"Tell me, how many times have you lived...?"
"Huh?" Izumi's eyes narrowed; for some reason, she felt that the boy intended to find something else from her entirely. 'Why would he ask it like that?'
"If you don't quite understand, then you can take it the other way—how many times have you died..."
Again, Izumi felt there was something behind this question she couldn't see through; however, she was a straight woman, so she didn't bother analysing it from many different angles, like her colleagues surely would have wanted her to in this situation back in her world.
"I only died once in my life."
Sukuna gave a big nod. That cleared out some of his thoughts.
"How did you die?"
Izumi frowned even further... why her death mattered to this boy who claimed he wasn't the kind of curses.
"Fighting..."
"..."
"Oh come on, don't be a spoil sport. Explain it at least." Sukuna was speechless at the girl's shamelessness. He explained everything as accurately as possible to her, and here she was being cheap.
"Tsk... I died fighting an ancient sorcerer named that Kenjaku, whom I asked you about earlier..." She spat, already getting mad about talking about that bastard. She thought she got him back when she died, took him with her.
Turns out that talking brain somehow survived.
'That makes sense, so she's not from Earth, or she wouldn't have died only once. She died fighting Kenjaku, and there were not many female characters who did that, though if she was a former male, then he can't do anything about it.
However, by how Izumi behaved and her cursed energy power, Sukuna had already figured out who she was.
Any further, and he has to go with his own intuition and what happened from now on. Observation is a teacher on its own.
Asking her anymore about her identity was pointless anyway. What I really need is to know why she is in Izumi's body...
"Do you know why you got reincarnated in Izumi's body..."
Izumi was ready to say she had no idea; however, Sukuna immediately cut her off.
"...If... and only if you don't know, then rather tell me how Izumi died. You clearly have her memories, right..."
Izumi paused there, a scowl appearing on her face. 'This bastard... is this a trick question.' She clicked her tongue.
She didn't know whether the vow would activate if she dared to skip the first question. She actually didn't know anything, but not answering the other question already meant that she answered the first already...
She hated smart bastards like him. Snorting, she spoke.
"She was killed; a masked man killed her when Izumi Uchiha was chasing down her little runaway boyfriend, Itachi Uchiha..."
"Masked man... who." Kiyomi no longer could contain herself any further; she all but demanded who killed Izumi."
By now, Kiyomi at least knew that whoever this curse user was, she herself didn't have any hand in getting in Izumi's body. It was a coincidence. However, that didn't help with Kiyomi's anger.
If anything, now she didn't have an outlet to lose her anger. So the obvious outlet of her anger would be the original murderer.
Izumi was about to deny straight on the girl's face; the deal was only of three questions. She answered hers. They would not get anymore out of her... however, seeing the desperate and anger-filled expression on Kiyomi's face.
Izumi couldn't pull herself to say those words. Being reincarnated into original Izumi Uchiha's body meant she also had all of original Izumi Uchiha's memories. Those feelings were transferred to her.
Original Izumi Uchiha saw this girl as a younger sister. She sighed, completely helpless.
"I didn't see his face... but as I said, he was wearing a mask. You already know half of what took place. After you were knocked out, their fight continued. This girl here created enough distance between you and them that you wouldn't be swooped into their fight. They fought until that Uchiha boy won. Quite smart, that one...
Ghosh, I hate those classy types... not sure what this girl Izumi saw in that one-handed scum." Izumi puffed up her cheeks before continuing.
"He didn't deliver the killing intent, though; he left without actually killing. That's when the real culprit showed up. He stabbed the girl, took her eyes, and left. That's all I know." She said, waving her hands as she got nothing more.
And that launched another long pause between them. Besides this last one, all the answers were confirmed under a binding vow. So they had to be true.
'Masked man...' Sukuna pursed his lips, a bad premonition rising inside him.
That masked man could be literally anyone; however, only one image came to Sukuna's mind.
'Obito... but how is that even possible? I killed him...
Edo Tensei? That's the only possible outcome.'
Sukuna didn't want to assume anything here; in this world, even the dead can come back to life. Nothing was absolute at this point.
But he did remember killing Obi...
Sukuna blinked, recalling what really happened back then.
'Anbu showed up immediately after I got his eyes. I do remember slashing him. However, did I burn him? I collectively burned all the dead bodies after dealing with Anbu... was he there...'
His mind felt like a jammed motor; after a certain point, it refused to rotate further.
'God, don't tell me I fucked up that one kill which mattered the most.' He felt like his blood pressure was rising.
'Fuck you, Anbu...
No... it wasn't actually Anbu; it was the Root.
Fuck you, Root, and fuck you, Danzo.'
He took deeper breaths, longer ones to calm down. Out of all things, losing his composure before these girls was the last thing he wanted.
Sigh...
'Let's not assume things. He doesn't have to be Obito; it could be anyone else. However, the fact that he knew Izumi had Mangekyo... who else could it be other than a guy like Obito with arguably the best surveillance system in the elemental nations.' Sukuna, for once, couldn't think of anyone else. Even he had to go through a lot of measures to ensure he was secure from that surveillance.
It did help that he could just sense Zetsu's negative emotions.
The murderer practically could be anyone; however, if he isn't an Uchiha, then those eyes would be more of a burden than a weapon in his or her hands. Or eyes, if he were to be more precise...
And then there was also the fact that his last intel was told by Izumi, not under the vow's restriction to say only the truth... so it could be a lie...
And then the entire part about why Izumi's body was the only one where this curse user from JJK ended up reincarnating.
A complete rebirth like his or Kiyomi's was different. But this one here—why only Izumi? It could have been anyone else. Why only hers?
'Is someone pulling things from behind which I can't see right now?' Sukuna's mind felt like a mess.
While he was contemplating things to himself from all sides, the girls were simply glaring at each other. Both felt like they were out of their element.
"Whatever, what happened is already out of our control. So what is your plan from now on, Miss Izumi... Hokage-sama had appointed you our temporary Jonin Sensei. Do you intend to do that, or just run away since you have no reason to stay..." Sukuna, upon not getting any reasonable answer by himself, decided to just leave the matter for now and asked to change the conversation.
Izumi snorted upon hearing him. "Run away, as if I wished to be hunted by a bunch of Anbu my whole new life."
"I thought you were the outgoing type..."
"I..." Izumi was about to retort but stopped midway, because she really was. So the question is, how did he know? Nowhere in the conversation did he ask for her name. How did he know?
Once again, her guard toward this pink-haired boy raised up. God, she liked it when the last pink-haired boy she knew was an idiot.
"For better or for worse, I'm stuck here with you all." She ultimately shrugged.
"Nice... turns out I was in between teaching Kiyomi here about curses. But I can't do much about Sharingan. Hopefully you can cover that area... do you happen to retain your Sharingan?" Sukuna prompted.
Izumi's eyes once again narrowed. She chose not to answer that one. Sukuna didn't care; it was just a try...
"Ah... seems like my ice cream is here." Sukuna suddenly sensed the upcoming movements from a familiar signature and smiled.
"Then I'll leave our training for today. Let's see what our new sensei has to teach us..." He grinned, and exactly at the same time, a panting Karin arrived, ice cream in hand.
"Ah, thank you, Karin... this one's my favorite. Wanna share."
"Eh.... with me."
"Yup...
You like chocolate, right?
Unlike a certain someone..." He glanced at Kiyomi, who still wasn't fuming. She got most of her answers; however, that wasn't enough. She wasn't satisfied.
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