14 Understand
Gojo, Utahime and Fukashi were all sitting inside a room with extremely comfortable seats, he sunk into the seat and half closed his eyes.
The event hasn't started yet so he was just trying to pass some time. He heard Gojo and Utahime talking but was ignoring it until he couldn't anymore.
"-m not upset at all" Utahime said.
She looked upset.
"Course not" Gojo said absentmindedly as he took a sip out of the drink in his hands. "Cause I haven't done anything wrong"
Utahime almost growled.
"But I'm afraid" Gojo paused slightly. "That we have a spy, someone's working with a curse or curse user" he said with all levity from his tone gone.
Fukashis eyes widened slightly as he sat straight in the chair and paid complete attention.
Utahime straightened and looked towards the Gojo clan head "Impossible! A curse user is one thing but working with curses?"
Gojo spoke up after he took another sip of the can in his hand. "And yet a lot of them on that level have been popping up lately, they've learned human speech and have formed a faction of some kind" He turned to Utahime.
'Curses can speak?' Fukashi didn't know that.
"You need to investigate everyone at Kyoto" Gojo said.
Utahime quickly responded "For all you know I can be the traitor, why me?" Gojo seemed to smile in reply.
"Oh, no you're far too weak to be the spy" he said with a laugh, he ignored Utahime growl in response.
"And Fukashi over there, he's too stupid to be the spy" his grin was shining as he ignored Fukashis snarl.
Fukashis anger was suddenly lost when Utahime threw her drink on Gojo and it just didn't touch him.
She didn't miss, the liquid just didn't touch him. He activated his sharingan for a better look.
Gojo had some sort of barrier around him, he couldn't explain it but it looked mind bending.
It was mind numbing as he stared at the cursed energy.
Gojo noticed his sudden staring and pretended to fan his face, "Oh, Fukashi at least take me out to eat first" he said with a dainty tone.
Fukashi ignored him and kept his mind on the technique "W-what's the barrier around you" Gojo looked pleasantly surprised.
"You see it?" He asked, Utahime looked between the two with a resigned look on her face.
"What is it" Fukashi repeated, and suddenly space seemed to shift and Gojo was standing in front of him.
Gojo offered his palm to the confused Fukashi.
'H-how, he-I what' his thoughts were jumbled but interrupted by Gojos voice. "C'mon hurry up, my arm's getting tired" His voice was whiny as he spoke to the last Uchiha.
Fukashi gave him an odd look as he slowly raised his own hand and was about to touch Gojos palm when he just didn't.
He felt like…like something was slowing him down.
He looked towards the barrier only to see his hand blocked by it.
"So you've got a shield around you" he asked Gojo who snorted, Fukashi contemplated if Chidori could pierce this shield.
"No it's not a shield, it's the infinity between me and you" Fukashi furrowed his brows in confusion. "My cursed technique limitless lets me turn the finite space between us infinite by infinitely dividing it" Gojo explained further.
"So I can't touch you" Fukashi summarised it. "Will overwhelming force work against it?" He asked Gojo who just shook his head in the negative.
"I've got the six eyes, it allows me to control my cursed energy as efficiently as possible and more. But it basically means my control over Limitless is impeccable. I've got many clan members with Limitless, overwhelming force or just waiting for the technique to drain their cursed energy would be useful" Gojo snorted at the end.
"But against me, my cursed energy regenerates faster than limitless uses it. I can subconsciously use it even when I sleep" Satoru Gojo grinned.
"That's why I'm the strongest" Fukashi heard Utahime scoff in the background but ignored her, his sharingan was blazing as he stared into Gojos blindfold.
"Oh I know that look," Gojo said as he leaned down slightly. "You're thinking of ways to break infinity huh" he said, his grin now mocking.
Fukashi stood up and faced the Gojo clan head, suddenly his calm face was lit with lightning and the sound of 1000 chirping birds were echoing around the room.
He heard Utahime yelp as a stray bit of lightning landed by her foot. The lightning was going crazy in his hand, he slowly lifted said hand.
Gojo lifted his blindfold as he stared at the ball of lightning in Fukashis hand. In a sudden burst of speed Fukashi slammed the fist covered in lightning into Gojo.
Gojo looked down with a small smile on his face as the Chidori sparked uselessly against his perfect defence.
Fukashi wasn't too stunned, the Chidori was meant to cut through anything but cutting space seemed a stretch.
He pulled his hand back and surveyed the scorch marks covering the room, he ignored the damages and sat back down into his seat with a sigh.
"Hey! You burned my blindfold" Gojo sounded outraged as he smelt the cloth that now smells of ozone, Gojo sighed before throwing said blindfold in the corner of the room.
That was a nice distraction but he's bored again.
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He came to attention when new members of staff entered the room, starting with both principals, Principal Gakuganji and Principal Yaga.
He heard Utahime exchange greetings with said men, Gojo however seemed to just ignore them.
Then entered a familiar woman with pure white hair and a smirk on her beautiful face. He didn't know how to feel about the woman.
While he did appreciate her for being the one who brought him to the medical wing after the centipede fight, he didn't appreciate being filmed and having such a moment be so public
He also didn't appreciate the filming when he watched the film back and realised they were there for a longer time than he thought.
A scowl took over his face but he sat back, closed his eyes and tried to ignore the anger simmering under his skin.
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He opened his eyes when suddenly the T.V in the front of the room turned on with a beep. "What?" He said as he looked at the T.V it showed Panda fighting the Robot guy.
His eyebrows furrowed in confusion, why the hell did Panda have big sharp teeth, he was confused. How did Panda not look like a panda anymore?
"Jheez that other school is pretty weak huh Gojo" Fukashi said when Panda ripped off the robot's arm and smashed him into the ground.
He noticed principal Yaga seemed relieved at the result.
He ignored Utahimes growl and focused on Gojos words. "Now, now just because our students are the best doesn't mean we need to put down the other school" he said with a grin.
The screen suddenly switched to Maki fighting a blue haired girl. Maki was clearly winning, she had the blue haired girl on the back foot.
She swung the large spear around with ease as she used it to knock the blue haired girl of the small cliff, Maki jumped back when Miwa, the blue haired girl jumped back and held her sword in its sheath
He grinned as Maki snapped her own spear and threw it at Miwa, quickly in a flurry of moves Maki had Miwas own sword in her hand and pointing towards its old master.
He noticed one of the cursed tags on the wall to his right burnt up, it was explained to him earlier that they signified the cursed spirits and whenever one was exorcised it would burn red.
Mei-Mei suddenly spoke up "What an interesting girl" she laughed slowly "You should put her to second grade already".
Gojo replied quickly. "Believe me, I feel the same way but the Zen'in clan keeps interfering, I wish they would change their position and just accept her" he said with a serious tone.
Mei-Mei laughed "I can't understand such restraint unless it's money" her voice seemed to perk up at the mere mention of money.
He felt the familiar burn of anger at her words, money.
It was all about money.
Fukashi turned and faced the woman and for the first time actually addressed her "Is that why you recorded me" the room's silence only amplified his statement.
He heard Utahime take a sharp breath. "You recorded me dying and did nothing" he said with a growing glare.
Mei-Mei seemed slightly taken aback but nothing more than that. Gojo sighed into his hand with a sudden suffering look on his face.
Mei-Meis slow-forming smirk only pissed Fukashi off more. The three black tomoe in his eyes only spun faster at her reaction. "I watched the video back, you started to record before I was even thrown out the building" he revealed before he stood from his chair and faced the women.
"You could have helped but did nothing" his eyes narrowed on the woman. She only smiled lightly in response.
"That was my little brother recording, I wouldn't want to put him in danger so I told him to hold back" his anger started to dissolve as he looked away from the smug woman.
Now he feels like a dick he thought to himself as his sharingan was deactivated.
"You would know about that" she paused as Fukashi brought his eyes back to her, what was she talking about? "About keeping a little brother safe" his eyes widened "Well I guess you would know about trying to at least" his sharingan blazed to life in a fiery build up of cursed energy.
"You weren't successful though were you"
His cursed energy exploded out from him, the room was suddenly encompassed in a fiery pressure that felt like gravity was increased 100 fold.
Even the most seasoned sorcerers were surprised at this much cursed energy output from one teenager.
Except Satoru of course.
Gojo ignored the cursed energy and focused on Mei-Mei, she doesn't usually act like this. He quickly pulled his attention back to the Uchiha.
"Your brother" Fukashi said with a glare. "I know what he looks like, I know his name Ui Ui right?" He asked, his scowl turning into a grin.
Mei-Meis eyebrows furrowed as she clenched her fist.
"I went through every single one of your streams after I watched my own" His voice reverberated throughout the room. "You revealed quite a lot of information about him on there"
His grin somehow grew at the sudden dropping of the woman's smirk. "The thing about these eyes of mine" he looked down at his hands "They remember whatever they see with perfect clarity" he looked back up at the woman.
"When I saw my brother's corpse, something like that sticks with you, even without my sharingan I would remember that moment with perfect clarity."
"If you ever speak about my brother again" his fists clenched as his grin seemed to grow again. "I will make sure you remember the sight of your brothers corpse with perfect clarity as well"
She suddenly stood her axe in hand and pointed at him. "Say that again you brat" her voice was dark as she kept eye contact with the injured Uchiha.
"You ever, speak about my brother again" he took a couple steps forward, the axe was almost resting against his shoulder. "and I will make your brother beg for mercy before I ultimately end his life"
"Then I will wait for you to return to your home and watch your reaction to his death. Then, and only then will you understand"
Gojos eyes suddenly switched to Principal Gakuganji who didn't seem outraged like he usually would be, he was just observing.
Something was wrong here.
Mei-Mei and Gakuganji both acting differently. Suddenly the wall to his right flashed red. He grimaced as the wall full of cursed tags suddenly burnt up.
That meant all the curses were now exorcised, "Now!" He clapped and interrupted the tension while gesturing towards the tags. "Hate to break up what would be a fun fight but those tags all burnt up"
He smiled lightly "Now as much as I would like to say that my students exorcised them all I believe that is unlikely"
Principal Yaga spoke up "Remember those tags also burn red if there is unregistered cursed energy in the area"
Utahime quickly replied "So, you think there is outsider involvement"
Principal Gakuganji quickly replied "Impossible it would mean Tengens barrier has failed" Yaga nodded in response.
Yaga stood and turned to the door "I'm going to check on Tengen, Satoru and Principal Gakuganji please protect the students, Mei you stay here and pinpoint the students location." He turned to leave but remembered something.
"Satoru, you take Fukashi with you, I'm not sure he and Mei in this room together would work out" he then left the room in haste.
Quickly Satoru, Utahime and the old principal all left in a run. Fukashi wasn't far behind, he winced as he felt his stomach twinge in discomfort.
He saw a giant veil start to drop, if it landed it meant that he would be stuck on the wrong side.
Fukashi sped up and reached the veil just as it closed and locked them out.
He had only ever heard of veils and never had passed through one before so he stood back as Gojo examined it.
He felt his anger simmering under his skin, that woman. He will show her what it's like.
He was knocked back into the moment when Utahime and the Principal both walked through the veil.
He went to follow only for Gojos hand on his shoulder to stop him. "Principal says you stay with me" he said with a serious look on his face.
Fukashi tried to pull his shoulder out of Satoru's grip but it held strong. He turned to stare directly as Gojo, his bandages were still off from where he had taken it off earlier.
His friends were in there, Maki was in there, the teachers were worried and he didn't trust them to deal with this.
He felt his frustration rise further when Gojo only tightened his hold on his shoulder.
He had an idea.
He didn't know where the idea came from but it felt instinctive as his eyes met Gojos own.
He had one thought flowing through his mind 'Let go'.
Gojos eyes widened as he felt cursed energy mix with his own and fought it off but in that split second of surprise he had listened to the order.
He had let go.
Fukashi was gone.
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