Tokyo-to High: Year of the Dragon
Well we all knew this was coming eventually, my first ever Fighting game Fanfic. I was planning to make it solely SNK/KoF oriented but there are some really neat Capcom characters I admire as well as some Sammy characters. So there will be lots of Cameos with characters we all know and love. The general idea is that there is a High School, Tokyo-to High. (For those of you who have played Jet Grind Radio you'll get the pun)
Rather than trying to think of weird reasons for things to be happened it's just easier to assume that all the characters go to school with each other. It is set after the 2nd Rival Schools incident and just before Street Fighter 3 took place, as far as SNK chronology goes it's after Iori Retired from the King of Fighters Tournaments, keep in mind that event hasn't happened yet, But my world so my rules. It centers on a lot of things but mainly some heart ache that our hero (Hero? Ha! When did this happen?) Akito has to deal with as well as doing his best to remain true to the one he is promised too. Look forward to lots of fighting! Lots of Romance! And lots of Storyline!
Mind you the only character © me is Akito Yagami, all other characters are © either Capcom, SNK, Sammy, or any other company I have borrowed existing characters
Chapter 1 – First Day
He wandered through the halls slowly, his backpack flung effortlessly over his shoulder as he held his schedule loosely trying to memorize it and find the classes he would be attending later that day. It was middle of the semester but he was allowed admittance to Tokyo-to High, he just had tons of make up work to catch up on.
He passed each doorway occasionally looking up at the occupants of the students in class. He grimaced slightly he definitely wasn't looking forward to making new friends. He knew already he wasn't exactly the most sociable person in the world. In fact he preferred to keep to himself, do his work and attract as little attention as possible.
His eyes roamed to his schedule "3-B Basic Engineering Theories..." he muttered to himself. He reached down and tugged on his wallet chain out of habit and looked up through a window again, for a moment he caught the eyes of a young girl no older then 16, she had short black hair, only a few inches shy of shoulder length and wore a camouflage tank top. Her eyes seemed a glassy grey that accompanied her rather apathetic demeanor. He blinked and their gaze broke and he continued on his way.
He reached up and scratched his catlike ears and sighed. He knew this was definitely going to be an interesting year.
"3-B looks like I'm here..." He said to himself in a reluctant tone. He reached to the door and was suddenly pulled away by a rather cheery voice.
"Hey! You're the new kid right?" He turned slowly and turned to see a heavily tanned girl about a foot shorter then himself. She wore an army green beanie with a white top and similar army green cargo pants. "Yea I guess so..." he replied trying to keep his voice to a minimum. He didn't want more attention then was necessary.
"Sweet!" The girl exclaimed enthusiastically with a rather large grin on her face. "The names Pupa Salgueiro, I just moved to Tokyo-to last month so I'm kinda new myself. And you are?" She said quietly and blinked, her eyes filled with curiosity. "Um... Akito... Akito Yagami... New myself... that's about it."
"Akito? Sweet! Nice to meet ya!" Pupa replied and with one fluid movement scooped up his schedule and looked it over excitedly. "Hey we got Basic Engineering Theories together! Isn't that great?!" Pupa giggled in a girlish way. "Uh yea... Super..." Akito added blinking to himself. Pupa's eyes roamed the schedule for a few moments then handed it back to him. She stopped for a moment, her eyes fixated on Akito's ears.
An eerie silence passed for a few moments, then spontaneously she glomped Akito pulling at his ears and tail in a mixture of playfulness and curiosity, a thousand questions flying out of her mouth during this time "Uwaa! How cute! Are they real?! Where did you get them?! Can I have some too?! Were you born with them?! Where does your tail begin?!" Akito jumped up moments before Pupa could remove his pants to further examine the origins of his Neko-jin tail.
"Wh-what are you doing?!" Akito almost screamed back at her, his heart racing a mile a minute as he backed away into the nearby lockers. "Oh sorry... I just get excited easily tehehehe..." "I-I noticed!" Akito let out sigh and struggled to regain his composure.
"Shouldn't we be getting to class then...?" Akito said opening his eyes and looking at Pupa feeling slightly estranged from her now. "Oh there's no class right now, well not for us anyways..." She put her hands behind her head and looked up at the ceiling rather bored "Professor Faust had to leave, so he gave the rest of the class a Free Study period... He's been doing that a lot recently..." Akito picked up his back pack once again and swung it over his shoulder. "About how many people are in his class?" "Oh including me and you? Two!" Pupa replied with a slight grin on her face. "Just two?..." "yep yep, see I wanted to major in engineering and the only person qualified to teach anything remotely related to the topic is Professor Faust. But I spend more time working on my own projects he pretty much just hands me out a steady grade so I won't draw attention to his constant absences.
Pupa suddenly jumped up about half a foot in excitement "Oh I know! I'll show you around the school!" "You... don't have too... Really..." "No no I want too! Besides I'm bored!" She quickly grabbed Akito's arm and proceeded to drag him down the hall. He once again turned to see if the girl he had met eyes with was still there. He took note that she was, although she was facing towards the chalkboard not really paying attention to her surroundings.
Pupa soon noticed his fascination with her and crept up besides Akito slyly and smirked "Already fancying Akira ne?" Akito jumped a bit and looked over at her "What? No no she just reminds me of someone I use to know..." "Whelp don't get your hopes up, that's Akira Kazama. She's not exactly little Miss social, and besides every guy who's tried to get close to her has gotten beat down by her." Pupa smirked slyly as she said this. They continued to walk down the hallway.
"So she's a martial artist?" Akito asked curiously. "Yep yep one of the best in the school. In fact that's what this school is known for! Football is too cliché, Baseball is boring, and most other sports don't take interest in the student body. So we're known as the school of Fighting Fury." Akito smirked to himself while walking. No wonder his cousin Iori had suggested he attend Tokyo-to high, if he were to loose his temper it would make little to no difference in a school full of fighters.
"In fact," Pupa continued despite the fact Akito was only hearing a shadow of her voice. "Fights break out all the time here it's rather common. It's just a day's detention really. Well anyways enough about the school, let's talk about you! How old are you? What's your martial arts style? What's your favorite color?!" Pupa started up again with her barrage of questions but was soon interrupted by Akito's responses
"I'm from the Yagami family so I use Yagami Style martial arts. My favorite color would be Black, it hides blood stains easily. And... I'm about... 3000 years old, give or take..." Pupa blinked at him then burst out laughing. "that's funny! You can't be older then 17!" Akito's ears flattened against his head rather agitated but then he shrugged it off. Traveling through different realms of reality had severely taken it's toll on his outwards appearance, it seemed his body would age to accommodate the specifications of the realm he was in. "Yep a real riot..." He said softly and continued to walk.
"So who does Akira remind you of ne?" Pupa said trying to strike of conversation once again as they rounded a corner heading out into a patio area. "Eh... she reminds me of my Sister, well my sister from my mother's side..." "Sister?! Who is she?! Do I know her?!" pupa asked once again working herself up into a frenzy of questions. "You might.. she goes here to Tokyo-to High, her name is Hibiki Takane." "Hibiki? The scary quite girl, with the sword?!" "yep that'd be her..." Akito said and sat down throwing his back pack down on the table. He tied his long sapphire hair back in a pony tail that ran down his back.
"Wait a minute! If she's your sister why does she have the name Takane?!" Pupa said in disbelief for a moment. "I just said she's from my mother's side of the family. I guess in reality we'd only be step siblings. See my mortal mother her name was Yagami... after I was born she took on a husband and took his name Takane... it's rather complicated..." "No not really I understand it now! It makes perfect sense!" Pupa said in mock voice of comprehension.
Akito closes his eyes for a moment and put his head down. Even though he had gone to sleep early he still felt exhausted. But that was usual for Realm jumping. He always told himself it was the magical equivalent to Jet lag but that offered little comfort.
"Who's your friend Pupa?" another female voice was heard in the distance. Akito's ears perked up as he lifted his head and looked for the source. "The new Kid!" Pupa added excitedly. "Cute!" an Asian girl stood before them, her hair was black and up in a bizarre pony tail with the exception of her bangs which seemed to extrude from her head. She was wearing a school uniform, which Akito found odd seeing as how a uniform wasn't enforced or recommended.
"Akito this is my friend Ibuki, Ibuki this is Akito!" Pupa said introducing the two. "Um... hey" Akito said blankly not really sure how to greet her. "Hey yourself." She added with a playful hint in her voice. "So why are you here?" Ibuki said curiously. "My cousin suggested I attend school to get my mind off of things..." "And guess what?" Pupa interrupted him suddenly. "His sister is Hibiki!"
"Hibiki?!" Ibuki remarked one part excited another part fearful. "That girl is crazy! One time we had a go and she was merciless!" Akito smiled at this, the thought of his little sister able to scare the crap out of people almost twice her age was hilarious. Although he had to admit he only knew the sweet side of his sister he knew she had a temper when pushed too far. "Yea... That's my sis..."
"I wonder..." Ibuki said a soft hint of ambition in her voice. Akito looked at her blankly. "Akito was it right?" He nodded in concordance. "Alright then. Akito I challenge you to a Match right here! Right now! I need to know if the Fighting Fury runs in the family." "Wha?" both Akito and Pupa exclaimed at once. "Look, Ibuki, nothing personal but I don't want to hurt you..." Akito said trying to think of a better way out of this scenario, he definitely didn't want to have a fight his first day of school. "Don't you dare underestimate me! I'm brought down guys at least 3 times your size!" Ibuki retorted slight agitation in her voice. "But... Look, I just don't want any trouble..." "Trouble?!," Ibuki laughed to herself as she narrowed her eyes in disbelief. "Seems to me like you're just a coward!"
Akito's ears flattened against his head as he released a soft sigh and looked over at Pupa for some sort of solace but found none. Pupa herself was looking up at Ibuki with a look of embarrassment on her face. "Fine... just let's keep it quite I don't want detention my first day..." Akito said as he took off his black leather jacket and setting it on the table. Ibuki smirked rather eagerly and leapt back into the air, when she landed her school clothes were shredded. She stood before Akito now in her fighting garb, a tan ninja training suit.
"Hmmm... Shinobi School?" Akito asked questionably slowly lowering his arms and head getting into position an almost mediatory state. "How did you know?" Ibuki said a slight hint of impression in her voice as she reached behind her back pulling out two throwing knives. "I studied the Shinobi when it was first starting out... rather interesting. "Ibuki blinked in disbelief "Right... well enough talk! Go for broke!"
Ibuki leapt back in the air and sent a small shower of throwing knives at him. Akito still in a state of meditation seemed to effortlessly sidestep them as if he knew where they were to strike before she did. Ibuki landed and pouted. "Hmm beginners luck!" Akito smirked and opened his eyes. Akito smirked and held up his palm and created a soft sapphire flame, the same color of his hair. The flame left his hand and traveled unseen path towards its target. Ibuki leaped up into the air once more and kicked off against the wall and landed behind him and delivered a barrage of swift kicks. Akito hand just recovered from his attack but managed to parry the kicks with his arms. "Not bad Shinobi! But let's kick it up a notch..."
Akito smirked and charged at her suddenly the sapphire flame once again igniting in his palm, a sudden look of shock flew across her face as she attempted to leap back but failed. In one fluid movement, Akito had taken her down with his arm and with his concentrated energy engulfed her in sapphire flame for moment. Ibuki let out a howl of pain rolled back away him. She padded out the flames and jumped to her feet, there was no way she was going to let him intimidate her. She leapt over his head once again and sent down another shower oh throwing stars, all of which who hit their target with deadly accuracy. Akito flinched taking the hits but held in his pain. "Awww... that's more like it!"
Ibuki landed to her feet and recovered into her fighting stance, as Akito did the same. "That's all well in fun, but you said let's make this brief so it's time to end it!" Ibuki said in a tainting manner as she charged toward him, he just smirked sadistically awaiting her attack. She drew another throwing star and dived down towards his legs. "A typical Shinobi move!" Akito said mockingly and placed his hands on her head and flipped over her attack but dug his finger tips into her head and focused his energy once again and threw her over his head.
As she left his hands she felt herself engulfed in the sapphire flame, pain soared through her body then it suddenly stop with a hard thud. Her body had slammed full force into a nearby wall. Akito stayed in his fighting stance as Ibuki struggled vainly to return to her feet, until she finally gave up and slumped over exhausted.
Akito walked over to her slowly and knelt down besides her offered his hand. "You ok? Or did I give you too much?" A slight hint of egotism in his voice as he helped Ibuki to her feet. He led over to the bench where Pupa was looking over some homework.
"Ouch ouch..." Ibuki said to herself rubbing her head, she looked over at the wall a saw a small crater in it the size of her body and couldn't help but blush in embarrassment.
"I take it back," she said after a few seconds of admiring Akito's handy work "You're much worse then your sister. I at least left her match being able to walk."
Akito grinned softly but quickly hide it. "Where is my sister anyways...? I need to talk to her about stuff..."
Pupa who was now thoroughly bored, and having only taken slight interest in the fight, spoke softly a pencil in her mouth wiggling up and down as she spoke. "She's in Kendo class now, but it wouldn't be wise to interrupt that class coach Hayato doesn't like interruptions." Akito blinked over at Pupa "Do you just know everyone's schedule?" he muttered sarcastically. She nodded obviously unaware of his sarcasm. "When I was knew I wanted to make new friends so I printed out everyone's schedule" "Talk about invasion of privacy..." Akito muttered to himself.
Ibuki got to her feet and rubbed her neck softly "Well I'm gonna go get changed back into my school clothes..." "I'll come help ya Ibuki!" Pupa said getting rather excited at the fact that she finally had something to do. "See ya Akito!" "Yea see you again I'll want a rematch!" The two left the patio area, Akito watched them until they were out of sight.
He set his head down once more and pulled his jacket over his head giving him a small shadow to rest in. "So far so good..." He told himself as he sighed and closed his eyes for a moment. It was so peaceful here, No drama, no emotional turmoil, No pain
"Well well, if it isn't my dear old Friend Akito" Shivers of fear and anger ran up and down his spine as he removed his jacket and looked up at the one person he was hoping to avoid. "N... Nova?!" his voice stammered as he got to his feet hastedly. "You don't look happy to see my Akito," he grinned showing his fangs for a moment "...Perfect."