Authors Note:

Hello! Hope you guys are all well and healthy!
I just wanted to mention, if you can't remember who Takibi is, he's the curse that Sukuna healed in chapter: The Kings Touch

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Before Gojo could leave Takibi's sights, an eary vibe shrouds the two of them. Gojo turns around looking at Takibi who's eyes had shot open.

"Is that you doing that?" Gojo questioned. In response, Takibi slowly shakes his head.

"No...it's not." He turns around towards the students, watching the reaction of the other sorcerers. (Y/n) was moving around uncomfortably in her sleep, like she was having a nightmare. He didn't understand what was happening, but a sudden sense of strong power hits him in the face. It wasn't Sukuna's nor a new form of power he's never felt. It was a sense of war and death.

His eyes shot open as the realisation hit him. There was only one curse who could produce such thick and dense energy in such a large area.

"Shit! (Y/N)!!" Takibi jumps from the top floor, landing beside her, but before he could grab hold of her, Gojo pulls him back by the concealed chain around his wrist.

"Let me go! What are you doing? Can't you feel his energy around us!" Takibi yells, doing everything he could to get close to her.

"Who's energy?" Gojo says, holding a closed fist in the air, which held Takibi back.

"W-What do you mean, who? Him—him the asswhole who's after her, Akio!" He yells back, feeling that energy grow around them even more thick; like a dark cloud stalking them.

"Takibiii— what have I said about speaking my name so casually?" A voice calls out, but there wasn't a body to claim it.

At Gojo's realisation, he releases Takibi who instantly grabs (y/n) to protect her. He crouches to the ground with her wrapped in his arms, glaring at the upper floors of the mall.

Gojo's brows frown as he searches the mall for him. His arm extends, signalling the other Sorcerers to flee with the students.

"I think it's finally time you hear your own name said aloud." Takibi calls out, taunting the voice.

"Oh how marvellous! You have a whole crowd of sorcerers to watch you die here Takibi." The voice taunts back. Takibi clicks his tongue, holding (y/n) closer to him.

"What made you want to show up all a sudden." Gojo says, a smirk playing on his face.

The other sorcerers quickly moved Megumi and Teru away from the mall and into an ambulance, which had been waiting outside. Hoping Akio wouldn't attack them, they ushed the ambulance to leave.

Gojo knew he was after (y/n). So putting her in the same ambulance with the other two will risk their lives. Right now he knew all he could do was protect her here.

"Seiichi is no longer near her, and Sukuna can't feel me this close to her when he's so far away...it seemed like the perfect time to just snatch her away." He responds, watching the ambulance drive away in a hurry.

"You didn't think I was challenging enough for you?" Gojo says back, crossing his arms.

"Of course not! I humbly say this with the utmost respect; you are truly a sorcerer, curses like Sukuna and I- hmm—are somewhat afraid of." Akio stands atop a railing on the highest level, looking down at the three.
"Not because you can kill us, but because a human like yourself shouldn't exist. It's inhuman... claiming that much power. Eventually when you die, you'll become just like Sukuna and I."

Gojo grunts at his comment. Knowing what he says could possibly be true.

"Hmph. You talk a lot for a curse who's wanting to kill the both of us." Gojo says.

"Kill! Gosh no. Why would I want to kill you? I know my limits and I know my weaknesses. Yes, trying to kill you would definitely make my future with (y/n) so much easier, but god, what a pain it would be TO kill you." Akio rolls his eyes, huffing at Gojo's comment.
"Takibi on the other hand, I wouldn't mind erasing from the earth. He's a curse who has lived too long for his status. It's disturbing... and humiliating. Where's your pride Takibi?" He calls out.

"I don't believe in pride! I have one purpose in my life, and it's serving my lady! If you try and lay a hand on her, I'll do anything in my power to kill you!" Takibi yells, clenching his grip around her tighter.

"I would like to see you try." Akio says, his eyes dulling into a bright yellow.

He free falls from the highest floor, and before he could land, Gojo stops him by kicking the curse midair; However Akio manages to block him with his arms.

"As expected, Satoru." Akio jumps back onto a railing, catching his balance. In midair, Gojo removes his blind fold, tucking it into his pockets.

"Yikes, give me a moment to prepare myself." Gojo says, smiling back at Akio.

The two of them go at each other, destroying the mall in their path. On the ground floor, Takibi looks down at (y/n) who was still passed out.

"What was that thing Sukuna had me do all those years ago to exceed a curses, cursed energy?" Takibi grunts, quickly healing her major wounds.

If I'm able to extend the rate in which Sukuna can feel Akio's Energy near (Y/n), he could come here and take her away from Akio's presence. Then at least Akio would have a difficult time claiming her.

Takibi looks up at the two kicking and dodging each other into the building. He focuses his attention on Akio desperately trying to remember the technique.

He's becoming more impatient. You can feel it. Appearing out of the blue like this only means he must have found the key to revealing her powers, but that would be impossible. Seiichi made it so. Something else must have come up... Why else would he be hear?

Akio hits Gojo back with his palms; a huge gush of wind plummeting him into the store behind.

"This is so exciting!! I don't know how to read you!" Akio yells, watching Gojo swiftly recompose himself from falling into the shattered window.
"Let alone touch you. What a pain. Chaining you back into a coma is such a waist of my energy, so that rules that out."Akio grunts, Unpleased with what he says next.
"Who knows when a certain annoying someone will come play too." Akio attacks Gojo back, punching him in the weakest parts of his infinity; However, it didn't do much damage to him. The least it did was shove Gojo to the side.

They were both pushed back into the open when Gojo swung him around, throwing Akio into the centre of the mall, free falling from his spot. Akio pushes himself back midair, then walks along the 4th floor railings, watching Gojo.

"I wonder where I can find that nifty little box those cursed spirits trapped you in some time ago?" Akio laughs at his comment, dodging pure energy that shot out from Gojo's palm.
"Ouch! Careful. That's hot y'know!" Akio yells, shaking his finger.

"Sorry, you looked a little cold." Gojo smirks back, distancing himself from Akio, who's energy was only increasing.

On the ground floor, Takibi had moved (y/n) around the building corner so no debris could hit her.

"Dammit! If these fucking chains didn't exist I could take her to the other side of town!"

'Where is that fox? Her markings are exposed due to the technique I put on her to boost her energy, which means he should have felt the energy leave her body.'

Back at the training facility

"Hm?" Itadori looked down at his palm, thinking he felt Sukuna, but his face wasn't there. He stood alone in his dorm, waiting for Nanami and the other students to prepare dinner.
"That's strange...I could have sworn Sukuna was-agh!" Suddenly Itadori's vision went black, and what felt like he was falling, his eyes reopen and his body slams into a wet puddle.

"What the hell! What was tha—" As he looked up, he sees Sukuna's face directly in front of his.

"Switch now!" Sukuna yells.

He had fallen into Sukuna's Innate domain, but the usual feeling he got from this place had changed. It felt heavy, static and chaotic.

The look in Sukuna's face alone was terrifying enough to look at. He eyes had a feint glow and his breath was heavy like he had been pacing around in the domain.

"What? Are you kidding, why!" Yuji yells back, trying to lift himself out of the water, but Sukuna grabs his neck, slamming him into the bone pillar to the side.

"Now!" He yells.

Itadori's spine went numb as Sukuna's voice echoed throughout the entire place. Seeing how disturbed and chaotic Sukuna looked, it had to be something involving with (y/n).

Itadori closes his eyes as Sukuna took hold of the body. Without hesitation, when seeing the walls of Itadori's dorm, Sukuna smashes through the window and heads towards the cursed energy he felt around (y/n).

The mall

"Takibi. I think you have something that should belong to me." Akio appears behind Takibi who shields (y/n) from him. He takes a quick glance at Gojo who had momentarily been chained to the spot. He was still conscious, but he couldn't move.

"Oh him, don't worry about Satoru. Trapping him in his own infinity, I might say is quiet humorous." You could see him struggling so hard to undo his infinity, but the hold Akio had on it made it extremely difficult for him.
"Now give her, or I'll kill you." Akio says, now with a dead serious face.

Takibi raises his hand, and explodes the area surrounding them, taking his chance to escape his sight. He jumps high into the air, looking back down at Akio who watched him.

Takibi knew very well he couldn't defeat Akio, even if he was older then him in this era. Dodging his attacks and protecting (y/n) was all he could do until Gojo could move again.

In the past, he's memorised all of Akio's techniques and abilities including the technique he used on Gojo. He watches the sorcerer float midair, frozen to the spot.

The only way to release him would be to cause Akio enough damage to at least expose a small opening for Gojo to take hold again. Shit, shit, shit! Which means I have to attack him.

Takibi looks back down at Akio who was laughing, shaking away the smoke from the explosion.

"How do I do that while holding her?... I'll have to use them." He brings two sacks of brown liquid from his pocket and pinches his finger with his teeth, causing his blood to drip onto the sacks.

He lands down on the 3rd level, gently laying down (y/n) on the floor. He looks down at the sacks in his hand, shaking his head.

"Lord Sukuna isn't going to be impressed with this." He slams the sacks against the wall, shattering them.

"Protect her from Akio! That's your order!" He yells at the sacks, before jumping off the level, and straight towards Akio.

The nucleuses that laid inside the shattered sacks, slowly grow its form. One grew a humanoid body, while the other crawled on all fours with a large mouth full of teeth.

"Hivmavkervic" one of the cursed wombs say to the other, which in turn they both glance down at the girl.

The humanoid curse points at the girl, while it's eyes trailed to Takibi fighting Akio.

"Miverk Akio hevler?... (y/n) prot—ect?" He says in a language only the two knew. The curse on all fours, crawls over to (y/n) nudging her arm.

"Un—consious?" It says. Waiting for the humanoid curse to reply.

The humanoid curse walks over to the edge of the railing glaring at his master and Akio battling each other. He throws his body around, understanding what Takibi wanted him to do.

"Hivarberk!! Protect her!" He yells, pointing at the girl, realising his language was coming to him. The curse on all fours stands over her in a protective stance, expecting Akio to take her at any moment.

The humanoid curse, looks over at Gojo who was carefully watching them too. He realised Takibi threw those cursed wombs to her because they were capable enough to at least protect her, but he didn't know he was in possession of two special grade curses.

Sukuna had trouble trying to pinpoint the area as Akio fuzzed his mind from locating him. He new she wasn't in his possession yet, but he was very close to.

"That insolent prick! Targeting her while Seiichi and I aren't in her presence." Sukuna yells, standing atop a high rise.

Suddenly a strong pain, stings his head as Akio's powers radiated in one specific area for a split second. His eyes catch a mall on the far side of the city, and instantly Sukuna pounced towards the area.

"Ouch! I didn't think you had this much spunk in you Takibi. You actually managed to get a hit on me more then once." On the ground floor of the mall, Akio slowly walks up to Takibi who had been plummeted into a brick wall. Half his jaw was missing and his eyes had been torn out.

He was defeated...he couldn't get up anymore after Akio played around with him like a child playing with a new toy. Akio crouches in front of Takibi, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"I have to admit. I respect the amount of effort you put in to protect her...for that you can live another hundred years." Akio releases his arm from his shoulder, slowly rising up to the level (y/n) laid.

"Now I gotta deal with these two nuisances—Hm?" Akio looks to his side, realising Gojo was no longer in the spot he left him in.
"Shit..."

From around the corner, Gojo punches Akio in the face, sending him 2 blocks over. Gojo's eyes were bloodshot and he wanted nothing more then to kill Akio. He glances at the two curses protecting (y/n) and they both shudder at his gaze, falling back into the wall.

Ignoring them, knowing they weren't going to harm her, Gojo flew after Akio 2 blocks away, smashing him into the ground where pedestrians walked by, screaming and running away.

After a while of silence in the mall and echoes of buildings being torn apart in the distance, Sukuna had entered through the main entrance with his hands in his pocket.

He gazes at the damage Gojo and Akio made, frowning at himself since he wasn't the one protecting her. He looks down noticing Takibi struggling by his side, gasping for air.

"Takibi?" Sukuna stands tall before him, looking over his wounds.

He acknowledged the amount of effort he continued to put in to protect her, and with that, Sukuna respected him for it.

"My—lor...d *cough*" Takibi struggles to say, looking up to the curse he use to serve. His eyesight was gone, but he remembered that voice like he remembered how vivid his actions were on society.

"Shit...you look disgusting. Where's (y/n)?" Sukuna grunts, looking around the mall that had nearly been torn apart. In the distance you could hear the streets and sirens go off as Gojo and Akio were still at it.

Takibi struggles to lift his head, his eye sockets pointing at the 3rd floor of the mall.

"Up there?" Sukuna says. Before he jumped to the 3rd floor, he turns back towards the wounded curse.
"Good to see you again, Takibi."

He jumps up to the level Takibi gestured to, and comes face to face with two curses which in turn shrieked at his appearance.

"You...Hivarberk, check on Takibi." The humanoid curse yells, as he nods towards Sukuna. As they release themselves from protecting (y/n), they both go down to help Takibi.

"(Y/n)..." Sukuna whispers, walking up to her. Just as he was about to grab her, Akio plunges himself through the floor, snatching (y/n) away in a desperate heat.

"Akio!" Sukuna yells, missing his grip on Akio's leg.

Akio jumps up to the top floor where he held (y/n) in his arms. His face was dripping with blood and his coat had been torn apart. From behind, Gojo rushes after him, flying through the hole Akio just busted through.

"Suki? So nice to see you again. I'm sorry but I must take my leave." Before Gojo grabbed him, Akio vanishes in thin air, blowing away both Sukuna and Gojo to the wall.

Sukuna instantly jumps back up to the top floor, looking at the shattered ground Akio left when vanishing.

"NO!!" Sukuna yells, shaking the building. His breath was heating up as the anger boiled inside him uncontrollably.
"Shit!!" He slams his fist to the side, shattering the whole side of the building, crumbling it to pieces.

Gojo collapses, as the thought of losing his student takes over his mind. He couldn't believe that he wasn't able to defeat the curse. He was given a chance to defeat him, but he wasn't able to put an end to him.

He takes a large breath and gulps the lump in his throat. He could sense Sukuna in front of him, staring at him with the intent to kill. He blocks his fist, as it hovered above his eyes.

Gojo looks up at Sukuna who was inches away from his face, gritting his teeth in frustration.

"You! Why didn't you kill him!" Sukuna yells, throwing his other fist at Gojo, only for it to be blocked too. The shudder from his punches, shattered the glass railings behind them.

"Trust me, I wanted to!" Gojo grunts back, his teeth clenched together.
"The hell kinda cursed gogo juice is that guy on!" Gojo yells back, kicking Sukuna off him.

Sukuna shifts to the side, his hands in his pockets as he glared at Gojo, thinking the same thing.

"How am I suppose to know what he's been doing for the past 18 years..." Sukuna speaks through his teeth, trying to keep his cool.
"He's prepared himself all these years, to defeat me with all 20 of my fingers. However I am only at 14 of them." Sukuna clenches his teeth, finding it unbelievably hard to comprehend.
"Right now, at this very moment...he's the most powerful curse in the world." He spits out, his anger continually boiling over.

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Authors Note:

Hello lovelies!
I was rereading my story and realised I've been shifting from first person to third person without realising ahaha! Just ignore that.