Growing Stronger...

Chapter 16

Title: Growing Stronger...

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Four days pass after the ordeal with Fisher Tiger and in the underground city of Raijin Island. Jaw's kids were all like usual just messing around the castle. Then another Fishman came to the castle holding a newspaper. He had an excited and at the same time nervous look on his face.

When the Fishman entered the castle he just yelled out. "BIG NEWS!!!"

Before he could say anything anymore. Kakashi just kicks the ground under him hard, creating a hole on the ground, and in a second he arrives in front of the Fishman with the newspaper.

Unlike his namesake Kakashi doesn't really wear a mask even though the silver hair and sleepy eyes kind make him seem like Kakashi, he doesn't even have his namesake's demeanor.

When he picks up the newspaper and reads the first page Kakashi's eyes widen and with a shocked voice he can't help but exclaim. "Bullsh*t."

As soon as he says that, his shock wears off and he winces a little.

"KAKASHI… DID YOU JUST SWEAR!!!" Comes Jaw's thunderous voice from inside the castle. Shaking the building to its core.

When he hears this Kakashi's mind works at maximum capacity to come up with an excuse and in the end, he says. "No dad I didn't, but it seems like Fisher Tiger really did it. Just like you said."

"Really now… that truly is interesting…" Says Jaw slowly as his head pops out from one of the windows in his stone castle and he just jumps off the window.

Baaam!

A crack appears below him as he just casually jumps up from seven stories high, he didn't even flinch as he hit the ground and he even has a smile on his face.

Kakashi just sighs at his father as he does that. He knows that Jaw can do that landing without cracking the ground, but he just decided to do it because it looks cooler.

Jaw even whispers. "Another cool landing for me."

Kakashi can't help but chuckle a little at this, but even he knows that due to his dad... he can never judge a book by its cover.

'No matter how he acts dad really is scary smart.' Thinks Kakashi with a certain childish pride rising in his chest at having such a cool dad. "So dad… how did you predict this all along."

Jaws just smiled at Kakashi. "Well son, the first reason why I thought he would be able to do it. Was because Fisher Tiger had a 'fire' in his eyes."

Kakashi looks confused at this. "What do you mean by 'fire'."

Jaws smile widens even more. "He had the will to do it and he believed in himself that he would do it… so he just simply went and did it. Never underestimate people who have 100% confidence in themselves Kakashi. It might seem like they are fools and might even seem arrogant but that in its own way is also power."

Kakashi, who prided himself as the smartest amongst his siblings. Still couldn't understand what his father meant by that. "I still don't get it."

Jaws smiled sweetly at Kakashi as he gets close and pats him on the head. "You will understand it when you grow up son…"

Jaws eyes darkened as he looked at Kakashi. "Anyway what was that swear word that I heard… my ears must have been playing tricks on me… Right, Kakashi?."

The pats on Kakashi's head turned into a steel-like grip, as Jaws grabbed Kakashi by the top of his head and just looked at him in the eyes. 

Kakashi was panicking a little since his father is very harsh when any of his children speak swear words. But on the outside, he was calm as he said. "Yes, father."

Said Kakashi, calling Jaws, father instead of the usual simply Dad. This is Kakashi's slight tick that gives away that he is hiding something or lying.

Jaws eyes darkened even more as he looked at Kakashi. "Oh, so you must think that I am going senile is that it son…"

Kakashi started nervously sweating at this and looked sideways and said. "N -No you are not a senile father."

"Ohhhh so then one of us has to be wrong here... either I heard a swear word or I am senile… which one do you think it is Kakashi?" Asks Jaws as a sweet smile appears on his face showing his rows of sharp teeth.

Kakashi didn't even know how to answer this… he knew that whatever he said would be wrong… so his mind was working overtime to try and figure this out. 

Finally, his face brightened as an idea came to him. "Dad… I saw Mikoto talking to some boy yesterday at the entrance of the city."

Suddenly... Jaws' face turned from angry to absolutely cold.

 "Ohhh is that so… you wouldn't happen to know this kid's name now would you." Said Jaws as he softly dropped Kakashi on the ground. Then suddenly tears appeared on Jaw's eyes.

"NOOOOO WAY IS MY DAUGHTER GOING TO MARRY SO YOUNG. KILLING THE KID IS THE ONLY SOLUTION IT SEEMS." Screamed Jaws with a furious look on his face.

"KISAME BRING A GUN AND COME WITH ME. WE ARE GOING FOR A HUNT." Said Jaws, and suddenly from one of the highest towers of the castle, a small figure jumps from it… 

*boom*

And it lands right in front of Jaws. When the dust clears off, Kisame appears with his head buried on the ground… then he pulls his head out of the hard stone.

"Damn… that kinda hurt." Said Kisame while rubbing the top of his head, where no injury seemed to appear on his body even though he jumped headfirst into solid concrete.

Then suddenly Kakashi's face pales as if he saw something out of his nightmares… Mikoto was running towards her father.

"What are you screaming about dad, are you angry or something?" Asks Mikoto with a truly confused look on her face.

*fwosh*

Suddenly Jaws appeared in front of his daughter and hugged her. 

"Tell me Mikoto… did you talk to a boy other than your siblings?" Asks Jaws with a crooked smile on his face as if he just swallowed a sour lemon.

Mikoto seemed genuinely confused by this.

"No dad, why would I sentence someone to death." Said Mikoto as she cutely tilted her head to the side in confusion.

Suddenly Jaws just looked towards Kakashi and his eyes shined red. 

Immediately Kakashi started running…

He didn't get far away… actually he didn't even take a step as he was caught by Jaws. 

"Take your punishment like a MAN." Said Jaws as he threw Kakashi towards Kisame, who caught him.

"Kisame, I want you to train Kakashi in the same intensity regimen as you." Said Jaws, Kisame enthusiastically nodded.

"I will do my best father." Said Kisame full of excitement as he put Kakashi over his shoulders like a sack of potatoes. And started running to his training ground while saying to Kakashi. "Don't worry brother, we will start light, just break 10 trees with your head and do 10,000 pushups with a small boulder tied to your back."

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When Jaws saw this he turned towards Mikoto, his daughter, and unlike how he acts with his son's he is softer with his daughters as a happy smile appeared on his face when he looked at Mikoto. 

"So Mikoto how have your lessons been going, tell me all about it." Said Jaws as he sat down and mentioned for Mikoto to come and sit down next to him.

Mikoto who was genially confused by what just went on here sat down next to her father and started talking about her lessons. "Well Klarissa has been teaching me navigation, she is really nice about it..."

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While a year passes, Jaws who is now at the age of eighteen still kept training himself endlessly like always.

He is currently at the bottom of the ocean fighting against a giant sea king, that looked like some type of zebra.

He just punches the water once and a ripple spread through and the sea king just spits out blood and rolled over… dying… 

Underwater creatures like this are no longer a challenge to him.

While what Jaws did might seem like just another simple punch it is far from it. On the ocean's surface, when he threw a punch. Giant waves rose like a tsunami, bashing themselves against any ship close by... and sinking them.

Jaws simply just looked at his hand. His physical strength hasn't grown a lot during this last year no matter how much he trained… but he has gone to a level of mastery of Fishman Karate which has never been done before.

By just swings, his right hand in front of him and he can feel the water moving in circles and it slowly started forming a whirlpool. Which grew bigger and bigger, until it became like a naturally formed whirlpool.

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At this time on the surface of the ocean, a giant whirlpool appeared out of nowhere swallowing anything on its radius.

'Seems like its time I start to make a name on the world.' Contemplates Jaws.

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AUTHOR NOTE:

Eighteen years of training have now brought the MC to this level. He has been training for eighteen years in the new world, while under the water pressure and together with his Fishman physicality... let's just say that he is quite strong now.

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