A/N: Well, well, well how about this. I know some of you are still looking forward to a new chapter of "A Life I Once Had" and I plan to update the story as soon as possible. I had this sudden burst of inspiration and it wouldn't leave me alone unless it is released! But any way I was only thinking, what if Digimon Frontier focused mostly around Kouji? And well here is the aftermath of that thought. Enjoy and don't forget to review.
Chapter One: Want to go on an Adventure?
"This strange disease of modern life with its sick hurry, its divided aims." – Mathew Arnold
"Kouji Minamoto!"
He jumps slightly at the loud voice that woke him up from his mid-day sleep. He lifts his head up and brings his half opened eyes to face his teacher; Seki Kuna, third period advanced placement math.
Most of the students here at this school would say 'Mr. Kuna is the coolest teacher at this school.' But Kouji has yet to see what was so 'cool' about this teacher yet.
The teacher had long silverish hair, despite his young age, that went to his shoulders and covered his eyes. At the moment he was wearing black dress pants with a white button-up shirt. He was giving Kouji a pretty dirty look at the moment, probably because he had to interrupt his lesson to wake up a student. It didn't help that Kouji was the student he had to wake up.
"I see you have a daily fascination for pissing me off, Mr. Minamoto." Shouts Mr. Kuna while giving Kouji his back. Kouji was in no mood for this mini sermon and as soon as Mr. Kuna's back was turned Kouji's head was once again on the desk; asleep. Not like this rest would be all too long.
Mr. Kuna turned around while finishing his sermon,"- Do you understand Mr. Minamoto? Mr. Minamoto! Wake up!" Mr. Kuna shouts.
Kouji was quickly losing the little patience he had with this and shouts in annoyance, "Shut the hell up, damn it!"
The air in the quiet room quickly became denser as all the side conversations quickly ended. Everyone watching another battle between Kouji, and their teacher. This is probably the reason why his reputation was as low as it is. Kouji already figured that out already and he really couldn't care less.
Kouji Minamoto had a lot of enemies because he always found out the best way to piss somebody off, and his teachers were no exception. In fact, they were the main victims of it.
"Ha, ha, ha!" Mr. Kuna chuckled darkly, "I already predicted this moment in time and I am prepared for any of your tricks." Said Mr. Kuna laughed as he slammed his hand onto Kouji's desk before walking back up to the front of the classroom. "Oh and that also serves as your pass to the principal's office. Off you go now." He said smiling as though he won the match.
Kouji stared at the paper for a moment before standing up from his desk and heading towards the exit at the back of the class; paper in hand. Ignoring all the giggles and the stares from his fellow classmates, or enemies. Your choice. He continued to the door until he spots someone who was not afraid to laugh out loud. It was a brown haired boy who Kouji knew immediately; Takuya Kanabara. You see Takuya had it out for Kouji ever since Kouji beat the poor kid silly. He never forgave Kouji, and Kouji doubted he ever would.
Takuya was sitting next to his blonde girlfriend; Izumi Orimoto. Kouji had no problems with the girl to be truthful, well, besides the fact that she is dating Takuya there was nothing wrong with her. Izumi was a shy girl who didn't seem to fit in with the crowd of people always following Takuya. She was pretty smart; she wasn't top of the class, but she was close enough for her parents' standards. She was probably the only person not laughing; she wasn't even looking at him for that matter.
"Now class, where were we…?"
Kouji closed the door as the teacher was continuing on with the lesson. Kouji started walking down the hallway to the principal's office. He did this so many times before that it almost became a way of life for him.
Kouji looked down at the pink paper in his hand; only out of curiosity as to why he would be visiting the principal once again.
'Disrupting the class'
'Cursing at the teacher'
'Sleeping in class'
Well that seemed to be the end of the reasons, and if it wasn't he didn't feel like reading anymore. But despite this he still found it funny how the teacher, Mr. Kuna was able to guess that he was going to do this before he actually did it. This would forever puzzle him. Not like he would admit that little fact out loud, he has too much pride to actually do that. Kouji began to wonder maybe he should have done something a lot worse than what was written on the slip.
In a short amount of time, Kouji was standing in front of the secretary's office; but of course a person has to go through this office before one can go meet the principal. Not like Kouji was any rush to meet the principal but he had no choice in the matter.
Kouji sighs in exasperation and says, "I swear I'm spending too much time here." With that said, Kouji opens the door and steps through the doorway.
The principals secretary; Aisha Kumara was a very young women with long pink hair. She was wearing a black suit at the moment which easily stood out among the many blue uniforms that the students of this school had to wear. Kouji always wondered what she was doing being a secretary at this run down school. No scratch that, why would she be a secretary at any school was beyond him. Most secretaries were old, very old. Not to be stereotypical but that's just the way Kouji saw it and changing his mind didn't seem like an easy thing to do at all.
She barely looked up at Kouji before sighing and looking back down at whatever she was doing before Kouji came in.
She pointed at the door in front of Kouji before saying, "The principal has no pressing engagements at the moment, so you are free to go in, Mr. Minamoto." Kouji barely nodded before making his way towards the door and turning the handle.
The end of the school day couldn't come any sooner for poor Kouji Minamoto. Not only did he get a lecture by the principal, but also the principal kept him in the office for so long that Kouji missed lunch. Oh was Kouji pissed. His favorite time of the day and he missed it for some old fart of a principal.
While Kouji was brooding down the side walk he suddenly heard a scream which quickly destroyed his angry mood, if only for just a second. It came from the alleyway towards his left.
"Help!!" There was that voice again only this time, more distinguishable. Kouji slowly walked down the alleyway before coming to a stop and hiding behind a dumpster. He poked his head out from around the corner of the dumpster to get a better view of what was happening. What he saw even made him gasp from shock.
It was Izumi being surrounded by a group of four or five guys. Takuya was face down on the ground he obviously got himself beat up. Not like that was something to be proud of in fact it was a pretty easy thing to do.
"Well, well, well. Look at what we got here, what do you think we should do with her, huh boys?" Asked the fattest one of the group and based on how he talked, it seemed as though he was the leader of this little gang. This made Kouji angry to no means. If it was just Takuya, Kouji would have probably just left him for dead, but Kouji's code of honor could never let these mean get away with trying to take advantage of this little girl, even though they're the same age. So by instinct Kouji rushed from his hiding place behind the dumpster, his eyes feral like that of a wolf's, or maybe even a lion's. He ran towards the fat one with the full intention of beating the fuck out of the guy.
Izumi took in another huge gulp of air preparing to release another scream in hopes of being rescued; and as if it was an answer to her prayers, before anyone saw a thing there was a loud crash and all eyes turned to the left. What they found was the fat gang leader knocked out with his legs sticking out of the top of the dumpster. All witnesses gasped in shock, even Takuya gasped as he was just awakening from his unconscious state.
"Who the fuck do you think you are? Trying to take advantage of this girl, you should be ashamed of yourselves!" All eyes were on Kouji as his bandanna untied and fell to the ground; from his punches back wind.
Takuya, and Izumi automatically realized who this was and they couldn't help but gasp in shock for a second time that day.
"Oh yeah!? And who the hell are you, huh!?" Asked a tall one, He had short black hair with sideburns. Obviously this guy must not have been shaving, because he looked a little stressed out. The thought of this guy taking advantage of a girl just to relieve stress pissed Kouji off even more.
"Who am I…? Who am I you ask…? The name's Kouji Minamoto! But when I'm done with you bastards, you guys won't even remember that much." Kouji stated anger and hate dripping off his voice.
A short one scoffed obviously he was taking Kouji too lightly, no in fact everyone there was. Ooh how they were going to feel Kouji's wrath. "Ha! The day I get beat up by some dum kid, is the day I get a job, right guys." Soon enough the whole group was laughing at what they thought to be funny.
"Ain't that right, Kouto?" The short one said while turning around to the fat guy, who to his and everyone else's surprise, was still not up from his spot.
Kouji easily took the hint and said in a mocking tone, "Oh your friend won't be up for awhile. In fact he may need to see a doctor." Kouji then gave the group that has now been reduced to four people a smirk that would incite anybodies anger.
"You bastard! Get 'em boys!" Shouted the tall one before he and everyone else ran towards Kouji, who calmly stood there as if nothing was wrong; in fact in his eyes, this was only a means to release his pent up anger. The poor guys never stood a chance…
Kouji easily caught a kick that was sent his way by the short one, before picking him up and launching him at one of his buddies. They both ended up hitting a dumpster before both of their bodies went limp.
Kouji shifted his gaze to the third one who was standing in front of the tall one. Before anybody could catch up to what had just happen the guy was on the ground; blood dripping from his mouth like a water faucet.
"You… you bitch!" Shouted the tall one. Before reaching into his pocket and pulling something out. Kouji already had a hunch on what the object was. His hunch was confirmed when the tall guy flipped the object open and the knife blade glinted in the light of the alleyway.
Kouji calmly stood there as the guy ran towards him blade reaching towards Kouji. Kouji stood there, waiting for the right moment before he could take action. When the blade was a few inches away from his face Kouji quickly grabbed the hilt of the knife and snatched it out of the guys hand. He then sidestepped out of the way making the guy fly to the ground crashing with a painful thud. A thud which made both Izumi and Takuya wince as though they felt the guys' pain.
More surprisingly to Izumi then that was that Kouji didn't even have a single scratch on him from his fight. His clothes weren't ruffled, and he wasn't bleeding from where he caught the knife. Only one thing went through her head; that was that Kouji had some major experience in fighting.
Kouji stood over the guy his stature making him seem even more dangerous than before. The tall guy slowly rolled over onto his back, looking up to Kouji with fear evident in his eyes. Heck the guy was even shaking which in Kouji's eye's made him seem even more pathetic than before.
"P-please don't hurt me. I-I'm sorry!" Said the guy tears appearing in the corner of his eyes.
Kouji laughed, "Not so powerful without your gang backing you up, huh?" Kouji continued to laugh before he abruptly stopped just to give the guy a painful kick to the head; instantly knocking the man out.
Izumi sat there in shock before relief washed over her and before she could think about what she was doing she ran to Kouji. Wrapping her arms around Kouji's neck saying 'thank you' over and over again.
"Thank you so much Minamoto-kun, if-if you did not come at the time you did. Who knows what they would have done to me and Takuya! Thank you!" Izumi said arms still wrapped around Kouji.
Both Kouji and Takuya were in shock, both having the same coherent thought. 'What the hell!'
Before Takuya could act on what Izumi was doing, Kouji place the hand that once held the knife and roughly pushed Izumi away before walking out of the alleyway, heading towards his hell house home.
Izumi was in shock, she was just thanking him for saving her and he pushes her away. And he was rude about it too. She was about to run after Kouji before she felt a hand on her shoulder. In a manner a defense she screamed and slapped the man's cheek.
"Oww! Damn it Izumi! What the hell was that for!?" Shouted Takuya in pain, since where Izumi hit was mainly where he got beaten up.
Izumi blushed in embarrassment. "I'm sorry I thought you were one of those guys. I freaked out." "Huh? You don't need to worry about that, those guys don't look like they'll be getting up anytime soon." Laughed Takuya as he pointed to the five people each limp and barely breathing.
"Well let's not spend any more time here, 'kay?" Said Takuya as he walked ahead of her towards the exit. Izumi only nodded in response before she began to follow Takuya out. Well that was until she felt something warm on shoulder and shifted her eyes to look at it.
It was blood.
It was staining her blue uniform, but that's not what mattered. That was the same spot where Kouji put his hand at. During that whole fight Kouji looked invincible, as if nobody in the world could stop him. She could even feel this dark aura radiating around him. But now with his blood on her shoulder she realized that despite how invincible he may look Kouji is still human. He still bleeds. He still feels pain.
This only made him seem all the more vulnerable the more she thought about it.
"Kouji Minamoto, why do you act so… so in human?" Izumi asked looking up to the sky before running after Takuya. Promising to herself that she would solve the mystery behind Kouji Minamoto.
Night had already come and Kouji was wrapping his hand. He was too foolish, instead of disabling that guy he decided to take a risk and he ended it up having to wrap his hand with his t-shirt; only from the lack of bandages.
When Kouji finished wrapping his hand he just sat there. Sat there staring at a spot on his bed, not a specific spot just any spot. His dad was pissed that Kouji didn't come home straight from school. Kouji of course explained as to why he came home late but his dad didn't care, ever since Kouichi died he never cared about Kouji. In fact he blamed Kouji for Kouichi's death and that hurt more than anything else.
Even though Kouji despised his mom, step mom, and dad he still found himself wishing from time to time that those three would accept him if only for a moment, it would still make Kouji happy; very happy.
Before he thought if he did a good job in school then maybe they would accept him, that didn't work and his grades soon decreased along with his good attitude. Before Kouichi was always the one who got the respect, only one who got loved. It was always him. Why!
Kouji slams his fist to the side of his bed as anger over took him. He sat there as his burst of anger quickly became a part of a forgotten past.
He continued to sit there until his cell phone started to vibrate. He looked over to his dresser where his phone was located at the moment. He sighed before getting off of his bed and started to walk towards his dresser. When he picked up his phone and looked at the LCD screen on the cover it showed a picture of an envelope saying, 'You got a new message'
Kouji was confused; he had no friends so why would he have a text message? Whatever, Kouji flipped open his phone and read what he message had to say.
'Do you want to go on an adventure?'
Chapter One: End
A/N: Well there you go first chapter complete and I kind of like how it went and I hope you do to. One thing I must ask though, do not flame me because Kouichi is dead. He still plays a major role in the whole story and you'll see why that is later. Anyway in this story the children's adventures take place in the real world and not the digital world, you know kind of like Tamers. Well that's all I have to say at the moment and if you haven't noticed, the story is of course in 3rd person view so don't forget to review! See ya!