Chapter 4: Devils Temptation
-The truth is if you are faced with the truth at death, You'll realize you were fed lies from birth, Those who enjoy their slumber deserve pity-
*Bang*
The school building rumbled as a result of a powerful explosion.
Itadori and Megumi who were about to leave their dorm suddenly faced the origin of the explosion, the forest.
"What's happening?"
Itadori's legs already running towards the explosion as if on autopilot.
"Itadori wait!" Megumi tried to keep up with Itadori but he was faster than her and was already out of her line of sight before she could say anything she managed to keep with him from the sky by summoning Nue.
___________
"Which one of you can call Izuku out?"
A black-haired female with red eyes wearing a full-body suit under a black jacket and black high heels floated over the school, under her command the school was being attacked by cursed spirits.
Her expression was that of impatience, She shouldn't be wasting time on something so insignificant but she had to prove this to Kami.
Her plan was simple, Overload him with the fingers of that supreme cursed spirit Sukuna and let the curse show her how easy it was to corrupt her favourite human.
If he can't handle his urges when in a bloodlust state there was no need to bring up into the incoming war.
The biggest mistake is saying she created humans in her image, Kami had been alive since the beginning and she was still clean, pure and holy, Humans start that way too but eventually get corrupted by their own choices.
Humans were white and like a magnet, they could pull in what they wanted by just thinking about it, But what did they always think about?
"Hmm?"
The black-haired human was revealed to be Lucy, she watched various students die at the hands of her special cursed spirit.
'Want to know what's special about my cursed spirit?'
They weren't cursed spirits they were cursed beings, Demons, 12 of them with each of them particularly stronger than the last.
(A/N: That bitch came up to Jujutsu Kaisen with that Demon slayer Vibes)
'Yes, Demon slayer vibes would be the perfect term to describe my demons since they can't be put down without taking off their heads and they can't be kept that way without an elemental attack, These humans would need to simulate breathing styles to stop them.'
Lucy watched as another student fell into the hands of her demons.
*Bang* *Swwwsh*
A combination of a sword-wielding student and a little girl on a witch-like broom killed two of her demons.
'Interesting'
Lucy admitted they were either quick-thinking or just lucky.
'Nonetheless, the goal is to get Izu-Kun out in the open.' She ignored them once more and waited impatiently, it didn't matter if they could kill her demons she had all the normal cursed spirits in the world at her beck and call, if quality fails, Quantity doesn't.
"There's someone in the sky"
"Hanako sensei?"
"No, it looks like Itadori's outfit."
"Does she want Itadori?"
"Maybe she wasn't to kill him?"
"Hopefully"
Kyoto students were already irritated, the deaths and casualties were all on their end, Mai and Muta, Lucy secretly enjoyed the fact that the puppet boy was killed, she hated backstabbers.
"I'll ask again where's Izuku?" Lucy lowered herself to the point she was barely Hovering over the ground.
"Who is Izuku?"
No student in Kyoto or Tokyo Prefectural High School went by that name.
"Oh yeah, these humans don't know his real name, Where is Itadori Yuji?" Lucy corrected herself a moment later.
"Itadori's real name is Izuku?"
In the background of students, Nobara stood with her hammer and blood dripping from her head, she heard someone call Itadori Izuku and she couldn't help but wonder.
"Will you leave us alone if you find out?" Noritoshi Kamo, a blood manipulator asked; he didn't see why they should lose more of their students over fighting over a problem that might bite them in the rear later.
"Hm"
Lucy waved at him and an invisible slash cut through his right arm while also pushing him back crashing him through a building and continuing on that course till he went through a couple of buildings and he lay unconscious on the ground.
"Do you think you guys have the choice to bargain? If I let enough of you die, Itadori will show up to avenge your miserable pathetic ass either way."
Lucy couldn't kill anyone directly as per the request of Kami, but her Demons could do that for her, so one of her demons already appeared beside The blood manipulator and bit off his head killing him instantly before returning and standing motionlessly beside its Master.
"Maybe I'm not killing enough people."
"WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?!"
Itadori appeared beside her with a red orb in front of his outstretched palm, Reversed Limitless exploded with an unimaginable force affecting everything his eyes could see before he was eventually covered in the debris caused by the outward explosion of his creation.
"Woah?"
"He's that powerful?"
The students who knew Itadori were surprised to see he looked like a carbon copy of Hanako although he was Male and she wasn't, He also used the ability they'd heard of belonging exclusively to Hanako Cursed RED.
"Is he from the Gojo clan?"
"This doesn't make sense"
Some school higher-ups who knew about Hanako and her ability knew this was supposed to be possible.
Just as the students were about to rejoice that the lady was gone the dust settled and Itadori was seen kneeling, Numerous demons keeping him down while she stuffed his mouth with enhanced fingers of Sukuna, this one was corrupted and more powerful than the original.
"Your curse techniques don't work on me, If Sukuna is the cursed queen then I'm the curse itself, Nothing involving cursed energy affects me."
Lucy laughed until she had stuffed his mouth with all her enhanced version of Sukuna's fingers, while Itadori could do nothing but swallow if he didn't want to choke.
"Grrrr"
The demon released Itadori and Lucy along with her demon circled him watching him battle with the blood-lusting and battle-hungry demon instead of him.
'I can't let Sukuna, take control of me in this state '
He grew fangs and slashed his own throat wanting to die rather than turn into a demon and cause harm to innocent people, Making Lucy go wide-eyed at his determination but she observed the changes nonetheless.
"Would you look at that?"
But even with his attempt to end his life he healed immediately and m he slashed his neck again and this time vomited black blood turning around to stare at Lucy in hatred, His blue eyes of limitless seemed to turn red with 3 tomoes before eventually spinning and turning into a floral pattern design.
He looked entirely demonic.
Even at that Itadori still looked to be conscious, His Shirt ripped off to reveal black markings belonging to Sukuna and he opened two extra yet smaller eyes below his original one.
"Hahaha"
Itadori stood up laughing with a deep menacing tone as all the demons around Lucy exploded into bursts of deep red blood, Itadori utilised Sukuna's cursed techniques; Dismantle and Cleave To reduce all the demons beside Lucy to dust.
"Yes, Yes, Show her what you can become, A demon."
Lucy chanted, the reason she wanted to defy Kami was to prove to her no one would be as worthy as she expected them to be, Also justifying her own mistakes in the past.
'Foolish girl, the reason I choose him isn't that he is pure, It's because he has a way to cope with negative energy, He doesn't let his emotions affect his rationality... Like you used to.'
Kami's voice entered her ear and Lucy frowned.
She saw Kami also said something to Itadori because the eyes of hatred he once gave her were now ones of pity.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
Lucy frowned running towards him she punched him in his chin, the eyes he gave her were nothing short of annoying to her, A human looked at her like she was some kind of dying animal, Even after she punched him he didn't retaliate She wanted to kill him but she knew she couldn't, Even if she could then she couldn't kill him now, He was now the peak of power in this world.
Sharingan, Six eyes, limitless and a powerful physique, even without unlocking his full power he was just that powerful.
"You..."
Hanako floated in the sky staring down at Lucy who just attacked her beloved Student.
"Hollow technique Purple"
Blue and red light mixed in front of Hanako forming a massive ball of purple radiating infinite power, seemingly making space bend around it.
"Calm down."
Itadori muttered staring at the enraged Hanako, grabbing Lucy by her waist and jumping away from the range of Hanako's technique, Students who originally watched the fight between Itadori and the black-haired lady dispersed as they didn't want to be in the range of Hollow Purple.
"The technique was powerful enough to destroy the forest"
Itadori watched as the attack continued on its path destroying everything it touched, and everything it didn't touch it pulled in
He was carrying Lucy in a bridal style but he left her to fall on the ground, A bit dissatisfied when she landed on her feet like a cat.
"Can you make sense of anything you just did?"
Itadori frowned he wanted to know what she did to him and why she did it, He was restraining himself from doing things he would have never done rationally in the first place, His first two thoughts were always Kill or fight, Making matters worse Sukuna just said
"I'll be leaving this up to you, Don't lose consciousness"
Before she locked herself in his consciousness not wanting to take control of his body at a time like this which was why although it was her power that was overflowing he was the one who handled the bloodlust and rage it came with.
Hanako appeared beside Itadori, "Itadori, Is that you?"
The massive fluctuation of cursed energy around him alone made her think otherwise, His Sharingan was spinning continuously putting him in an uncomfortable position since his eyes itched.
"What gave me away is it the extra eyes or the spinning ones?"
Itadori tried to joke at such a moment ignoring his instincts screaming at him to kill everything in sight.
'If this is how Sukuna feels no wonder she's evil.'
Itadori thought to talk to her more from now on.
"Is that all?"
Lucy looked at the sky, Her mind and heart were in disarray.
'What does she mean by Like I used to?'
Was Kami telling her Izuku reminded her of herself when she was still an angel?
Lucy bit her lips in frustration as she felt the hate and jealousy towards Izuku intensify.
"You..."
Lucy's voice deepened as she released herself from his embrace.
Both Hanako and Izuku could feel Cursed Energy gathered around Lucy violently lashing at anything, Before Hanako could cover Itadori in her infinity, He was already in front of her with his body as a shield, the clash of Infinity and Potent and raw cursed energy resulted in an explosion that shrouded all of them in the dust.
"I hate this."
Itadori's voice sounded contorted as he was fighting against something; The idea of killing everything was stuck in his head, restricting himself from killing also halved his overall powers which currently fed off his bloodlust so he was thrown away by the explosion while remaining unharmed with Hanako in his arms he landed on his two feet and skidded back a couple of feet before he gained balance dropping Hanako on her two feet while she stared at him with a familiar look.
Although being touched that her student who was still weaker than her was protecting her she knew this wasn't the time to play around "Ready to rumble?"
Curses spewed out of the floor forming everywhere on commands Lucy almost limitless number of curses appeared and started attacking the school, the students formed groups to survive the onslaught.
"Hmm"
Itadori didn't say anything fearing he'd unconsciously say what was constantly repeated in his head.
'Kill them all, KILL THEM!'
*Bang*
Itadori ran around the school leaving Hanako to handle Lucy while he killed every Curse insight.
'Dismantle.'
Hundreds of curses were immediately extorted with one attack He was bathed with purple blood, he consciously turned off his Infinity for that exact purpose.
"It feels good to be alive."
"Burn for me, Amaterasu."
The scorching black flames moved with Itadori's eyes as he single-handedly decimated the entire curse spirits.
The more he got used to his power, the faster he went, by Continuously bathing in the blood of his opponent he was satiating his bloodlust, His power increased more and more his attacks grew fiercer and his punches carried more weight.
"Is that Itadori?"
The principal along with other Higher-ups watched Itadori in his new form destroy monsters left and right, it didn't matter if they were special grades or not they died the same way, they realized at this point he might be way above their command, and just like that they had another Gojo.
"I heard he possesses the Six Eyes and limitless just like she does Like they are siblings or something."
"If that is the truth then we can only hope for the best."
No one wanted to risk harming one of them and enraging the other.
______________
*Bam* *Bang*
"You worthless creature you dare strike me!"
Lucy although had complete control over cursed energy, She wasn't allowed to kill and she was entirely human, meaning her body couldn't handle the excess amounts of Curse energy she was controlling, this gave Hanako the ability to bully her with strength.
*Slap*
"And I'll do it again"
Hanako had a smile on her face as she had unknowingly slapped a deity in her weakened form and mocked her while doing it.
"You deserve this slap if you nearly killed Itadori, Look at him, he's okay but-"
*Pah*
Turning Lucy's neck to the side with a quick slap, Hanako had Lucy frowning when she saw how Itadori tore through the battlefield.
"What do you mean?"
Lucy dodged a slap by flying higher avoiding Hanako's outstretched palm.
"He's a demon, You've tainted him, He can blame this on you but he'd most likely blame himself later for not having more control over himself."
Hanako created a blue orb that pulled Lucy towards her just to backhand her again.
"You know if I was in my full form I would have killed you with a thought right?"
Lucy spat out blood glaring into Hanako as if her eyes could bore holes into her head, She didn't feel as if this was a serious battle as neither side could kill the other.
"Lucky for me you aren't, the only reason I haven't killed you is because Itadori didn't attempt to kill you."
Lucy smiled creepily the blood falling down her lips made it worse
"So you're his slave? You don't do anything that makes him sad."
Hanako smiles shocking Lucy who expected her words to have an effect.
"Slave? Maybe, You have no idea how happy I am now that we share the same ability, You know I originally went to get some snacks for movie night, but you ruined that... I hate you for it."
Hanako appeared beside Lucy in a hammer slam position but she was slapped across the forest with a curse energy-enhanced attack.
"Why are you ranting? I didn't ask you all these things."
With a thin trail of Curse energy surrounding her Lucy appeared beside Hanako who lay down flat staring at the sky unmoving, it wasn't a serious battle per se, She didn't feel this powerful black-haired woman who stared at her condemned truly had the intention to kill her.
'Why is she so hateful?'
*Bang*
Hanako dodged a slash of cursed energy that would have cut off her arms if otherwise, rolling till she stood up.
'But she does have the intention to harm me extensively.'
Hanako looked at herself seeing she had torn clothes and her hair was a mess, her hair fell from its initial ponytail as her band was lost somewhere in their argument, apart from that she was relatively okay.
But Lucy had an obvious red fingerprint on her face; Graciously placed by Hanako who was proud of her artwork.
Lucy was the most beautiful woman Hanako had ever seen strangely enough even with the handprint on her face she still had an attractive charm.
Remembering this was a battlefield Hanako realized she couldn't be ogling at some random psychopath's beauty.
"Domain ex-"
Hanako was about to end the fight with her domain expansion.
"Don't do that, If you die from me breaking that weak orb of yours It'll be a stupid sacrifice."
Lucy cut her off, As long as involved cursed energy, she could tamper with it as she pleased, Destroying, enhancing and nullifying someone's else domain or cursed technique was entirely possible for her to do on a whim.
"Uhm, okay, Domain Expansion- Unlimited Void"
*Bang*
The reality around Hanako itself broke being replaced by white slashes, As Hanako activated her Domain tearing apart the reality and space, Enclosing her and Lucy in her domain where no one but she reigned supreme.
"Fucking Hell."
Lucy managed to say before she was enclosed by the Domain.
"Hmm?"
A look of surprise flashed through Hanako's eyes when she saw Lucy was still moving with shaky steps.
"You are... Amazing."
Hanako couldn't help but compliment, At this point she felt shocked.
"I-I know"
Lucy is a human, unable to use cursed energy inside her so she uses it outside her body and uses it to complement her physical traits in battle, and she is moving, walking and talking although with some difficulties.
Lucy although looked strong, the domain was taking a heavy toe on her brain, she was reliving everything she had ever done and for a being who had existed since the beginning of time, it is A LOT.
"End this at once."
Lucy had blood running down her nose, a normal human couldn't last more than 0.5 seconds in this place she was already using all the curse energy to reduce the effects of the domain on her meant she was at a defensive spot, if she wanted to destroy the domain, she would have to switch to a more violent approach, if she were to be exposed to Unlimited Void for even a second she would die.
"Why?"
"I'll destroy the cursed spirits attacking your school."
"The monster you created is doing that already."
"Fine, I-I will destroy the entire curse spirits on earth."
*Glass shattering*
With the disappearance of the domain, Lucy fell to her knees and Vomited a mouthful of blood.
"This human body can only take so much."
Hanako frowned the reason Lucy couldn't do anything in her domain wasn't because she was weakened by her domain, It was more than that.
As a human, a human isn't able to last in the presence of an unleashed special-grade cursed spirit, or even exist inside a cursed domain expansion, although if it were a normal domain Lucy could counter that, against Hanako's domain that enforced each of her life action on her making her feel and see everything and the same time she wasn't able to do anything, For a Supreme Being all her actions wasn't something a normal human body can relive, although she reduced the effects to where she could talk properly and move slightly the effects of the move was more than it would have been on a normal person or spirit, just passing cursed energy through her body forcefully was an issue.
"*Ahem* You know, If I could kill you, I would make sure you come to hell Haha"
Lucy laughed while spitting out blood, She didn't know why she was laughing but this felt like a comical moment, She lost to a human but instead of her usual negative angry mood she felt refreshed and if it weren't for the blood she was constantly spitting she'd be laughing.
"You see? All you needed was a certain slap or two."
Hanako joked while sitting on the ground, She saw cursed spirits explode one by one, finding it like a light show of different colours.
"This doesn't even feel like a serious battle."
Hanako's cheerful voice suddenly made Lucy's voice run cold.
'Do you feel bad for doing it?'
'Worse than I ever thought I would.'
"I'm sorry."
"What?"
*Beam*
A powerful beam of light from the infinite depths of space descended upon Earth, At this point the school had been evacuated leaving only people who cared about either Hanako or Itadori namely his teammates Megumi and Nobara, Somewhere in the fight Itadori met with other students while also copying the techniques he wanted Cursed speech from Toge and Boogie Woogie from Todo since he couldn't use Amenotejikara from his Rinnegan yet, He was still learning the ups of his mangekou's Sharingan as this was the first time he has used it in battle at this moment he stood on the other side of the school staring at the sky, He could see a greyed light stretching from the beam till it touched eventually went around the whole world.
"Time... Stopped?"
Strangely enough, Itadori could move perfectly, Even Hanako and Megumi But then it came to Nobara and Lucy, they were grey with black outlines and were stuck in time.
Itadori wasn't sure what was happening but he knew he couldn't leave Nobara here in case it was something bad.
'Kami please work.'
"Kamui!"
The space around Nobara swirled until it completely swallowed her, Itadori sighed in relief when it worked, He was worried he'd lose focus and accidentally rip her apart while using Kamui on her.
"Let's meet up with Hanako" Itadori deactivated the Sharingan and his red eyes slowly spun till they lost colour and became pale blue and fluctuated massive burst of raw power as he grabbed Megumi and almost instantaneously, He appeared in the air right above Hanako, in a burst of speed.
"You have a lot of explaining to do."
Megumi said but knew this wasn't the place or time for that.
"I agree." Hanako smiled about to hug Itadori but he currently carried Megumi bridal style.
"Oh and your markings are going, how do you feel?"
Hanako asked when she noticed Itadori was losing the markings belonging to Sukuna, they slowly faded at this point barely an outline of the original thing.
"Better," Itadori said stretching his back and it made a 'pop' sound; his bones shifted into place, He felt different from normal but it was better than when he first consumed the fingers
"How did you manage to withstand swallowing that many fingers at once?"
"Especially if they were enhanced"
The three of them got looked into a conversation all of them failing to realize the red cracks appearing on Lucy's body.
"I'd say each finger Lucy fed me had about 2 fingers worth the original power, Meaning they had double the negative impact on my brain, Sukuna left everything to me, She said if she was going to kill people it would be sweeter if she wasn't being influenced."
Itadori guessed she was just being over dramatic probably the true reason she didn't take control of her body was because she was trying to get closer to him, At least that was what he wanted to believe.
*Bam*
A miniature explosion of blood-red flames happened around Lucy and she sighed as more blood escaped her lips.
"Hm, I am going to bE so tired after this trip to a backward dimension."
Lucy insulted her current plane, Her voice shook before it finally stabilized, She was used to higher vibrations, vibrating at what she was used to as a Goddess she broke the trap of fate but it killed this body instantly.
"This body is already dead, awwn I liked this look, That light here speaks doom"
"What do you mean by the trap of fate?"
Itadori was confused, about the trap of fate. How was she claiming to be dead when she was still the most beautiful thing he'd seen?
"I am beautiful, period, in death, life or thoughts."
Lucy might have taken that personally.
"That beam is a calling, call of fate, the world has been damaged beyond reasoning originally set out by the author of your world, that Gege bastard, now the world is calling for help from the emissary of fate, and she is not someone you can battle, she hates imperfection and would erase you before resetting this world."
Lucy's nose continuously dripped blood she didn't bother to clean it anymore and just let it happen.
"Kamui"
"Itadori!"
"Nooooo"
Itadori eyes bled as he sucked both Hanako and Megumi.
Hanako immediately unleashed infinity in its most powerful form to resist the sucking of space but that did nothing, Itadori managed to trap her inside his Kamui dimension, he wasn't going to risk them dying because they wanted to fight with him.
"Hahaha, You're so foolish."
Lucy realized laughing, seeing her smile Itadori felt like he had a chance.
"You don't have a chance, If you're still alive immediately after she descends you're lucky, I can't defend you even if I wanted to."
Lucy started burning from her leg upwards while floating upwards.
"See, that coward didn't want to face me, she's removing every deity from the planet before she descends, and I thought I was shameless."
Lucy stopped laughing and faced Itadori with an almost guilty expression.
"It feels like I'm running away after leaving all the problems to you, although it's what I do it feels different this time, Here have this."
She scoped a mouthful of blood and splashed it in his eyes before he could blink even though he activated his infinity the blood went through it.
"Argh, MY EYES!!"
Itadori was most likely going to fight the hardest battle of his life and this woman was trying to blind him.
"The eye is the gate to the soul, Whatsoever the eye can see and understand, your soul can mimic it and so doing your body can do the same, You can see forever, Eternal."
"Big talk about my eyes when you almost blinded me some seconds ago."
Itadori complained but all he got back was a laugh in return.
"You pass."
She said before the flame had completely swallowed her.
She appeared in a white room with Kami beside her.
"You've destroyed the world in less than 30 minutes after leaving."
"Wasn't it supposed to be a test? He'll be fine."
"You're grounded."
Lucy felt her wings disappear.
"Funny, really funny."
_________________
Izuku was watching the end of the world as everything reverted to a certain point, the burnt trees were restored, dead limbs regrew and everything went back to a certain point, but he was unaffected, like an imperfection in the grey world, he was the only thing that had colours.
He felt a mouth grow on his cheeks and sighed.
"I leave you for 30 minutes and you've destroyed the earth?"
"It's not my fault, I can do it."
Izuku took a step forward and vomited a mouthful of blood, falling to his knees.
"You're dead"
Sukuna started laughing hysterically.
"Funny, really funny."
*Boom*
"It's starting"
"For what it's worth, If I make it out of this alive, we'll be focusing on you."
Izuku told Sukuna; after a moment of silence, he could feel all the injuries and chaotic cursed energy in his body disappear.
"You better survive then."