8
In the heart of Tokyo, beneath the sterile hum of fluorescent lights and the rhythmic clack of polished shoes against polished floors, Gojo Satoru strolled with practiced indolence alongside his best friend, Geto Suguru. The corridors of Jujutsu High's administrative wing carried the distinctive tension of a place where life-or-death decisions were made with bureaucratic detachment.
The Six Eyes sorcerer was mid-complaint, his shock of white hair defying gravity much like its owner defied authority. His lean frame slouched artfully against the wall as they paused before a large window overlooking the training grounds, hands shoved deep into his pockets with calculated nonchalance.
"I just don't see the point, Geto," Gojo groaned with theatrical exasperation, tilting his head back to stare at the ceiling as though the acoustic tiles might provide divine justification for his inconvenience. "We've got at least three Special Grade threats on our radar here in Tokyo alone."
Geto sighed, his long dark hair swaying gently as he adjusted his posture to mirror Gojo's casual stance—though with considerably more natural elegance. The dichotomy between them had always been striking: Gojo's chaotic brilliance against Geto's methodical precision, bound together by their shared status as the strongest jujutsu sorcerers of their generation.
"Principal Yaga was quite clear," Geto explained with the patient tone of someone who had delivered the same information multiple times already. "We're to leave Tokyo immediately and investigate the anomaly in Musutafu. There's a cursed presence there—Special Grade at minimum—that the regional jujutsu authorities aren't equipped to handle."
"Tch." Gojo clicked his tongue dismissively, the sound sharper than intended. "Can't those second-rate sorcerers manage a single curse by themselves? It's literally their job description. Meanwhile, we've got actual problems brewing here."
Geto studied his friend with knowing eyes, a subtle smirk curling at the corner of his mouth. "Since when does the 'strongest' turn down a good fight?" The gentle emphasis on Gojo's self-proclaimed title was deliberate, a calculated prod at his friend's notorious ego.
"I'm not turning it down," Gojo defended immediately, waving a hand in a dismissive gesture that managed to be both elegant and petulant. "I'm simply pointing out the logistical inefficiency. We've been working nonstop for three weeks, and now they want us to leave our jurisdiction to deal with some mystery curse that happens to be lurking near a hero school?" His voice carried genuine irritation beneath the affected boredom. "You know how messy those places get."
The unspoken sentiment hung between them—the historical friction between jujutsu sorcerers and pro heroes. Different systems dealing with different threats, occasionally stepping on each other's carefully defined territories.
"Messy or not, orders are orders," Geto shrugged, the movement carrying a fluid grace despite its casualness. His eyes held a shadow of something deeper as he added, "Besides... this might prove interesting. I've heard Musutafu's experiencing phenomena that don't align with typical curse manifestations. Energy signatures that don't match established patterns."
Gojo perked up visibly at this information, lowering his trademark sunglasses just enough to reveal startlingly blue eyes that seemed to see beyond conventional limitations. The Six Eyes—his inherited technique that allowed him to perceive cursed energy with unparalleled precision—gleamed with sudden interest.
"Weird, huh?" he drawled, a dangerous playfulness entering his tone. "Well, you know how I feel about weird."
"Unfortunately, I do," Geto muttered, though the exasperation in his voice carried the comfortable familiarity of someone who had long since accepted his role as the more responsible counterbalance to Gojo's barely contained chaos.
They resumed walking, rounding the corner toward the facility's exit where transportation to Musutafu awaited. The late afternoon sun slanted through western windows, casting elongated shadows across the corridor and transforming ordinary hallways into something almost mystical.
"So, what exactly is this curse?" Gojo inquired with studied casualness, his fingers tapping an irregular rhythm against his thigh—a tell Geto recognized as genuine curiosity breaking through the affected indifference.
Geto's expression subtly darkened, his natural empathy allowing him to channel distant sensations even from this range. "Special Grade at minimum. But something feels... dissonant about the energy signature. Principal Yaga was uncharacteristically vague with details." His brow furrowed slightly. "He only mentioned that it's manifesting within or around U.A. High School, and that its pattern doesn't match anything in our records."
"Not in our records?" Gojo's lips curved into a predatory grin, his entire demeanor shifting from reluctance to anticipation in an instant. "Now you're speaking my language."
As they pushed through the exit doors into the fading daylight, Gojo's expression reflected something beyond his usual arrogance—genuine intellectual curiosity tinged with the professional excitement of a specialist confronted with a novel challenge.
"This U.A. Sports Festival thing starts tomorrow, right?" he asked, already calculating travel times and strategic positioning.
Geto nodded, retrieving a folder from his inner pocket containing their mission parameters. "Yes. Maximum civilian concentration, heightened emotions, nationwide broadcast." His voice lowered slightly. "Perfect conditions for a curse to manifest at full strength."
"Or perfect conditions for us to make a spectacularly stylish entrance," Gojo countered, his grin widening as he stretched his arms above his head with catlike satisfaction. "I've always wanted to show those pro heroes what real power looks like."
As they approached the waiting vehicle, neither sorcerer voiced the unusual tension they both sensed—a distant dissonance in the fabric of reality itself, as though something fundamental had shifted in ways their considerable abilities couldn't fully comprehend.
Whatever awaited them in Musutafu transcended the normal boundaries between curses and humans. Between heroes and sorcerers. Perhaps even between dimensions.
And despite his affected complaints, nothing intrigued Gojo Satoru more than encountering something truly beyond conventional understanding.
The transition from shadowed tunnel to blinding arena felt like crossing a dimensional threshold. You emerged into U.A.'s massive stadium with deliberate, unhurried strides as the deafening roar of spectators crashed over you like a physical force. Sound became tangible—seventy thousand voices merging into a single entity that pressed against your enhanced senses with almost painful intensity.
The stadium rose in concentric rings of humanity beneath a sky so vividly blue it seemed artificially rendered—nature itself providing the perfect backdrop for this spectacle of quirk superiority. The midday sun beat down upon the arena with merciless clarity, creating knife-edge shadows and highlighting every detail with unforgiving precision.
Your classmates filed in behind you like a nervous processional, their usual boisterousness muted by the overwhelming scale of their audience. Izuku led the pack with visible tension in his shoulders, green eyes wide as he absorbed the enormity of the moment. Conversations fractured into whispered fragments around you—Uraraka's anxious breathing, Iida's too-formal reassurances, Bakugo's aggressive muttering about victory. Their collective nervous energy saturated the air like static electricity before a storm.
You moved apart from their clustered formation, head held high and posture deliberately predatory. While your peers hunched under the weight of observation, you expanded into it—crimson eyes methodically scanning the stadium's architecture as though memorizing escape routes and strategic positions rather than absorbing the ceremony.
Something beyond conscious thought triggered your heightened awareness—a primal recognition of dangerous predators in your vicinity.
Up in the VIP section, segregated from common spectators, sat the elite of hero society. Endeavor's imposing silhouette stood out with unmistakable dominance, his flame beard crackling around broad shoulders as he leaned forward with calculating intensity. The number two hero wasn't here for entertainment; he was conducting professional assessment, his turquoise eyes already tracking his son's heterochromatic head among the first-year contestants.
A cold sneer reflexively twisted your lips. Your instinctive dislike for the flame hero transcended fictional boundaries—the knowledge of his systematic abuse burned in your consciousness just as surely as if you'd witnessed it firsthand. Yet you maintained your measured pace, refusing to give any indication of recognition.
Edge Shot occupied a seat several spaces away, his narrow frame belying the lethal precision of Japan's ninja hero. Nothing in his posture suggested casual observation—his sharp eyes methodically assessed each student with analytical detachment, mentally cataloging quirks and potential against some internal metric of professional viability.
Best Jeanist's distinctive silhouette appeared further along the row, high collar framing his partially obscured face and denim attire immaculately pressed despite the day's growing heat. His arms remained crossed as he murmured something to the mountain of a man beside him—Gang Orca, whose imposing presence seemed to create a gravitational well that drew attention even when stationary.
In a shadowed section of the booth, partially concealed from general view, sat a gaunt figure that triggered immediate recognition. Toshinori Yagi—All Might in his true form—observed the proceedings with a complex mixture of professional assessment and personal investment. His sunken eyes scanned the incoming students, lingering particularly on Midoriya's nervous figure before briefly connecting with your predatory gaze.
Something in that momentary contact resonated unexpectedly. The Symbol of Peace's energy signature felt fundamentally different from how you'd perceived it in fictional form—not diminished exactly, but compressed, like a star collapsed into neutron density. The sensation created an inexplicable ache in your chest, a recognition of something simultaneously familiar and alien.
Your attention expanded outward from the VIP section to process the broader stadium. Thousands of quirks hummed at varying frequencies against your heightened senses—a kaleidoscopic symphony of power ranging from trivial mutations to significant combat abilities. The concentration of energy signatures created an almost visible heat distortion around the arena, tension building toward the imminent competition.
Good, you thought with predatory satisfaction. Let them watch. Let them see.
As Present Mic's voice boomed through the sound system to introduce Class 1-A, your systematic surveillance of the spectator sections caught on an anomalous presence. In a peripheral section of the stands, partially obscured by architectural support but with perfect sightlines to the central arena, stood a figure that absolutely should not exist in this reality.
A tall man in dark formal attire with a shock of white hair, his eyes hidden behind distinctive round sunglasses that gleamed in the sunlight. His posture conveyed casual disinterest, yet his presence radiated overwhelming power that transcended conventional quirk signatures.
You blinked, momentary disbelief shattering your carefully maintained predatory composure.
Gojo Satoru? What the hell is a jujutsu sorcerer doing here?
The recognition triggered a cascade of dissonant realizations. Gojo existed in an entirely different fictional universe from My Hero Academia—a world of cursed energy rather than quirks, of sorcerers rather than heroes. His presence here represented something beyond simple timeline alteration; it suggested fundamental reality breakdown.
Before you could process this further, you detected a second anomalous presence beside him—dark hair, refined features, calculating eyes. Geto Suguru, the man who would eventually become the greatest curse user. Their combined presence created a disruption in the fabric of this world that even native inhabitants seemed subconsciously aware of, spectators nearest them shifting uncomfortably without understanding why.
The feeling in your chest contorted into something beyond simple apprehension—a primal recognition that multiple incompatible realities were converging around you. Whatever force had transported your consciousness to this world was apparently creating additional fractures, drawing in elements from other fictional planes.
Instinct screamed across every nerve ending that something catastrophic was imminent. The Sports Festival would not proceed according to canonical events—not with jujutsu sorcerers present, not with reality itself becoming increasingly unstable.
And your instincts, honed across dimensions, had never once been wrong.
As Midnight stepped onto the central platform to officially commence the festival, you maintained your external composure while internally calculating new possibilities. The predetermined script you'd memorized from another life was now obsolete, leaving you adrift in uncharted narrative waters.
Whatever came next would be truly unpredictable—even to you.
High above the arena floor, partially concealed by architectural support beams, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru maintained strategic positioning in the observation deck's shadowed recesses. The thunderous cheers of the crowd registered as little more than ambient background noise to their enhanced senses—irrelevant data filtered out to focus on the genuine threat below.
Gojo lowered his distinctive round sunglasses, revealing eyes unlike any in this dimension. The Six Eyes—his inherited technique passed down through generations of the Gojo family—activated with subtle luminescence as he locked onto your figure among the assembling students. The specialized visual technique allowed him to perceive cursed energy with unprecedented precision, breaking down its composition, density, and potential with mathematical accuracy.
What he saw defied conventional analysis.
"That girl," Gojo muttered, his typically playful voice dropping to a register rarely heard outside lethal combat situations. "You felt that too, right?"
Beside him, Geto's analytical gaze carried equal intensity though with markedly different energy—the calculated assessment of a strategist rather than the instinctive reaction of a fighter. He gave a short, precise nod, arms crossed over his chest as he channeled his cursed spirit manipulation technique to enhance his sensory perception.
"Yeah," Geto confirmed, his refined features settling into uncharacteristic gravity. "Her cursed energy... it's thick. Heavier than anything I've felt in a while." His brow furrowed slightly as he recalibrated his assessment. "Potentially stronger than ours combined. Yaga wasn't exaggerating—this presence doesn't align with standard manifestation patterns. And there's nothing remotely similar recorded in Jujutsu High's archives."
Gojo huffed through his nose, tilting his head with a cocky grin that didn't quite mask the involuntary chill traveling up his spine. "Pft. Stronger than us? Don't be dramatic, Suguru. No one's stronger than me."
The declaration carried his trademark arrogance, yet lacked its usual absolute conviction. His fingers flexed slightly at his side—an unconscious gesture of preparation—as the Six Eyes continued their comprehensive analysis of your movement through the student formation. You navigated the crowd with predatory grace fundamentally different from the teenager you appeared to be, a wolf walking upright among unsuspecting sheep.
The cursed energy surrounding you wasn't merely powerful—it was primordial, carrying resonance patterns suggesting existence long before modern jujutsu techniques emerged. Most disturbing was its unnatural composition; unlike conventional cursed energy born from negative human emotions, yours contained elements his Six Eyes couldn't fully categorize—like encountering mathematical principles that shouldn't exist in three-dimensional space.
The wrongness of it triggered instinctive wariness in a man famously fearless—like staring into an abyss that possessed awareness enough to stare back. Something in your energy signature suggested origins beyond their dimensional plane entirely, a foreign element transplanted into reality never designed to contain it.
"Whether you want to admit it or not," Geto observed, shooting his friend a sideways glance that carried knowing perception, "that 'kid' is dangerous. And whatever's happening won't remain dormant indefinitely."
The subtle emphasis on 'kid' communicated shared understanding—whatever you were, 'child' wasn't an accurate classification. The entity moving through U.A.'s Sports Festival with crimson eyes and barely contained power existed outside standard categorical definitions.
Gojo sighed, his trademark sharp grin returning with dangerous anticipation curling his lips. "Guess I'll have to introduce myself soon, huh? Can't have someone else claiming the title of strongest without me knowing about it."
"Try not to antagonize her," Geto cautioned, already anticipating his partner's confrontational tendencies. "We're here to observe and contain if necessary, not escalate."
"No promises," Gojo replied with characteristic flippancy that masked genuine professional interest. The prospect of encountering something potentially beyond his comprehensive understanding represented an almost irresistible intellectual challenge.
Down on the field, surrounded by classmates oblivious to the interdimensional complications developing around them, you felt it—a cold flicker of awareness crawling up your spine like ghostly fingers trailing over your shoulder. The sensation was unmistakable; something beyond standard observation had just analyzed your fundamental composition with invasive precision.
Your muscles tensed involuntarily, head lifting as crimson eyes instinctively tracked toward the source. The directional intuition bypassed conscious thought—primal recognition of apex predator by apex predator. Though physically distant, the intensity of that analytical gaze registered as tangible pressure against your heightened senses.
Someone's watching me.
The quality of this observation differed fundamentally from the various pro heroes conducting their professional assessments throughout the stadium. This wasn't the evaluation of quirk potential or combat capabilities—this was recognition of existential dissonance, of fundamental wrongness in the fabric of reality itself.
And this time... it wasn't a hero.
The jujutsu sorcerers' presence confirmed your growing suspicion—the boundaries between fictional universes were degrading at an accelerating rate. Your arrival had apparently created a fracture point where previously separate realities could begin bleeding into one another.
The implications extended beyond the immediate complication of powerful sorcerers entering a world of quirks. If Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru could cross dimensional barriers, what other fictional entities might follow? What catastrophic cascade effects might ripple through the multiverse as these incompatible narrative systems collided?
As Midnight's amplified voice called the participants to attention for the festival's opening ceremony, you maintained outward composure while internally calculating rapidly shifting probabilities. The canonical events you'd memorized from another existence were now obsolete, the carefully plotted character arcs and story beats disrupted by factors never meant to intersect.
The Sports Festival would proceed, but along a trajectory no script had ever anticipated—a convergence point where jujutsu sorcery met heroic quirks, where cursed energy interacted with One For All, where ancient techniques confronted modern superpowers.
And at the center of this interdimensional maelstrom stood you—the catalyst, the anomaly, the storm contained in human form but straining against increasingly fragile constraints.
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