Training under Kaido was hell. Pure, unrelenting hell.
Every morning, before the sun was even up, Kaido would drag Yuta and Yamato out of bed and throw them into the mountains. Literally throw them. One time, he even hurled Yuta so far that he landed in a tree, hanging upside down.
God only knew how much he had to thank Rika's scarf in recent days.
Of course when you have attention of one of the strongest on you, you can't secretly go around seaking out with your girlfriend and slack.
So, Yuta had to completly moveout of where both him and Maki were staying. Staying full time now with beast pirates.
Its been almost a month since they come here and he join the beast pirates and now he can say for sure that he didn't like this ass holes one bit.
They had long gotten used to the pirate lifestyle with Whitebeard and his countless sons but no matter how he try, adapting to this ruffians here was out of his capacity.
Savages all of them. A respected modern city boy like him can't mix with them. Nope, not happening.
But, here he was, doing just that becuase he had to.
Actually, he wasn't...
He hardly interact with them anymore. Most of his time he is either getting his body break by Kaido or getting his brain chewed by his daughter.
"Oi, brat! Climb back down and run ten laps around the mountain!" Kaido roared, laughing like a madman.
"I already ran ten laps yesterday!" Yuta shouted, dangling like a bat.
"Then run twenty today! GYAHAHAHAHA!" Kaido bellowed, slapping his knee with joy.
Kaido seriously gave off Garp vibes right now.
'Good good, very good. Old man just you wait, I'll teach you what a unfilial disciple is, just you wait until I come back after few decades later.' His mind shouting profanities at the man but knowing that he can't do anything about it.
'Wait a minute, would he be able to say its me when I come back ? I'm still in disguise after all...' he geniunely gave it a thought.
After all it would be a shame if he didn't even know why I suddenly come after his life. Shouting like that one disciple who come back to take his master's life.
Yamato, puffing hard as she carried a giant boulder on her back, glared at Yuta. "Stop whining! If I can do it, so can you!"
Yuta groaned, falling out of the tree. "Sigh… I don't like this world. Why can't the system take me somewhere more reasonable?"
Training meant running up cliffs with weights, fighting wild animals Kaido released on them, and even sparring directly with Kaido. And when Kaido was drunk, he didn't hold back his swings.
Full Master Roshi treatment.
One evening, after Yamato got smacked into a lake and Yuta was buried under rubble, the two of them collapsed on the ground, staring up at the stars.
Yamato panted. "That… was… awesome!"
Yuta turned his head to glare. "I have decided. I don't like Shonen anymore."
"Shonen ?"
"It's nothing. Just me cursing my pitiful existence..." Yuta replied with a dejected look. He was a normal human outside his power in terms of his body; he wasn't build of this shonen training shit.
"But we're getting stronger, right?" Yamato said, her eyes shining. "Someday I'll beat that old man!"
Yuta chuckled weakly. "Me too." He couldn't help but laugh at the irony.
In their rare free time, Yuta often distracted Yamato from the pain with stories.
"Alright, listen," Yuta said one night, poking the campfire. "I'll tell you about a boy named Naruto."
Yamato leaned forward, hugging her knees. "Naruto? Is he strong?"
"Oh, definitely. He starts as the weakest kid in his village. Everyone hates him, no one believes in him, but he never gives up. He has this dream to become the leader of his village—the Hokage."
Yamato's eyes widened. "Is he a pirate?"
"No," Yuta grinned.
"He's a ninja."
"Heh! But ninjas are weak," Yamato frowned.
"Haha… what do you know, kid? This isn't your run-of-the-mill ninja. This is the most unpredictable knuckleheaded ninja in the world."
Yamato gasped dramatically. "Really! What kind of powers does he have?"
"Well," Yuta scratched his cheek, "he has this giant fox monster sealed inside him."
Yamato's jaw dropped. "WHAT?! A monster inside him? That's so cool! Does he turn into a fox?"
"Sometimes. Mostly, he just glows orange and punches people really, really hard."
Yamato's eyes glowed.
The next day, during training, Yamato started screaming mid-punch: "Believe it!"
Yuta nearly tripped over his own feet. "Did you just… use Naruto's catchphrase?"
"Yeah!" Yamato shouted, swinging her wooden club. "I have decided. I'm gonna be the future Hokage of Wano! Believe it!"
Kaido, watching from his seat with a jug of sake, squinted. "What the hell is a Hokage?"
Yuta groaned. "Don't ask."
But little by little, the harsh training and silly conversations pulled Yuta and Yamato closer. They bickered like siblings, competed at everything, and even helped each other heal after Kaido's insane drills.
One time, Kaido made them spar with each other while balancing on bamboo poles.
Yamato charged at Yuta. "Thousand Years of Death!"
"Fuck!" Yuta yelled, dodging as Yamato fell off the pole into a pond with a big splash. Cold sweat poured from him.
She came out soaked, grinning ear to ear. "Okay, maybe not a ninja move. But I'll invent my own!"
Yuta thought about Naruto's Sexy Jutsu and then recalled Yamato's adult image.
'Ahem...'
He immediately shook his head.
The girl wouldn't even need any jutsu. She would be a deadly combination.
'I'm never saying this to her.'
Despite the grueling days, nights were always fun. Yuta told Yamato more about Naruto, about Sasuke the rival, Sakura the teammate, and even Kakashi with his mask.
Not just Naruto, but all kinds of stories—from Dragon Ball to Harry Potter. He let his mind run wild in front of her.
"Wait, wait, wait," Yamato interrupted one night. "You're telling me there's a guy who can destroy Kaido with just one punch?"
Yuta nodded, dead serious. "Yes."
Yamato rolled on the ground laughing. "Haha, that would be awesome! I wanna see. Is he really bald?"
Then she grinned again. "Hey, when I get stronger, you'll tell me the ending of Naruto, right?"
Yuta paused. He looked at her—the little girl who would one day rebel against her father, the girl who'd one day dream of being Oden. He smiled softly.
"Of course," he said. "I'll tell you everything."
And so, between Kaido's brutal training and nights filled with stories of ninjas and friendship, Yuta and Yamato grew close. They weren't just fellow disciples under Kaido anymore—they were becoming true friends, laughing, bickering, and pushing each other forward.
Even if the world around them was cruel, at least they had each other.
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