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Gabimaru pov

( Daughter? Did I hear that right? Why would she think I want her mutt?)

" What would I gain for taking your daughter away?" Gabi questioned the red-haired as her grip never once loosened from her hold. Her petite hands were able to grab the side of Gabi's neck and keep him in a position that she wanted him in with ease but that's what she thought, the man beneath her was not using his full power nor trying to escape her grasp just yet.

"I don't have time for your games, Gabimaru. Where . . . is . . . she?" this a simple question she asked the man but each word held an infuriating impact as her eyes had murder intent within yet it was hard to answer because he had no clue about this ' daughter' of hers. Oni was coming to his master's aid but Gabi held his hand in the air to signal the curse to stay put as Gojo got on his two feet after he did his reverse technique to heal himself to join Makima.

" Misumi is gone?" panic strikes him at first then proceeds to glares at Gabi.

( mhm, it makes sense now. These two . . . wait, that name sounds familiar.)

Just 15 feet behind them kitsune and Kenjaku stop their fighting once Gojo asks the question. A smirk slowly formed on Kenjaku's face leaving the Fox puzzle.

" Why the face, stitches?" Kitsune circles him slowly and attentively.

"It seems that I overstayed my welcome and must rejoin my group. The plan is proceeding. With or without you Gabimaru." Kenjaku stated making the two sorcerers turn their heads behind them, as Gabi tried to move his head to the side of Makima's body to get a peek at Kenjaku.

"What plan are you informing to?" Gabi attempted to get up but the woman slammed him back on the wall causing him to yelp.

"You're not getting up. Stay put." she viciously mutters.

" You will see Gabi. It's all for the sake of the curses." without staying a second later he quickly disappeared away from them and vanished without a trace.

Makima faced Gabi again, waiting for an explanation of why they targeted her daughter but it was silences she received.

(I see. As I had my plans so did they. What would they want to do with a mere child?)

" Let go of my master." kitsune gritted her teeth as she got on her fours, ready to transform into her fox form but Gabi stopped her before the bloodshed continued.

"I don't know anything about your daughter's disappearance. If you don't believe me kenjaku's response showed you my lack of understanding."

" What if I don't believe you? You did everything out of the book to harm innocent people. You don't care for anyone safely." Gojo spitted out in anger. His ocean-blue eyes were lighting up with rage, ready to end Gabi's life for messing with his niece.

A pity chuckle left Gabi's mouth as he stared at Gojo in disbelief. " Are we going down that route? This position looks similar to how 11 years ago you both wanted to murder me for something I didn't do. I only wanted to destroy the same system and people who ruined me since birth."

" Shut up! I just want my daughter back. You going to go down memory lane and have our child be taken by these people!" makima yelled at him as she constantly slammed his back on the wall making the little crumbles fall as the dent is getting bigger. The woman's emotions were unstable and she was speaking from her raw emotions that she didn't even notice that she spilled the can of worms of how the two shared a child together. Gabi's eyes bulged out as his mouth agape in pure astounding to the news. Kitsune was quiet in the background letting the scene unfold in front of her in shock as Gojo has taken a step back letting the two have somewhat privacy.

Gabi slowly reached for Makima's hand that was latching onto him as he gazed into her eyes "Our. . .child?" he whispered out loud causing the woman to take a quick breather to know what she had done. She was starting to hyperventilate but Gabi brought her body on top of his as he played with her red locs to calm the woman down. Her tears coated his shoulders as she spoke the same pleading sentence that she wanted Misumi back. "I'm sorry . . . but I will fix it," he said and despite the crimes, this man committed and how evil the sorcerer world painted him to be, Makima has gotten the same warmth she remembered when she was a teen from him and believed in his word about fixing it.

"Thank you."

" Do you have any clue who or where they might taken her?" Gojo spoke aloud, gathering the two attention.

"I don't. I went rouge to come after you."

"Who are you working with? I need all of their names and curse techniques?" Gojo kept pressing for answers

" Everyone who you met already besides . . ."

" Higanbana," Jorogumo revealed herself. " The help revealed to me how she left to meet up with 'family' so I put two and two together. It also explains why they wanted to seal you away, Gojo."

Makima got up from Gabi's body to face the woman. " Family? How does my daughter have anything to do with her? I never even heard of Higanbana until now."

Jorogumo sighed as she fanned herself from the hot weather that being trapped in the station. "I don't have all the answers. Higanbana is someone you cannot predict nor know her motive."

" What do you mean by that Jorogumo? Why she would do all of this?" Gabimaru questioned her.

(I am out of the loop. What is Jorogumo trying to say? I am getting a bad feeling from this.)

Jorogumo stopped the fan in mid-air as she stared at everyone with an undefined expression." I'm saying she can't be trusted. I never once trusted her since the beginning when I 'first' met her. I was just stuck with her."

Gabimaru was baffled by her answer and scoffed at it. " why did you never inform me of this?"

"Because you had a close relationship with her. Also, I never knew why I couldn't stand her existence. I should have been grateful when she saved me and made one of the strongest curses in her inner circle. However, I always had disgust towards her. Every one of the curses you know Gabi has the same storyline. We were all being targeted and were going to die and she saved us. I thought I was just taking advantage of her kind heart but what doesn't make sense is how I have hatred towards the woman who 'saved' me when I never hated you, master. All the years of us being close I cherish your company and you as a person but not her."

" Get on with it. We don't have time for chit-chatting." Gojo was impatient because every second they were down here more people would be dying and his niece could be a part of that number too.

"Analyzing the events that happened I came up with on solution that answered all my years for this unsettling feeling I had to my supposedly savor. Thanks for your help." Jorogumo pointed her finger which had a black design nail polish on it towards Makima. "Your curse technique is control. The way you did to that sorcerer killer named Toji. I believed she had the power to manipulate people's memories, I don't know Higanbana's powers but it could be one of them."

" One of them?!" The three sorcerers said in sync

" Yes, that's what I just said. We don't know anything about her but she knows everything about us. She always once called herself the mother of all curses. I believe she is the original powerful curse to doom this earth."

" Why would she want my daughter then?" Makima was still trying to put all the pieces together but she couldn't understand why a little girl.

" Although Higanbana was once powerful, master only brought part of her. She is not whole yet. It's like Sukuna right now to help you have a clear picture of what I'm saying. Do you know your daughter's curse technique?"

Makima avoids eye contact because she finally knows why that sick woman wanted her daughter and why Makima made sure her daughter would have no part of the sorcerer world. "She's able to steal the abilities of others once she kills them. I know of this because she didn't have control and she took the life of a foreign sorcerer by mistake and was able to use their technique."

" If what you said right now is 100 percent accurate, she will use your daughter as a soldier for her gain. Like how she trained Gabi. she needs to be stopped and she is probably the one behind the schemes this whole time for this exact moment. Everyone who stands against her will be doomed."

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Higanbana pov

"Mother, will I ever be pretty like you." Misumi was admiring the woman's beauty through the dresser mirror as Higanbana brushed her long white hair.

Higanbana laughed at her silly question and kissed the top of her head. " We are blood, you're already beautiful and this whole world shall know it. Do you know what you must do?"

Misumi's cheek was tainted with red blush as she giggled at the sudden shyness she was feeling. " Yes, I must kill anyone and anything that stands against us, I won't let anything come between us Mother."

" And that's why you're my favorite." Higanbana looked behind her to see the help who was waiting patiently for her orders. " Bring in more sorcerers for my child. I have a feeling that snitch of ours already spoiled our surprise."

( My dream will come true and I can already taste victory.)