Awakening
// 2008, Saitama, Japan//
"Aaaaaarrrgghhhh! Fuck!"
*Pant* *pant*
The sound of deep breathing was the only thing that could be heard inside the small room as the 6 year old boy tried to steady his breathing.
He looked like he had just woken up from a nightmare. His entire body looked pale, covered in sweat. The room remained mostly silent with deep breathing being the only source of sound for a while.
"So… this is the merging of the soul, huh ? I guess it is pretty weird. But hey, I am not going through some kind of identity crisis. The other me had thought that I might have to fight the soul of the real Yuuji for dominance, huh. But considering everything the other me has gone through, I guess he is not motivated enough to make a big deal out of it…" The 6 years old boy, named Yuuji Itadori muttered to himself after calming down.
"I will need to calm down and process everything… Wait a minute, I should write down everything I can remember now so that I won't forget it in the future… This world is pretty dangerous. Although, after the merging, I don't feel the same amount of fear of death that I would have felt without it, that doesn't mean, I would just let those bastards do whatever they want… Alright, let's take small steps. I just awakened my cursed technique. Well at least, the other me just awakened my cursed technique. So I should not rush things… Man … talking to myself like this, sure feels a little weird." Yuuji told himself before he went to grab his notebook and pencil from his backpack.
Except for the small futon and the box containing his books and clothes, the entire room was almost empty. It was not unusual considering that Yuuji and his grandpa, Yosuke, had just moved to Saitama.
Yuuji didn't know the details but, apparently her grandfather has gotten himself a job to take care of both of them in a convenient store, owned by one of his old friends.
They still had their house in Sendai. And the old man has decided to give it for rent in order to earn some more money. His friend was nice enough to provide him a flat where Yuuji was living right now. It was nothing big. A normal flat with two rooms. More than enough for the grandfather and the grandson.
Yuuji was not good with writing. After all, he has yet to join preschool. He could read, but writing was a little difficult. But after the merging, he could suddenly write English better than Japanese.
So with complete focus, Yuuji didn't hesitate to write everything he remembered about the Jujutsu Kaisen manga, including the sequel in which Aliens are supposed to attack the planet after sixty something years. His other self had died not after reading a couple of chapters of that sequel. But he couldn't help but think how similar it is to Naruto… well a lot darker.
By the time Yuuji was done, he was completely drenched in sweat. Not because of the heat or anything. He was simply thinking too hard. More than half of his notebook was filled with information about the future. Satoru Gojo, Megumi Fushiguro, Nobara Kugisaki, Nanami, Yaga… Yuuji personally didn't know any of them. But thinking about that made him feel bad.
'What will happen if I never eat that finger in the first place ?…' Yuuji asked himself before thinking really hard. But then he shook his head.
"No… Knowing Kenjaku, he… no, SHE would drag me into this anyway. Without the support of Gojo san, I will be… No, everyone will be in deep trouble. In fact it might even make things worse. If they directly go after Megumi's body, it will be really, really bad.
*Sigh* I should just take a bath." Talking to himself, Yuuji got up and placed his notebook back in the box.
But as soon as he opened the sliding door to get out of the room…
"What the fu-!" Yuji immediately dodged an attack from the toad monster in front of him. From the memories of his other self, he knew what the monster was. It was a cursed spirit. But that didn't mean the 6 years old boy was any confident in fighting the thing.
A part of him was scared. He could feel his cursed energy. And he knew that to exorcise or kill the thing that had attacked him, he would have to just hit it really hard with cursed energy. But that doesn't mean that he was not fully confident in facing that thing.
Unfortunately the Cursed spirit had no intention of letting him recover. It attacked again. Fortunately, Yuji had a genuinely strong body.
"Damn you!" Instead of jumping away, this time he decided to charge forward. Taking a big leap he attacked the head of the ugly toad from above.
*Bang*
Yuuji landed directly on the head of the toad. Unfortunately, being just awakened, and in such a stressful situation he was not able to use his cursed energy properly. As a result he did zero damage.
But…
Doing damage was not the main objective of Yuuji anyway.
*Woosh*
Using the head of the cursed spirit as an elevated platform, Yuuji jumped up, escaping towards the kitchen. But as soon as he opened the door, he found another cursed spirit. This time it was an ugly fly head.
*Buzzz*
"Shit! Why the hell are these coming after me ?" Yuuji screamed as he punched away the flyhead. But again not being able to control the cursed energy, made zero damage to his opponent.
*Whip* *bang*
"Aaaaaarghhhh!" Yuuji cried in pain as his small body was grabbed by the ugly frog cursed spirit and thrown away to the opposite side of the wall in the hallway. The impact rattled his bones. Fortunately his body was strong enough that he didn't break anything. But that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
As both the cursed spirits slowly moved towards Yuuji, he slowly got up, getting ready for a life and death struggle.
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