It took two years for akarui to understand that her baby wasn't quite normal, he barely fussed at all and any time he did so it was because he needed changed or he needed food or a nap or a teething ring, he never just cried like most babies do, besides his unusual emotional maturity he was incredibly intelligent, he had begun trying to talk the moment she had first spoke to him and it had took him only a half year before his first word "mama" was spoken, and only a month after that before he had managed to stand and toddle a few steps, and within a few weeks was moving around with a dexterity and grace beyond his years, once she even tricked him into an early iq test, the results stated that he had a tentative iq of 146, highly gifted for a child his age, with this knowledge in mind she threw herself into vigorously teaching her child and was astounded by how quickly he picked up reading, writing, and other basic academic skills, in fact when she finished teaching him these things he turned towards her and in a heart-breakingly cute way asked "more please mommy" needless to say she soon found herself buying lots of academic books of the years 1 through 5, thankfully the bookstore nearby had stock for those excited for learning. ao had been productive during these two years, he was swiftly approaching the halfway point to the prowess in meditation he had held within the womb, the chaotic atmosphere of the waking world shaking his control and focus, he had learned to walk and shortly after run, his speech skills were coming along quickly, despite speaking only english in his last lifetime his young brain held the benefits of youth and quickly soaked up the language once he put effort into it, his mother had once attempted to trick him into some kind of test, he assumed that since he was advancing so quickly it might be some kind of intellectual test, he knew he was right when his mother began to teach him things like basic math with the basic 4(add, sub, mult, div) a week later along with other basic academic skills, everything seemed to be coming along wonderfully until one day a few months later she stopped, now he knew this had to continue, if he could prove his intellectual superiority he could skip grades and dodge having to be anywhere near his age group until they stopped being little slobber monsters, so he approached his mother with the sheet they used for math and made himself as cute as possible(all the while cursing himself in his head, doing this is pride shattering) and said "more please mommy" no more needed be said and later books on subject taught at school year 1 through 5 appeared on his shelves along with books meant to teach him to read better. six months later, his mother moved him to a toddler bed, which allowed him to do the exercises he knew meant for young children(easy and not too stimulating) when he woke up before his mother was done with her morning rituals in the master bedroom's bathroom, it also allowed him freedom to move after dark which is important. During these six months he finally hit the halfway mark at regaining his prowess in meditation, during which he once again felt the burning that he felt in the womb, however something had changed, a vision appeared to him. where before the flame was as if it was deep within the woods crackling quietly within a clearing as the sun shone through the woods, now night had fallen and eyes glowing red sat at the edges of the clearing, noises, gibbering and bestial as they prowled around the edges, great swaths of the ground have claw marks and gouges littered across it, sitting next to the fire is a fairly large beast, distinctly off-blue flames lingering across its skin, slitted eyes relaxed and staring quietly into the fire, head resting against crossed arms pointed ears listening. the next moment i snap to, noting that nearly half an hour has passed, off putting blue flames lick across his hands before vanishing, a cold viciousness shooting through his spine before quieting, i decide then and there that i have to up my training continuously or else, the glowing red eyes lurking in the corners of my vision ominously lingering.
it takes a month and a half for akarui to realize that something is wrong with her child, he doesn't have the same energy that he normally does and he eats a lot more than a normal child his age, even complaining that he's still hungry sometimes(she couldn't blame him, he's shooting up like a weed) he's a lot more intense, where before he was a normal if not gifted child now it feels as if all of that brilliance was pointed in a direction, a fire set behind them and a goal set and the end and told to go, the drive she sees in his eyes sometimes scares her(scared by a two year old and she's an adult, the shame is real), a lingering darkness fueling the fire, the drive seen within the orbs of blue so like his fathers and yet so different, the excess baby fat normal children have, sloughing off as time passed thanks to the workout regimine she gave him once he said he wanted to become a hero(she thinks that's the reason, how cute), showing a health uncommon in children, a sharper visage than most children have looking back at her, she's confused, she didn't think the regime would work that well but she doesn't really care thanks to a combination of things, mostly her work as a lawyer in civil cases(touching criminal cases in these days makes villains target you,sadly she's one of the few that understands this) causing stress, she's happy he's healthy at least, anyway it's not like he can harm himself the buildings been child-proofed front and back all the way. it had taken a month for ao to realize that something strange was happening thanks to his power, his quirk(he had looked that up amongst his books, his mom had got books on the subject for him thankfully), he had managed to determine a few things, one. his quirk accelerated his healing and two. whenever he lifted something heavier than he should be able, a sort of thin second muscular layer came active beneath his skin and helped him lift it, knowing this he determined through tests that the boost in strength was small but useful in the fact that it only activated if his strength wasn't enough, he managed to emit a tiny blue spark once but he might have hallucinated it. his fourth birthday quickly approached, his schedule morphing and growing as he mastered what he had on hand, creating hundreds of quizzes and randomly choosing one at the end of his learning time, the surprising thing is that his mother had decided he needed to learn at least one instrument, so now he has piano lessons on the weekends(through the years as he mastered instrument after instrument he looked back and thanked his mother in his heart, playing music was one of the things that kept him truly sane), in the time before he turns four his experimentation shows that he needs only 4 hours of sleep, he capitalizes on this brutally, his schedule turning into a nightmare, during this time he also masters the academic items up to the fourth year books, lastly he is closely approaching the 75% mark of regaining his prowess at meditation. akarui doesn't understand her son, she wonders if its due to a quirk but those usually don't come until 4yrs of age(although she knows it probably activated before his birth and that's partially why she accepts it), she knows he's very intelligent for his age and that he has muscles 90% of children his age do not but she hardly knows anything about him, the days she is home(few and far between) he'll sit on the couch and watch a movie with her and listen to her natter on or rarely he'll comment on what he's learning(she's ecstatic, her little boy's a genius, though with the rise of quirks the status isn't as rare as it was two centuries ago) she wishes she could be home more bit their home prefecture of nara seems to enjoy being horrible to each other(plus her boss is a dick) she does have a day off coming up soon, so maybe she could take little ao and eat out for lunch one of these days. my schedule doesn't change very much these days, its filled with study, exercise and meditation, so when mom has a day off and decides to take me to lunch for a bonding moment i'm understandably a little shook up, like dust falling of a statue in the middle of being cleaned having never been cleaned before, we swiftly set out for a little cafe that says it sells breakfast we quickly order and the waiter brings me a large western type breakfast with a few add-ons to make it a rounded meal, it consists of several waffles, sausages, broccoli heads, pears and a large glass of milk followed by a small cup of coffee with chocolate mixed in and brings my mother a more traditional breakfast with natto and miso soup, though she sneaks in a glass of orange juice(you can't fool me), satisfied we begin to eat and without any warning any at all she says "how have you been lately kiddo?" i reply "fine, we're barely out of groceries though" she considers that and replies "how have your studies come along?, are you healthy?, see anything interesting lately?" i understand she wants me to talk about myself and respond "i've started on fifth year a few days ago and am doing well, i haven't been sick lately or ever if i remember correctly, i did watch a video on the internet the other day, it showed a bird that turned invisible, so overall i'm ok mom" she sighs "good, their hiring two more lawyers into the firm, so maybe i can get days off more than once in a blue moon" i grin back "wonderful, i'm happy" we sit back nattering on about multiple different topics. In another corner of the cafe two men are arguing with each other, one with a dragons head stated "you know how this is supposed to go ridley, we pop in, we have tea, exchange and then we leave, why the hell do you need to insult my mother!?" on the other side of the table the one with polycornia in one of his eyes sneers back "oh i don't know maybe just maybe you were a dick my entire life, you deserve someone to kick you in your metaphorical ego testicles" the argument continues to grow and grow, eventually turning physical, before a loud Bang is heard, the dragon headed one shot the odd-eyed one through the head, on the other side of the cafe a off duty police officer sat at a table, a stereotypical(more true than you might think, doughnuts contain large amounts of sugar and officers need that pick me up) doughnut, quickly moved into position and attempted to get them to surrender, a firefight ensues, the customers hiding beneath their tables to get away from the bullets, several minutes later the officer lies dead, a bullet through their skull ending their valiant resistance, the villain bolts towards the door only to curse and return inside when a police car pulls up, the villain quickly grabs one of the customers and places a gun to their head and a hostage situation ensues, the villain and the police fire back and forth demands for a bit before the villain says one last demand and crushes the phone, the villain then hysterically laughs and begins planning his way out, he notices the hostage he is holding has gone unconscious and gathers all people left into a big group in the middle of the area, he quickly decides that he's not physically strong enough to grab one of the adults and book it, so he decides on the child leaning against the middle aged woman. i'm afraid, i'm not strong enough to beat this guy yet, so when he goes to grab me i struggle and mom is holding on to me and begging and he just tells her to shut up and slaps her upside the head with the gun, everything kinda goes quiet then, the snake guy is pulling me over to the door but my eyes are locked on my mothers crumpled form, then everything went off blue and BURNING. that day is forever immortalized in the eyes of the customers that visited that day, as the mother of the child crumpled to the ground everything seemed to go quiet and then a heartbeat, again and once more, then everything went Blindingly blue and a scream tore out of the blue light, visions of their deaths passed through them as a large boom sound and the front of the building blasted outwards. the heroes had arrived a bit before, coordinating with the police to see if they can do anything to help, two heroes with stealth quirks were going to infiltrate the building and attempt to enter the building when suddenly there was a burst of blue light and the front of the building exploded, chunks of material flew outwards and people had to dodge, a mass flew across and slammed into the opposite buildings wall,empty having been evacuated as is normal, and a blue form landed in the area before them and screeched, the dust clearing allowing the pro's a view at what had happened, they first noted the mass of hostages in the building, a middle aged man slumped to the ground and off to the side a woman with golden hair doing the same, the next thing they noticed was the growling blue creature in front of them, it was a child on all fours, age no older than four, his eyes slitted and ragged looking claws gripping the ground, translucent glowing blue horns and skeletal blue wings, wreathed in a blue translucent aura of fire, a pitch black tail, the tip ablaze waving behind him, he screeched and dove over the crowd and into the salon opposite the cafe, the pro's quickly followed and found the snake-man and the child engaged in combat, the snake man dodging the linear blows, wincing each time as the aura of flames would burn him, the child seemed to be getting angrier as he screeched and then pounced slamming the snake man into the ground and began ripping him apart with his claws, the snake man soon began twitching and right after that fell silent, the child screeched and then an explosion of flame burst forth, receding quickly the flames revealed the child over a burnt corpse seemingly satisfied, the child jerked up noticing the presence of other and screeched at the pro-heroes and coiled up to launch himself at the crowd, only to collapse, his quirk stopping immediately as a tired looking hero stepped out from the crowd black hair and scarf floating with eyes glowing red, he complains "i cant even have a day off to visit a friend these days".