INTRODUCTORY ARCHIVE

Authors Note: I do not (repeat, DO NOT) own any of the characters from the animes or games. I just make things work here. That's why it's called a "fanfic". Only the original characters belong to me.

Also... {} - Means thoughts

. - Most likely if this is between two words right next to each other, it was supposed to be (...) I'm working on fixing it right now.

A vacation turned bad. a trip around the world. a fight for the right to live. a martial arts tournament. the ultimate battle. love and romance. action and suspense. You'll find it all here, including character appearances from Street Fighter, Rival Schools, Power Stone, Darkstalkers, King of Fighters, Yu-Yu Hakusho, Battle Arena Toshinden, and Bloody Roar, but before we get started, you need to know the background story. and the three characters that lead it.

Prolog Chapter

Full Name: Darrell Markis Goodson (opposite of Badguy. Sorry. Just wanted to type that}

Age: 16

Origin (Nationality): United States

Fighting Style: Loose Self-taught Shotokan Karate/Tae Kwon Do

Birthdate: December 7th

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Blood Type: N/A

Likes: Video games, pizza

Dislikes: Being picked on, injustice

Super Moves: Shakunetsu Shinku Hadouken, Rekka Nakkura, Furi-sutairu Tatsumaki Senpu Kyaku

Darrell is a young teen from the northeastern United States who used to get picked on. a lot. During his middle-elementary school years, he got his first taste of the fight courtesy of the school bully, then again in middle school with a classmate. It was at the latter time that he got to know the Pan American Champ, Ken Masters, through the televised tournaments and wanted to know more about fighting. He tried instructed Tae Kwon Do but quickly dropped out, not interested in being taught by a sensei. He took what little he knew from his early encounters and started to copy Ken's moves. then put them together into his own little fighting style.

At this time, he was about to come out of middle school but out of the blue he was offered to a foreign exchange program. His destination: Tokyo, Japan. Once he arrived, he found the high schools in peril. Even though the middle schools weren't affected, Darrell just couldn't stand idly by and let it continue. He set out to get to the bottom of it. but he was quickly ambushed by a gang of high school students. He wasn't nearly strong enough to ward them all off and just before he began to lose consciousness, two freshmen girls came in and warded them off. Their names: Sakura Kasugano and Hinata Wakaba.

The instant he laid eyes on them, he knew he was in debt to them. He wanted to help in their investigation. Unfortunately he wasn't in any shape to help out. So while he rested, the two went on. It took a few days for Sakura and Hinata to find a lead to the culprit: Justice High School. With the help of Hinata's other friends, Batsu and Kyosuke, they managed to get through Batsu's father, who was brainwashed by Kyosuke's twin brother, Hyo. However, by the time the four found him, Darrell was already there: beaten, but not after weakening Hyo enough for Kyosuke to defeat him.

Shortly afterwards, Darrell left for home but not after promising Sakura that he'd get stronger. Two years have passed since then. and now he's coming back for vacation. Did he get stronger over the period of time? What new tricks are up his sleeve? What new challenges and adventures lie ahead of him?

Full Name: Sakura Kasugano

Age: 17

Origin (Nationality): Japan

Fighting Style: Shotokan Karate

Birthdate: March 15th

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Blood Type: O

Likes: White rice, running, cooking

Dislikes: Playing with her brother in video games

Super Moves: Shinku Hadouken, Haru Ichiban, Midare Zakura, Harugokusatsu, Nekketsu Hadouken

Sakura is a teen girl who is fascinated in fighting. It all started in two ways. One was when she got word of a man named Ryu who won the first Street Fighter tournament when she was 14. This man grabbed her attention to the world of street fighting and she dreamed in becoming just like him. Second and most critically was when she and her friend, Kei, were almost raped by three drunken college men. In desperation, Sakura fought them off (very well) and she was so impressed with her own skills that she decided to learn how to fight. At first she was a pupil of Dan Hibiki and his Saikyo style, but grew dissatisfied in it and learned by herself.

She met up with Ryu a year afterwards and had a fight with him (in which Ryu let her win). She asked for him to be her teacher but Ryu declined, saying that he wasn't ready to teach someone since he was still learning himself. He did encourage her to keep training for their next battle and Sakura took that deep into consideration.

Soon after returning to her school agenda, the high schools went under attack. Sakura, joined by her friend Hinata, went to get to the bottom of things. One day during an investigation day, the two found a gang of elite Justice High students beating up a single middle school kid. He was different, however, since he wasn't Japanese. He was Aftican-American. Sakura and Hinata fought off the mob and helped the kid, who was beaten pretty badly. He stated his name, Darrell Goodson, and what he was doing; trying to uncover the mystery of the attacks.

After getting Darrell into medical care, the girls met up with Batsu and Kyosuke and ambushed Justice High, making it all the way to the brains of the operation: Kyosuke's twin brother, Hyo Imawano. However, Darrell managed to beat them there and paid for it. He was almost murdered by Hyo's swordplay but he managed to damage him enough for him to be defeated.

Everything went back to normal after that. and Darrell made his way back home. While he said goodbye to the girls, he made a secret promise to Sakura saying that he'd get stronger. and hoped that she would do the same so they could have a great sparring match if he ever came back. She accepted and trained afterwards. It's now two years later and Sakura's life has been toned down. That is. until she meets up with a certain someone again. Will she ever be the same again after what happens next?

Full Name: Hinata Wakaba

Age: 16

Origin (Nationality): Japan

Fighting Style: Karate

Birthdate: April 12th

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Blood Type: O

Likes: Cake, fighting techniques

Dislikes: Bugs, staying still

Super Moves: Hisshou Rengekiken, Resen Enbukyaku, Fire Senpukyaku

Hinata's life was pretty simple. All she had to do was go to school, come home, do homework and hang out with friends. It went like that all throughout her school years and she was happy about that. She seemed like an ordinary peppy schoolgirl in Japan. That all changed once the high schools were attacked. That's when her warrior spirit arouse as she sought to protect her school from being attacked, not to mention getting to the bottom of the matter. She teamed up with her three closest friends, Sakura Kasugano, Batsu Ichimonji, and Kyosuke Kagami, and formed an investigation to solve the mystery. Along the way, they got into fights with rival schools; the confusion enough to turn schools against one another.

Their search came to a critical point when she, along with Sakura, saved Darrell from a pack of Justice students. They met and made a quick friendship with him just before they took on Justice High, which seemed to have been the brains of the operation. After a load of intense battles, Hyo was defeated and the schools returned to normal. Darrell left for the States and things seemed to be all good.

Unfortunately, it didn't last. Unlike the previous two whom had a two year break in between main events in their lives, Hinata, Batsu, and Kyosuke had their hands full with another problem. The schools were in turmoil again, and it all revolved around one new student in Justice High. He was really an assassin by the name of Kurow Kirishima who was sent to destroy the Imawano family (a.k.a Batsu, Kyosuke, Hyo, and Batsu's father, Raizo) for their exposure to the public. He also had his own personal plans to take over Japan, a feat Hyo tried and fail to complete.

Once again, the trio stopped him, but Hyo came in, willing to kill him. The latter battle between Hyo and Kurow led to Hyo's father's evil energy being released from Hyo's sword. and Hyo becoming possessed by Mugen Imawano, the father. Kyosuke once again fought his brother in an emotional battle, but the price for winning was high. Although Hyo had been exorcized, he died shortly after.

One year passed since that event. and after a long while things seemed to finally get into the right place. Unfortunately, once again things will get out of hand. and this time, it might be more than Hinata can swallow.

FIRST ARCHIVE: SEARCH FOR RYU

1. The Kid Returns

The ocean was so quiet at night. It was projecting a mirror image of the dark, navy blue sky and the silver moonlight. Every now and then, an aquatic animal or two would come toward the surface. They probably would have stayed there if it wasn't for the roar of jet engines passing overhead.

An airplane soared through the night sky. Its destination: Tokyo, Japan. On board, a young teenager looked through the window, his eyes glowing in the moonlight. He was of African descent with short, black hair and dark spots all over his face. He wore black jeans and sneakers with a white designer shirt. A smile crossed his face.

{This is great!} he thought to himself. {I never expected Japan to be so. so beautiful! I guess I haven't been here in while to forget about that.}

He was right. Although he couldn't see much through the small window, he could clearly see the hunk of land that was Japan. At night, it was a dark black mass, with many spots of light dotted all over from buildings. just like his face. His smile widened.

{I'm coming back. Sakura Kasugano. Trust me on that. I can't wait to see you again.}

There was a small tap on his shoulders.

"Huh?" he yelped out a bit as he turned around to see the stewardess staring at him.

"Are you okay, sir?" she asked humbly.

The teen smiled again. "Never felt better."

He turned his attention back to the site outside. "It is simply beautiful." he said to the stewardess. He turned back to the woman as she spoke again.

"Do you need anything, sir?" she asked.

"No. just something to drink, please. Some water."

She nodded, then turned and walked down the isle. The teen turned his head to the window yet again.

{Sakura. I can't wait to see you again. and to spar with you. I've been training. I'll show you why they call me Darrell Goodson back in the States.}

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A young Japanese girl woke up to the sound of her alarm clock. Drowsily, she read the time. 6:00 A.M., she read it while shutting it off and moving out of her bed to get ready for the new day.

She had dark brown hair, which was short, yet wild. She was thin, and quite a sight to be seen. She was in her nightgown, and on her forehead was a white headband. Unlike a normal headband, this one had two extensions that lead down her back. This is Sakura Kasugano.

After finding some clothes, she carried herself and showered herself in her bathroom, then dried herself off. She dressed herself in blue pants and a white, long-sleeve shirt with light blue stripes along the sleeves, then headed for the kitchen. She stepped in, put a hand on the refrigerator handle, but had a thought that stopped her from opening it. She looked at her clock, which read 6:40. She decided to eat out, since she had 1 hour and 20 minutes to kill.

Since her family didn't wake up yet, she quietly went pass their bedrooms to her own. She jumped onto her bed and reached for her phone to punch in a number.

{I hope she's awake, now,} Sakura thought to herself as she heard the phone ring a few times before someone picked up the other end.

"Hello?" the feminine voice responded. Even though Sakura knows that voices on the phone are distorted, she knew who this was.

"Hi, Hinata," she responded cheerfully. "You know who this is?"

"Oh. Sakura," Hinata said. Her voice was tired. "Why did you call so early?"

"You know that we are supposed to meet up at my house, right?"

"Yes."

"Well, I'll be going out to eat breakfast. I'm telling Kei to meet me at the Shining Tiger restaurant. Tell Batsu and Kyosuke the same, okay?"

"Fine. Same time, right?"

"Yeah, sure!" Sakura chimed. "See ya, later!"

Sakura hung up the phone, and after calling Kei, started to leave her house. She was just about to open the front door when she heard a soft creaking of the steps. She turned around to see her mother standing at the head of the row of stairs.

"Where are you going, Sakura?" she asked sleepily.

"Sorry, mom. Did I wake you?"

Sakura's mother shook her head. Sakura continued.

"I'm going out to eat some breakfast and meet Hinata."

The mother yawned. Sakura just stared at her. Finally, she responded.

"Fine, then. Try not to be out all day, okay?"

Sakura smiled, and then left out the door. She stopped on the head of the outside steps of her house to smell the Tokyo air before moving on the city streets. Everything was so busy out here. Cars zoomed by on the street and people rushed by to their destination. Sakura had a wide smile on her face as she rushed down the sidewalk to the restaurant that she was meeting Hinata and the gang at. As she ran across an intersection, she let her mind wander a bit.

It had been a while since she had a good fight. She had spent most of her time training herself when she wasn't doing homework. She likes to be physically active. a lot. She really gets a thrill out of fighting, and she first discovered her talent after a. incident concerning a few drunken college guys, her friend Kei, and herself. After that, she felt so excited about her newfound fighting abilities that she trained hard everyday. Fighting was her passion and she loved every moment of being in a heated fight with a strong opponent.

Strong opponents. Sakura let that sit in her mind for a bit as she walked. She had fought many strong opponents in her adventures, from protecting her school and helping her friends with the strange disappearances of many high school students to traveling the world in the famous Street Fighter tournaments, always looking for. him.

{Ryu.} she thought happily. He was Sakura's idol. He was the strongest of opponents, traveling the world, looking for a new challenge. She had many memories of the man in the white gi and headband. Those were the days. but now, nothing good has happened in a few months now. She sighed. I hope something happens soon. I'm bored to death. She wouldn't have to wait long.

Bump.

Sakura's daydream came to an abrupt end when she ran into someone. She stumbled backwards, losing all momentum. Feeling a little embarrassed. okay, very embarrassed, Sakura started to belt her apologies while brushing herself off.

"Uh. I'm sorry about that." She let out a nervous giggle while looking at the ground. "I wasn't looking."

She didn't know whom she bumped into until she looked up. It was a tall man, a bit older than Sakura. He wore red pants with an orange designer shirt. He also wore sunglasses, which were crocked because of Sakura's little incident.

As Sakura finished gathering herself, she waited for the stranger to answer her apology. He did, but not exactly like she expected.

"Well, well, well," he said. "Look what we got here. It must be my lucky day to have such a lovely young lady run into me like that."

Sakura let out a laugh. She considered that as a compliment and the answer to her apology. She started to move past the man, but he blocked her way.

"Where do you think you're going, beautiful?" he said with a bit of a sarcastic sentimental tone in his voice. "Why don't you come with me and enjoy the sites, eh?"

Sakura responded by shaking her head. "Sorry, I have somewhere to go. Also, I have already seen all the sites. Now, if you will excuse me."

Once again, the guy blocked Sakura's way. Sakura started to develop a look of annoyance.

"Come on. you know you want to. No one can resist my charm. Secretly. you know you want me."

{He's so ignorant.} Sakura thought to herself. Then she said. "Please, I really don't."

People started to stare at the two now. Sakura noticed, stopping her sentence, but the guy sure didn't. He started to move in a bit and Sakura backed up.

{I'm going to have to get by him one way or another.}

"Listen, unless you want to spend the weekend in the hospital, I suggest you let me through."

"Oh. feisty!" the guy responded to Sakura's warning. "I like that." He reached out to touch Sakura, and she responded by grabbing his arm and throwing him over her shoulder. He landed on the ground and stayed there a bit, rubbing his back. Sakura got into a defensive stance

{I don't think he's finished with me yet,} she thought to herself as the young man got up.

"Oh, you like to play rough, huh?" He held up a hand and snapped his fingers. Nothing happened at first, but Sakura was greeted with about 5 big young men. One of them looked back to the man Sakura threw.

"Hey, Sho! Is this girl causing problems?" he asked.

"Yeah," Sho responded while pointing a finger at Sakura. "But not anymore. You know what to do, boys. Get her!"

A few of the guys started laughing a bit as two advanced at Sakura. Sakura stepped back as many times as the two closed in.

"Okay, boys," Sakura said, clenching a fist. "I really don't want to do this, but you left me with no choice."

She stepped to the side a bit and rushed forward to the closest guy with her fist to her side.

"Shouoken!" she yelled as she slammed her fist into the man's body several times before sending him into the air with a rising uppercut. As he landed, the second guy let out a yell as he lunged at Sakura as she was landing. Hearing the yell, Sakura anticipated where he would try to hit her.

{Why do they always go for the head?}

She bent down, dodging his blow while sweeping him off his feet with her leg. He let out a surprised gasp as he hit the ground. By this time, all five of the new men started to attack Sakura. She tried to dodge their attacks and was successful at the time being. However, she couldn't find any room to counter-attack since they seem to throw blows one right after the other.

{This is great,} Sakura thought. {If this keeps up I won't be able to fight back. I got to think of something.}

She, after blocking a few more attacks, came up with an idea. As one of the thugs charged in, she rushed in and grabbed him. He let out a surprised, "What the.?" as Sakura climbed on top of him while turning around and kicked him away with her feet. He went crashing into another guy as she flew across the sidewalk, nearly colliding into a woman in the process. The other 2 guys, including Sho, looked at the two man pileup then Sho said, "Wait a minute. where is Kenji?" They looked around, and Sakura paused. Now that she thought about it, she did only see 5 guys, not 6.

Suddenly, arms reached from behind Sakura to grab her. She struggled to break free, but he had a great grip around her torso.

"Excellent, Kenji," Sho said while smiling. "Now that that little ordeal as ended, let us go to our hangout, shall we, beautiful?"

"Arrg. let me go!!" she yelled out, but Kenji had that as the last thing on his To Do list.

{I can't believe this! I can't take on 6 guys at once like this. I took on three college guys before, but they were drunk. I can't do all this.}

Sakura struggled for a little more, but it just wasn't working. Kenji had her good, and his buddies were closing in. She could see their smiles. but they quickly changed into looks of concern.

Sho pointed at Kenji and Sakura. "Hey, look out!"

"Huh?" Kenji said, then. POW!

Sakura felt Kenji's grip loosen suddenly, then she elbowed him in the head to break free. She spun around to see who broke Kenji's grasp. As she landed, she saw a figure of brown skin. He was roughly the same height as Sakura, and he was wearing black jeans with a white shirt with a picture of a tiger on it and a few kanji letters around it. What stood out most were the numerous dark spots over his face. Once she saw them, she instantly knew who it was.

"Darrell." she said, relieved. "This is a surprise."

He gave a smile while fixing his blue handguards. "Hi, Sakura! Long time, no see, eh?" His expression changed to serious as he looked at the other 5 guys that weren't knocked unconscious. "I see that you might need some help here."

"Yeah." she responded. She pulled out her own red handguards and put them own. "I'm supposed to go to get myself some breakfast. Looks like I got derailed."

They stood side by side as the 5 men stared at them. One of the guys looked at Sho. "Well, boss. what do we do now? I never saw this guy before."

"Relax, Renousuke. he only knocked Kenji out with a cheap shot from behind. I bet he really can't fight. just like the girl."

That triggered something with both Darrell and Sakura.

"What. did you just say?" Darrell demanded. He seemed to get a bit angry at Sho's remark. It showed in his tone of voice, which rose and the pause indicated that he wanted to make sure he heard right. "If you want to see what we can do. then, come at me!"

"I'm getting tired of this guy," Renousuke yelled out before charging out toward the dark skinned fighter. "Take this!"

He held his closed fist out above his head as he charged. Darrell got into a stance, waiting for Renousuke to attack. Sakura looked at Renousuke's fist. She gasped as she saw something glisten in the sun. It was something long. and sharp.

"Darrell!" Sakura yelled out. "He's got some type of dagger in his hand!"

Darrell noticed. Renousuke got into range.

"You are a fool!" he called out before bringing down his fist down to hit Darrell.

All of a sudden, Darrell stepped to the side, causing Renousuke to trip off balance. Then he rushed from Renousuke's blind side.

"Who's the fool?! Shakunetsuken!" He screamed as his right fist glowed with burning energy. He slammed it right into the big guy's stomach, causing him to drop the dagger. and his body, and hold his stomach with his arms. He stayed in that position for a while before finally falling over on the sidewalk.

One of Sho's boys started to get angry.

"Why that no good, foreign. I'll get you!" he bellowed, but he didn't get the chance to even make 3 steps before hearing a voice say, "Hadouken!"

He looked to his right and saw a blue ball of energy slam right into his body. He reeled from the blow then tripped off into the sidewalk. The blast of energy came from the outstretched hands of Sakura, who got back into an offensive stance. Darrell took his eyes of the man that Sakura hit to Sho and the remaining 2 goons.

"Now. do you need more proof that we know how to fight," Darrell started, fixing his handguards again, "or are you going to let my friend and me pass? It is your choice."

Sho clearly showed that he didn't want any part of the duo. He put his hands up as if to say, "Don't hurt me."

"G-g-go right ahead. It is my f-f-fault. Sorry!"

"Thank you!" Sakura smiled as her friend and she walked right passed Sho. When they were out of the gang's earshot, Sakura spoke. "I wasn't expecting you to be here in Tokyo, Darrell."

Darrell turned his head to Sakura, smiling. "Well, I never expected you to do so well by yourself. I saw you from the side while you were dodging and countering all those guys' attacks. You must have been doing some serious training!"

End of First Chapter. The second. not to mention a lot more are coming!