Sitting on the swings of a park two boys stared at a yin yang badge. Both still amazed at the sight of a young girl taking out full grown adults that had just unfolded before them a second ago.

"Hey kenichi." One of the boys Ryuto says to his friend. "I changed my mind I want that badge." He says reaching for it prompting his friend to jump up from the swing set

"No way it's mine. I traded her for it." The other boy kenichi says in protest not wanting to give up his new treasure. Even to his best friend.

Ryuto jumped up grabbing the badge. "It was my cat badge she wanted so this is mine!" He says trying to snatch the yin yang badge away from kenichi.

"You didn't want the cat badge! You made me take it! This... is...mine." Kenichi says pushing his purple haired friend to the floor. "Ryuto are you ok?" Kenichi says worried about his friend as he had not meant to push him simply getting caught in the moment.

Ryuto the normally quiet and sweet kid couldn't tell you what happened next in his mind. It was all instinct almost natural. As he picked himself up he just lashed out throwing a punch at the face of his unsuspecting childhood playmate. And just like that the two boys were having their first fight.

They grabbed at each other, punches, kicks, there was even a headbutt or two. Neither of the boys had been in a real fight before they had no training or experience to make this battle extraordinary. But Ryuto the shy kind glasses wearing kid, seemed to be a natural not giving an inch not even leaving his opponent more then a second to think if he could avoid it.

Kenichi on the other hand was far more tenacious. He refused to lose and stood tough slowly gaining momentum. Pushing Ryuto once more away giving him a second to breath he threw one good punch. And he made sure it mattered as his friend fell backwards landing on his butt. Kenichi stood above him fists balled breathing heavy.

"I lost..." was all Ryuto could muster from his mouth. he wasn't sure why he was surprised he lost, it's not like he was a fighter, and kenichi was a bit bigger then him. But still he was so certain he would win. So certain he could win and earn that special badge that meant the world to both of them. He sat there looking at his friend fighting back tears.

Kenichi had won, for once he wasn't scared. The badge was his, he'd earned it. Still looking at his friend just short of crying he had to wonder if winning was worth it. The young boy smiled holding out the badge "let's just pretend you won. Here it's yours."

Ryuto grabbed the button holding it in his hand. Holding the prize he'd just lost because his friend was being nice and he felt so... angry. Ryuto was sad at losing but for some reason this made him genuinely angry almost insulted. He wanted to drop the badge walk away, he could get his own badge.

But as he took his friends hand and picked himself up he realized something he probably would've missed 9/10. He didn't just want the badge anymore he wanted to win it. "You dummy!" He shouted tackling kenichi to the ground now the two rolling on the ground.

Kenichi was completely caught of guard as he was rolling in the dirt Ryuto throwing punches at him again. He held his hands up trying to defend himself. "What's wrong I said you could have the button why are you mad?"

"I lost, why are you giving me the button? Don't you want it? I'm gonna win it then I'll take it. I'm gonna get stronger kenichi... way stronger then you!" Ryuto said between punches. Swinging even more fierce then before rage proving to be a powerful tool, pulling more strength then his small frame could muster on its own.

Kenichi was completely on the back foot. Of course he cared about badge that was what they were fighting about just a second ago but he cared more about his friend. Now that same friend was trying to hit him for giving him the badge. He was confused and dizzy. And it wasn't just from the punches to the head he had taken. "Stop...,hitting." Kenichi managed to get words out lifting his body just a bit. He couldn't through a punch though he was to busy blocking. But he had to do something. "Me!" He shouted slamming his head into his friends even causing his glasses to bend just a bit.

Ryuto clutched his nose as he rolled off kenichi for just a second. But in that second Young kenichi has picked himself back up. "I'm gonna keep getting stronger too! I'll be the strongest ever! gonna get so strong I'll be like a super hero just you wait!" Kenichi says with a fire in his eyes.

"You only won cause you're bigger. Just wait till I'm big then I won't lose. Lets fight for real when we are big kenichi. Then I'll win back that pin for real and we'll see go the super hero is!" Ryuto says trying to adjust his now perpetually crooked glasses while declaring a challenge right here that would change these two boys for years down the line. He threw the badge back to kenichi.

Kenichi picked it up pinning it on and smile at his friend. "Ok! I don't wanna fight a friend. But let's both get real strong like super strong as strong as that girl we saw."

Ryūto chuckles his rage seeming to have quelled but the fire inside him burned even harder then before. He refused to lose to kenichi, to anyone ever again. "You can get as strong as her I'm gonna be even stronger." He says still trying to keep his glasses on.

The two played heroes and villains just like they used to all the time. The fight over for now but the promise far from done. The two boys could not know what would await them.

When kenichi finally arrived home that night his mother and father were stunned. He had cuts and scrapes everywhere, his hair was a mess, and there was the faintest bit of blood on his clothes and lip. The first fight had done a bit of damage but rolling around and getting punched by Ryuto after he thought the fight was over had done a real number on him.

"Kenichi son what one earth happened?" His father asked as his mother just stood there looking at his wounds worried.

"I uh I got in a fight..." kenichi said knowing this was gonna be bad. And it did as his father pulled out a gun from seemingly nowhere.

"Who dares to hurt my son like this? I'll teach them a lesson!" Kenichi father says getting getting comically serious, his wife all the while trying to calm him down.

"Me and Ryuto, but we're better now it's ok. We just had and argument is all." Kenichi says waving his hands scared of the weapon before him.

Kenichi father immediately went from rage to crying in the same breath. "My son had his first fight between men. This is such an amazing day!" The man says through his sobs.

"Oh honey please quiet down Honoka is sleeping." His mother says taking the gun from her silly husband. "Kenichi get to bed we have a big day tomorrow."

With that kenichi went to sleep his mind wandering to the fight he had just gone through before shifting to images of the hero he'd grow into the promise before him and his friend. The next day though he was put in his family's car as out of nowhere they just moved. His father was so emotional he didn't even let kenichi say goodbye Ryuto ran after the car to no avail trying to make sure kenichi remembered their promise. Luckily for him kenichi would never forget that day now.

It had been a few weeks since since the Shirahama family had moved to a new city. The market place was crowded on the warm Friday afternoon, many people moved through the gathering of carts and stalls, either stopping to examine the produce or simply rushing through on their way to their chosen destination.

Kenichi was happily walking next to his mother. dressed in a white short-sleeved shirt with blue shorts, his brown eyes gazed around him with a sense of wonder at the big market.

His mother was fairly tall with a healthy figure and looked several years younger than her actual age. Her hair and eyes were the same as her son's, only hers was a little more tamed in fashion. It parted neatly above her forehead with a loch falling between her eyes and a small ponytail in the back.

A sack of groceries was held in her left hand while the boy's hand was held in her right. They stopped at a vendor selling fresh tomatoes and the vendor looked up and smiled warmly. "Saori, it's good to see you again," he greeted her. "And little Kenichi too, how are you both?"

"We're doing fine Gin," Saori said, letting go of Kenichi's hand to pluck a tomato from a basket. "How's business?"

"As good as I could hope for," Gin said, laughing as he pulled one of the tomatoes and took a bite. "I had a good harvest this year and I'm sharing it with all who stop by. For a small price of course."

While the two adults shared a pleasant conversation, Kenichi was letting his eyes wander across all the sights presented by the people wandering the market. It was then that he heard the faint sound of a dog barking which compulsively led him to wandering away while his mother was still distracted.

He followed the dog's barking father down the street until it led him to a small alley. The closer he got the easier it was to hear the sound, and another of a girl crying. Moving a little faster Kenichi turned the corner and saw a girl on the ground while a dog and a cat faced off.

The dog was a pit bull, barking and bearing its teeth at a little black cat with its hackles raised and hissing at the much larger animal. The girl was dressed in a schoolgirl uniform with fiery red hair and aqua green eyes.

"Noir get back," the girl cried but the cat ignored her, standing firm between the dog and her master. The dog inched closer and stuck its nose within range of the feline's claws. The resulting scratch to the nose ended up with the dog retreating slightly, whining, only to come back snarling. "NOIR!"

Just as the jaws were about to hit the cat, Kenichi rushed at the dog which ended up bitting his arm instead of the cat. Kenichi howled and pain but managed to shake and shove the dog away with his it off to the side only barely, the jaws releasing from his arm which was bleeding. But kenichi wasn't worried at all for some reason. "Are you okay?" he asked the girl, but she was too stunned and confused to speak. Just where had this guy come from? "Get your cat and run," he shouted clutching his arm. turning back to face the dog putting up his fozts like he had done when he was fighting Ryuto while keeping himself between it and the girl. All the while his tiny legs shaking. He was scared but he was still going to fight

"What are you doing?" the girl asked but Kenichi just looked over his shoulder and forced a smile on his face trying to let the girl and her cat know they are alright.

"I'm protecting you, that's what superheroes do." he said. It was at that moment the dog charged and Kenichi closed his eyes but opened wide screaming with all his might not a cry for help but a shout meant to show that he wasn't running away no matter what pain was about to come...but it never came.

"I must say you've got some spirit kid, I'm impressed." The boy lowered the arms he'd had up to guard his face to see the dog dangling by a hand latched to the scruff of its neck. Both boy and girl looked up to find the smiling face of a mountain of a man wearing a leather jacket which a scar across his face.

Kenichi couldn't help but stare at the man he looked kinda scary but he had saved them. And when kenichi looked again all he could notice was the man looked really strong. He was taken away from his thoughts by a sudden but light bump on his head.

"What was the big idea there?" The girl said clutching her cat lovingly and doing her best to scowl at kenichi. "I didn't ask you to save me dummy. You could've gotten hurt, besides me and noir can take care of ourselves." The young girl betrayed kenichi while using the hand not holding the cat to hit kenichi again and again. was grateful for the save, but honestly didn't like having to be saved like some kind of princess, she was mad she just stood there and needed to be saved.

"I was just trying to help. You looked like you were in trouble." Kenichi said almost pushing the girl or even hitting her but was then reminded of his mother always telling him that boys don't hit girls. "Ow ow, that dog might've hurt your cat if I didn't." At this the girl finally stopped once more clutching her cat protectively.

The man couldn't help but laugh at the two kids as he finally put down the bulldog. "The boy stares down a vicious dog and then is scared to stand up to a little girl and his cat that's a new one." Kenichi turned his attention back to this man a bit embarrassed now.

"Yo Shio there you are." A tall blonde french man with his hair in braids and wearing a fragrant perfume approaches smiling at the man shio. "Me and Mycroft were wondering were you ran off to. Ho Ho Ho Ho, it seems you've found yourself babysitting shio."

"Braided weirdo..." kenichi said under his breath as he heard the two talking. He didn't know what it was but the braided man game him a feeling of unease. His knees were shaking more now then they had been when he thought he was about to get mauled. Speaking of the dog it was now whimpering having gone from a fearsome predator to a helpless creature in the sight of these men, who it could feel were the true predators here.

The young girl held tightly to her cat that seemed to be ready to run. And she wanted to agree but for some reason now she was curious to what was going on. "Calm down noir." She whispered trying to relax her cat.

"Christopher, sorry I needed to grab a drink, a mother in the market was looking for her kid so I offered to look for him." Shio says in response to the knew arrival. His face still looking calm and unfazed but worry in his eyes as he knew Christopher may take this time to do something underhanded.

"That is so like you shio, willing to help out any lost cause, or person in need. You know we aren't charity workers." Christopher glared a bit at the shaking child before walking over to the young girl who's eyes seems to have a far nicer expression. "Buonjour what is your name young lady?"he picks up the small girl her cat whimpering silently in fear. Shio getting his fists clenched. Kenichi also trying to get closer worried once more about the girl.

"Um im Kisara. This is my kitty noir." She says worried at first but finding the man a calming presence after a while when compared to the dog, and the scary scar faced man.

"Ahh well buonjour noir. As for you Kisara such a pretty name for such a pretty, delicate young lady. But I can tell you could grow up to be quite strong one day." Christopher said talking sweetly, for some reason this seemed to make shio worry more.

"Chris put her down now." Shio says taking his fighting stance arms raised defensively but the energy he was giving off making it clear he was ready for battle.

Kenichi was dropped on his butt just by his presence. Meanwhile Kisara instinctively clutched the man holding her tighter as she was to scared to run, but also scared of her would be protector.

"Aww look your scaring her shio with that scary face Ho Ho Ho Ho. I was just tending to the girl what's the big." Christopher dies not get to finish that sentence as sakaki throws a punch putting him off balance he weaves around the blow attempting to deliver a series of kicks at shios side.

Sakaki dipped his arm to block the first blow then shifted it to parry each incoming shot before taking one head on using that moment to grab Kisara. Pulling her away before shooting a snap kick at Chris pushing off of him to jump away and close the distance setting the girl down.

"Oh this is so much fun!" Chris says his killing intent leaking almost choking kenichi and Kisara from the sheer weight of it. He lunged at sakaki now leaping into the air and delivering a flying kick.

Sakaki throws a punch intercepting the kick. The two blows filled with so much power the actually blew the children watching back a bit. "This isn't a game Christopher what are you hoping to get out of this?" He says the two now locked in a series of clashes and blocks so fast the neither kisara nor kenichi could see more then flashes.

Kisara seemed to be trembling even worse then before. Kenichi forced himself to stand despite the overwhelming fear and shout. "Stop!" He screamed as loud as he could rushing in between them. The two both stoping there blindingly fast battle. "Can't you see you've done enough?" His eyes filled with that strong resolve he had moments ago.

"Sorry there shio, just got a little excited there after all this job has been so boring. I think you may have found something more interesting in the future." Christopher approaches sakaki whispering to him. "The boy has spirit, and the girl she thinks she's afraid but you and I both know that look she's got the itch, that is the trembling of excitement. Is this why you have always had a soft spot for children? Looking for a new rival one day?"

"Hmph lets just go..." sakaki says not happy at this little game. He walked over to kenichi putting his hand on the boys head. "You've got good eyes kid, get real strong the world needs more people like you." The man says getting lost in his past wishing he'd have had the guts this small kid did himself a few years ago. "Run on back your mothers waiting."

Kenichi smiled at the man in awe. Before a few months ago he'd never seen anything interesting. Now in such a short time one amazing thing after the other was being thrown at him. The sheer awe he felt right now would stick with him and the young girl kisara.

"Shio how about we walk the girl home, it's clear she's still a bit in shock." Christopher says once more picking her up.

"Alright but no games Christopher." Shio says holding his fist up for emphasis.

Kenichi kn the other hand had run back to the market so fast he hadn't even noticed the dog that seemed to have been domesticated by the sheer force of those men's power. Was now following him.

These seemingly random events, a young girl trading a cat badge for a yin yang badge, two boys childish promise, and a boy saving a girl from a dog. These events would tie the string of fate through these four lives in ways no one could see coming.

Authors note: and done! Sweet this is a challenge post I had found from a while back, and I'm looking to improve my writing. This will be my secondary work as I'm working on something big that I'm excited by. But if people enjoy this I will definitely give it more attention. This was a lot of fun and I gotta thank yurei King for the idea.