17 The Truth about Kobayashi Kaia.
[Kaito POV]
It has been a year since my "breakdown" of sorts and I have never been better, 4 years until canon sadly Sun Breathing is harder than I thought and I can't use it as well as the others, to be clear I CAN use it, the problem is that despite its power it also drains my stamina faster than other forms.
I asked my mother to help me with my "Constant Total Concentration Breathing training" which meant that I would wake up at night in case my breathing changed, I also bought BIG pot gourds to do the other part of the training.
However, mom couldn't remain awake at night so I asked the Hatsume's to help me, they happily replied and made a mask that would keep tabs on my breathing, in case I stopped the Total Concentration Breathing I would get electrocuted.
I know it sounds a little too much but, beggars can't be choosers I don't have 3 helpful kids to help me like Tanjiro had, the mask worked pretty well, in fact too well it didn't leaved any marks or any kind of wound and it even had a record status of how much time I was using the TCB (Total Concentration Breathing).
It is Saturday so I thought about taking a stroll around the city again but mom stopped me.
"Kaito, I want to talk about you" mom said.
"What is it mom?" I asked.
"I believe it is the time we have the talk" mom said very seriously.
"Don't you think I'm still too young for that".
"First: it's not that type of talk, second: do you really think I don't know that you know way more about that than I do?" mom said with a deadpan expression.
"Wha…what are you t…talking about?" I nervously asked.
"Oh, honey I know about the magazines below the fake floor of your wardrobe".
I was shocked, as any man I need these types of things it is normal so one day when mom was out for the whole day, I created a hole in the wardrobe and hid there every magazine that I had for obvious reasons.
"at least your pajamas and bedsheets smelled normal otherwise I would have intervened" mom said and I was red of shame.
"Changing the topic *COUGH* *COUGH* what did you wanted to talk about?" I tried to change the topic to avert a disastrous fate.
"we'll retake this topic in the future, don't think you have escaped yet" mom said while glaring at me. "What I want to talk about is about my situation, you know the fact that I have a spatial related quirk right? So how come I didn't have the ability to make a living with the use of this versatile quirk?"
I indeed had that question lingering in my mind, to get a quirk related job the license is not that hard nor expensive but, when I asked her about it, she said that she "Couldn't" do it hope she tells me.
"You see son, we are part of the direct linage of one of Japan's most High-classed family the Kobayashi Family, I know you had used the computer to search for your roots, but the Kobayashi Family are hidden in society because of their spatial related quirks"
"Apparently decades ago, a member of our family lost his quirks to a villain and since then the government hid the family and used others as their representatives, the whole family manages a diversity of business that are related with spatial manipulation, in the whole history of my family I had the strongest spatial quirk". Mom said with a pained expression.
That may be the why she was always busy at I-ISLAND some family member must've found about her and wanted to cash in a favor.
"In the family we had rules that were sealed with a contract, first: we cannot reveal our quirk to anyone outside the family, second: we cannot work in any establishment with our quirk if it's outside the family business, third: marriage will be strictly managed by the family head and thus forbidding any type of romance outside said marriage".
"I was a foolish woman in the past and did many regrettable things but, my grandfather the previous family head loved me so much, maybe he loved me so much that I became a pampered brat, I was supposed to become the next family head due to my quirk and the fact that neither of my parents had a spatial related one".
"And then I met the man that would steal my heart and would become my husband in the future…Masaru Daisuke" I felt sadness from my mother when she said his name, at this point I forgave father for abandoning ME but never for making mom suffer mom.
"It was him who showed me how to live my life without caring of other's thoughts or expectation, for someone who had to overcome crazy expectations it was like a bliss to me, we spend many years together as a secret couple until grandfather died".
"In his will it was stipulated that I would have ¼ of the company's property and that no one could take that property off not even the next family head, everyone was jealous at me for having such an unfair gift but in reality, I was devastated for grandfather's death he was the only one besides my parents and brother that treated me like a person and not a tool to make money".
"After the funeral my aunt became the head of the family and immediately formed a marriage with another person from another High-Class Family, I loved your father and tired to refuse but she didn't care she wanted to have a friendly relation even if it was the las thing she did".
"I ended heartbroken so I cursed her and ran away from home using my quirk, breaking all the family rules in the process, after Marrying Daisuke and telling him about my quirk he slowly became colder and colder, I never understood the sudden change in his behavior but I always had hopes of him being himself again"
Mom, if that was as you describe him that means that something must've happened for him to become a heartless person.
"Since I left the family, they couldn't remove my ownership from the property but I also couldn't get any type of work with my quirk, otherwise I would lose the only thread to go back to the family but I never did used it".
"6 years ago, when we went to I-ISLAND I got a notice that my brother was also there managing some business so I decided to ask a favor from him, he kind of hates me for leaving the family since he had to be trained to be the next family head instead of me so he was under constant pressure and rejection from others because of my actions"
"I know I have no right to say this but, will forgive me for being a useless and foolish mother all these years?" Mom asked shaking a little with tearful eyes.
Now I understood where did moms guilt came from, she hated herself for being so selfish to others and failing her grandfather who believed in her and also for abandoning her family, but still, even with the will of great grandfather why didn't they took her property by other means, they could've arranged an attack to eliminate mother so why didn't they bothered?
Anyway, I should answer. "Mom, I'll be honest here, yes you did screw up badly but that is already the past, you need to look forward to the future, I know for a fact that you do love your family dad included" Mom looked at me with widened eyes.
"I haven't forgiven him for what he did to you so I'll make him apologize and then the 3 of us will eat kimchi stew together" I said smiling.
Mom started to cry she was relieved that I didn't hate her of thought badly of her and the fact that she was finally relived from those thoughts she attained peace and tranquility.
"Thank you Kaito you are one of the few blessings I have left" mom said hugging me and crying.
"You to mom I'll always love you".
We remained there for a few minutes and she continued.
"Back to the story, I went to I-ISLAND to finish an incomplete project that the family had developed taking into account my quirk, Project DIMENSIO'´. To be more detailed I will explain my quirk in detail, my quirk is called 'Infinite Dimension' it allows me to connect myself to a dimension of seemingly infinite space, the dimension could be filled with living and non-living beings".
"This quirk has very few weaknesses the first one is that only I can create the dimension and second the objects linked to the dimension can only be taken out by me, this limited its versatility for others so my cousin proposed an idea, what if there was an object that could be linked to the dimension the same way I did".
"It would be a type of bag with seemingly infinite space that anyone could access, however, I refused after the first experiment due to the pain it caused me to "create" another link access, not only that the dimension needed to respond to the user's needs, otherwise it would be useless".
"So, while being in I-ISLAND I contacted my brother, your uncle Kenny to help me resume the project investigation, of course I had to give them back the ¼ of property that I had but it was worth it".
I was shocked I knew mom was doing something important but now, I finally understood how much she has sacrificed for me.
"So, what happened in the end?" I asked.
"The project was a success and gave them 50 prototypes as the contract stated and then mad one for you" mom said taking a box from her bag. The box was the size of a shoe box and had a technological pattern outside of it.
"Open it son, I wanted to give it to you once you received you letter to UA but after seeing you train, I have no doubts that you will pass" mom said with a warm smile.
I opened the box and inside was a cyan colored sachet with my name embroidered in it.
"Drop some blood in it to create the link and then you will be able to use it" mom said handing me a knife and a band-aid.
I bit my thumb Naruto style and touched the sachet, my name glowed and then then the sachet had a patter like the demon slayer mark.
I put the band-aid and put my hand inside, it felt like I wasn't touching anything. Then I proceeded to put the knife inside and shuffled the sachet from the outside and when I tried to take the knife, I took it from the handle and was just is I put it.
"it's good right? The moment you told me you were going to use swords, gadgets and rest I knew you couldn't handle all that weight so this way you don't have to literally carry everything in you shoulder." Mom said proudly.
"Why the blood?" I asked.
"To connect you to the dimension, the study revealed that the dimension always existed y simply connect myself to the dimension and take whatever I want that I put in there, of course the dimension you are accessing is different from mine so even if it is the same dimension, you cannot take things from mine or anyone else's dimension and of course you need to pull anything out of the bag for it to work, also there is a limit to the size of the things you can put inside, is it clear?" mom concluded.
"How limited?"
"Nothing bigger than you biggest swords"
I rushed at her and hugged her, this is a tremendous upgrade now I could take as much weapons as I wanted, theoretically speaking of course.
I then rushed to the "weapons room" and put EVERYTHING inside the sachet, and the weight didn't even change.
Mom decided to rest since she felt relieved to take this form her chest and I went to train so I could switch weapons mid battle.
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[In an office]
"Yes, I understand I'll take the best doctors there are to help you, thank you sir" a man said while sitting in the chair near the desk.
*BEEP*
A sound coming from the phone in the office alerted the man.
"Yes, Clarice I am quite busy at the moment" said the man while putting the phone on hold.
"Sorry sir but Hawks and Best Jeanist will be here in 5 minutes" said Clarice through the phone.
"Understood Clarice thank you" he ended the call in the phone "I have to go the work calls "he ended the call on his cellphone as well.
While he was massaging his forehead, he looked at the photo of a man a woman and a child and said "if only I could go back, but it is too late for me, I regret my actions everyday but I believe I did the right choice even if I hurt both of you".
The man took the photo and put it in a drawer, afterwards he looked at a document called Kai Chisaki aka Overhaul.
