Chapter 11

Tagitsu was silent the whole time till I took all three of them to the room. I placed them on the bed and I saw Tagitsu turn away from me.

I know it was awkward for both of us. We were constantly bickering everyday like Sanji and Zoro, but slowly we both started feeling comfortable with each other's presence. Sometimes I would feel bored if I didn't fight with her.

These were the thoughts we both shared through the link and there was another memory that stood out from their memories.

It was exactly the day before I wandered into the Ryuchi Cave. Tagitsu, Tagori and Ichikishima were summoned by the snake sage and when they were before her, the snake sage said "I had a vision about you three. You will meet a person tomorrow and he is going to be your husband."

And yes, the snakes had the husband and wife thing. When they heard that, all three were curious of my identity. When they saw me, a weak, injured and drugged 10 year old, Tagitsu was disappointed.

Tagitsu had seen me run away from those priests and being someone who respected people with brave hearts, she didn't like how her future husband ran away from a fight.

In my defense, they had chakra and I didn't. With the connection due to the Nature energy, she also seemed to have received my memories. So, I asked her with a shy tone "Did you see all my memories?" and she slightly nodded and said "All the moments from when you were born."

I noticed a slight sympathy in her eyes and I immediately said to her "Please Tagitsu, no sympathy towards me please. I don't like it when people look at me with pity or sympathy."

Seeing as she wasn't reacting wildly, I guess immunity from anyone reading my memories of my past life is a perk I got when I was reborn.

As to why I was feeling shy, is because I even masturbated imagining her and Ichikishima too. This is something that would be embarassing.

Atleast we understood each other better because we both saw each other's lives from a different perspective and experienced it in their shoes.

To escape this awkward situation, I said "I will go wash up." and was about to leave when I felt someone pull my shirt. I looked back and found Tagori and Ichikishima awake.

Tagori said "Since all of us need a bath, why don't we go together." and I agreed, because I was used to seeing their naked bodies everyday.

They were also stinking, as they were continuously supplying Nature energy to me the whole time and since I carried them back to the room, it was partly my fault.

We walked to the lake near the cave and along the way, Ichikishima was hugging my hand with a bright smile. Since I wasn't uncomfortable with it, I let her do what she wanted.

We got to the lake and when all three of us were naked, I was actually starting to feel embarassed. Now that all of us know that both of us had romantic feelings for each other, it is weird for me.

We got into the cold Lake, as it was night, and immediately all three sisters jumped at me. Their bodies weren't used to this cold temperatures.

All three were around me while they hugged me from all sides for warmth. After somehow getting off the whole filth from my body and turning the part of the lake dark, all three got out and headed back to our room for sleep.

What I found most weird is that Tagori didn't speak to me ever since she woke up, which was weird considering her caring nature.

We all got to bed and immediately fell asleep. I know that I was sleeping for a while year, but the mental fatigue from all that energy feeling was tiring.

The next day, the same thing repeated again, but this time Tagori woke up before me. She felt my movements and asked "Hatsuo, are you awake?" as she got up from me.

I couldn't get up, as Tagitsu and Ichikishima had their tails around me. Tagori looked at me straight in my eyes. She looked serious and she asked "Hatsuo, now that you know how each of us feel about you and we know how you feel about us. What do you plan on doing now?"

Honestly, this has been on my mind from the time I woke up. If it was some other person who is reborn or sent here, he would happily take these three as his wife's, as they all are lovable people.

But growing up under my parents, both my fathers from this world and the previous one, said that marriage is more than just babies and sex. There are a lot of responsibilities and I am just a teenager in this world who doesn't even have money to rent his own house.

And I didn't know if I was ready to take responsibility of three lives. I mean, I didn't get married in my previous life and only had two relationships, which only lasted around a month or two.

So, I replied "Tagori, I might need some time to make up my mind." and she nodded. She looked disappointed, but she still agreed to wait. Honestly, she is too good for me.

Then the rest woke up and they went back to their usual thing. Ichikishima was particularly excited, she shouted "It's been a year since I ate someone. I am going to increase the difficulty of my trial. That way, I can feast on all the people I missed during the whole year."

I decided to completely ignore her at that time and let her do what she wanted. As for my feelings about she eating humans, I surprisingly got used to it. The attack of those priests helped me in this. I was used to seeing people dead or being killed.

I got Haki and all I had to do was train how to use it. I opened the scroll and started reading the second part in it, which has the instructions on how to train with haki.

I was excited to try out this haki. I opened the scroll and the second part read "If you are reading this, that means that you woke up from your body refining phase. That should also mean that you have felt haki, because to wake up, you have to feel the haki inside you.

Now that the difficult part is out of the way, you have to learn to control it. If you have seen the show, haki can be used in three ways, Armament haki, Observation haki and Conqueror's haki.

In the show, it was mentioned that only a few strong willed people can have Conqueror's haki, but if you train hard, you should be able to use it.

Among all the three, Armament haki is the easiest to train, followed by Observation haki. Although in the show, they start with Observation haki, as they first need to feel the haki, which is a very difficult step and you have already passed that hurdle in the first phase.

So, we will start with Armament haki. If you want to focus on only one haki and perfect it completely, you can do that as well.

Armament haki: It is where we use haki to harden the skin, forming a type of armour around us to protect the body and also deliver heavy blows to the enemy. If trained perfectly, it should defend against sword attacks and there are advance forms, which we will discuss later.

Observation haki: Pushing sixth sense to the limits will help you awaken this ability. The only way to do so is to follow the show and try to evade hits while being blindfolded. When trained, you will be able to sense the presence of others and if mastered, you should be able to predict the near future.

Conqueror's haki: It is where you have to release your presence and dominate the will of the weak willed people with your overwhelming presence and power. You will be able to learn this only when you grow in strength by training the other two.

In your initial stages, your haki will be very low and only by training everyday and familiarising yourself with the feeling of haki and increasing your physical strength can you increase your haki. The rest is just training and figuring it out yourself."

I closed the scroll and had a clear goal in my mind. I went to Tagitsu, the one who liked to fight and asked "Tagitsu, I need your help in training." and explained what she had to do.

She smiled and said "I will happily take up the offer, if you yourself want me to beat me up."

I replied "Now that's the Tagitsu I know." she had a purple hue on her cheeks as she said "What are you taking, you bastard." and swing her tail towards me from my side.

Even without seeing the tail, I managed to evade it. There was something in my head that told me there was something to my side.

I guess the Nature energy has enhanced my sensing abilities and it in turn has helped me learn Observation haki faster.

About Nature energy though, my body has surprisingly become compatible with it and I am able to absorb it constantly. I guess the snake dna and the fact that it was used during the body refining, or due to me becoming familiar with it when I was unconscious.

The problem here though, is that I can't store it in my body and can't use it without chakra of my own. I guess I could control it if I had mastered haki, but it won't happen in the near future.

So, the use of Nature energy as of now is, to enhance my body strength and my sensory abilities.

Back to my training, I was blindfolded and Tagitsu would attack me with her tail from all directions. Although I could sense some, I couldn't sense and dodge all of them, as Tagitsu was experienced in combat and knew when to strike and how to strike.

She had very good control of her tail and would change the trajectory of she sees me move. We had practiced for around five hours and I had enough for the day. I took off my blindfold and saw Tagitsu breathing heavily before me. I guess she was also tired.

She looked at me and said "Who knew beating you up would be this satisfying. Call me if you want to get beaten up anytime."

Before she got any other weird ideas, I immediately left the place and rested in the room for a while, to resume my training after I healed from all the bruises I received. She really is strong.

I rested for an hour and got back to training. Next was my Armament haki training. I didn't need anyone's help for this, as I just had to harden my skin and check if it is hard enough.

I walked to the training grounds, which was basically just an open space in the cave. I walked to the walls of this training area and focused as I closed my eyes.

Focused completely on my two fists and after a while, I felt my haki in that area move to my skin. I opened my eyes and looked at my fists, which were still the same colour. They didn't turn black as they were supposed to but then, its not like I would get it on my first try.

I clashed my fist with each other and I could feel that they were harder than before. There was only one way to try this out.

I positioned myself in front of the wall and punched it. It is the best way to test out their durability.

Although I didn't use my full strength to hit the wall, it surprisingly didn't hurt that much. I went with the next punch, this time with a little more strength.

Seeing as to how it wasn't paining as much I thought it would, I went on with my barrage of punches while keeping my strength under control.

I didn't want to break my hands, but with the excitement I got carried away and started punching harder with each punch. Before I knew it, my fist started hurting and when I looked at them, they were already bleeding.

The adrenaline rush, from the excitement I felt when my fist got stronger, didn't let me feel the pain till I looked at them. The damage was done and the haki also faded, making me feel weak.

With a weak body and broken knuckles, I just leaned against the wall. I was already used to pain by now and didn't cry out in pain.

It was at this time, Tagori came to the training cave and said "Hatsuo, your dinner is rea....what happened here?" and shouted when she saw my fists.