“truth be told, yuta, not much is known about the inumaki clan. and toge doesn’t

“truth be told, yuta, not much is known about the inumaki clan. and toge doesn’t share either.”keep reading for some context ! cw for blood & injuries, self-harm (biting)yuta finally gets to return home in november, almost a full month after toge’s birthday. they’re not together yet at this point with just some pining bc maintaining a crush long-distance is hard (this just applies to toge though, yuta feels so strongly that his feelings just grew stronger even apart).they all reunite and have a celebratory party, yuta’s so happy to be home again after so long but he can’t shake off the feeling that something is wrong.he adjusts back to life at home like he never left, and resumes  training with the others and notices that toge has gotten significantly stronger. his cursed speech hits much harder, and he’s way more agile and flexible than ever before (it gets yuta’s heart beating so fast bc wow toge is also so much hotter now)yuta also observes that toge goes to bed really early these days and he talks a lot less (cue sad puppy eyed yuta), and he also leaves a trail of a very subtle type of cursed energy that yuta isn’t familiar with. he doesn’t even think the other have perceived it.one day, toge tells the group that he’s relocated to another dorm room in another building within the school. it’s completely vacant and though the group is confused and questions him about the sudden move, he just says he wants more privacy and a new space (he jokes about his current dorm room being way too small and shitty to stop them from asking more questions). yuta’s just like /kicks chair /punches wall and fcking sad at this point bc his room was right across toge’s lolas time passes, yuta begins to notice things (and it’s 100% only because his eyes are almost always on toge). toge no longer wears any short sleeves anymore, and wears an extra face mask even though it seems like he’s gotten much more sensitive to heat. while his skin is protected from direct sunlight he’s also getting boiled so yuta’s like ??? why the self torture? maki just says he’s going through a fashion statement era.yuta also realizes that toge goes on a lot more solo missions now, and returns looking a complete (hot) mess, sometimes he’s drenched in blood and he can tell toge absolute obliterated his enemies. there’s this new air of ruthlessness around him and yuta’s not sure if he should be worried or aroused .a few more unusual things happen that yuta simply cannot keep quiet about, so he tries his luck finding out from toge himself, and is surprised when on his 5th or so try, toge snaps, and yuta swears tht he saw toge’s irises turn into slits for a millisecond and the air around them getting slightly heavier. but together with toge’s anger, it vanishes in a flash. toge calms himself and simply signs that “people change”. yuta frowns like a kicked puppy. cue The Night It Happens. gojo drops off some dessert and asks yuta to deliver it to toge personally.on his way there, yuta observes that there isn’t a single light on in the vicinity of toge’s dorm at all, and he’s is almost sure toge’s already gone to bed until he hears odd noises.he enters the room and is horrified to find the place in disarray, as though there had been a struggle of some sort. then, he hears more noises that sound like whimpers and frustrated noises. the source seems to come from the closet.that’s when he finds toge. there’s a brief moment of silence, before there’s a loud noise and something lunging at him. next thing yuta knows he’s on the ground with toge clutching his shoulders and hovering over him. he’s making a lot of animalistic noises and looks feral at this point, yuta calls out to him but toge just shakes his head wildly and looks even more frustrated. he’s breathing heavily and yuta can see his fangs glint in the moonlight before he’s suddenly lunging at him. but before yuta can even react (or accept that toge was about to bite him for whatever reason), the sight before him crushes his heart. toge is biting into his own arm, and hard. fresh tears fall on his already wet cheeks and blood gushes out and onto yuta’s shirt yuta immediately grabs onto toge’s arm and cups toge’s cheek with the other, telling him “oh god toge, no. no, it’s okay, let go, please let go” and thankfully it’s not long before toge relaxes his jaw and his fangs are no longer pierced into his skin (it’s really bc yuta had been thumbing at his cheek so gently, wiping his never-ending stream of tears and pleading with him so softly). he’s using reversed cursed energy to heal him the moment toge’s injured arm is freed completely.yuta tells toge to wait as he goes to grab something to clean the blood off toge’s arm. he spots a towel on the chair, and he swears he’s quick with it but when he turns back, toge is gone from his spot. yuta’s heart just breaks further when he sees a trail of blood leading to the closet, a bloody handprint on the door. toge had retreated back into it when yuta had gotten up to get the towel.he’s very gentle and patient when he tells toge what he’s going to do (open the door and clean the blood on him). when he slides the door open carefully, he sees that has covered himself with the blanket again, shaking and curled into himself and looking very unlike the toge yuta knows. it kills him when he thinks about how long this might have been happening to him.toge’s voice is weak and scared when he speaks shakily, and yuta doesn’t think he could take it if he hears him say “okaka” with so much fear again. toge is basically telling yuta not to touch him, bc he doesn’t want to accidentally hurt yuta. and it’s a plead he’s terribly familiar with, one he has heard himself say many times throughout his life after he had cursed rika.he tells toge that he could never hurt him before very gently pulling toge, still covered in the blanket and all, into his arms. toge flinches at first but being in yuta’s arms makes him feel safer than he has ever been since the day this started happening to him, and melts into his embracebasically this only happens to inumakis who inherit the seals, and on their 17th birthday. their cursed speech matures into something more deadly, it makes them stronger and faster.  they take on snake-like features when they go all out in battle, but also when they feel deeply unsafe or threatened. it works as a defensive mechanism, but in toge’s case it was against himself. bc since the beginning of their clan, there are procedures in place to ease those who inherit the seals into this next stage of their power (me bringing back the inumakis were revered in the past agenda) and it was a ritual of some sort almost. it was never supposed to be seen as an untamable part of themselves. but time passed and the inumakis place in jujutsu society changed completely. they were outlaws now, and cursed speech was truly a curse and a burden in their eyes. so when toge had been enrolled into the school, the clan had finally been freed of any responsibilities. he was no longer their problem, and they made sure whatever happened when he turned 17 would not be their problem either. this only happened because the inumaki clan literally does not care what happens to him. in fact they thought that it would be convenient if he went feral from not having any help with this change. the higher ups would have definitely put him down then, and the clan would have killed two birds with one stone.honestly toge’s ancestors are rolling in their graves at his mistreatment like they CANNOT wait for the current living members to die so that they can kill them again in the afterlife. and i hope this is canon!if you read this far, i hope you enjoyed this! i didn’t have any backstory for this initially but after a mutual wanted to hear about it i suddenly had a million ideas and very happily put this together. one last thing:it’s also a vampire au, that’s why toge pounced on yuta when he found him! he was thirsty for blood.in the past, blood would be offered the moment the change takes place and the curse user would be sated and it doesn’t become an issue, but bc toge’s transition was a fucking MESS, and there was no ritual, no nothing, a feral side that desired blood was unleashed. or something. i need to work on this part of the lore.but let’s just say bloodsucking ensues in the future and the blood of a special grade sorcerer does wonders to an already powerful cursed speech user :-) -- source link

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