Chapter 2: High school begins.
"Slow down Asuka" Li said with a smile.
"No, I want you to meet my friends, and I'm sure they'll accept you."
"If you say so."
Shortly they arrived. Li noticed that the dorm looked bigger from the inside.
"Is that you Asuka?" A female voice said.
"Yea it's me. I need to talk to you."
"Ok."
Li and Asuka took of their shoes. Then they walked into the living room.
"Just you wait here ok?"
"Sure." Li said and then Asuka left.
Li by the table. The table was short so he had to sit on his knees. Close to a window Li saw a rose standing in a vase. Somehow it seemed familiar. The room had Japanese like culture. Li then heard footsteps.
"Hey Asuka, where are you?" A female voice said.
Li turned his head to where the voice came from. And there she stood. A girl, only wearing a towel (as well as a towel covering her hair)
"Ehh…" The girl said with red cheeks.
"Ehh…" Li said with red cheeks as well.
"I…" Li couldn't say anything as he is surprised by the half naked girl standing before him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH" The girl screams.
Li gets surprised by her high scream and falls on his back. Asuka comes running.
"What is it?"
"There's a guy in our dorm!" The girl says as she points at Li.
"That's Li." Asuka says.
"What do you mean "that's Li? Kick him out." The girl said angrily.
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about."
"Wh-What?" The girl said as she turned her head to face Asuka.
"Yea, gather the others." Asuka said.
Li got up on his feet.
"Well ok, but first I have to get dressed." The girl said.
"Dressed?" Asuka asked.
That's when Asuka noticed that her female friend only wearied a towel. The girl ran off from Li's eyesight. Then Asuka walked closer.
"Li…" Asuka said angrily
Li had a calm look on his face, not like he was afraid.
"How could you?" Asuka asks.
"I didn't do…"
Then Asuka's female instinct took over and she punched him right in the face. Li fell on his back once more and he slowly got up. He holds his right hand on his nose.
"Why didn't you avoid that?" Asuka said angrily.
"Because I deserved it."
"What?" Asuka asked surprised.
"Asuka, I have learn that if you get a girl sad or hurt her in anyway, then you are the worst possible human being there is." Li says with a smile as he looks into Asuka's eyes.
Then Asuka noticed, Li was bleeding.
"Li, you're bleeding." Asuka said as she stepped closer to him and wiped the blood away with the paper.
"It's nothing really. I have had worse." Li said with a smile.
"I feel bad for hitting you." Asuka said she looked for a piece of paper, luckily there was some on the table.
Asuka picks up the paper and she helps Li.
"Is it broken?" Asuka says worried.
"No it's fine."
Asuka smiles. Then she walks to the refrigerator.
"You want something to drink?"
"Do you have any juice?"
"Yea." Asuka says with a smile as she takes out the juice.
"You know what?"
"What?" Asuka says as she pours the juice in a glass.
"I have a feeling that this will be a good year."
"Yea, I do to." Asuka says with a smile, and then she pours juice in a glass for herself.
But, unknown to them, the girl in a towel was sitting by the wall, and she heard the whole conversation…
5 to 7 minutes later…in another room.
"No way, I don't want a guy to live here." Ayame said.
Ayame Alexandra Lawrence. A 17 year old half Japanese and half American girl. She has a 3rd Dan black belt in Judo. Her hair is long and blonde, hey eyes are light brown. She is now wearing light blue jeans, a black T-shirt and a black bracelet on her right arm. Ayame is the girl Li saw only wearing a towel.
"Don't decide that right away." Asuka says trying to convince her friend.
"But he's… he's…. He's a guy."
"Um… I know."
"But what if he tries something… you know." Ayame says
"Come on, we are five martial artists, what could he do?" Asuka says as she sits down on a table.
"Well… I guess…"
"Besides, it could be fun with a guy living here." Mina said with a smile.
Mina Joo-Eun. A 17 year old Korean girl. She has 3rd Dan in Taekwondo. Just like Asuka she enjoys fighting. She has long black hair in a ponytail and dark brown eyes. At the moment she is wearing a black skirt and a white shirt with black arms.
"Yea, it'll be fun." Asuka said.
"Well, what do you think Shizuru?"
Shizuru Sakaki, a 18 year old Japanese. She is a ninja and one of the last living from her ninja clan. Few people know her in school and some haven't yet seen her because… well… she's a ninja. She has dark brown eyes and middle long black hair. She is wearing a pink gi that is similar to the jujutsugi, long black socks that almost cover all of her legs and chain mail (also known as Hauberk or ring mail) under her gi that is briefly shown. She also has a ninja sword on her back.
"I want him to stay." Shizuru says as she stands in a corner in the room.
"How about we have a test run?"Asuka suggests.
"What do you mean?" Mina asks.
"He can stay here for five days, and we'll see how it works out."
"Works for me." Mina says.
"Fine by me." Shizuru says.
"Okay." Ayame says.
"Great, let's go and meet him. Asuka says as she walks out of the room.
The other girls follow except for Shizuru whom walks towards her room.
"Shizuru, aren't you…" Asuka says.
"I have already met him." Shizuru interrupts her while she has her back turned towards the other girls.
"And?"
Shizuru turns her head slightly to the right.
"I like him." Shizuru says and then walks to her room.
Meanwhile Li is sitting in another room. He is reading a book. It's a horror book, the cover was black with two blood red eyes. Li closed the book and stands up (puts the book on the table) as he hear the girls coming.
"Li, you can stay." Asuka says with a smile.
"My name's Mina Joo-Eun."
"And we have already met, I am Ayame Lawrence."
"Nice to meet you all. I am Li Wenjie." Li says and then bows.
And this is where this story begins. Li did become a student of the school, however there are many challenges along the way…
Between half past 7 and 8.
Li and his new friends are watching a horror movie on the TV. It is a vampire movie. Li, Asuka and Mina are sitting in the sofa with Asuka in the middle and Li on the left side. Ayame is lying on the floor. Shizuru isn't watching. Then Li looks at the clock. Li raises and starts to walk away.
"Where're you going?" Asuka asks.
"To bed." Li said with a smile.
Mina almost spits out her coca cola. Ayame looks at him.
"Why are you going to bed so early?" Mina asks.
"To get some rest, tomorrow is my first day at this school so I wanna be fully rested."
"Suit yourself." Mina said and started to watch the movie again and drinks the last of her cola.
Li left to his room. But on his way he stoops as one of the room doors was open. He had been told that another girl (Shizuru) was living here as well, however he haven't seen her yet. Li looks inside the room but there where no one there. Li yawns and decides to go to his room. Li's room was small, all there were in it was a bed, a desk, a chair, a closet and a window. But he didn't mind, after all it is his room.
The next morning. It was early, around 7 and Asuka has already eaten breakfast and got dressed. She is wearing the same cloths like yesterday. She's about to open the door when…
"Asuka, wait up." Mina says as she comes from another room.
"Mina, what are you doing so early?"
"I have decided to follow you for once." Mina says with a smile and as she puts on a red jacket.
"This early?" Asuka asks as she opens the door.
"Yea, I want to see if the training in the morning is as effective as you say."
"Alright, come on." Asuka says as she opens the door.
As usual when Asuka walks early to the school (which starts at 9) there are no students there. Sometimes not even teachers. But the gym (tanning location, dojo (call it whatever you want)) is open. In this big room everything a martial artist could wish for. Any type of training, from weights to punching bags to boxing rings to the "throw area" (where the ground is so soft that people can throw each other). The girls walks inside and they hear a sound. It sounds like someone is hitting the punching bag, and someone is. It is Li. He is kicking the bag. His kicks are high, powerful and very fast. His kicks were so fast that even if Mina or Asuka sees that he is about to kick their body won't react in time. Li is wearing his white kung fu pants (from yesterday) and his white kung fu jacket, the jacket is untied, reviling his armless black shirt.
Then Asuka looks at Mina and could tell that she is interested, as a taekwondo martial artist, kicks is her specialty. Before Asuka could say anything Mina walks up to where Li is.
"Nice kicks." Mina says, holding her right hand on her waist.
"Good morning Mina and thank you." Li says as he bows to her.
"Good morning Li." Asuka says as she walks up to them.
"Good morning Asuka." Li says as he bows to her as well.
"How long have you been here?" Asuka asks.
"What time is it?"
"Soon eight." Asuka says.
"Then I have been her for two hours."
"You came here six?" Mina asks.
"Yes, I often train this early in the morning. I see you do as well" Li says with a smile.
"Yea, I'll go and warm up." Asuka says as she walks away.
"Li." Mina asks.
"Yes?" Li asks with a smile.
"You wanna spar with me?"
"Spar?"
"Yes." Mina says while she nods.
"I am sorry but I do not want to spar with you."
"Why not?" Mina asks annoyed.
"Well, first of I don't like fighting, and second, I don't hit girls."
Mina then gets an angry look on her face.
"Are you saying that girls are week?" Mina asks angrily.
"No that's not what I meant" Li says weaving his hands in defense.
"Are you saying that I can't take you because you are a man?" Mina says more angrily.
"No no."
"I'll prove it to you." Mina says as she walks closer to the bag.
"That's not necessary."
Then Mina hits the bag with her right foot, first on the lower part of it, then in the middle, then high and then she makes a spin kick and his the bag in the middle with her same leg.
"What are you saying now?" Mina asks as she turns to Li.
"I don't wanna spar with you."
"Why not?" Mina asks, this time more annoyed then angry.
"Because hitting girls is not nice." Li says with a serious look on his face.
"What?" Mina asks.
"When I was young, my father to me to be kind to girls, and never to hit them. And to this day I have never hit a girl." Li says with a smile.
Mina couldn't find any words to say.
"If you excuse me, I have to return to my training." Li says as he turns around.
A half an hour later, Asuka and Mina are sparring. The two girls equal. Mina attacks Asuka with a high spin kick towards her face but she avoids it with a back flip. Asuka lands in her fighting stance.
"Almost got you there." Mina says as she breathes heavily.
"That was actually close, but you still didn't hit." Asuka says with a smile.
"Let's take a break." Mina says as she walks to get some water.
"Sure." Asuka says as she takes of some sweat from her forehead with her right hand.
The both girls take a look at Li. He is still training, now acrobatic training. He does a butterfly twist and when he lands he does one more butterfly with a double twist (two twists) and when he lands he does three back flips and then two back volts. He lands in a fighting stance. He then takes three steps and does a cekongfan also know as a side volt. He lands and takes two steps and then does a volt (forward).
"It looks so easy." Mina says to Asuka.
"He's almost flying." Asuka says.
"Shit…" Mina suddenly says.
"What?" Asuka asks.
"Our class starts in 20 minutes." Mina says as she turns around and walks towards the girl's locker room.
Asuka takes a look on the clock on the wall, it was 20 minutes to 09:00.
"Li, are class starts soon." Asuka says.
"Oh yea, we have the same class. I guess we better be there in time." Li says with a smile.
"See you shortly." Li says as he walks past Asuka.
And as he did, Asuka couldn't help but to think about Li's fighting. He has such power and speed, and yet yesterday when someone was about to hit him, he said "please don't hit me." He sure can fight, but why does he act like a coward?
"I can't fight." Asuka hears Li's voice in the back of her head.
"What's up with you Li?" Asuka says to herself.
Then she looks at the clock. Five minutes have already passed.
"Shit." Asuka says and runs to the locker room.
15 minutes later. Li and Asuka made it in time for the class. Asuka sat already down by her desk but Li stood in front of the class.
"Class, listen up, we have a new student today. Be kind to him." The teacher says.
"My name is Li Wenjie, nice to meet you." Li says as he bows.
"Just take a seat by a desk Li." The teacher says as he picks up a pen.
The desk next to Asuka is free, so Li takes the seat next to his friend. Asuka is wearing the same cloths as yesterday but they are black and red instead of blue and dark blue. Li is wearing his blue cloths he wore when he first came to the school. The teacher was a middle aged man with short brown hair. The lesson went on for 50 minutes and then teacher says they'll have 5 minutes brake. During the brake all the girl's talks to each other and the guys are in small groups or gangs. Li sat by his desk and continued with the assignment.
"Hey Li." A male voice says.
"Hi." Li says to a guy who stands before him.
The guy is John Miller. He is 17 year old American kick boxer. He has blue eyes and black spiked (styled upwards, not so long) hair. He's cloths is similar to Li's but they are red instead.
"I'm John Miller." John says as takes out his hand.
"Li Wenjie." Li says as he shakes John's hand.
John then takes the seat next to Li (not Asuka's seat, left of Li).
"Let me be the first one to great you to this school." John says.
"Thanks, but you're the forth one to say it to me."
"Forth? When did you arrive here?"
"Yesterday." Li says as he closes his book and puts down his pen.
"And three people have already talked to you? Who are they?"
"They are Ayame Lawrence, Mina Joo-Eun and Asuka Kazama."
John just stares at him.
"What?" Li asks.
"Seriously?"
"Yea, what's so strange about that?"
"Honestly, do you expect that I would believe that Asuka Kazama would…"
"Li, are you coming with me to the gym after school?" Asuka interrupts John.
John just stares at them, his mouth open and his eyes twice as big.
"Yea sure." Li says with a smile.
"Thanks." Asuka says and then she walks back to her friends.
Li turns around to face John, and he still stares the same way.
"…. Why? …. How? … But…" Is all John can say.
"What?" Li asks.
"How do you know Asuka?" John asks with a detective face.
"I'm her childhood friend." Li says with a smile.
"Of course you are. And how do you know Mina?"
"I just…"
"Don't tell me…your sister?"
"No."
"Your cousin?"
"No."
"Then…."
"She and I live in the same dorm." Li says.
"Of course you….Whaaat?" John asks with his weird look again.
"Yea, I live in the same dorm as Asuka, Mina, Ayame and Shizuru."
Suddenly John "head butts" the desk.
"Are you okay?" Li asks.
John didn't answer…
"Hey, John." Li says again.
Then a sound came from John that sounded like sobbing, John is crying.
"What's the matter John?" Li asks.
"It's nothing, it's just that I have been here for a month and I'm almost nobody. You arrived yesterday and you (not only do you have "a special bound" with Asuka) but you also share dorm with two of the school's hottest girls."
"Special bound?" Li asks confused.
"Tell me..." John says as he leans in closer to whisper something.
"Have you seen there… you know." John says as he raises his eye browns.
"No I have not." Li says as he turns his face and gets a serious face.
"Damn…"
"However, I did see Ayame in a towel."Li says as he faces John again.
"No way."
"But she did not do it on purpose so I thought she felt ashamed so I apologized to her."
"What? You did? You didn't take any pictures?"
"Of course not." Li says slightly annoyed and upset.
"Why not? I mean girl in a towel? You had to do something."
"Yes I did." Li says.
"What?" John asks hoping for something dirty.
"I looked away."
John stares at him once more.
"You are a stupid man my friend." John says.
"I am an honorable man."
"Yea yea, let's talk about something else. What martial art do you do?"
"Wushu, you?"
"Kick boxing."
"My Sanshou technique (the fighting version of wushu) is similar to kick boxing.
"Seriously?"
"Yea."
"Dude, we should spar sometime."
"I'd love to." Li says with a smile.
"Sweet."
Then the teacher comes back. The first class ends quickly and Li is happy that he has made a new friend.
"Hey Asuka, where's next class?" Li asks while they get out of the room.
"We don't have the next class together, but you have the same class as Mina, just find her."
"Okay." Li says with a smile and then walks away.
As Li has twenty minutes break he has enough time to find Mina. Li comes to corridor that is almost empty there are three people standing by the lockers.
"Give us the money." Frankie says.
Frankie, a 22 year old American sumo wrestler. He is very big. He is one of the bully's of the school. He is wearing a black t-shirt and black jeans. Frankie has short blonde hair and brown eyes. He has Italian accent.
"Yea, right now." Joey says.
Joey, also known as "Joey the rat" or as "Frankie's brain. He and Frankie always bully someone, unlike Frankie Joey is small and week. He is 22 years old and doesn't really know why he is at this school. He has (almost) shoulder long brown hair and blue eyes. Like Frankie he has Italian accent and is from America.
"No I don't have anything." Irwandi says.
Irwandi Tandubua, a 17 year old Indonesian. He is known for being "a nerd". He's martial art style is Silat (also known as Pencak Silat) but he rarely uses it, only when it's time to train. He has short black hair and dark brown eyes, He is wearing white jeans and a gray shirt.
"Hurry up and give us the money, we got other students waiting for us to take their money." Joey says.
Li, seeing this, walks up to them and stands before Irwandi.
"Leave him alone." Li says.
"Look Frankie, a new kid." Joey says.
"Yes I see." Frankie says as he looks down at Li.
"Just leave him alone." Li says with a serious look on his face.
"I'm afraid this we cannot do, you see, he own us money." Joey says.
"And what if he doesn't pay?" Li asks.
Then Frankie takes a step forward.
"Okay I understand, I don't want any trouble, I'll pay for him." Li says as he waves his hands in defense.
"You don't have to…" Irwandi whispers to Li.
"Don't worry." Li whispers back.
"How much?" Li asks as he takes out his wallet.
"I'm happy today, I think 30 yen would do fine." Joey says.
Li gives him 30 yen. But as he was about to put down his wallet in his pocket…
"That's 30 for him, and now 30 for you." Joeys says stretching his hand out for more.
Li looks at him, but takes out 30 yen and gives it to him.
"I like this kid, now go, and stay out of trouble." Joey says as he leaves.
Li turns around to face Irwandi.
"I… Thank you." Irwandi says.
"No problem, I'm happy to help." Li says with a smile.
"But I feel so bad for you, you have lost 60 yen. Let me repay you." Irwandi says as he takes out his wallet.
"No it's okay, don't worry about it."Li says with a smile.
Irwandi just stairs at him.
"How rude of me, I am Irwandi Tandubua." Irwandi says as he bows.
"Li Wenjie, nice to meat you Irwandi." Li says with a smile.
"You must be new here right?" Irwandi asks.
"Yes I arrived yesterday." Li says.
"I see, what class do you have?"
"Right now I have..:" Li looks at his papers.
"History."
"I do as well."
"Great, then do you mind showing me the way?" Li asks.
"I'd be happy to?" Irwandi says as they walk down the corridor.
Meanwhile…
"Asuka, there you are." A girl says.
"Hey." Asuka says with a smile.
Asuka takes the seat next to her friend Ayame. Asuka takes a look at Ayame, but she is just staring out of the window, looking at the sky and kinds walking by the school.
"Hey Ayame." Asuka says.
"Hm?" Ayame asks as she looks at Asuka.
"Are you okay?" Asuka asks.
"Yea I'm fine." Ayame says and then looks out the window again.
Asuka knows she has something on her mind. Ayame is usually shy but today, she seemed… troubled.
In another class….
Li and Irwandi walks into the classroom. The class hasn't started so everyone is talking to each other.
"Hey Li." John says as he waves his hand in the air.
"You have history to?" Li asks as he takes the seat next to John.
"Yea, isn't that weird?" John asks.
Then the teacher walks into the classroom and everybody takes a seat. Irwandi takes the seat next to Li.
One and a half hour later the class ends, and it's time for lunch. And as Li doesn't know the way John and Irwandi leads the way.
"My favorite lesson, lunch." John says as they enter the dining room.
The dining room is big. It is on the third floor. It has many windows and a big clock on the wall (opposite the way Li and the others came from). Besides the way Li, John and Irwandi came from so is there three other ways into the dining room. The tables are round. Around half of the school is already eating. Li and his new friends take a stand into the lunch line.
"Here's where you find food." John says as he takes a tray.
"I've noticed that." Li says as he takes a tray.
"This is great food, they even serve pizza." John says as he takes a plate and puts it on his tray.
"Nice." Li says as he does the same.
"And the best part, they have a machine over there that gives you any drink you want." John says as he points at a machine 10m away from them.
"Anything?" Li asks.
"Yea, from Soda to Coca cola to Fanta, and the best part is we can how much we want." John says with a huge smile.
"That's good, but I don't drink any of that." Li says as he takes food on his plate.
"Yes it is…what? You don't drink coca cola?" John asks surprised.
"No."
"Why not?" John says as the three of them takes a seat around a round table.
"Its better to drink water, milk and tea." Li says as he starts to eat.
"Weird, you're the first person I know to say that." John says.
"I don't think it's weird, I think he is smart." Irwandi says.
"Yea but… Hey Irwandi." John says as he looks at Irwandi.
"Yea?"
"What's your style?"
"Silat."
"I see. Does it focus much on kicks?"
"No, on body points."
"Such as?"
"Eyes."
"… Okay. I'll go and take more coca cola." John says as he leaves the table.
"Li, what's your martial art?"
"Wushu."
"That's a Chinese martial art, am I right?"
"Yes. By the way, do you know anyone that uses wushu?"
"No I don't. Sorry"
"It's okay."
Li takes a look at his food. Spaghetti and meatballs. It's good. Li is really happy here, he has many friends and its fun. Sure he missed everyone in China but he'll visit them sooner or later. Li couldn't find any way this could be any better.
"It's time you learn things about the school." John says.
"What do you mean?" Li asks confused.
"Well, here everyone hangs out with their martial art class, for example all the karate kids are one gang and all the boxing kids are one gang. But the girls they just hang out randomly you know, but mostly with their martial art friends." John says.
"I see, but what about you guys?" Li asks.
"There isn't anyone else that does Silat, and you're my first two friends."
"Well, the kick boxers… just doesn't want me with them…"
"I see, well it doesn't matter, because we got out own little gang right here." Li says as he takes his left hand on Irwandi's left shoulder and his right hand on John's shoulder.
"Yea." John and Irwandi says (at the same time) with a smile.
"Hey, who's that?" Li asks as he points at a guy sitting alone at a table.
"That's Seh." John says.
"Seh? You mean his name is "Snake"?" Li asks.
"No his name is Seh." John says.
Seh, a 17 year old Chinese. He is a master of the Snake kung fu, so skilled that he got the name Seh meaning "Snake" in Mandarin. Seh has shaved black hair (yet not bald and not exactly like a monk) and dark brown eyes. Unlike normal students (who wear "normal" cloths when they do not train) Seh always wear his martial art cloths (martial art robe). He has black kung fu shoes (like Li) and white socks, he has orange pants and an orange robe. The robe is similar to a shaolin robe or a jiu-jutsu jacket (or shirt). However his right arm (of his robe) seemed to have been ripped of. Unlike other students who eats spaghetti and meatballs (except for Irwandi (who's vegetarian) and others) so is Seh eating noodles with Chinese chopsticks.
"Why is he eating all by himself?" Li asks.
"Because no one wants to." John says.
"Why?"
"He is a scary guy, people say that he have never lost a fight. And he isn't very friendly." John says.
"I have heard a rumor that he hurt someone during a match so that guy almost died." Irwandi says.
"What? What happened to the guy?" Li asks.
"He luckily survived, but he's in a wheel chair for life and can never use his left arm again. But it's just a rumor." Irwandi says.
"… Well everyone needs friends." Li says as raises and then starts to walk over to Seh's table.
"What are… Well, I'll miss him." John says.
"Don't be stupid, he's not going to die. " Irwandi says.
"Hi. Could I sit here?" Li asks as he takes his hands on a chair.
Seh says nothing, he keeps his eyes closed and eats his noodles. Li takes a seat anyway.
"How are you?" Li asks.
Seh says nothing. Li then raises and begins to leave.
"Well, bye." Li says as he turns around and starts to walk away. However, after one step…
"International Qiang Champion." Seh says as he puts down the bowl on the table.
Li turns around, however he doesn't get a chance to speak…
"I challenge you to a Qiang duel."
Yet again Li didn't get a chance to speak.
"In one week, in gym nr 3. Five o clock. If you do not show up, I will be the honorable victor." Seh says and then he raises and walks away.
Li stands there, and then he turns around and walks back to his friends and takes a seat.
"He's back." John says.
"What happened?" Irwandi asks.
"We talked, and well I am going to meet him again in the gym next week." Li says.
"Next week? What's he going to do until then? Meditate? Can't you just hang out at his place?"
"We are not going to hang out, I challenged me to a Qiang duel."
"Qiang? What's that? It's it like a Chinese version of poker?" John asks half joking.
"…No, It's the name of the Chinese spear."
"So he challenged you to a spear duel?" Irwandi asks.
"Yes."
"I see, well let's not worry about that."
Then (suddenly) Asuka takes a seat.
"Hi guy's, haven't you eaten yet?" Asuka asks.
"A…A…Asuka." John says.
"Hello Asuka." Irwandi says.
"Hi, we haven't met, who are you?" Asuka asks with a smile.
"My name is Irwandi." Irwandi says.
"Nice to meat you Irwandi." Asuka says.
"I'm John." John says.
"John, I know who you are." Asuka says.
"Yea you do." John says with a smile.
"Why are you still sitting here? You have finished your lunch." Asuka says.
"Oh yea we have." John says as he rises.
A short while later, when they get out from the dining room and walks in a corridor.
"So what's happening?" Asuka asks (mostly towards Li)
Li is about to answer but John does it instead.
"Nothing really, well Li got some spear duel with Seh but nothing else I can think of." John says.
"What? A spear duel?" Asuka asks while she gets her books out of a locker.
Li is the only one to stop while she does it, John and Irwandi just continues to walk.
"Yea, nothing really." Li says.
"What do you mean "nothing really?" You are going to have a weapon duel." Asuka says.
"It's okay, don't worry about it." Li says with a smile.
"Did you agree to it?" Asuka asks as she closes the locker.
"No, well sort of…"
"No? Well then I'll find Seh and I'll teach him a lesson or two." Asuka says upset while they are walking to class.
"No don't do that, just don't worry about it, I'll handle it." Li says with a smile.
"Well… alright, but if he hurts you…" Asuka says as they enter a classroom.
"Don't worry, we are not going to fight." Li says with a smile.
Then Asuka takes her seat while Li stands at the door, not sure if this is his class to.
"Hey Li, over here." John says as he waves his hand in the air.
Li smiles and walks over to his friend. Surprisingly so is there a seat next to him free.
"Could I sit here?" Li asks just to be sure no one else sits there.
"Yea, that's supposed to be Frankie's seat but he and Joey are never at class." John says.
"I see." Li says as he takes the seat.
"I am not sure if I'm in this class." Li says as he opens his black bag and takes out what he needs a pen and piece of paper to write on.
"No you are supposed to be here, I have read your schedule."
"I see… you read my schedule? … When…. Anyway, what's this class anyway?" Li asks.
"It's…"
Then the door opens (again) and for some reason every student looks if it's the teacher, it's not. Instead comes in a student, Lili Rochefort.
As Lili walks to her seat, a book in her left hand and her right hand touching her hair, her hair in the air.
"Who's that?" Li asks as Lili walks to her seat.
"That's Lili Rochefort, she is (I think) the popular girl in the whole school, so popular she hangs out in the blue house." John says.
Emily Rochefort a.k.a Lili. She is 17 years old and from Monaco. She is very rich thanks to her father, but is not popular because of her money but because of her looks, especially her long blonde hair and her blue eyes. It even looks like she has "maids" after her. She is wearing a white Victorian-style dress that ends with a skirt and white boots.
"I see, she's…"
"Yea, hot." John says.
"No, beautiful." Li says.
"Yea, what?" John asks.
Then the door opens again. All the students take a look to see if it's the teacher, it's not, it's just student, Ayame.
As Lili is already here, no guy seems interested in Ayame. She knows that she is not even close as popular as Lili, she almost has no friends, (except for the girls who live in her dorm) sure she always had someone to be with during the breaks but none would hang out with her (expect for Asuka, Mina and Shizuru) and it makes her sad.
Ayame walks to her seat and without knowing it she takes the seat next to Li.
"Hey Ayame, are you alright?" Li asks concerned as he sees her sad look.
"…What?" Ayame asks as she takes a look at Li.
"Are you alright?" Li asks.
"I'm okay." Ayame says.
"Is there anything I can help with?" Li asks.
"No it's alright." Ayame says with a smile.
"Okay then." Li says as he smiles back.
Then (finally) the teacher walks into the classroom.
"Good afternoon, let's open page…" The teacher says as she puts her books on the table.
"Li really is something, I have never seen his kindness anywhere before, still as kind he was when we were kids." Asuka thinks.
Almost two hours later, the same class, same teacher, other class. Now they were in the gym, to work on their martial arts skills, the teacher is only there to keep students from fighting and perhaps give some tips.
Everyone has changed cloths. Li has changed to his white kung fu cloths, John has red pants (similar to Li's) and a black armless shirt, Asuka has the same cloths she wore before, Ayame has a judogi on her and Lili is wearing a gray corset with gray denim jeans (with embroidery) and black wraps. The class is a totally twenty two people and they all had more than enough room to train. Some train together and some train alone. John is training on the punching bag, Asuka is training on another punching bag, Ayame is training with two of her judo friends, Lili is training with her "maids" and Li is training on his acrobatic skills.
John is sweating, he has hit the bag none stop for five minutes now, he slowly grabs the bag to rest and while he does it he takes a look at Li.
Li does two back volts and then (suddenly) when he lands he does one forward volt.
"Shit dude." John says.
"What?" Li asks.
"That's some skills."
"Nah."
"You kidding me, you're awesome." John says as he points at Li.
"Many people around the world can do it, it's nothing special." Li says.
"Yea but, it's different to see on the internet and to see it with your own eyes." John says.
"Thanks, but it's not hard. You just need courage to do it." Li says.
"I guess, but still… you wanna spar?" John says as he takes his hands up.
"Sure." Li says.
John and Li walks away from the bag, now they're 2m from each other, John is in a kickboxing stance while Li just stands normal.
"Let's begin with show sparing, then we could do real sparing." John says.
"Sure." Li says with a smile.
John then takes steps towards Li and then throws a punch (with his left arm) towards Li's face, Li however hits John on the side of his head (with his right arm) but not a punch, more of a slap. Li hits John before he could hit him, even though Li had his hands by his hips and John had his hands guarding his face. John shakes his head.
"You're fast dude." John says with a smile.
"Thanks." Li says, smiling back at him.
"You think you can do that with a kick?" John teasing him a little.
"No I don't." Li says as he shakes his head.
"Try it." John says.
"Okay." Li says as he now gets into a fighting position, similar to that of John's.
John then throws his left punch towards Li's face, but Li does a sidekick (with his right leg) and kicks John in the stomach yet not hard, but John takes two steps back.
"I didn't even have time to block it." John thinks as he holds his right hand on the spot where Li has kicked him.
"I'm sorry, you okay?" Li asks.
"Yea I'm okay, you didn't kick me so hard, but you're so fast." John says as he takes a step closer.
"Thanks, speed is the most important thing in Wushu."
"How come you're so fast? I mean what kind of training did you do? Did you have weights on your legs?"
"No."
"Then what did you do?"
"We don't do train one thing for a month and then we learn something new, in wushu you always train the basic kicks, jumps and everything. We repeat everything once or tweeze every training." Li says.
"I see. And what about…"
"Hey Li." Asuka comes and interrupts.
"Yes?" Li says as he slightly turns to the left to face Asuka.
Suddenly Asuka does a spin kick towards Li's face, he avoids it by taking a step back.
"What are you doing?" Li asks.
"Fight me." Asuka says as she attacks again.
This time she tries to hit him on the top of his head with her elbow but he once again avoids it by taking a step to the side. She tries to hit him in the stomach with a spinning side kick but Li takes a step back and as he blocks it with his hands. Then she tries to sweep him but he avoids it by doing a side volt (cekongfan) then Asuka does a side volt herself but as an attack however Li avoids it by a back flip.
"Come on Li, fight back." Asuka says with a smile, and then she attacks him again with a kick towards the face.
Slowly, all the students form a small crowd around them, the teacher however, sees it only as a sparring match and doesn't pay too much attention to it.
"He's fast." A guy says.
"Nah, she's playing with him." Another guy says.
Li blocks two punches by Asuka (with his hands) and gets ready for her next attack.
"He's an armature." One of Lilis friends/maids says to Lili.
However
Lili doesn't listen to her friend, instead she at the fight.
Asuka
smiles to Li, on the expiration of her face Asuka will do something.
And she makes a jump spin kick towards Li, it is high, fast and
powerful yet Li avoids it with a butterfly twist to the side. Asuka
is about to do one more attack when…
"You got some skills." Lili says as she takes three steps forward.
"How about you fight with me?" Lili asks.
Asuka is about to say something but…
"I don't wanna fight anyone." Li says with his hands in the air.
"He is sparring with me so go and find yourself your own sparring partner." Asuka says completely ignoring what Li said.
"It's not for you to decide." Lili says as she looks into Asuka's eyes.
"Not you either." Asuka says as she looks into Lili's eyes.
"If I may say something…" Li says.
Both Asuka and Lili look at him.
"I don't wanna fight anybody."
"Is he stupid? Lili asks him to fight and he says no." A guy whispers.
"Yea, the same with Asuka." Another guy whispers.
"Alright class listen up." The teacher says and everyone looks at her.
"Class dismissed, you may stay and train furthermore, or have fun, class is over for today, but don't forget to study for the test tomorrow." The teacher says as most of the students begins to walk to the locker room.
Li however walks up to the teacher.
"Excuse me miss but what test?" Li asks.
"Don't worry about it Li, this is your 1st day at school, so you won't do any test this week."
"I see, thank you." Li says as he bows to her.
Li notice that the only people left is himself, John, Asuka and Lili. They are still mad at each other.
"Luckily for you, I have something more important to do." Lili says as she leaves.
"Yea you go, we don't want you here anyway." Asuka says.
Lili doesn't say anything back. Li walks to Asuka and stands beside her.
"Asuka, what do you got against her?" Li asks.
"I don't like her, she has the personality of a… you know…"
"Oh…"
"They say she is one of the top students here but Asuka is the only one who has defeated her in a fight." John says.
"I see, so you're rivals then?" Li asks.
"I guess…" Asuka says.
"Well see you guys later, I have to go and study for the test, see ya." John says as he leaves.
"The test? I haven't studied." Asuka says and then turns around to face Li.
"Li, I know we decided that we would train now. But I really have to…"
"I understand. Go and study, I'll stay here and train for a while." Li says with a smile.
"Thanks." Asuka says as she leaves.
Li decides to train Nanquan. After one and a half hour he's done. After 15 min in the locker room (changing cloths, showering, sauna e.t.c) he decides to go to the cafeteria (he noticed it when he was in the dining room) to see if there's something to eat. Li is now wearing his blue cloths (the cloths he arrived with) and his black bag on his back. He has black shoes (the reason why I don't describe the shoes is because I think they aren't (so much) important but everyone is wearing shoes). After walking up the stairs Li opens the dining room. However there is no one there. On the cafeteria is a white piece of paper with a text "closed".
"I guess I have to cook something when I get back to the dorm." Li thinks while he walks out of the dining room.
Li closes the door behind him. He walks towards the stairs but stoops to look through the window. Li can see almost the whole school yard. It is empty, expect for Ayame. She stands close to the school gate.
Ayame is standing by the school, she holds her dark green backpack in her hands. A guy approaches her.
"Ayame, what are you doing here? Haven't your school day ended?" Ikari says.
Ikari Hisatsu, 17 year old Japanese. He is one of many who study Karate at the school. He is known to be a trouble maker. He has short black spiked upwards hair. He is wearing a black T-shirt, a green west, white shorts, sandals and a gray headband.
"Leave me alone Ikari." Ayame says as she turns her back towards him.
"Come on, don't be like that." Ikari says as he walks closer to her.
Ikari is now standing behind her, he then grabs her breast (with his right hand over her right shoulder)
"Wh-What are you doing?" She says with red cheeks.
"Come on, play with me for a while." Ikari says with a smile.
Ayame grabs his arm and throws him over her hip.
"Pervert." Ayame says angrily.
Li sees Ayame throwing someone on the hard ground, that can't be a good sign. Li starts to run towards the stairs. The stairs are twelve steps. Instead of running down the stairs he jumps over (7-8 steps) to the wall, from the wall (with all his power on his left leg) he jumps over the last steps and starts to run to the next stair.
"That hurt Ayame." Ikari says, holding his right hand on his back.
"Well you deserve it you creep."
"Stop it Ayame, let's play for a while."
"Yea, let him play." A black muscular man says.
The black man is Mark, he's a bodybuilder and a wrestler, 18 years old African-American. He is wearing black jeans and a red armless shirt. He is bald.
"Come on Ayame, don't do it the hard way, we don't wanna hurt you." Jack says.
Jack, a 17 years old American, he is a boxer, he is wearing black jeans and a blue armless shirt.
Ayame is realizing what they are going to do, she starts to run towards the school (as Jack and Mark was covering the other ways) and they runs after her. But Ayame falls down on the ground, turning around (her back on the ground) she sees them standing there.
"Caught you." Mark says.
"Don't…" Ayame says.
Then Li jumps over Ayame and hits Mark in the chest with a wushu jump double kick (similar to wrestling's drop kick but Li lands on his feet) and Mark falls backwards.
"Leave her alone." Li says standing in front of Ayame.
End of chapter 2
