❝she likes hunting for curses❞

"s'kuna, s'kuna!! come out and play with me", marri whined, swinging itadori's hand back and forth as the girl jumped up and down.

"ne, marri, don't you want to play with me?", itadori slightly pouted, to which marri had hummed.

"yūji, we've been playing together for the past three hours! I wanna play with s'kuna nowwww", the girl reasoned.

"but sukuna's dangerous", itadori replied.

"BUT HE'S MY FAVORITE CURSE, with mr. jōgo close behind, but PLEASEEEEEEE", marri begged, bringing out her puppy eyes as she pouted too, blinking rapidly.

itadori wasn't sure whether that was a good idea or not, as he had ingested another finger or two of sukuna's recently.

"plus, you can always switch back or something", marri added on, as her persuading abilities were really on point today.

itadori groaned as he sighed, giving in.

"okay okay. let me see if he wants to come out first".

"huh? but why would he not want to come out? I thought he was always trying to take over your body or something", marri stated.

that was indeed true, however, itadori didn't have the heart to tell marri that sukuna didn't want to come out when around the girl.

"I—umm...just let me consult sukuna first", itadori awkwardly chuckled as he internally asked sukuna to at least try and be polite.

the usual symmetrical lines had formed on the boy's skin as an irritated expression had immediately replaced itadori's sunshine smile.

"what do you want now, twerp?"

"s'kuna, let's go out today. we can go curse hunting!!", marri exclaimed, her eyes shining as sukuna scoffed.

"you want to go curse hunting...with a curse?"

"I just want to meet more curses like you and mr. jōgo...or who knows?! maybe we will meet mr. jōgo!! wait for me okay? I'm gonna go get something", marri stated as she quickly ran upstairs to go change into a smaller version of the boys' jujutsu high uniform.

after satoru had seen his daughter attempt to look like him, he couldn't help but get her an exact replica, except fitting for her of course.

"ta daaa~ okay, I'm ready to head out now", marri smiled as she opened a nearby window, making sukuna confused.

"what are you doing? the door's that way", sukuna pointed.

"oh I know, but I don't have the key and our penthouse is on the sixth floor so...I'm sure you can jump out the window and land perfectly since you're so strong and all", marri complimented, giving her best smile as sukuna scoffed.

"fine...", sukuna muttered as he grabbed onto the collar of marri's jujutsu high uniform, jumping out from the window as he landed on his feet.

thankfully, there wasn't many people around.

sukuna promptly dropped marri onto the ground as she just dusted herself off, standing back up as she grabbed onto the curse's hand.

"oi! what are you doing?", sukuna snarled, slapping the girl's hand away.

"what? I wouldn't dare hold the king of curses' hand. I'm just holding yūji's hand", marri smartly replied, to which sukuna's brows had furrowed.

technically, she wasn't wrong. it still is itadori's body.

the girl then attempted to hold "sukuna's" hand again, squeezing tightly as sukuna just grumpily accepted it.

'don't make her cry again', he remembered itadori saying.

"okay, so where the hell are we going?", sukuna asked, following the little girl as they furthered away from any humans.

"s'kuna, do you trust me?", marri asked, nearing an abandoned building as the curse was even more confused now.

"excuse me?!"

"I asked, DO YOU TRUST ME?", marri loudly asked, to which sukuna rolled his eyes, as he could hear very clearly.

"no, I meant—never mind", the male sighed.

"so...do you trust me? because I trust you, and I'll protect you", marri said, stopping at the front of the door as sukuna lowly chuckled.

"you, protecting me? maybe in another few millenniums", sukuna mocked.

marri just shrugged.

"you never know", marri hummed as she kicked open the door, squeezing sukuna's hand even tighter as the murky air had hit their noses.

"is this what fucking four year olds do in their free time? go to haunted buildings?", sukuna questioned, turning around as there was no more door.

"s'kuna, do you see it?", marri asked, looking upwards as the king of curses wondered what the hell was wrong with this little girl.

"hah? what the fuc—"

immediately, a blue curse that was quite muscular and unfortunately did not speak like humans, had appeared.

"woahhhhh!! not to be rude or anything, but your territory or domain — even though it's not really a domain — kind of looks trashy", marri stated, to which the curse had gritted its teeth, though it stumbled backwards as sukuna was standing behind the girl.

"YOU TWERP! YOU KNEW THERE WAS A CURSE HERE AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN TELL ME?! AND HOW DID YOU EVEN SEE IT BEFORE ME?"

"but you said you didn't need my protection...and I have the six eyes, but I guess you don't remember because I was talking to yūji", marri softly mumbled.

"are you going to yell at me again?", marri asked, looking upwards as her eyes had already started to water, making sukuna flinch.

"h-hey! listen, let's not get too emotional and—"

the curse cocked its head to the side as it sped towards the two, meanwhile marri had started sniffling.

sukuna clicked his tongue in annoyance as he carried the girl with one arm, glaring at the curse, who was sweating bullets.

"CAN YOU HOLD THE FUCK UP? I'M DEALING WITH A SITUATION OVER HERE!"

"yeah! I'm the situation!", marri huffed, sticking her tongue out at the curse as she blew raspberries at it.

the curse quite literally shook with fury as it started to gather up a golden ball of cursed energy, making sukuna facepalm.

"oh my fucking god. why won't you listen?"

marri sniffled a little more as she poked at sukuna's cheek.

"summon your domain expansion and we'll call it even", the girl bargained.

"you know I could literally throw you at that curse right now", sukuna snarled, hating when someone commanded him.

"do it and you won't ever find a vessel ever again, because papa will kill you", marri logically stated.

sukuna mocked the girl's words in a higher pitch as he rolled his eyes, letting marri sit on top of his shoulders as he conjoined his fingers together.

"domain expansion: malevolent shrine!"