Kai..?

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Kai POV.

Uwibami-san and I stayed in the basement until Momma and Papa got home. They took Nya to the hospital with them. I'm very glad; Nya is too young to take care of herself, and since I was locked up for my bad behavior, I couldn't help her.

After a while, the water energy got very faint and started to fade. The burns hurt really badly; if this is what I feel with my resistance to heat, what does papa feel? I really hope he is ok. Momma got home without him and said he had to stay at the hospital. I didn't mean to hurt him.

Next time we train I'll just make the energy go away so that I don't hurt him on accident. Then Momma and Papa won't get mad. Oh! Hey Uwibami!

"Yess~?"

Would you be hurt if I made the energy go away? If making the energy go away hurts Bami then I don't want to do it.

"No. It wouldn't hurt me, but it would hurt you because most of your natural pain tolerance would be gone. I would rather you not make the energy go away Kai; I don't want you to get hurt."

Ok, Bami, I'll try not to make the energy go away, but if it hurts someone, I will.

Also Bami-san! I'm sorry that I didn't get finished analyzing all of the elements; I'll do one of their sub-elements for each to make up for it!

"You don't have to do that Kai. You were trapped in a basement, it's not your fault."

It's fine! I'll do it anyway. Maybe if I know more about them I will make momma proud!

Uwibami POV.

Kai... he tries so hard to make those awful humans proud; it's only making him more hurt. He wants to be loved. I hate those humans. They're forcing a five-year-old to do things that his body can barely handle! I need to prepare him for the worst.

"Kai, I need you to come to your elemental scape - that's the room that you see me in."

He came willingly. I need to train him to the best of my abilities. I need to make sure those humans don't do something that will kill him.

"Wow, Bami! You're even bigger now."

Oh... I guess I am bigger now. Dang, this kid is doing things to me. I've known him for a week and I already want to protect him to the best of my ability.

"Ok, Kai. I need you to tell me what you've come up with for the elements"

Kai POV.

Bami-san had me tell him the analysis that I've made so far. I still feel really bad that I didn't finish, but Bami said that it was ok. He said that my analysis was really good too! He told me to take the analysis and try to make a fighting style for it, but not to try any moves yet because we would work on physical training first.

I already decided that the style for fighting should be filled with unpredictable and sporadic moves. It would be a good element for feints and tricks. The attacks should be strong and fast. I don't have any moves in mind though.

Uwibami said that for physical training I would start off simple with small exercises to get my body used to the activity and build muscle. I started with some sit-ups and other exercises. I'm really glad Bami is helping me train!

It's been two years since I met Bami. He is bigger now, around thirty feet long if I had to guess. He has fiery red scales, but sapphire eyes and some blue scales around them. He has helped me train a lot. I can hold my own against Momma in a fight for thirty minutes now. Momma and Papa still hurt me a lot. I don't really like it. No matter what I do they still hurt me; I hope they never do that to Nya.

Nya is three years old now. She is very quiet for a baby; she rarely cries and is already potty trained. I love her. She loves me too. She comes and watches me meditate sometimes, and we sleep together at night so that if anything happens I can protect her. I may hate it at this house, but Nya is the reason I stay.

Momma and Papa ignore Nya most of the time, just like they used to treat me before training. I would rather them do that than train her though. Momma tells me bad things all the time -that I'm useless and a bad elemental that will never be able to protect anyone, not even myself. Papa doesn't say things like that, but he hits me a lot, even when we aren't training. I don't want Nya to face that.

I have a lot of burn marks. They hurt sometimes, but I use the water energy to help most of the time. Using fire with them makes them worse. Momma says that I'm such a useless fire elemental I can't even use it without it burning me. Bami says the reason it burns me is that the elemental coils don't fully develop until you are ten years old. Meaning that my resistance to fire won't be there for a while, and when it is there it will still hurt the burns because the skin is too damaged to gain large resistance.

I have developed a fighting style for fire and I'm currently working on one for water. I have a small notebook filled with analysis for the elements and their sub-elements. I'm getting much stronger. I have Uwibami to thank for that. He has helped me a lot. I love him.