Curse.

Panda was annoyed, it was time for some training and they couldn't find Maki or Fukashi. He sighed, they were about to check Makis room for her.

They knocked on the door only to get no response, they knocked again and no response. Panda decided to just open the door and saw the room was empty.

He sighed again and turned to the disappointed Toge "Do you know where Fukashis room is?" Panda asked the other teen who nodded before walking off.

Panda followed behind, he felt annoyed that they hadn't shown up yet but also quite worried. Makis usually the first one to training, he hoped she wasn't sick.

Especially with the school exchange event coming up soon.

Yuta is gone so it won't be nearly as easy as it apparently was last time, they needed all the sorcerers possible.

The thought that Fukashi would be participating lightened his worry, the Uchiha was strong and while he may not be as strong as Yuta he would still help.

Well, to be totally honest Panda didn't know how strong the Uchiha was but he knew Yuta and knew what he had accomplished against even special grade opponents with only months of training.

He was a monster.

Panda knew Fukashi was strong, sure but he didn't think anyone but Satoru Gojo could compare to Yuta. His thoughts were interrupted by Inumakis sudden quiet gasp.

Panda looked back at Inumaki only to see him staring into Fukashis room with an odd expression. Panda quickly walked forward and looked over his quiet friend's head.

Only to feel the same astonishment as his white haired friend was. Maki and Fukashi were both asleep together! He noticed they were leaning on each other, he also noticed they were sleeping in an upright position.

He winced, their necks were going to hurt when they woke up.

Panda suddenly felt a large hand on his shoulder, his eyes widened. 'How did he not sense him?' Panda turned around in dread.

"What we looking at?" the man said with an overly curious tone. Panda saw the man peek around and dramatically gasping before mockingly covering his already covered eyes.

Satoru Gojo.

"Blasphemous!" He whispered while placing the back of his hand over his forehead and faux fainting.

They both ignored the loud and whining Gojo, Panda turned towards the pair of sleeping teenagers and winced. He did not want to wake them up, he sighed and walked into the bedroom carefully.

Maki will kill him for this he thinks to himself as he started to poke her shoulder until she woke with half a groan and whimper.

—-

Panda left the room with quite the ruffled appearance and while holding his left eye in pain. Inumaki was backed up in the hallways and half hidden behind a corner.

Maki had not appreciated being woken up.

Inside the bedroom the fuming and embarrassed Maki took a deep breath and shook her head. After a few moments she sighed and looked towards the Uchiha.

She awkwardly poked the sleeping Fukashi awake.

Luckily he didn't wake nearly as violently as she did. He woke up with a slow yawn that showed all of his gleaming teeth. His eyes slowly peeked out before shutting quickly as he held a hand to his neck.

"Shit" he muttered under his breath, as he tried to move his neck.

Maki winced in sympathy, her neck was killing her as well. He fully opened his eyes only to see her standing in front of him with one hand on her neck and the other resting on her waist.

Plenty of thoughts went through Fukashis mind until he remembered what happened last night. He felt his face warm as he looked away from Maki and back at the half open window he climbed through.

The sun hit his eyes with stinging pain, he quickly wiped them and stood up. Just before he turned back to Maki he heard her speak.

"I-I'm, uh gonna go" she said, the idea made Fukashi feel something but he ignored that and turned to her.

A moment of silence encapsulated the small room.

Awkwardly he jerkily nodded and made sure to avoid eye contact as he cleared his throat. "R-right" he swallowed again, his throat felt dry he thought to himself.

Maki left the room in a hurry.

Fukashi couldn't be bothered with training today. He sighed and made his way to the building's showers. On the way he came across Megumi Fushiguro who briefly nodded his way as they passed each other.

Fukashi eventually made his way to the showers, he had some trouble turning them on. These showers were just too complicated he thought as suddenly the water turned freezing cold.

He sighed, he could at least deal with this. The lake he and Leiji always played in as children was just as cold.

He felt himself shiver at the thought, the shiver had nothing to do with the cold.

Then before his body could fully adapt to the familiar freezing cold water, it turned scorching hot and he yelped and slipped before regaining his balance.

He sighed as he palmed his face and readjusted to the scolding water.

Slowly he washed his body and started to contemplate what he wanted to do today. He didn't want to train, for some reason he didn't want to even look at Maki right now.

He felt his face heat up at the thought of it, it would just be embarrassing.

Thinking about last night he remembered the music, maybe he would get some of his own music.

The thought of getting some of his own was nice, so that's what he decided to do.

He would find music.

—-

When he had finished showering he realised he hadn't brought any clean clothes with him, so jujutsu high was graced by the sight of a towel wearing Uchiha rushing around the campus to get to his room.

When he had finally got dressed he made his way through the tall gates. It wasn't a long run but when someone was as fast as he was, nothing was a long run.

It wasn't long until he came across the first signs of civilization, he saw a small town and on the skyline he saw teasing glimpses of buildings of gigantic scale.

He rushed through the suburbs faster than any humans could perceive and he kept his eyes locked on the closing skyline.

He felt his feet plant themselves in concrete as he ran, the air was tearing into his face with extreme resistance. If any normal human went this fast, they would die.

The thought made him grin and look at the humans as he sped across their rooftops.

He was better than them, he knew that.

—-

He eventually got into the gigantic city and he started to walk, the place was too crowded to run. He watched hundreds of people cross roads at the same time and watched neither of them even notice one another.

It was odd.

He stood still in the sprawling city and felt dozens of people brush past him, some of them were worried for the random teen stood still looking up into the sky, most were annoyed that he was just standing still, forcing people to move around.

He was more focused on something else though, a curse. It was small, it had 2 small wings on its hunched dark purple body, it's head was bigger than its torso and it was perched on a tall building.

It's eyes were moving frantically as it seemed to eye each and every human in its vision. Eventually it met eyes with the Uchiha who was looking back at the curse. It's eyes seemed to widen before it suddenly started to scream and flew off.

The Uchiha followed it with his eyes and noticed it went into a tall building that was having construction work done on top of it.

The scaffolding slightly fascinated the Uchiha, he had never seen scaffolding on such a big scale.

He decided to follow it, he was practically gliding through the large crowd. And once he got inside the building he came across a small woman with bubblegum pink hair at the reception.

"I need to get to the top of the-" his voice was interrupted by the small woman who seemed to barely notice him as she spoke.

"No, no one is allowed above the 7th floor until March 2020" she clicked her tongue as the phone started to ring. Fukashi didn't know what the date was so that didn't help him.

He looked to the closest door and back to the reception lady, she was on the phone. Her voice had changed, it now seemed alert and aware even though her body was slouched over and slowly doodling on a small folded notepad below her.

Quickly he looked back at the door and decided to just walk through, he got to the strange metal doors and noticed the lack of a handle.

He ended up pressing the small button next to the door and waited for it to open, he was waiting for another 15 seconds before the doors opened with a whir.

He stepped inside the small room in confusion, this door just led to a tiny room with buttons. He turned around and randomly pressed a button to see what would happen.

His eyes widened as the small metal room started to move, he could feel it under his feet. The door in front of him opened to a small hallway with a big door at the end of it.

He looked back at the buttons only to see the number 6 glowing, he wanted to go higher. So he pushed the number 31, the second top floor.

For the first time he noticed rooms in built music, he thought it was quite good. And as soon as it started, it was over. With a mechanical whine the doors opened and revealed he was in the middle of a construction site.

But no one was here.

He looked around and saw no one, must be a day off, he thought to himself. Until he came across belongings, coats mainly.

All lined up on the floor, that was odd, why would they leave coats on the floor. He rustled through the coats pockets out of curiosity.

He eventually found something, a phone. Akira had one, he used to always let him play a game with cards on it.

He pocketed the phone and continued, he found spare change that he pocketed, it's their fault for leaving the coats like this he reasoned to himself.

He just pulled something out of the last man's coat, another phone. This one was faintly playing music, he held it up to his ear he couldn't hear it any better.

He pulled the wire attached to the phone and out came tangled up ear-things. He smiled as he plugged one into his ear, then he winced as the volume was blasting.

He started to press any button he could until the phone eventually turned down the volume. But before he could even start to enjoy the song the ear buds were torn from his ears, the phone fell to the floor and definitely cracked by the sound it made. He winced and looked up and the thing that took the earbuds from his ears.

"You little bastard" Fukashi said, it was the curse he saw outside. It seemed to giggle before turning the corner in front of him. Fukashi swiftly followed before he was hit by the stench.

He almost gagged at the smell in the air, the only thing he could think about was that day. The smell of human remains was one he was familiar with, he could practically taste the iron in the air.

No, he could smell something else, cursed energy. He could practically taste it, his eyes swung through the scaffolding surrounding him.

Humans, or what used to be humans at least. The remains surrounded him, his eyes were narrowed as they surveyed the surrounding area.

He heard something scuttle.

His eyes widened as he turned to a large centipede, it must have been as long as 3 trucks and as tall as he was. Its segmented, obsidian exoskeleton gleams under a flickering light. It had dozens of legs, each tipped with razor-sharp claws. It's antennae twitch as its predatory, small yellow eyes lock onto prey. Dark shades adorn its giant body, camouflaging it in the shadows as it scuttled through the darkness, leaving a disquieting trail of chittering echoes in its wake.

Quickly his senses shouted at him, he activated his Sharingan. He turned his head and met eyes with the obsidian centipede.