haruto hitomi btw,

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You were in the fields, there in your own spot, where you practiced your archery alone.

The afternoon rays of the sun had the weather very warm, making sweat drip from your scalp to the nape of your neck while you focused on aiming your arrow on the lingering scent of the target.

You adjusted the blindfold Gojo gave you. Early this morning, he was looking for you, and once you went outside your room, he skipped towards you immediately.

"Good morning, [y/n]-kun!" He said, holding his chin weirdly, posing like a model in front of you just to say good morning. You adjusted your glasses, wiping the smudge that stained the glass before fixing it onto your nose bridge.

"Ohayo, Gojo-sensei." You greeted back, realizing he wanted you to acknowledge him. "Uh, looking good with your new blindfold I guess... You got tired of bandages, I assume?" You told him, making him shine in proudness.

"Yes! I changed to a blindfold since I realized it was more stylish and easier to wear! And, and! Look! I got you one made too!" He cheerily presented a smaller version of the blindfold, handing it to you like some sacred artifact.

"Thank you..." You observed the blindfold, removing your glasses then tried it on afterward.

"It's a little loose though..." You said, trying to keep the blindfold up, your eyes, but it stubbornly slid down to the tip of your nose. He looked in defeat.

"I swear to God I measured correctly..." He said, exasperated and looking sad. "Ah don't worry. I'll just sew it tighter later." You said, trying to lessen the ruckus your teacher would cause just because of this.

You were truly thankful that he gave you a new blindfold too though. It was indeed a hassle to spend about 10 minutes wrapping your eyes in bandages without knowing if it looks decent since, well, your eyes were covered.

This was much easier to use during training, and a lot less taxing.

"[y/n]-senpai, Maki-senpai is calling you. She told you to buy drinks before going back to take an afternoon snack." He shouted from the stairs.

"Eh? Alright then... I'll be back in a few minutes!" You shouted, slinging your bow onto your shoulders before shouting at him in response.

You made your way to the vending machine. Luckily, you had your purse of coins inside your arrow bag. After inserting coins and getting the regular drinks everyone usually got, you opened your drink to rest a little before returning.

"[l/n] [y/n]." You turned your head to the voice that called you. He looked very familiar.

"Haruto Hitomi?" You asked, but after thinking about it for a second, you realized you were mistaken. He does look like Haruto, who you bumped into after your way to your room after meeting your friends, and who you eavesdropped talking about how he would make you join their clan. But this man, although he was a resemblance of Haruto, looked different. His hair was shorter and he looked much older.

"Not Haruto...?" You said again, your brow rising.

"So you've met Haruto. I'm surprised." The man said. Clearly, he was a Hitomi.

"Well I wouldn't say I met him already, I just saw him at school one time." You explained. Although you were calm, you were still on alert. You weren't exactly on good terms with the Hitomi in the first place.

"Relax. I've come in peace." He said with a calm smirk on his face, inching towards you with casualty.

"I'm Heiji Hitomi, head of the Hitomi clan. Well, [y/n], I've just come to discuss terms and agreements about you joining the clan."

You looked at him in disgust. "Agreements? I never planned nor talked about joining the clan in the first place." He did not seem pleased with the response you've given, seeing a frown was now plastered on his face.

"Well, I wanted to make this easy, but I guess somethings can't be helped. Your stubbornness is once of them, I see." He inched closer towards you, now standing right in front of you, looking as intimidating as ever.

"Join the clan, or become an outcast."

"If being an outcast means I won't have to be inside the corrupt system of clans then I'd rather be an-"

He had raised his glasses.

You felt your heartbeat slowing down, your breath heavier and your movements almost coming to a halt. So this is what it felt like to be cursed with your own curse. It was a very humbling experience.

A slap. A sting-filled slap engraved your cheek.

"Please refrain from speaking so ill of our clan, fellow Hitomi. If it weren't for your inheritance you wouldn't even be where you are right now."

You tried to resist the curse, moving with all your might and with all your speed, but the curse made it so that it felt like you were enveloped inside the stickiest slime, only able to move a millimeter per second.

"Should we discuss clan terms like this? It would be too one-sided for my liking though." He sighed, bringing his glasses back down.

Immediately once he did, your motions came back to life, a powerful kick making its way to the side of Heiji Hitmoi's torso.

He looked in shock as the kick touched his body, but there was barely any effect on him. You groaned in annoyance before bringing a hand to your blindfold.

"We should play fair then." You brought your blindfold down, revealing you vibrantly [e/c] and angered eyes.

A small smirk played in his mouth as you cursed him, his movements slowing to almost a stop. A balled hand made its way toward his face, your fist colliding with his cheek as you sent the strongest punch you could muster up at the moment. You saw his body slowly move as the punch hit him, following its course and threatening to fall.

"I think we're even now." Just as he neared the ground too much, you placed your blindfold back on, making his movements normal in pace once more.

A leg made its way to kick you, but with your reflexes, you were able to dodge it. Unfortunately, he had sent another kick in a span of a millisecond, and you were too slow to react after just dodging the first kick he sent.

"Now we're truly even. Do that again, and I won't get pleased." He said, observing you as you hit your back harshly against the wall beside the vending machine.

Your head was spinning, still shocked by the sudden impact with the concrete wall. You touched your head and saw blood on your hands, cursing the power this old man had.

"Join the clan. It's not like you have anything better to do." He said, standing in front of your body rested against the wall.

"Join... Then for what? For me to be part of the filthy government and system of clan power? I'm not even worth the power. All the trouble you've been through is useless. I'm not enough power to get you to a top clan, like what Gojo-sensei told me you wanted to achieve in the past years. It's not happening. And I don't want to join."

"Oh, you will. And Gojo Satoru won't even be able to stop it."

"But he's Gojo Satoru."

"But you're only [l/n] [y/n]."

You paused. Something didn't feel right about this.

"How is your mother, [y/n]. You had a sister too, right? Stepsister, that is."

You widened your eyes. Something was wrong. Why would he bring this up now?

"Your mother had a contract with the Hitomi clan before. The biased clan head threatened to get her prisoned inside the estate after 'causing the adultery of your father.' But there was a contract. Your father didn't have a child to offer to the clan, so your mother agreed that if you do inherit a cursed technique, she'd give you to us in exchange for her freedom. And it turns out, you did."

This was a different story from what little you knew about what happened to your family. Gojo only said that your mother got you through a Hitomi, and since the Hitomi did not want half-blood into the clan, they did not let you enter. You didn't know that your mother had a contract with the Hitomi clan, nor did you know that she agreed to sell you to them in exchange for her freedom.

You couldn't blame her though. If you yourself did not want anything to do with the Hitomi clan, why would she want to involve herself with them, much more be imprisoned in their estate for life. Who knows what would happen to a non-sorcerer like her inside the property of people driven by greed and power. She would be treated so poorly. As twisted as it sounds, she probably never even knew that being in a relationship with a man who turns out to be a sorcerer, a Hitomi, would become this complicated.

You carried on yourself the responsibility to grant her a normal life with her daughter. Not really because you loved her, but because you couldn't stand someone's life getting shattered because of your existence.

"I thought Gojo-sensei and the school offered us safety?" you looked at him with eyes still shining with anger.

"Well you see, [y/n]. This was the agreement: Jujutsu High will provide monetary support only for [l/n] [y/n] in the condition that she will study and become a sorcerer in the future. The school will also provide [l/n] [y/n] and her mother protection from being sold to the Hitomi clan, only if her mother, agrees to it with full consent as her biological parent. This was agreed upon by Gojo and the higherups, together with me. In other words, as long as your mother agreed to getting the protection of the school as well as not giving you to the clan, you and your mother would be safe from any of the consequences of the contract she formed with the former head. Likewise, if she agreed to still give you to us, the protection Jujutsu High granted will be revoked, and you'll enter the clan without a problem. The key to the contract was your mother since she was considered your only biological parent alive. But yesterday, your mother sign consent for taking you into the clan."

Why? Why would she do that? Was the support provided by the school not enough? She was able to live a normal life. Although the school only provided for your resources, causing in your move to a different place to stay, she was still granted the protection promised by Jujutsu High, which was protection from the Hitomi Clan taking her away if I wasn't offered.

"Why? How? You have something to do with this, don't you?"

"Smart you are, [y/n]. As the head of the clan, I make decisions that will lead to the benefit of the whole clan. All I did was offered her money in exchange for agreeing with selling you to the clan. Full consent. From the moment Gojo Satoru agreed to that contract that was arranged by me, your mother never had to worry about anything. She was given such a good opportunity. And now, she finally took that opportunity after being offered money to support herself and your step-sister."

You let out a frustrated click of your tongue.

There were two options right in front of you. One, just deal with it all and join the clan, for your mother to get the money and in order for the contract problem to get resolved. And two, choose to be self-centered and reject the offer. If you rejected being brought into the clan, your mother would no longer be granted protection of being prisoned in the Hitomi estate, after the school hears of her violation of the contract.

Of course, you'd choose option one.

No, it wasn't because you loved your mother. Love for you was a deep feeling that you only felt towards specific people around you. But yes, you did want to protect her and your step-sister as much as you could, which is also a reason why you entered Jujutsu High despite being required to. You would choose option one also because you couldn't stand the thought of having someone's life fall into pieces because of you. You couldn't imagine how many times she would curse and regret having an affair with a Hitomi. If you were unfortunate, even you might not be able to die peacefully and regretless. In addition, every problem at the moment seemed to be so complicated, all because you were involved. And you did not like being the root of problems.

By joining the clan, you would untangle all of this. And although Gojo would unsurprisingly not be happy with what you'll be deciding with, in the end, it is your decision. And you didn't like relying on him for everything. You knew that he's already in charge of putting so much in place in this Jujutsu world. Basically, you did not want to be a source of more problems for everyone else around you, which is why you would choose to join the clan.

If you were really strong, then you wouldn't let this hinder you from avoiding being part of this system of jerks. You were reminded of Maki. If she planned to destroy the system through the inside, then wasn't this a good opportunity? You could let regrets fill you later on.

"I'll join then. If it's for the sake of clearing all the problems I've brought, then I'll join."

The corners of Heiji Hitomi's lips formed into a satisfied smile. It was almost as if he wanted to laugh at how marvelously smooth all his plans were coming to place. "I knew you were smart. After all, you're a Hitomi, [y/n]."

"Don't get me wrong though. I'm only joining on a condition. If you grant me one, then I'd enter the clan without any complaints."

He looked at you cautiously before nodding his head. "Very well. Just one condition."

"Are you willing to grant me what I'll ask for when you don't even know what it is?" You questioned, raising an eye at his suspiciously fast response to your request.

"I am. That's how valuable you are. I'm willing for the risk." He smiled sickly-sweet at you as if you were a child to be bribed with candy.

"Why am I that important anyway? There's nothing so special about me." You asked seriously. The lengths they took just to welcome you into the clan were very disbelieving.

"You and I are the only people alive with cursed sight. And only a Hitomi born with cursed sight deserve to become heads of the clan." He answered simply, a dark shadow now forming under his eyes after the unsympathetic words he had just uttered.

"So what was your condition?" He then switched to a happy smile, eyes closed and directed to you as he asked.

"I don't want to be forced into marriage. Ever. That means, no children too." You answered with words as clear as water, and as serious as anyone could ever be.

"Understood. Should we make a contract about that too once you sign the papers? Just to make sure I don't back off my words if that's what you're concerned about."

You looked at him with wide eyes. He was really serious about fulfilling this request.

"Whatever. Also, I'm angry. Please allow me to do this one last time before I have to go under your rule." He frowned, seeing you pull down your blindfold and stare at him, making him slow down again.

"It's more satisfying being able to punch you after knowing what you did for this situation to go favorable to you," After which, you landed another punch on him, bringing your blindfold down to go for a kick, only for it to be stopped midway by his hands grabbing your ankles.

"I told you I wouldn't be pleased if you did that again," he said before throwing you to the side.

You groaned in pain as you tried getting up. "I'll be expecting you at the clan estate tomorrow." He spoke, walking towards the exit of the school.

You didn't even know where the estate was.

But that was probably your last worries right now. You're pretty sure he's already gotten that figured out.

You wiped the blood on your forehead before reaching for your archery bag to grab your phone.

"Gojo-sensei. I did something."

"Please don't tell me you accidentally knocked down Megumi's door-"

"I joined the clan."

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"[y/n] is taking too long getting drinks." Panda broke the silence inside the classroom.

Everyone nodded in agreement. It was indeed too long to be waiting for you to bring them drinks. Had you forgotten to return or something bad actually happened to you, they did not know. But they collectively felt something was out of place during this hot afternoon, especially after hearing something of a ruckus near the vending machine area.

"Maybe we should check on her?" Maki suggested, standing up from her seat while dusting her skirt.

"Salmo-"

The door was opened abruptly, revealing Principal Yaga with a stern look.

"[l/n] [y/n] will be suspended for three months due to attacking a higher-up: The head of the Hitomi Clan."

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a/n:

next update will be better i promise :") i was busy driving my brain ded brain insane from all the retries i had to take for the gliding exam at genshin. i still havent completed the first exam. save me pls