Chapter 5

Ra pov

It has been three years since my training began and I can proudly say that I have benefited greatly. I can now use observation haki though what I perceive isn't the direct image of someone, but their presence which dad labeled as aura. After managing to escape the goat's pursuit that I dubbed 'the mountai king's game', with no injuries enirely seven months prior to awakening the color of observation, my training was changed. Dad said that I was finally able to perceive my surroundings without relying on sight alone but by using my other senses and was finally ready for the final step which was haki. He basically introduced the existence of the three types of haki but only expounded on observation haki. My one piece library finally received new content; that being, when awakening observation at first you would only see other people by their aura,second seeing clearly the intended target then came sensing emotions, perceiving intent from others, sensing the danger level of an opponent by establishing the amount of haki they possess and finally future sight. The only sad part of it was that some could awaken observation haki naturally while I had to be trained. The world truly isn't fair.

Though I spent three years on training observation haki, I didn't neglect my physical training. I did the normal exercises of my previous world but the challenge came in pushing this body to its limits. I did the Saitama training regiment (100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and running 10 kilometers) starting with fifty of every exercise instead of a hundred except the running and moved on by adding another fifty when I instinctively felt that my body was ready. Right now I could do the regiment reaching a total of three hundred in every exercise and running thirty kilometers everyday. I didn't expect to become as strong as the one punch dude, but the regiment clearly works as could be seen by the forming abs and the monstrous stamina I was gaining. Now instead of further advancing my observation, I decided to try awakening armament on my own by battling my goat nemesis. The battle has lasted about three with me dodging most of the attacks and trying to defend the attacks that I felt were not dangerous to receive head on.

My goal in all this was to try hardening by defending, though I could fill some energy flowing, there was no occurrence of hardening. My whole focus was on the goat as a lapse in focus would cause observation to disappear.

I was starting to get tired so I finally relented and stomped my left foot twice on the ground and the goat stopped attacking. It huffed, proudly turned and made its way back home. Over the years I had established some form of communication with it, with stomping my right foot twice on the ground being a sign of issuing a challenge and stomping my left foot twice being a sign of me raising the white flag. I slumped down panting and decided to rest for a few minutes before heading home too. I was finally ready but before I could leave something reflected from the corner of my eye. Deciding to investigate, I made my way towards the light and what stood before me was the entrance to a cave. Now it certainly is weird that light is coming from a dark cave, but that makes it all the more interesting. After walking for a while without being able to find anything I was tempted to turn back but I persisted just to satisfy my curiosity. And true to my desire, right there above some rocks I saw the target of my investigation. It was a ball of orange light which weirdly enough did not light up the cave.

Then it hit me, what if the reason that I was not able to use sunshine was due to the fact that it was not an ability a person could be born with in this world but had to be obtained from a devil fruit? If so I had finally arrived at the starting point of my destiny. While all these thoughts were running through my brain, I was now finally infront of the light and it was ideed a fruit, proof being that it extended from a vine. But what if this was not the sunshine fruit? I was almost starting to get second thoughts but finally the thrill of facing the unknown won me over and I plucked it from the vine. It was hot and I could feel my skin burning away but I persisted and finally took a bite. It was immensely hot, burning the inside of my mouth and even worse, it tasted horrible but I perservered and swallowed it. After that I felt...I felt...nothing. I was almost falling into depression when dad unexpectedly appeared and after seeing me sad, he just laughed. I was getting annoyed, that through all the hopes and expectations I had before eating the fruit I gained nothing and I had just probably risked my future development.

I wanted to berate the man and tell him to be more accommodating to my emotions but before I could tell him, he just put me on his shoulder and left the cave. I was honestly angry and as he moved through the mountains without even apologising, I snapped and turning my body I threw a punch straight to his face. It felt fulfilling to see him fly and crash through trees and I wondered just how it would feel to beat him down.

General pov

As Ferlga crashed through trees he couldn't beleived what had occurred, his little boy had unexpectedly attacked him and had sent him flying. He resolved to not using armament but he would repay in kind and show him what a fight truly is by accepting his challenge. He got up ready to mawl the boy down but what stood in his line of sight was not a nine year old but a teenager. Not entirely correct, he had a teenager's face but his body was an entirely different matter. He had transformed from his initial five feet height and had actually doubled in size. The most incredible were the size of his muscles which were incomparable to the size they were before. And the expression he had, Oh! It was such blatant disrespect. The boy looked down on his father though the man was obviously stronger than his child but the boy had become an inch taller.

Ferlga noticing the look on his son, felt mildly annoyed but ultimately decided to observe Ra's next actions. But his choice left him dumbfounded as the boy spoke in a deep discomforting voice," As expected of my attack, it left you wounded and confused." Ferlga didn't want to admit it but he had been caught off guard and had burn marks at the side of his face. He wanted to talk back but the boy once more made the already tense situation tenser." Hey old man are you going to stand there and think like the weak or are you going to attack." Ferlga finally made up his mind and asked," Ra are you going to take responsibility for your words?" But the boy just smirked, raised his index finger and motioned for him to move foward.