3 days later, the two boys continued to meet up every day to do more training and experimenting.
The two could now reflexively move their chakra throughout their body without even thinking too hard about it, if they needed to walk up a wall, it was second nature now.
Sensing their chakra was child's play and they had learnt pretty much all they could at this point.
So far they had learnt how to walk up any surface and enhance their bodies with chakra. They had attempted to fly, to create fire, to create matter and a number of other silly things.
And so Sora sat down on the sandy floor next to Yukio, looking a little bummed out. "Is that really it? I thought chakra was some kind of crazy magic that could let us… fly or something." He sighed and looked at Yukio.
Yukio shared his disappointment. "Me too. But this is still kind of cool, we can walk on walls, on ceilings and make our attacks a little stronger." He did think chakra was awesome, but it wasn't as omnipotent as they had expected.
"Or… maybe we aren't looking for the right things. We haven't found anything new since we learned how to walk up surfaces." Sora hummed in thought. "But what could we do?"
Yukio shifted a little, but Sora noticed it. "You got something?" Sora asked. Making Yukio sigh.
"Yeah, it's a bit dumb. But do you think we could infuse chakra into our voices? And make it leave our bodies?" He said, making Sora tilt his head.
Sora then quickly stood up and looked at Yukio. He gathered some chakra into his throat and infused it into the words as they came out of his mouth. "Uhh… hi?" He said, feeling the words come out a little heavier. He could also see the faint blue energy flow throughout the air and into Yukio's ear.
From Yukio's side, he didn't feel anything off. He did think that Sora's words were a bit heavier but that was about… nevermind, he felt strange. And then it happened, there were now 2 Sora's standing in front of him.
"Hey?" "Hey?" Both of the Sora's spoke in unison, making Yukio's eyes widen.
"B-big bro! There's two of you!" He said. But as he said it, the second sora faded away.
Sora tilted his head. "What the hell are you talking about?" He definitely didn't create another version of himself. But now that idea was there…
Yukio suddenly stood up quickly. "Wait, do that again. Infuse it into your voice again."
"Hm? Okay." Sora said with chakra infused into the words. The same sensation of the words being heavy happened again.
Yukio very subtly felt Sora's chakra enter his ears and his eyes widened in fear. Sora didn't double this time, but his mouth expanded super wide, inhumanly wide. Yukio stumbled back as Sora's mouth just kept getting wider and wider. He covered his eyes in fear.
Sora squinted in confusion. "What are you doing? Get up, stop being weird." He said, his voice a little disgusted.
Yukio uncovered his eyes and looked at Sora, whose mouth was regular sized. "W-what was that…?" He stuttered, still a little frightened.
Sora looked around and scratched the back of his head. "Nothing happened, man."
"No. Something definitely happened. Let me show you." Yukio stood up, thinking that he had understood the gist of what had just happened. Infusing chakra into his throat and into his words. "Watch as I change."
Sora raised an eyebrow but watched on anyway. He felt Yukio's chakra enter his ear and… as Yukio's body shifted and churned before he turned into a cat. But… he could still see Yukio's silhouette and chakra signature in the shape of Yukio. Just kinda hovering over the cat.
"The hell is this?" He asked, slowly getting more and more interested. He could easily feel Yukio's chakra in his body, so he just attacked that chakra and forcefully expelled it, making the cat shift and churn back into the form of Yukio.
Yukio chuckled. "I think we have found the next big thing… I think by putting my chakra into your body through my voice I can interact with your sight? Making you see things that aren't there. I think you accidentally did it, you probably thought of finding a way to clone yourself and made me see two of you subconsciously. Then you must've wanted to make your voice louder and scarier, making your mouth extremely huge. Right?" He explained flawlessly.
Sora was taken aback. "Woah and you just figured all of that out…? How?" He was certainly excited about manipulating people's vision but how the hell had this kid figured all of that out from one singular test run?
Sora looked Yukio in the eye and then infused chakra into his throat. "Flip?" He spoke, his words heavy.
Yukio watched in interest as his vision flipped upside down, making him immediately get vertigo and feel a bit queasy.
Sora quickly removed his chakra from Yukio's body before the kid threw up all over the place. "Well, it seems you are right." He grinned. "Amazing job! Now we have something new to train!"
Yukio took a few deep breaths to gather himself before he gave Sora a thumbs up.
Sora paced around, muttering multiple questions to himself. "Does it have to be through sound? Or can I infuse my chakra into other people's bodies through other means? Can it only manipulate sight or can I make people hear, taste or smell things too?"
He quickly looked at Yukio, staring him in the eyes. As he infused chakra into his sight, he saw his chakra enter Yukio's body. His eyes widened and Yukio suddenly turned his head.
Sora stared on as Yukio kept looking around, as if multiple people were calling his name. "What? Who is it?" He asked as the calls of many people invaded his head.
Sora cut it off. "Hey! I just found out two new things." He said with a grin. "Turns out you can use this technique by making eye contact as well. And it doesn't only work on sight, I can make you hear things as well. You just have to move your chakra to the place you want to affect and boom! You can make people hear or see things!" He continued.
Yukio's eyes widened in surprise. "Woah… and you just did that without me even realising? Big bro… you are so cool!" He said, about to try it out for himself.
He focused his chakra into his eyes and made eye contact with Sora. Hoping to make Sora hear a loud explosion to his right.
Sora quickly turned his head to the right, where he saw a large explosion coming from a building. His eyes widened and he stepped back. But then he noticed Yukio's chakra was invading his body and he quickly disrupted it.
As he did this, the explosion, loud bang and the smell of smoke all disappeared from existence. "Right, so you just did all three at the same time? That's no fair." He said, feeling a little betrayed.
He looked over at Yukio, who was struggling to stay standing up, he kept wobbling on the spot. Sora's expression got serious as he ran over to support him.
He sat Yukio down on the floor, leaning up against the tree they had climbed together. Sora then focused his eyes and checked to see if there was anything wrong with Yukio.
And sure enough, his chakra levels were extremely low. He had overused his chakra way too much and had nearly run out.
A little worried, Sora infused chakra into his hands and placed them on Yukio's shoulder as he poured some of his chakra into Yukio.
The younger boy's eyes slowly started to regain their luster as he seemed to wake up. "Woah, what just happened? Was that you?" He barely managed to say, his words slurring.
Sora sighed and picked the boy up, hoisting Yukio's arm over his shoulder as he carried him. "I'll take you to your house. It's getting late and you are way out of shape." He grit his teeth, he didn't want to see that brute again but hey. Yukio couldn't be out anymore.
…
The two walked for a few minutes before Sora was standing outside of Yukio's home, a bit worried that his parents would mistake it as Sora having beat Yukio up.
With Yukio still over his shoulder, Sora knocked three times on the door. Within seconds he could hear heavy footsteps running towards the door, he nearly instinctively ran away.
The door swung open dramatically and Sora was in the shadow of that brute once again. He looked up to see the bearded man's brutish face.
"Hm? What is this? Yukio… are you okay?" The man raised an eyebrow, not panicking at all to Sora's surprise.
Sora sighed and replied. "He went a bit overboard in training and ended up draining himself of his energy…" he handed Yukio's half conscious body over to his father.
His father suddenly grinned and picked Yukio up. "Ah, you! You really are just like me. I knew you had it in you!" He hugged Yukio tight, making Sora flinch.
Sora was about to say goodbye and walk away but as he opened his mouth.
"Hey, Yuki's friend, come on in. My wife's making food. Come join us." The brute spoke with his gruff deep voice, ushering Sora inside.
Sora couldn't even refuse, he was forcefully pulled inside all the while wondering how on earth small, innocent, shy Yukio is related to this man. Nonetheless, the fresh aroma of cooking food entered Sora's nostrils as his eyes widened. His parents never cooked for him, this was his first time smelling a fresh home cooked meal.
Being dragged to the living room and sat on a couch next to the barely conscious Yukio, who was still muttering things that Sora couldn't quite make out.
Yukio's father quickly went into the kitchen, Sora assumed to tell his wife that they had company. Before he came over and sat in front of Sora, studying him closely.
"Those are some really interesting eyes you have there… uhh…" he said, not knowing Sora's name.
"Ah, my name is Sora Hino." Sora finished his sentence for him and introduced himself at the same time. "And yeah, my eyes are pretty unique, aren't they."
The man nodded. "Alright, Sora. My name is Yuu Sunohara. What exactly were you training with my son? And are you his friend from school?" Yuu tilted his head as he threw a barrage of questions at Sora.
Sora stammered before answering the questions. "Ah, Yukio was worried about being weak so he asked me to train him. No, I'm not his friend from school, I don't even go to school and I am 2 years older than him." He managed.
Yuu raised an eyebrow. "He asked you? Why you?"
Sora didn't feel offended by his concern and just answered honestly. "Because I'm pretty strong, and great at fighting. I have never ever lost a fight in my life." He said, the unease disappearing as he started to talk about himself.
"And why would he need someone good at fighting? Is he trying to fight?" Yuu asked, his voice getting deeper.
"Yeesssuhhhhhh" a slurred moan came from beside Sora as Yukio tiredly replied. Making Sora forcefully hold his laugh in.
Quickly pulling himself together, Sora looked back at Yuu and shook his head. "No… not for fighting, moreso to defend himself if he is picked on. You do know that happens pretty often because of how he looks, right?"
Yuu's face darkened. "Yes. I am aware." He sighed. "It has been the case since he was young, he was born this way. With extremely pale skin, pure white hair and unique pink eyes. His skin and eyes are extremely sensitive to the sun, so he never got to go out much. He has always been a fragile boy, easy to get picked on." He continued.
Sora's expression turned a little solemn as he turned to look at the boy, who had fallen asleep next to him. 'I didn't know it was that bad…' he silently mused.
"And so… I am extra glad he now has a friend like you, who is willing to help him get stronger!" Yuu grinned widely.
Sora just nodded with a smile as he noticed the smell of food had gotten more potent and a new chakra signature entered the room.
He looked over to see a beautiful, tall, slender woman with long dirty blonde hair and brown eyes holding multiple plates full of food.
"Foods ready!" She said, her voice melodious and kind.
Sora couldn't help not note that Yukio looked JUST like her, as if his father's genetics didn't even try.