Kazuma was walking on the streets along side Yuji, Volt and White. While walking with his arms like a pillow for his head, he said to his friends "You know, things have been going a bit smoothly.", White replied "Everything seems smooth until it's time for a mission." Yuji and Volt took a sigh, but with Volts sigh being slightly lazy "I know, right?", they muttered. Kazuma then asked "So, when are we parting ways?", White explained "Well my house is a bit further away. What of you?", Kazuma explained to him "Im thinking of going to the boarding house after this, but first of all, I want to go see Kito.". Volt muttered to himself with his hand on his chin "Oh, that's right. We haven't seen Kito nor Baroka today.", Yuji sighed "Some how, even tho im not too familiar with those two, I feel bad that they didn't join in the soccer match.". Yuji looked at the clear blue sky "The sky sure is nice today. I should probably go see grandpa.", he turned to Kazuma "Hey, Kazuma. I'm going home, I'll see you later.", Yuji took off. Kazuma waved to him "Sure, see you later.", White asked Kazuma "You wanna escort me to my place?", Kazuma replied "Nah, not really.", Volt yawned and took a stretch "Well, I'm going home too. I wanna play with Rem for a bit. Because we live separately and have different things going on, we don't see or hang around as siblings anymore.". White looked at Volt "Sorry to hear that.", Kazuma also added "Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that as well, we didn't mean for you to speak out something so sensitive like that.", Volt just laughed "Nah, its fine. It's nothing sensitive at all.". He waved to his two friends "See you later.", and then took off by jumping on rooftops, Kazuma waved back and then asked White "I'm guessing you're going home now?", White replied "Yeah, I should be going home now.", he and Kazuma did a high five before he went their separate ways. After White had gone his own separate way, Kazuma was by himself. Kazuma thought to himself "I'm by myself now. I should probably go to the boarding house, but first I have to go see Kito. I wonder if he's okay.", Kazuma zoomed off. Meanwhile, Kito was in his bed room, he was studying a text book that had a lot of techniques written in it, they were water techniques. Kito while studying was also taking down some notes, he muttered to himself as he stretched out his arm "Alright, I'm guessing I can do it now.", water started to form around his palm, Kito smirked "Looks like I still understand the basics.". As he kept jotting down, he muttered out "Energy is a power source that exists in our body as humans, it allows us to command the forces around us, or generate power out of our body. In short, energy is a power system that give us supernatural abilities. Most people either have energy in their system that allows them to learn and perform supernatural things, while others are born with powers that they are naturally born with. It's like having a talent and learning a skill.". After he had taken some jottings, he stretched out his hand again and called out "Yellow lightning.", yellow lightning started to spark out of his arms. Kito kept up his monologue "I've gotten the basic uses of energy which is basic physical enhancements. Instead of learning how to use techniques, a person can simply just work on their combat abilities and then use energy to strengthen their physicality. Or a person can just straight up learn new techniques.". Kito dropped his pen and looked at his ceiling "I've been able to master the basic use of energy, although I wasn't born with energy, but I always had a great deal of speed. Not just that, but I've always had good reflexes and trained them constantly. To top it all off, I have a silent but uncontrollable thirst for knowledge.", he then heard a voice from his window saying to him "Which is why you're my friend.", Kito was stunned. He looked at his window and saw Kazuma hanging from a nearby tree while facing him with a smile "Kazuma?" Kito exclaimed with slight shock, Kazuma smiled at him "Hey, Kito. Can I come in?". A few moments later, Kazuma was in Kito's room, he was a bit impressed while looking around "Nice room you've got here. I really like how simple and cool it looks.", Kito replied while taking a seat "Thanks, you can thank my care takers for giving me a place like this.". Kazuma looked at Kito and walked up to him "What you reading?", Kito replied "I'm currently studying a text book that contains water techniques", Kazuma asked "Oh, so you're trying to learn change in energy attribute? Cool.", Kito replied "Right now, I've mastered about 50 lightning techniques. I'm trying to learn about 10 to 50 water techniques. Although it's not as hard as people think it is.". Kazuma then asked "I wonder who worte all these books and scrolls tho.", Kito replied "Well it was obviously people during the war times that made it. Almost a hundred years back, there were constant wars all over the world, powerful countries were trying to dominate weaker one's. The weaker countries didn't want to get turned into slaves and get killed and ruled over, so they fought back, that was when people started to develop different styles and techniques.", he turned to Kazuma "Obviously, there have always been wars for thousands of years, but because humanity started to develop new creations, people from other countries started to get selfish and greedy. Some wanted more power, so they trained their minds and bodies. Some went into the route of stealing from others just to get stronger. And some, despite all that strength they were blessed with, wanted to dominate weaker people.", Kazuma teased Kito with a weird smile "Wow, you sure know a lot.", Kito replied with slight annoyance "Don't tease me.". A few more moments go by and Kazuma was just looking at Kito as he kept practicing water techniques on his palms. Kazuma thought to himself "Wow, Kito really is a hard worker. We don't see it much, but just by looking at him, I can tell that under that lazy edgy facade, he's very strong and determined.". Kito took a sigh and layed his back on his chair "Ahh, finally. I've learned about 10 water techniques In one go.", Kazuma on the other hand started to slowly clap for him "Nice job buddy.", Kito asked "Huh? Why you clapping?". Kazuma explained to him "Well, I just watched you studying on your own. No one to help you, no one to assist you. You just did it all by yourself, I really wish to be like you.", Kito had a suspicious but very funny look on his face "Hey, you can easily do the same thing I just did. Are you mocking me?", Kazuma replied "Now, now, why would I do that? I respect you as my friend so there's no way I'd do that. Not after witnessing how you learned 10 water techniques in a go with ease. Most people can't learn two in a go.", Kito replied "Okay, now you're stretching it. An average person should learn at least 6 in a go.", Kazuma replied "But you learned four extra by yourself.", Kito sighed "Whatever.". As Kito and Kazuma were walking together down a park filled with trees, Kazuma explained to him "I didn't see you today, so I decided to drop by.", Kito asked "Did anything happen?", Kazuma explained "Oh, nothing. We just played ball today, that's all. It was a boys vs girls thing", Kito replied "Really? Cool. Who won the match?". Kazuma explained "It was a tie.", Kito scuffed "Figures. Was Yuki there?", Kazuma replied with a soft smirk "You mean your crush? Yeah, she was. She didn't play tho.", Kito scoffed with a smirk "Yeah, I can see that. She's the lazy type.", "Just like you.", Kazuma teased. Kazuma then smiled at him and waved as they both stood under a tree "Well, I'm off. Take care of yourself.", Kito smiled softly at his friend "Yeah, thanks. Take care.". They both shared a high five before Kazuma walked off. Kito watched his friend walk away into the day, he smiled and looked into the clear blue sky "I hope when we grow up and become as strong as we want to be, we both can smile together as usual."
END OF CHAPTER.