Naruto: Uzumaki Yuji [EN]

" Hm? "

" Yūji? Did you hear something? "

Yūji looked back, Megumi had waited for him further ahead with Nobara, and the redheaded boy felt strange.

It was as if he had heard someone say his name.

He simply shook his head calmly to see his companions amused " not at all, I think it was my imagination, we have to go back quickly and tell Gojo-sensei everything we did! "

Nobara's eyes sparkled now, showing her silly smile along with her playmate " you'll see that we completed the mission without a scratch! if you don't run you won't be the first to say so! " the patched girl ran quickly, followed by Yūji, while the passersby in the Suginami district looked at them strangely.

But for them it really was not strange; Yūji ran with a smile but kept looking back repeatedly " Megumi! If you stay back over there you'll get lost "

The boy, with that bored gesture, sighed, but despite his companions being so silly, he smiled very faintly.

That was how he liked them.

They arrived at Tokyo Jujutsu High, which was perfectly hidden from all human eyes; a barrier separated them from the passersby who had no idea that in front of them was a prestigious school.

Upon arriving, he saw that Gojo-sensei was already waiting for them, his beaming smile for his dear students.

Yūji arrived first with Gojo to happily show his joy " Gojo-sensei! We defeated that curse just as you told us! Everything is easier now because we are very strong " he saw Nobara complaining at his side; Megumi expected that reaction from the girl and from his companion.

" ah, my dear students are fighting over me, what a pleasant surprise " the high-pitched voice of the albino only made the only girl in the group grumble.

" it's just that Nobara wouldn't stop boasting that she did all the work! I just wanted to tell you so that she wouldn't show off " the redhead confessed, murmuring with his elongated face.

Gojo sighed now, shaking his head with his hands on his jacket " luckily you arrived on time, we are having a healthy meeting with the Kyoto school, everyone is happy that at last the greatest threat in the world has been destroyed... all thanks to you, Yūji " the teacher said calmly to the redhead, whose bright eyes lit up.

His smile became even happier; he remembered his sensei Gojo after evading the sky-imprisonment that Kenjaku was going to do, an ancient sorcerer within Suguru Geto's body, who immediately disposed of everyone without letting his feelings influence him.

As for Yūji, he was manipulated by Sukuna since a special-grade curse named Jogo had given him many fingers, and Sukuna took charge of collecting the rest.

But his sensei and all the other sorcerers, he no longer fought alone against him; he fought with the help of everyone.

Many thought that Yūji would have died, at least his consciousness, but to everyone's surprise he was very much alive, destroying Sukuna and saving the world from a catastrophe, though everyone was left with scars they will remember for the rest of their lives.

Yūji, looking at his sensei and his companions, felt warmth, knowing that he was the one who also contributed by trying to control Sukuna; his willpower, despite having been suppressed, tried to fight for control.

" yes, sensei " he spoke calmly, giving his best smile, now he could live in peace and calm with his friends and his sensei.

Nothing serious had happened; everyone he cared about was alive.

And all the human lives he feared would die continue with their families enjoying as if everything that happened was a normal day.

" very good! It is time to enter, oh my little Megumi-chan brought your daddy's favorite!" said the black-haired one as he squinted his eyes to hand out those sweets that the eldest always bought.

" don't call me that, and I don't see you as a father either " she whispered just so that Gojo could hear, it seems he ignored her as he took her cheeks and playfully shook them as if she were still that little child when he first met her.

" very well, group! Let's go inside right now, well, you all go inside "

Sticking out his tongue, he disappeared; Yūji clearly saw that he preferred to use his favorite move, it was clear that he would not walk, he raised his eyebrow with a trembling smile.

" ah, well, there's nothing wrong with walking and enjoying this air right now, don't you think? " he looked at his companions, the three of them walking calmly.

" Yūji! Wake up! "

A heart-wrenching scream was heard, stopping Yūji just before he reached the entrance of his beloved Jujutsu High; upon seeing it, he began moving more vigorously, blinking repeatedly. He was puzzled.

Curiously, Megumi turned to look at him, his companion was behaving very differently than usual, very strange " Yūji? You're acting different, is something wrong? Gojo is waiting for us right now " he spoke to his companion to make him come out of that trance.

Yūji looked at Nobara, who already had a sweet in her mouth, then at Megumi, despite his seriousness, he did not hide his concern.

He looked at Gojo-sensei who came out with several sweets in his mouth " if you all don't arrive, I'll finish all the sweets! Utahime says she will finish them too " the albino spoke playfully; the girl in traditional clothing tried to hit him, but she did not succeed; after all, Gojo used his infinity enjoying annoying him.

" but what are you waiting for!? If this is about Yūji's welcome " Utahime scolded those three teenagers.

Yūji looked at them as his companions slowly began to come out and in the end they looked at him curiously.

The redhead, still halted in his walk, slowly turned around; something told him that he should not turn, but that call was heart-wrenching.

When he did, he saw a very small girl, with greenish-red hair, who had no mask but a headscarf; then he saw a girl with purple hair and fierce eyes.

In the end, he saw a green-haired man with purple eyes, a woman with lilac hair, a man with orange hair and rings in his eyes with his striking red cloud-like robes.

" Yūji, please wake up "

The girl with the headscarf repeated, her desperate gaze, that last plea sounded like a yearning whisper.

A whisper of death.

The redheaded boy showed a confused expression; people could not enter this place, at least the other humans who did not have cursed energy.

His head turned back toward his companions; Megumi made a grimace and Nobara finally showed concern.

" where are you going, Yūji? "

" aren't you going to enter? What are you waiting for, did the curse do something to you? "

He heard the voices of his companions, quite puzzled.

But when he looked back, more people began to appear; not only those, a redheaded girl appeared who cried for her direction.

Then he saw that she was injured.

He was confused.

Weren't they celebrating that Sukuna died?

What did it mean to be there?

" I... I... " he looked at Megumi and his sensei in desperation, who had already approached his area.

" can't you see them? "

" see whom? I only see that you're acting like a little crazy " the chestnut-haired one mocked the boy.

Yūji felt that he recognized those behind him; he looked desperately to that side where his sensei was, wishing that Gojo would say something.

" wake up, Yūji "

The albino spoke now without his characteristic tone.

" wake up "

Megumi said in that seriousness that he only noticed when he reproached him for something.

" this is only a fantasy of what you would have wished to happen " Nobara stopped pretending, now showing herself without any expression.

Yūji began to hyperventilate.

No, that could not happen.

Gojo-sensei was alive.

Everyone else was alive.

He... he is still alive.

He did not die, everything he experienced was a lie, Sukuna was defeated before everything happened.

" wake up, because if you stay here, more will die again! "

He grabbed his hair forcefully; when he did, he saw that the remaining Jujutsu High uniform now floated because of its size, he saw his small hands, and he looked at his acquaintances, who no longer looked real, the floor, the school, the forest... his loved ones whom he considered family.

Everything was transparent.

It was all an illusion.

A genjutsu.

Gasping in desperation, he held his head; he only wanted to protect them, his own grandfather had told him to make many friends, to help them so that he would not have to die alone like him.

He did.

This world is real.

Yes, it is real.

Is it?

In the midst of the crisis, Yūji finally opened his eyes, seeing that he was in his own soul area; he was no longer with Gojo-sensei, with Megumi, Nobara, with everyone he knew.

Everyone disappeared.

Now he was being covered by those floating mirrors like a dome, those eyes moving from side to side blue like the very sky that is his space.

He remembered.

He had protected Karin, but something happened to his soul; he lost control of his body, and he was submerged in a dream of what he would have wished to happen.

He fell again into Sukuna's games once more, despite everything he had suffered at the hands of that curse, from that new environment.

He has learned nothing.

He has not evolved.

He remains the same pathetic boy.

Lost in his dissociation, he remembered the scream... Suiren was screaming for him; it was where his eyes, which had been drowsy before, now suddenly opened, Suiren!

She screamed for him!

Moving away from those mirrors, he saw how his soul space was contaminating quickly; the division between his soul and Sukuna's now seemed as if Sukuna was dominating.

" damn it! son of a bitch! " his voice felt torn but he was more than awake now; standing in his soul area he looked at those cube eyes, as if they had consciousness they had asserted their power.

Infinity surrounded his soul area; the boy breathed quickly, he had to find a way to make Sukuna's soul return to his own area, and this time, control it himself.

" I have to damage his soul " he murmured as he ran straight toward Sukuna's throne, crossing his soul with Sukuna's to now activate the six eyes.

At least the six eyes are the floating cubes of his area; small red spheres appeared on his side and were launched at that throne of Sukuna's skulls.

Everything began to tremble; he was destroying the area hosted by the curse, and with that he saw how quickly what spread like corruption returned to his own area.

He was damaging Sukuna's soul, feeling as if his essence wanted to control Sukuna, it was doing so, whatever Sukuna did, he would stop him.

" I just hope it's not too late, this damned thing trapped me in a powerful genjutsu just to put me to sleep, it did not only suppress me " he whispered nervously, feeling his small hands tremble.

He did not want to be blamed for the problems at that moment; he should have taken care of Sukuna, but he was surprised by that snake ninja.

Everything is his fault.

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The attacks were executed with good agility, an explosion was heard as he was first hit by those flames and elemental jutsus; Kakashi delivered the final blow, straight to his heart.

Agitated, appreciating how he pierced the chest of that boy, it was only a time bomb that, if not neutralized, would cause suffering unimaginable.

He saw how the boy's face lost life; he withdrew his hand from that destroyed chest; with that jutsu he easily destroyed his heart.

And the redhead fell lifeless on the ground.

Short, broken sighs, as he glanced at his hand, Kakashi moved away to his companions, watching as Anko and all the others looked nervous.

It was all over.

" there is no need to be alert anymore, he is dead " murmured the one with messy hair, glancing sideways as he saw that the boy's body was mostly calcined; he lost an arm and a leg from Asuma's cuts, and the elemental jutsus hit him so hard that surely his other organs exploded.

It was too brutal to kill a boy; it is a tragedy to use him, but that is the ninja world, where even a boy is a substantial threat to the village.

Asuma sighed, calming his nerves as he looked at his companion.

" perhaps we lost all traces of Orochimaru, this mission, aside from that, is a failure " Kurenai said, pressing her eyebrows.

The ANBU fell silent, but upon seeing the arrival of the Third Hokage, they took position; they lowered their heads and knelt, and the Jōnin, upon seeing them, did the same.

" hokage-sama! " their voices firm.

Sarutobi arrived on the scene, seeing all the devastation and how in the center of all that destruction was the body of a boy; it was the same boy in whom he had taken an interest because of his Uzumaki blood.

It is a pity, but it was best to kill him before everything worsened and they were no longer teams but the entire village.

" I saw that you neutralized the threat; well done, all of you " his voice, aged, was evident.

Anko, without raising her head, clenched her fists " I let Orochimaru-sensei escape, hokage-sama, the mission was not completed "

Sarutobi grumbled " you need not worry, Mitarashi Anko, it is possible that all this was Orochimaru's fault; just gather the body and put it on a scroll to search in his mind what Orochimaru or even the Rain Village wanted to achieve with this boy "

" yes, hokage-sama! " the ANBU were the ones who got up to carry out the cleanup.

When one was approaching with the scroll in hand, ready to seal the corpse, he stopped at the moment he saw that in front of his eyes, even though he had a mask, his expression was more than surprised.

" stop, everyone, this boy is not dead! "

The nervous speech of the ANBU made the Jōnin who were leaving the forest with the hokage stop; Kakashi turned around in surprise, mostly because of what the ANBU said, he himself saw how his eyes were already dead, his own heart exploded in his hand!

" that is impossible! He was pierced by Hatake Kakashi! " Kurenai reproached in surprise, no one could be resurrected from death!

Everyone, astonished, saw how the dismembered parts of the boy came back together; it was clearly seen how his bones, his tendons, his nervous system, those small muscles, and finally his skin reappeared as if he had never been mutilated.

As that chest slowly closed and a heart appeared in the center, no one could believe what they were seeing.

The hokage was, above all, stunned, as that boy who looked dead and in a very terrible state now seemed as if nothing had happened.

He slowly got up, somewhat unsteady but managing to stand.

Everyone was alert; Asuma pulled out his blades again, Kakashi holding a kunai in hand and the others in position, ready to launch the attack.

Yūji began to open his eyes, which no longer had any warm glow; he looked around.

What was once a forest was now an expanse he had never seen.

The fetid smell of blood and severed flesh reached his nose, giving him some nausea.

And looking around, he paused for a moment among the ninjas of the village, recognizing at first sight that silver ninja he had seen at the beginning when he arrived.

He is an imbecile.

Feeling a little pain in his neck, he touched that area; it felt strange, the third synergy he remembered seeing in the air, there was very little in that mark.

Sukuna used it; that is why the forest is no longer a forest.

Was Suiren really speaking to him? Or was it only his subconscious that wanted to awaken from that terrible lie he was dreaming...?

But now, he did not want to lower his head.

Because when he did, a few meters from him, he saw something he could not imagine. But his own face no longer had an expression to put on.

Half of Suiren's body no longer existed; it was as if it were only the severed head, a piece of leg, and a piece of arm.

The mask she used to try to remove it and to see her face did not exist.

That cloth with which she had, even though she hid it, proud as the protector of Amegakure.

Her heart, remade by the RCT, felt so weak in its beats. He knew that just like Sukuna, he would never let her die, he could regenerate her heart again, the intervention in his fight against Sukuna kept her alive.

This fight against him was not over yet.

And surely it kept her alive because he knew perfectly that she would suffer.

It was when leaving that place, where the ground was still calcined, trembling with every step he took, that the ninjas tensed up; but despite the miracle on their faces and their great surprise, they did not attack because the boy behaved differently than they knew.

He had been resurrected before them and acted no longer so sadistic; he was very... calm.

He saw him walking toward him; Anko, more than anything, without calming her anger, threw several shurikens when she saw that he was now face to face with the brat.

The shurikens pierced his body, but it seems he did not even flinch; Yūji continued with that gloomy walk, saying nothing, and not even a grimace passed on his face.

" what is he trying to do? " Kakashi murmured as he saw that even though he passed in his direction, the boy did not stop walking; but as he continued to follow him with his gaze, he saw why he ignored them.

He remembered that this one had his team, his companions, and the one who was missing a whole body was one of them.

" we have to capture him, it is possible that he is planning another attack, hokage-sama " Asuma spoke firmly, glancing sideways at his father.

Sarutobi had noticed something strange; although he had a unique ability like regeneration, he was surprised, he no longer felt even a hint of danger from that boy, and he did not seem malicious, he just wanted to see what he would do, since after all they were going to take him into custody and bring him to the interrogation rooms.

And perhaps even Danzo was interested, since this boy is quite a unique asset; is that why Orochimaru attended the exams because he knew the power of this boy?

Maybe they need to wash his mind and make him think that Konoha is his home if it turns out to be true; that regeneration was something they need, and the boy is possibly the key, it could revolutionize the field of medical ninjutsu that no one has known since Tsunade is not in the village.

" do not make any move yet, he may already feel remorse for his actions " the hokage's voice sounded, because everyone saw how the boy stopped in front of Suiren.

At least, what remained of her.

Yūji, without making any grimace and caring little about those ninjas, cherished his companion, those dull eyes, what remained of her face that had been calcined by the attacks of the ninjas from Konoha.

What little remained of her.

A silence of gloom in that moment.

He did not move from staring at Suiren's body.

' before in my life as Itadori Yūji, I soothed my guilt over the deaths because my purpose is to control Sukuna so that no one dies by his hands... but now, what is the point of my existence? I tried my best, I fought against my morality, but... I learned nothing '

Even without showing a change in his expression, Yūji felt lost ' I had a goal, I wanted to set a goal for myself, I... wanted to be happy again without hurting anyone, despite being in a much worse world than the one I come from; I would have people to care for and to love, but... what is the point of me being alive and only carrying something worse that could be unleashed at any moment? It would be better if I died... but this damned curse will never let me die, I killed someone I cared about, something I had said at the beginning would never happen, but I did it anyway '

' being an imbecile, blindly believing everything I learned in my life as Itadori, but I am no longer Itadori ' finally, a few small tears began to fall from his eyes, he knelt before what remained of Suiren

' Sukuna keeps killing... I thought this time would be different, that I would manage to stop him no matter the cost, but it is all useless what I think! he will always find one way or another to come out and kill anyone in his path! ' he held his hair in despair, the tears falling more and more abundantly, stifling a sob

' I wanted to continue behaving like Itadori Yūji, the good-hearted boy who helps everyone, the boy who always has a smile on his face for anyone who comes near me, but now... I '

' I no longer know who I am '

' I can no longer call myself or see myself as Itadori Yūji; first of all, I should have never behaved that way again, this is no longer Tokyo, this place is no longer like normal people, this place does not know the call of compassion and joy without fighting... I should have never thought I would be like him, because I am not ' Yūji continued shedding his increasingly bitter tears, his formerly pale expression now showing his agony.

" I'm sorry, Suiren, I'm so sorry... I'm sorry... it was all my fault... " he whispered, barely audible, barely able to understand what he had said; his mind was completely broken because once again a massacre happened in something that he could have prevented.

Taking the blame for the death of all those people, it could have been Sukuna who killed each one of them, but in the end, Sukuna remains himself.

It is all his fault for trying to pretend to be someone who he is no longer.

This is not just guilt; it is an identity fracture because of what is happening, Yūji no longer knows who he is or what he represents. If before he clung to 'saving people' now that ideal seems to him a naive fantasy that only brought suffering. Suffering so immense that although it has just begun, it started with a friend, someone he had known for years.

And all because he tried to pretend something that is no longer and never will be.

Gasping for air, he felt as if he were falling into an abyss with no return.

This time, feeling the sharp pain in his neck again, he stopped crying; his expression now was a pure grimace of despair, even though Suiren was dead, now he fell into despair; his hand reached for his friend's head, panting quickly, his eyes lost " you deserve to live, you said you wanted peace, I would help you for peace, you have to fulfill your dream, you said it yourself... Suiren... Suiren... "

He pleaded pathetically, although Yūji wanted to use the reverse cursed energy on Suiren, he knew it would not perform miracles.

She was already dead; she could not be rebuilt from scratch.

It was useless...

And he could not fulfill his dream, all because of his fault for having killed her so brutally, that he did not even need to look to know that his friend suffered.

Touching what little remained of Suiren, he removed his hand as if he were touching something forbidden.

He had no right to cry for her, because that would be very hypocritical.

But this time, he left all his feelings unseen, just as he always had. With the difference that crying was now useless.

He calmed his sobs to look at his friend, that painful gesture, the crying was now useless because of what he himself had done.

To fight for peace... was that really his purpose?

That would only be Itadori Yūji.

But despite trying to continue being the hero for those he knew, it turned out even worse. If he gets close to those he loves, it could end up like what happened with Suiren, his sister, Papa Pain, Mama Konan; he could kill them in a horrible way at any moment if Sukuna escapes from his soul part.

He has no purpose beyond his deep hatred for Sukuna.

His eyes, dull, his expression completely empty, without diverting from the little he noticed of Suiren.

Hurting himself by seeing her.

The name "Sukuna" now means more than an enemy to him. It is the representation of everything he has lost, of his own failure, of the reason why he does not deserve to keep living.

But deep down, his hatred for Sukuna is only a reflection of his self-hatred. He not only wants to kill him… he wants to destroy him because, in some way, destroying Sukuna means destroying the part of him that allowed all this to happen; however,

he knows that that will not be possible.

Now, standing, he looked sideways at those ninjas. It was supposed that these days would be fun and joyful for his team and his companions from Amegakure; everything was spoiled.

" you have to come with us to the interrogation room; if you do not come, we will assume that all the ninjas of the Rain have launched a direct attack against the Leaf Village " an ANBU spoke firmly, standing before the hokage.

Yūji approached them without a word; when he came face to face with them, the Jōnin looked at him strangely, but the ANBU immediately placed restriction seals, sealing his chakra and thereby putting him into a genjutsu.

Yūji fell to the ground, fainting because of that strong genjutsu, he did not have his six eyes active, and he would let them do whatever they wanted, he could not condemn his companions any further.

At least until they left and abandoned him.

That is how it must be.

To be abandoned by those he loved.

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[ I want to explain a few things; first, it is about Sukuna's behavior and why it is that way.

First, nothing like what we saw in the manga happened; Yūji never told him that he would forgive him when he freed Megumi and said the same of " I am you " before Sukuna refused.

But there, Sukuna had his redemption between choosing whether to keep fighting or take a different path; that happened when he encountered Mahito in nothingness; in the end, Sukuna chose a different path along with Uraume.

But here? None of that happened; Yūji did not say those words to Sukuna, on the contrary, he devoured him, so Sukuna is not 'redeemed' and only wants to see the world burn.

What happens with Yūji and why does he remain so idiot? It is simply because he is no longer just Itadori Yūji; he has a young eight-year-old soul, sometimes his mentality at that age wins, other times he behaves like Itadori Yūji, sometimes he even wants to change his personality because he has no consistency in what he wants to be!

But in the end, he does not even know what he is; all this time he has been behaving as Itadori when an Itadori Yūji in the ninja world (Naruto) is something idiot, you cannot be a hero because the ninja world is cruel and ruthless, maybe only Uzumaki Naruto works because he comes from Konoha and does not have a demon, but at least that demon is sealed; Sukuna is not, and it will be more difficult because it is something of soul and not just a mass of chakra like Kurama.

Although Yūji said he would try, he still makes beginner mistakes, just as Orochimaru bites him on the neck from behind; that happened because despite so much time, he is still used to always having his team to protect him; those habits like Itadori are still present.

(Cofcof Megumi cofcof.)

Yūji, although he has evolved very little, did not do enough, behaving as someone he is no longer, and that cost him a companion, unlike this time she truly died, and it did not happen like Nobara.

Here comes a very drastic change in Yūji, as I am already giving small hints, so forgive me if you get angry with Yūji because he is a very human person; I try to get very close to the personalities of Sukuna and Yūji, and I also apologize if I am wrong.

But I felt it was necessary to explain]