On kin's way to Ryo City he heard something move in the bushes and suddenly moved back, " whose there " kin asked, a woman holding a basket came out from the bush, " what are you doing wandering around the forest, what if you were to be attacked by magical beasts, what do you think your parent's would do if they were to lose you? " the woman asked
"magical beasts? " kin asked in a confused tone, "what are you doing in the forest anyways?, it's almost night" the woman said, " i'm actually going to Ryo city", kin said, "it's late, you should find somewhere to stay for the night, would you like to follow me home? ", the woman asked and kin thought about it for a while before finally accepting her request.
They made it to the Dia village just before sunset, it was a small village but it was still bigger than Ichi village, the woman took kin and went into a hut that was in the center of the village, "Raito.... "The woman yelled, "ma" answered by a boy who seemed to be the same age as kin, he was a little bit taller and he had brown coloured hair, "take this boy's bag to your room, he is going to be spending the night with us" the woman said, " and what is your name kid" the woman asked,
"Kin Zuko" kin replied, "you can call me Sara kin" Sara said, "kin follow raito and he'll show you where you are going to be sleeping tonight" Sara said and kin followed Raito to his room.
"My name's Raito", Raito said, "where are you from kin?"Raito asked,
"Ichi village"Kin replied, "where's your dad? Kin asked in a curious tone,
"He died while hunting magical beasts"Raito replied with a faint tone of sadness visible in his voice, not wanting to continue with the topic, Kin quickly asked a question that had been bothering him for quite sometime,
"What are magical beasts by the way",
"You don't know what magical beasts are " Raito asked with a surprised tone,
"No"
"Well since you don't know, magical beasts are similar to animals, usually with higher intelligence and supernatural or extraordinary abilities or qualities", "next thing you'll tell me is you don't know what rugi energy is ", Raito said
"Am I supposed to know, because I don't", kin said in a confused tone,
"WHAT... ", "calm down Raito we talked about this, " Raito murmured to himself while Kin stood there giving Raito a confused look.
"Well rugi energy is a luminous body that surrounds your physical one. Each layer - and any problems in them - surrounds your body in a net of energy, each individual has a unique type of rugi energy and each rugi energy determines what type of element he or she can control, I can control lightning while my dad could control fire but my mom said she has no use for it so she never activated her's " Raito said.
"How does one activate their rugi energy " Kin asked,
"You just have to focus and clear your mind, when you see a round shape of color you'd know what element you can control, Red means fire, brown means earth, white means air, blue means water, purple means lightning and grey means metal.
It usually takes time to activate your rugi energy, it took me five days to activate mine", Raito said.
"Raito, Kin dinners ready" Sara yelled,
"You heard her let's go down for dinner", Raito told Kin and they both left their room.
During dinner.....
"So kin, may I ask why you were going to Ryo City?", Sara asked,
"Well, I want to become a Daitōryō fortress, so i'm going to Ryo city to attend the kabaneri academy for future Daitōryō fortresses ",
"Oh, Raito here too wants to be a Daitōryō fortress and will be leaving for Ryo city in the next five days, do you think you can wait for him, because I don't trust him to be traveling alone ",
"Mom, come on you couldn't think of another reason" Raito said,
"sure" Kin replied while trying to hold his laugh.
After dinner Raito and kin thanked Sara for the food and went to their room,
"You should probably start trying to activate your rugi energy, because I heard you won't be able to enroll if you can't control an element "
"Ok"Kin said and sat on the floor with his legs crossed,
"While you're at that, I should start cultivating if I want to breakthrough to rank B beginner " Raito murmured to himself but it was still loud enough for kin to hear it,
"What's rank B beginner?
"It's part of a ranking system which Daitōryō fortresses use to identify a fortress level of power, it's like this,
Beginner :
Rank D
Rank C
Rank B
Rank A
Rank S
Amateur :
Rank D
Rank C
Rank B
Rank A
Rank S
Expert :
Rank D
Rank C
Rank B
Rank A
Rank S
Master :
Rank D
Rank C
Rank B
Rank A
Rank S
Legend :
Rank D
Rank C
Rank B
Rank A
Rank S
Demi - god :
Rank D
Rank C
Rank B
Rank A
Rank S
god :
Rank D
Rank C
Rank B
Rank A
Rank S
Only few people has been able to reach the demi - god rank like the current Daitōryō whose in rank d demi - god I think, and legend has it that the only person who reached the god level was the first Daitōryō.
I'm currently in rank C beginner and hopefully I'll be able to breakthrough to rank B beginner before we leave for Ryo city, enough talking let's focus and hope for good results" Raito said while joining kin on the floor.
Three days later.....
It was night and raito and kin were still trying to achieve their goals until,
"I can see it " Kin said
"What element are you" Raito asked in curiosity,
"I'm...