Darkness that's all I saw
did I die again! I scream to myself, quickly I calm myself down, looking down at my hands, okay my body is still here. or at least I think it's my body. I look around this sea of darkness is this a dream? I ask myself
Moving around the darkness, I decide to go down deeper when I go deeper and deeper there's this pressure but I push forward with one last push I see… a gem? That's the only other way to describe it
As I try to reach out for it, he hears whispering in his ears it's faint but I can hear it right when I go to touch it—
Ahhh!
I let out a slight scream, my neck snapping around before realizing he's in his bed, still in the room he was given "okay that's not ominous at all" I murmur to myself
But no point in trying to make sense of it after all it's probably just a dream with no significance right? I try to shrug it off, looking at myself in the mirror fixing my long hair that was completely messed up it was pretty annoying
After getting changed, I waited. Yaga told me someone was going to come and just to wait, so I did, then I heard footsteps the door opened
A middle aged woman stepped in, eyes narrowed before widening with slight fear being able to feel the immense, vile, hatred filled cursed energy akin to a cursed spirits coming off of Geto even while he's suppressing it but the woman quickly composed herself quickly like its second nature
"Alright first things first ground rules, no unleashing any cursed sprits that will make the detection system of jujutsu high go off, don't wander too much, and don't make too much work for anyone else okay?" she says mildly lecturing him
Geto looks at her for a bit, her outfit despite looking as old as her was immaculate. Not a single strand of her silky black hair was out of place with white streaks running through it looking extremely glossy and well maintained, her face looked like it was constantly grumpy even with that her delicate small facial structure was the epitome of what older people saw as traditionally attractive,'was she sent from the higher ups? Probably given her appearance well I guess I'll find out'
"Hello I'm Suguru Geto nice to meet you what's your name?" I ask giving a somewhat akward bow since I'm not really accustomed to Japanese culture, nonetheless he tries to at least act respectful since I might not like the higher ups but she didn't seem to bad
"Wrong it's the other way around" she states flatly while looking down on him with a perpetually angry face seemingly mad at everything, while standing perfectly straight as if relaxing was a habit she had forgotten years ago
Oh right I think I should have said my last name first Geto thinks sheepishly "and my name is Fukui Fumiko, now your probably wondering why I'm here right?" I nod at her question but I think I already know "well I'm here to teach you at least the basics on Cursed energy after all the higher ups need a strong sorcerer like you things are quite hectic as of late" Fumiko stated in an acidulous tone
Well that does makes sense I suppose from the higher ups point of view I'm just a kid who happened to have a strong cursed technique they think I don't know anything about the mechanics of cursed energy, I do but I suppose I'll just act like I don't however what I really don't like is the thought they sent her her to also try to groom me which if they think they ca they will be disappointed
"oh okay well why don't we start now?" He asks so they can get this over with like when you skip the recap portion of an episode "yes it would be best if we quite our lollygagging, feel free to ask questions just not stupid ones!" Fumiko says with a scoff pulling out a whiteboard out of who knows where
Then she starts explaining the basics of the power system like cursed energy control, how curses are formed, barriers, etc, I just nod along acting like I'm learning but when we get to cursed techniques I curiously ask
"What's your cursed technique?" She paused for the slightest of moments before answering in a acerbic tone
"Cursed thread, I can make and control threads" wow that's quite versatile I mean yeah it's a pretty standard shonen power that you see in a lot of anime's still you know what they say if it ain't broke don't fix it
"huh that versatile but what kind of threads? Can I uh..see?" I pause for a second since sorcerer's tend to be secretive about that stuff "if you don't mind showing me…" once again, she pauses. Head sipping ever so slightly then just as fast Fukui glances at him with her usual perpetually grumpy face "well first of all only an extremely idiotic sorcerer answers questions about their cursed technique but also I guess this segues nicely to our next lesson that being binding vows"
On the white board she draws a chain along with the word exchange but I just look at her a bit confused, seeing this she sighed "binding vows are in a nutshell you giving something up to make another aspect stronger for me that's-that's me agreeing to only use my curse technique when my husband permits it. It's a good arrangement actually. My cursed energy output increases, it overall makes me stronger it's..actually quite beneficial you know"
Geto's face looks unsurprised just nodding his mind coming with one conclusion. Cope. Yeah this is obviously massive amounts of cope like how when people cope instead of admitting Hikari is lowkey a jackpot merchant who couldn't even beat Uraume while having literal Infinite cursed energy, 'women in jujutsu society are treated like shit so yeah this checks out''
"Anyways let's go" Fukui says abruptly walking out the room going towards where the training grounds are, quickly I run with my tiny legs trailing behind her
"Uh where are we going?" I ask curiously, already guessing we are going to probably spar but I'm still a child however that does not look like it's going to stop her from effectively beating me, you know like a typical old mentor type great -_-'
"Obviously I need to assess your current capabilities, can't do that in a classroom now can we?" Fukui says gruffly not really worried about hurting Geto since even now the kid was a monster, as they arrive to the training grounds she stands there okaying at him with a stern glance
"Alright now come at me just use cursed energy reinforcement I need to see how good yours is since that's one of the main things you should always be trying to improve" Geto nods deciding to just fight her like he did the previous cursed spirits he fought bending low to the ground a massive tsunami of cursed energy spills out everywhere before coalescing around his body surging around him
'Seriously?! I-I won't die right?!' Fukui's eyes widen utterly flabbergasted however her experience made her recover relatively quickly immediately putting her guard up analyzing him immediately noticing the gaps in his cursed energy reinforcement but a small part of her doubted she could take advantage of that…
Without much technique Geto just ran towards her due to his lacking control of his own cursed energy small cracks appeared on the ground while it shook slightly, focusing cursed energy in his legs he shoot up so he was face level with her before launching a flurry of punches
'I mean it worked when Gon did it on Hisoka I'm bound to land some hits'
Fukui hastily tried dodging each one barely doing unfortunately she could not dodge the last punch with no choice left she blocked the force behind it making her stumble back then the next instant Geto shoot forward once again after all he was treating this like a real fight
Reeling back his fist he punched but he overcommitted, Fukui immediately took advantage of that dodging the very next instant she licked him in the side where the gap in his cursed energy reinforcement was
'Heh I actually did it, seriously I thought this brat was going to punch my head off!'
The punch made Geto fly back but being the stylish little shit he was Geto spun in the air landing perfectly on his feet
Fukui groaned in pain rubbing the spot where Geto hit her. "Agh! well first of all you need to fix that gap in your cursed energy reinforcement that's an idiotic mistake for you to have especially you! considering you would have won if not for me hitting that spot"
"Oh yeah I didn't even notice Hahaha! I guess it was just never a problem before" he laughed scratching his head sheepishly kind of embarrassed he never saw that but! In his defense he would just win before it became a problem however he did need to fix that
"But also! Your technique is horrid! Just lunging at your enemy so you can beat them down through pure brute force is downright asinine we will definitely fix that but as they say tackle one problem at a time, right now the most urgent one is your cursed energy control so chop! chop! let's get to it!"
Geto nods listening intently as she tries to show and explain to him how to better control his cursed energy while doing so Geto studies her form sensing the way her cursed energy flows his eyes narrowing a bit then he sees what he always sees
The soul but this time he digs deeper into the depths, it's hard to truly describe the soul in detail but in one word, it's beautiful the essence of humanity is both gorgeous and hideous when he dove into the soul he could somewhat feel who they were it was quite beautiful but then the beautiful garden got covered in thick dirty mud feeling the cursed energy woven into the soul
At the deepest stage it was kind of like the circuit that's one of the only ways he could describe what he's seeing a circuit getting filled with cursed energy flowing through it in a certain motion so he just tried copying the motion
"Like this?" He asked throwing a punch now his cursed nervy more controlled most of the gaps getting filled in then he slowly does another punch while still looking at her soul
'I see! I can't just exactly copy the flow of the cursed energy since our cursed energy and circuit are different but I'll just use it as a frame work or reference' slowly doing another punch his cursed energy smooths out this time the flow being his own instead of an imitation
'That fast! His control is already getting better and better! I didn't think this was humanly possible!' Fukui thought once again being flabbergasted by him seeing his efficiency somehow rise in a way that would have took most sorcerers weeks or months it reminded her a bit of how the Gojo clan talked about the six eyes brat, being a genius who learned everything at a glance
But then she shivered feeling unsettled or more like exposed."Tch! Stop looking at me like that! Ya stupid brat!"
"Oh uh sorry I was just zoning out you know" Geto quickly explained not looking at her soul anymore since it seems people get really unsettled by it even if they cant recognize what he's doing or can't see the soul
'Makes sense anyone would be creeped out by it I'm looking at what makes them well them I'm basically unclothing them on a deep level actually wait the body and the soul are connected so could I..just see their nake- No!'
He chides himself shaking his free of those thoughts after all he can't do an experiment like that he's not a Jiraiya! Hes not a perv! Well for now..I mean forvever yes forever..(•_•;)
Fukui let out a heavy sigh feeling like by the end of this she wouldn't have much left go teach Geto "Alright since you already did the equivalent of 1 month of cursed energy control training in a couple seconds we're going to fix the way you fight got it!?"
"Okay I'm ready!"
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In a dark abandoned forest there was a man with shaggy hair holding a knife with blood, what looked to be human skin was stretched across trees, pools of blood on the ground that painted the greenery red, the forest now having the stench of copper
"Well..it was fun while it lasted this was the last one" the man said with a sigh but then a buzz could be heard pulling out his phone he picked it up
"Awasaka finished your job?"
"Yes but this is the-" before he could finish the other man on the line said
"Great because we think we've finally found a way to kill that Gojo ki-"
"No! No! And No! I'm done!"
"What? Your done?! Don't tell me you got scared"
"Of course I got scared! You and the rest can go ahead with this suicide plan! I'm done maybe I'll just go be a salary man or something but as of now my wings are clipped" with that he hung up knowing that soon the entire underworld, the entire shady world of curse users is no longer safe
For gods sake the six eyes kid once followed a mercenary then blew up the hideout because they were following him, he would also regularly use curse users as essentially battle dummies if he continued Awasaka would simply be another nameless curse user he defeated
——
"Looks like Awasaka chickened out" a man said at a large round table the others seated were essentially the bosses of the criminal gangs, head Yakuza and other strong curse users
"Him also?"
"Yes it seems most curse users or mercenary's are retiring seeing it as a dying business"
"Tch! A bunch of cowards if you ask me so what if the kid has the six eyes he's still a kid with no experience" a man with a dragon tattoo on his chest with sunglasses said
"True which is why I think our plan on using poison will work"
"Yeah right my plan was much better"
"Ugh! Okay If my plan fails we'll use yours"
The heads continued talking trying to figure out ways to kill Satoru Gojo however they were in for a rude awakening with their numbers dwindling they desperately tried to hold on to the power they had for the last couple years of being able to do what they wanted if they were sneaky enough but that era is quickly coming to an end because of not even one man. Due to one child Satoru Gojo
———
"𝘏𝘦𝘩 𝘏𝘦𝘩! 𝘏𝘦𝘩" a low raspy chuckle could be heard before the laughter reached a crescendo
"HAHHAHA!"
A woman with long brown hair and a stitched scar was laughing out loud with a smile but the way she did it made her look like someone straight out of a horror movie, the room she was in seemed to vibrate with negativity as if curses were stitched into it, rows upon rows of coffins with talismans all over them filled the room to the point you would think it was a morgue
"I can feel it! Even now without my help there's a new wonderful age of SORCERY IS upon us! Can you believe that?!" The woman said as if she were talking to an invisible audience that wasn't there she smiled as she walked pass several coffins all of different styles, ages, materials, the room itself showing more authentic immemorial pieces than a museum's
Her hand tracing along the coffins while walking each one looks newer until she gets to a room with what looks to be chunks of ice that were human sized if you squinted enough you could see a human outline
"Oh dear it seems I'm talking to myself again haha~" the woman laughed now looking as harmless as a housewife while laughing, before walking out the room that's invisible to most
Breathing in the night air it looked like she was looking at the stars, she walked a bit more before putting her hand on the air it would look weird but only because she's the only one that can see the barrier
She could see the infuriating stagnating barrier that seemed to be a constant in her long life this time her face twisted into a small smile looking at the massive barrier like it was an old friend because in a sense it was
"I'm sure you can sense it also can't you? Old friend, I wonder if there's someone else the change seems too drastic to be because of only the six eyes kid, an interesting theory I have" the scared woman mused to herself even while looking at the barrier her eyes looked as if they were piercing through it to look at the source
"Nonetheless you won't be able to stay inside your little shell and be a shut-in for much longer my friend that is one thing I'm sure of not only because of me but because the world itself won't allow it, the chains you tried to put on evolution, on the world are breaking the world writhes yearning to be free of its cage!"
"You talk too much that has not changed for centuries has it?"
"Hah! even while behind these barriers you still can't appreciate a good speech or a good poem can you? Pff oh well your loss"
With that she patted the air making a single hand sigh a transcluent barrier appearing around her various cursed symbols and markings that were hidden came to life the barrier writhing as she dissapeared
Gone with the wind, the invisible barrier for a moment shook as if mad but the soul in it calmed down, the forest and night sky still but the world wasn't it was still alive, still moving, still writhing