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(your pov)

I lay in my hospital bed with Maki beside me. She'd been stroking my hair for at least 20 minutes now. The rain tapping on the windowsill and the scent of Matcha green tea coming from Maki was as calming as ever. It's been a few weeks since the construction site mission and I'm still a bit traumatized from what happened. God, I'm so lucky to have Maki here with me right now. I don't know what I would do if I didn't.

Ever since....that happened, I feel like it's become everybody's obligation to see me, ask me how I'm doing, tell me that it's ok, tell me that they're proud of me, all that. I know I said I'd be god damned if I'd ever get so vulnerable to become somebody else's burden, and well here I am. God damned and somebody else's burden.

For example, Maki. She comes by everyday to see me. She sometimes comes in all exasperated, most likely from training all day and going on missions, but still. I just don't want to be the one keeping her from doing her own things, too.

"So how was your day?" I asked. Typically she'd come here after hours of training with my upperclassmen and my friends. But since it was extra down weather today, she thought that training could wait for another day. "It's been fine. Woke up to the power going out in my room" She scoffed. I chuckled. "Imagine that" I said quietly. "Shut up. You're lucky you didn't have to deal with that" She said.

"And you're lucky that you don't have to deal with having to stay in the same position every night and day" I rolled my eyes. She looked at me, "Imagine that" She chuckled. A few moments of silence passed by.

"How's your stomach feeling?" She asked, tracing the bridge of my nose. "Well, it isn't bothering me like it has been for the past week" I said before scrunching up my nose. "Well that's good" She smiled. "Nobara swears she's gonna choke Gojo to death for sending you guys on that mission." She continued. "Yeah? She better wait till I get out this damn room. I'm not letting her do it till I see it" I giggled.

"I'll be sure to tell her that" She said before kissing my nose. "What's training like without me?" I asked. "Boring. Always training with Megumi and he's no fun. Plus I can't flirt with him" She said. I rolled my eyes. "You better not be" I said. She chuckled. "Yes ma'am" She joked. I chuckled with her. "I wonder what I'm gonna do once I get outta this tight ass room" I said.

"Probably another mission" Maki said. I groaned. "Tch, whatever. As long as it doesn't involve another stomach beating I'm good" I scoffed. "Yeah, I'm not sure how much more your stomach can handle after that" She said. "If I can handle you, I can handle anything" I smirked. A blush appeared on her face and she tried holding in a smile. "Whatever" She said. I chuckled.

"So you plan on boring yourself with me, or you gonna do something today?" I asked. She cupped my cheek with her hand. "Spending time with you is never boring" She said softly. "Maki, your gay is showing, quite frankly" Shoko said, walking through the door.

"Y/n? How's your stomach feeling" She asked. I looked at her. "It's fine. Not bothering me anymore" I answered. She nodded. Maki rolled her eyes. "I guess it's time for me to leave, then?" She said, getting up. I grabbed her by the fingers. "Don't leave me just yet, Maki" I said with puppy eyes. "I mean, curfew isn't for another 6 hours so stay as long as you'd like" Shoko said.

"No, I'll leave Y/n to her healing" Maki said. She leaned down and kissed my forehead. "I love you. See you tomorrow, ok" She said before walking out the door. I sighed and tossed my head back. "Those were probably the best 30 minutes of my life" I said. Shoko chuckled.

"Nobara's gonna come by later on and give you your late birthday present, since she'd lost it in her room, or at least that's what she told me" She continued. I nodded and sighed. "Hey Shoko-san?" i asked. She hummed. "Do you think that...maybe, with Maki leaving all of sudden, that she's, y'know" I started.

"Getting tired of me?" i asked. She turned to me and stared for a few seconds. "You didn't hear this from me but when the second years heard that Gojo had sent you on that mission and that you'd came back to me with no intestinal organs, Maki was out for blood. If anything, Y/n, I think it's the exact opposite. She loves you and if her trying to kill the Gojo Satoru isn't enough, then I dunno what is" She said.

I nodded again. "Well that's nice to know" I said.

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A few weeks later, I'd finally gotten out of the hospital room.

"I'm FINALLY outta that cramped ass room! Let's do a mission" I chirped. Gojo looked at me, as everybody else did. "You sure you wanna do that? I mean, with your stomach and everything?" Nobara asked. "Yep! I'm ready to stretch my legs a bit!" I said. "Well she's happy today" Megumi mumbled. "You got something to share with the class?" I asked. He rolled his eyes.

"You're unusually happy today, Y/n. Any other day you'd be pissed, walking out from Shoko's office" He repeated. "Not that you weren't always pissed" He mumbled again. I rolled my eyes. "What a mood kill" I said.

"Great! We've got anotha mission for you 1st years anyways!" Gojo chirped. "For real-" Nobara questioned. "Yes, for real." Gojo grinned. Nobara groaned. "What a pain" She said.

Maki looked at me. "Be. Careful. And come back with all your organs where they should be, idiot" She said, brushing my shoulders. I smiled. "I will. I love you" I said before giving her a lil kith. "And I love you" She said, pulling away.

"Tch, y'all done scissoring or what?" Nobara asked. I snickered and looked away. "You're just jealous cuz it's Maki who's kissing me instead of you" I said. 'Oooohs' were heard from Gojo and Itadori. She rolled her eyes. "Whatever" She sneered.

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"Kanada Taichi in Morioka, in June. Shimada Osamu, in Yokohama, in August. Yamato Hiroshi in Nagoya, in September. These three died with similar circumstances. They were stabbed to death by a cursed spirit at the enterances to their apartments, and all of them had filed the same complaint with the property managers serveral weeks before dying. They claimed their auto locking doors were left wide open" Nitta-san explained.

"Tch. Stabbed to death? You sure this wasn't some other common thug?" I questioned. "You heard the part where she said their auto locking doors were left wide open, right?" Megumi said. I rolled my eyes. "None of the other residents have any idea what happened" Nitta-san continued. "None of the dates or locations match, though. Could the same cursed spirit have killed them all?" Megumi asked.

"Hey, could the cursed spirit be responsible for the doors? Do sensors like those pick up cursed spirits?" Itadori asked. We all looked at him. "They don't show up on cameras and stuff, right?" He continued. I shrugged. "Apparently the cursed spirit made the door opperators go crazy, not the sensors." Nitta-san said, looking through the rear view mirror.

"And as for whether or not the same cursed spirit was behind this.. well, we couldn't be certain from just the residuals. After all, a lot of time had already past. So we tried to track down any connections between the three. We found that all three attended the same middle school for two years" She continued. "Meaning all three recieved the same curse, and it activated after time passed?" I replied.

"Precisely," Nitta-san looked at me through the rear view. "That's highly likely. So we're going to that middle school now to question someone who all three victims knew, and I want you three to see what you can find as sorcerers" She said. Megumi pressed one ID and zoomed in. "Way to go, Y/n!" Itadori praised. "Tch, whatever" I said. Megumi huffed.

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"A funeral?" Itadori asked. "Is this the home of that acquaintance?" Nobara asked. "Yes, it is" Nitta-san answered.

"Well this sucks, he died the same way the other three did. He lived with his family, so there was no autolocking door, but he was killed in front of the enterance. Previously, upon returning home, he reported 'the door was unlocked, but it wouldn't open' to his other family members." She continued.

"I asked his parents, too, but they said they didn't know what relationship he had with the other three" Nitta-san stated. Nobara sighed. "Ah, man! There goes our only lead!" She groaned. "Don't worry! There's gotta be something at this middle school!" Itadori reassured. "I sure hope so" Nitta-san huffed.

"For now, I've secured an appointment with a teacher, so I'm counting on you" She continued. Nobara grinned and chuckled, running over to two boys who were standing some meters underneath the building.

"There's some obvious punks. Let's beat em up and set em straight!" She exclaimed. I rolled my eyes. "Tch, not 'lets.' You can do that yourself. You may be immoral but that doesn't make us just like you" I scoffed. An irk appeared on her face. "Yeah but, why?" Itadori asked.

"Huh?" The two boys asked. They took one look at us and bowed, more like one look at Fushiguro. "It's good to see you!" They said while bowing. "Heh, look at that. They actually get it" Nobara said, basking in the 'praise,' along with Itadori. "An aura just pours out, even if you try to hide it" Itadori chimed in.

"Please, they weren't talking about you guys" I said. "And do you think they were talking about you??" Nobara questioned.

I rolled my eyes. "No. No but I can make them do it" I said, getting out my Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. Nobara gulped.

"We haven't seen you since graduation, Fushiguro-san!" One of the boys said. Itadori and Nobara stopped being idiots. They looked at one of the boys. We all looked at Megumi, who was looking away sheepishly.

"I...went here...for middle school." Megumi said. Roughnut and Toughnut ran over to him. "That's a surprise too, but that's not the point!" Nobara yelled. "Look at me!" She continued. "What did you do!? What did you do in middle school?!" Itadori questioned. I huffed. "It'd be quicker to ask them" I said, pointing my thumb behind me and at the two boys.

"Hey, idiot A idiot B! What did this guy do to you?!" Nobara questioned. Idiot A idiot B. That's hilarious. I thought as I cackled to myself. The boys stopped bowing and looked at her.

"We..or rather every delinquent, gang member and so on, in this area got beaten up by Fushiguro-san" One of the boys admitted. I cackled to myself again.

"Sounds like he was quite the delinquent himself" I said while smirking. Megumi turned away like a robot. "I. Beat..them up" He said quietly.

"Why do you keep talking so stiffly?! Look at me!" Nobara yelled. "What are you doing?! Hey, what are you doing!?" Itadori questioned. I rolled my eyes and looked away to find a teacher walking towards us.

"Hey! Who are you? Students from other schools aren't allowed here!" An old man said. "And who the hell are you?!" Nobara questioned. "Take a wild guess, retard. He's obviously a staff member" I bonked her head. "Yeah, why are you so combative??" Itadori questioned.

Nitta-san walked over and pulled out a pass. "We have permission to be here." She said. The staff member took a closer look and adjusted his glasses up and down. "Oh, you're the ones? You're all young" The staff member said. "You need to hang your pass around your neck-" He said before glancing over at Megumi. "Fushiguro-kun?" The staff member asked.

"Hello" Megumi said stiffly. "He ReMeMbErS yOu~" Itadori and Nobara teased. "So this mans been here a long time?" Nitta-san chimed in. "Probably" Megumi answered. "Takada-san's a permanent employee" He continued.

Nitta-san held a thumbs up. "Then I leave the rest to you!" She beamed.

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"Kamada, Shimada, Yamato...and Morishita, huh? I was shocked by their passing, but I guess it's been nearly 20 years since their graduation. I remember it like it was yesterday." The staff member said. "They were problem children in their own right, not as bad as you, though. What did you want to know?" He beamed.

Megumi raised his hand. "Strange rumors, dark rumors, connections to bad adults," Megumi started. Itadori and Nobara decided to tease again. "Hey, problem child~~~~" They said. ",,Anything of ill omen" Megumi continued while bonking Itadori and Nobara in the head. I rolled my eyes.

"Dark rumors? There may have been problem children but they never went beyond average middle school stuff" The staff member said. "But wait,,, ill omen?" He mumbled.

"Do you mean that tale?" One of the boys asked. We turned to him. "About the Yasohachi bridge bungee jumping?" The boy asked. Nobara leaned in. "You still here A and B?" She asked. "Evidently" I mumbled.

"Yasohachi bridge?" Itadori asked. "A notorious suicide spot. It's well known in the area as a haunted location" Megumi answered.

"Oh that's right! Back then, it was all the rage among delinquents to bungee jump off Yasohachi Bridge late at night. It was one of those tests of courage" The staff member said. "What a weird tribe" Nobara mumbled. I wacked her in the back of the head. "I'm surprised there are people dumber than me" Itadori chimed in with a naive face.

"What do you use for a cord?" Megumi asked stiffly. "We don't do it, I just heard some students from out parents' generation talking about it" One of the boys explained.

"One day, Kanada and the other three were absent without permission" The staff member started. "That wasn't at all unusual by itself, but when we contacted their families, we learned those four hadn't come home the day before. It caused a pretty big stir. They were found unconcsious underneath Yasohachi Bridge. They got chewed out good, but all four swore up and down they didn't remember a thing" The staff member finished.

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"I think that's it" Nitta-san said. "I've been to Yasohachi Bridge too." Megumi commented. "To bungee jump?" Itadori asked. Megumi bonked his head. "It's easy for curses to take root in haunted locations, just like in schools, so people from Jujutsu High regularly patrol it" He explained. Itadori whined the whole time, holding his head in pain.

"There wasn't anything unsual at the time, though. It might be a bit famous, but it's still used as a normal bridge." Megumi explained. "We still have to explore it, though" Nobara said. "Exactly" Nitta-san chimed in.

"Fushiguro-kun?" The staff member asked. We turned to him. "Sorry, I was curious about something" He said. "What is it?" Megumi asked. "Tsumiki-kun took good care of you when you were in school. Is she doing well?" The staff member wondered.

Megumi stood there for a second. "Yes" He said plainly. I lifted a brow.

"Who's Tsumiki?" Itadori asked. "My older sister" He answered. "What?! You tell us too little about yourself!" Nobara chastised. "Yeah, that's right!" Itadori chimed in. "Not like you guys would've cared if he told you earlier" I mumbled.

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Nitta-san drove us to the bridge. The entire fucking ride was horrid, Nobara and Itadori kept pestering Megumi about his past that I had to turn around and yell at them to shut up. They started whining like babies.

"Y/nnnnn, don't you care about his past too?!" Nobara whined. "I don't care and I didn't ask" I replied. "Oh, c'mon Y/n! Have a heart!" Itadori chimed in. I rolled my eyes. "Having a heart would acknowledge that he probably doesn't tell us about his past because he's uncomfortable with telling people, now leave him alone about it" I grumbled. Itadori and Nobara sat back in their seats with shame.

"We're here. Koi no Kuchi Canyon, Yasohachi Bridge" Nitta-san announced. We all looked out the window. "Once you've confirmed a cursed spirit's here, I'll lower a veil" She continued. Itadori pulled string from a ball.

"Roger!"

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Bruh, it's been so fucking long since Nitta-san dropped us off here at the bridge and no sign of abnormal activity going on. Itadori and I yawned at least 10 times now.

"Hey, we didn't find hide nor hair of any cursed spirit" Nobara complained.

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"We didn't sense any presences or residuals" Megumi said, taking about out of some f o o d.

"I see" Nitta-san said. "Which means this isn't it. Guess it's back to square one" She continued. "But isn't it bad if we take too long?" Itadori asked. "Why?" Nobara asked. "Well, it's a famous haunted location, right? There might still be plenty of others who got cursed. And right now, the death rates at 100 percent." He stated.

"We don't want to see any others die, right?" He continued. "True" Nobara said.

"Ding ding! Bungee jumping was all the rage back then, right? So maybe the act of jumping off is the key, right?" Nitta-san exclaimed.

"Did she seriously just say ding ding" I questioned. "She did! She did!" Nobara cheeked.

"Itadori already tried that" Megumi said. "Huh?" Nitta-san questioned. "WHAT?! YOU MEAN YOU JUMPED WITH THAT VINYL CORD?!" Nitta-san exclaimed.

"Hey, there you are! Thank goodness!" A voice said behind us. It was one of the boys from earlier, whom Nobara named Idiot A or Idiot B. The boy stopped on his bike with some girl holding onto him. I scoffed at the sight as it reminded me of my father.

"Who's that again?" Nobara asked. "You don't remember naming those two boys Idiot A Idiot B?" I questioned. Nobara made an 'o' shape with her mouth.

"you were talking about Yasohachi Bridge, so.. I'm really glad I found you here!" He said. We glanced over to the girl. "Fujinuma?" Megumi said. We glanced over to him. "Huh?" Nitta-san said. "A classmate" He answered.

"My older sister" The boy said. The girl bowed. "I'm glad you remember me" She said nicely.

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"I was talking to my sister about yesterday, and.." The boy said. "Um, Morishita had a funeral in the neighborhood..then I head from my brother that you were looking into that man and Yasohachi Bridge" Fujinuma said. "So I was wondering if they're related," The girl sighed. Nitta-san shook her head. Megumi looked at her then at Fujinuma.

"If what's related" Megumi asked. "Morishita-san's death and the bridge" She answere. "They're not related. We're just-" "I.." The girl cut him off.

"I went there" She said. "I went there. In eighth grade..I went to Yasohachi Bridge at night." The girl had a frightened look on her face. "Geh-" Nobara said.

"Has anything odd happened at home recently?" Nitta-san butt in. "Any strange feelings that affect you and no one else?" She continued. "Tch" I coffed, pulling out my phone.

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wyd

girl are you dumb

u have a mission to do

quit texting me

these idiots over here are wasting time

now wyd

training

as always

gurl

do a combo for me :)

ok

i meant what i said,

come back with all your organs where they should be

lmaoo ok

ttyl and cya when i get back

ily

ttyl and ilyt

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I smiled and put my phone back. When I looked back up, Nitta-san was already walking back with the brother and sister. "Tch, I look away for one second and they skip ahead of me" I scoffed.