Chapter 4: Shocker of a revelation

[ Haruki POV ]

Everything was going great. Emphasis on 'was'. My researches were showing great results, plans were coming along great, although still not enough to figure out how to deal with the final boss, but it was still great.

For the first time ever since I awakened my memories, I'm worried. Slowly but surely, along the time I've spent, my memories were being erased without my knowledge. It's not really some sort of mysterious thing as it sounds to be, I know. It's because of something that's one of humanity's greatest boon and bane at once. Forgetfulness.

Although the memories I've forgotten aren't that important. At least I think they aren't. Most of the memories of mangas and animes I watched are still intact..... Probably. I need them. A lot. I didn't have much of a life aside from those to learn from in my previous life. If not for [Quick Learner] blessing, I'm darn sure that I wouldn't be much different from a new born when I was born.

I got admitted in hospital when I was about 4, spent about 5 years on hospital bed and then I relieved my benefactors of their burden.

Everything I learnt during those 9 years was through the stories that people used to tell each other in the hospital or things that I overheard from some loud mouths before they got kicked out. Mangas and Animes were the primary source for my entertainment. It was the only reason I could find to be content with in that life. Being an introvert didn't help much with that either.

All those memories, well there's not much in there, but there's still that experience of what loneliness feels like. If I were to forget all that, will I stop caring for people around me as much as I do now? Will I stop being as grateful as I'm now? I'm frustrated thinking of such questions. I'm going to lose all those memories, I don't like such a revelation.

But I can't do much about it now, can I?

So I'd focus on what I can. Preserve those manga collections left in my head on paper! Especially MHA and Naruto series. I'm going to start with Naruto and then MHA. Why? Well, because my development path depends on it.

I don't need to make whole manga itself, I just need the details. So it won't take that much time either.

I feel better now.

Nah! I'm still worried about how my personality will be affected. I will just leave a letter for myself on the front page of my diary and make sure to make it into a habit of mine to regularly read and write into it.

Mom and aunt tried to cheer me up after they realized something was bothering me, but I wish they could. I don't like seeing them worry. Although it feels warm knowing they care about me, but I still don't like that they are worried because of me.

Anyways. I can't always stay like that! I better focus on my progress this month.

So, I know I was being all smug about not wanting to learn Rasengan so early and how I don't need it right now and all that. I.... got impatient and learned it.

In my defense, it just looks so awesome! Not to mention the amount of destruction it can cause! Plus, I can make so many more variants of it like Tsunade Rasengan, Planetary Rasengan etc. I know you may think the latter isn't possible without huge chakra of a Nine Tail Jinchuriki, but my blessings isn't a blessing for nothing. Moreover, it is my Major blessing! It has potential to reach Chakra volume levels that can stand toe-to-toe with Naruto. I don't know how much chakra I have right now. But it should be at the same volume of an Uzumaki Elite Chunin. I can use normal Rasengan for almost 70 times before I exhaust myself.

Back to learning Rasengan, unlike my expectations, instead of 3 it took me 2 days to learn it. [Quick Learner] was being underestimated by me myself, I think.

I also made so many seals reach perfect level. That list consists, Quirk Suppressing Seal, Dimensional Storage Seal, Quirk Suppression Field Seal, Energy Drain Seal, Energy Container Seal. These are the major ones.

A few of them, you already know about but the rest are as below:

[ Quirk Suppression Field Seal ]: It creates a field that suppresses all the quirks as long as they are in there. Range of the field depends on how much chakra is put into making of the seal. I can make it just by using chakra, but I still need a proper surface to make it on. So I can't use it during battle as an offense, but it works as a great defence against emitter quirks. For offense, [ Quirk Suppression Seal ] is enough. All I need is just a single touch and they're done for.

[ Energy Drain Seal ]: As the name suggests, it drains energy. Specifically Nature's Energy. It drains it stores some of it to keep itself functioning while leading most of it towards a fixed direction.

[ Energy Container Seal ]: Just like before, name suggests its functions. It stores the nature's energy inside of it that can last for 7 or 8 Tsunade Rasengan.

Aside from these, there are many miscellaneous seals that I made because I was bored and wanted to do some tests. Like Foam Splash Sealy. Not a great choice in name but it's not something made very seriously. I just used my early version of dimension storage seal with trigger mechanism. The moment it gets triggered, all the foam stored inside comes out of it at an instant. It doesn't make much sound though since it doesn't have any explosion occuring in the process.

Aunty and I used it on mom. Had to get scolded for a few minutes for that. It was fine because Aunt was taking the most brunt of it since she's older. It was funny until she made me give her half of my tub of Ice cream as payment for protection.

Exile Seal. My most awaited seal. It's still in progress which I hope will be completed once I learn more about dimensional co-ordinates. Mom did say her friend is good at it so I guess I'll ask her, but that's for later.

Right now, I need to learn how to change attributes of chakra. We're gonna go to the village in a few days and stay there for 1 month. Apparently it's the village my grandma came from. Mom needs this break from her work. I suggested that spending break at a village is the best way to do so which got solid support from aunty.

And now, here we are.

At my grandparents' house.

Apparently my grandparents left this house many years ago, but they chose not to sell it and use it for spending their kids' (Mom's and Aunty's) vacations here.

Although, it's more of a mansion itself. It's got a huge backyard that I can use for my training. Air around us much pure in comparison to city. Maybe because of the village being mostly surrounded by thick forest.

The first thing I did was to go to the backyard. The sheer area that it covered made me wonder, is my 8 year old body that small? What the hell did my grandparents used to do to earn that much?

I decided that I should finally ask mom about who my grandparents are. I never visited them, nor did they ever visit us. I didn't question it because everytime something about them is mentioned, mom's expression gets sad. I think it's better now. Or else she wouldn't want to come to this house that connected them through their memories.

"Mom?" I called for her with that usual lengthening of voice of 'o' in 'Mom'.

"Yes sweetie? What is it?" she asked with a smile.

"What did Grandpa even do? This place is so huge!" I asked with curiosity clearly apparent in my voice.

"I expected you to ask that..." She said with her smile widening. It was the smile that she does when something seems to be funny to her but simultaneously worries her.

After a brief pause she continued, "Honey, do you know what Yakuza is?"

"Yakuza? Big band of thugs? They made so much by being Thugs?" I replied with a questioning tone. Which made her lips twitch her smile.

"Yes, he was the head of Yakuza" she replied.

"So, that's why you distanced yourself from each other? Because he was a criminal and you may get swept away with them?" I asked.

"You see, your aunt and I wanted him to stop doing this work, we knew he would end up getting himself killed. Our pleas even more intensified after mother got shot in the chest by the bullet aimed at him. But all he ever answered to it with was 'It's too late for me to turn back.' Apparently mother's death was too much for him. We argued with him about it on several occasions sometimes together, sometimes individually but instead of getting him to stop, we started to drift away.

Your Aunty is more towards the emotional side so you must've already guessed what effect it put into the arguments she had with him. Eventually, she decided to use studying abroad as her excuse and left. I already had a job and then I also got married with your dad. So, I didn't need an excuse to seperate from him.

He knows about you. I mentioned to him about you through our personal communication channel. Only reason he never came to visit you is because he doesn't want you to get involved into the mess he created." She said all that while I kept listening. I was too immersed into her story to interrupt her.

"What is his name?" I asked the most obvious question that I'd have after hearing so much about him.

"Right, I never mentioned his name to you. His name is Shie Hassaikai." she replied.

"Shie Hassaikai?" I repeated that name and....

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Chapter Title: Shocker of a revelation

Shie Hassaikai: You thought it was about his memories, but it was actually me, his grandpa!