Chapter 40

There was a fire in him.

Gojo has never seen Yuuji go all out like this before, so much so he has nearly been caught off guard once or twice. He was getting faster with his footwork, black flash is also coming along as he is trying out different curse techniques throughout the session. They were at it for a good two hours, before Yuuji found himself tired from it all.

"You seem rather determined today." Gojo said offhandedly.

"Something… is changing in me,"

Gojo became all ears. "How so?" he asked.

Yuuji stared at his four hands. "I am starting to see it… I am so close too…"

"See what?"

He shook his head. "Not until I know for sure it's what I am seeing. But I am getting faster, I just need to work on this more…"

"Are you going to fill me in on what you are thinking? I would like to help you if you do," he said offhandedly.

"I need more curse energy, I need to consume more of it, at the same time. I have to change how I hold it…" Gojo was even impressed to how well he was thinking things through. "Sensei!" he said with realization.

"Yes Yuuji!"

"Are there more facilities with transfigured people there? The ones that need to be helped?"

Gojo smiled. "As a matter of fact, I know a place…"

#

"Sir, you can't be here!"

Gojo had led him to another secured facility, outside of Tokyo and in the remote regions of the land. It was surrounded by nothing but forest, yet the facility was high ended. "This is where we take citizens that have been turned, but this is government run. It's to keep the population in the dark about the events so it doesn't cause a panic." He explained as Yuuji took it all in.

At the same time the medical staff were trying to stop them. "Security, we have a breech. Two… uh… one curse and one Jujutsu sorcerer… What grade are they? Uh… one is Satoru Gojo… Hello?... HELLO!"

Itadori smirked as Gojo sensei turned around. "Just so you know, he's on par with me. I wouldn't bother with security!" he said and waved them off.

They were powerless to stop them. So Gojo turned back around and continued the tour. "They take the citizen we don't get to in time and keep them hidden here. Out of sight out of mind sort of thing…"

"How many?" he asked.

"That… hmm… we are probably looking at a thousand." He said in a non-concerning tone.

Yuuji gulped his pride a little.

A thousand people…

"Sensei… I don't know if I can consume that much yet…" he whispered.

"It doesn't hurt to try, you had consumed over 300 curse energies just a few months ago. I noticed your appetite is increasing so it must be for a good reason. Also you have not fed in a while since your training with Kitsune, you've been feeling sick more than anything…" he whispered back.

His lower arms braced his core. "Yeah…"

"But are you feeling better?"

He nodded. "I do, but…"

"Then get started!" he said in an encouraging tone. "These people have waited long enough haven't they? Also I think your abilities have grown, let's see what you can do!"

He took a deep breath and began to look into the cages. These deformed creatures he has gotten use to seeing are now looking at him oddly, almost as if they know what he can do. With a deep cleansing breath he began to focus. He felt his body change all at the same time too as he sent his own energy out, it pierced those within the cage, locking on to the curse energy and slowly, he drained it out of them, feeding from it all.

When his eyes opened, the first twenty cages were full of people, not monsters.

"Wow, twenty people in five minutes, new record. Keep going!" Gojo sensei said.

The more he fed, the more he wanted the energy. It was a reverse hunger that grew in him. In a mere 2 hours, the thousand people who were once trapped, had returned to normal.

He felt full, but not content.

"Sensei…" he said meekly. "I want some more please."

Gojo was even surprised to the request. "Okay then, we better get moving…" the two turned and saw the medical staff stare at them with fear and yet at the same time, wonderment.

"How… how was this possible!?" the head doctor asked. She kept looking into the cages to see the people sound asleep within. "How was this done!"

Yuuji wanted to say something, but Gojo put his arm around him. "Sorry, no time for questions! We must be off!" He warped them once more, but they remained in the depths of the woods. "Okay, now here is going to be a little harder to track down curses, but they are just as abundant…"

Yuuji however began to tune him out, he recalled what Fushiguro said before, curses can be repelled by a stronger curse in the area… or if one is weak enough… it will draw then in thinking its easy prey.

He closed his eyes and sent out a small pulse of energy, silencing his teacher who suddenly began to move back and watch on with curiosity.

It didn't take long for them to slink out.

Curses felt the energy and assumed easy prey was near by, just as he suspected. Yuuji however, was licking his lips at the sight. A feast has come to him.

#

"What do you mean he and a demon vessel broke into a government lab!?"

Principal Yaga was on the phone all afternoon, after being informed of the antics of one Satoru Gojo and Yuuji Itadori. One officer explained they broke in without a sound, let alone reason. Then, they witnessed something odd as the demon vessel went still and then, twenty creatures were turned to human once more. He went on to explain that the demon vessel cured a lab of 1,000 people of transfiguration. Yaga paused to the news. 'Was this a training session?' he thought.

"Sir?"

He jumped, remembering he was still on the phone. "I'm sorry, can you repeat that."

"We just wanted to inform you, all the people who were turned in our facility… have been rendered human again. I don't know what this demon vessel did, but it turned them back!"

"Yeah, he has that ability… are they still in the facility?" he asked.

"No, they left shortly after they turned everyone back. They didn't say where they were going."

He sighed aloud to it all. "Okay, sorry for the trouble…"

"Actually… we would like to be kept posted on this demon vessel, if he can he used like this…"

"That's not in my power." He said. "However, I am certain if help is needed, it will be given… and please… do not mention this incident to anyone!" he demanded.

It was a reluctant agreement. However, the matter was resolved for the time being. Yaga was starting to think there was more to this than he realized. "It takes a massive amount of energy to turn a human into that, how can that kid have that power to turn them back?" he wondered. "Perhaps we ought to see how much energy he really possesses."

He decided to make a cursed doll for such a test. It will allow him to see how much curse energy Yuuji have contain in himself, and give him a better idea as to how strong this kid really has become.

Just as he got to work, in an hour he finished the doll, just as he peered outside his office window. The two that caused such a headache had just returned…