The Fruit of Tito

Chapter 21: Swordsman Training From A Gunslinger

After Miss.Black released her students from the giant hug, Tito fell back on his butt, the world started to become blurry until he blinked a few times. Clearing his blurry vision. Quin walked over to Tito and extended his hand, Tito immediately accepted his help and grabbed Quin's hand. Quin pulled up Tito with ease which made Tito a bit surprised at Quin's strength.

"You were a champ out there man, taking a one versus four with no hesitation? More than impressive." Quin said with a smile on his face. "One question though, where did you learn how to use a blade?" Quin asked still having the same smile on his face. "Um, no one actually. I kinda just started I guess." "Ah, makes sense. Y'know how bout' you meet me on the training grounds and I'll show you how to use a blade." Quin responded while putting a hand on Tito's shoulder.

Tito paused for a second before slowly nodding his head. 'A gunslinger teaching me how to use a sword?' Tito thought to himself confused. "Oh don't tell me you forgot already? My family is made up of all swordsmen and my bloodline carries the swordsmanship fruit, or the fruit of swords for short." Quin explained. Tito hummed as he remembered hearing that from Rhythm.

"Alright, yeah. I'll take you up on your offer." Tito confirmed while shaking Quin's hand. The two rejoined the group when they noticed that they had strayed away a bit. They came back to their group just in time to hear them talking about having a celebratory dinner in a few hours.

"Oh, me and Tito were going to train around then." Quin interjected when he heard when the dinner was taking place. "Why don't you guys just do that now? I am NOT missing free dinner at a restaurant." May exclaimed while folding her arms. "Well I figured Tito should rest since he has a lot of injuries from carrying our team to victory." Quin retorted, making May stop her whining.

"It's alright Quin, we can train now." Tito said as cursed soul began to rush from his right shoulder and left leg. Tito placed his cursed right hand on the large wound on his neck for a few seconds then removed it, a chunk of cursed soul energy lingered on Tito's wound for a couple seconds before disappearing, revealing Tito's healed neck.

"What is that?" Kenaru asked out of curiosity, looking at Tito's ghost like limbs. Tito stared at Kacy with malice and pain in his eyes. Kacy tilted her head a showed off a wide grin that exposed all of her sharp teeth. Kacy raised a finger to her mouth telling Tito not to get too in depth about his missing limbs.

"I lost my right arm, left leg, and right eye in a fight that almost killed me. My uh-fruit allows me to use these ghost limbs and even kinda regrow my missing body parts." Tito explained as simply as he could. "And what's your fruit's name? When it was your turn to share teach' cut ya' off." May asked. "I'd rather keep that a secret." Tito responded curtly. Miss.Black's light smile turned into a upset frown at Tito's words. "Your party had enough trust in you to reveal their fruits to you as strangers, but you can't do the same after you fought a battle together with them?" Miss.Black asked sincerely.

Tito's eyes remained fixed on Kacy, his body unmoving and his eyes scanning Kacy's every subtle movement. The light in Tito's eyes disappeared making Tito's brown-colored eyes turn into a pitch black. Suddenly everyone felt a sudden and alarming pressure, their bodies started shaking uncontrollably as if they were experiencing an earthquake. Kacy couldn't stop the wide grin she already had to grow a bit wider as Tito focused all of his hatred on her.

"There's someone here that is preventing me from speaking about my fruit." Tito simply said, a dark aura bow covering his entire body. Flashes from the Xo Bus incident and the year of torture he had to go through flashed in his mind. The subtle pressure everyone felt suddenly increased by a great amount, knocking everyone to their knees but Kacy. "I didn't know you held this much love for me Tito~." Kacy teased, which seemed to snap Tito out of his trance. The aura and the pressure both faded away as the light in Tito's eyes returned.