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"Thinking/Thinking"
SHE EXPECTED THIS sort of thing to happen. Honestly, with how creepy her teacher appeared, she should've known they would be taken to some abandoned building on a completely empty street. Nobara didn't even realize she was hoping they'd actually go to Roppongi until the disappointment and annoyance crashed into her when they stopped in front of the building.
"If this is where I think it's going, I'll scream," Nobara states, giving Satoru a glare. Satoru sputters and Megumi snorts before quickly covering it up with a cough. Yūji just looks confused.
"I–you–that isn't–that's not why I brought you here!" Satoru eventually answers with a pout. Nobara raises an eyebrow and places a hand on her hip.
"You lied about us going to Roppongi! How am I supposed to know?! This is an abandoned building. On a street that no one lives on. With only two boys as witnesses," Nobara exclaims angrily. Satoru's ears turn pink and he crosses his arms.
"All three of you are together now! I need to test you!" Satoru defends himself, making Nobara scoff.
"Sure."
"There's a curse in there," Megumi changes the subject back to the abandoned building in front of them.
"There's a big cemetery nearby. The double whammy of that and an abandoned building brought out a curse," The white haired man exclaims as he continues pouting.
"So they really do pop up more often around graves?" Yūji asks, staring up at the building.
"The issue isn't the cemetery itself. It's the fact that people associate cemeteries with fear," Megumi explains blandly.
"Oh, it was the same for schools too, wasn't it?" Yūji states in realization. Nobara steps forward, giving Yūji a narrowed stare.
"Hold on, you didn't even know that yet? How new are you to the jujutsu world?" She asks with a frown.
Megumi looks down as he thinks. "To be honest..."
Nobara pales at the information before walking towards Yūji. She raises her fist and punches him on the back of the head.
"You're an idiot! God above, do you not have any self-preservation? What is wrong with you?!" Nobara scolds loudly before rubbing her temple. "Not only are you an idiot, that's absolutely disgusting! Swallowing a special-grade cursed object! Unbelievable!"
"I want to know what you're all capable of. Think of this as a field test," Satoru says with a smile. Nobara turns towards the abandoned building with a frown.
"Nobara, Yūji, you two go exorcise the curse in that building," He continues calmly.
"Huh? I thought only curses can exorcise curses, right? I can't use any jujutsu yet."
"Hmph. What the hell did you teach him before he even knew about this, Fushiguro?" The ginger haired teenager asks with a small scowl, crossing her arms.
"You're basically half a curse already." Satoru points at Yūji. "There's cursed energy flowing throughout your body. Though, controlling that energy isn't something you can learn overnight, so use this."
Nobara watches their teacher pull out a sheathed dagger and raises an eyebrow. A cursed tool... a strong one at that.
"It's the cursed tool, Slaughter Demon. It's a weapon imbued with cursed energy. It'll work on curses too," Satoru adds with a smile.
Nobara's mouth twitches before she harrumphs and starts walking towards the building. "If you cut off a finger, I won't help you fix it."
She pulls on her brown tool belt, relaxing slightly once it's securely around her waist. She frowns slightly and looks down at her hand.
"...if he can be trusted... soon," Nobara thinks as she clenches her hand into a fist.
"Oh, one more thing. Don't let Sukuna out. If you use him, you'll get rid of all the curses nearby in a flash, but you'll also drag everyone around into it," Nobara faintly hears as she inspects the closed garage doors. Nobara huffs with an eye roll and stands back up.
"Hurry it up," She states loudly. She wants to get this all over with.
"Yeah, yeah," Yūji jogs over with a determined expression. He bends down and lifts the garage door easily. They both walk in.
Nobara rolls her eyes at Yūji's idiotic sneaking, not bothering to berate him as she follows after him. "Truly an idiot. If Obāchan screwed me over..."
"What a pain. I really wanted to explore Tokyo some more before I got thrust into dealing with curses. Tch," The ginger haired teenager speaks to herself loudly, walking up the stairs towards the next floor.
"Huh? Didn't you come here to exorcise curses?" Yūji asks in confusion. Nobara pauses and turns around with a small frown.
"I came here because I'd rather kill myself than continue to live in that godforsaken village." Nobara huffs and starts walking again. "I'm going to go floor-by-floor from the top. You stay here and make your way up. I want to get some sushi from Ginza."
"Let's take this a bit more seriously. Curses are dangerous, you know," Yūji states with a small frown. Nobara makes a noise from the back of her throat and suddenly spins around, walking down the stairs without falter. Yūji backs up with his hands raised in surrender at Nobara's annoyed expression.
"I don't want to hear it from someone who was a normie until recently!" Nobara huffs and harshly jabs her finger against the pink haired teenager's chest.
"I answered your question, so get moving!" Nobara exclaims before she turns back around with a small frown. She pauses as she is about to reach the second floor. Nobara releases a suffering sigh and leans over the railing.
"I know you're worried, but I can handle myself. As much as I hate to admit it... If I ever need... help... I'll make sure to ask," She states with a forced scowl before she starts walking again, her cheeks flushed.
"But only if I ask!" She shouts over her shoulder. With that all done and over with, she has a curse to find and exorcise. Nobara really was starting to get hungry.
Nobara takes in a deep breath at the sudden rise of goosebumps along her covered arms. She pauses in her slow walk around the floor below the last and looks across the old hallway. That room.
"Thank you..." Nobara takes out three nails and walks into the room. She tightly grips her hammer and narrows her eyes when she sees multiple old mannequins standing at the other side of the room. Sunlight streams into the dusty room and Nobara scowls.
"Hey, you, the curse in the center. Do you really think you're hidden there?" Nobara states, holding up her hammer. She harrumphs when the curse doesn't move.
"Fine." Nobara throws up two of her nails before slamming her hammer against them. Cursed energy flows from her hammer and into the nails before they rocket towards the mannequin.
It falls off the mannequin stand and is about to fall backwards before it manages to keep its balance. Nobara smirks and raises her hand.
"Goodbye." She snaps her fingers, causing the nails to dig deeper into the mannequin's head. It makes a grunting noise from the pain before the ends of the nails reach its head. The head explodes in a flurry of cursed energy and mannequin bits.
Nobara smirks even wider and gives a mock bow. "Nailed it."
A sudden noise forces her out of her punny thoughts. She looks up and readies the last nail she held. Her eyes narrow when a loose plank of wood falls over.
"Oh..." Nobara's eyes widen when she sees a child huddled behind a few old crates. She slowly lowers her hammer and her nail before tilting her head. A shiver crawls down her spine as goosebumps appear on her skin again.
"Kid, did you get lost?" Nobara asks with a small frown. The kid slowly crawls out, whimpering under his breath. Nobara immediately zones in on the bad cut on his leg.
"Come here, let me bandage that cut," The ginger haired teenager states, pointing at the deep gash as she walks closer. The boy shakes his head, tears forming in his eyes. Nobara blinks before sighing heavily with a frown.
"Guess it's true kids don't warm up to beautiful women... Guess I'll call Itadori," Nobara speaks to herself, running a hand through her hair.
She jumps back slightly when the boy suddenly leans forward. "Wait! Don't leave me here!"
Nobara narrows her eyes and throws her nail in the air when the wall behind the boy starts to ripple. She slams her hammer into it as another curse appears.
"Duck!" The kid cries out and covers his head, the nail zooming above him. It slams into the curse, making it screech in pain. Nobara rushes forward with a snarl and wraps an arm around the kid's wrist. He screams out in fear when Nobara wrenches him away from the curse.
"Shit!" The 15 year old female curses loudly when the curse slams its fist into her chest, making her fly back. Nobara keeps a tight grip on the kid's wrist and pulls him to her chest with a cough. All of the air in her lungs is punched out when her back slams into the concrete wall.
"Thank you for warning me," Nobara thinks in relief as she hugs the kid closer to her chest. He tightly grips her jacket as the curse growls loudly in anger.
"It'll take more than that to kill me, curse." Nobara leans her head down, next to the terrified kid's ear. "Stay close to me and I'll protect you, okay?"
The kid nods with a small whimper. Nobara quickly takes out two more nails when the curse charges forward. The curse manages to dodge the nail aimed for its head, screeching when the other nail slams into its shoulder. It continues to charge, making Nobara internally curse. She jumps to the side, pushing the kid with her.
They land in a roll, avoiding the curse punching the door off its hinges. It screeches again and turns around.
"Stupid Maria, you got complacent," Nobara scolds herself with a scowl. She readies her hammer again. It's a waiting game now. All of a sudden, a fist sprouts form the concrete wall in front of the curse. Nobara blinks in surprise as she hears Yūji's exclamation.
"Did I miss? Damn!" Yūji shouts in disappointment, moving his hand around for the curse. The hand is forced back before a lot of dust and debris forms. Yūji jumps through the dust, unsheathing Slaughter Demon.
The curse screeches in fear and sprints towards Nobara. Yūji slices off its arm. Nobara curses in Russian and practically throws the kid out of the way.
"Nobara!" Yūji rushes forward as the curse jumps up and grips the ginger haired teenager's shoulders before crashing through the window.
"The nails!" Nobara ignores the pain of glass shards embedding into her back as she's forced out of the building. She raises her foot up to her face and roughly kicks the curse. She hisses at its claws slicing through her shoulders as she starts to fall.
She grabs the curse's arm and forces them both to flip, making her on top. Nobara grins and uses the curse to jump up, holding out her hammer. She manages to embed the hammer into the cement, making her cry out when her shoulder pops out of socket from the sudden force. The curse releases a loud laugh.
"Bye bye!" Nobara gives a cheerful wave before snapping her fingers. "Hairpin."
The two nails embedded into the curse glow a faint blue, quickly glowing brighter. They suddenly explode in a flurry of cursed energy, causing the curse to release an ear-piercing scream. Blood explodes out as the curse is shredded by the cursed energy. It makes an echoing squish sound when it hits the ground, making Nobara cringe a bit.
"Nobara!" Yūji appears above Nobara, his head poking out of the window.
"I'm fine, you idiot! You don't have to shout," Nobara shouts up at him, quickly grabbing her hammer with her other hand. She hisses in pain when her dislocated arm falls to her side with a harsh tug.
"Go down a floor and get me inside! It's hot out here," Nobara orders with a frown. Yūji deadpans with a small noise before nodding his head.
"Hey! Nobara! Are you alright?" Satoru asks loudly from the street. Nobara glares down at the street and sees Satoru and Megumi standing below her. She stares at them for a moment before the wind lightly blows her skirt around.
"Don't look up, YOU PERVERTS!" Nobara quickly pulls up her legs with a bright red face. Megumi quickly snaps his head to the side with a flushed face while Satoru covers his eyes, with his still blindfold on, and grins sheepishly.
"I have a pervert as a teacher! I knew it!" Nobara screeches internally, blushing even more when the wind picks up slightly. She should've worn pantyhose instead of stockings!
Hey! Hope you all are enjoying the story so far! So, second chapter is up and the first fight Nobara has is changed! Like I said.
A note about who's she's thanking... it'll be revealed at some point. I don't know how soon, because I'm writing the plot as I go, but it'll happen!
Hope you all like the new chapter! Bye.
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