Disabled | Gojo Satoru

You can't expect me to lose. Not when I know you're waiting for me. In which Satoru managed to survive the fight against Sukuna, but became disabled.

Disabled | Gojo Satoru

You can't expect me to lose. Not when I know you're waiting for me. In which Satoru managed to survive the fight against Sukuna, but became disabled.

The first timid rays of the March morning sun barely slipped into Satoru’s room through the tightly drawn curtains. Across the school grounds, an overwhelming silence reigned, broken only by the faint dripping of melting icicles.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

It was the same steady sound he remembered from Shoko’s infirmary three months ago, when he had first opened his eyes and, with uncooperative hands, tried to pull the IV needle from his vein. Three months of his life after, which felt like an eternity.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Days dripped into days, weeks into weeks, and along with them came the crushing realization that nothing would ever be the same again. The visible traces of the greatest battle of his life had nearly faded, but the scars within him remained wide open, unhealed wounds. For twenty-nine years, he had waited for that moment—the moment he would meet an opponent capable of giving him a true fight. But now, with that moment behind him... what was left? Who was he now? A weary man who gave everything for victory, and still somehow lost.

The pain and the horror, though left in the past, stretched mercilessly into the present. As if the reminder of his half-broken body wasn’t cruel enough.

Satoru sighed, staring up at the ceiling, running a hand across his face.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

He was alive, yet inside he was falling apart. If not for her, he might have regretted surviving at all. For her he had clawed his way back from the other side. And now he feared it might have been in vain.

And the walker and wheelchair standing by his bed each morning were a mocking reminder of why.

Drip. Drip. Drip.