Nobara Kugisaki/Synopsis

The story of Nobara Kugisaki from Jujutsu Kaisen.
== Background ==
Nobara's unnamed mother gave birth to her in 2002 August 7th. She grew up living in the campaigns where she spent great times playing video games alongside a childhood friend named Fumi whom she befriended after helping her against some bullies from their school in first grade. The two friends also meet Saori, a woman who just moved into the town from Tokyo. However after some time, the other residents of the town despised Saori's family, making them to leave. In her teenage years, Nobara decides to leave her hometown and speaks for a farewell for Fumi as she takes the train to leave for Tokyo, hoping to meet her friend again.
== Fearsome Womb Arc ==
Now present days, Nobara takes the train and arrives in Tokyo from Morioka and joins Satoru Gojo, Megumi Fushiguro, and Yuji Itadori for a mission in Roppongi, which turns out to be a test to showcase their abilities. Nobara and Yuji split up to explore the building.
During her exploration, Nobara locates amongst a bunch of mannequins a disguised cursed spirit and uses her technique to exorcise it. She discovers a child, but a cursed spirit takes the child hostage. Nobara drops her hammer and nail to force the spirit to release the child. Yuji arrives, cutting off the spirit's arm to save the child. Nobara uses her Resonance on the severed arm to exorcise it. After the mission, Nobara and Yuji argue about the risks involved. Nobar
a shares her reasons for joining Jujutsu High, expressing a desire to escape rural life and financial concerns.They join Gojo for sushi after the mission. In another mission to a detention center, they encounter a high-grade spirit. Yuji and Nobara agree to rescue a child inside, but the dormitory magically expands, and the entrance disappears. Megumi's Divine Dog Shikigami locates the exit. Deeper inside, they find corpses, leading to an argument between Yuji and Megumi. Nobara is teleported away. Facing cursed spirits, Nobara prepares to fight but is saved by Megumi, who places her inside his frog shikigami. Following the fatal mission, Nobara is at a shrine discussing Yuji's death and learns about the Kyoto Goodwill Event. Nobara decides to join but trains first. While shopping, she encounters Kyoto students Aoi Todo and Mai Zenin. Aoi probes into his taste in females, teasing that he might beat him half to death. Nobara, considering it a challenge for an antisocial person like Aoi, deflects the question. Aoi, however, insists that a person's taste in women reveals a lot about them. He believes that if someone has boring tastes, they are boring people, and he doesn't like boring individuals. Meanwhile, Nobara finds herself on the ground after being shot by Mai. The Kyoto student advises her Tokyo rival to choose her fights more wisely. Maki Zenin arrives to assist, and the two sisters argue over who is more futile. Nobara unexpectedly gets back up and engages in a scuffle with Mai, using Maki as a distraction. Nobara demands that Mai hand over her summer uniform, but Aoi arrives to take Mai away.
As they depart, Mai leaves Nobara with a parting message that irritates her. Nobara and Maki walk away, discussing Maki's inability to use cursed energy, which is why she relies on cursed tools. Nobara questions Maki about her motivation to become a Sorcerer, and Maki reveals her desire to defy her sorcerer family, who spent her entire life belittling her.
==Kyoto Goodwill Event Arc==
Nobara and Megumi prepares for the Kyoto Event and questions why their classmates are not here yet. Panda clarifies to Nobara that the event takes place at the Tokyo college, not Kyoto, sparking her anger. Kyoto students and faculty cause tension upon their arrival. Gojo reveals Yuji's survival, surprising Nobara. Angry at Yuji for not informing her, she demands an apology. The faculty briefs on the situation, prompting Nobara to join a pre-event meeting with Tokyo students to strategize. With the competition starting, the team battle unfolds with Aoi targeting Nobara's team, prompting Yuji to engage him while the others hunt for the grade 2 curse. 
Simultaneously, Nobara and Panda face one of the other team members, Momo Nishimiya, after her collision with a tree. In the midst of the confrontation, Mechamaru intervenes to rescue Momo from Panda and Nobara. Momo, eager to face Nobara alone, assigns Panda to deal with Mechamaru. Nobara, skilled in provocation, taunts Momo, prompting Mechamaru to unleash a blast at Panda. As Mechamaru shifts focus to Nobara, Momo steps in to confront her. Unexpectedly, Panda rises and attacks Mechamaru, leaving Nobara to engage with Momo. 
The battle unfolds as Nobara and Momo clash, with her maintaining a strategic distance. Utilizing a gust of wind, Momo distracts Nobara and lands a blow with her broom. Irritated, Nobara retaliates by firing nails at Momo, who adeptly dodges each one. Momo shares her perspective on the role of a female sorcerer, but Nobara, finding her annoying, continues the assault with her Straw Doll Technique, manipulating the environment. Amidst the chaos, Nobara seizes one of Momo's broom straws, disrupting her control.
She closes in on Momo, striking with a squeaky hammer, but before achieving victory, Momo's ally, Mai Zenin intervenes, rendering Nobara unconscious with a rubber bullet to the 
her head. The event took an unexpected turn when Nobara among the other students notice that a dark screen starts unfolding in the sky. Nobara and Mai encounter Utahime under attack, and Nobara prepares to face one of the intruders, Haruta Shigemo. The intruder flees when Gojo intervenes. After handling the threat, Nobara reunites with Yuji and Megumi, discussing Yuji's strength and their own progress. Later, in a meeting, they decide to continue the event with a baseball game. Nobara plays as the third baseman, expressing frustration at Mechamaru being a pitching machine. During the game, she praises Maki's pitch and, despite some mishaps, the Tokyo team emerges victorious.
==Death Painting Arc==
Nobara, Megumi, and Yuji undertake a mission investigating mysterious deaths tied to victims who perished near open doorways with curses waiting for them. Supervised by Akari Nitta, they delve into the incidents beneath Yasohachi Bridge, linking all victims to a shared unconscious state at the location. 
As Nobara and company struggle to find evidence, Megumi reunites with an old classmate, uncovering a personal connection to the bridge through his sister, Tsumiki. Despite Megumi's reservations of investigating the Yasohachi bridge alone, Yuji and Nobara join him, revealing more about Megumi's concerns. Urgently needing to exorcise the curse to protect Tsumiki, Megumi determines the correct conditions to pass through the curse's barrier beneath the bridge. The trio enters the domain, encountering a mole-like cursed spirit, the Yasohachi Bridge curses. As they prepare for the exorcism, a cursed spirit by the name of Kechizu unexpectedly enters the barrier behind them. 
Nobara and Megumi struggle to land hits on the elusive spirit, prompting Kechizu's brother, Eso, to intervene and pull Nobara out of the spirit's territory. Eso reveals that their goal is to retrieve one of Sukuna's fingers. Megumi successfully obtains the finger, but Nobara notices his injuries. As they head towards Megumi, Eso, with a peculiar gait due to a back complication, becomes their focus. Seizing an opportunity, Nobara attacks Eso, who retaliates with a poisonous Rot Technique. Yuji carries the injured Nobara to safety, but Kechizu appears, spitting blood on Yuji. Eso returns, further injuring Nobara with his blood. Eso's next cursed technique causes flower-like patterns to appear on the area whe 
re the attack land on Nobara and Yuji. 
Eso explains the technique, leading to Nobara using it on herself to harm Eso and Kechizu by playing a game of chicken. Utilizing the Straw Doll Technique: Resonance to stun the Death Paintings, Yuji employs piercing counterattacks to overpower Kechizu. Eso, influenced by the pain, reverses the Decay technique to save his brother. The toxic blood's effects enable Yuji and Nobara to access the sparks of black, unleashing Black Flash in devastating attacks. Both brothers suffer critical injuries, and despite Kechizu's final attempt to strike Nobara down, she exorcises him with her Hairpin attack. Nobara reassures Eso, who mourns his fallen brother, that he'll join him soon. Attempting a desperate escape on a speeding truck, the injured Eso is halted by Nobara using Resonance on his severed arm. Yuji, acknowledging the gravity of their actions, delivers the final blow, ending Eso's life. After dealing with the death painting brothers, Nobara and Yuji check on each other and then head to see Megumi. They discover Megumi is fine and still possesses the finger. Nobara gets upset when Sukuna consumes the finger. 
==Shibuya Incident Arc==
Sometime later, Sent by Gojo, Nobara, Yuji, and Megumi meet up with Utahime Iori to investigate the suspected traitor, Kokichi Muta, also known as Mechamaru. They discover Kokichi's absence after breaking into his location, revealing his supposed hideout to be empty and that they fell into his trick. 
Weeks later, on the 31st of October, Nobara, Naobito Zenin, and Maki join Akari at the Shibuya Mark City Restaurant Avenue Entrance. Transfigured humans attack citizens on the screen, prompting Nobara, Naobito, and Maki to intervene. Akari provides updates, and Maki directs Nobara and Akari to find Kiyotaka Ichiji. While on the empty road of the city, Nobara and Akari confront struggles in a battle against Haruta Shigemo, whom she met before during the invasion of the Kyoto Event. The curse user dodges Nobara's attacks after sending his sword to take care of Akari. Once having located Akari's location, he enters the place to assault her with Nobara pursuing him to stop his action. Thanks to his cursed technique, Haruta easily overpowered Nobara. Nanami suddenly interrupts the battle as he breaks in, wearing an angry expression, and confronts Haruta. The sadist claiming to have a hostage, realizes Akari has escaped. Unfazed, Nanami advances, prompting the enemy to attack, only to discover that his strikes are ineffective. Nanami furiously demands information on the enemy's whereabouts and numbers, receiving vague answers. Frustrated, Nanami propels the enemy into a wall, repeating the question. Haruta insists he doesn't know, leading to further heavy blows. Attempting a sword attack, the enemy is thwarted by Nobara aiding. She pins the weapon against the wall. Nanami presses the enemy about the murdered managers, and upon an apology, hurls him into another building. Nobara marvels at the strength of a grade 1 sorcerer. Following being rescued by Nanami, he reveals Gojo Satoru's sealing, and Nobara expresses her intent to join the Zenin family with him. Nanami advises her to attain Grade 1 sorcerer status before she could even contribute in upcoming battles taking place in the city. 
As rescuers arrive to aid her and Akari, she decides to leave despite Akari telling her not to. On her way, she later confronts Mahito where they chat a brief moment before preparing to fight. Nobara recalls information about Mahito and initiates an attack, but Mahito skillfully evades it, inadvertently causing a sign to fall. Seizing the opportunity, Nobara strikes Mahito with the fallen sign. Mahito dismisses the effectiveness of such techniques and deduces Nobara's connection to Yuji. He suggests that presenting Nobara's lifeless body to Yuji would be a soul-shattering experience for him. She uses her Hairpin technique, surprising Mahito with her Resonance ability, allowing Yuji to land punishing blows simultaneously against the second Mahito in a battle some distance away. The battle intensifies in the subway, leading to a moment of vulnerability for Mahito. The second Mahito decides to reunite with his other half, aiming to bring Yuji and Nobara together. As Nobara pursues the second Mahito, she arrives to find two Mahitos engaging in combat with Yuji. Mahito, unable to employ his Idle Transfiguration on Yuji, creates a second body to attack Yuji while the original focuses on transfiguring Nobara. In the clash between Nobara and Mahito, he successfully touches her, utilizing Idle Transfiguration in the process. Knowing that she is in a fatal condition, she reflects on her life and makes a heartfelt promise to a friend. The narrative then shifts to Nobara smiling at Yuji, asking him to convey that it wasn't so bad before Mahito's technique takes effect on her left eye, making the part of her left eye explode, possibly killing her on the spot as she collapse in front of Yuji, leaving her friend in a shock of another loss of one of his comrades. Furious, Yuji is greatly overwhelmed by Mahito who proceeds his fight against him until Aoi Todo and Akari Nitta arrives for Yuji's rescue, Arata informs Yuji that he used his innate technique on Nobara, leaving her chances of survival uncertain but not impossible. 
=== Shinjuku Showdown Arc ===
Nobara was revealed to have been placed in a coma for a month and a half but ultimately made a full recovery from her injuries . Less than an hour later, Nobara was given an eyepatch and was brought up to speed on the current situation by here superiors and was brought to headquarters to where Ryomen Sukuna's final finger was placed. Nobara activated her curse technique and struck the finger, with the damage binding Sukuna long enough for to Yuji to finish off the Sorcerer.
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