chapter 3: It’s training time

In a peaceful sanctuary where sunlight filtered through towering trees, that casted dappled shadows on winding paths below. A soft breeze stirred the leaves, carrying the earthy scent of grass and damp soil, while the distant laughter of children echoed near the playground. The air was filled with the gentle hum of birds chirping above. A young boy sat next to a beautiful woman that had long lush blueish black hair amethyst purple eyes, who was clearly his mothers, with an annoyed expression.

 'I've failed to convince them to let me start training in martial arts, or any type of training for that matter, even pulling the "it'll be helpful when I become a hero" card and the good old puppy dog eyes to them, "I'm too young" they say.  Well I'm bored out of my mind, and they barely leave me alone so I can't even do some basic exercise till they go to sleep.' The boy thought with his expression getting even worse. 

It had been 3 weeks since he visited the hospital with his parents and found out that he did indeed have a quirk much like his parents, however in that time he'd not once been able to get them to budge on letting him train even asked 4 times a day, getting 4 no's a day with it. 

"What's wrong hunny?" His mother asked, seeing the look on his face. "Nothing mommm, I'm going to go play!!" Replied the boy, grabbing two dragon toys one white and one red 

'At least I can train my stamina by running with these and pretending they are having the mightiest battle of the century:' Ryuji laughed to himself as he began to run around, while his mother watched with a smile. 

---Time skip: 15 minutes later —

'Holy fuck, I'm tried." Ryuji thought while sitting back down breathing heavily next to his mother. As she was looking at him still with a smile on her face that only got wider with her son next to her.

"Having fun with…what did you call them again? Ahh yes, Ddraig and Albion was it?" She chuckled at her son's naming sense while bringing him in for a cuddle. 

"Yes mommy, thank you for bringing me out to play again, I've the best time with you!!" Ryuji replied, snuggling into the embrace of his mother. 

"Awe, you're very much welcome, Y'know you can ask whenever you want to play I'll happily take you out." She replied ruffling her son's hair. 

"I knowww mom, you're the best!." He replied, giving her a beaming smile. "And cuz you're the best, can you let me do martial arts?"

  "No." She replied flatly. 

'Fuck at least I tried.' He thought while pressing Q for his ultimate ability, the puppy dog eyes, "Whyyyyy?" 

"Ryuji, I know you want to be a hero and if you still do when you're older we won't stop you, however you are too young to be doing too much physically, so until you get a little older the answer will be no, do you under stand?" His mother replied and then her smile once again crept back to her face. 

"Yes mom, I'll stop asking for now." Ryuji replied a little downcast to not being able to get through to his mother even his ultimate ability had no effect. 

"If you still want to be a hero and do martial arts, ask again when you're six, then I'll get you the best instructor for you." She replied and give him a kiss on the cheek. 

"Yes yes yes. Thank you mom!!" Ryuji replied back giving her a tight hug while thinking 'it's only two years, I've got this easy, in the meantime I can work on my basics, and maybe try and train my quirk even with the tests I've done it's really hard figuring out how it works.'

"That's a good boy, it's time we head home. I've got to start preparing dinner for when your father gets home from work." His mother said picking up Ryuji who was still in her embrace till then.  

"Okayyyyy." Ryuji said as she put him down and grabbed his hand. 

---Time skip: Home quirk training —

*badum* 

The sound of a door closing rung into Ryuji's ears as steps got quieter and quieter as they disappeared into the hall outside his room. 

'Finally some alone time. While I do enjoy all the love and affection of my new parents, I also love training, though today I finally feel like I'm going to get somewhere with my quirk.' Ryuji, who was just tucked into bed by his father, thought as he got out of bed. 

"Right, let's start with matter absorption, since I don't really have much, energy filled objects in the room, I should probably ask for a computer or laptop at some point" Ryuji muttered to himself. 

"Let's start with trying to turn my hand into wood, it shouldn't be too hard, since my stamina has skyrocketed compared to three weeks ago." 

'Right lets do this.' He thought as he knelt down and placed his hand on his floor boards. 'Nice and eyes, just like breathing, now take it in, become it.' 

Slowly Ryuji's index finger began to change colour and gain a wood like texture however just before it got past his joint to completely change the rest of his index finger his control slipped and his finger reverted back to normal.

'Fuck, why's this so hard, I don't really remember Kevin training much int his besides that one episode in Ultimate Alien besides something about learning to controlling his anger. Even then that's little to go off. Still it's better than when I first tried, barely changed a slight bit of my finger.' 

Over the next few hours the boy continued and failed to try and convert his hand to wood, however he did make some progress.

"Finally!" The boy shouted in excitement as he'd finally converted his full index finger into the same wood as his floor however a second later his parents slammed his door open and told him off for being awake at such a late time. 

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1,027 words this chap, gonna do a 2 year time skip next however he won't be making too much progress with his quirk until he's aged a bit more however progress is progress, also if you haven't guessed his mentality has de aged a little with his body

Let me know what you think :)