Hollow Purple ~ Megumi Fushiguro x Oc

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It's been a couple weeks of endless school, and training whooping Aki's ass. Now, she and Megumi were on the hunt for one of Sukuna's fingers. Nanami had protested over the phone she wasn't ready, to which Gojo replied he needed to stop babying her. Of course, Nanami sighed heavily and allowed it.

The pair walked up to what looked like a small birdhouse, but Aki could be wrong.

"They're keeping a cursed object here, in a place like this?" Megumi asked annoyed.

"The higher ups are pretty stupid for that if you ask me." Aki said tilting her head at it curiously.

"Well good thing I didn't ask you. Are you gonna open it?" He asked shoving her forward.

"I'm not opening it! You open it!" She snapped, pulling him to the thing by his elbow.

Megumi sighed heavily through his nose, raising his hand slowly, a little nervous if he were to admit it.

"Ugh. Today, grandpa." Aki groaned.

She looked at her recent text messages, lost in a cat video Rei sent her when she heard signs of distress and glanced up. She had to do a double take, watching as Megumi's whole body was inside the little storage birdhouse thing.

"Uh...Fushiguro?" Aki asked cringing as he hit the top of his head on his way out. He ignored her, jumping on top of it, then lowering to the ground and searching, even tried opening and closing the little doors twice.

"It's not here." He said through gritted teeth, pulling out his phone and calling Gojo.

"Tch. He didn't even do his research before sending us. Are you kidding me?" Aki groaned, telling Rei the dramatic version of what happened.

"There's nothing here." Megumi told Gojo.

"Huh?" She heard him reply on speakerphone.

"The Stevenson hutch is empty." He replied slightly upset.

"For real? That's hilarious!" Gojo laughed, finding it all amusing, to which Aki glared at the phone. "Maybe it took a nighttime stroll."

"I'm going to punch you." Megumi replied plainly.

"Well, no going home until it's recovered, okay?" Gojo said lowly, and hung up.

"I'm seriously going to punch him." Megumi grumbled as he walked away.

"Blindfolded dumbass.." Aki cursed as she followed Megumi.

The two searched for another hour before staying at a hotel and looking up some leads.

"Uh... I got a strange haunted sports field at this highschool. It's from a blog from some occult club, seems they found a creepy haunted item that they're going to 'open' later tomorrow night." Aki told him, glancing up from her laptop.

"We'll go in the morning." Megumi simply said, lying down on the hotel bed as she closed everything and grabbed her phone, heading for the door. "Where are you going?"

"Oh, I'm gonna go FaceTime Rei and see if this hotel has a coffee machine." Aki answered casually.

"You're not going to sleep?" Megumi asked confused.

"I....don't get sleep much nowadays. I'll be ready to go in the morning." She said without looking back at him, and left the hotel room with her keycard.

Megumi wondered if it was because of the cursed womb that broke into Gojo's penthouse a month ago. Or maybe, if it was a nightmare thing...he shook his head and rolled over shutting his eyes. What did he care anyway? It's not like he liked the girl at all.