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32 Rivals Needed

Days passed like the wind. Little red was training with all his might during the day, while in the evening he was allowed to play with his classmates, I felt more like a peeping tom this past week, mostly because I could hear and feel everything happening, the worst however thing was that there was an old man whom was saying stuff purposefully for me to hear, nagging about the host to everyone and causing trouble for me. I had to give up on little red's training for two days because of him causing trouble.

On the first day that the students had arrived, their parents had a party as the students were left to hit the beach and play around. The only two things that broke the peace were the elder and Miu's toddler, whom would cause a commotion every now and then.

At the beach two kids were having a fight.

-Akai you little shit, don't approach my Jill! Don't you know how akward it was for her after your failed confession!

-I...

-You what, a cat ate your tongue!

-I'm sorry

-Speak clearer, nobody can hear what you're saying!

-I'm sorry!

-You think a sorry will cut it, do you think that you trying to flirt with my girlfriend will be solved with a simple sorry!

At a distance Kenichi wanted to intervene in this unfair and childish fight that was breaking out, but the Elder and the Masters stopped him.

"Let kids be kids" they said, but I was different, I wouldn't let that go so easily.

-Whose is this brat that wants to start a fight and ruin everyone's mood?

-Right, call for the adults, you can also cry and pee yourself if you'd like, lets go Jill!

I didn't expect things to go as they did, the little twerp simply took the girl and went away after insulting little red. I felt a little stupid for the first time in a long time and little red seemed to hate me for interfering, but I didn't care, because it was time for his training to begin. The other kids looked at me as if in horror as I took the brat away for training, Kenichi had goosebumbs as he saw the child trying to escape my grasp, clawing with its fingers onto the sand, trying to craw its way out of my hands. Little bastard has grown a pair since the first week, but he's still too weak to give me so much trouble. The real problem was I was too strong, if I used too much strength there would be nothing left of the kid to train.

The masters of Ryozanpaku seemed interested in what sort of training I was making him undergo, but when they saw it's just climbing a mountain, they lost all interest, Akisame even insulted me calling me an amateur, saying that if It was him, he would have made the kid wear weights while doing so, I noted it down for the future.

Little Red was doing great climbing the mountain, but I had to leave him, because someone was drowning, I could only curse Akisame, as a weird kid wearing weights was trying to swim without anyone's supervision.

Moments After I saved the kid, the masters of Ryozanpaku begun charging to rescue the kid, only to find no trace of him, until they saw him safe back at the shore.

Come on now, whom swims wearing weights, that's darn stupid, non the less the idiotic kid, I had to save it again and again as it tried to swim while wearing weight, funny thing was that it could swim fine for a minute or so, until it got tired and I had to save it, I didn't even need to think whose kid that was. Seeing as all the masters were so paranoid with it almost drowning, shouldn't they stay closer to it if they were so conserned?

In the evening, It was little red's meditation time, but he spent most of it just fooling around with his schoolmates, I allowed it, since they would only stay here for a week and he needed a drive in order to train, these kids were of no real consern to me, but to little red they were a great inspiration, out of all of them there were 3 really irritating brats, all of them were transfer students and all of them were part of Yomi no doubt.

Yomi is like the youth division of Yami, the best seedlings that are meant to become people of power in their organization.

The three little brats were deliberately trying to befriend little Red, it was only the first day they had arrived on the island, but they were already making a move.

The thing that was funny was that one of them was named Kenichi, Kenichi Asamiya, but the kid wasn't anything like that idiot Shirahama, it was a glasses wearing brat that looked rather cute and intelligent, like a little nerd, with little shorts and a bowtie.

The other was a chinese brat called Liu Li, he looked rather strong and knew some kung fu or something, other than his weird hair color, that being pink, there's nothing else noteworthy about him.

The last one was the most irritating kid, it looked like a girl, but was totaly a boy, its name was Pierre Eclair and it acted as the boss of the group of three.

When he asked them why they approached him, they already had a planned response, because his hair was red. The others all had non black hair, the first being blond, the second, pink and the third silver hair.

The stupid kid just took that as a valid reason and begun to make friends with them, It felt strange, since I knew that they were trying to use him, but until now I didn't know that the kid had no friends, I probably thought it wasn't important or something, but he seemed rather happy talking with them about stuff other than martial arts.

The next day in the morning there were 7 kids that asked me to do the same training as Little red.

Three were the brats from before, but the other four were kids I really didn't expect to join.

There were two yellow haired Shirahama brats, one of them was the idiot trying to swim with weights on, I still didn't know his name, the other was the Jill girl, whom little red liked.

The other two both had black hair, one little Red's love rival and the other was a chinese brat, whom seemed to be the weight wearing brats rival or something, because he too came wearing weights and he was looking at him rather intensely as if facing a rival in love or something.

Today Little Red did extraordinarily well, although I cannot compare him to the two brats that made it all the way up the mountain while wearing weights, are these really human kids?

They even asked me what to do next, I simply took them into the estate at the top of the mountain and told them to meditate or just ski their way down and do it again, whichever they liked more.

Truthfully however I can't understand how these two brats are so strong, I'm sure I was not as strong at their age, even if I had speed and strength, my stamina was nothing like theirs. Of course kids will be kids, instead of meditating, they simply took some ski equipment and begun their way down the mountain.

I think I heard Akisame praising me for some reason, after watching them going down the mountain, as he was also skiing at the moment.

"How smart, next time they don't want to train, I will tell them to meditate, really smart"

Wait it wasn't supposed to be a punishment, meditation is essential, or so I think, after all only by knowing yourself can you become stronger or so I thought before I met the Elder and the other Masters.

Body coultivators are different than spirit coultivators, they unknowingly have already entered the next level, but they are still too far behind me, only the elder whom I saw meditating at the roof of my mountain Mansion seemed strange. If I've guessed right, he has also become a coultivator, I don't know what sort of method he's coultivating, but seeing as he spent the whole day meditating, it has to be something difficult to coultivate or he stumbled upon some sort of enlightment.

The three kids that are trying to become little red's friends must be well disciplined and really smart, because they decided to lower their own performance in order to accompany him, instead of showing off, gaining his trust as a result of this action. Of course they didn't know the rules of this training, once you were tired and tried to rest for a bit you would find yourself at the foot of the mountain, whether you tried to climb again was up to you.

Those that didn't know about this small part of the rules were shocked to find themselves at the bottom of the mountain. The boy accompanying little Jill was frustrated and begun to beat a nearby rock, since he didn't understand what was going on, all they did was take a stop so that little Jill could rest.

He cussed telling her that they were returning to the beach and the girl with a shy nod and some unwillingness in her eyes nodded and followed him.

When I returned little Red to the foot of the mountain, he asked if Kuro and Jill had already made it to the top, I told him they hadn't and he was at ease as he begun climbing again. He probably thought that they were still climbing the mountain like himself or something, of course I didn't tell him that they simply gave up.

That Night Niijima was reprimenting his son.

-You stupid brat, I told you that you have to become that brat's rival, not his stepping stone, why on earth did you give up on that training, the three Yomi brats are already leagues ahead of you in intelligence

-But that training is stupid and primitive, If I wanted to I could make it to the top, but the host is making life difficult for me, he took us down the mountain so that his brat could look down on us

-You idiot, that brat was taken down the mountain several times over, it seems that if you try to rest, you will be taken down the mountain, you have to climb it in one go

-But little Jill won't make it all the way and in the middle of the mountain there's snow and cold, do you expect us to climb that with summer clothing?

-Stupid brat, are your brains just for show, you could just carry her up the mountain

-Stupid old man, I know little Jill better than you, the moment I carry her up is the moment we will break up, don't look down on her because she's shy, the girl has the spirit of a warrior, but she can't tell when it's time to stop training, she has passed out so many times from overworking herself that I can't even count, even her parents won't allow her to train unless supervised

-Why should I care about them, they are nothing in comparison to the host of this island, if you could learn from him, you could become invincible under the heavens, you could have any girl you like, you could conquer the world!

-Pointless, I like Jill and she likes me, why should I go for any other girls and I've told you there's no such thing as invincible, and conquering the world is your dream not mine!

-You little!

-Catch me if you can, slowpoke

The kid was rather smart and generaly talking, Kuro(= Black) Niijima was nothing like his father, although his methods were questionable, he was too naive and a bit too kind in comparison to his father. Of course I knew everything that was happening on the island and also that, Little Black would be Little Red's greatest rival in love.

The next day there were 11 brats to join the mountain climbing, I don't know why, but some of them don't seem too keen on doing so.

The 5 new brats were two boys and two girls.

The first girl had brown hair and a tanned complexion, by all means she looked rather buffed and I saw her throw some punches into the air like a boxer or something, the others called her Izanami.

The second girl looked pale with black hair and the same strange eyebrows as Master Shigure, but she looked intelligent and refined like a lady, rather than a wild child, the children called her Shirayuki.

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The other two were a wild brat called Ken, whom liked to cheer others and honestly looked like your average everyday mundane child, the other was not much different other than he wore glasses and was called Mao, I'm not very sure who their parents are, but they are rather weak in comparison to everyone else.

This time's bunch did rather well, although they were still transported back to the foot of the mountain dozens of times, they seemed to laugh it off, only Little Black and Jill gave up after the second time. The rest all did their best, but climbing the mountain on foot was rather hard and most of them couldn't even made it halfway through the mountain before being sent back down. Only those two little monsters would use their ski gear to go back down and start all over again as if they just did all this in order to learn how to ski, they did know there was a skyline going all the way up?

This evening however there was a special event for little Red, whom bumped into little Jill, whom was looking at the sea at night, truthfully there's little to see at night, but the sea is warm and little Red whom couldn't go have a bath in the morning, went to swim every evening.

The little girl was a bit surprised, she hadn't thought of doing so herself, thus two little kids begun taking their late night bath. Of course at some point in the middle of the night I had to rescue one of them that had fainted while swimming, but otherwise it was a special happening, especialy since they interacted a little while bathing. But there's definetely something wrong with the girl, I think she's sick or something, because this is not normal at all.

I asked Violent Miu if she was fine or needed to be sent to the hospital, but after Akisame checked on her he said that she had just fainted.

I didn't want to pry, but I think for little Red's sake I will have to know about what's going on with the girl.

-Little Jill has suffered from a heart disease and neurological disorder, due to the sircumstanced she was born under(Akisame)

-And why didn't you heal her?(Yashin)

-You can't heal someone who's not ill, her body has grown the wrong way due to mulnurishment and some accidents that happened

-So what are you doing about it?

-Well she has to train slowly and when she becomes an adult, she will be free of her aliment and live like a normal person

-So what you are saying is that you can do nothing about it

-Well not exactly, but Miu wouldn't allow to do a surgery with 70% chance of success, even if the chance of death is only 10%, it's still a huge problem

-So you're saying that the solution is risky, but I would like to ask something of Miu as well

-Don't bother, she doesn't do arranged marriages

-I wasn't about to ask that

I went to find Miu whom was massaging the little girls body, making sure that her muscles won't be sore the next day.

-I wanted to ask you something

-Is it about why this girl fainted?

-No, that I've alredy talked with Master Akisame about, I wish to know if the child wants to be a regular human or a martial artist?

-That you will have to ask Jill yourself

-Asking a child, are you an Idiot, if the parents don't give their blessing I don't give a shit what the brat thinks, even if she wanted to become supergirl I wouldn't give a shit, I'm asking you, does the child want to become a regular human or a martial artist?

-Little Jill....

Memories of the little girl looking at her brother training, while she could not, how she cried when she was young because she had hurt herself real badly, but was too slow to find the bleeding wound due to her neural disfunction, almost dying of blood loss. How the child had once asked Akisame to create some training just for her, how the girl joined the Shinpaku Alliance just to be with her brother and lastly how the girl cried when she was told that she could never become a martial artist.

-...is a martial artist(Miu)

-Then I must warn you beforehand, to gain something you must lose something else, I could probably make her into a regular human in a year or so, but martial artist is more difficult(Yashin)

-What!

-Unlike Akisame and Kensei, I'm no doctor, but what I can do, nobody in this world can, You see I'm a talisman master of sorts, In these past years I have learned of methods of how to seal stuff like sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste, strength, weakness, heat, cold, Dark and light, anything under the sky can be sealed away, What I can do is seal strength inside her body, each time she's about to faint, she will be getting a second wind of sort, there are two however problems with this, first being that she might become too reliant on this and secondly that she might become reckless

-Is this even a solution?

-Of course it is, before this you would have needed years for her to train to the level of a regular person, now with this she will only need a year or less, depending whom creates the training program

-What's your gain from this?

-I wish for you and your brats to stay here for the whole duration of summer vacations

-Are you serious?

Miu looked at me as If I was an idiot or something, but truth was that for me to do what I said was no big deal, thus I had forgotten how incredible my powers must have seemed to other people. Maybe I was losing my common sense since I've started coultivating.

-I don't trust you, tell me the truth(Miu)

-Well the whole truth is that little Red likes little Jill, I don't particularly care about that, but I don't want him to fall in love only to find out they can't interact in bed due to her problems later on

-You perverted bastard, she's only a child!

-Will she be a child until her 30s?

Miu went silent, but her shout had woken up the todler whom was sleeping peacefully before, I sent it to sleep with a seal as we were still in the middle of discussions.

-What did you do to little Sakura?

-I put her to sleep, now lets discuss the more serious matters

-I don't trust you and you can leave!

-I don't care if you trust me or not, I only came to ask you a question and you have answered it, the girl will become a martial artist, but in return you will have to stay for the summer, tell Akisame to make the most hardcore training program, because for the next day or so she might find it difficult to fall asleap

I left without a care in the world, I could hear Miu weeping, but the tears weren't ones of sadness but of joy for her little girl, whom would be able to achieve her dream.

The Third day was rather Awkward.

The day started with the discovery that my Alcohol storage had been emptied by the masters of Ryozanpaku, I wanted to kill myself, some of the wines were really expensive and yet those scoundrels had drunk them down as if they were water.

They even begun complaining, forcing me to leave the island to bring more alcohol and food, I could only hope that in those four hours I'll be out, they won't kill anyone or cause too much chaos.

When I returned everything seemed to be fine, but the the Masters weren't satisfied with the inferior quality alcohol I had brought back, did they think that valuable wines are sold in crates or something, many of those I had collected over the duration of 20 years, it wasn't as if they grew on trees, they were bloody expensive. And there was still 4 more days until I could send everyone home, I really hated Niijima for this stupid blunder of his, why did I have to agree to his stupid conditions?

Today's training was the same as yesterday's, only this time there were two events that shook everyone to the core, One was that little Jill for some reason wasn't the one to get tired, instead it was little Kuro instead, causing them to return to the foot of the mountain again. The second being Little red reaching the snow area, meaning that he made it halfway through the mountain, it was rather good, but he needed a lot more training if he wanted to become strong.

Little Jill was in a weird Extasy of sorts, Kuro was too tired and wanted to rest, but could not as Jill wanted to try again, he asked her to not overdo it, but she wouldn't listen, he tried to pull her over by force, only to be shoved aside as she begun to climb the mountain like a typhoon. I was surprised at how fast she was, I seriously couldn't tell how strong she was before due to her problems, but there was still one problem that I hadn't solved and that was bleeding, I was forced to stop her to bandage her wounds, It was as if I had just signed myself to become her nanny all of a sudden, but there was nothing I could do about it. The girl couldn't feel pain nor tireness, it was a big problem, normaly she would just faint at some point, but now she was set free from the curse and was going wild.

Her brother seemed happy when he saw her coming up as he was skiing down the mountain, the girl seemed happy to finaly arrive at the peak, where Kuro was waiting for her. He just used the skyline to get there and waited for her arrival with a warm cup of chocolate.

His attempts to make her take a rest with him were destroyed by Master Akisame, whom was also waiting for her, with his newest training equipment, he had made a promise to Miu that he would make the girl healthy is just a week, if of course what I said was true, which was the reason why he was waiting for her at the top of the mountain.

She would be staying there for the rest of their vacations as the low oxygen environment would be good for her health, normaly high altitude would be bad for one's health if they have heart problems, but in her case, with the help of two physicians, she would be able to train really fast and efficiently.

In the evening Little Red begun to search for Little Jill at the beach, but couldn't find her, he seemed a little disappointed, but honestly I'm not sure if he will ever be able to reach that girl, as he's training now, that girl is a training maniac, once she begun training she just wouldn't stop, well it's probably because it was the first day of her life that she could truly go all out, but she wouldn't even sleep at night, which made Akisame a bit worried, because rest is an essential part of training. Causing him to stop and revise the training program again and again in order to force her to rest, in the end however he asked me for help and I simply put her to sleep via the use of talismans.

It was the fourth day and honestly it was the most boring day as nothing new happened. The crazy were crazy, the common were common, the training went well.

In the fifth day, four people dropped from the training, Little Kuro, Ken, Mao and of course Jill whom was undergoing her own special training.

I don't know why, but every time I go to put Little Jill to sleep, she gives me a weird glance, I'm not sure why, but it gives me the creeps.

The sixth day was the day that Little red and the three Yomi brats finaly reached the top of the moutain, although they had sort of cheated their way up, they were still at the top, but unlike with the other two brats, Little Red wasn't here to play.

I Sealed all his senses and for an hour he was forced to meditate, the other three were given the same chance, since I didn't have any reason to refuse to do so. One of the brats even told me he wanted to continue meditating, I don't know why, but I don't really care.

It was finaly the last day and most of the people would be sent away tomorrow, although the ones extending their vacations would be the troublesome Ryozanpaku people, there was only so many of them, it was a lot less troublesome than looking over more than a thousand people. Making sure that nobody drowns or gets lost or dies in the snow or falls into the sea while piss drunk.

All of which happened this last day of their vacations, where people wanted to experience everything before leaving, it was so crazy that I cancelled training this day.

In the middle of the Night Niijima came looking for me, wanting to talk.

-Master Fenrir, I would like to know if little Akai's training is going well

-Couldn't say it's not, but the opposite is true as well, it's just going along

-I knew it!

I was rather puzzled by his words, what's with the sudden interest with little Red's training, is he planning something again?

-Master Fenrir, training is all about drive and desire to become stronger, I know people like little Akai, if you don't push them they won't train, you must create an environment that will push them to become stronger, my little Kuro might be a bit premature, but I think that you should train him as well as you do Little Akai, because without an equaly strong rival, he won't have the drive to become stronger, won't that be a loss for you?

-Not really, I only want to make him a bit stronger, I'm not like those Ryozanpaku guys that go all out in anything they do, it's enough if he's stronger than an average high schooler, no need to turn him into a little monster

-But will that be enough, you know that little Akai and Kuro like little Jill, whom is one of "Theirs" and I've even heard that you healed her aliment

-Where's the problem?

-You do know that every person in Ryozanpaku is a monster, little Kuro in too into this girl, thus he will try his best to match up to her expectations, but what about little Akai?

-If there's something that I learned over these years is that Women don't care if you are invincible, if it's not meant to be, he will just have to find another girl whom will like him back

-It seems you know nothing about teenage girls, I wouldn't be surprised if she fell for you, instead of little Akai

-What?

-Do you know how many of the students have already a hidden crush on you, you're rich, super strong and easygoing, you look no older than 18 and are also an actor, it wouldn't be strange if some little girl falls in love with you

-This is all your fault!

-Not really, Did I tell you to heal little Jill? Did I tell you to let the other kids join little Akai in his training, did I tell you to make the rules of your place so lax, did I tell you to flex your muscles around?

-You...

I have to calm down, this insidious idiot has nothing on me, all he can do is yup, all he wants is for me to train his Kuro brat, but is there any real demerit in doing so?

"I will think about it, but it depends on the kid's will, if he wants to leave, he can do so tomorrow if he wants to stay longer I won't kick him out, but you Niijima will have to go back home, your manipulative ways are too much for my taste"

Niijima acted as if he was sad and begged me to let him stay, but inside he was laughing out loud as his plan had succeeded.