“He should go to his club! Go to his club! And for heavens sake ask out (Y/-)”
Death. The whole scene felt painted in it. The night sky shining brightly above, illuminated the horrifying creatures that reveled in the darkness. Snarles echoed through the hallways of the fourth floor. Running felt futile, the action only welcoming the sounds of footsteps and panting.
The pressure was immense, every movement accompanied by a horrific pull. Sheer terror coursed through your body as your eyes met with several malicious heads all connected to one form.
Your hands fiddled with the object clutched in your hands. When you peered down at your palms, your eyes were met with a sharp nailed finger. Your heart skipped a beat as a voice pounded through your head with words you couldn’t make out.
With the disappearance of one monster, another took its place. Every eye on its tongue looking crazily at you. Yells resonated in your ears. Run..Run..Run! Your legs pumped towards the exit, the finger clutched tightly to your chest. You could hear the gallops of the wretched thing following after you. Arms pushed you out of the way, instead leaving themselves to be captured by the being.
Your mouth let out a piercing scream, one that left your throat raw. Without a second thought, you threw the finger.
You sat up gasping as if someone had completely deprived you of air. You grabbed at your chest, clawing at the cheer uniform you had put on in preparation for your after club practice. Your heart felt as if it was going to beat out of your chest.
Your hands scrambled through your blankets, trying to find your phone just to be able to hear a comforting voice on the other line.
“Hey (Y/N)! I was just about to call gramps, is everything good?” Yuji’s voice played through your speaker like a symphony. Hearing his words immediately put the nightmare in the back of your head.
“Yeah, just wanted to make sure you were still coming to the club meeting later?” You replied, hoping that your voice didn’t sound as nerve wracked as you knew it probably was.
‘“Oh yeah, gramps is probably gonna yell at me to go anyways, so might as well. By the way, do you wanna visit him with me after the meeting?”
“I have practice immediately after, but I’ll meet you at your house okay?”
“Okay I’ll make sure to say hi to him for you! See you then!”
Hanging up the phone with Yuji was always hard, but for some reason, today felt even harder.
You waited patiently outside the Itadori household, your nightmare coming back to the forefront of your brain. Your fingers played with the frayed ends of the hoodie you stole from Yuji months ago. Your long nails getting caught along the strings. Grabbing your headphones from your pocket, you plopped one into your ear, opening the playlist you and Yuji had made only a few weeks prior, and started scrolling through the music. You finally landed on a song that eventually calmed you down enough to stop fidgeting.
Yuji walked out the front door, closing it behind him with a long sigh.
“Same as usual?”
”Yup.”
“They’re keeping a cursed object of this magnitude in a place like this?” The brooding boy said, walking towards the small wooden structure. The boy grew closer, his hands drifting towards the latch and softly opening it.
When the wooden doors opened he had expected to find the very thing he had been sent to collect, what he found instead was the wooden cupboard completely empty. The car haired boy was thrown into a panic, his hands beginning to search every crevice and every surface, but still nothing.
“Its not here..”
”Huh?”
”The Stevenson Hutch is empty.”
”For real? That’s hilarious!”
“Ready to go? What do you say? Sasaki? Iguchi? Y/n?” Yuji asked. Each member surrounding him nodded accordingly.
“Spirit God, Spirit Gods, what’s the student body president barely weaker than?” You said with a bright smile, waiting for the coin to move beneath your fingertips. You watched with a silent laugh as it stuttered to life, primarily because of Yuji, spelling out sea angel.
The club room erupted into laughter as you each envisioned the pain in your ass getting beaten by a tiny sea creature. Just then the headache in human form threw open the club rooms doors.
“Occult club! Due to lack of activities as previously informed, I am here to tell you to vacate the club room at once!” The four of you looked at one another with an evil smile, Sasaki pulling out the research that you all had been doing for the past couple of weeks.
“If you must know Prez, the Occult club has been researching the mysterious illness caught by our Rugby players.” You said, pulling out documents from the large folder and shoving them in his face.
”It’s true!” Sasaki reiterated, pulling out an old Newspaper clipping, “It’s said there might be a body buried here, thus explaining the creepy things that started happening before the players got sick!”
“Therefore it’s a ghost!” The four of you said at the same time, looking awfully proud of yourselves for putting it all together.
“It was ticks.” The room was plummeted into silence. Sasaki looked on the verge of a mental breakdown, while you hid your face in your hands utterly embarrassed by the information bestowed on you. You zoned out as you listened to the Yuji and Iguchi defend your club.
“Besides the minimum for clubs to be considered active is 3 members, you only have two signed up!” You looked up at the president in confusion.
“Yuji Itadori and Y/n L/n, you both are not signed up for the occult club. According to your sign up sheets, Itadori you are signed up with Track and Field and L/n you are signed up for both cheerleading and chess club.” Sasaki and Iguchi looked at the two of you with visible anger.
“I swear I put Occult Club!” Yuji exclaimed, wailing his hands.
“Cheer sounds right but since when do we have a chess club?” You exclaimed with a confused tone.
Two adults suddenly stood at the door, Coach Takagi and Mr. Yuno. While Coach and Yuji got into a screaming match, you and Mr. Yuno chose to engage in psychological warfare.
“Despite being a cheerleader Miss L/n, you are quite an asset to the chess club.”
“Honestly Mr Yuno, with the way that you talk to me it's no wonder your wife decided to leave you.”
“I will excuse you from the chess club if you beat me in a match, however, if you lose, I expect you to set aside cheer and get this club to nationals.”
You rolled your eyes heavily, before checking your nails disinterestedly, “Fine, but when I win you better leave me alone.”
‘What’s with this rugby field?’ Megumi thought, as he walked along the boundary lines, a curse peaking out through the grass. ‘There must be a dead body buried here or something but even then, a grade two curse being here is pretty odd’
The boy continued to walk by the place, his mind focused solely on where the cursed object could’ve been moved.
“Hey, get over here! Coach Takagi is taking on Yuji Itadori from West Middle!” One boy said to his friend trailing behind him.
“But I wanna see the match between Mr. Yuno and Y/n L/n! He used to be a national chess champion!”
Megumi looked on in confusion, but continued to follow the commotion. The dark haired boy stopped at the physical show of prowess first, his eyes immediately locking on the boy with pink hair.
“I can throw this however I want, right?” Yuji asked, not really waiting for a concrete answer as he pitched the weighted ball as if he was a baseball player.
Megumi stared at him in slight shock at the lack of cursed energy used for the feat of strength.
‘I wonder if he’s like Zen’in?’ He questioned, as he continued walking towards the next crowd of people. When he got there he was taken aback by the two competitors. On one side was possibly the nerdiest individual Megumi had ever seen, while on the other was a cheerleader talking animatedly to two of her teammates. In the middle of the two was a chessboard.
The male went first, proudly moving his bishop protecting pawn which stood at the ready on the kings side. You however, without even looking, moved your pawn which stood in front of your king, still chatting over the game schedule with your team. Mr. Yuno confidently placed his next piece, moving his right knight protecting pawn forward two spaces.
“One second girls,” You said, picking up your queen and moving her diagonally, “Checkmate.” You said, stunning the crowd and most importantly Mr. Yuno. Megumi watched as you walked up to the pink haired boy he had seen earlier and gave him a quick hug. The boy then ran the opposite direction, passing Megumi on the way.
Megumi’s stomach lurched at the energy wafting off of Yuji like a horrific stench.
“Wait, hold on!” He shouted at the pink haired boy, but within a second, he was gone.
The cold night air began to nip at the exposed skin on your body, causing chills to race up and down your arms. You waved off the remaining cheerleaders that had stuck around waiting for rides after practice. You took off towards the school entrance, checking your phone for any missed texts from Yuji, but saw none.
A bad feeling bit at your stomach when you opened the front door to the school. You chose to ignore the feeling chalking it up to your bad dream from earlier. You shook your head while you walked through the dark hallways. You figured you could meet up with Iguchi and Sasaki since they had planned something extra spooky for tonight.
As you neared the fourth floor the feeling or terror overtook your body. The worst pain imaginable went through your stomach, causing you to fall to the floor. You held in a gag as an evil darkness infiltrated the school. When you finally choked back down the vomit still threatening to come up, you looked up from the ground, and found yourself surrounded by monsters.
Yuji had never felt so scared in his whole life, in fact he had never been scared before this very moment. If he could fully trust what this stranger was saying that meant that Sasaki and Iguchi were in danger, but most importantly, so were you.
As he ran behind the dark haired male, he tried over and over to call you, reaching your voicemail each time.
“Hi this is Y/n, I can’t make it to the-“ Yuji was getting even more worried with every unanswered phone call. He hoped and prayed to whoever was listening that maybe you had decided to walk home instead of waiting for him, that you were just in bed, dead asleep. Deep down he knew that you were in the school, that you were near the evil reckoning.
When the two boys finally got to the gates of the school, he felt as if a forcefield was keeping him out. He tried to push against the pressure but the more he resisted the more terrified he felt.
“Listen you stay here, I’ll handle this.” Megumi said, launching himself over the fence.
“Hold on, I may not know the other two that well but they’re my friends, and Y/n might be in there-“ Yuji said panicked.
“You’re staying here.” Megumi said firmly, tearing off into the school.
You held Sasaki’s hand, panting silently while you both hid by the staircase. Sasaki shook as a curse walked right by her, you tried not to breathe. The sound of slow footsteps caused you both to quickly turn your heads toward the staircase. Despite being unable to see clearly, you were able to make out the shape of Iguchi coming up the stairs.
Sasaki was quick to greet him while you stayed silent as to not alert anything of your hiding place. Neither of you were expecting to see Iguchi with a monster covering half of his face.
The curse that had passed you and Sasaki only moments ago was back with a vengeance. You grabbed Sasaki before the monsters hands could grab ahold of her, and you ran without looking back.
You knew without looking behind you that the curse was following close behind, Sasaki wailed behind you. You couldn’t even begin to comfort her, your own terror keeping you from emitting words.
“Wait Y/n, the finger!”
‘Your friends are going to die’
Megumi’s words reverberated through Yuji’s head. Flashes of club meetings flashing through is head where he constantly took the lead, the three of you following behind. Iguchi and Sasaki had always been understanding about the situation with his grandpa and never faulted him for missing meetings.
Then there was you.
The one person that Yuji had left that he couldn’t lose.
Yuji grasped the bars of the gate, death wafted off of the building, the force of it halting Yuji’s movements.
‘You’re a strong kid Yuji, use that to protect others.’
“Don’t worry gramps, I won’t let you down.” Yuji said, lifting himself over the gate and racing towards the school.
Megumi rushed through the hallways, his demon talks following close at his sides. The concentration of curses getting more and more dense with every step he took. When he finally turned down the hallway where you resided in, he was shocked to find you fighting against the giant curse that seemed to have taken quite an interest in your two friends.
You dodged each of the curses hands with finesse all the while keeping a hand firmly behind your back and out of reach. Megumi could see the curse was getting increasingly frustrated.
Your dodges had quickly turned into high powered kicks at the creature.
“Give Sasaki and Iguchi back you asshole!” You cried. The curse had begun to engulf the two with a smirk on its face. Megumi couldn’t move. With you in the way there was no way in hell he could help them in time.
The shattering of glass broke his stupor as a flash of pink and yellow crushed the curse, throwing the three afflicted to the side. With a clear shot, Megumi was finally able to exorcise the curse.
“You’re not supposed to be here but I guess I’m glad you showed up.” Megumi said stretching his shoulder out, approaching the four huddled in the corner.
“You’re pretty smug for someone who obviously needed help.” Yuji snipped back, his eyes glancing at his two knocked out friends.
“Can somebody for the love of God explain what the hell is going on!” You shouted, your chest heaving and tears budding at your eyes. Yuji stood up, grabbing you into a hug as you whimpered.
“I’m afraid there’s no time to really explain-“ Megumi began, before movement came from the ceiling. Megumi looked at you and Yuji with alarm.
“Run!”
The next few seconds felt unreal. As soon as the beings eyes had landed on you, you sprinted as quickly as you could. The heavy footsteps f the creature followed you with intensity. You gripped the finger against your chest, if these things were all after this then it must be insanely dangerous.
You managed to reach the exit, your lungs reaching for air that just wasn’t there. The monster was quick to follow you out, bursting through the walls, tossing Megumi across the way as if he weighed nothing. Your froze in fear at the being, as its gnarly arms reached to seize you and the cursed object. Yuji pushed you out of the way, letting himself be the one taken instead.
You screamed after him as he was lifted in the air.
‘I can make you stronger girl’ A male voice spoke, his words rattling in your head. You looked at the finger still enclosed in your now bloody hand.
‘Let me in and I promise you power beyond compare’ He growled again
Your dream from earlier played through your head once more, you could hear Megumi behind you begging you to run away, screaming at you to move. Your eyes stayed fixed on the finger.
“Yuji I need you to trust me okay!” You shouted at your trapped friend who struggled against the monsters hold.
“Always!” He shouted back.
You then launched the finger at your friend, willing for it to land near his mouth.
“Eat this!” You screamed, and without a second thought, Yuji swallowed the finger. You collapsed to the ground in exhaustion, tears streaming down your face as you begged anyone who might be listening for this to work.
In seconds a new energy made itself known. The presence was suffocating. You watched as your best friend slaughtered the curse in mere seconds, landing back on the ground gracefully.
“Yuji!” You shouted, trying to lift yourself up from the ground, but Megumi was quick to hold you back.
“That’s not Itadori anymore,” Megumi whisperer shouted in your ear. Maniacal laughter filled the night air, laughter that in no way shape or form belonged to your best friend. “That’s Ryomen Sukuna.”
Red eyes gravitated towards your body, “Girl…we need to talk.”
Going from cheerleader to curse user was not how you expected to start your Highschool years, but neither was your best friend becoming the host of the devil incarnate. Now you have a whole new set of issues to worry about, but luckily for you, you can find the answers in your dreams. The only problem is, you have no idea how to control it. With the help of new professors, new friends, and a new Highschool, maybe you can make this work.
