with you lover boy? You were having such a good time.", Toji narrows his eyes to berate his younger cousin over the orgy he nearly started.
"Cho, where are you going?", Naoya asks as he nears them but the being goes back over to Yuuji and Nobara.
'Weird...', he thinks but is then folding his arms in front of Toji, "I'm irritated as shit! I'm announcing the alliance between Gojo's and Zenin's at the ceremony but I have to do the same with those fuckingTiters."
Toji's expression of hurt is off-putting but Naoya slacks his stance, "I also get to tell the world about the pregnancy though…", he smiles widely while grabbing Gojo's old beer to sip. Maki additionally mentioned the benefits of declaring his engagement to Elska at the ceremony but Naoya knows he's going to meet nothing but resistance from her turned so he's keeping that to himself for a while longer.
Toji sighs to Naoya's hatred for Getou but skips over that, "Well official alliances are good because if they decide to double cross us, we'll be able to retaliate without much commotion. Do the treaty Naoya, it's for the best and covers our asses."
"You know I want to kill that guy.", Naoya rancorously snarls under his breath, "FuckGetou."
"You know Elska wouldn't want that.", is all Toji rebuttals with but the swift glare he earns from Naoya actually pisses him off, "Don't give me that fucking look boy, you know damn well she cares about him. I don't like it either but we need those fucking Titers to keep her safe from the King. Or have you forgotten?"
Naoya keeps that same scowl but Toji also feels terrible for having to play the devil's advocate once again. 'It's not Naoya's fault that he's so hateful…', he remembers, 'It's Getou's.'
Gojo holds Elska and gradually rocks her to the song playing but doesn't recognize it as Naoya wrecked his algorithm. His peace is prodded when he notices through his six eyes though that some of Naoya's energy is leaving the Zenin and streaming over to her. Satoru says nothing but rather monitors the situation because it doesn't seem to be bothering anything.
Out of nowhere Elska feels a strange twinge in her abdomen, like a severe cramp but it quickly subsides so she forgets about it and continues their dynamic embrace. Gojo asks if she's okay and the genuine concern in his tone actually prompts her that maybe somethings up but she explains, "I'm fine my sweet Sati.", and leans back against his chest while they conform into each other.
Naoya is still rambling about having to accept the Titers but Toji comments on how unstable the Zenin's footing seems.
"Maybe you should call it quits on the booze for the rest of the night.", Toji chuckles but the obscurity found on his younger cousin's paling face startles him. Naoya tries to say something but instead his eyes roll back and he faints.
"Shit!", Toji yells while catching his cousin, "Woa-woah...Hey! Naoya!!", he shakes the blonde for response but then hears Elska scream.
Gojo successfully secures her and lowers her to the ground but as he's doing so, Elska violently flails. "LOVE!", he calls to her over and over but she tenses up and until becoming dead weight.
Elska can't explain what's happening to her right now because she honestly hasn't the first clue. All she knows is that it feels like fire is cauterizing her from the inside, that something in her body is changing.
"Oh fuck!", Toji grimaces when Elska wildly contorts. The colorful dashes present themselves in her eyes and are so bright, he can see them from across the room.
"DOLL!" He watches her pushing away from the floor on her forearms and knees, screaming into the wood as a wave erupts from around her and shakes everything.
"No, no, no.", he and Gojo make quick eye contact and this only unsettles Toji further when he can clearly read the uncertainties in the silver shaman's eyes.
"STAY BACK!", Choso yells as Yuuji and Nobara run towards Toji. Something inside tells Choso:
"Save her."
"OPEN IT."
Choso stands off the far side of the table now, prepared to shield everyone behind him. He looks down the hall and thinks, 'Nanami and Shoko!', before dashing his blackening eyes back to Elska, "Master!" But thanks to that voice, he knows what he has to do.
Gojo tries to help Elska but she's writhing on the floor in agony, clawing at her stomach.
"Love stop!", he captures her wrists and only then understands why.
Elska's organs are rearranging under the skin; the moving lumps of assumed intestines worm their way around. "What the fuck is this?", he asks himself under his breath but then her lower ribs start cracking and expanding followed by her bloodcurdling screams matching the horror. Elska's voice then disappears before she thrashes herself back into the fetal position with sweat accumulates along her skin, dampening every inch of her.
Toji helplessly watches as Elska's wings sheer out of her body and arch in the creepiest of ways, followed by the immense darkening of her already ominous presence. He screams her name but his voice is trampled by her cries.
He can't stand this. What's wrong with her? His eyes dart down to Naoya who's unconscious next to him on the floor, 'What the fuck is going on with them?!'
Choso's energy also causes Toji to stir because he can sense that unfamiliar technique being concentrated. This terrifies Toji because the only time Choso's ever used this was when the being was trying to cancel interference with Elska at the Titer Compound.
'Not even Gojo could get through it!', he recalls with decapitating apprehension.
Another shaking wave epicenters from Elska but this time, her power skyrockets rapidly. Gojo witnesses Naoya's, vivid, potent golden Scalar light speeding over to Elska's body which prompts him to realize this is about to get destructive. He knows Elska can't contain all of that energy and fears that she's about to literally implode so with a quick sorrowful expression, he glances at Choso and Toji before lifting his fingers and saying, "I won't leave her."
"Domain expansion."
Toji roars with misunderstanding, menacing eyes, "DON'T YOU FUCKING DO IT!"
"Infinite Void."
As the sphere swallows them up, Toji's turned nature breaches and his wings instinctively form. He cradles Naoya's head in his lap while screaming "ELSKAAA!", beyond frantic now that she's in Gojo's domain. He thinks to break it wide open like he did before when Megumi was trapped in it but Choso's presence increases to heights no one has ever felt.
"STAY DOWN!", Choso snarls, his mind fluctuating from the distraction, "And protect everyone else!"
Gojo tweaked the parameters of his domain dramatically in order to not hurt Elska. He simply is hoping to slow her body's processing of the scalar energy and abstain from the overload. Lowering to his feet to hold her, he blinks the recently formed tears away and soothes, "My love…please…fight whatever this is...", and dips his head forward when all he receives are rabid sounds, "What is happening to you?!"
"Sa-….", she grimaces ferociously, "GET…", she's desperately trying to tell him to run but she's overrun with pain and confusion. Something is inside of her and it's tearing through her visceral design. Her voice is once again stolen as a huge surge courses within so she's too late in warning her Sati when the golden light shrouds her body.
Choso engages his shadow realm door as soon as the cracks splitting Gojo's domain appear, "I can do this."
He waves his arms poetically at the last second, successfully engulfing a protective barrier around ¾ of the room but the explosion resulting from the entire situation is catastrophic. The domain shatters and light bleaches the world away while another shaking wave jars their surroundings.
Gojo is thrashed into a wall, badly wounded; more severely than he's ever been in his life.
"Luu..", dazed, he tries to get his bearings but the cold air rushing in from the missing wall on his left only leads him to deeper muddle. His head is pounding. He closes his eyes and leans back into the fractured structure, unsure of what or who he is until memories finally flood him. Being hit by the scalar warfare a second time did something to his brain; allowing it to bring to him all the events of the forest and more. He remembers blowing Sachiko into two pieces, fatally wounding Nanami and then tastes his draining Elska of her last breaths of life. His eyes widen and he's bombarded with the realizations of what his actions caused.
Toji shakes his head unsure if he's in one piece or not. The ringing in his ears is deafening and mixes with the surreal temperament of the calming air around them. He looks down and finds Naoya unharmed and is thankful for Choso's quick thinking as there shouldn't be anything on this side of the room left.
'Doll.', crosses his mind and causes him to snap back to their current circumstance fully. He looks for Elska through the table legs, sees she's breathing and then kind of crumbles exhaustively on the spot until Gojo wails.
It is such a foreign sound, Satoru's genuine sorrow.
Gojo, feeling the full weight of his actions and how he hurt the few people he cares for, cries uncontrollably. He remembers it all. Everything. Even killing Genghis and the faces of Titers before and after and it's so traumatizing that he doesn't even initially notice how his skin burns from the parts of his body that haven't been charred to the bone; at least those wounds haven't nerve endings anymore.
The surface scalding he has though stings as he heaves in air; the dehydrated dermis splitting as he expands his diaphragm. He tries to wipe his watering eyes but melted skin slops away and adheres to his fingers.
He's never been more humbled in all his years.
Elska's leg twitches in the crater formed and in this moment he knows he has too feed. He screams while shifting his weight and begins crawling over to her; his regrets become arise as he can't help but pick up on the ungodly similarities to the forest when he needed her then too.
Elska opens her eyes, now alleviated from any and all pain. Something feels different though and when her hand coasts over her lower abdomen, she understands exactly what that is. She has a small baby bump now.
"Oh, my prince…", she smiles with tears falling out of the corners of her eyes, still reeling. When Gojo clumsily grips her thigh though, she sits up to pull him closer but then sees the state he's in.
"SATI!", she cries out, swiftly launching over and forcing him to feed, "Oh my God..." He cries while he drinks but she's afraid to touch him because of how much skin and muscles are missing, she's actually not sure how he's still alive.
"Just feed, Sati…", she moans when he pierces her but she pushes the Master's Ecstasy from her thoughts to observe his healing. "My…", her lips quiver to his injuries, "Sweet Sati…". Some layers of dermis are starting to return so she sobs out loud and holds him dearly as he continues to cry.
Toji shudders to the exposed muscles of Gojo, how his skin is nearly all erased and how what remains appears to hold a completely different texture. That blast really fucked Satoru up and that alone is unsettling.
"That was fucking crazy…", he shakes his head and asks Nobara and Yuuji how they're doing but hears, "CHOSO!" His head snaps in that direction but all he can do is hold his breath and mutter, "Ohno…"
"WAKE UP!", Yuuji lifts Choso's body, shattered, crying, "HE'S NOT BREATHING!!!" Itadori screams with rage when Sukuna laughs within when he can only frantically shake the being while repeating, "He's…he's not breathing!!!", as if something will change.
Nobara breaks down next to Yuuji, staring at Choso with heartbreak and stupor, 'Is he-…', she wonders as Itadori has completely lost his composure, "No way…this isn'-this can't happen!", she cries.
Elska hears this and twists her head to view with a stilled heart.
It's a fact, Choso isn't breathing.
She grips into Satoru's hair, holding him tightly as if that will save her from the twilight loss while she's pinned into the crater. She wants to run over to Choso immediately but she can't leave Gojo who's wounded beyond measure.
In slow motion, all the sound fades as Shoko runs to the scene with Nanami's shirt barely buttoned around her.
'My hybrid?'
It's like Elska's watching a drama or her currently fragile mind tells her this while she zones out, the CPR attempts becoming blurry.
"No…", Elska chokes out, "Nooo…", her fangs form and her presence unleashes, "MY HYBRIIIIIIID!!!"
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Choso feels an icy gust of wind and groans.
Upon opening his eyes he finds himself in the Last Stage, blinded by the streetlamp looming directly overhead.
"Oh…", he morosely sits up and crisscrosses his legs with slumped posture.
"I guess I died? I knew that would happen...but I also guess was hoping I'd be okay...", he looks up and asks for clarification.
The light shines brighter and becomes warmer, thus being too hot for the being so he stands up and backs away, "Stop that!", he pouts, "I'm not in the mood to play."
He wonders if he was able to save everyone at least and hopes that he was successful. This prompts him to worry about Yuuji and Elska with a heavy heart, already missing them, "Please be safe…"
Courageously resolving to accept fate, the being glances up to the lamp, "But why am I here?"
Choso studies the light that answers in vernacular that only Choso can articulate. He understands that it's telling him that it's there and has always been there to protect them. That this, everything was planned.
"So, you're like a guardian then? A lot of humans believe in angels you know."
It gives its answer.
"That doesn't make sense…", Choso chuckles, "How are you any different from one then?", he rebuttals when it denies such a title, "That's usually what they do! You're being silly..."
It shares the differences.
"I guess so.", Choso sighs, "I think I'd prefer my master and the others having a guardian though. Your version sounds a little strange."
It tells him something clever.
Choso chuckles, "I've heard her say that before actually!", he beams to a memory of one of their dreams together where the whole Elska expressed to him, how powerful they actually are. How nothing on this Earth can stop them.
"I wish she was here…", the melancholy in his voice trickles away as he pictures Elska and all of his new friends.
It asks him something.
"Can I see Getou first?", he questions.
If nothing else, he feels he might still be able to send a message to the others through the Titer and since he knows he's likely going to cease to exist soon, he begs, "I want to let everyone know that I love them!"
It refuses.
"WHY?!", Choso now snarls, anxieties forming as he fears he won't actually be able to give a proper goodbye, "MY MASTER WILL BE SAD!", he cries out, feeling defeated.
He knows Elska will be devastated and he merely desires to lessen her and everyone's pain by gifting comfort of his last words.
"She'll want to know!"
The light intensifies again but turns a shade of violet.
Elska's violet.
Choso's tears dry momentarily as the amazement of what he's witnessing comes to full fruition. Before him in the light that typically shines yellow, a figure compiled of what looks like dust forms under the purple hue. The creature before him, though without great detail, smiles and expands its wings. It nods to Choso and communicates something outstanding.
Choso's eyes widen, "That makes sense! But that means…", he trails off while mentally sifting through all he's come to learn about this dimension.
It's inherently claimed by the Titers but Choso's shadow realm bleeds into it, which is how the being was able to contract into the hazardous wings when Elska was here with Suguru before. Choso definitely felt like he was baited in. His own ability to manipulate the realm is unprecedented, he notes this but also recalls how easy it was to bring Elska here and how seamlessly she synced to Suguru.
'Titers…', Choso thinks, "Odas…", he's so close to understanding, "And then me…"
The cursed creature before him flaps its wings gently, to encourage his mental gymnastics.
"Elska shouldn't be able to travel here so effortlessly.", Choso deduces, "Though she is powerful, her abilities are not congruent to the qualifications of this dimension's nature." He flutters his own wings, "On that same token, I shouldn't be able to either but it was like I was welcomed…", he paces, "You are preserving Suguru Getou's consciousness as you're doing with mine as we speak…" Choso sighs, "You've shown me things to extend my trust for Getou too. It's as if youwant me to be his friend. You also wanted me to learn who the whole Elska was and linked our subconscious waves together for the purpose of me giving her my consent."
The winged, violet curse smiles again and nods.
"How is this all connected?", Choso asks.
The apparition points to Choso and expands its wings that seem to somehow go on for miles and whispers:
"Save her."
Choso halts in his tracks to the voice and slowly looks back up to it. He understands.
"Are you…", he can barely breath due to the excitement, it's starting make sense, "… my master's creator?! The true progenitor of the turned?"
It stretches its arm so it's long, sharp finger can contact Choso's forehead pointing at the spot that represents his third eye. It smiles for a second but then somehow instantly takes on the form of violet hued, hovering light rays.
Choso feels six cold hits against his body but they soon crawls under his skin and reverberate. Choso's short black hair abruptly appears exponentially longer, his eyes blacken over and just like that, he's sentback.
The being hears his brother screaming his name but it sounds so far away.
"Yuuji…", he mumbles after feeling himself being maneuvered around. Everything pertaining to his senses are fuzzy and it seems like he's on a roller coaster as his mind downloads all of the information he's being gifted with.
Behind his eyes he sees Elska's ancestor with a Zenin and they appear very similar to Elska and Naoya. Choso's then shown the time where her ancestor bargains with the curse-like creature and observes what the Odas became after they were gifted the energy and its horrific.
Famished, uncontrolled droves of turned are shredding humans into pieces, women, children, the elderly…all reduced to piles of blood, bone and miscellaneous limbs. Even with the gift of great and novel cursed energy, they seem to prefer barbarically disarticulating the joints and twisting them off.
He sees a screaming little girl running past him and tries to interfere but is instead involuntarily made to witness her skull being caved in by a landing turned. Shifting his view he abhorrently witnesses a father being dragged out of a large wooden storage room as his wife and child freeze inside it when his arms are torn from his torso. Three more turned appear, their Oda attire already stained with blood as they brutishly punch through wooden walls and force them outthrough it. Choso cries when the mother is fatally sliced from the jagged, splinter edges. The child, fed upon but practically drawn and quarted...and then tossed.
Choso stumbles back and is merely a bystander as he lives through past events but recognizes now why next chain of events happen. He given the time when Titers create the bridge to Gaia and then it to the Odas being sent there en mass against their will.
When they arrive on Gaia, the same merciless pillaging and destruction ensues there. It fast forwards again. Choso sees Elska as a little girl who was left without family as they died off but instantly learns through her memories, that she is actually responsible. She killed them all, her family.
She was cruel, emotionless, heartless. A wolf in sheep's clothing.
That Elska gives him the chills.
"Choso!!!", he hears his name again but has to disregard it in order to understand.
Elska engages in a gruesomely fast paced fight but is ultimately overwhelmed and captured by a group of armored turned with black wings and is brought before the King who she threatens to kill. The court get into formation around her, ready to charge but the King simply laughs and looks intrigued. Choso becomes overrun with the emotions she eventually learns to entertain through the King's patience with her as they spend more time together, but it's presented to Choso in an instant.
Their first fight, kiss, laugh, Choso even witnesses the instant in which Elska first falls in love.
'Master…', he thinks with a broken heart but pays attention to how she's turned when he understands what's now being presented.
It boils Choso's blood seeing the King's brother assault her but when he turns his head to look away, the being swears he faintly sees Suguru and his Elska watching from a distance but they disappear just as quickly. Faded images of Satoru scowling through a bowl of water decorate his view to expand on how much the silver shaman watched her.
"WAKE UP!"
Elska supports incapacitated Gojo in her lap but leans over her hybrid, "COME BACK TO ME!", she commands with all of her might. She can't lose him. She can't lose Choso.
The being's body radiates that violet energy, causing Elska to gasp because she can sense her own ancient presence in him. In disbelief, her eyes widen when Choso's hair grows hastily; so fast that his scalp bleeds as the long thick black strands fountain out.
"Come on my hybrid, you are not WEAK!', her lowly voice raises in volume, "YOU ARE STRONG!"
Toji holds Elska firmly from behind, his expression prepared for the worst outcome which is Choso not waking up but he does his best to support Elska.
"Guide her."
The being's just been shown the fight between Gojo, Elska and the King.
She was so vicious and uncompromising, Choso also never thought he'd see the day where her bloodlust would be targeting Satoru. Elska was clearly trying to kill him and it's obvious when she stabs his chest with her wing and wickedly cheers. She protects the King by pushing Gojo farther out as they go back and forth in combat, but its already known that Gojo was determined to take her and is able to do so after knocking her out with an insidiously cheap strike. He faked an energized attack to catch her off guard and although Choso can nearly taste Gojo's determination to kill the King, Satoru cuts that loss and teleports out of there with his prize.
"Do not deviate."
Her experiences with Gojo after captured opposes her time with the King so starkly that the feelings flood through him like a compromised dam.
The torture she endured when Satoru was at his worst, the threats he'd cast about her loved ones, the way he forced himself on her. Choso's now aware of Nanami's hand in everything now too and how much the manager has always known as Kento's first experience with the scent plays out.
It fast forwards to give insight on the subtle ways Toji has always looked at Elska, the longing in his eyes and how he stalked both her and Gojo from the shadows. Choso then sees Toji's first time he came into contact with the scent and vastly comprehends how long the giant was longing for a solid connection to Elska.
He's then shown Temujin Genghis with the King in some large fancy stone fortress and this stuns the being completely. He observes Genghis's resembling black wings and the forming fangs he bears at the King's threatened men before passing over Toji's katana.
He hears the King's advised strategy.
Then it shows Choso how it's tried communicating to Naoya through dreams and how this has failed.
Choso's come to learn everything.
"Use this."
"Do not deviate."
"Stay the course."
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The violet energy oozing from Choso now leaves him as it splits into six individual rays and hover over his body.
Toji tenses up, "What the fu-"
Rays harpoon into Elska, Toji, Gojo and Naoya while the 5th storms through the air until Nanami can be heard thudding to the ground. The sixth shoot through the compromised wall and leaves the area completely. Toji and Elska collapse as soon as it pierces them and end up beside Naoya.
"What is going on?!!", Nobara clings to Yuuji, petrified as 99% of their seniors are taken out at once.
"Something's happening with them…", Ieiri discerns as calmly as she can. She looks down the hall and from this angle she can see Kento's foot as he's on the floor and not moving. Her chest compresses, "But I don't know what!"
Elska and all the turned expel their increased presences, even while not being awake and this strikes Shoko's core with realization.
"They're evolving…"
Choso's eyes blare open and the world he's familiar with comes into focus. He comprehends Yuuji crying above him and that he's alive again but all he can hear are the daunting, lowly words of the curse echoing through his brain.
It gave him the knowledge of the Final Stage and he apprehends why. It showed him their future and then bound him to subservience because it's the only way.
He knows what Elska has to do, what her ancestors unknowingly vowed. She has a purpose.
They all do.
He knows what's coming and cannot alter the course but he's been presented with a rare avenue.
"Save her."