SukuIta

SukuIta is the slash ship between Ryoumen Sukuna and Yuji Itadori from the Jujutsu Kaisen fandom.

Canon
Yuji is currently a high school student at Tokyo Jujutsu High while Sukuna is known as the King of Curses, a feared cursed spirit who wrecked chaos and destruction 1,000 years prior to the start of Jujutsu Kaisen. They are respectively the main protagonist and one of the main antagonists for the series. They have starkly different values as well as personalities. Yuji is a very altruistic and compassionate boy who values his friendship. As the King of Curses, Sukuna is a very bloodthirsty and cruel spirit who enjoys the thrill of battles. He doesn't understand and constantly mocks Yuji's desire to save and look after his friends.

After Sukuna was killed by other sorcerers, he turned into a terrifyingly powerful cursed spirit, to the point where they couldn't fully destroy his body. Instead, his remains, 20 indestructible fingers which were preserved in grave wax, started growing in power as ages passed and they became known as "cursed objects."

At the beginning of the series, Yuji unwittingly becomes Sukuna's vessel after he swallows one of his cursed fingers in order to exorcise the spirit that was attacking both him and Megumi, without properly understanding what it was in the first place aside from the fact that it was related to occult and how he and his clubmates at the Occult Club were going to unseal it on the very same night. Sukuna takes over Yuji's body and slaughters the spirit while cackling about being reborn. When he is about go on a rampage, Yuji takes control of his body quickly, leaving him confused. Just as Megumi is about to attempt to exorcise Yuji, Gojo enters the scene and tests Yuji out. Yuji manages to gain control of his body quickly after switching with Sukuna, and then gets knocked out by Gojo.

As Yuji learns that the higher-ups of Jujutsu High wanted to execute him but decided to reluctantly hold it off, Gojo explains Sukuna's history to him and also that he needs to eat all of Sukuna's in order to fully awaken the cursed spirit, and then Sukuna can be finally destroyed. Yuji accepts his inevitable fate and eats the finger Gojo had brought to him, succesfully suppressing Sukuna trying to take over before complaining how gross it tastes.

Yuji, Megumi and Nobara are assigned to go investigate a detention center where a cursed womb has formed. They are warned to look out for the special grade cursed spirit that had eaten one of Sukuna's fingers and if they encounter it, their only options are to either run away or die. The worst ends up happening and despite the order, Yuji attemps to fight the spirit but loses his hand. Feeling desperate, he asks Sukuna for help but the latter refuses to budge. Eventually Sukuna takes over and starts fighting the cursed spirit after Yuji has bought enough time for Megumi and Nobara to escape. Sukuna calls Yuji an annoying brat who has incovenienced himself and attemps to converse with the cursed spirit and convince him to join forces. The spirit however refuses and attemps to kill Sukuna, who accidentally heals Yuji's arm while deflecting the spirit's attacks.

Feeling disgusted about them being classified as the same rank when their powers are so drastically different, Sukuna activates his Cursed Domain power to show what "real jujutsu" is and reclaims the finger that was inside the cursed spirit. Sukuna voices out his annoyance telling Yuji to return before realizing he now has complete control over Yuji's body, making him grin wildy.

Sukuna returns to the surface to explain to Megumi that Yuji won't be coming back, as he overused Sukuna's powers. He then tears Yuji's heart off, holding his vessel's body as hostage, and after eating the finger he had retrieved, proceeds to mercilessly beat Megumi up, nearly killing him. Yuji manages to regain control of his body due to Megumi shouting that he never regretted saving the former, causing Yuji to thank him with a smile while "dying" in front of his friend.

Afterwards, Yuji finds himself trapped in Sukuna's Domain and is completely pissed off, throwing one of the animal skulls decorating Sukuna's throne at him. Sukuna teleports away and blocks all of his attacks, before kicking Yuji down into the murky water and sitting on him as he explains what a Domain exactly is. Sukuna mentions they aren't dead yet, and promises to bring Yuji back to life if he agrees to Sukuna's conditions. While negotiating, Yuji manages to land a punch on Sukuna, and demands the latter just revive him already. Sukuna challenges Yuji to a fight to death and says he'll bring Yuji back to life without conditions if he manages to win. Yuji cockily accepts but is finished off within a second with the swipe of Sukuna's wrist, causing him to wake up in the surgical room. Gojo welcomes him back and then brings him to the basement to train him, and also because they need to hide the fact that Yuji is actually alive, as word spread around that he has died.

Fanon
SukuIta is one of the most popular ships in the fandom, especially in the Eastern fandom. Although it is not as popular as some of its rivals like GoYuu and SukuFushi in the Western fandom, it barely lags behind in terms of fan content. Aside from that, it is mainly rivaled by Yuji and Sukuna's other popular ships such as ItaFushi and SukUme. As Sukuna and Yuji's interactions are generally regarded as hilarious or some of the best moments in the series, many were disappointed as Sukuna started appearing less in the story and as a result, their screentime together was also greatly reduced.

It is also controversial at the same time, as just like in SukuFushi's case, they have the exactly same, huge age gap. Some have also claimed (although even many non-shippers see this as a stretch) that the ship doesn't work because Sukuna has called Yuji " boring" multiple times, mainly when the two were fighting or when Yuji wouldn't take Sukuna's bait.

In AUs, one of the most common prompts is them being (twin) brothers or them meeting after being reincarnated and forming relationship. Other supernatural AUs are also quite popular, and even many modern/more "normal" AUs have some sort of supernatural element to them. In fanworks, especially AUs, their dynamic is usually the same although more toned down (with Sukuna being a huge tease and Yuji acting like a tsundere towards him). Many fics also deal with the inevitable and one of the most expected situations, that being what happens after Yuji consumes Sukuna's 20th and final finger (aside from him being executed).

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