Merry Christmas, or Happy holiday… etc. This is coming out on Christmas, but this has nothing to do with that, just happens by chance.
This is one of a couple of story ideas I've had for a while, so this story will only have 1 chapter until it gets enough follow, favorite and review. I will have more 1 chapter stories that I will continue on if it gets popular enough, so check it out when it comes out. but now to this story.
I have nothing more to say like that.
I do not own jujutsu kaisen, and English is not my first language.
Warning for those who are sensitive to bullying, abuse and homophobia.
"Morning"
Rei Kurokawa woke up to an unfamiliar voice, she tried to turn around but quickly found she couldn't move. At first she thought she had tucked herself into her quilt so that she was stuck, but after trying to get out, she found that she couldn't get free, and that she was sitting up. After fully waking up, she saw that she was in a room, all the walls and ceiling were covered with paper with sign on. It reminded her of the seals from Naruto.
But she wasn't the only one there, there was a man in black clothes, white hair with a blindfold on. Then there was a boy her age with pink hair and looking tired, but what made Rei focus on him was that he was also tied up with rope. The boy looked around, just as confused as Rei, finally he started looking at the blindfolded man.
"So which one are you right now?", asked the blindfolded man.
The boy with the pink hair looked at the man with a dazed look, dried blood on his cheek. "Aren't you..", said the boy with the pink hair.
"Gojo Satoru, I'm in charge of the first-years at Jujutsu High."
"Jujutsu…Fushiguro…Senpai!". The boy with the pink hair, pulling on the rope as if he had realized something important, he looked back at the ropes binding him and then back to Rei, and saw that she too couldn't move."What is this?
"I'm not sure you should be worrying about others, Itadori Yuji, and Rei Kurokawa. It's been decided that you'll be secretly executed."
With those words, the two students looked at the man with horror, and the two could only think of one thing. What have I done to end up in this situation?
3 days ago at Sakura Daigaku High School
The music note that means the school day is over was heard over the school's public address system, Rei Kurokawa was about to walk out of the classroom, when someone said her name behind her.
"Oh, Kurokawa-chan, stop for a second".
Three girls, significantly bigger than Rei, but that wasn't unusual due to her height being smaller than everyone else her age.
"You see, I'm going to see my boyfriend now after school, but apparently it's my turn to clean a restroom, unbelievable huh? But what I wanted to ask is if you could do it instead, tell me if you can't, ok", said the girl with a sweet sour tone.
Rei Kurokawa, instead of saying anything, picked up her phone and started pressing the buttons, after a second she turned the phone towards the bigger girls. On the screen it said "No thanks".
Instead of accepting it, the girl who had asked started to smile, and said. "Huh? I can't hear anything, could you please say it louder?", the tone was mocking, it was obvious that they had planned this from the beginning.
Rei started pointing at the screen where it says no thanks, to show what her answer was, but she knew it was hopeless.
"Well, I can't hear anything, can you?". She turned to her friends.
"No"
"I didn't hear anything"
The bigger girl turned back to and Rei and said, "Well, I can't hear any protesting, so I guess it's ok with you".
Rei gathered all her courage, and took a deep breath, as if to say something. The bigger girls looked with one eyebrow raised, as if to show how skeptical they were. It looked like she was going to say something, but before a word came out, she closed her mouth, with a face that showed that she had accepted her fate.
"Thank you so much Kurokawa-chan, you are the best, I owe you again. If there is anything, Say it". The three bigger girls started laughing about the joke as they went down the school hall.
Rei looked after them, she was angry, but not at them, but at herself, her grip loosened around the phone, she didn't want to damage it. She took a deep breath and then started walking towards the restroom.
It had been two hours, but she was finally done scrubbing the floor, a sense of pride at her job building in her chest. She went to one of the sinks and began to wash her hands, after that she began to look into the mirror.
She looked at herself, her messy red hair. Memories of how teachers used to say it wasn't allowed to have dyed hair at school, and her trying to explain to the teachers that it was her natural hair color, then came memories of the teachers not giving her a chance to explain and start walking away, without reading what she had written. She was pretty sure that some teachers still don't believe her, and are just waiting for a chance to punish her.
She looked around to see if anyone else was there, after a while of not hearing anyone, she took a deep breath, like she was preparing to try to say a word. She looked into her own eyes in the mirror. With confidence in her eyes, she opened her mouth to say something, and she saw something in the mirror, behind her.
She turned and looked up over the toilet stall where she saw the movement, but there was nothing there, she looked around, but she didn't see anything or hear anyone moving around the school building.
(Crack)
The mirror she had been looking into a few seconds ago suddenly cracked, a spider web of cracks stretching across the entire mirror. Rei let out a silent scream before running out of the restroom. Unaware that if she had looked in the mirror when it cracked, the center of the spider's web of cracks would be in a place over the toilet stall where she saw something move.
Two minutes later would Jujutsu Sorcerers Kento Nanami discover traces of an exorcism of a Curse he ben assign to, and damage both in a mirror and in the tile above one of the toilet stalls.
Rei put her key in the door, took a deep breath and opened the door as carefully as she could, without making a sound she stepped into the apartment. She took off her shoes and started walking towards her room, being careful every step she took.
There was noise coming from one of the rooms, but Rei ignored it and continued walking towards her room. After she closed the door behind her, she released the breath she had been holding. She sat down on her futon and started checking her phone, she opened an app and clicked on Nee-chan.
Rei: Hi nee-chan, how is university?
Nee-chan: It's good Rei-chan. I'm going on a date with my boyfriend tomorrow. Maybe he will come with me on the holiday.
Rei: But he is so mean to me, he says I'm ugly. :(
Nee-chan: It's impossible, you're like a mini me, you can only be cute ^O
Rei: That's because your hair looks natural on you! On me it looks like I'm trying to be different!
Nee-chan: Nah, impossible. There is no one cuter than my Rei-chan. And I have said to take care of your hair properly.
Nee-chan: I have to get up early tomorrow, good night.
Rei: Good night.
Rei started to smile, then she walked over and sat down at her desk. She picked up a box cutter and a piece of paper, she then started cutting through the paper with the box cutter, a piece of her stress disappeared with each piece that was cut away.
She had a face full of pleasure and satisfaction after cutting the paper into small pieces, after cleaning up after herself she went and prepared to sleep.
(crash)
Rei lay on the floor, on the way to PE, someone had pulled her into a room and thrown her on the floor.
"The fuck! Do you know how much trouble I am in now because of you!". Rei looked up and saw the larger girl she had been talking to yesterday.
"You fucking destroyed the bathroom, and now they think I did it!". After she screamed, she pulled her leg back and kicked Rei in the stomach.
She tried to stand up, but fell down with the next kick to the stomach.
"You horr, don't you understand what my parents think now! They have to pay, and I get punished! What the fuck are you going to do about it!".
Rei, tryinging to calm her down, took out her phone and tried to type, but before she could, someone stomped on her hand.
"Stop that! It's fucking creepy! You never talk and have that ugly, fake ass hair!". She started pushing her foot down harder and started twisting it around".
Pain shot through Rei's body like lightning, the hard bits of her phone digging into her hand. The sound of something breaking was heard and Rei could only hope it wasn't her bones that broke.
"You better pay me back for this! I won't get any money from my parents now, and I won't get a fucking job!" With that she kicked one last time and then finished by spitting in her face. "You better give me 70,000 yen at the end of the week, to begin with, or I'll have to show you how a whore like you can earn money", she began to give a mocking smile, "Oh wait, no one will ever pay for you". She then began to laugh and walked out of the empty classroom.
Rei just lay on the ground for a couple of minutes, alone with her thoughts.
I was quiet huh? I didn't say anything, so it could be worse. If I said something, it would be worse.
But you must have said something, otherwise they wouldn't be so angry.
But I didn't do anything, I wasn't the one who broke the mirror.
But you were the only one there, it can't be anyone but you.
Yes you are right. It's probably me who did it, as usual.
Rei stood up, and looked at her hand. The screen was completely black and broken, a few pieces of glass pressed into the hand so that blood had started to run down the floor.
After a moment of staring at the blood, she realized that going to the nurse is good idea, and quickly rushed off to the nurse.
Before Rei even opened the door, she heard screaming coming from inside the apartment, which was strange.
It's weird, they have only yelled at me, I've never seen them yell at anyone else before, wonder what it's about? Could it be about me? Or each other? I guess I'll have to wait out here until they are done.
It took almost an hour, but it finally stopped. She then carefully stepped through the door and took off her shoes, but on her way to her room she saw her mother coming towards her. Rei froze like a deer in headlights, she was waiting for something to happen, that thay was screaming about her before, but Rei's mother just walked past her and then out the door.
After a few seconds of shock, she again started walking to her room, with only one thought.
I really need to cut something now.
The teacher walked out of the classroom and the sound of people taking out their bento filled the room, Rei on the other hand started walking towards the cafeteria, but unfortunately two of the girls were in the hall, it looked like they were waiting for someone, so Rei turned around. Unfortunately, it was too late, because when she turned around, she saw the last, and the worst of them behind her.
"Well, so you were going to buy something in the cafeteria, eh?".
Rei, already knowing what was going to happen, took out most of her lunch money and handed it to the girl, who Rei thought should have learned her name by now, but hadn't.
With a smile she took the money and said, "Well, you're smart at least" and left.
Rei let out a breath and thought. Damn, now I have to go hungry again. And then she went back to the classroom.
Again, Rei opened the door to her convenience and started to walk to her room, but to her horror, she tripped on something on the floor and fell down with a crash, and because of the surprise, let out a light iek sound. She lay on the floor, her hands covering her mouth, and she listened to the footsteps approaching her, it wasn't long before her father was in front of her.
She waited for the screaming to start, but something else happened first. A familiar pain created in her stomach as she was kicked into a wall, and could only look up before someone grabbed her collar and pulled her up.
"You freak! What have I said about not making yourself heard!". He lifted her up against the wall and continued to scream. "Heh, you can't even live here without being heard, we give you a roof over your head, it's the least I could ask you to not make a sound, you can't even get a rich boyfriend like Nozomi".
Rei tried to pick up her phone, but remembered that it had broken. Before she could do anything about it something hard hit her in the face, when she looked up she saw her father pulling his arm back. Mom stood a little way behind him, a disgusted look on her face.
"Thought you could hide that book from us! Don't tell me you had those thoughts about your mother and sister?! Is that why you are so close to her you Freek!". With that she threw her down on the floor and started kicking. "Stay away from my daughter you freek!".
Book? I don't have any books, I don't have... Oh. With that, Rei understood what they had found, hidden in her room, and the words she heard yesterday when they screamed. A wave of grief, shame, anguish and depression came down on her, with every kick, punch and insult, giving way to something that has been under lock for years, but now the dam broke.
Mr. Kurokawa struck forward, towards the disgraced one of the family, but he did not hit. He tried to understand why, but was stopped when he heard his wife scream a primal scream. She turned to see her pointing down at the ground while screaming her lungs out, when he looked down he saw an arm? A bloody arm on the floor… his arm?
He couldn't even think about it any more before the top of his wife's head fell to the floor as well, leaving her neck and chin, blood covering the wall behind her. He didn't have time to scream before the apartment was split in half, and he was too.
Not far from there, a man with white hair walked out of a store, with a smile on his face. "Ah, this kikufuku looks so good, I can't wait to eat it, but first I'll check on Megumi."
(crash)
Gojo Satoru, The Strongest Sorcerer looked in the direction where the huge amount of cursed energy comes from. What he saw were several houses that have been cut through by cursed energy, but the worst was the one in the middle. The most of the 20+ floor building was in small pieces, and cursed energy came from it.
Satoru teleported not too far from the falling pieces, standing in mid-air. He looked at the falling pieces and was surprised to see that the cursed energy came from a young girl who can't be older than Megumi. No wait.
Satoru Gojo took the thought back as he looked closer, with his Six Eyes he knew it was wrong, the girl had a school uniform that showed she was around the same age as Megumi, and there were traces of long time famish, and abuse, both recent and long time.
Whoever she is, life has been tough on her, could this be someone who just awakened their Cursed Technique for the first time? Damn, what a mess. And that Cursed Technique, wonder if she had touched one of Sukuna's fingers… Sukuna's fingers, oh Megumi.
With that, he took the unconscious girl and teleported away, leaving the mess to someone else.
"Under Jujutsu regulations, Itadori Yuji, I will exorcise you as a curse!" Megumi proclaimed as he prepared to summon Divine General Mahoraga to fight Sukuna's vessel.
"Wait, really, I'm just fine! More importantly, you and I are both pretty beat up. Let's get to a hospital", said a pink haired boy whose name was Itadori Yuji as marks that looked like tattoos disappeared from his body.
Before Megumi summoned Mahoraga, there was a voice that broke through.
"What's the situation?
Megumi looked towards the direction the voice came from and asked, "Gojo-sensei?! Why are you here? And what is the deal with the girl?".
"Hey," said Satoru Gojo, who is carrying a girl who looks like she's in high school on his shoulder, like a bag of potatoes. And instead of answering the question, he just kept talking. "I wasn't plannin on coming, but man, you're roughed up. I should show the second-years". Satoru Gojo picked up his phone and took a bunch of pictures. "Face this way".
Yuji just watched in confusion as the new man with an unconscious girl on his shoulder took the pictures and talked about a missing special-grede-cursed item, and he who came by to see how things were going, Yuji could only say one thing.
"Um…Sorry, but I ate it.", Yuji looked like a child admitting that he had done something stupid.
An awkward silence formed between the three guys, with the only sound being a dog barking some distance away.
"For real?", Satoru asked in surprise.
"For real", answered Megumi who had seen everything.
Satoru Gojo walked up to Yuji and looked him over, and after a few seconds he laughed. "Lol. Damn, it really did combine with you. That's hilarious". Satoru, satisfied with the vessel, took a step back. "Anything off with your body?"
"Not particularly," Yuji replied as he moved his arms and legs to test if there was a problem.
"Can you swap out with Sukuna?"
"Sukuna?"
"The curse you ate".
"Oh… Yeah, I think I can do that," he replied, more self-confident than he should.
"Then give us ten seconds, ones ten seconds are up, come back to us". Satoru began to stretch his legs, with the unconscious girl still on his shoulder.
"But…", Yuji protested.
"Don't worry, I'm the strongest", he said seriously. "Megumi, hold on to this". Was Megumi's only warning before the girl, and then a bag flew his way.
Megumi managed to catch the unconscious girl in a princess carry, with the bag landing on her stomach. "What is it?"
"Kikufuku from kikusuian, It's Sendai's specialty, and it'd super good. I recommend the zunda and cream flavor."
"I meant the girl! Why are you carrying around an unconscious High School girl?!"
"Oh, yeah her, I picked her up after theKikufuku, I think it's another one of Sukuna's vessels".
"Eh?, one more? What is wrong with this night!" Megumi shouted, as he found it hard to believe that things could go so wrong tonight, and that the world was hell bent on bringing Sukuna back to life tonight.
While Megumi wondered what was wrong with the world, and Satoru talked about his dessert, a change happened to Yuji.
"Kikufuku's not like other souvenirs-", Satoru didn't finish speaking before something crashed down on him, but when the dust cloud disappeared, Satoru Gojo sat on Sukuna like a chair. "And the whipped cream inside is simply exquisite..." Satoru continued before Sukuna attacked again.
Ten seconds later, and a fight scene later where Sukuna gets rekt.
The marks began to disappear again from Itadori Yuji's body, and he regained his consciousness. "Oh, was everything okay?"
"I'm shocked. You really can control it".
"He's kind of annoying, though. I can hear his voice." Yuji hit his head like it was an old TV that didn't work.
"It's a miracle that's all he's doing." Satoru went up to the vessel, and poked him in the forehead with two fingers, and the vessel became unconscious. But Satoru caught him before he fell to the ground.
"What did you do?".
"Knocked him out, If he isn't possessed by Sukuna when he wakes up, he might have potential as a vessel." Satoru looked down at the boy, wondering if he could help him make a better future. "Now, I have a question for you. What should we do with him?"
Megumi took a moment to ponder his teacher's question, but he gave an answer. "Even if he is a vessel, jujutsu regulations demand Itadori be executed. However…" He looked at his teacher, as if what he's about to say was serious. "I don't want to let him die".
"Your personal feelings?", asked Satoru who already knew the answer.
"Yes. Please do something about this."
Gojo scooted and picked up the vessel's unconscious body. "Now it's a request from a precious student. Leave it to me!" he said with a smile and gave a thumbs up.
"With that, allow me to say it once more. You're being executed". Gojo Satoru, had just recap everything from when he bought Kikufuku, to when he knocked out Yuji. Which made Yuji and Rei just look at him strangely.
"The recap and current events don't line up, though." Yuji pointed out, and Rei nodded in the background.
"Hey, I did my best. The execution's still on, but I got your's sentence suspended."
"Suspended? So you're not killing me right away?"
"Yep. I'll explain from the top." Satoru took what looked like a mummified finger out of his pocket. "This is the same as the cursed objects you ate, there are twenty in total. We possess six of them".
"Twenty? Oh, each finger and toe?"
Rei imagined a group of mummified fingers and toes.
"No, Sukuna has four arms."
The image in Rei's head was broken and an image of a man with four arms was created in its place. But she was snapped out of her thoughts when Satoru shot the finger into the wall, creating a crater.
"As you can see, we can't destroy them. The curse is just that powerful. The curse grows stronger by the day, and the seals of modern-day jujutsu sorerers can't keep up. That's where you come in."
"Eh," Yuji said, surprised that Satoru pointed at him. And Rei was just as confused.
"When you die, the curse inside you as well. Our elders are cowards, you know. They're demanding we kill you two right away. But that would be a waste, wouldn' it?"
"A waste?" Yuji wondered, but Rei wondered another thing
Wait, me too? Why should I be killed too?
Because you only bring misery to others, and it would be best for the world if you were dead.
It would be so huh, right?
"There's no guarantee another vessel capable of handling Sukuna will ever be born again, but we have one with a high possibility anyway. So this is what I proposed: If we're going to kill you anyway, why not kill you after you've absorbed all of Sukuna? The higher- ups agreed. So now you have two options before you. You can die right now, or you find all the parts of Sukuna and die after you've absorbed them."
"Um ok, but I have a question".
"Ah, yes, just ask," he said, going from the serious tone he had a few seconds ago, to a more colorful and happy tone.
"What about her? Is she also one of Sukuna's vessels?"
Rei wonders that too, but that's when the information about the finger came, and she realized that if she's Sukuna's vessel, she's eaten a finger. Before Rei could throw up what little food she had from yesterday's breakfast, Satoru answered.
"No, she's here because she's a descendant of Sukuna and has inherited his Cursed Technique. She is also the highest chance of being able to eat one of Sukuna's fingers and become a vessel like you."
The two men looked at the red-haired girl for a reaction, and all they got was a surprised face for a second before it was back to normal.
"Huh, that's all, won't you say anything about it?"
Rei as usual, reached for her phone, but realized she was still tied up.
Gojo, who knows a user of Cursed Speech, realized what was happening. "Ah, I'm so sorry, wait here for a second."
Gojo walked out the door, and what he was looking for must have been right outside, because it didn't even take him half a second to re-enter the room, now with a mini whiteboard in hand.
"Here, you can't talk right?, so you can use this". He held out his hand to give it to the red haired girl.
Rei who was so thankful that the blindfolded man understood her problem much faster than everyone else, so she forgot that she was still tied up. Yuji watched as the red haired girl tried to take the white board, while the blindfolded man had it so it was impossible for her to reach it.
Finally, she decided to look at Satoru with puppy eyes, and tears began to gather at the corners of her eyes.
"Ah, don't worry, I can fix this". Instead of un-tied her like Yuji and Rei thought she would, he stuck the pen in her mouth, and held the whiteboard in front of her.
After a few seconds of a dumbfounded Rei, she started to write the best she could with her mouth.
"Have, I, eat, finger?". It was written so you could just understand it..
"Well no, and you won't need to if he doesn't die," he said, pointing at Yuji.
Rei waved her pen, as if she wanted to say something more. Gojo wiped the board and after a couple of seconds she asked her second question.
"What, happening, after, I now?".
It took Gojo a few seconds to think of an answer, and it didn't make her happy. "You have Sukuna's Cursed Technique, and the elders also want you executed for that, but if you become a jujutsu Sorcerer under our control, I will stop The Elder from doing something drastic. I've already stopped the hunt for all your relatives in case they may have it too, but it would help if you work under us".
"Wait?" Yuji said, obviously wondering something. "Why her relatives, what does that have to do with this?". Rei was glad Yuji asked the question, because she was wondering that too.
"It's because there are afraid of them becoming Curse Users, or Curses when they die. It has already closed down the place where her parents died of that reason".
Rei didn't understand everything he was talking about, but there was one thing she understood. Her parents are dead. And the only thing she feels is… joy.
You are a freek, only a freek can be happy about the death of their parents.
Gojo, realizing something was wrong, interrupted her thoughts before it could derail. "You don't remember huh, well that makes it easier. Eny more questions?"
After a little more mouth writing. Did he have her last question. "What, if, sister?".
"We haven't done anything to her, but it was more because I stopped them before they could do anything. If you're wondering if becoming a jujutsu Sorcerer will help her, then yes. You can also meet her in your free time."
That's what I wanted to know, if I can protect Nozomi Nee-chan, it's worth it.
"So, The Vessel of Sukuna, Descendent of Sukuna, what are your answers? Die now, or die later for others sake".
The Vessel of Sukuna and Descendent of Sukuna looked at each other, realizing what the other will choose, they both turned to Gojo and nodded, determination in their eyes.
But inside Yuji's head, Sukuna sat on his throne, his interest had been focused on the girl who has been accused of being his descendant.
"Eh, what an insult, something so pathetic could never have inherited my Cursed Technique. Even with the massive amount of Cursed Energy".
Well, tell me what you think, the bad, and the good. I really don't know what else to say, except
Megumi WTF. You try to summon Divine General Mahoragain like, ep1, maybe 2. In hindsight after the shibuya incident, this could have gone a lot different if there was not for Gojo. Damn it Megumi, you almost ended the show before it began.