"So what was that lady screaming about? We were in the car so we couldn't hear." Yuji looked determined yet sorrowful as he answered my question.
"Her son, a kid named Tadashi. I intend to find him even if he's dead." Yuji has a good heart but this is the wrong profession to have it in. Based on what they told me, that kid and everyone in there is probably dead. I won't bring down Yuji and I actually encourage him to search for this kid. We entered the detention center and something felt off, I couldn't name it though.
"Oi! Where's the door!?" Nobara yelled and Yuji has a comedic amount of shock on his face. I think Sensei told us about this before I think it was called something.
"Shit! I should've paid more attention!" Megumi told himself confusing me and the rest of us. Never understood why people do that.
"What do you mean Fushiguro?" Yumi asked and Fushiguro sighed.
"We're trapped in an Innate Domain. This one looks incomplete though," Megumi paused before continuing, "It must have a range though. I believe the range is the edge of the detention center." That's a pretty big range. Sensei said that any attack in a domain would hit its target automatically...scary.
"So we're stuck and at someones elses, mercy is what you're saying?" You can always count on Yumi to get straight to the point.
"Not necessarily, as I said it's incomplete so I don't think that aspect of how a domain usually works is incorporated. Pure speculation of course." Megumi sounds like a total nerd right now. I held in my laugh and we continued to walk around the detention center. Until Yuji found the body of that woman's son.
"Tadashi...we have to take him!" Is he insane? We have a mission to complete we can worry about that later.
"No, that would be useless! We would be carrying around dead weight!" Heh, dead weight.
"I have to agree with Fushiguro, lugging around a dead body is foolish. If we were to get into a fight, the chances of that body being destroyed are very high." Yuji was reluctant and proceeded to bring forth his argument.
"My grandfather's dying wish was for me to save people. Even if he's dead that woman deserves to know the state of her son!" He has a great point but bringing the body with us is retarded.
"Yuji. You make an excellent point but dragging around this dead body is both disgusting and stupid. The smart idea would be to leave the body and come back for it when we are done with our mission." Yuji relented but eventually agreed. Before we could move on, we found Nobara was missing.
"Now you three dumbasses notice?! I was trying to tell you three she disappeared but you guys continued to argue!" Yumi was angry enough that her cursed energy began to flare.
"So-" Fear. That's what we all felt at this very moment, fear. Standing right next to us was a smiling special grade cursed spirit. Move! Move!
"Megumi! Go and find Nobara! Yumi, Yuji, and I will stay here to buy you some time!" I yelled but Megumi stood in fear. This is no time to be afraid!
"MEGUMI!" Megumi snapped out of his fear-induced stupor and nodded.
"Don't die you three!" Megumi reluctantly left and we were left with a special grade cursed spirit. I felt the sudden urge to just sit and cry.
"If we survive this, I'm buying myself a beer I don't care that I'm twelve!" Yuji and Yumi laughed and the cursed spirit grinned wider.
"Alright then, let's survive so you can drink beer! HAAA!" Yuji charged forward with his large knife and then it was gone. His hand plopped on the floor and was severed faster than most of us can react.
"AAAHHHHH!!" Yuji screamed in pain as he held his stump. The cursed spirit made a noise almost as if it was laughing. It charged a ball of pure cursed energy and I wasn't about to let it fire it!
"72 Technique: Binding Chains!" I plucked one of my hairs and turned it into several large chains that held the arms of the cursed spirit in place.
"Force Stop!" Yumi also used her Force Stop attack and the cursed spirit was stopped, for around five seconds. It quickly broke out of my chains and backhand slapped Yumi through multiple walls, I hope she's okay. I plucked two of my hairs and created a copy and a robotic hand.
"Here, put that on! I'm going to need your help!" I threw the robotic hand to Yuji and he pushed through the pain and put it on. He picked up his broken knife from his severed hand and we got ready to fight. I dashed forward with my copy and fired a cursed energy-coated punch. My fist hit the cursed spirit in its abdomen but no damage was done. My copy kicked the cursed spirit in its neck but once again, no damage was done. Both of us jumped back and Yuji charged in and cut the cursed spirit with his knife. It only managed it create a thin cut that was healed seconds later.
"Heeeee!!" The cursed spirit seemed to laugh again and punched Yuji hard in his gut. Yuji ended up dropping his knife and spit up unhealthy volumes of blood. I took the opportunity to pick up his knife and swung upwards, creating a small thin cut that was healed in seconds. My copy came from behind and kicked the cursed spirit in its head and managed to make it move. Yuji quickly recovered from his injury and punched the cursed spirit in the face while I sliced it across it's chest. The cursed spirit grabbed my copy's leg and slammed him onto the ground, killing my copy. Yuji and I quickly retreated back and I created another clone. I could create more but they would only be worse than fodder. Yuji and I once again charged the cursed spirit.
"It's playing with us!" I ducked under one of its punches and Yuji punched it dead in the face but did no damage. I sliced its leg doing little to no damage and my clone Serpentine punched it right in the stomach also doing little no damage. The combo wasn't over as Yumi came from the side and punched the cursed spirit with her negative boost. This actually did a significant amount of damage to the cursed spirit but it healed just as fast. I threw away the knife and plucked one of my hairs and turned it into another clone. My cursed energy reserves were dangerously low. We charged the cursed spirit once again. Yumi's fist stunned the cursed spirit giving my clones and Yuji an opening. My clones and I each used Biting Cobra, doing more damage to the cursed spirit. Yuji finished the combo with a kick to its face.
"I think we may have a chance!" How wrong Yuji's words were. The cursed spirit disappeared from sight and I felt both of my clones die. I turned around and saw the cursed spirit right behind me.
"MONKEY!!" I looked down and saw my heart in it's hands. Damn...
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"MONKEY!!" Not again! NOT AGAIN!! ANOTHER PERSON I CARED FOR DIED!!! NOT AGAIN!!! My mind was clouded with rage and I recklessly charged the cursed spirit. My fist hit it square in the chest taking a huge chunk out of it.
"YOU WILL PAY!!" I punched the cursed spirit in it's jaw and it's jaw flew off. I punched it again in its face creating a large hole in its head. The strain of Negative Boost began to get to me but I could care less! The cursed spirit quickly regenerated and punched me into a wall. Before I could recover it slammed me into the ground and kicked me into the ceiling before slamming me again. The amount of pain I was feeling isn't enough to cover for Monkey's death! I got up and fired another punch. The cursed spirit dodged and punched me in the gut. I almost passed out but I held onto its arm and tried making it explode with Tengoku. The arm didn't explode and the cursed spirit threw me into a wall and followed up with a knee to my gut.
"BLEGH!" I threw up copious amounts of blood and felt myself hit my limit. I got up once again and activated Negative Boost. I felt my skin being evaporated due to the strain it was putting on my body but that was nothing. I fired another punch at the cursed spirit and we clashed fists. I instinctively dodged its next punch and uppercutted it, making it take a couple of steps back. I followed up with a hard punch to the gut sending the cursed spirit into a wall. I concentrated most of my cursed energy reserves into my right fist and punched out.
"CURSE ERASING FIST!!" My fist hit the cursed spirit dead in the face and sent it through multiple walls. Seconds later I fell to my knees in exhaustion, I felt a hand on my shoulder and it was Itadori.
"I can take it from here. Make sure to have Fushiguro give me a signal so I know when to switch with Sukuna." Is he mad?! All three of us could hardly take this cursed spirit and I'm having a tough time doing it even with my Negative Boost! And this guy wants to take it on alone?!
"No! I won't let you fight alone, it goes against what I believe in and Monkey would be cursing me in the afterlife."
"Trust me, I've got this. Please go Nakamura-san!" The expression on Itadori's face tells me he knows that death is highly likely. It pains me to leave him like this, if only I were stronger!!
"You better not die Itadori." I picked up Monkey's body and ran out of the detention center. Once I was out of the detention center I saw Fushiguro and Kugisaki leaving as well.
"Kusabare..." I could hear a faint sadness in Fushiguro's voice.
"Itadori is still in there. He's going to switch with Sukuna once you give him a signal..." Megumi clenched his fist and had his Demon Dog howl. I began to feel the effects of such a hard battle weighing down on me and my emotions caught up with my body. Before I knew it my eyes were filled with tears as I cried over Monkey's dead body.
"I-I'm sorry for not being strong enough! If I was strong enough you wouldn't have died, I'm sorry!" The tears continued to flow out of my eyes like a river. How can Kami-sama be so cruel to take away my only friend? I forced myself to stop crying in front of Fushiguro and Kugisaki and walked away into the forest. As soon as I was out of sight the tears began to flow again. Why am I so sad over someone who I knew for three months? The emotion I'm feeling is beyond sadness, it's comparable to when I lost my mother. Now that I think about it, ever since we escaped I've felt something. I never questioned it but now I am, is this emotion what they would call love? Did I love Monkey? Just thinking about it made me cry even harder. As I was going through grief, I felt an immense amount of cursed energy coming from deeper in the forest. Despite my sadness, I decided to investigate and after five minutes of walking, I found myself in front of a huge tree covered in talismans. Inside the tree was a heart. It was black in color and I ripped it out of the tree but not before I covered my hands in cursed energy. Maybe this heart can help Monkey!
I quickly ran back to his body and completely disregarded Fushiguro and Kugisaki who were leaving. Once I got to Monkey's body it hit me, all I have is a heart. What was I supposed to do with this? It's not like I can just put it in his chest and hope for the best. I almost threw the heart away in anger but then it grew tentacles that filled the hole in Monkey's chest. Moments later, the heart was out of my hands and was inside of Monkey's chest. I waited in anxiousness and minutes later, Monkey opened his eyes. Now that I look at his face I realize how handsome he is. Before I knew it I was kissing him.
"Y-Yumi?!" Hearing his voice again filled my heart with relief.
"I love you." It was a little embarrassing to say that but I did anyway.
"Never do that again..." I almost broke down into tears again and I did once he hugged me.
"I'm sorry for any pain I caused you. I love you as well." Hearing it come from him made it really embarrassing but I enjoyed the feeling it gave me.