Chapter #7 - Allowed to start training
When I ran away from Father into our mansion, Mother could be seen leisurely sitting in the living rooms sofa having tea.
"Oh, son are you running from your father again?" she said with a playful tone, and I couldn't help getting red cheeks. I'm 28 years old if we count my previous life into account, and here I'm playing tag with my father. A little humiliating but who cares, I'm the only one who knows that.
I didn't answer her, just sat down beside her, then she hugged me and started ruffing my black hair that never has been cut before. From my back and sides, it reaches all the way down to my shoulders, while on the front a big strand of hair goes between my eyes to my nose.
The reason I haven't gotten a hair cut yet is simply that I'm not allowed to, because those who cannot awake the Zen bloodline, have to train in body manipulations instead. So just in case, I don't awake it, I can train to manipulate my long hair to form long needles to protect myself.
"My little child is quickly growing up and getting more handsome. Especially those red eyes you have with the combo of white skin, it makes you look like a hunter ready to attack at any moment if you didn't always stuff your hands in your pockets" she said and stopped playing with my hair, and reprimanded me a little.
Then my father came in and sat on the opposite sofa, looking at the peaceful scene of me and my mother conversing.
"Mother I want to start training." deathly silence was followed after I spoke, and nobody took a breath.
I looked straight at my mother, but she turned her attention to my father and looked like a demon at him. My mother is normally looking beautiful as a transcended goddess with shiny black hair and fair skin, whereas my hair is more like black without reflection. But now her porcelain skin is ruined with two giant veins threatening to burst out, and even worse the white in her eyes turned black, so the red pupils glowed like red with intensity.
I knew what she was thinking, so I quickly took hold of her hands to get her attention.
"Mother this is not father's idea, this is something I want" she deactivated her Kagune that treated to come out of her back and destroy the dress she wears, then her eyes went back to normal again.
"Why are you so eager to start training, this is not the first time you have asked about that, you are still young you know" she looked directly in my eyes to spot any lies.
When I asked her that question before I just wanted to fight, but now that I have spent more time with my parents, I remembered that old man that I killed in the battle royal, and his life's biggest regret.
"I can't risk anything happening to you while I'm weak, I won't allow it," I said short and domineeringly. After a few seconds of silence again, my mother hugged me again, then burst out crying, whole contradictory to when she wanted to eat my father.
Mother stopped crying after a while, then this time it is actually father that looked serious at me with deeply furrowed eyebrows. This time mother surprisingly didn't say anything, when my father is pressuring me.
"I can clearly see your conviction, but you do know that you will be trained to kill right, Tatsuki?" he did not say "son" but used my name to clearly state he is serious.
"I know" is all I said while staring directly into his eyes to show that I'm ready.
*GRIN* father began grinning like an idiot and I couldn't help do it too. This reminded me of when I started training with Granpa in my previous life.
"Then without further due, let me give you the sword my father gave me when I started my training. Wait for a minute I will go get it" he said to me, which confused me greatly.
'My grandfather in this life? Never heard of him, but weapon huh' now I can't stop thinking about the blade grandpa gave me. When I was in deep thought, he came back with an almost two-meter long black blade with bandages wrapped around the hilt.
"Now you are the owner of this sword" father said while pulling me out of dreamland, and just dropped the sword on the marble floor, and went through almost to the hilt.