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"Sukuna?"

Sukuna looks up from his phone, seeing his younger brother standing by the doorway, looking awfully bashful.

This can't be good.

Sukuna can see the nervous jitters ticking off of him and Yuuji's shooting him his usual puppy dog smile.

 “What do you want...?” Sukuna carefully asks, tossing his phone to the side.

“I need you to help me.”

“With what?” Sukuna probes, narrowing his eyes. He'd rather not move from his seat. He is far too comfortable and far too lazy to even move.

Yuuji merely grabs him by his arm and gently tugging at his sleeve in an attempt to pull him away from the couch. “Come on please, Suku-nii."

Sukuna rolls his eyes, his little brother can be so devious at the weirdest times. Only calling him big brother when he needed or wanted something from Sukuna…and, well, Sukuna's the fool for falling for it every time.

Sukuna finally stood up from the couch and followed his twin up the stairs and into their shared bedroom. His mouth opening to question his brother before it lands on what looks like a piercing kit, correction, it is a piercing kit.

All laid out neatly on the floor along.

It doesn't take a genius to know what's going on. "Are you trying to pierce your ears?”

Yuuji grins. "Yeah. You know how to do this right?”

Of course Sukuna knows how to do it. He has a lot of piercing, heck he lost count of how many he has. But it is definitely over 10.

“You’ve gotten so many, you’d at least know how it works.”

Which is a dumb correlation.

But yes, Sukuna does.

He knows how to do it. Has even done some on himself but trying to do it on his little brother is a little...well, he supposed it won't be too bad—he’d rather do it than let some stranger touch his brother, even if they happen to be a professional.

“What's the sudden change, brat?” Sukuna huffs out, crossing his legs as he starts to go through the kit.

“Nothing, really!” Yuuji insists and Sukuna can tell the brat is lying because one, they're twins and two, Yuuji can't lie for shit and three, he knows Yuuji like the back of his hand. Yuuji continues, “I’ve been wanting to do it for a long time and finally, I thought I should get it.”

“And I believe the old man and I told you not to get them too for a reason,” Sukuna points out, and he doesn’t really have a reason—he just didn’t want to ruin his brother’s perfectly good appearance (even if they happen to be identical twins) and the damn old man just didn’t want Yuuji to have them just because.

Yuuji's bottom lip begins to jut out, his eyes turning glossy—it’s all fucking fake but Sukuna’s got a weak heart for his stupid little brother and without a doubt, Sukuna’s obviously going to fall for this just as he does any other times.

Sukuna scoffs, and gives in. This record lasting 0.2 millisecond longer than the last one.

“Have you sterilized these yet?”

Yuuji nods eagerly. “I washed them with rubbing alcohol.”

“Good.” Sukuna motion for Yuuji to take seat in front of him.

Yuuji is quick to follow Sukuna's instructions, of course he is. Never once questioning Sukuna and everyone in town knows not to mess with Yuuji lest they experience Sukuna's wrath.

Sukuna inspected the gun, getting a little more curious now because he didn't even see Yuuji buy the kit and they spend nearly all their times together; school, home and even during leisure time.

“Where did you even get this stuff?”

“Megumi…” Yuuji smiles sheepishly.

Sukuna rolls his eyes, of course he should have known. Brat #2 is a bad influence on his little brother.

“Did the brat tell that this is gonna hurt like a bitch?" Sukuna asks.

Yuuji, too used to his brother's affectionate nickname nods. "Please, it's only a little bit of pain. I can handle something like that."

"A little bit?" Sukuna starts mock-laughing at his brother. "Who was the one that cried all night because he bumped into the desk and woke me up so he could get an ice pack?"

"Hey! That actually hurt." Yuuji gently runs a hand at his pelvis where it is still had a bit of discolouration.

"And you think this won't?" Sukuna points out. "We don't have proper anesthesia like the professionals.”

“I know,” Yuuji says, turning his back on Sukuna to rampage through his backpack. Sukuna immediately knows what he’ll bring out before he even takes it out, it's a bottle of numbing spray. "Megumi gave it."

Of course.

Brat #2 probably wouldn’t want to see his ‘best friend’ going through something painful (although Sukuna doubts this counts as that painful).

“Alright but it'll still hurt,” Sukuna warns, placing one earring into the slot, and he can feel Yuuji start to tense. "Relax. It’s not as bad as you think.”

At his words, Yuuji's form visibly relaxed.

“This is going to feel really cold for a bit, don't get startled okay?” Sukuna explains.

Yuuji nibbles on his bottom lip, giving a small nod.

Sukuna starts to spray a good amount on Yuuji's ear. Putting a lot more than he normally would have done for himself because this is Yuuji—he didn't tolerate pain as well as Sukuna did. The least he can do is make the process as painless as possible.  

Yuuji shudder at the coolness pooling in his ear.

“Yuuji, you trust me right?” Sukuna asks.

“Of course!" Yuuji answers without any hesitation.

Sukuna lifts Yuuji's face, holding it still in his palm, he didn't want Yuuji to suddenly pull away in pain. Any sudden movement might cause further or even permanent injuries.

“Close your eyes, okay? And don't move,” he whispers and Yuuji stops moving entirely.

"Take a deep breath for me." Sukuna commands. "Three—"

The sound of a clicker echoes through the room followed by a small sharp stinging pain.

"Ouch! Suku-nii, you liar! Oh..." Yuuji trails off, he blinked his eyes. The pain isn't too bad. It didn't hurt that bad, it stung a little but it is bearable.

Before Yuuji can say anything else, a second tiny 'click' echoes through the room and Sukuna had just apparently pierced the other side without waiting for Yuuji.

"There." Sukuna toss everything back into the kit. Sukuna cock an eyebrow at his little brother who had a small pout on his face. “What’s wrong?”

“I thought you were going to countdown!”

“I didn’t say I was going to do now, did I?”

Yuuji opens his mouth to protest but that did make sense. "Thanks, Suku-nii!"

Sukuna leans back on their shared bed, giving his brother a lazy stare. "Well, you gonna tell me why you pierced your ears?"

Yuuji's cheeks flush a pretty red. His eyes coyly staring down at his lap and now this intrigued Sukuna. Seeing his little brother act like a schoolgirl about to confess her crush.

"You got a crush, brat?"

"No!" Yuuji denies, then he mumbles something under his breath.

"What was that?"

"I said I wanted to have a matching pair with you!"

Sukuna blinks his eyes, turning his head to the side. He covers his face with his hand, feeling his own cheeks grow hot.

"Suku-nii?"

"Shut up!" 

Sukuna is apparently going to need to go out shopping this weekend. Get the damn brat what he wants.