A veil formed over the area of jujutsu tech. Roots emerged on the rooftop of the building before the first years, A fellow second year was seen there too. "Run away!" Inumaki yelled, unzipping the collar. The effect of curse speech made you, Megumi and Kamo sprint away from the scene.  You glance at the platinum haired second year who was catching up with you three. "Thank you" You mouthed the words, he gave a closed eyes smile. 

You all came to halt infront of the gate when the cracks were visible in it. Roots emerged from there along with the curse causing making it's appearance. It seems quite similar to the ridiculous drawing your teacher had shown earlier. You looked at Megumi, seeing the expression of realisation on his face too. He gave you a nod, indicating he got it that this is the one of the curse spirits Gojo told about. 

"Tuna mayo" The white haired senior said, showing a call sign with his hand . "Yes.. I'll call Gojo sensei" Megumi nodded, taking out his phone. "How you can understand what he says?" Coincidentally you and kamo expressed shock at the same time. Both you and him shared a look of disdain after the sweet coincidence. The curse lunged at Megumi, hitting the phone in his hand and sent it out of the ravenette's grasp. 

"Don't move!" The second year yelled , making the curse spirit's body stiff for some time. "Blood manipulation: Slicing exorcism" Kamo said, sending a sphere of blood at the curse's head. Megumi's nue came flying down at the special grade, catching it off guard. You and Megumi moved together, sheathing out two swords. Your classmate went for the leg . While you jumped up to hit the spot where kamo's slicing exorcism affected earlier. You and Megumi retreat after the attack. 

The attacks were futile, you clicked your tongue in annoyance. You gripped your head with one head and so did Megumi when curse began speaking. It's not a new experience for you. Some of the curses you absorbed spit gibberish of destruction quite often , giving you headaches. 

You all make a run through the building, reaching on the roof. Inumaki stopped the curse and kamo attacked it. You don't understand your role here. Should you just leave it to them or do things according to yourself? Everyone took their stance as the curse made it's way towards them. Megumi's bird shikigami charged at the special grade, however before the curse speech user can disable the curse, he coughed blood. Your eyes darted to him, he has used his cursed energy enough. 

Inumaki dropped to his knees. Megumi's nue was wounded and the curse aimed for kamo. You look back and forth with wide eyes. Working with a team is so confusing. It was pretty easy earlier then why your thoughts are conflicted right now. Both Megumi and Kamo gets pushed back. Inumaki gets back on his feet making his way towards Megumi who was about to do a hand sign. 

You close your eyes, focusing on inumaki's and the curse spirit's cursed energy. By the time inumaki walked upto the curse spirits, two spheres formed already beneath them. The platinum haired boy glanced back at Megumi, who nodded reassuring it's you who's doing this. 

It's time for you to level up your game. You always manipulated a single being's cursed energy, but now you'll try to lower the curse spirit's cursed energy and increase your senior's. Inumaki spit out the remaining blood in his mouth, feeling a surge of energy within him. The curse spirit feel itself growing weaker to the level of lower grades. It took a step back. You clench your fist, keeping your ground. You need to control this both at the same time. 

"Blast away!"

The curse went flying away , crashing into the walls. Inumaki wiped the rivulet of blood trickling down his lips. He can atleast fight thanks to you, but his throat problem is always in the way whenever he uses curse speech. The curse spirit stumbled it's way forward. The curse spoke to you more like had a telepathy with you. Words only you heard. 

"You must be the one geto spoke about"

Your face set in a hard line, teeth tightly pressed. You can't lose it right now. You desperately trying to keep your thoughts away from any curiosity about your brother's mention. Blood flows down your nostrils. You might reach your limit of your extension technique. 

The second year cursed tool user : Maki Zenin appeared, attacking the special grade from behind. Her sword left a deep cut at the curse's arm . As long as you're able to manipulate the cursed energy, there's an upper hand in the battle. Megumi joined Maki against the curse spirit too. 

However you can feel your resolve weakening. The curse spirit's energy levels heightening. You can't hold it for long. You snapped your eyes open, rushing forward. Megumi was handing a playful cloud to Maki, however you snatched it along with the sword he used earlier. You jumped up at the curse, landing on it's shoulders and positioning yourself there. 

With the sword in your hand, you cutted the both tress in his eyes and landed a blow with playful cloud making it's arm shake. The trees grow once again. Maki and Megumi snapped out of their shock which they got at your recklessness. You stabbed the sword's blade into his tree eyes, digging it deep, since cutting them off wasn't working. The purple liquid staining the blood. The curse grunted, his arm aggressively pushing you off him. Though you managed to sweep it off it's feet with the playful cloud before falling away from him. 

Megumi and Maki rushed to your side. You raised up the playful cloud to them. "Here your weapon" You said, dusting off your uniform while getting back on your feet. Megumi took the playful cloud making his way into the forest. You and maki went to confront the curse spirit in the middle of river. 

Megumi's demon dog attacked the injured arm of special grade. The green haired girl attacked with Megumi's sword, while a second grade curse of yours attack the curse coming down on it from air. Taking the opportunity, Megumi came out from the blind spot using the three section staff at the special grade. He and Maki exchanged their weapons, while you retreated your curse before it gets exorcised. 

"Don't ever make me use that. It's too hard" Megumi complained. "It's easy when you become used to ..MEGUMI!" Her voice raised as she noticed the stem emerging from Megumi's chest. Taking the advantage of her shocked state, the curse sent a branch towards her too. You clicked your tongue, moving in an unhuman speed, snatching the playful cloud from Maki. 

"Jujutsu sorcerers are so compassionate. An injured alley is enough to distract them" The curse said with a matter of fact tone before noticing your presence infront of it. You swing the three section staff, your upper body moving to the side positioning for a kick.The impact of playful cloud forcing it's head down. The special grade raised his head back to meet a 360⁰ degree kick to his face. You didn't gave it a chance to recover . Hit from the playful cloud and your kick, the cycle repeated thrice. All the three parts of playful cloud were swinged at the curse. 

You moved your leg for another kick, the curse sent it's branch towards it. It was already late to pull away. The branch wrapped around leg, moving upwards till your knee. You bit your lip, it's the same knee where you had a fracture from the juvenile centre mission. The bone must have been fixed by cursed energy but it still was a sensitive spot. It's not the time to dwell on pain, you swing the playful cloud at the special grade, your one leg wrapped in branches raised up, keeping your whole balance on a single leg. 

"That's enough Megumi and Geto. It's about time we tag out" Maki's words made Megumi halt in his procedure to still get back on battlefield. Your gaze went to her. Two figures landed between you and cursed spirit, splashing the river water. Aoi Todo from Kyoto And Itadori were here. You fall as the curse branch lets go of you. A stem emerging from your knee. Aoi Todo went over to the second year girl and picked her up. Itadori came to you. 

"Damn, it's the same leg with which i noticed you limping back then." At his words, your eyes widened for a moment. Did he noticed you that much or were you too obvious with your injuries? Itadori held out his hand for you. You took his hand, his fingers closing over your hand. He pulled you up. You stumbled but holding his hand steadied you. 

"Stop Itadori..we can't.." Megumi couldn't complete his sentence and started coughing due to fatigue. Todo approached panda and handed him Maki. "Others can evacuate from here. According to nishimiya, this is an anti gojo saturo veil" Todo explained. "Wait not even you can" Itadori cutted off Fushiguro's protests by reassuring him. "But.. if you die again . I'll kill you" the ravenette said with gritted teeth. 

"Geto you should leave too. Me and Todo will handle from here" He said, giving you a reassuring smile. You tightened your hold on his hand. "No" You bluntly rejected his concerned request. "You'd barely be able to move around with this. Besides using cursed energy is gonna increase this thing on your knees more. You should leave. Panda is here to help you too" You shook your head at his words not wanting to leave. You won't take the risk of the same scenario of juvenile centre repeating itself. "I can still fight" You said with a determined tone. 

"No. You're able to keep up your balance just because I'm holding your hand" He said, loosening his grip on your hand. It was wrong of him to be so concerned of you when you're feeling same about him. "Panda" he called out, turning his head to the side. "He already left with Megumi and Maki saying something about not third wheeling" Todo said crossing his arms. Yuji sighed looking back at you. 

"I can't forever hold your hand so that you don't fall"

You summoned one of your curses and pulled away your hand from his.  "you're right" You added to his statement. You got on top of your curse. It was just a grade 3 because of the stem rising from your knee. It feeds on cursed energy. Todo backed away and announced that he'll step up when Itadori lands a black flash. You sat on top of your flying curse waiting fir Itadori to make the first move. Though Itadori questioned about the allies of the curse. 

Itadori attack the curse spirit, continuos kicks on it's face. Then moving onto it's torso. The curse spirit sent a branch towards him. Your cursed spirit flew there, you grabbed his arm and pulled Yuji up on the curse spirit. He shot you a small smile. "As much as I'd like to fly with you on this. I can't now. Put me down" You frowned at his words, dropping him by the side of river. 

Todo slapped Itadori and gave him a lecture . With a newfound determination and focus , Itadori stood in the river water altering his cursed energy for black flash. You thought of using your extension technique on him to increase his cursed energy. You closed your eyes , focusing. As soon as you felt that you've touched the core of his cursed energy, your body aches from fatigue. The stem growing from the constant use of your cursed energy. You released your technique. Metallic taste filling your taste buds. You coughed, your hand covering your mouth. 

You stare in awe as you see Itadori using black flash and fighting alongside Todo minus the todo's speech. Is this how teamwork is? They both ran over the branches to attack the special grade. The curse retracted it's branches leaving them mid air. You flew there to their rescue with your curse. They both landed on your curse. "Great work with curses and fighting spirit is high in you. What's your type?" Todo turned towards you. You tilt your head , not getting what he meant. 

"Geto just drop us down. You can take the rest time to think about it" Itadori butted in the awkward conversation. You lowered your curse, both of them stepped down onto ground. You watched them fight feeling useless. You just stayed here for nothing they're holding up pretty fine. You identified the technique Todo used. You remember you was taught about this back in your childhood by the teacher higher ups appointed. 

You clenched your fists as things got heated and you became weaker. It sucks to be a bystander. The curse spirit prepared for domain expansion however was interrupted when the veil disappeared. Gojo saturo floated in the air, as his eyes scanned the surroundings. Now you can rest assured that this is going to end. The curse spirit wrapped itself in it's branches to have cover from the strongest sorcerer. 

Itadori took a step forward and yelled at the special grade "screw you! What are you trying to do?" You went towards him on your curse. The curse immediately lifted him up with it's claw by holding his collar and made Itadori sit with you on him. "You shouldn't go close now that sensei is here" You muttered, your gaze going back to gojo who returned back. A devious look on the white haired sorcerer's face. 

"Cursed technique amplification: Blue. Cursed technique reversal: Red."

Your curse flew a decent feets away. Itadori glanced at his teacher curiously.

"Purple hollow"

An enormous purple orb blasts through the forest , destroying everything in the way. It's purple light glowing in the area. You look at Itadori from the corner of your eye. The purple neon like light falling on his features, it's reflection visible in his hazel eyes. Beautiful was the only thing that you thought at the moment but quickly shook it off along with the feeling of a flutter in your chest. Amidst of your staring, he turns his gaze to you making you snap your head in another direction. 

His eyes dart down to the stem which is quite grown on your knee, feeding on your cursed energy. He jumped down from the curse and patted it before turning his head to you. "It's about to time you take it back. Your cursed energy is being used because of it." You nodded at his words and retracted your curse. Your knees weakening especially the one with stem left behind by the special grade. 

You fall to your knees, your hands helped you to not fall flat on your face. Itadori crouched down . "Let's get you to infirmary" He said with a soft smiling dancing on his features. His one hand went under your legs and other went to back as he lifted you up in bridal carry. "Hold onto me geto" He chuckled, standing up with you in his arms. 

"Don't call me geto.. I..use my first name please" You requested and also complied to his words earlier by putting your hands around his neck while he carried you. Ever since that encounter with Maki, you feel like this surname would only lose you as a sister of a mass murderer not an individual person. He tilt his head, looking down at you. "Alright then,[Y/N] . But you have to call me by my first name too" He said, the corners of his lips going upwards and his grin widening. 

"Excuse me Ieiri-san" Yuji entered the infirmary where other students were getting treated too. Gojo was also there with Shoko discussing something. Megumi was sitting bored on the bed. Their heads snapped to The pink haired boy who was carrying a certain someone. 

"PARALLEL!" Both Gojo and Megumi exclaimed in union ,coincidentally. Megumi gave a disgusting look while Gojo seemed to have a biggest grin for the telepathy he and Megumi shared. Shoko's gaze went from Yuji to you who was in his arms and a small smile ghosted her face. She motioned Itadori to take you the bed nearby. The first year nodded and let you down , making you sit on the bed. 

"Get well soon" He said  and unconsciously patted your head. He retracted his hand as soon as he realised what he did. The tips of his ears burning red as his gaze shifted somewhere else in the room. "Thank you" You muttered, voice low and grateful for his concern. The brunette doctor who has been observing the interaction  chuckled to herself, nudging her highschool friend to see his students too. 

It's been a while since you felt this way. You want to smile. The corners of your lips trying to move upwards..yet you feel stiff for that one action. Maybe this isn't enough for making you smile but you sure are grateful for returning back to this place where you belong. 

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A/N : this is the longest chapter I've written. 2903 words excluding this a/n