"losing your sense of self is the worst thing you can do."
IN WHICH ...
two vessels have to navigate a world that is trying to kill them while also dealing with annoying curses that love to hinder them.
[Yuji Itadori x OC]
[Based on the Jujustu Kai...
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CHAPTER NINE : ONE YEAR PRIOR, PART ONE
It's November 3rd, 2016.
A sleek black car pulled up on the side of the road. It had black out windows, a private registration on its license plate. All in all, it looked it was supposed to pick up some fancy and expensive client, and honestly it wasn't exactly wrong.
Across the road from the car is a high school in Sendai City, Miyagi prefecture and is the current location of Kaori's first official job as a Jujutsu Sorcerer. Well, first official job handed off by Gojo that is. She's been assigned smaller jobs, but this one she's doing without supervision.
Her two-coloured eyes watch the high school in dread, bouncing between faces as she tries to get a read on the situation at hand. She was going up against the one thing she feared the most: social interaction with people she didn't know.
"The report says that children have been going missing over the past few years in Sendai City, but traces of cursed energy have only just started being seen." Ijichi explained, scrolling on the tablet in his hand. "Plus, a window had recently seen a large curse following a high schooler. They followed it back to this high school but lost it soon after."
"What kind of curse is it?" Kaori asked, her eyes still on the school.
"That's the problem, we don't actually know. We can't figure out its grade either, but we're placing it around second to semi-first grade. However, don't go in expecting it to be easy." He replied, pushing his glasses further up his face.
"I never do." Kaori told him, she knew better than to expect a job to be easy. "The unpredictability is why they gave 'Toru the job right?"
"Indeed. However, he gave it to you and said "she's old enough to be taking her own missions and this one will be easy"." Ijichi informed her, though he had a feeling she already knew.
By the lack of a verbal response, Ijichi guessed he was right. However, he did watch Kaori's hands curl into her skirt as she stared out of the car window.
"You don't have to be nervous about the curse, you've got more than enough raw power to beat a semi-first grade, even without perfection of your techniques." He reassured her, a smile on his face.
But Kaori's attention didn't shift. "The curse isn't what I'm nervous about."
Ijichi sighed deeply. He told Gojo this was going to happen, but what Gojo says has to be done. He had said that this was a problem she'd have to get over if she wanted to survive, and the sooner they ripped of the band aid, the sooner she could actually start improving. Honestly, Ijichi wasn't sure if that's how social awkwardness worked, but he was willing to respect Gojo this one time.
The teenager watched as similarly aged people met up with friends, laughed and chatted together. Sometimes they'd wave at a new person and just socialise so easily. Kaori missed the middle school experience, she doesn't even know if she has functioning social skills.
