Tap tap tap *
* Klang *
- Well go on, watch your feet, also pay attention to what techniques your opponent uses, analyze and then, based on what direction he is, build your battle tactics, always remain vigilant and do not be distracted ...
* Buh *
-For example, like now ... .. get up
-Ughh
I got up abruptly and started attacking me, this boy. It's strange how he learned to fight well in taijutsu so quickly…. Although I think this is due to the accelerated training program.
-If you feel that you can defeat the enemy immediately and you will not lose anything from a protracted battle, then do not rush to end the battle, adjust to the level of the enemy, there are many advantages: firstly, it is caution then ....
God, I hope what I'm saying makes at least some sense ...
* Vzhuh *
-But this blow was good ... because you can see all the cards of the enemy and understand if he has some hidden trump card, secondly there is a chance to learn something, well, and thirdly, the victory will look much cooler if you are fighting an equal opponent.
-Hah ... hah.ha
-I see you are exhausted ... .you need to rest ....
-No, please, let's continue…. I will not often be able to get a lesson from you, and probably due to the fact that we have accelerated training, I began to understand poorly what they explain in the academy and in the library there are many incomprehensible things.
- So you learned all this yourself?
-Well, partly yes.
-Surprisingly, apparently you have a talent for teaching ... well let's continue.
Although I think there is nothing to be surprised at, because children like him, children with a bad fate have basically two ways, the first they will remain in that terrible place forever, the second they will grab onto everything in order to survive.
-Do not raise your leg so high, because of this you shift the center of gravity, making it very easy to knock you down.
*****
An hour later
-I think that's all, you showed yourself well, if you continue in the same spirit, you can definitely become strong.
-Thanks for your guidance.
God, how did he quickly adapt to the local speech and all these etiquette norms or whatever they are called, what are they taught there in this school?
-Well, now about the gift, what do you think it is?
-I thought your instructions are a gift.
Heh, what a good child this is….
- Well, basically ... ... if you don't need him so much.
-No, no, no, I didn't mean it, it's just that your lesson is already dear to me
- Relax, I'm kidding ... huh
-Master please don't joke like that anymore.
-Okay, here, keep here a hundred thousand ryo, I thought for a long time what to give you, I wanted to first go to the land of iron for a sword, but I will soon have to go on an urgent mission, so while I give you this money what would you buy yourself will help you with your workouts. I think you cannot buy the necessary things with the help of the village.
-This is .... sir, thank you, I will not let you down, and I will spend everything in the right business.
-Yeah, and now let's go home, I haven't been there for a long time….
- By the way, your mother arrived there two months ago.
-What? Damn, I think it's worth renting a hotel, just you will put down.
- Sir, I think you should go there, when she arrived at the estate she was very worried about something ... ..
Did the old man kage tell her about my loss and she came to the estate worried? Oh, well, some kind of nonsense. In general, I have nothing bad against her, I myself understand that her situation is not simple, but still there is a slight residue from the fact that you were thrown. Therefore, I tried to flicker before her eyes as little as possible, and in the end to break all ties with her.
- And in general, this money for my development ... ..
This little Jew added almost in a whisper.
- Okay, let's go.
****
An interesting fact, or maybe not, but if you live for a long time next to something unusual, interesting, beautiful, then this something loses its value for you over time, you begin to get used to it, this has already happened to me in a past life when I lived in a city where there were many historical monuments, and apparently it happened again in this one. Because now looking at the house in which I grew up, it does not seem to me any special, although in fact it is a full-fledged three-story mansion in the Japanese historical style ... There was also a lake right in front of the entrance through which you could walk along a beautiful bridge, well, behind the house there was the strangest thing, this is a garden of stones made of a large number of rocks of various sizes, laid according to some principle unknown to me.
In this "Castle" to get somewhere you need to go through the main hall, from there through the corridors.
It was in one such corridor that I met my mother.
Trying to ignore her, I walked by. Although I could not stand it and looked at her face, I noticed many different emotions there.
******
Kimiko
When Ichiro was born, I thought that I could not accept him or have at least some feelings for him, but when I heard from my uncle that he went on a mission for the first time and at the same time was so important, I realized that I was a little worried.
Then, when he returned, I saw that he was bandaged, I could not resist and asked my uncle for a report on his mission, there I found out that he was wounded and I wanted to go to see him, but I didn't know how, at that very moment I already felt it is clear that I was wrong, and yet I consider him mine.
And at that moment when the war began and he was sent to the Land of the Bear, I tried with all my might to persuade my uncle not to send him there, but….
- I love you Kimiko like my own daughter, but I think it's too late to worry about him, he is already an adult….
That's how Atsushi answered me, and for some reason after that day I constantly began to think "is everything okay with Ichiro", and one day when I was told that he and the whole team were attacked by someone and after that they could not be found , I felt like a thread broke, as if I had been doused with cold water, I felt the same feelings when his father left me.
After that, all the days became dark for me, I could not concentrate on something, I could not, as before, just forget and not think about him. And so one day I decided to come back to our house, see everything that had not interested me before: what I was interested in, what he liked and what not, what food I liked ... ... That's how I tried to correct my mistake, until yesterday my uncle told me that he was alive, he is coming back today ..
And now I stand and look at him, matured, strengthened, with scars on his body, so similar to his father, I understand that he has already grown up.
Even so, I really want to talk to him, apologize, find out if he hates me…. but I don't know how to do it…. even though I understand that there may not be another chance….
-Ichiro .... sorry ... ..you're not busy?