Chapter: Feelings

It was another night for Itadori as he sat by the register. He sighed in boredom not knowing what to do. He never found himself bored before, but after he met Megumi things had changed so much.

Even for sukuna who was inside him…

"*sigh* sukuna?… can we talk?"

'….'

Itadori felt a blood vessel bulge as he knew sukuna was listening but chose to ignore him. That ungrateful, free-loading, bast-

'I dare you to finish that line of thought… I have no problem kicking your ass.'

itadori felt a chill run up his spin as he heard Sukuna's voice inside his head. He really wasn't used to this way of communicating.

"Hey! How come you ignored me the first time?"

'Because your annoying..'

itadoris eye twitched as he found the nerve to not kick his own ass.

'And if your so bored that you rather talk to someone who you hate like me, why don't you leave this stupid convenience store? You know deeply you want to get out of this hell hole.'

sukuna began to snake negative thoughts into itadori who only just scuffed.

"Because, it's the only job that's paying for food and rent. Plus what would I do if I let Megumi pay for all of the rent? We agreed to pay the rent one month, then the other would pay for the next."

itadori didn't let Sukuna's manipulative words get to him. Sukuna only pouted as he lost interest in playing with the brat.

'Yeah, but it was thanks to me you met Megumi brat. Your still a loser who will live with unfortunate fate as you will keep living with me inside you.'

"Yeah.. your right, and.. I never really did thank you sukuna.. curse or not, you are probably the reason why I became more greedier to aim for a happy life… thanks you"

sukuna gagged as he felt a warm feeling in his chest. He couldn't understand this word emotion he would feel that filled him with satisfaction. He huffed as he ignored itadori now, he wished to no longer carry out this dangerous conversation.

Itadori sighed as he leaned back in his chair behind the register feeling the warmth in his chest.. he was stupid, but he knew that sukuna was feeling happy about being thanked for something so small.

•••

A few minutes passed as itadori heard a rawr of laughter coming inside the small liquor store he was working. He looked at the time as he saw he was only 5 minutes away from clocking out. He sat up as he looked to see how long would these people take to buy their booze and go.

His eyes scanned the groupie as they all were in their disheveled suits.

'*sigh* business drinking party.. just hurry up and buy your booze..'

Itadori said mentally as he had his eyes on the clock. It was 3 minutes till the other worker came in and he can go. He just needed to wait a bit more..

"Come on Megumi~ let see you flirt~ you look handsome enough, flirt with the cashier. He looks like he would give you the alcohol for a discount~"

Megumi was drunk.. and so were the other workers.

And if anything that Megumi failed to learn, was that on these fiasco's… things always turned for the worst.

"No!.. hiccup! I'm not g-gay! hiccup! I'm not selling my body for a couple of drinks! hiccup! …"

The men of his coworkers didn't like this as they hated party poopers, but they only stood back as they let the women push him around.

"Come on Megumi~ you said you were buying tonight~ plus, it's Friday night.. I'm sure if you just go and tell the nice cashier for free drinks.. he will give them to you.. you did say he was your friend~"

"I-l did? hiccup… but.. I lost my wallet, so.. I can't buy anything else.."

Megumi was pushed to the register as he almost lost his balance but grabbed himself onto the counter. Everyone stood back as they saw their 'bully' of the department was drunk.. and he wasn't a nice drunk when he wasn't given what he wanted.

"Then why did you offer us drinks in the first place? I think that's rather irresponsible of you to do that.."

Megumi glared at his coworker as he was about to stand up straight to his offender, but suddenly felt a strong arm pull him back over the register… he looked up to see it was…

•••

Itadori already didn't like the way things were playing. And he couldn't call the cops because Megumi was one of those drunks in the shop. He really should start looking for a better job then this..

'What are you doing? Aren't you going to help your stupid friend?'

Sukuna asked through itadori's thoughts as he could feel the tension rise in the store… something about seeing Megumi get pushed around, made him livid.

'No, I'm still only 2 min away from my shift ending.. plus, I'm not allowed to interfere unless they attack me first.'

Itadori began feeling a weird feeling in his chest now. It was almost like a feeling of anger and jealousy mixed.. was this sukuna?

'Sukuna.. calm down, I'm sure Megumi could handle himself. He's a guy too-'

SLAM

Itadori looked downwards as he saw Megumi had gotten shoved by a taller man… he last saw Megumi's back as he raised himself back on his feet before feeling sukuna take control of his body..

•••

"Oi.. what do you bitches think your doing in my shop?.."

Everyone froze as they saw Sukuna's tattoos on his face had appeared.. he looked like a gangster as he held Megumi from behind with his very firm arm around his waist.

"Who are you calling 'Bitches' bell boy? Ring us up already, and we will be on our way."

The guy who had pushed Megumi replied as he gave a equal aura of intimidation then that of Sukuna's.. but, he didn't have the fire to back up all of that talk.

".. fufufu…ha.. ha.. ha.. ha.. HaHaHaHa… HAHAHAHAHA!"

Everyone decided to leave the shop seeing how much uneasiness they were feeling hearing Sukuna's cynical laughter… if only they knew that feeling was pure bloodlust.

"Bell boy?… who you calling a bell boy?"

Sukuna steadily jumped over the register as he took off his work vest and unbuttoned three buttons of his work attire. The other guy couldn't move his legs let alone speak as he felt a sudden urge of dread enter him… he was going to die.

"That's enough sukuna! Leave him alone!"

Megumi shout out as he came around the register where he was placed as he began pushing sukuna away from the guy. Sukuna's bloodlust eyes never left his target though.

The guy took this chance to ditch Megumi with the psycho thug cashier as he tripped on his way out and crawled away.

"Tch! Unbelievable bastard.."

*sukuna commented as he was like a lion disappointed in his prey escaping