"Fushiguro! You look like you're doing well now." Yuji said seeing Megumi exit his room.
"There were plenty of other empty rooms, weren't there?" Megumi asked wondering why Yuji's room was right beside his own.
"It's much livelier, isn't it?" Gojo said walking up to Megumi with Yuji not far behind him.
"I thought it'd be good for—"
"The classes and missions are enough" Megumi crossed his arms over his chest.
"This was an unwelcome favor."
"Woah, your room is super organized Megumi!" Yuji said peeking into Megumi's room.
"I just said your unwelcome!" Megumi closed the door on Yuji's head causing him to hold his face in pain.
"I'm sure it's all good"
"More importantly, we're heading out tomorrow!"
"We're gonna go pick up the third first year." Gojo explained with a smile.
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The next day, Yuji and Megumi where at the meeting spot together, Yuji enjoying a Popsicle as Megumi stood silent.
"So, how come there are only three first-years? Isn't that too few?" Yuji questioned as he ate his snack.
"Well, have you ever met anyone who could see curses before recently?"
"Nope"
"That just shows how small a minority jujutsu sorcerers are." Megumi said as Yuji understood.
"Also, didn't you say I was the third student?"
"There entry was decided a while ago" Megumi said plainly.
That's when Gojo arrived with a wave.
"Sorry for the wait. Oh?"
"Your uniform made it in time, I see." Gojo said to Yuji who smiled.
"Yeah, it's a perfect fit, though it's a bit different form Fushiguro's uniform"
"It has a hood for one" Yuji said grabbing the hood attached to his uniform.
"Ah, that's because the uniforms can be customized upon request." Gojo explained.
"But I never put in any requests" Yuji raised an eyebrow.
"I know, I was the one who put in the custom order."
"Be careful, Gojo-sensei has a tendency to do things like that on a whim." Megumi said looking over at Yuji.
"More importantly what are we even meeting in Harajuku for?" Megumi asked Gojo.
"Because it's what she asked for." Gojo said that smile never leaving his face as Yuji spotted a nearby popcorn stand, his eyes lighting up.
"Hey, popcorn! I want some!"
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"Hello there. Are you on the clock right now?" an older man in a suit asked a young woman walking down the street as she looked unamused.
"No, I'm not" she said her pace consistent.
"You see, I'm looking for potential models. That's what I do. Would you be interested?" he asked hands clasped in front of himself as he walked beside the annoyed woman.
"I'm in a hurry right now." she answered curtly clearly not interested in his proposition.
"Please, just hear me out!" he begged as she just kept walking causing the man to sigh in defeat.
That was when another voice sounded out behind him.
"Hey, you. What about me?" A girl with brown hair that stopped at chin length and brown eyes asked the man as she grabbed his shoulder, turning him to face her.
It was Nobara Kugisaki, the 3rd first year at Tokyo Jujutsu High, and the third student Yuji and the others were waiting for.
The businessman looked afraid by the mere thought of picking her but before he could speak, she continued.
"For that modeling gig, duh."
"I'm asking what you think about me." she explained as the man broke out in a nervous sweat.
"Oh, um, I'm in a hurry at the moment..." he said trying to walk away from her, but she snatched him up by the back of his collar.
"What the hell? Don't run from me! Come out and say it!" Nobara said, not happy by his implication.
Yuji and Megumi were watching this scene from across the street as Yuji spoke.
"We're about to talk to her?" Yuji asked as the man begged for mercy from Nobara.
"This is kinda embarrassing." he said despite all the snacks and souvenirs he was holding himself as ROOK sunglasses rested on his face.
"So are you." Megumi told him as he sneered at the hypocrisy.
"Hey! Over here!" Gojo signaled Nobara over to them as she turned and spoke.
"Damn, what's up with that blindfold?" she asked upon seeing Gojo as he waved with a goofy smile.
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"Okay, once again." Gojo motioned to Nobara.
"Kugisaki Nobara" she introduced herself, a hand on her hip.
"Be happy, boys. I'm the one woman in your group."
"My name is Itadori Yuji. I'm from Sendai." Yuji introduced with a smile.
"Fushiguro Megumi" Megumi said simply.
However, in Nobara's mind she had her own perceptions of those two.
"He looks like a potato..."
"He's definitely the type that ate his own boogers as a kid." she thought looking at Yuji as she turned to look at Megumi.
"And only a name from him? I can't stand high-and-mighty dudes."
"I bet he likes setting oil-slicked gulls on fire." she finished her thoughts and sighed.
"I always get stuck with unfortunate circumstances."
"She took one look and sighed." Yuji muttered as Megumi spoke to Gojo.
"Are we going somewhere from here?"
"We do have all three of you together." Gojo said with a chuckle.
"Not to mention, two of you are from the countryside"
"So of course we're going on a tour of Tokyo!" Gojo said smiling as him, Yuji, and Nobara cheered out loud.
"Tokyo! Tokyo! Tokyo!"
"We love Tokyo!"
"Huh?" Megumi looked confused.
"TDL! I want to go to TDL!" Nobara said her arms waving in excitement as Yuji was hugging Gojo happily.
"Idiot, TDL's in Chiba!" Yuji said as he struck a pose.
"Let's go to Chinatown, Sensei!" Yuji said pumped at the idea.
"Chinatown's in Yokohama!" Nobara exclaimed.
"Yokohama's part of Tokyo! Don't you know that? Look at a map!" Yuji argued back.
The two of them bickered as Gojo stood smiling and enjoying the show. Then deciding they've wasted enough time he spoke.
"I will now announce our destination." he said as the two stopped arguing and kneeled in front of him as if he were king.
"Roppongi" Gojo said as the two had stars in their eyes.
"Roppongi!?" they said excitement etched onto their faces.
Unfortunately, reality is often disappointing as instead of the beautiful area they were expecting, they all found themselves on the outskirts in front of an abandoned building that reeked of cursed energy.
"There's a curse here." Gojo said casually ignoring their disappointed faces.
"You liar!!" Yuji and Nobara said in indignation
"This isn't even Roppongi!" Yuji shouted covering his face.
"You were toying with us country folk!" Nobara said just as angry.
"There's a big cemetery nearby. The double whammy of that and an abandoned building brought out a curse." Gojo explained.
"Who does he think is responsible for the rice he gets to eat, huh?" Nobara kept complaining as Yuji spoke.
"So, they really do pop up more often around graves?"
"The issue isn't the cemetery itself. It's the fact that people associate cemeteries with fear." Megumi explained calmly.
"Oh, so it was the same with schools, too, isn't it?" Yuji said shocking Megumi.
"Hold up, He didn't even know that yet?" Nobara asked snapping out of her rage.
"To be honest..." Megumi then explained Yuji's situation to her as she immediately shouted.
"What! He swallowed a special-grade cursed object?!" Nobara was even more shocked now.
"Gross! Unbelievable! That's so unsanitary and disgusting!" Nobara shouted moving away from Yuji covering her mouth.
"No way, no way, no way, no way!" she moved even further away.
"What?!" Yuji was a bit offended.
"I agree with her." Megumi chimed in as Gojo finally spoke once more.
"I want to know what all of you are capable of." He said still facing the cursed building.
"Just think of this as a field test."
"Nobara, Yuji, you two go exorcise the curse inside that building." Gojo said as Nobara looked confused.
"Huh? But I thought only curses could exorcise curses, right?"
"I can't use any jujutsu yet." Yuji said looking over at Gojo.
"You're basically half a curse already." Gojo pointed at Yuji.
"There's cursed energy flowing throughout your entire body."
"Though controlling that energy isn't something you can learn overnight, so use this" Gojo then handed Yuji a cursed tool.
"It's the cursed tool, Slaughter Demon."
"A weapon infused with cursed energy. It'll work on curses too" he explained as Yuji took the weapon and sheathed it.
"How lame." Nobara said tying her bag of nails to her waist as she advanced towards the cursed building.
"Oh, one more thing." Gojo said as Yuji was starting to leave too.
"Huh?"
"Don't let Sukuna out. If you use him, you'll get rid of all the curses in a flash, but you'll also drag everyone around into it too." Gojo said his face somewhat serious for someone like him.
"Got it, I won't let Sukuna out" Yuji said with a thumbs up.
"Hurry it up." Nobara shouted.
"Yeah, yeah" Yuji jogged over to her.
"Go on, now!" Gojo waved them off as the two entered the building.
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"I think I'll go, too." Megumi said getting ready to follow those two into the building as Gojo stopped him.
"Don't push yourself. You're still recovering."
"But someone needs to keep an eye on Itadori, right?" Megumi questioned.
"That's true, but the one we're testing this time is Nobara" Gojo said as we jump back to Yuji and Nobara inside the building.
"What a pain" Nobara complained as she walked up the stairs Yuji behind her.
"Why do I have to deal with curses after coming all the way to Tokyo?"
"Huh? Didn't you come here to exorcise curses?" Yuji asked.
"Let's save some time and split up." She said ignoring his question.
"I'll start from the top and you at the bottom, we'll go floor by floor." She said pointing up.
"We can get this over with quick and get some sushi from Ginza."
"Hold on a minute. Let's take this a bit more seriously, curses are dangerous, you know." Yuji said concerned.
Suddenly Nobara ran over and kicked Yuji causing him to spin in the air before landing at the bottom of the stairs.
"I don't wanna hear if from someone who was a normie until recently! Now get moving!" She said irritated.
"Your emotions are all over the place today!" Yuji shouted.
"This is why girls don't like you!" She shouted back.
"How do you know they don't like me?!" Yuji shouted in indignation as he stood up unharmed.
"Are you even popular enough to talk? Bitch." He said dusting off his clothes.
At that moment a curse tried to ambush him as he moved swiftly cutting off the pincers that where once closing in on his head, flipping away to make distance.
The curse was deformed, with a humanoid upper body and a lower body like a bug. One of its arms were missing as it asked if Yuji needed his receipt.
Running towards it, Yuji slid under it and swiped upward to slice it open on its stomach, however unlike in canon, his body was already adapting to a stronger Sukuna, and his physical strength was now enough to cleave it in two with the cursed tool in one go.
"Huh, I thought it'd be tougher than that..." Yuji stood, as it fell to the ground in two pieces.
Seeing how little time it took to deal with that curse, Yuji began running through the building killing any curse he could find with swift efficiency.
Within Yuji's mins however Sukuna was seeing through his eyes with boredom.
"This isn't as entertaining as I thought it'd be..." He said as he opened the system again.
He was at 3 fingers worth of power, and for some odd reason, Gojo hasn't even given Yuji the second finger like in canon either.
"Perhaps he's concerned since he can see my power growing inside of Yuji with those eyes of his, has this made him weary of me?" Sukuna pondered as he thought of what he should do.
"Nobody truely knows anything about Sukuna's technique, nobody but Kenjaku at the least. That cunning bastard thinks he knows everything there is to know about me and I need to change that."
Deciding on what to do, Sukuna used the system and set his reward to something unexpected.
"I want the super soldier serum from Marvel Comics" he told the system with a smile.
If he was honest, he felt no shame in picking up some minor boosts here and there to his basic physical strength, after all it'll only make him stronger when using reinforcement.
After he got this boost, he'll also be getting the raw physical strength of Spider-Man too, just so he can truely stand out among scorcerers.
"Ah, if these heroes knew what I was using their power for, they'd definitely attempt to stop me at all costs." He thought to himself as he found himself in a simulated war zone with a familiar man in red, white, and blue tights carrying a shield.
"Hey who are you, and why are you here? This is an active war zone!" The captain shouted as Sukuna began to walk towards him.
"I'm just here to kill you cap, not that it should be to difficult anyways." Sukuna said as an invisible force ripped through the air as cap raised his shield.
The slash didn't even leave a scratch as the Proto-Adamantium alloy shield absorbed all the force within it.
"Oh right, you're from the comics, your reaction speed should be insane even if you can't move as fast as me." He rubbed his chin before grabbing a tree out of the ground and throwing it at Captain America so hard it exploded on contact with the shield.
By the time he regained his barrings after blocking an entire tree, I was already behind him, slamming a brutal kick to his spine as he was sent flying through multiple trees.
"Man, you comic characters are bullshit. That should have killed a lesser man, I suppose I somewhat respect your endurance." Sukuna said blitzing towards Cap again as the man raised his shield to block only for a fist to hit him from a different angle on the side left unguarded.
*Bang!*
Cap spun through the air in confusion, but he focused as he spun himself even faster throwing the shield full force at this unknown attacker.
Sukuna seeing this caught it barehanded with ease and sighed.
"This feels like bullying a child for lunch money... embarrassing" he tossed the shield behind him and looked at Cap who was charging him at full sprint.
Ducking a heavy right hook Sukuna infused his arm in cursed energy and brought his arm back before punching through Cap's chest, killing him instantly as the system space faded and a surge of heat flowed through him enhancing his body to levels beyond what he was without cursed energy.
"Ah, that was disappointing, although if it where a different version of the Captain he'd have atomized me with some cosmic bullshit." Sukuna said with a stretch.