Vessel // Jujutsu Kaisen x reader

28. The Start

A/n; a small throwback to the 'Tokyo and Kyoto' chap☝️

Anyway, sorry for the long wait! I needed to figure out a few things for the shibuya arc (still am).
It's only kinda a filler chap, but hope you enjoy it nonetheless!!

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"It's a curtain that only traps civilians. Civilians can only enter. As for Windows, that depends on the person. Jujutsu sorcerers, as well as auxiliary managers, can come and go as they please." Ijichi explained to us.

"Any reception?"

"Blocked." the bespectacled man sighed.
"All communication will have to be done outside the curtain... Or through us, the managers."

"Sounds like quite the pain." Nanami deadpanned.

"Fushiguro, L/n! Fushiguro, L/n!" the guy named Takuma Ino tapped our shoulders.
"Curtains... The condition that can be used to increase or decrease the barriers effectiveness... Are usually only things related to cursed energy. So, basically humans, cursed spirits and cursed objects."
The guy started explaining while I exchanged a confused and fed-up look with Megumi.
"Therefore, reception being blocked is a secondary effect of the curtain. But the curtain can't actually block or allow reception."

"Um, yes. We know." The two of us answered and Nanami sighed.

"Ino. They're both excellent students. So stop trying to show off just because you're older." Nanami groaned while adjusting his glasses.
"And-"

"What do you mean by that?! Nanami!!" Ino yelled out incredulously.

"Where is Gojo?" Nanamin ignored his coworker like a champ.

"He has already entered. We're now waiting for any changes." Ijichi answered.

"Hmmm, hey, Nanamin." I turned to the man wearing sunglasses and he looked down at me, crossing his arms.

"Yes, Y/n?"

"Nanamin...?" Ino tilted his head in confusion.

"Y/n...?" Megumi frowned with questions written all over his face.

"So, I got a question about the teams." I continued while raising my hand, like I would in school.

"What about it?" Nanami rose a brow at me, silently telling me to lower my hand again.

"So, I get that Nobara and Maki-senpai are in a group with that old man. And Panda-senpai with that other teacher, right?"

"O-old man...?!" Both Ino and Ijichi looked at me shocked.

"Get to the point." Nanami, however, was not phased, along with Megumi.

"Why are you rushing me, Nanamin?" I huffed childishly, while the other three people looked at us.
"Anyway, my point. Why is Yuuji alone with a first grade sorcerer, but I'm with you and these two?"
I finally asked and pointed at Megumi and Ino.
"Not to sound rude or anything, Megumi, Ino-san. It just doesn't make sense that Yuuji gets treated like a dangerous thing when I'm as much of a vessel as he is."

Nanami hummed and then sighed.
"As a matter of fact, the elders classify Itadori-kun as more of a ticking time bomb than you. He only recently merged with Sukuna, so there is still a high chance that Sukuna could get the best of him."

"And it's different with me?" I asked.

"If I may interrupt, you've been a vessel since you were five. Which has been quite a while." Megumi added and I frowned.