17-One Month Survival (4)

'I need to grow my arsenal with one more move, before I fight any of them.' Aska thought to himself and then started to think about the moves he has right now.

'I have lightning cloak, that's for general physical and mental enhancement. I have chidori, and the improved version, the skin-tight glove, for piercing and slashing. I have black bullet for long distances. All of those are attacking, but I need to something to defend. My lightning cloak provides some protection, but it's too weak to be considered a defense'

Aska then started to come up with ideas about his defensive move.

'I used black sand before, maybe I can use the hardening from the bullet to create a shield that would protect me from attacks?'

Aska started to train in hardening a bigger area. He started by hardening a few small chunks and then started to stick them together.

Aska was able to do it a few times but it was too slow when forming. 'Forming smaller pieces first then combining them, is so inefficient. I need to find a different way'

Aska then started to form different theories about his defensive move.

'The only thing I can think of is, forming a little bigger parts faster. I can try to keep it balanced between speed and hardening'

Aska started to train in forming his black sand into plate shaped pieces. He then started to expand the size of the plate. He was able to form a plate the size of a bowling ball, which wasn't bad.

He then started to form multiple plates at once, his limit was to create three plates at once. But since the three plates were circular, they didn't fit together, there were gaps in between the black sand, so he changed the shape from circular to a hexagon, which allowed the the black sand to fit together and form a solid wall.

'This seems to be much better than the makeshift shield I used against the sound wolf' Aska was satisfied with his improvement so far.

Aska kept training in forming his black wall, as he called it. Training in forming solid shapes for his black wall, also improved his speed in making black bullets.

Aska spend four days training like a maniac, no interruptions, he ate fish and drank from the coconuts whenever he was hungry or thirsty. otherwise, he didn't waste time on anything else.

His observation haki, that has been in continues use since he came on the island, has expanded to a much greater distance. Aska can now cover a distance of 250 feet around himself.

After four days of forming black walls, Aska was finally able to create a black wall fast enough to be used during a fight. Also his black bullet was much more refined than before, He made it smaller in size, but it had more speed and stronger impact.

'I have three days left, I think I can fight one of the three strongest. I'm not fast enough to match the bear, and my lightning can't compete with the wolf, that means the snake is my target.' Aska made up his mind he decided to relax for the rest of the day

He has been mentally, and physically exhausting himself and he wants to make sure he is prepared for his biggest fight since he came to the island.

Aska didn't do much for the rest of the day, he has been pushing his limits for so long, and has been fighting everyday. Just now, after 27 days on the island, he realized the water looked so nice and calming under the sunlight.

For the first time he noticed how beautiful the sunset was.

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The next day Aska was prepared to fight the big snake.

Aska did his usual routine, he ate grilled some fish, drank some coconuts, and he set off towards the area he last saw the snake in.

It didn't take Aska too long to find the snake.

Currently the snake is eating a whole bear.

Aska patiently waited on a tree branch nearby. He was far away, the snake couldn't see him, but he can see it.

Once the snake was done swallowing the bear. He jumped from one tree branch to the next.

A minute later Aska was standing in front of snake.

'That thing really is the embodiment of evil' Aska thought as he got a better, and closer look at the snake.

"You're ugly, you know that" Aska told the snake with an evil grin, as he pulled out his sharp stones.

'This will most likely be my last kill in this island. Let's make it flashy'

(A/N: This isn't a reference to Tengen Uzui. NO! This is a reference to the almighty captain Buggy the clown)

Aska who was already in lightning cloak, kept watching the massive snake.

The snake's body started to ooze out green thick substance. The snake hissed at Aska before attacking him head on.

Aska was way faster than the snake he jumped up a tree branch.

The snake smashed into the tree he was on, he easily jumped to another tree that was close by.

'That thing has thick scales, and is covered in acid. My only option is to use long range'

Aska holds his hand out and forms three bullets he reaches out his hand aiming at the snake, and the bullets flew right at the snakes.

The second the bullet touched the snake's skin it melted.

'The Acid is that strong. It only takes a touch to melt iron sand!' Aska had to come up with something different, but surprisingly Aska wasn't scared.

Aska observed the snake closer, he was able to determine, that the under jaw of the snake and the eyes were soft and weren't covered with much acid.

'But to get a good hit in, I need to get close and stand under the snake's head'

Aska decided he will use the bullet on the weakest spots in the snake's body.

Aska started to fight the snake trying to get closer to the throat.

Every time Aska got close the snake was able to protect it's eyes from the black bullets. Aska kept trying from long range for a long time.

Aska couldn't outright touch the snake with his hands, so he had to keep using black bullets. He had to use black wall a few times to defend from the snake's attacks.

'It looks like the snake can't shoot the acid, it can only cover its body with it. And the only part of it's body that seems to be fast, is the head. It can't move it's entire body at that speed, but the head strikes are quick' Aska after battling the snake for a bit, was able to make a couple of observations.

Aska then came up with an idea. He started to climb higher up a tree, he got to a branch near the top of one of the biggest trees around.

The snake looks at Aska but doesn't make any moves.

'I need it to climb up here' Aska started to attack it with bullets, but this time aiming toward the face.

The snake was able to move its head out of the way, but Aska's goal was to irritate the snake enough so that it would climb up the tree.

Sure enough, the snake got angrier, Aska could feel it's killing intent.

The snake started to coil up the tree and climb towards Aska.

But because of the acid around the snakes body, the tree started falling down.

Not wasting anytime, Aska jumped to the tree next to it, and started to climb down as fast as possible, until he was at around the same height as the snakes head. The snake was still on the previous tree.

As the tree was falling down, Aska jumped toward the snake's head midair. And aimed three bullets, one in each eye, and one to the under jaw area.

The under jaw wasn't harmed, but both eyes were injured.

'Checkmate' Aska smiled when he felt the black sand inside the snake's eyes. He landed on the ground without any difficulty. Aska used his magnetism and pushed the sand deeper into the snake's eyes.

The sand kept digging deeper, until it reached the snakes brain. Aska willed the sand to cut and tear everything without holding back.

The snake's head was shaking all over the place. Blood started to come out of the snake's nose, and mouth.

After some more flailing around the snake's body stopped and laid dead in the center of the area while still wrapped around a tree.

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This fight lasted for one hour, but it took so much out of Aska, he was mentally exhausted. And decided to head back to his base.

Aska started walking towards the snake's head, with his observation haki, he can tell that the snake was dead.

The snake's mouth was still opened, the inside of the mouth wasn't covered with acid, so Aska can reach inside without any issues.

Aska was able to dig out the snake's fangs. The fang was as big as his legs.

'Those are massive' Aska created two black walls, and had the walls lay horizontally and he placed the fangs on top of them.

After collecting his last trophy of the month, he started to walk back towards his base, and two floating plates of sand with white fangs on top of them were right behind him.

After he got to the base, he finally sat down and started to rethink about his battle.

'My battles have been pretty easy on the island. Nothing too difficult for me. The main thing I gained aside from my arsenal, is self belief. I know that I'm strong now. I'm not an ordinary human anymore. I have abilities beyond imagination, I needed to see my capabilities to understand that'

Aska was happy with his growth, not just physically, but mentally as well. Living in the wild for a month is no easy task, and fighting ferocious animals on top of that. For a ten year old. This is very impressive.

Aska decided he will spend his last two days just chilling.

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It's the thirtieth day, Aska went towards the same area he first landed on. Aska can see a boat coming toward the island. Once the boat reached the beach his mom jumped off of the boat and rushed towards Aska, behind her was also his dad?

"Aska, are you ok?" -mom as she hugged me very tightly. She started to cry while holding me.

"I'm ok mom. Please don't cry" -Aska

"*Sob* how can I not cry? *sob* they took you away from me for a month!" Mom was saying between sobs.

Dad who was standing a little bit behind mom, squared down to eye level with me.

He gave me a big hug "I'm glad you're ok son. I was really worried about you" I could tell that dad meant what he said.

After some time of catching up, dad looked at the fangs and claws I've collected over the month.

"What are those Aska?" -dad

"Isn't obvious, those are his trophies!" A sound of a beast spoke. It was Yujiro.

"You shut up! Don't get any closer to Aska. We will go back to Nabu island and then we will leave" -mom shouted at Yujiro.

He ignored her and looked straight at me.

"from the size of these, it seems you killed the acid snake" - Yujiro said as he pointed at the largest pair of fangs in my collection.

"Yes" said Aska in a cold voice

"From that look in your eyes, you finally went from a prey to a predator. Though you're only a cat acting like a tiger" Yujiro laughed at Aska and then went back to the boat. The parents kept telling Aska to ignore him.

After we got in the boat, we reached Nabu island in an hour. After that my parents walked toward Mr. Zenitsu, who was waiting for us.

"Welcome back Aska, I'm glad you weren't hurt" Mr. Zenitsu said in an apologetic tone.

"Pleas take us to the hospital"- dad asked Mr. Zenitsu, his voice wasn't his usual nice voice though.

When we got to the hospital, my parents had them make a full physical examination. I even met with a psychiatrist who asked me a series of questions. She was surprised when I was deemed to be mentally stable with no issues.

She told my parents that in case I show any weird behavior, they should get me checked again. Sometimes mental traumas show symptoms late.

The physical examination, showed that I had three cracked ribs, it was minor cracks, but it's there nonetheless.

The doctors, my parents, and I were all surprised that I couldn't feel the pain. There was someone with a healing quirk, it took them a few minutes to heal my cracked ribs.

Blood tests showed that I wasn't poisoned or anything, which was great.

After the physical and mental examinations. Dad didn't wait anymore, and took us straight to the airport.

'I don't blame them, their ten year old son was basically kidnapped. Mr. Zenitsu had guaranteed my safety but failed, so I guess dad is mad at him too'

We got to the airport, and we boarded an airplane.

The flight was like usual.

During the flight, I asked mom about what happened when I was gone.

It turns out that when mom woke up the day I was taken, she asked where I was and Mr. Zenitsu told her that I was with Yujiro training.

Though mom wasn't happy she didn't cause any issues. They waited for me the whole day, but I never came back.

When it was late at night mom convinced Mr. Zenitsu to take them to Yujiro's house to see where I was.

When they got there Yujiro told them that he sent me somewhere else to train. Mom panicked and yelled at him, telling him to give me back.

When he refused she called dad and told him the whole story.

Dad took the next flight to Nabu island. Surprisingly dad got in a fight with Yujiro, he even punched him in the face. Yujiro still refused to tell them where I was.

Dad called the police and reported me missing, and pressed charges against Yujiro, saying that I was kidnapped by him.

Before Yujiro could get arrested Mr. Zenitsu asked Yujiro to come to his house, Mr. Zenitsu, dad, mom, and Yujiro had a talk. And when I say talk, I mean fight.

Mom and dad just kept asking him to give me back. He told them to piss off. Mr. Zenitsu tried to keep the conversation civil as much as possible but dad wasn't having it.

In the end Yujiro told them that the only way to know where I am, is when the month is over. He didn't care if he goes to jail or not. He won't tell them where I was.

Mr. Zenitsu kept calming them down, he even asked Yujiro multiple times where was I, but he never answered him. Mr. Zenitsu promised my parents that he will keep after Yujiro till he finds out my whereabouts.

In the end dad decided to trust Mr. Zenitsu and wait. Mr. Zenitsu thanked dad for dropping the charges against his friend, and promised again that he will convince Yujiro to get me back to them.

The entire month was difficult on mom though. She cried herself to sleep every night.

The entire flight mom was holding my hand as if I'll get taken away again.

The flight arrived without any issues. And we were able to take a taxi home.

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