6 A wonderful morning

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Yuuka woke up in a wonderful mood, feeling energized despite the fact that she went to sleep late last night. The thought of her new, and literal soulmate, had her giggling in delight. 

Looking inwards, she felt that the soul wasn't active at the moment, in a state of rest she supposes.

"What a boring brat, he's already been sealed for almost a millenia and all he does is rest?"

Yuuka's mood dampens a bit. 

"And who are you calling a brat, fool?"

She perks up at the instant reply, mulishness clear in the curse's voice.

"You of course. You're way, way, waaaaaaay younger than me by several millennia or maybe even an eon because I never really kept up with the years."

"So you're admitting to being an old hag? Fah, as expected to someone unsightly."

It amuses Yuuka how petulant the cursed soul is, doesn't he know that he's just proving her point of him being a brat. But he can't agree with what he just said. 

One thing is the truth in every reality. 

Yuuka is always beautiful in every lifetime.

As the Universe's most favored child, it would reflect on her shell. Yuuka is not ugly, not even her past vessels could ever be labeled ugly. Though Omnia whispered to her that there is someone born here that is given favor in this plane of reality. Someone who is already born before her. 

Omnia even reassured her that as much as that person was given liberties, Yuuka was still their favorite and most loved one.

It's funny how they even went out of their way to clarify it to her, if anything, she'd be happy to give away her title to get THEM off her back. But alas, that cannot be. 

Damn her luck.

(As one would put, Throughout the heavens and earth, I alone, am the honored one. Credits to her best bud Siddhartha for that fire quote by the way, ahhh she misses that guy dearly, one of the chillest humans out there and one of her most cherished friends. She hopes he's doing well in Nirvana. Sidd's one of the examples of the favored humans that the Universe ascended to be beyond human, but unlike Yuuka he's still sane, how he does it, Yuuka has no idea.)

In fact, in her very first life from a very dead reality – and as vaguely as she recalls it, and yes, she killed that plane – she was labeled as The Beauty That Transcends The Universe or some bullshit title they gave her to justify her being the young male concubine (bought slave) to their beloved King. And yes, her title demands capitalization, apparently to human eyes, she was so beautiful it justifies being a child to serve in a grown man's bed.

Man, now her good mood had turned sour just thinking about her naive years with Omnia as her only solace.

Anyhow, "If I'm unsightly, what does that say about you? We literally look alike."

Sukuna scoffs, "Jokes on you. I've always thought of myself as ghastly."

Now he's just prolonging the argument for the sake of arguing, because she's pretty sure that she heard him mutter about misleading outward appearances last night when he thought Yuuka was already sleeping.

"Wow, what confidence, I have you know that I'm the cutest girl in our Grade according to a secret poll that anyone but me should know about."

"Those human children must be born with defective eyes then."

"Ah of course, because Sukuna-sama has four eyes. He must have superior eyesight."

Her tone is sarcastic yet the man does not seem to notice.

"But of course, this King is far more superior in every way than any young brainless monkey."

Yuuka gets up, heading towards her bathroom to wash her face and brush her teeth to get ready for school.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever makes you feel validated, dear child."

There was a tense moment of silence before a mouth manifested itself on her right cheek and the barely there scar slid open to reveal slitted red eyes filled with scorn.

"This one does not need validation from peasant sniveling mongrels! Don't you know that I'm the Ki—"

Yuuka slaps a hand to her cheek because the fuming spirit is getting louder and louder, she holds tight on her bodily control and seals both manifestations shut, though Sukuna has resorted to shouting very loudly into her head.

She takes off the toothbrush from her mouth, spitting out the foam and gurgling some water to wash her mouth.

Yuuka looks into her reflection in the mirror, still ever so cute and pink and adorable. No one has yet to say 'no' to this face.

She gives an impish grin as she knows that Sukuna is seeing through her eyes and can most definitely see her.

His screaming became mixed in with growling to assert 'dominance'.

"—ow dare a foolish creature like you call the great Me a 'dear child'! When I get out of here I'll take out your soft human heart and crush it with my bear fucking hands in front of someone you care about, for I, the King of Cu—"

"And throughout the heavens and the earth, I alone, is chosen as their most beloved one. I'm so loved by THEM that even Life and Death had an agreement to not chain me to the trivialities of mortality." She lifts her chin up in challenge. "How are you going to compete against the t̶̮̟͋̋r̸̝͈̀̌e̸͕̩͌e̶̡͒.'s most spoiled child? If you kill me, then you're dooming existence itself."

Sukuna barks an irate laugh.

"How is an annoying creature like you holding even such power in the first place? It's vexing that a fool like you is someone that I'm stuck with. If I had such power, I would have crushed humanity and those feeble charlatans under my heel."

Yuuka wipes her face with a fuzzy pink towel.

The quasi teen gives a dry look to the mirror. "Of course you would have. I don't expect any less." She goes out the bathroom and beelines to her closet, taking out her uniform and new underwear. What about these 'feeble charlatans'? Who are they?

"Are you fucking with me?" Is all he says, as she busies herself in changing clothes.

"I am, in fact, not."

"You really don't know anything about sorcerers? When you wield curse energy and a curse technique with ease?"

"I'm new to this plane of reality, remember?" The pinkette gives a shrug, grabbing her notes and assignments, arranging it to her bag. I have yet to explore the weirder side of the realm and I have my priorities. She slings it on and goes out of her room. And what I was using was a power from a different reality.

Yuuka can feel his curiosity, yet he held his tongue from asking. Either from pride or derision to her capabilities.

She bets that it was both. Tsk, tsk, someone has to teach humility to this man, he might as well be the Avatar of Pride, though if she says that to Lucifer Yuuka's head would be falling off her shoulders before she could blink.

Now, to prepare breakfast without her old man waking up and berating her about how it's his job to do it as her guardian. Fah, if only he knows who's the true old man between them.

With the practiced ease of someone who had been an assassin or even a ninja in her past life, Yuuka went down their rickety wooden stairs in silence.

"I don't get why you have to prepare your own sustenance when there's a willing human to cater for your needs."

Yuuka rolls her eyes. "It's called gratefulness and filial piety Sukuna. He's an old man and he's not getting any younger. I should at least do something as easy as cooking for the both of us."

"This is why you're still a peasant. Assert your dominance and superiority even to your kin. That way you come out on top."

She takes out the pan on the cupboard and some bowls and chopsticks, placing it down on the table, as she passes over the rice cooker Yuuka presses the button down to heat up the rice.

"Been a king, an emperor even, then a queen in another and some other ruling royal or whatever. The life of a royalty is so mundane and boring, with too many rules and stiff manners. That was so not fun."

Sukuna scoffs, this kid does nothing but scoff like an entitled spoiled brat.

Yuuka takes out a few eggs, green onions, miso paste and a block of tofu from the fridge, and the small tub of leftover properly spicy curry. Might as well make her own lunch with their breakfast.

"You become King to rule and be your own rules. Slaughter whoever you wish to slaughter and eliminate those who get in your way."

"Like I said, been there, done that. Did you know that the word Tyrant was invented because of me?" Then she dismisses the conversation altogether, tuning out his insistence for dominance, manslaughter, and ruling over the 'unevolved peasants'. Instead she redirects all her attention into making an awesome egg roll that will both feature in her breakfast and lunch. She gets a small pot with some water to start with the miso soup.

By the time her Gramps came down grumbling about the slightly raised floorboard on the hall, Yuuka is about done preparing her lunchbox, a cutesy chibi Sukuna character bento because she fucking could.

(And because she wants to annoy the cursed creature for calling her old man with mean names.)

Plus it was so darn funny how insisted on adding blood on the picture because as he said and she quotes, "I am a majestic creature of violence and carnage! If you were to emulate my image then there must be blood you fool!"

(Yuuka relents and artfully splatters the very spicy red curry sauce on the pristine chibi Sukuna sitting on a throne of egg rolls and lettuce, to imitate blood spray. Damn, all those lives she's been a pro chef was so worth it, not only was she capable of making something delicious, she can also make such beautiful masterpieces like these.) 

Apparently, appearing as someone harmless greatly offends him, even in artistic creation the likes of Character Bentos. And he even let out how he was stuck in a vessel who embodies harmlessness, oh the indignity he was facing after being asleep for centuries. It's his roundabout way of saying she's adorable and cute and that it greatly offends his masculine urge to be domineering and alpha.

Pfft— Yuuka wonders when the man would learn that she is only doing this because she loves his reactions.

"You fool! The audacity! Let's see how you like it once I get out and rip that old man you love so much into shreds."

Yuuka beams in the face of her grandfather's glare.

"Good morning Gramps! I made breakfast for us!"

"Say that to me when you're not just a voice in my head, then I'll take you seriously."

She receives a flick on her forehead from her grandfather while Sukuna raises holy hell inside her head. Man, he sure can yell and curse, as expected of a cursed spirit. 

"What did I tell you about breakfast?"

And oh wow, he already found a way to inflict internal pain, really, trying to stop her heart from beating by squeezing it?

Yuuka's smile stretches wider, not minding the invisible hand clenching at where her heart was.

"Oh come on Gramps, let your favorite grandchild do it for you. Let me pamper you~"

"Really? A heart attack? You really have a thing for hearts huh?"

"Come down here and face me you fucking disrespectful foo–!"

"Not now, maybe later."

Wasuke gives an unimpressed stare. "You're my only grandchild. That means you're also my least favorite." 

Yuuka whines as the old man passes her and gives a questionable stare to her open lunchbox before shrugging, taking a seat and pouring himself his morning tea. His eyes moved to the breakfast spread after he took a sip.

"Do you want me to get fat?" He asks dryly, which was fair, she did make a lot.

Yuuka takes a seat and starts piling food on her grandfather's plate. Some egg fried rice, egg rolls, sausages, fried tofu and a serving of miso soup.

"—dare to ignore me, you, you, infuriating insect! Why I ought to squash you like the bu—"

"Gramps, you need to eat to keep up with my energy. You always complained about having to keep up with me."

A hand stops her from piling more food.

"—'ll slaughter your entire bloodline and feast on your entra—"

"Stop it! You know very well that I can't eat too much or the nurses would complain again."

Yuuka raises an eyebrow.

"But don't you enjoy being fussed over by the pretty nurses?"

That earns her a smack on the back of her head.

"Cheeky brat!"

Yuuka laughs, her tsundere Grampa is just so fun to tease.

"—ake you regret letting me inhabit your body as my vessel. You would rue the day that I, Suku—"

Ahhh… what a nice and wonderful morning. Hopefully it stays like this for quite some time. But knowing that the Universe loves to make her life entertaining and making her the Fated One in this reality, it could either get better or worse from here.

"—ot even listening to the great Me! I'll rip out those cute little ears of yours to—"

"Awww… you think I'm cute? And yes, I know that it wasn't just my ears you found adorable, you tsundere br—"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FOOLISH CREA—"

Ah, such a wonderful morning.