❝she's just winging it❞

marri slept for an entire two days straight as she was internalizing how she would beat naoya and still look pretty and cute at the same time.

"good morning princess", satoru cooed, kissing the top of marri's forehead as the girl smiled first before snapping open her eyes.

"good morning papa!! I need more kisses for more energy!", marri exclaimed, to which satoru had smothered the little girl with affection.

"waffles for breakfast today sweetheart", satoru said, to which marri had hurried out of bed as she aggressively brushed her teeth and and put on her outfit that she had bought just for today.

"how do I look?", marri asked, as satoru helped brush the girl's hair into pigtails.

"just adorable!", her father complimented, pinching marri's cheeks as the five year old giggled.

"will the higher ups be there today? I even sent a personal invitation", marri stated.

"guess we'll just have to wait and see", satoru smiled.

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"HEY HIGHER UPS!!", marri yelled, sitting on top of satoru's shoulders as she chaotically waved.

the old men flinched at the young girl's loudness as they glanced around at each other, meanwhile the tokyo and kyoto students — along with marri's curse friends — sat on the grass.

even some other sorcerer clans came along to watch, as they couldn't believe gojō satoru's kid was challenging zenin naoya.

"make sure you guys stay, because this is somewhat directed at you guys", marri smiled, walking off as the higher ups whispered amongst each other.

"you lot will stay no matter what, because my precious daughter's about to perform", satoru threatened, to which the higher ups clenched their fists as they too took a seat on the grass.

marri skipped towards tōji and megumi, who were side by side with the tokyo and kyoto students.

"oho? is that outfit inspired by me?", tōji grinned, pinching marri's cheek as the girl nodded.

"yeah! I thought the skin tight black shirt and baggy white pants would be very comfortable, and it is", the girl responded.

"marri, don't push yourself okay? if you need any help, just shout and we're literally right here", kugisaki slightly worried, as no one really knew what naoya's technique was.

"oh, no worries!! I can handle myself...except I haven't tried to do domain expansion yet...", the girl mumbled, to which megumi was shocked.

the boy's domain expansion: chimera shadow garden, was barely complete.

"you...you can use domain expansion?", itadori asked, to which an eye and a mouth had popped out on the boy's hand.

"and you never even told me?! damn, thought I was your favorite curse", sukuna scoffed.

"okay, to be fair, I've never tried using domain expansion, so I don't even know if I can do it", marri shrugged, holding her finger dangerously close to sukuna's eye.

"poke my eye and I'll bite your finger off!", the king of curses threatened.

marri shook her head and sighed.

"what's with you people and curses eating fingers?"

sukuna clicked his tongue in annoyance as he huffed.

"if you lose, we're not friends anymore".

marri loudly gasped, as she nearly teared up from sukuna calling them friends.

"I won't disappoint!!", marri squealed, her energy suddenly higher than the unlimited sky, as she then snapped her head at ijichi.

"oh! and make sure you record this at a good angle, iji-san! uncle nanamin needs to see how amazing I am", marri self-praised, to which ijichi had nodded, taking out his phone.

"ARE YOU DONE TALKING YET? DO YOU STILL WANT TO FIGHT OR NOT?!", naoya shouted from across the field, to which marri had rolled her eyes, putting her hand on her hip.

"I'M SORRY THAT I ACTUALLY HAVE PEOPLE WHO LOVE ME! CAN YOU HOLD YOUR HORSES?!", marri shouted back, making a few people and curses snort.

"jesus christ! let a girl have some time with her friends", marri muttered, waddling over towards satoru as she hugged him and gave him a quick kiss to the cheek.

"play nice, princess", satoru grinned, to which marri had given one back.

"no promises, papa!"

the white-haired girl then sighed as she scratched the back of her head, patting her chest as she made sure that her needed item was there.

naoya scoffed as he looked down upon the child.

"you know, it's not too late to back out and save yourself from the embarrassment", naoya mocked.

"me? embarrassed? shouldn't it be you that's embarrassed? you're fighting a five year old, mind you", marri rebutted, to which naoya's brows had furrowed.

"YOU'RE the one that challenged ME!"

"and you accepted! I thought adults were supposed to be the bigger person, but I guess you're just mentally not there, just like your eighteenth century mindset", marri shrugged.

that was the cue.

naoya clenched his fists as his face suddenly fell into a calm — slightly condescending — smile.

a low chuckle emitted from the man's throat as he glared at marri, who had noticed how serious naoya had suddenly got.

"you'll be crying by the end of this. now let's dance, shall we?"

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a/n: hello my lovelies!!

I hope you're all enjoying this story so far! so disclaimer, gege hasn't revealed naoya's technique yet, so I'm just going to ✨make one up✨

so please don't come at me later! what I do know is that apparently he's really fast, almost like teleporting, so...interesting?

also, I'm not good at writing fight scenes, so please bear with me.

and thank you for all the votes + comments (yes, I read ALL of them), and I'll see you next chapter!! <3