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Chapter Four: Goodwill Event-II
"Tenodakume Gojo, huh?" Mahito said as he turned a page of his book.
"So the boy has Six Eyes?" Jogo said in a worried tune. "Now that's a big problem. One Satoru Gojo is already causing enough trouble. The boy is a big problem."
"Not yet," Geto corrected as he took a sip from his lemon juice. "He may have a car, but he doesn't know how to drive. It's as simple as that."
Jogo sneered.
Currently, Geto, along with Mahito and Jogo, was relaxing on deck chairs. Jogo was still recovering after he fought against Satoru Gojo while Mahito was in a jolly mood. Geto had that 'I am very wise and nice' smile on his face.
"I wanna play with that kid!" Mahito cheerfully said as he snapped his book shut. He leaned towards Geto and asked, "Can I?"
"Hmm," Geto gave him an understanding smile. "He is not fun to play with yet. Although…"
"Yes! His cursed parents!" Mahito stood up. "They should be enough of a challenge."
"Mahito," Geto sternly said. "Stay away from the kid. At least wait until Satoru Gojo is sealed away."
"Ugh!" Mahito pouted. "You're no fun!"
"The boy will have an important role in the future." Geto said as he took another sip.
"Really?" Jogo asked, genuinely curious.
"Indeed." Replied Geto before he mentally added, 'In the Culling Games and...' He smirked.
• •
"You are still alive, old man." Gojo said as he patted the old man's shoulder. "I thought you would have died from the shock of Yuji being alive."
"Youngsters these days…" He sighed. "Why is Sukuna's vessel and that Gojo boy still alive?" Yoshinobu Gakuganji asked.
"I am not letting my own nephew be executed and as for Yuji," Gojo smiled. "You guys sent him to die there, didn't you? Well, he just returned from being dead! Isn't that amazing!"
Gakuganji sighed.
"Can you not feel that boy's odd presence?" Argued Gakuganji. "It is different from Okkotsu's. He must be—"
"I already told you, old man," Gojo said in a stern voice. "Leave him alone. Both of them."
"You will regret your actions." The old principal said before walking away.
Satoru looked at Yaga and jumped at him to give a hug. "Yo! Yaga-sensei…!"
…but he had to stop.
"Alright everyone!" Yaga said as he tightly held Gojo between his armpits, stopping the man from saying anything irritating. "The rules are simple." Yaga said. "The Tokyo-Kyoto Sister School Exchange Event will be held over two days. The first day is going to be group battles," Principal Yaga announced as he held Satoru. "The rules are simple. The first team to exorcize the second-grade cursed spirit released in the designated area wins. Several third-grade and lower cursed spirits will be released into the designated area, as well. If a winner is not decided by sunset the team that excorcises the most cursed spirits wins. There is no other rule. Also, you can try to sabotage the others. However, keep in mind that you're all on the same side in the fight against the curses. I hope this programme will help you to learn about yourselves and your future companions through competing."
Satoru had been struggling to escape through the entire speech, and began to struggle with some more effort. He soon began to tap on Yaga's back to submit. Yaga ignored Satoru's surrender and continued his speech.
Utahime openly laughed at his struggle. Everyone knew she had some sort of twisted and complex feeling for that man by now.
"You are not allowed to kill anyone, but you can injure them. However, the injury should not be beyond recovery. That's it. Any questions?"
Nobody had any.
"Good. You're all dismissed. The event begins at noon. All the best!"
• •
Much to the annoyance of Naruto, he was forced to sit on Satoru's lap. The man was tickling him from time to time. He could feel his parents wanting to come out and kill Satoru. He hated to admit it. But they were cowards around Satoru Gojo. Was he really that strong?
The observation room had five occupants. There was an extremely old man, who was glaring at him for some unknown reason.
There was that scar-faced woman, who was trying to hide her face under her hairs. Perhaps she was feeling uneasiness about the previous interaction.
There was a middle aged dark skinned man wearing sunglasses. He had an 'I am nice guy' aura around him.
A woman around Satoru's age wearing navy blue clothes with a huge braid in front of her face covering one of her eyes was looking at him as if he was some product on display for sale. He shivered under her gaze.
Satoru was being… annoying as ever, trading 'friendly' words with Utahime and talking something about 'traitors'.
"Why are you telling me all this?" Utahime asked Satoru as she took a sip of tea from her cup. "I can be a traitor too, you know."
"Nah," He moved his hand in a dismissing way and stretched a grin across his face. "You can't be a traitor."
"Really?" A smile, barely visible, was seen on her face. "Do you believe me that much?"
"Nah, you're too weak, nobody would ever involve you in such things."
Dead silence.
"Satoru! You should learn how to respect your seniors!" She stood up and threw the tea at him. However, the Infinity barrier saved him from it. Sadly, Naruto didn't have that sort of protection as he was showered with hot liquid. He screamed as he was surprised and the pain was obvious. His skin was not that of an adult, causing the pain to multiply a few times.
Satoru's grin faded as Utahime paled while others looked at the scene with curiosity.
"What have you done?!" A very familiar voice was heard.
"SHE HURT OUR BABY! SHE MUST DIE!" Another voice joined.
Everyone gaped as they saw two figures, one red and nother blue Cursed Spirits emerging from the ceiling and proceeding towards the scar-faced woman in a very intimidating way.
"Oh crap."
"You brought this to yourself Utahime," Satoru said sagely as he did a mock salute. "It was nice knowing you. Rest in peace."
By the end of the 'session', Utahime had a few broken bones and a huge potato on her head. She was saved by the boy whom she will be indebted to for as long as she is alive.
Gakuganji was observing everything for quite some time now. He decided that it was time he asked the question that has been bugging him from the start.
"Gojo Satoru?"
"Yeah, old man?" Satoru looked at him. "You need help going to the washroom?"
Gakuganji ignored that.
"One thing I still don't understand— how can the boy watch the game if he is blind?"
"Who said he is blind?" Satoru said with a smile. "He sees with his eyes, he sees well. He can see even better than all of us."
"More than all...?" Mei Mei raised an eyebrow.
"But he is wearing a blindfold." Yaga pointed out.
"He has the Six Eyes of course!" Satoru promptly removed Naruto's blindfold in a blurred motion.
"That was totally uncalled for!" Naruto blinked at the people and smiled awkwardly. "He, he…"
Silence.
Everyone was gazing at the amethyst orbs.
Smack!
"Hey!" Satoru said as he rubbed his head. "What was that for?"
"You were not supposed to tell that to anybody. "
"Really?" Satoru scratched his chin. "Well everybody would've known eventually. Now we can know who is your friend and foe!"
"How so?" Naruto asked.
"There are now four other people who know about Tenodakume having Six-Eyes. I am pretty sure that Principle Yaga won't disclose this to anybody, except for maybe telling Master Tengen. Utahime rarely meets higher ups, so she has less than a ten percent chance of telling about Naruto's Six-Eyes to those geezers." He looked at Mei Mei who smirked. "I think Mei Mei isn't seeing any profit in selling this information."
"Not at the moment." The woman smiled. "Besides, I have morals too."
"As for Principle Geezer… I am one hundred percent sure he will be sharing this piece of information with his half-dead fellows…"
"How dare you accuse me…" The old man yelled.
Meanwhile Naruto was watching the fight between Todo Aoi and Yuji Itadori. The older boy is giving some lectures to the younger one. There are a lot of things that Naruto did not know and he is also learning with Yuji.
'So Cursed Energy is Chakra's equivalent, but at the same time— it is completely different.' Thought Naruto. 'Chakra is both physical and spiritual, whereas Cursed Energy is mostly spiritual. However, one can enhance their physical capabilities by using Cursed Energy. It's like using Chakra like Sakura-chan and Baa-chan. Interesting. In order to mould Cursed Energy, one must first feel it. It appears that Cursed Energy is a by-product of negative emotions. So if I can control my negative emotions, I should be able to use Cursed Energy— theoretically. However, it is not an easy task to do as I am only physically five years old. But then again, I have these so-called Six-Eyes; I can understand everything that is theoretically explainable. I can also understand anything that is practically visible. So if I can see a practical demonstration of usage of Cursed Energy, then I should be able to understand how to use my own. My 'uncle's Infinity barrier is too complex for me to understand. In order to see a practical demonstration, I must go out and see a match live with my own eyes…'
It was at this point that he noticed a hand being waved in front of his face.
"Oi!" Naruto looked at Satoru, who was waving his hands in front of his face. "Are you okay? You just spaced out a bit."
"'m fine, dattebayo." He said. He looked thoughtful for a moment before asking, "Hey old man, can I ask something?"
"Shoot away."
"I want to learn how to use Cursed Energy."
"Huh?" Satoru looked confused. "I already told you that I am going to teach you then what is this all about?"
"I want to see the match with my own eyes."
Satoru didn't reply for a moment before he clapped. "Oki-doki!"
With that both uncle and nephew teleported away instantly, leaving behind a perplexed audience.
"One Satoru Gojo is a lot of headache, imagine two of them." Gakuganji sighed.
"I couldn't agree more," Utahime added.
Yaga sighed while Mei Mei laughed.
• •
Naruto found himself tightly held by Satoru.
"Hey, what's the big idea—" He looked at his surroundings and froze. "Agh…! We are floating in the sky…!"
"Calm down, gaki." Satoru said casually. "It's nothing too dangerous."
"We are in the middle of freaking clouds, dattebayo! How can it not be dangerous?!"
Naruto being paranoid and in panic mode was justified. Naruto flew only once or twice in his life as a Shinobi. After Hagoromo gave him Six Paths Chakra, he was able to fly. But under the constant pressure of war, he didn't even realise how scary it was to look down and see nothing under your feet.
"Do you want to give up then?" Satoru asked in a monotone.
Naruto halted his motions. He looked at the man and said, "I never give up!"
"Good," Satoru nodded. "I don't want you to die in regrets."
"What was that?" Naruto raised an eyebrow. But before he could get an answer, he felt discomfort over his forehead. "Ouch. Man I hate when my brain can't keep up with the information these eyes provide. It is really irritating."
"I can relate," Satoru said. "Now, let me give you a brief description of Infinity."
"I thought we were gonna watch the game."
"We are." Satoru nodded. "But at the same time, you will listen to my 'lecture'."
"Crap."
Satoru laughed wholeheartedly.
Despite being three hundreds of metres above the ground, Naruto could see everything in perfect detail. It was irritating, but he was slowly getting used to it.
"Let's talk about Limitless first." Satoru began. "In its neutral form, the base state of the Limitless is referred to as the "Infinity," which operates in a manner reminiscent of convergent and divergent series in mathematics. This technique gives a user the ability to stop virtually anything directed towards them, by subdividing the space between them and the object an infinite number of times, until the object slows down so much that it appears to halt its motion completely. Anything that enters this infinitely divided space will never reach the user, acting almost like an invisible force field around them. The only way to overcome this ability is through Domain Expansion, Domain Amplification, or special cursed tools that can negate the technique entirely."
"Umm… hey, old man?" Naruto said as hot steams were released from his ears.
"What is it?" Satoru felt irritated at being interrupted.
"It's not that I don't appreciate it, but shouldn't you teach me the basics of Cursed Energy first?"
"Didn't Ijichi tell you the basics?"
"He did," Naruto nodded. "But it was very brief. I was hoping you could teach me more."
"You have a logic," Satoru said as his eyes shifted at the fight between Todo and Yuji. "But I have a feeling that in the upcoming future, a dark time is coming in which we must be ready. Basics are important, true. But if you know nothing about actual combat, you will die." He gave a dark smile. A very sinister one too. "I am sure that you are going to be in a lot of those fights."
"I am a five year old kid for crying out loud!" Retorted Naruto. "Who and why would someone want me to fight?"
"I don't know," Satoru sighed. "But I'm sure that in the upcoming future you will have to fight for your life whether you like it or not."
Satoru proceeded to tell him more about Limitless while he observed the fight between Yuji and Todo. He was learning multiple things at the same time.
But for some unknown reason, he felt something sinister…
• •
"Satoru Gojo has left… what? But I thought… why? But… ugh! Fine." The man said before he chanted. "Darker than darkness, emerge from darkness. Purify that which is impure…" He looked at the veil that was emerging. "If I can't get Satoru, I will get his son at the very least!"
He laughed like a maniac.
Author Note: The theories about Limitless and Infinity are directly taken from Gamer Rant.
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