Beyond The Worlds: I'll Chase After You

(PoV Haruki)

Few days after I got discharged from the hospital, everything was not the same anymore.

My grandmother is now cooking our meals, cleaning the house, and any of the household chores, while my aunt works to support our living expenses.

I offered to help my grandmother with the chores, she politely tried decline but thanks to my insistence, I took some burden off their load while also turning it into some kind of aerobic exercise.

I need a lot of stamina before starting my real training, I also started practicing [Haki] when doing chores and it seems that it was not as easy as I thought.

Now that I've become conscious of [Haki] everytime I try to use it consciously, it won't work so I need to work on it.

I also dragged my brother into doing chores, and let tell you, that I now have a lot of free time to train myself with base [Armament Haki]

Though I call it "Base" it was actually not, as I still need to work on recreating the extreme situation that awakened my [Haki] and then forcefully manifest it to atleast cover a finger of my hand.

At the hospital I unconsciously covered my fist with base [Armament], and that what's bothering me.

I can do it unconsciously, but can't do it consciously!

Granted that I'm already at the point where covering my fists is now second nature. I need to know how to do it consciously to understand the basics in order to have some kind of reference once I start learning [Observation Haki]

Not to mention that learning how to use [Haki] consciously will not only allow me to truly feel the [Haki] but also allow me to grasp the flow of the [Haki] correctly.

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—1 Year Later—

""~Happy Birthday To You~🎶"

We are currently celebrating me, and my brother's birthday with a small sized cake and a small feast, enough to feed six people.

"Make a wish!"

We heard our Aunt, while she takes out a uhh... polaroid camera?

I don't exactly know what brand but she took out a camera.

I closed my eyes and started to make a wish

'Old man, if you're listening then please bless me with a talent that can help me get strong enough to atleast acquire advanced versions of the two colored [Haki]... if possible three? Hehe

...Also, Can you do me favor and watch over my parents of this world in the afterlife?'

I opened my eyes getting ready to blow the candle's fire

I looked at my brother who already made a wish, also looked at me before simultaneously nodding to each other.

We blew the candle out at the same time and the party resumed.

We gave two portions of food to our parent's tamaya shrine and lit up an intense before continuing our birthday party.

"So, have you boys thought of what you want as a gift?" Aunt Elly asked us, to which made my eyes lit-up

I looked at Nikko, and it seems that he doesn't know what he wants, so I made a request that won't give Nikko much choice.

I raised my right hand as high as I can which caught everyone's curiosity.

"I want to learn how to fight! In fact let me and Nikko learn how to fight!" I said firmly

I heard Nikko making an "Eh?" Sound but I ignored him and stared at my aunt with expecting eyes.

However our two guardians made troubled expression, which only made me guess what they're worried about, but I already planned ahead.

"I want to learn how to defend myself from any no named villains running around the streets, so PLEASE!" I tried to my best to recreate the cute cat eyes.

"But Haruki—"

I didn't let my aunt finish

"No! No! No! I want to learn martial art! I want to learn how to fight! I want to learn how to beat people up!" I acted like a spoiled child in front of them

It took a moment but thanks to my insistence they reluctantly agreed to my request.

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—8:30 PM—

It was already our bed time, and just as I was about to sleep, a voice asking a question entered my ears.

"Why did you act like that Aniki?" Nikko gave an amusing smile

I turned around and looked at my brother's eyes, taking a moment before releasing a disappointing sigh.

'Well atleast I have something to thank in this society's hero propagandas' I thought to myself

"I can't believe you dream to be a hero with this narrow mindedness, Nikko."

"I- I'm sorry for being narrow minded" Nikko said in a low apologetic tone

"I told you to stop apologizing!!"

"I'm sorry!!!"

I weaved out yet another sigh, completely giving up on fixing my brother's problematic atitude

"Listen Nikko, What is a hero?" I said to him. He responded by saying

"A hero is someone that protects people from villains and bring them to justice!" Nikko was proud of his answer, but was immediately shot downed by me.

"Wrong!" I said while making an 'X' infront of my face using my arms

"What!?" Nikko exclaimed

"You said your dream is to be a hero right?" I asked while ignoring his response

"Yeah! A hero greater than All Might!"

"Then why do you want to be a hero?"

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(PoV Nikko)

"Then why do you want to be a hero?"

The question came out of Aniki's mouth, which I don't get at all. I mean who doesn't want to be a hero?

So I opened my mouth saying the best answer I could think of.

"What do you mean Aniki? Aren't heroes cool? I want to be cool also!"

I said which made Aniki stare at me with an annoyed eyes before hearing a tongue clicked

"Tch"

Aniki turned away from which made me worry.

"A-aniki did I say something wrong?" I asked my brother

"No, nothing just go to sleep" He said to me.

"A-alright" I decided to follow Aniki's words and closed my eyes getting ready to sleep.

"This fucking society" I heard Aniki muttered before I fell asleep

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—Next Day—

(PoV Haruki)

I woke up early and I've got to say, It is certainly not a good morning.

MY BROTHER HAS BEEN BRAINWASHED BY THIS ASS OF A HUMAN SOCIETY TO LAY DOWN HIS ENTIRE LIFE INTO PROTECTING SOCIETY AT JUST 5 YEARS OLD?! GODDAMNIT AND THERE ARE EVEN HERO SCHOOLS WHICH IS BASICALLY AN ARMY CAMP SET TO TEACH THE STUDENTS THERE HOW TO BE A "HERO,"

I KNOW NIKKO IS AS STUBBORN AS A DAMN ANIME PROTAGONIST WHO WANTED TO SAVE EVERYONE! SO HE WILL MOST LIKELY ATTEND A HERO SCHOOL, AND YES I AM TALKING ABOUT SHIROU FUCKING EMIYA!

Ugh... what am I gonna do?

I quietly thought about everything I could do but not one of them works.

'I need to clear my head...'

I made my way towards the bathroom and started to brush my teeth.

Looking at my myself in the mirror, I raised my right arm and slowly started to consciously coat it with base [Armament Haki]

My progress accelerated when I finally managed to consciously use [Haki]

All I need now is to strengthen it, and hope it'll reach the advanced version.

Now I need to train my [Observation Haki]. I closed my eyes and began concentrating, Now that I can amateurly control [Haki] I spread it to my surroundings, and as I expected the results were nothing.

I finished brushing my teeth and opening the door I saw Nikko yawning. It's clear that he just woke up, and wanted to brush his teeth first before eating breakfast.

"Mornin'." I greeted him with a wave

"Good morning Aniki" Nikko said in the middle of yawning, he waved back at me as I closed the door for him.

Climbing down a flight of stairs of our normal modern japanese house, I smelled a delicious air coming from the kitchen as if enticing me to go inside.

I walked into the kitchen and I was presented with a classic bacon and egg, along with a bowl of rice and some freshly made miso soup.

""Good morning!"" My aunt smiled said to me along with grandma

I greeted them back with a simple smile, I was still not used to seeing only aunt and grandma in the morning so it was awkward for me.

Which reminded me when I had to beat up Nikko to get him out of his depression.

But I don't know about aunt and grandma though. I can see that they are still in the bargaining stage of grief, while I on the otherhand am already at the stage of revenge.

I remember that the antagonist will recruit some villains, so I'll need to infiltrate their group somehow, and to do that I first need to be a villain.

We waited for Nikko to arrive before starting breakfast

Few moments later, Nikko came to the kitchen and sat next to me.

Our dining table is inside the same room as the kitchen, because we are no rich family.

""""Itadakimasu!""""

We began eating, everyone ate slowly while minding their table manners.

While I on the other hand ate fast but I minded my table manners so I don't get yelled at.

While in the middle of chewing, my aunt looked at me and Nikko before saying something.

"Hey, Haru- about your request, I contacted a nearby dojo and they said that they'll be happy to teach you and Nikko about martial arts!" Aunt Elly dropped the news that I have been waiting for which almost made me choke on the food from excitement.

But thankfully I was passed a glass of water before I choke to death.

I gulped loud and slammed the glass hard on the table, thankfully it didn't break.

"Really?! What martial arts do they teach? Do they have honest reviews?" I was bombarding a lot of questions which late backfired as I was suddenly on the ground having a huge bump on my head

"Settle down!"

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"So they teach multiple martial arts from Karate to Taekwondo to Boxing to Kick boxing to Wing Chun to Swords to Axe to Halberd to Spear to Bow?" Asked skeptically

'what kind of dojo is that?' I already have thoughts that my aunt's been scammed, ain't no way a dojo is like that!

'If there is, then how come I've never heard of it before? Definitely suspicious...' I looked at my aunt who wore a confident smile, which made me think otherwise. 'I'm sure Aunt know what she's doing, she's an adult who is a veteran hero after all, so there is no way she'll be tricked!'

'There is no way Aunt is illiterate...' I asked myself 'there is no way right?'