Genre: Rival Schools/Project Justice video game

Title: Within you

Author Chaser

Disclaimer: I own nothing damn it!!! Nothing!! *Pouts*

Title from the Labyrinth soundtrack

Warning: None but a few curses

Pairings: Akira/Edge

Notes: Written for no particular reason other than the LOVE of Rival Schools/Project Justice and Edge. Gotta love a man whose hair stands on end for no good reason. ^__^ Oh yeah and I have no clue if it's OOC or not.



In the bright light of the afternoon sun I sit. My classmates are all busy with their lives and puzzles. Life is a puzzle…my brother once told me.

I was trying to be strong just like him. I wanted to be just like my big brother. Big, strong and most of all brave. There was this local group of kids who were terrorizing the only playground we had back then. They were bigger than I was but my brother was Daigo, the greatest fighter in the world. At least to me he was.

Dressed in one of his old outfits which consisted of really baggy gray pants cuffed several times over, tied at the waist with some twine, A white shirt with the sleeves ripped off and my first pair of boots.

These losers street punks were twice my size but I walked up to them and told them if they didn't clear out I was gonna pound them. Thinking back it was funny. Even I wouldn't have taken an 8-year-old girl dressed in her brothers clothing seriously. Needless to say they beat the snot out of me. Then as I lay there on the floor they told me to tell my brother to come himself and not send his ratty little sister.

I was found and picked up by Edge but back then I was allowed to call him Eiji. I still do sometimes too. He found me trying to limp my broken body home while holding up every wall I came in contact with.

" Here you are? What the hell is WRONG with you? WHAT WERE YOU THINKIN' STUPID?!"

" Shut up! Leave me alone! I don't need your help!"

" Yeah and pigs fly out my ass daily!" he said sarcastically. " Besides the boss said I'm to take you home." he stated as he grabbed my arm.

" Leave me alone I said!"

" No stop being such a brat and let's go! I'm not no babysitter."

Again he tried to grab hold of me. Laying his hands on a bruise as he did so I winced. I wanted to cry it hurt so badly but I refused to let my tears show. I was going to prove those guys wrong. I wasn't just Daigo's spoiled ratty little sister. So what if I'm just a girl. I'll show them I can fight. I'll be better than brother and then I'll kick their asses until I lose both shoes and when they open their mouths all you'll see is me wiggling my toes.

Edge followed me for a few more minutes' until I fell. My right leg decided all by itself that it was going to give out one me.

" Stubborn brat!" Edge yelled as he scooped me up in to his arms.

" Put me down! I don't need you help!" I protested as I tried getting down. I was determined not to be treated like a baby anymore.

" Would you stop squirming already."

"Let me go!"

" You're a brat and trying my patience Kazama."

"EIJI I said I don't need yours or anybody's help! I'm not a baby anymore!" I screamed into is neck and pounded my fists at his chest.

I thought he was going to hit me when he grabbed my hands. Even back then he had a short temper, loathed being called by his first name and most of all being hit in public.

" Look I don't really don't give a rats ass if you want my goddamned help or not. I was told to get you and take you home. So get your head out of your ass and be quiet because this is the last time I'm gonna be nice to you, you hear me!"

" Fuck you!"

" Maybe in a few years if ya nice." He said. Funny how he was right too.

"EEWWWW!!!! Like I'd ever broom boy!"

" HAAHAAAHAA!! Oh so I look like a broom…eh? I should make you walk now."

I wrapped my arms around his neck tightly." Oh no! You've already embarrassed me. So now you gonna have to finish carrying me all the way home, like a good broom boy."

Edge laughed again. I don't know if it was out of pity or what but he didn't take me straight home like he said he would. Where I just knew brother was gonna go total ape shit on me for what I did.

Edge took me to the ice cream parlor. It was very UN-Edge like. He even let me make fun of him and insult him all the while. He even said I had the makings of a good fighter. Just as soon as I learned how to block. I think that was the day when I truly saw that Edge wasn't the crazy, psycho, knife boy everyone thought he was. He had a nice side to him and I liked it. So from that day on I made it my personal business to see it more often.

I guess that's why I'm siting here on the Seijun school grounds all by myself. Usually I would have Zaki siting here with me telling about some dyslexic boy she was going to pound into dirt while Yukira quietly listened and told Zaki that she should be nicer to them. Those were my friends I could tell them anything, well anything but this. They wouldn't understand and besides I know Zaki would try and castrate Edge.

I never thought that today I would be sitting here wondering if I should tell Eiji, my friend since before I can remember, my lover for the past 2 years that I was pregnant and it was his baby. Hell I never thought I would have even thought about bedding him. Yet it seemed so perfect. He was going to be the next boss after my brother, with Gan of course. I guess I saw him like an alternative to my brother. He may not be as big as brother is or as scarred up as brother. Yet like brother he made me feel safe and special. So what if we kept it a secret. Who would believe him anyway? Who would believe that, Me Akira Kazama; little sister of great and respected gang leader Daigo Kazama would be pregnant from Edge the Psycho knife boy, Certainly not I.

I know that I'll have to come clean and tell him. I'm just too scared to. How will he react? What will he say? Will he hate me? Will my brother kill him? Does he really love me? Does he love me enough to defend himself and me against what every my brother will do to us? So many question and no answers.

There are two things I do know for certain though. One is that I will have to tell someone soon. I can only hide this growing belly for maybe another month. Two is that as soon as I start showing I will be shipped back home where I will have to tell brother anyway.

Now the ultimate question is which is least likely to get My love killed.



TBC…If I feel like it.

One more thing, do you have the slightest clue who these people are or where they come from? First you should go here

http://www.rivalschools.cjb.net/

Then buy the game.