The room no longer had the same intense atmosphere anymore. An aroma of food had spread throughout the house. The sound of plates and spoons resounded everywhere.
Mitsuki watched as Satoru chomped on another entire chicken alongside another bowl of rice. And he didn't even look that satiated yet.
"I actually never noticed just how much he eats. Normally, I would usually just think that he was tired after a training session. But, now that I noticed it, He eats the amount of food which which could fill up and Akimichi." Mitsuki said, internally proud that someone is enthusiastic to this extent to eat her food.
"He will soon enter puberty in a few months, which requires a lot of fuel to help him grow. Or that it's connected to what he said back when he passed out." Shinichi said, before taking a bite of the shrimp, allowing the flower to slowly be processed unlike Satoru.
He went to take another piece to eat but Satoru snatched it before apologizing with a mouth full of food. "Sowwy."
"Don't speak while you have food in your mouth!" Mitsuki said, she looked at Shinichi, prompting him to continue.
"Remember...back then, he said that he tasted a food so good that eating normal food made him downright disappointed. I think that eating food has some relation to his...darkness."
Although they talked openly Satoru couldn't understand a single thing. That is because they were speaking in a language he didn't know. He heard hear them talk, talk about him, but there was not much he could do about it.
They were speaking the language used but anbu during their missions. But medics, war medics like Mitsuki, were also supposed to know this language. It allowed the doctors to communicate with the anbu ninjas without there being a chance of leak of information. Being able to speak this language was also used as proof that someone is an ally.
"What are you guys talking about? Is it about me?" Satoru said, finally putting down his chopsticks and resting in his chair. He let out a burp and looked like he almost melted into his chair. "Man, I'm so full! The food was great, Thanks."
"You're welcome sweetie!" Mitsuki said with a smile, it was in the anbu language and she realized it when Satoru made a confused look hearing her.
"Oh! I said 'you're welcome!' Sorry, I'm not good with multiple languages." Mitsuki said, giving a sheepish smile.
"Now what? You guys said you would help me, right? What should I do now?" Satoru said looking at the two of them.
"In the next month or so you have been given time to prepare for your next stage of the chunin exams. We will be using that time to figure out things about you. To help you control yourself."
" I have to train during this month. One month is enough for someone weaker than me to come up with a trump card, and someone stronger than me can widen the gap. Not that there is someone stronger than me, they are on par with me at best.
What things do you want to know about me? It better not take time out of my training, and can anyone of you train me? Please." Satoru said, already out of his chair and stretching. His relaxed and laid back expression was nowhere to be seen.
"We want to know about your darkness. Things like what are your triggers? Or what urges do you get?, and what factors make you do what you feel like doing." Shinichi said while collecting the dishes and taking them to kitchen basin.
"What will you gain from knowing those things? It's like a craving of some sort, it comes and goes." Satoru asked
"Things like those play a huge role in this, for example, some men who were traumatized by women at early age, tend like recreate their suffering on other women, mostly women who resembled the ones from their childhood. That's how the most amount of rapist and pedophiles are created." Mitsuki said, massaging her forehead. Satoru could see that those words opened up a can of worms from her past.
"Sooo...I'm from THAT category? Those kinds of people are competition?" Satoru was offended from being put in that category, but it also brought out his curiousity
'I don't have memories of this body's original owner before he was 5. The traumatic event or events must have happened back then, but I don't have memories of them, so why do they affect me?' Satoeu thought, he looked deep in thought and she noticed it.
"You are probably wondering what you must have through that you are suffering now. Well, these things happen usually during first ten years of the victim's life. when their ability to reason good from bad alongside the ability to process emotions aren't that matured yet.
And I've known you since you were seven and there was no extreme incident that occurred while you were in the academy, it probably happened at an age when children don't remember much. The first 5 years to be specific." Mitsuki explained.
Shinichi came back from washing the dishes, and got kiss from Mitsuki which made Satoru revolt in disgust, 'keep your filthy hands away from her.' Satoru thought
"We will train as well as help you with this. Even though I'm your jonin sensei, I'm suspended. So, we have a loophole we can exploit and you can train with me for the exams." Shinichi said,
"Is it not usually allowed? How do others train then?"
"It's not allowed, but since I'm suspended, So is the team. Which means team 10 does not exist and is disbanded for the time being, I'm just some jonin who just chose to train you.
This is usually the time to test a genin's ability to network with powerful people and get them to do things they wouldn't do with the help of as little leverage as possible." Shinichi said, all three were now heading towards the training ground.
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Satoru weaved handsigns and pointed towards a tree, a pale blue ball of wind began accumulating. Satoru aimed it and jerked his thumb, launching the ball.
"Pew!"
The wind ball hit the tree like a bullet and instantly shredded it from the inside. The ball flew straight through and crashed into another tree, giving it the same treatment.
The ball then hit a boulder, unlike before, it didn't tear through it but instead drilled inside and destroyed it from the inside out.
Shinichi observed silently, and then recorded the damage dealt by the jutsu and compared it to the previous attempts. He had a faint smirk as he calculated that Satoru had improved by 20 percent in a month.
"Satoru, you improved a lot. I think this much is enough for this jutsu, move to the next one. The amount of effort required to improved it further is something you don't have." Shinichi said, placing his hand on Satoru's shoulder.
"Can I train my taijutsu? I think there is more improvement to be done for mastering the first stage of augmentation." Satoru asked, already stretching his muscles preparing for a match.
Shinichi created a shadow clone and sent it to Mitsuki, who was watching from a distance. The two hours were filled with Satoru's screams of pain and Shinichi's knuckles hitting Satoru.
Mistuki looked at the Shadow clone and asked "Did you notice that? His schedule...and his diet?"
"I have a theory and it can decently explain why he acts the way he does." Shinichi said, observing Satoru's fighting style and the hidden thirst for blood in it.
"When urges must have begun during the beginning of this year or last year. At this point, he doesn't have urges isn't to kill but for fighting or just milding harming. His friends have all reported that during spars, he doesn't stop till someone bleeds.
According to Tatsuo and Dai, Satoru would bring live chickens to his home and would kill it himself before cooking it. Which makes me believe that...he has been satisfying his needs by harming animals or people during the missions to keep himself in check." Shinichi said, showing the photos taken by him from the dustbin of Satoru's home, and the number of animal bones he found in it.
"Ingesting meat probably helps him to an extent. But why can't he keep doing this? He has skills as a chef, he could settle as a restaurant owner and sustain his urges with it." Mitsuki asked, taking the photos and seeing the photos.
"Each time he fulfills his urges, the stronger they become they the next time they return. Over time one must increase the quantity or the intensity to feel the same pleasure from indulging in the addictions. This is a comman phrase used back in the root.
Satoru will no longer be able satisfy himself from this. Going on missions will keep him at bay for a year or so, but even killing during missions won't be enough after a while.
He will develop his own unique belief system and use it as a moral compass. He will create rituals for killing as they will become much more personal and...intimate. Each of his kill will be motivated by some sort of cause or purpose." Shinichi explained.
They both continued to watch the boy in silence, dreading what will become of him in the coming future. Not for the fact that he will kill, because it was easy to get away with it. But because, the reasons which might make him kill.
No mother would want to see her son become a monster.
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Satoru was walking through the streets, hidden in the shadows of the night. He looked up to see the constellations in the sky, it made him stopp walking and admire the view.
'No place on the original earth could ever give such a view of the stars. I spent so much time dealing with my problems, I never stopped to admire the progress I've made...and the sweet view, oh god, the sweet view.
"I have searched for you EVERYWHERE!" Keiko said, making him snap out of his trance and suddenly turn to look her in the eye.
"I didn't know you were the type of guy to to be STAR STRUCK from watching the stars! Hahahahahaa! Sorry, couldn't help it. I was thinking about that joke for a while now." Keiko laughed on her own joke, making Satoru chuckle.
"It's new...I just looked up and there it was! A WHOLE NEW WORLD! Sorry, couldn't help myself either!" Satoru said, making her laugh even more.
"Haha...the match is coming closer, you should come quickly and rest. You're gonna need it, rest and repair before the matches begin." Keiko said, her hands now wrapped around his. They walked side by side to their house.
'You were looking at the same stars I was...at the same time, as well! Were you looking at the stars wondering if I was looking at them too? The joke was pretty dry, but your laugh...your laugh was to die for!
Just like the stars, there are a lot of things that I have been missing out on. Things like being with you, Keiko. But no more, I will make the corniest jokes I can and make you laugh till you tear up.' Satoru thought, staring into her eyes from the side.
She noticed him looking at her and gave him a peck on his lips, leaving him overloaded with thoughts.
"Oh god, You think a lot! When you look at me like that, I know that you want to kiss me. So just kiss me already!" Satoru was still entranced from her kiss, when she barraged his face with kisses.
Satoru instantly grabbed her and held her face and reciprocated her barrage with his own. "I want this moment to last forever, the stars, your smile...forever. Do you?" Satoru asked and got another kiss as a reply.