Universal academy

Kaiva stood at the steps of Kasuto Academy, where all come to learn different types of techniques and fighting styles. Or just to improve on what they already know. He took a deep breath making his way up the stairs into it's lobby. The room was large with tons of people walking around but to him that's to be expected nearly any school you go to.

“Hopefully I don’t mess this up on my first impression“ after walking down a long hall with a red carpet floor Kaiva found his classroom.

“Room 209” he commented before going in. The room was big as well, rows of seats like a concert or play filled the room. The new student sat down in the second row to have a better view. After five minutes or so students began to file in, he watched the seats fill with other students of different kinds. Just then a portal of darkness formed, everyone watched as a man in a black suit emerged.

“Welcome my students…glad to see so many have come to learn how to fight or even improve their capabilities. Now let us start with something simple: Ki, energy whatever you want to call it. We are going to learn how to focus it…then use it for many things. So first things first, sit still…calm your mind and focus only on your inner strength”

The students closed their eyes, some focused their energy to the point an aura began to glow all around their body.

“Good, seems you all are doing well. Next let’s use our concentrated energy to enhance our abilities. So who would like to come up here first?” Kaiva hesitated but stood up, he looked around to see no one else volunteering. The teen walked up onto the large stage facing his teacher.

“Alright, the first step is to concentrate on your energy like before while putting effort into your own body's capabilities…now…try and hit me” Kaiva nodded and threw punches as fast as possible, trying his hardest. But no matter how much the boy tried he couldn’t seem to land a single blow. Just then the man vanished in the blink of an eye.

“What the!?”

“Over here” Kaiva turned to see him standing in the back corner of the stage with his hands crossed. “Come now, surely you can do better. You don’t seem to be focusing your energy throughout your body, you’re still moving at a normal level. Remember, you focus hard”

His student sighed then closed their eyes…His eyes slowly opened and were a different color, Kaiva bolted in his teacher’s direction at new levels of speed. The others cheered in excitement but his teacher was easily dodging every blow as if they were nothing.

“Impressive, you’re moving at a fast pace for a beginner. But still can’t seem to hit your target” Suddenly the instructor caught Kaiva's fist and dripped him. The boy landed on his back before looking back up at his teacher who had their hand in the position of a dagger just inches from their student's throat.

“Damn” Kaiva complained feeling as though he failed. How every his instructor gave him a smile lending his hand out.

“Don’t worry, you passed. I only wanted you to focus your strength on any part of your fighting which you showed that even a beginner has the potential to excel quickly…

Chapter 2:  Lesson 2

The teacher went through each of his students on their first lesson until each one had gone through it.

“Alright I want you all to pair up for some battle training” Kaiva  paired up with a girl, her name was Arako. “Prepare yourselves…begin!” She moved forward not even touching the ground throwing a punch in her combatant’s  position. Her partner managed to stop it with both hands but was nearly hit, Arako's fist was inches away from impact.

“Is that all ya got?” she taunted. Kaiva clinched his fist in anger then dashed forward, at that moment, the two fighters were exchanging blows at super-human speed. Everyone stopped to watch them move across the room ignoring all but their opponent. At the final moment of their fight, both warriors struck each other at once sending them backwards in opposite directions. Kaiva landed by the entrance just missing some chairs while Arako hit the stage.

“Sorry, I guess that got out of hand” they said seeing the teacher’s surprised look. That’s when he began to applaud along with a few students. The teen gave them a confused look.

“You proved yourself against an opponent, you kept fighting but most importantly…you only focused on them instead of everything at once. Trying to focus on an opponent and your surroundings can cause you not to fight at your full potential. See me after class” Kaiva nodded then looked over at his sparring partner that was with her group of friends. He gave her smile, she didn’t smile at first but finally blushed smiling back at him.

After class his teacher met with him in private, “you’ve been doing so well that ill teach you an extra technique before the other students…” Excitement filled the boy's eyes as Kaiva listened. “It's called: “Phasing” this technique is just a defensive type since I don’t want to teach you something too advanced for a first year. The way this move works is you make a duplication of yourself out of your own energy…it's tricky to make more then two at a time but in time you might master it. The most duplicates I’ve seen at once was six, so if you learn to make that many you’ve master the move”

Kaiva concentrated, feeling the energy flow around him…A shape of him out of his aura began forming but he fell to his knees tired.

“Don’t worry, it’ll take you a few try’s before you get it”

1 Week Later…

The teacher was taking about Teleportation when an explosion came from the ceiling. A man with long black hair along with purple eyes landed on the stage where the students practiced fighting against their mentor.

“What are you doing here!?” he shouted. The intruder grinned slowly pulling a dagger out from his sleeve.

“I’ve come to get revenge on you Sikamo…now lets finish this” Students dashed straight for the evil man but each attack missed or was blocked.

“Hmph, a bunch of low level warriors with no actual skill” Kaiva let out a yell of anger as he bolted in his enemy's position. The fighter threw a punch straight for him when it vanished.

“What!?” Kaiva proceeded again, striking him across the face. But even being the only one to get a hit on him, his foe didn’t stagger or move, instead knocked the hero back causing them to impact a wall of the classroom. Kaiva tried to get up but hit the dust, passing out from the hard attack. Sikamo formed floating swords from his energy then sent them soaring across the room in multiple angles. Their foe struck two of them causing them to shatter then disappear. That’s when Sikamo's remaining swords stabbed it's target in the torso along with his back as well. Their unknown villain fell to his knees from intense pain. Suddenly electricity shot out of the ends of Sikamo’s swords forming a cage.

“Your terrorizing is over! Now tell us why you’ve come for revenge” The man looked into the mentor’s eyes with a grin forming across his face.

“Poor Skiamo…you teach others how to fight when you need to learn yourself” Just then their captured target evaporated in purple smoke.

“Damn it, I Should’ve known that was just one of his clones…class  is dismissed for Today” While almost everyone left. Arako stayed to tend Kaiva's wounds.

“You show potential” their mentor commented. His student slowly looked up to see Sikamo walking over to him. “you were my only student that at least hit Anzu, though it might not seem that great, you did something that about 41 other students couldn’t” He smiled still hurting from Anzu's attack. “Anzu is my old pupil that was one of my best students…I also saw great potential in him as well…

8 years ago…

Anzu walked into the class room after his teacher's session had ended and went up to him.

“Master, I believe I’m ready to teach the others as well like you”

“No you’re not ready, you may have skill but still have yet to show the patience and discipline” Anzu frowned with his purple eyes glowing brightly.

“I have been a perfect student here for years, why hold me from my dream to teach others what I’ve learned?”

“Enough, I won’t hear anymore!” Sikamo replied. Suddenly Anzu went for a surprise attack, throwing a punch as fast as he could. His mentor dogged it at the last moment but that didn’t stop his pupil, Anzu slammed his palm on the ground sending electric waves surging through the entire room. The warrior breathed hard waiting to see a fried corpse but there was no sigh of him. He was struck in multiple places before becoming stunned, he felt his entire body unable to move.

“What did you do to me!?”

Sikamo sighed replying: “I hit your vulnerable areas rendering your body useless for a short time. This is me being merciful, but next time you might not be so lucky”

(End of Flashback)

“So that’s what happened…I’m sure his clone trick is just a sample of what’s to come”

Kaiva began to study Chakra, after finding out about the seven points he decided to try and awaken each one…

“Alright time to figure out how this works, the first chakra is the red chakra located in the spine. Deals with awareness plus physical strength”  The warrior sat on the floor in a meditative position, focusing on his spinal area. Taking a deep breath he remained focused around his red chakra point.

“Awareness…strength…” Suddenly his back glistened with a red glow as it traveled up his body then faded.

“Hmm, I don’t feel much different” he stood up then walked outside. Picking up a large rock the boy threw it into the sky, it soared through earth's atmosphere like a shooting star until flying out of view.

“Seems my strength has multiplied greatly. We'll just have to see about my awareness” Kaiva went to the Academy and asked his teacher for a duel, Sikamo agreed letting his student have the first move. Kaiva grinned, taking off full speed towards his mentor. He managed to get a blow across Sikamo’s face. The man went flying a few feet before catching his balance, inches from the wall.

“Seems you’ve really been practicing…but it won’t be enough!” Sikamo moved at 80% of his full speed throwing a powerful blow towards the back of his combatant’s head. At that moment, Kaiva moved out of the way causing his sparring partner to miss!

“What!?” he shouted in shock. His target struck him in the side then backed up giving him room. Sikamo hit the floor with pain surging through his torso.

“H-how, how could a student reach such a level so quick!?”

The other students mainly lower classmen stood out of their chairs in shock of what they just witnessed.

“I just practice learning how to control my inner power until I’ve reached a new and stable state of my power” Two students helped their teacher up.

“Well I will admit, you’ve far exceeded the expectations I had for our battle”

Soon after making sure his first chakra point was stable, he began practicing his 2nd…

  The orange chakra, located in the lower area of his body, just below his stomach. This chakra deals with agility and speed.

“Meaning if I master this…I can moved much faster and my senses will be more heightened” Once more Kaiva focused but this time in between his torso and waist. This chakra took more time and concentration until he finally unlocked it’s abilities.

“Yes I’ve awakened two chakra points within my body…but I’m sure as I progress each one will be harder and more precise to awaken or even keep under control. I can’t even imagine how hard the last one is going to be”…

Finally his first year was over, he couldn’t believe how fast it had gone, Kiva still hadn’t figured out how to tap into his 3rd chakra point but for the time being…he really didn’t need to anyway. Maybe that was it, maybe the reason he couldn’t tap into his new potential is because he didn’t have a need to. Ever since that one attack, the warrior hadn’t seen any trace of Anzu…it had already been nearly a year yet Kiva couldn’t even figure out where the villain was…

The man sat down crisscrossed and took a deep breath, but after about five minutes Kiva couldn’t sense anything, because of his unlocked chakra points, he was capable of sensing strong chakra in a few mile range. “Hmph, I’ll have to come back to it or at least keep my eye out for anything suspicious” He made is way to the Academy and sat down at his usual seat he had recently made a new friend that was a first year, her name was Kay Sarkai, she had long black hair, with brown eyes.

“Hey Kay, how’s your first year going so far?” She smiled at him.

“Fine How’s yours?” Kiva laughed replying: “I’m a 2nd year remember? Then again 1st years and 2nd years didn’t start their school year at the same time which throws everything out of place. Now you don’t know who’s a 1st and who’s a 2nd year” She nodded with a smile before turning to face the teacher’s desk where their teacher came in and sat down. Just then Kiva had a strange feeling, the teacher's energy…it felt off…it was much stronger but that wasn’t what bothered him, he Probably trains often, but what was making him uneasy was a dark feeling he got from the teacher’s chakra.

“That can’t be our teacher” He said to himself.

“What do you mean?” Kay asked with a confused look on her face. Kiva replied: “Sense his energy, it feels too sinister to be the teacher that is if you’ve ever felt his chakra before” She shook her head. “ I don’t know how to sense chakra yet I just recently got into all this” He sighed before leaping from his seat rows above the ground, he landed near the man's desk.

“You’re not the teacher!” Kiva announced. Some looked at each other confused by the students accusation while first years gasped in Surprise. The man laughed with a grin on his face. “Oh, and do you have proof of this?” he asked standing up.

“Your aura doesn’t feel the same as his, I’ve fought our mentor multiple times and yours is nothing like his!” He laughed once more, this time more evil like. “Guess I gave myself away” the man responded. Suddenly he changed back into his original self.

“Anzu!” The student shouted. He attacked the villain throwing a power blow towards his face. Anzu caught it with an evil smirk on his face. He pulled the warrior closer, “so you’re his new best student hmm?” Without a word, Kiva released a powerful energy blast with his free hand head on in his enemy’s face. Shockingly it had no effect.

“You may be strong, but it doesn’t seem you are as strong as you could be” He struck Kiva in the ribs sending him into the bottom row of seats. But he slowly got up. “H-heh you’re right about that…but that doesn’t mean I should give up” He clapped his hands together (Chakra stage one!) Suddenly a red aura engulfed his body. (Chakra…stage two!) His aura then turned orange. The students all watched in amazement.

“Well, I’m actually impressed…seems you’ve been focusing on your chakra points instead of pure strength like all these fools”

“Shall we begin the real fight?” The warrior questioned, his aura swarming around him like fire. Anzu nodded still grinning before both fighters dashed at one another with incredible speed, students could hardly keep up with their resilient speed. Kiva clashed with the old student, he seemed to keep up with Anzu without much trouble. The room shook from their intense clashes, some students left the room while others stayed to watch the outcome of their epic battle. Just then they stopped standing in front of each other. Kiva smirked, “you’re holding something back” His combatant gave him a grin as well, “Yes, I’m sure you’re dying to see what I can really do” The dark haired man laughed and made a fist putting two fingers up taking a deep breath…Just then Anzu's aura changed from purple to yellow, Kiva’s eyes widened, (No, he can’t be doing what I think he is!?) The man thought. Suddenly Anzu's eyes flashed open as they were yellow as well. Kiva hesitated but moved at full speed for the powered up foe. As his fist was just about to make contact, Anzu vanished. “How!?” The warrior cried. Anzu laughed with his arms crossed answering: “Have you not take the time to figure out how each chakra point works, what ability they unlock and how to push your body to it’s limit?” The warrior nodded still in a fighting position incase he was randomly attacked.

“Well then…show me the full extent of only two of your chakra points being awakened” Kiva gave him a serious look and moved at full speed once more, he closed his eyes at the last second, focusing his 2nd chakra point, suddenly time froze, he opened his eyes to see everything frozen in time. “So this is the hidden ability of the 2nd chakra, to think it could be this powerful already” Just then Anzu began to move, “nice try, if I hadn’t also awakened the 2nd chakra then I Probably would’ve been able to counter your little time stop. But let’s see you stop the 3rd chakra’s ability” The attacker began shooting a beam that followed Kiva around the room, even at C2 level speed it still followed, he sighed and went out the window into the city.

“Heh, going out there won’t make any difference” Anzu followed behind until he was landed on a tall sky scrapper, there he clapped both hands together and closed his eyes. He used clairvoyance to keep track of his fast moving target and direct the beam in his direction where ever he went…

“Damn doesn’t this thing ever hit something, or at least fade? There’s like no range limit to it!” He attempted to ascend up toward the edge of the atmosphere in hopes the beam would be pulled off into space. Kiva risked it and flew straight up with the projectile following close behind, each second he went up it began to get colder more and more. He reached 60 miles nearly the edge of earth's atmosphere, his body was beginning to cover in thick ice from the negative 60 degrees before falling back towards earth. Anzu laughed allowing his beam to go into space. He watched as the hero fell from thousands of feet not moving. Moment after falling, the force of the fall shattered the ice and he slowly opened his eyes. Once fully aware Kiva stopped himself just before hitting an office building. The man laid on the roof of the office building while far off Anzu still laughed before taking off…

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The student spent the next day resting in bed when he got a message saying his mentor had been killed by the imposter Anzu. A tear ran down his face but nothing came out, no cry of pain…but inside he felt as though he had lost someone close to him. After a day of resting, Kiva came into the large classroom sitting at the teacher's desk. The students all looked surprised to see him.

“I heard what happened to our teacher, and just like some of you I’m hurt by the loss, but I being his top student will do my best until a replacement can be found” Just then He heard a student say: “Darn I hoped this meant we didn’t have to come to this stupid class anymore. The boy blinked and Kiva stood beside him. He and a few students jumped back in surprise.

“Don’t treat this as a joke, you could be attacked at any moment and without this Academy you would probably be destroyed in seconds or worse, tortured for days until they probably killed you anyway” The 1st years friends nodded at him too scared to back up their friend.

“I can take care of myself” He responded. Kiva gave him a serious look. “Oh so you’re telling me you can defend against anything?”

“Pretty much” the boy replied. Kiva aimed his hand towards the small arena in the room, “Very well if you’re so sure you can withstand any threat then come down here to the arena and face me” Everyone sat silent waiting for the boy's reaction. He hesitated but then stood up walking down the flight of stairs towards the arena.

“What’s your name?” the new mentor asked looking at him still with a serious expression.

“Hosaka Taro”

“Well Hosaka, I would like you to attack me with everything you got” The boy nodded with focused green eyes and light brown hair. He ran at his mentor punching his torso repeated. But no matter how many blows he threw, they didn’t seem to have much effect.

“A-are you kidding me?” Hosaka complained already out of breath.

“So that was your best? If so then you have much to learn” Hearing that made the boy explode with rage, he began spamming blows again much faster but also less accurate. Kiva stopped time and struck his student lightly in the stomach, making sure to knock the air out of him but not to badly injure him. Time moved again as Hosaka fell to the floor gripping his chest trying to catch his breath.

“You see, this student expects to defend himself from anything, but couldn’t inflect any damage on me…so for those who think they can just pass or evade any obstacle…you’re wrong, there will always be a situation you can’t just ignore or beat with ease. Now for those who want to defend themselves, stay…but people like Hosaka should leave before your stupidity kills you”

Kiva spent the next few months teaching them how to focus their inner strength and turn it into energy to release them as blasts and projectiles. They were improving fast, some 1st years were even equal with other 2nd years which really surprised him. One day Kiva was sitting at his desk when Kay came over to him. “So how is it being a teacher only at year two?” Her friend laughed looking at her. “Not bad but wouldn’t say its fun either, but seeing some of these first years improve so well just means I’m doing something right” She laughed agreeing before going back to her seat. Time went on when one day Kiva had a strange feeling one day, he started the lesson and had them read a chapter while taking notes until he got back. He looked around the street feeling something faint. That’s when he thought he heard a whisper out in the distance.

That’s when the warrior saw a figure move past him at the corner of his eye. (Anzu…) He took off, chasing the figure at full speed. Finally he caught up with him to find Anzu standing on a roof waiting for him. “Long time no see” he commented again with that smirk on his face.

“It’s time to finish this!” The hero announced putting his fists up.

“I couldn’t agree with you more” Just then another figure came from behind a corner revealing it to be his Sensei.

“M-master!?” The corpse’s eyes were engulfed in a purple light along with an aura swarming around him. Anzu nodded to his minion signaling them to attack. Kiva froze at first, just evading the attacks unable to actually fight back. But then focused on his goal. The foe threw a punch but missed at the last second leaving them wide open for an attack. His Apprentice use the opportunity to punch straight through his chest. Blood gushed from the large wound before Kiva pulled his fist out. His undead ally hit the ground laying motionless as his aura faded.

“Nice work” the villain complemented. Purple energy transferred from the dead body back to Anzu. “Wasn’t expecting you to finish him so quickly, now then let the real battle begin” He vanished for a moment when suddenly he reappeared in front of him, punching his enemy across the face. The student staggered across the sky impacting a taxi in the street. He healed from the power of the 1st chakra and picked up the car. Anzu flew straight for him as the warrior threw the car full force toward the villain. Sadly the man backhanded the vehicle. It broke in two from the incredible force of his hand. The dark haired man flew straight for Kiva about to attack when The hero struck him in the ribs with so much force, the area seemed to shake. His enemy jumped back placing his hand on his rib area trying to catch his breath. “L-lucky shot…b-but lets see you withstand one of my secret techniques” Again he clapped his hands together as his aura covered his body, it looked as though his body was turning into energy! All Kiva saw was a beam of energy headed for him. He was preparing to deflect it when it suddenly changed course evading his hands and entered through his nose. He blinked and found himself in a world that was completely dark. All he saw was an endless dark void and Anzu.

“Where are we!?” the warrior demanded.

“You haven’t figured it out? We're inside your head, I have taken over your mind and this is the back of your mind, basically where you push everything you don’t want or need to remember”

“Damn you!” The fighter put his hand out aiming his palm toward him but nothing happened. “W-what is this!?”

“This is your mind, you can’t use energy attacks here, come on think for a second” In anger Kiva struck the ground. Anzu laughed clapping “Yes keep that up and I might not have to put any effort into killing you, too much damage and you’ll end up killing yourself” The fighter froze for a moment then sighed. “If this is my mind…then I have the home field advantage!” Suddenly Kiva began to walk towards his foe, each step created a flash of gold light that filled the dark void.

(What he's he planning?) The villain prepared himself putting his hands up. “You’re a fool Kiva, no one can stop me!” He focused his chakra into his palm creating a blade. Kiva continued walking with each footstep sparkling in gold light. Anzu went for an assault, throwing his hand forward, just as it seemed to connect, Kiva moved to the side evading the attack.

“N-no it can’t be, I’ll slice you to pieces!!” The dark man continued his swings with the purple energy blade but never could hit him, it was as if Kiva knew his foe’s movements before they even happened. The warrior didn’t speak, continuing to keep an emotionless expression on his face. Anzu actually found himself out of breath. “W-what's going on!? At first I made him look like mere trash but now he’s the one making me look foolish!?” Just then the warrior struck him in the waste with force far greater than Anzu had ever seen. Blood spat out of his mouth. “T-this…can’t be” Anzu collapsed onto the black floor when suddenly Kiva opened his eyes to find himself back outside of his subconscious.

He looked to see that his enemy had kept the massive damage inflected on him by the hero's realization of the mind. Anzu fell onto his back severely bleeding like before. “Y-you little shit…I can’t believe someone as weak as you could do this to me” The man then fell unconscious from loss of blood. Kiva walked over placing his hand upon the man’s chest…a flash of blue light shined from the man’s entire body before fading away.

“There, now you can’t cause me or anyone else any more trouble” He threw Anzu over his shoulder carrying him back to his house, there he sat him down in a chair in the corner of the room. After an hour he awoke, Kiva stood up with his arms crossed. “Its over Anzu, admit defeat or I’ll be forced to end your life” His opponent frowned and lunged at the warrior. But as he went for a punch, Kiva caught it with ease using only one hand.

“What!?” The villain was shocked to see that Kiva had moved faster than him. “What did you do!?” He yelled trying to pull his hand away.

“I blocked your chakra flow, so now you're as average as a normal human” Anzu's eyes widened in shock, no you’re lying!” He tried to focus an energy attack but nothing happened, no matter how hard he focused, not even a speck of light. Kiva aimed his hand at the weakened enemy and killed him with a powerful energy attack.

“There he's gone”

Years Later…

Kiva had married a girl named Hiroshi, they had a little girl name Sara, she had blonde hair and blue eyes just like her mother…

CHAPTER 3 A Family Pure

Kiva sat at the kitchen table, his eyes filled with joy as he feed his new born daughter. She laughed and smiled as her father fed her spoon fulls of applesauce. His wife came in kissing him on the cheek. “So…it’s been officially ten years since you became a teacher at your Academy…” Kiva nodded. “Yes it has, at first I just planned to be a temporary teacher until they could find someone else. But they never did. I shouldn’t complain too much though, all the students were still excelling well in their class, even the slackers began to take their work more seriously”

“That's good, I’m sure you’re mentor would’ve been proud that you took over for him and helped push his students further in their work”  She kissed his cheek once more before picking up Sara who was reaching for her mother wanting attention. The man smiled seeing his wife and daughter happy together, ever since Anzu ten years ago there hadn’t been any trouble, at least not important enough to catch his attention.

“I’m going out for bit, can you take care of her on your own?” Hiroshi looked up at him and nodded with a smile. “Be careful out there” Kiva blew her a kiss before leaving. He stood out in the front yard, a wave of bright sunlight blinding his eyes for a moment before he adjusted. “Time to see if there really aren’t any criminals that need me to keep them in check” He began walking. He looked around but didn’t see any sign of trouble. “Hmm…is all the crime-at least the important ones finally gone?”

Just then a cold breeze rushed past him, he turned around to see a man dressed in a black cloak standing behind him. “And you are?” The man walked towards him not saying anything.

“Stay back or you’ll be sorry!” But again the stranger said nothing still approaching him. Kiva went for a rush attack, throwing the fastest punch he could, but as it was about to make contact, The hero saw him standing there with his fist straight out with no one around. “Damn, we’d he go?” Suddenly the man grabbed him from the side of the neck holding him up. He handed him a slip of paper before throwing him backwards onto his back, walking through a rift to a different reality. Kiva attempted to follow him but was pushed back by a strong force as it closed.

“Shit, now I don’t know where he is and can’t track him!” he punched the street then stood up pulling out the small note the assailant had given him. It just read : “ Karoni”

(Is that supposed to be someone’s name?) He thought folding it, slipping it in his back pocket before going back home. As the days went on Kiva could do nothing but worry about the mysterious man that had appeared…

Sara had just turned five when Hiroshi announced she was pregnant, after months of waiting she finally had the child. It was a boy with silver hair and gold eyes. “Wow I’ve never seen a baby or anyone with gold eyes before” the doctor commented. The mother agreed but smiled holding her new son. Sara jumped with excitement seeing her baby brother.

“ What are you going to name him?” the doctor asked. She thought for a moment…” I’m going to name him : Karoni” Suddenly the father froze with shock at hearing the name.

“What’s wrong?” she asked looking at him worried. He looked at his wife and replied : “Its nothing just zoned out for a moment, that’s a nice name”

As the years went on, Karoni grew up as a normal boy, Kiva slowly began to forget about the cloaked man that had appeared and given him the note…

It was Karoni's 17 birthday, Sara was 22 while their parents were In their late 40’s. The party went well, with a big chocolate cake and different flavors of ice cream, but while Karoni sat on the roof of their house relaxing from the party, he thought he could sense a dark chakra out in the distance. Curious the boy ascended from the roof jumping across a few houses with superhuman strength. He landed  just a few houses down where the chakra was even stronger, meaning he was close, just then he could sense something headed right for him, Karoni dashed out of the way as a fireball impacted the street. He turned to see the man in the cloak, the boy also noticed that the man was wearing a steel mask to hide his face. The teen clapped his hands together, causing the man to be imprisoned in a dome of green energy.

“Now who are you!?” The boy demanded. His foe stood there motionless not saying anything. “Fine if you won’t answer me…Chakra eruption!” Suddenly the dome grew bigger until blowing up in a massive explosion of light. But as the light faded, there was no sign of the masked man anywhere. “Impossible!” At that moment a figure appeared behind him and struck him in the side of the neck. A surge of pain traveled through his body before followed by a numbness. Korani collapsed out cold in the dark street. His foe lifted his unconscious boy up and took him through a rift…

Meanwhile Kiva felt as if something was wrong, he kissed his wife and headed outside. Closing his eyes he took a deep breath, focusing for his son's energy. He managed to track the recent source of his chakra up to where the explosion had happened, but once there he had no idea where to look, he couldn’t sense the boy’s energy anywhere. Just then the masked man popped into his head. (He took him) The warrior concluded to his son's random disappearance. That’s when he heard clapping coming nearby.

“excellent work figuring it out so soon, I was sure it would take you days to realize it” Kiva aimed his hand at the masked assailant. “Give my son back, he has nothing to do with this!” The villain uttered a laugh responding : “Oh trust me…your son has more to do with this than you know” Just then a rift opened and five other masked figures emerged, the man had one step forward and removed his mask…

“Karoni!?” His father exclaimed in shock, his son stood there emotionless like some kind of puppet or robot, his eyes along with the other masked assailants glowed pink in the night like lights. This gave it away that his son was obviously being mind controlled.

“Now then, how about we get to know our new friend” the villain commented. The four stepped back as Karoni looked directly at his father. The man crossed his arms and watched not saying another word. The teen levitated off the ground, flying right for his father, Kiva had his fists up ready to fight, but when the boy went to attack, he just froze taking the hit across the face. He didn’t have the will to hurt his own son, especially when it was intentional. Kiva continued to take blow after blow of his son's attacks when finally Kiva did what sickened him, he struck Karoni in the jaw, sending him staggering over to the group of masked foes. “I guess I have no choice” Kiva told himself, “I’m gonna have to knock some sense into my son…or even knock him out” Hoping it wouldn’t come to that Kiva awakened his chakra 2 and was preparing to take his battle seriously. The fighter got right back up and gave his father a grin, this made him uneasy when his son was emotionless up till this point.

“Go, and show him the power you’ve kept hidden from him for all these years” Kiva had no idea what the masked man was talking about when all of a sudden his son's aura became yellow instead of orange, Kiva’s eyes widened realizing what his son had been keeping from him.

“N-no it can’t be, even I have obtained it yet!”

“Sorry old man, Karoni obtained Chakra 3 awhile ago, seems he has more potential then you” The hero struck the ground in anger.

“What’s wrong? Jealous your son might grow up stronger than you?”

“No that’s not it, a father should be proud when they’re surpassed by their son one day…I’m just mad, that he can’t use that potential because you’re controlling him…and no one controls my family!!!” Kiva moved at full speed for the unknown man, even as he used the chakra ability of time freeze, Karoni blocked his father’s path unaffected by the ability.

“Damn” the man took as much air in as he could…then released a wave of intense fire at the cult of villains, along with his son who stood in between his attack and the men. Kiva watched in fear as his son put his palm out in front of him, splitting the wave of intense heat in two, shielding him and his allies from harm.

“H-how…how is my son so much stronger than me!? I’m proud yet worried at the same time” Suddenly Karoni stepped back towards the row of masked men while the leader stepped forward once more. But, he slowly began reaching for his masked that concealed his face! Kiva just stood motionless watching…It was as if time slowed down as he finally took of his mask reveling his true identity.

The warrior starred at his foe’s face. “No, you can’t be him, it’s impossible!” The man grinned. “Yes…it’s me…father” Kiva felt as though he would fall back from the shock. It was revealed that the mysterious man was an adult version of his own son.

“But don’t worry, I’m not your true son…I am a version of him from an alternate timeline. I’m sure you’re thinking : Well why come to this timeline? It’s simple really, you’re dead in my timeline, I’ve come to kill you in this one as well, my hatred of you is infinite” Without another word, the adult Karoni took out a small blade and threw it directly aimed for his father’s head. Just as it left his hand, he snapped his fingers, causing the projectile to appear as seven.

“Heh, let’s see you evade the real dagger when you’re clueless of which one is the threat” Kiva took a deep breath, (I’ll just have to evade them all) The line of blades moved in sync at first like fakes do, when suddenly they all split up in multiple directions now coming at him in different directions.

“That’s right, this isn’t your ordinary after images, normally they move in sync with the object or person using it, but I’ve made it where they don’t move as one, rather they randomly in any direction they choose. You never know where they’ll go next” Kiva kept his eyes on the seven projectiles, but was having trouble keeping up with seven that all moved so fast in different directions. He dogged four of them, each one not making a sound behind him so he assumed the real one hadn’t reached him yet.

That’s when a blade finally made it’s way aimed at his heart. Kiva waited…once close enough, he tried catching it by clapping his hands together but missed. Luckily it faded through him being a after image. That’s when a surge of pain went through his body, he looked down to see the real dagger had pierced his back from behind. “Y-you gotta be kidding me” The warrior fell to his knees as blood began to run down from the wound. He slowly looked past the foe toward his son who was still being controlled by the evil Karoni’s power. He closed his eyes and formed a sphere of energy in his palm.

“Whatever you’re planning won’t work” He dashed over to Kiva, striking him in the gut then uppercut him a few feet backwards. The poor hero was badly hurt and nearly about to lose consciousness, but once more he formed the sphere of energy in his hand. The adult Karoni moved so fast, Kiva didn’t see it coming, the villain punched straight through the man’s chest and out his back. As blood dripped to the ground, Kiva used his final moment to fire the ball of light toward his son.

The assailant watched, curious to see why his father had been so focused on firing the energy to his son. The controlled Karoni attempted to deflect it, but once it made contact with his hand, it faded into his hand like a sponge.

At first nothing happened…then a gold aura engulfed his body like a transparent flame. His eyes stopped glowing and returned to normal.

“No, there’s no way that small ball broke my control over him!” Karoni clinched his fist looking at his older-self. “It’s over for you, even if I die…I would never want to turn into you!” The man created a katana out of his chakra and pointed it at the teen. “Don’t get ahead of yourself…I have years of experience in battle, learned far more than you have”

“Then show me and prove you’re superior” The silver-haired teen taunted. His opponent frowned and fired blast of pink lightning at his new enemy, but as the wave of light mare it's way aimed for the young hero, it vanished as if there was an invisible barrier around the teen's body.

“You little shit!” The man snapped his fingers, commanding the others to attack the boy head on. Karoni closed his eyes and focused on each of their chakras. As each one attempted to attack, the hero kept on their energy. Two attacked from both sides but were punched in the ribs at the same time before the warrior roundhouse kicked them away. He continued to keep his eyes shut. Two more shot blasts of pink energy from the boy's front and behind him, bit again the boy put his palms out at both beams, stopping them from moving.

“He's open!” Their leader threw his chakra blade as hard as he could when Karoni spiraled like a tornado taking the two blasts and blade into it's cycle. Both blasts shot out, one aimed for their leader, the other aimed at his followers. He managed to deflected it while the others were hit head on. Karoni watched as their masks fell off broken apart. Their eyes returned to normal just as his head.

“W-where are we?” one of the men commented holding his head with his hand. The boy walked over to them still facing his enemy. “You were being controlled until I broke your masks” The warriors now free from the villain’s control, stood along side the young warrior to fight the adult version of Karoni.

“You fools…you think you’re all enough to stop me!?”

“H-he's right, we all fought against him and lost badly, how can we hope to win?” One ally said.

“This isn’t the end my friends…place your hands upon me and share all the power you have left” Each of them placed their hands on the boy's shoulder and back, transferring every bit of power they had left. Suddenly Karoni filled the streets with his pure aura that shined like the sun. He began stepping forward, a calm and focused expression on his face.

“Get back!” The attacker fired a massive energy blast that was nearly as big as the whole block. It made contact but was being stopped by the boy’s aura! The tyrant struggled to force the blast any further, the teen continued walking forward until he was just five feet away. The man lowered his hand. “This can't be possible, how is just your aura protecting you!?” in one last attempt, he threw a full force punch straight for Karoni's face but was stopped with just one hand. The force of the teen stopping the attack shook the area around them like a small earthquake.

“Time to finish this!” he let go of the target’s hand before punching him straight through his torso just like the villain had done to his father. “Karma” he said pulling his fist out of the man’s body. His older self collapsed dead on the street in a pool of dark red blood. “There he’s finally dead”

After a few days the others who were being controlled by Karoni finally managed to get back to their own time. The young version continued his life as his father did, training to become stronger and protect others from what was to come…

(TO BE CONTINUED…)