"What's your name?" A tall, muscular man with straight black hair that fell to his ears asked as he stood at the entrance to an alleyway, a scar running across the right corner of his lips while his green eyes with black sclera stared at the boy in front of him.
The tall and slim young man with the same green eyes as the man and uniquely-styled black hair that jutted out as long spikes in all directions stared in confusion at the man dressed in a loose white sweater, black pants and black shoes.
"Megumi…Fushiguro." Megumi said with a strained expression, his breathing a bit uneven after having ran from the man for the past couple of minutes along with the stab wound in his side that the man had given him.
In response, the man's eyes widened as he realized who the boy's was, the black at the corners of his sclera fading away as he recalled memories of his first wife's joyful voice.
"Megumi? Really?"
"Why not? I'm an unlucky bastard and Megumi means 'blessing' or 'favor'. Why wouldn't I give my son a good name to try and attract some good luck when I take him gambling with me?"
"Of course you would think like that, Toji. Hmm, I do need a second buddy for bingo since you hate it and his name would bring good luck. You know what? I like it. Megumi Fushiguro."
"See?!"
"Fushiguro, huh? It's not Zen'in?" Toji asked with a smile as the darkness fully faded from his sclera, the man lifting up the jagged half of the staff in his grasp.
The next moment, Megumi was shocked as the man stabbed himself directly through the skull with the pole while having a peaceful smile on his face.
"I'm glad."
'It's a good thing Hana didn't see this or else I'd be dead.' Toji's last thought was one of amusement and nervousness as he fell face first onto the floor, his eyes catching one last look at Megumi's surprised look before everything went dark.
As he opened his eyes, Toji 'The Sorcerer Killer' Fushiguro readied himself for the eternal hunger and blood thirst that clouded his mind entirely as well as the hordes of souls looking to devour him that came from being a resident of Mugen Jigoku.
However, he was surprised to find himself standing in the middle of a cloudy forest, a bit confused and wary as he looked around only to see nothing and no one within sight, smelling range or hearing range of him.
That was very unnerving considering his senses allowed him to see through fog in pitch black darkness as well as hear the buzzing wings of a fly nearly a few hundred meters away.
Slowly walking around while warily glancing at every little thing around him, Toji frowned as he wondered whether he was caught in a domain of some kind before remembering that he did not have any cursed energy so that would be impossible.
'Should I…? No, calling out may draw unwanted attention to me.' The man thought as he crouched before leaping into the air, but his eyes widened as he barely made it a meter up before falling back to the ground with a grunt.
'…What?' Toji thought in surprise as he quickly leapt to his feet, frowning as he looked at his body before slamming a fist into the ground as hard as he could.
The next moment, a soft snap echoed in the air and Toji hissed as he felt pain shoot through a finger, shaking his hand while glaring at the shallow indent on the dirt ground that was made from his punch.
'So, I haven't lost all of my strength, but most of it.' Toji thought with a grumble as he looked at his hand, gripping his right middle and ring finger that didn't want to straighten before grunting as he pulled them back into place with a pop.
"Okay, so I'm in some other place that isn't Heaven nor Hell and where I've lost most of my abilities, which I suppose would be the case considering my abilities are tied to my body." Toji muttered as he decided to continue walking.
Kicking up one of the dead branches lying on the floor, his hands worked quick as he broke off bits and pieces on one end to form it into a sharp weapon before nodding as he began making his way to whatever exit there could be in the forest.
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"…This fog is definitely a cursed spirit." Toji muttered with a frown as he sat underneath a tree, having noticed that the fog did not dim or fade throughout the day nor did the outline that he could make of the sun move a single time.
That's not mentioning the fact that the day's walk was catching up to him since he was no longer a superhuman and while he was fit, a guy can only walk so far before the body begins to ache.
'If only I had the Inverted Spear or my katana. This would have been easy to get rid of.' Toji thought with a grumble as he stood back up, dusting off his pants before freezing as he heard a familiar giggle around him.
"No, you're going to mess up if you do that." Toji muttered with a growl as he looked to the front, his eyes widening and his heart skipping a beat as he watched a familiar and beautiful lady walking out with a soft smile.
"Hello, Toji. How have you b-!" Before the woman could finish speaking, Toji was already across the forest clearing and landed a heavy punch to her face, knocking the woman to the ground as he took deep breaths while glaring balefully at her.
"You…would dare?!" He growled as he stood up straight, heaving for air from rage as the woman gave an eerie giggle before her body turned to mist.
"Hitting a woman, Toji~? Didn't I teach you any better? Then again, you never knew love other than my own loving embrace so I suppose you wouldn't know anything about manners considering your family never bothered to teach you any.
"Keep talking, spirit. Keep insulting her memory and see what happens." Toji muttered with an enraged glare as he looked around, hearing a giggle echoing in the fog as he began walking away.
"Why? You know I'm right. Toji Zen'in the failure. Toji Zen'in the trash. If Hana Fushiguro didn't decide to marry you and have a kid, you would have passed as nothing more than another victim of Satoru Gojo. No legacy, no son to carry on your genes. Absolutely…nothing."
"You know, you talk a lot of crap for a spirit hiding away."
"Oh, I'm not hiding, Toji Fushiguro. After all,how can one hide from themselves?" Toji frowned as the fog in front of him faded away to reveal another Toji walking out with an amused yet malicious smile.
However, Toji noted how it was dressed in the outfit he wore in Shibuya while Toji himself was still dressed in his combat outfit, frowning to himself as the other Toji rose an eyebrow before chuckling at his cautiousness.
"Hahaha~ Ever so cautious ever since your brother gave you that scar, huh?" The Toji clone asked and Toji rolled his eyes before continuing on his path, the clone simply watching in amusement as Toji continued on walking towards an exit.
"Come now, Toji. Just give up and rest in peace. There's no need to actually try to do something."
"Go to hell, bastard."
"Like you did when the Gojo heir kicked your ass?" Toji asked before laughing uncharacteristically as Toji spun around and grabbed him by the front of his sweater with a glare.
"That bastard got lucky and you know it!"
"But he didn't~! He won because you decided to play around instead of finishing your job like usual! What is our number one rule, Toji?! What is our number one rule?!"
"…Inverted Spear to the brain to make sure they can't heal themselves or be healed." Toji spoke with gritted teeth and the clone snorted as he gripped Toji's wrist and forced it off.
"Precisely. So why didn't you? Why, Toji?" The clone asked and frowned as Toji looked away with a glare.
"What? You a mute now? Well, let me tell you why. It's because your damn ego thought that you could, not MIGHT, but could defeat the user of both the Limitless Technique and the Six Eyes when they're at their strongest."
"I could! All I needed was a bit more information and I would have won!"
"But you didn't! You got a hole blown through your left side and you lost! That bastard then helped care for your son while you rotted in the dirt. Your own son! So, tell me, Toji. What difference would it make if you could find an exit out of here?" The clone asked before sighing as Toji scratched the back of his head with a sigh.
"Just…just let me go back to hell so I can repent."
"Why not Heaven? Why not be with Hana for eternity?"
"Ha! And show her the monster I became after her death? Let her see what deadbeat father I was to our son? No, I…I don't have the strength to face her." He muttered and the clone smiled softly before Toji looked up with a glare as the clone placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Hands off."
"No. Now, I find that a family changes how a man is so what would you say to one of your own?"
"I'd rather rot away in Hell."
"Even if you could have a mother and father that actually cared and loved you for who you are?"
"…What is your game here? What…what do you gain from torturing me like this?" Toji hated this feeling of weakness without his abilities, strength or weapons, glaring at the clone as he smirked and shook his head.
"I'm you. What do you wish to gain from this happening?"
"…Just send me to hell."
"Unfortunately not possible. Now rest and when you wake up, let the Toji Fushiguro that Hana loved out a bit more than the Toji Fushiguro that hates the Zen'in name." The clone spoke as he placed a finger against Toji's forehead and as he went to swat the hand away, his eyes widened as the world around him warped right before he passed out.
'I hate spirits.'
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In the small village of Tu Zin near the southern mountains of the Earth Kingdom, a young boy's breathing was raspy and weak as he laid in his bed, the boy barely looking to be six years of age as his bones were visible through his skin.
Despite the fact that his eyes were open, they had a glassy look in them as the boy had lost his sight just a few days ago after his overwhelming chi took his sight along with many of his senses, leaving only his sense of hearing as some sick joke.
The illness was something that occurred when one's chakras and chi were completely out of sync with each other according to the doctor and it's not curable because the boy himself had to be the one who fixed it.
How was he even supposed to do that?
'If only…if only I wasn't born with this earthbending…I know Mom and Dad loves that I have them…but I just…I can't…'
"Hey, kid." The boy would have been frightened at the male voice besides his bed, but after getting the verdict that he would not last the week, the boy simply hummed as he heard the male voice speaking as well as the sound of the man sitting down besides him.
"If I could get your bending abilities out and heal you fully, what would you pay me?"
"Any…anything…" The boy gasped out and silence entered the room before he smiled as he felt the man placing a soft hand on his chest.
"Are you sure? Once it's done-!"
"Just…just do it." The boy whispered before his eyes widened as he felt something pushing into his chest, blinking a few times only to stare in shock at his body staring up at the ceiling.
"I...I can see?" The boy whispered with a happy smile before catching sight of the smiling man sitting on his bed while looking at him.
"Did you...do this?"
"I did, child. Now, rest and be at peace."
'Wait, wh-!' Before the boy could ask, he was gone and the Toji clone shook his head as he looked back at the boy, looking down at the soul orb grasped in his hand before shaking his head as he reached forward and placed the soul in the boy's chest.
As he did so, the clone's body twisted and morphed to grow in size until it was looming over the young boy's body that now held the soul of one Toji Fushiguro.
First was its body becoming covered in clothing made out of wood and vines, the lower half of the dress made out of an ethereal blue energy while her head grew out to have five different faces that were covered by wooden tendrils wrapping around the top of each face to hide their eyes from view.
"Toji Fushiguro, may your new life be better than your last, child." The spirit whispered with a smile as her body faded away and as she vanished, the young boy known as Toji opened his eyes with a gasp.
A/N: And here's one of the new stories I wanted to do. This is one that I've been thinking about(with a rough idea of it having been proposed by a member) and I had to write it down before I forgot about it.
Anyway, yeah, it's a Toji x Avatar crossover except Toji will have another…something joining him like a decade or two down the line.
What that will be…heh~ We'll have to wait and see.
Also, don't expect Toji to not have some of his old mannerisms as well as some old trauma that resurfaces as the story goes on. After all, no person in JJK have had a normal life.
Another also is that the characters are aged up so everyone other than Aang is OVER 18~!! Just to make that clear in case people feel weird about the pairings.
Anyway, as always, read, enjoy, review and until the next one, welcome to…
If the Price Is Right