Chapter 1: First Day at the Academy
There I was, finally getting off the last ride I needed to get where I wanted to go wearing Soruketsu and with Mayhem in my backpack. I thanked the driver for the lift and he then left without question. With that, I then looked forward to the bridge over the large chasm that would lead to Honnō Town. I took a deep breath to calm myself before I then started walking to cross the bridge. But, before we begin with my story, you have to know what happened before I got there. It was the day before I got to that bridge.
本能寺学園
[Honnoji Academy]
2年クラスか
[Second Year Class K]
On that day, it was during a history lesson in Class K of Honnōji Academy for the class's second year students, all the students listened as their teacher spoke about it. Well almost all of them. One was for some reason asleep the whole time that he talked.
"So, in 1933, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, a.k.a. the Nazi, came to power." The teacher said as he continued to talk, unaware that one of his students was asleep while the rest were listening. "Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor and, soon after that, the Democracy of post-war Germany became a fascist reign."
The teacher instantly stopped cold of his lesson speech to his students as a loud bang hit the door, making him and the students gasp in fright. The whole class watched as more bangs came to the door, giving them even more fright. Then, in an instant, the door burst off its hinges and crashing into the window, the impact causing a burst of wind that sent the entire front row of the class flying to the back.
"Uh…we're in the middle of a lesson here." The teacher unsurely said.
He soon whimpered in fear as a large man wearing a white uniform with silver, spiked armor on it came through the door and stood in front of the teacher, two a row of students wearing uniforms similar to his forming at both sides of him.
"I'm on official business!" the man said as he towered over the teacher like a giant.
The teacher yelped in fright as he backed away before he bowed to the man saying "Yes, sir."
"I'm the Disciplinary Committee Chair, Ira Gamagōri!" the man said, informing the class of who he was as he looked to them, the row of students that was on his left moving to behind him with that was on his right.
懲戒委員長
[Disciplinary Committee Chair]
蟇郡苛
[Ira Gamagōri]
"Students of Class K," Gamagōri said as he spoke to the students, pacing back and forth from the wall on the right side of the classroom and the window on the left, "it has come to our attention there is someone among you who intends to bring harm to Honnōji Academy." Next to the one student who was still asleep was a male student with a brown afro, his eyes narrowed as he looked at Gamagōri and hold onto his backpack like it was something truly valuable to him. "Step forward and accept your punishment!"
Everyone in the classroom looked to the student as he stood up from his desk, that look remaining on his face. They all watched as he then grabbed something out of his pocket and slowly raising it up before he quickly tossed it down and it exploded, releasing a smokescreen-like mist. With that, he instantly rushed out of the classroom, his glare turning into a look of free as he ran through the halls. As he ran down a spiral staircase, Gamagōri appeared, falling down to the ground from the outside of the Academy and laughing sinisterly. After getting down all those stairs, the student thought he was free as got to the door but was soon filled with fright as he opened it to find Gamagōri waiting in the other side with a glare. He yelp as Gamagōri grabbed him by the shirt and brought him up to his face.
"Did you think you'd escape me with a tear gas bomb?" Gamagōri angrily said as he then threw him into the courtyard.
As the student laid there, bruised from being tossed and rolling around on the solid ground, he looked to his side and saw Gamagōri starring down on him with his entourage of students standing behind him.
The student recollected himself and got back on his feet saying "Damn it!"
He growled as he then unzipped the backpack he had, placed his hand inside, and pulled out…a school uniform with a large, black, 4-point star on the chest and a small, white, 4-point star on the collar.
"Heh." Gamagōri said to himself, smugly. "A 1-Star Goku Uniform."
一つ星極制服
[One-Star Goku Uniform]
"Looks like I found our thief." Gamagōri said before he spoke to the student. "What are you waiting for? Try it on."
Then, quick as a flash, he removed his old clothing and put the uniform on.
"Ah! Amazing!" the student said in amazement as he gained a smile of confidence. "I can feel the power surging through my body…and…my…soul! I like it."
Gamagōri then grabbed under one of his knuckle braces and pulled out a whip before he started whipping at the student with it, the student dodging it with super-fast reflects or, as a certain red tailed friend of mine would call, hypermobility.
"My body's moving faster than fast!" the student said, amazed by his new found speed.
"Of course. That's the power of the Goku Uniform." Gamagōri said as he continued to whip him.
The student then smacked the whip away and went in to punch Gamagōri saying "Then die!"
He made a clear, solid punch right at Gamagōri's stomach, but his smirk faded after he saw Gamagōri looking down on him with a smug look on his face like the punch didn't even happen.
"What?" the student said as he then backed away in shock.
"Too bad." Gamagōri said as he continued to look down on the student. "Your uniform's only a 1-Star. But mine's a 3-Star." The student then began to whimper as he then looked and saw the three large, black 4-point stars on the chest of his uniform and the three smaller, silver stars on the collar as Gamagōri then menacingly towered over him. "Sorry, but your attacks…can't do a thing to me!"
With that, he pumped his fist into the air and two whips came out from underneath the knuckle braces. He then began viciously whipping him, the student not being fast enough to dodge them like before. Gamagōri then slammed the student into the ground, making him float above the ground from the impact before he then wrapped the left whip around him and began tossing him around the courtyard.
"Sneaking a Goku Uniform out. What were you planning on doing with it?!" Gamagōri said as he tossed the student into the walls surrounding the school, unaware that someone was watching him do so from a balcony on the tower at the center of the school and ignoring the student's yells in fright. "Perhaps you're a spy working for that Kōbe trash. The power of the uniform's wasted on you." He then tossed the student into the wall, the student now next to the entrance to the courtyard. "You're not fit to wear it!"
The student was now injured so much that he was now half dead, one more injury needed to finish him off.
"Remove that Goku Uniform." Gamagōri said before giving a look of rage. "Now!"
He then unwrapped his whip from the student with miraculous speed, ripping the uniform of the student's body before then whip came back and slammed the student into the wall, killing him. Gamagōri then retracted the whip as it held the uniform. After it grabbing it before the whip went back into the bracer, he then neatly folded it and dusted it off before giving it to one of his followers.
He scoffed before he shouted "Listen up! Students of Honnōji Academy!" with this, all the students in the academy looked to him in the courtyard as he continued to speak. "Satsuki Kiryūin, your student council president, created the laws of this school! And, as long I'm alive, those rules will be upheld!"
Then a bright light came in and shined upon him, making him shield his eyes as he looked to where the light was coming from. He found that it was coming from the tower and looked more closely to see it coming from the balcony. He saw it was coming from the figure who was watching from before: a slim woman with blue eyes, black hair, and a large bust wearing a military commander's uniform holding a sheathed katana from the end of the grip in front of her with the tip of the scarab flat on the floor of the balcony, looking down on him with a stoic expression and the light shining from behind her.
"Lady Satsuki." Gamagōri said as he held his over his heart before yelling "Attend, hut!"
With that, his entourage of student then stood up straight with their arms over the chest in salute.
生徒会長
[Student Council President]
鬼龍院皐月
[Satsuki Kiryūin]
"Your student council president!" Gamagōri yelled as the light continued to shine upon the whole school. "Satsuki Kiryūin! Hail!"
"Fear is freedom!" the woman yelled out as four figures stood behind her, the forms shaded shadow. "Segregation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! Those are the facts of this world! And you will all surrender to them! You pigs in human clothing!"
With that, we get back to where we are now.
翌日
[The Next Day]
本能寺学園
[Honnōji Academy]
本能市内
[Honnō City]
All the way back down to the bridge. That figure standing in the middle of the bridge? That's not me, but she is actually part of this story. Don't worry, you'll get to know her later on.
転校生
[Transfer Student]
纏流子
[Ryūko Matoi]
"There it is." The girl said as she stood there with a stoic expression, looking towards the academy, which was right on top of the town. "Honnōji Academy."
Now see that guy standing at the front of the entrance wearing the red and blue sailor uniform, white shoes, and the gold backpack with the brown hair with a gold stripe going towards the middle from the center of the front with brown eyes and white skin? That's me. The newest student of Honnōji Academy, 17-year-old Roku Ryū.
入学生
[New Student]
竜 六
[Roku Ryū]
There it was. Honnō City. After traveling for so long, I was finally here. Now all I had to do was find the Kiryūin around there and get some answers.
"Well, here we are." I said. "Honnōji Academy. After months of traveling, we're finally here."
"Do you think we'll really find her here?" Soruketsu asked me.
"It's ran by a Kiryūin." I said to her. "I'm pretty sure we'll be able to find her."
Before we step through the front door, a scent suddenly hit my nostrils, one that was close by. I sniffed the air to see if I could figure out what it was. It seemed familiar.
"Is something wrong?" Soruketsu asked as I continued to sniff the air for the scent.
I didn't answer because I was still trying to figure out what that scent was. I knew I smelled this smell before. After getting enough of a whiff I soon realized what it was. This was the one scent I hadn't smelled in months, a stench that Harime reeked in that only came from the one thing we Dragons could smell within a mile: Oni blood. I had two guesses who it was: either Harime or the Kiryūin. Not taking any chances to find out, I then turned around, jumped up, and tried to knock their block off, but they managed to catch my punch. Though I soon realized my mistake when I looked and saw it wasn't Harime or the Kiryūin. Instead, who was behind me was a girl about my age with short black hair with a single left-swept red highlight on her bangs forming from the center with these unique blue eyes with gear-shaped pupils with eight grooves around the edges. She was wearing a school girl uniform with a simple white shirt with a red ribbon tie, a black miniskirt, white sneakers, and a black & white jacket with rolled up sleeves. I gave a look of shock as she glared at me with anger.
"Ah! Whoops!" I said as I retracted my fist and backed away in shock.
"The hell's your problem?" the girl angrily said to me.
"Oh, I am so sorry! I thought you were somebody else! Really!" I said to her before I bowed to her in apology, embarrassed by what I did. "Please forgive me!"
I supposed she was a little surprised by this as it took her a moment before she said "Oh, alright. Guess that wasn't your fault anyway."
With that, I looked and saw she was looking at me with a gentle smile. I then looked above her as I heard a meow and saw Mayhem there before he began falling towards the girl.
"Mayhem, no!" I said as I thought he was going to attack her, but instead I watched as the girl caught him in her arms and began licking her face.
"Oh! Hey! Stop!" the girl said as Mayhem continued to lick her face before she started laughing. "Hey, that tickles!"
As I watched, I was amazed that Mayhem was so friendly to someone he hadn't met before. Usually when he gets in front of a stranger like that, he just starts scratching them. The only person I've ever seen him just do this to was my mother. As I watched the girl laugh, I ended up smiling. If Mayhem liked her, then I guess I could trust her.
After Mayhem stopped liking her and the girl held him, she looked at me and said "This yours?"
"Yeah." I said as I took Mayhem and held him in my arms. "He's never like that with strangers. If he likes ya, then I guess I can trust ya. Sorry about nearly giving you a shiner."
"That's okay." She said, smiling at me. "You going here too?"
"Yes, I am." I told her. "I just got enrolled here. So I take it you're starting out here too?"
"Yeah, just transferred from junior high." She said to me.
"Well, at least I got to meet one of my fellow classmates. My name is Roku Ryū." I said, introducing myself. I then held Mayhem up to her, my cat meowing after I introduced him to the girl. "And this is my pet cat, Mayhem."
メイヘム
[Mayhem]
"Ryūko Matoi." The girl said, introducing herself.
From the second I heard her last name, my brain just clicked and I said "Matoi? As in Isshin Matoi?"
"Yeah, he's my dad. Did you know him?"
That actually surprised me. I had no idea he had a daughter.
"Oh, he was an old friend of my dad. I heard about what happened to him. I'm sorry for your lost. I met him once about 9 years ago. He was a great man."
"That's okay." She said as she then as she then walked off towards the town. "Come on. We got a long walk to get to school."
From there, I put Mayhem back in my backpack and catch up to her as we walked off to Honnōji Academy. Though, we walked to the entrance, I couldn't help but wonder why I mistaken her as Harime or the Kiryūin. The scent on her was faint but it was enough to make that mistake. I shrugged it off and decided to leave it as a mystery for another day. When we got to town, I noticed the large, silver instrument case Ryūko had on her back and decided to ask.
"Hey, I got to ask." I said to her. "Why are you carrying that instrument case around?"
"None of your damn business." She said to me.
"Sorry, just wondering." I said to her. "I won't pry into it that much if you don't want to talk."
"Here's a question: why are you going to Honnōji?" She said to me.
I knew what she was doing and said "Let's just say I have my reasons."
"You're not gonna tell me?" She asked with a raised brow.
"Hey, you don't talk about that case, so I won't talk about the reason for my enrollment." I said to her.
"Really?" She said. "I thought our dads were old friends."
"That's completely different!" I said to her. "I mean, I don't know anything about you. I didn't even know the doc had a daughter."
"Guess that was a lot of things he didn't talk about." She said, looking down in depression.
I was about to ask to see if she was okay, but my stomach growled before I could do it.
She looked at me with surprise as I chuckled, embarrassed by that.
"Excuse me." I said with an awkward smile.
"Guess somebody's hungry." She said to me with a smug.
We were both surprised as we then heard another growling. I looked to her and saw her blushing, meaning it was her stomach.
"Guess I'm not the only one." I said to Ryūko, just as smug as her when my stomach growled.
"Shut up." She sharply said.
"Look, there's a fruit stand right there." I said as I pointed to a nearby fruit stand.
With the money I had, I got myself an apple and Ryūko, for some reason, a lemon.
"Thank you, sir." I said to the store owner after I made the purchase and me and Ryūko went off to continue walking towards the academy, me taking a bite out of the apple.
"Ryūko, why would you picked a lemon of all things to sink your teeth into?" I asked Ryūko after she bit into her lemon, chewing apple still in my mouth.
"Why not?" she said to me as she chewed on the lemon in her mouth. "I mean, what about you? You got that bag full of money and you decide to only buy one apple and one lemon?"
I gulped in shock after she said that for that was something that needed to be said where we were.
"Hey!" I said to her before I whispered so no one around could hear me. "You can't just go on saying things like that around here! This place looks like a thug neighborhood. You never know what will pop out."
"Oh, will you relax?" Ryūko said to me after she finished the lemon in her mouth. "Nothing's gonna pop out."
She after she said that, a boy wearing a black, short-sleeve shirt, cut-leg shorts, and sunglasses on his head came running by and circled around us twice before running off down the stairs saying "Whoops! Sorry!"
"Well, at least the kids are having fun." I said as I smiled as we watched the kid run off until I put my hand on my pocket and felt only flat pants. I patted my pocket and realized my wallet was gone. "Hey, my wallet!"
I soon found out that Ryūko's lemon was gone too. We had suspected that kid took them while we weren't looking and decided to follow him. Without him noticing, we found him in an alley as he sat against a wooden crate.
He laughed as he then reached into his shirt and said "That was a piece of cake." What he pulled out was my wallet and Ryūko's lemon. We were right. He robbed us. Though I had to expect that he wasn't so happy that all he got from Ryūko was a lemon. "Huh? A lemon? I could've sworn I took that chick's wallet." Me and Ryūko managed to get on the crate without him noticing as he tossed the lemon which Ryūko caught. "Oh, well." He then moved on to my wallet. "Let's see how much that guy's got."
"Give me that!" I said as I took my wallet back from him, making him gasp as he turned around and saw me and Ryūko.
"Stealing half eaten lemons and money from people?" Ryūko said to the kid with a smug while I just glared at him. "Huh, nice manners, kid."
The kid yelped in shock as he back away.
"I can't believe he actually stole a lemon she ate." Soruketsu said as me and Ryūko got off that crate and stood in front that kid. "Is he really that desperate to swap spit with chicks?"
"Either that or he really isn't good with the hit and run tactic." I said to my Kamui as I continued to look at the kid.
"Hey, don't you get cute with me!" the kid said to me, angrily. "I get way more action that you and this bitch!"
"What action is that?" I asked to him. "Throwing rocks at the playground?"
"Hey!" the kid said to me. "Don't make fun of me, you bastard! I'm serious!"
"Great." Ryūko said to the kid. "Then you can die without any regrets."
"Ha! I was gonna say the thing to you." The kid said as he gave a smug. "Come on out, guys!"
In that instant, five kids appeared, wielding weapons, if you can call all that random junk weapons, to fight us.
"Do you even know who you're dissing?" the kid said us as him and his friends surrounded us. "Me! Lightning Speed Matarō, that's who! And this is Honnō Town's blindest alley, my turf. It's a dead-end for loser, hos, and scumbags. So if you want to get home in one piece, leave your wallets and step."
"Seriously?" Ryūko said to the kid, who I guess was named Matarō, as we looked at him and his so called crew. "You know, the street punk thing ain't working for ya. Same with your crew."
"Yeah. I've been surrounded by thugs that are way, way, way more vicious than you guys." I said to the group. "Basically, this is the most pitiful street gang I've ever seen. You guys want to pick a fight, that's fine. But I suggest avoiding anybody like me. Look, I don't want to beat up a bunch of kids, but if you won't leave us alone, then I'll have to knock some sense it ya. So step aside and no one gets hurt."
"Why you!" Matarō said as he then order his "crew" to attack me and Ryūko. "Kick their asses!"
I sighed in disappointment that they didn't listen and said "Guess we're doing this."
Ryūko took on and beat up three of those kids, leaving them flat on the ground.
"Sleep." I said as I grabbed the last two by the neck with the pinch pressure point Master Splinter taught me in case I need to get my brothers to settle down, knocking those kids out without hurt them.
"Whoa!" Ryūko said, amazed by this. "What was that?"
"Little self-defense move." I said to her. "With the right pressure point, you can knock any living creature out. Seriously, I knock out a bear with this."
"Cool." Ryūko said to me with smile.
We then looked to Matarō as he gasped in shock. We were then surprised by him bowing to us with his group joining him with them grabbing their two unconscious members.
"We give up! You win!" They said to us.
"What the hell?" Ryūko said, just as surprised as I was.
"You kids were just trying to intimidate us, weren't you?" I said to those kids as I realized that they were just pretending to act tough.
"Uh-huh!" Matarō said to me, confirming it. "We weren't really gonna do anything. We're a passive-aggressive gang."
After a moment of hearing that, I laughed as they were just trying to scare when we were the only one who actually knew who could fight.
"Should've known." I said after I stopped laughing and looked at Matarō and his friends. "You're just a couple of kids. You only try to look tough to make people think you're tough."
"Yeah, we're sorry." He said to me.
"It's okay." I said to him. "I don't fight people who can't protect themselves."
"And I'm not gonna fight people who can't fight back." Ryūko said as I saw her giving a gentle smile too. "I guess I'll let it slide this time." With that, she began to walk off. "Come on, Roku."
"Right behind ya." I said as I followed her, managing to hear Matarō and his friends sigh in relief after we got to path next to railroad. We looked back when we heard a grunt and those kids gasp and saw that Matarō was hit with a book bag. I wondered where it came from until…
"Hold…it!" a voice said and I looked and saw a girl with brown hair like Matarō in bob cut style wearing a girl's sailor uniform as she then pounced Matarō and pinned him a few feet away from me and Ryūko.
"What the…?" I said as I watched the girl then pinned Matarō while holding his arm like a wrestler.
"Mugging folks at the crack of dawn again, huh?" She said to Matarō as she kept him pinned.
"Crap! It's my big sister!" Matarō said in fear.
Me and Ryūko looked at each other, surprised that this girl was actually related to that pipsqueak.
"How many times do I gotta tell ya to stop shaking people down and get your fanny to school?" the girl said as we watched her hold her little brother in different wrestling pins. "You got a death wish or something?"
"I'm sorry. I'm going, I'm going, I'm going!" Matarō said to her as the girl then let him go. He called his friends and they all went running off away as me and Ryūko joined up with that girl as the three of us watched them run out of sight. "I ain't got time for institutionalized learning, you dumbass! I'm gonna be a baller! A baller!"
"Dumb, little jerk." The girl said as she looked to where Matarō was running before give me and Ryūko with a friendly smile. "Sorry about that. Are you…" A bell then rang and she screamed in fright before speaking to herself. "I'm gonna be late!"
Me and Ryūko then watched as she ran after a nearby cable car heading up town.
"Wait up! Let me on! Let me on! Please! Let me on! Please!" She said as she kept chasing the cable car until she finally got on. "Oh, I got on. Yay."
"What the hell?" Ryūko said to me as I just shrugged for I didn't know what happened either. "These people are crazy."
"They're certainly…different." I said to her before I started walking towards the academy. "Come on. Let's hurry and get to school."
本能寺学園
[Honnōji Academy]
We managed to get to the entrance, but we stopped as I smelled something and looked up to find the source hanging above us. Ryūko did the same and saw what I saw.
"Huh?" I said as we looked and saw a dead, naked guy hanging there by his rope-tied wrists. "What's this?"
We looked and saw that he had a sign over his crotch and I listened as Ryūko read it.
This is a naked pig who dared to defy Honnōji Academy. Justice has been served.
"Justice, my ass." I said as I was disgusted by this. "This is inhuman. This city's dangerous and the school looks even worse."
"Interesting." Ryūko said as I looked to her and saw her smiling.
"What's with the smug?" I said to her.
"Well, I think I might get some answers." Ryūko said to me.
"Answers? To what?"
"You'll see."
As she walked to the entrance, I looked back up at the body hanging there. Usual Kiryūin. Never giving any remorse to anyone who goes against them. With this, I was gonna enjoy pumbling this Satsuki chick into a pulp. I looked to see Ryūko already going through the gate and realized I was falling behind.
"Hey, wait up!" I said as I went off to catch up to her.
After getting to the halls, we both looked around to find our classes and we both managed to find it. Surprisingly, we were actually in the same class.
"Okay, looks like we're both in Class K." I said to Ryūko as we stood in front of the door and I smiled at her. "What a coincidence, huh?"
"Yeah." She said as she returned the smile.
We both looked at the door as I knocked on it to let somebody know we were here and so we could speak to the teacher.
"Yes?" a nerdy voice said as we watched the door open and the person who opened it was shocked when he saw me.
I was just as shocked as he was when I saw who it was, not even knowing it was him with that voice. It was Mikisugi, the Nudist Beach agent I met over 2 years ago. But he was fully clothed, his hair all scruffy, and wearing glasses. This was a look I never thought in a million years I would see him in.
"What the…? Mikisugi?" I said to him, shocked by this. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Well, I'm teaching here." He said with a nervous look on him.
"Huh? Seriously?" I said, still couldn't believe what I was hearing.
"Hold on." Ryūko said as me and Mikisugi looked at her. "You two know each other?"
"Yeah. We met back in my home town." I said to her before turning back to him. "Though I don't remember you mentioning anything about…"
I couldn't finish what I was about to say as he put his hand over my mouth.
"Shh!" Mikisugi shushed me as he kept covering my mouth before whispering to me. "Keep it down!"
After he removed his hand, Aikurō told me that he was undercover by posing as a teacher to see what was going on here at the academy and he told to play along for if I blew his cover then we would both be in trouble.
"Okay." I said to him as he straightened himself up. "Sorry for that. So I guess I'll be your student from now on."
"Indeed." He said before speaking to both of us. "So you two will be my students?"
"I guess?" Ryūko said, no doubt confused by what happened. Mikisugi did whisper so she didn't hear what he said to me.
"Good." He said as he then held up and looked at an attendance book. "Hold on." He looked up from the book and then raised an eyebrow when he pointed at me and Ryūko, no doubt counting. He looked back down at the book and traced his finger down it. "It says here that there is a total of six of you joining." He then looked back up at us. "Where are the other four?"
"Oh, I kinda went ahead of them." I said as I realized he was talking about my brothers and nervously chuckled at the fact I came here without them.
"Classic Roku." Mikisugi said as he smiled at me. "Always so eager." He then closed the attendance book and walked back into the classroom. "Well, come along. I'll introduce you to the class."
With that, me and Ryūko walked in and stood in front of our classmates as they all watched us walk in through the door.
"Class, we have two new students in Class K today." Mikisugi said as he introduced us to the class, writing on the chalkboard behind us. "So please welcome Roku Ryū and Ryūko Matoi."
纏流子
[Ryūko Matoi]
竜 六
[Roku Ryū]
"Hello." I said as I waved to class while Ryūko just stood there with her hands in her pockets.
"Hey, Ryūko! Roku!" a voice said as me and Ryūko looked to see a hand raised and saw it was Matarō's sister. We looked to see she was point to two empty desk to her left, one of them was behind the other. "Here! Sit here! These desks are free!"
With that, she then speaking like a full on chatterbox, not unlike a certain energetic blonde I met a few years back. I was just as confused by this as I never thought I would meet someone who could talk like the one who gave me a headache for giving me a simple explanation.
"Man." Ryūko said to herself as she looked at the girl.
"What?" I said to her.
"That chick's spazzing out something fierce." She said to me.
"Oh, so it wasn't just me." I said to her before speaking to Mikisugi. "Does she always act like this?"
"Oh, that's how Mankanshoku usually is." He said to me. "I guess those will be your seats."
"Okay." I said as me and Ryūko took those seats.
Ryūko took the one right next to the girl and I took the one behind Ryūko. After a moment, I then decided to speak to the girl.
"Nice to see you again…" I said, unsure what to say to her. "Mankanshoku, right?"
"Yep! My name is Mako Mankanshoku." The girl said as she gave me and Ryūko a friendly smile. "It's nice to meet you again and everything. Haha!"
満艦飾マコ
[Mako Mankanshoku]
"Thank you, Mako." I said to her before I decided to ask her about that student she was talking about. "Hey, that kid the student council purged, is he the one out front?"
"Uh-huh." Mako said to me. "That kind of thing happens a lot around here."
"Really?" I said as I raised an eyebrow in surprise.
"Oh, but don't worry. You'll get used to it." Mako said as she calmly and dismissively waved her hand around before she put up a book and began to some food like an animal as Mikisugi was talking.
"This is one strange girl." I said to myself as Mako continued to eat, weirded out by this.
"I know, right?" Ryūko said to me as she managed to hear me. "I mean, she's even eating in class."
We decided to ignore her and try to listen to Mikisugi as he spoke. After a moment, I heard some snoring, looked to my right, and saw that it was Mako, who just fell asleep at her desk.
"Look!" I said as I got Ryūko to look at Mako, who kept on sleeping.
"She's asleep already?" Ryūko said, surprised by this.
"Yeah." I said to her as we watched Mako sleep. "Whatever was in that food, it put her into a food coma."
After class, me and Ryūko walked through the halls for a while until…
"Oh, Ryūko, Roku!" Mako yelled out as we looked and saw her flying right at us with her arms out and smiling.
"Whoa!" I said as me and Ryūko dodged her, causing her to crash into a trach can.
Me and Ryūko walked off into the courtyard and it wasn't long until Mako caught up with us and walked with us.
"Aw! Why'd you dodge me like that?" Mako said to us with a look of disappointment.
"How do you expect us to react to someone who's flying at us?" I said to her.
"Aw! I was just trying to give my besties a hug." She said as she pouted.
"Huh?" I said, confused by what she meant.
"Your besties?" Ryūko asked her, just as confused I was.
"Yeah, we're desk neighbors now, so we're totally besties." Mako said to us. "Oh, that reminds me. Roku, is Ryūko your girlfriend?"
That got me and Ryūko to stop walking as we were shocked by her claim.
"No, she's not! /No, I'm not!" me and Ryūko both said at the same time, trying to get her to change the subject.
"I met her the same time you did: this morning." I said to Mako, helping her figure out her mistake.
"Oh, too bad." Mako casually said before she spoke to Ryūko. "Oh, Ryūko, is that your guitar case? Do you play? Come on, play something! I'll sing!"
She then put her book bag on the ground and stood on top of it as she sang with an off-key voice.
"Mako, get down from there." I said to the cheerful girl as she kept on singing. "Are you trying to make a scene?" I then crossed my arms before speaking again. "And don't waste your breath. I already tried to figure out what was in that case. She's not gonna show what's in it. It'll be longer before any of us get to see what's inside it."
"God, would you both calm down?" Ryūko said to me and Mako, making the girl stop singing. "Listen, I want to know what the deal is with this place. Like who's the top dog around here and stuff?"
After she said that, I then decided to tell her about who was in charge.
"I can tell you." I said to her. "It's…"
"Whoa! Look out, you guys!" Mako frantically said as she then forced us in to a row of students bowing for some reason and making us bow with them. "Bow, bow!"
"What's going on?" I said as I looked around to see what was going on.
Looking around, I saw that all the students in the courtyard were all bowing in two rows, making a path down the courtyard. When trying to figure out why, I looked towards the school and saw this huge dude with blonde hair walking down some stairs with a few students standing at the sides of each step as walked by them. With this, I straightened up and decided to crouch down so he didn't notice me until I figured him out. He was wearing this weird, white soldier uniform with three big, black, 4-point stars on the chest with the middle and bigger one making up the side points of two smaller ones on the sides. The jacket also had silver, spiked shoulder guards and arm guards attached to these sort of spiked knuckle braces.
"He looks like a big shot." Ryūko said as we watched the big guy walking over and passing us.
"Yeah, he's a 3-Star." Mako said to her as the guy walked past us.
"He sure looks intimidating, but he's not the big boss around here." I said as I looked at the big guy before looking to Mako. "By the way, Mako, who is that and what do you mean by 3-Star?"
"That's Ira Gamagōri, the Disciplinary Committee Chairman." Mako said as she explained who that big guy was. "He's one of the Elite Four of the student council."
"Elite Four of the student council?" I said to myself, seeing this Elite Four as those beneath the Kiryūin and above everyone else in this school. "With a name like that, I can already tell that they're big shots around here." I then spoke to Mako again as I got to the last question I need an answer to in order to get a clear idea on what she was talking about. "But what the hell does 3-Star mean anyway?"
"It means he's super elite, 3 ranks above us No-Star students." Mako said to me.
"No-Star?" Ryūko asked Mako, confused by this.
Though I then realized when I looked more carefully at Gamagōri's uniform. There, on the collar, were these three silver stars. I then looked at some of the students around here and saw that none of them had stars like that on their uniforms. The students on the stairs, on the other hand, had a single star on their uniforms. That's when I figured it out: the school was using a ranking system with a certain number of stars on a uniform, students with three of them being on top while the ones with none on bottom. It was a monarchy.
"So this place ranks students with the number of stars on their uniforms." I said, getting what Mako was saying. "3-Stars on top and No-Stars on the bottom."
"That's right." She said as she continued to explain more about them. "And the uniforms have special powers and, if you get one, I hear they're awesome."
無星
[No-Star]
一つ星
[One-Star]
"You get all like super human and stuff. They're called Goku Uniforms and they go from 1-Star all the way up to 3-Star."
二つ星
[Two-Star]
三つ星
[Three-Star]
"Let me guess, your council president hands them out?" I said to her, knowing what the answer was.
生徒会長
[Student Council President]
"That's right." Mako said to me. "Satsuki Kiryūin hands them out based on a student's abilities. Long story short, they're awesome. You got all that?"
"Yeah." I said to her before speaking to Ryūko. "So Ryūko, if you're looking for the top dog, Satsuki's the one you're looking for."
"And, speak of the devil, that's Lady Satsuki." Mako said after a light shined on us and we all looked to the president herself.
She actually looked close to my age and she was wearing white military commander uniform with blue lineage on the collar, gold epaulettes, and white high heel boots. She had long black hair with two stands hanging by the front ending over her shoulders. As she walked toward us with her eyes closed, I saw she had a sheathed katana in her hand, which meant she was battle ready.
鬼龍院皐月
[Satsuki Kiryūin]
This was her. Satsuki Kiryūin, daughter of Ragyō Kiryūin. The smell of the Oni blood stuck on her like stink on a skunk. Just smelling it already had my blood starting to boil. This was it. Now I could finally find Harime and bring her to justice. Gripping my hands tight, I got ready to make myself known to her. But, before I could even move out of the row, someone beat me to it and moved out to stand in front of the Kiryūin. I was shocked to see that it was Ryūko, who stared at Satsui with a stoic expression.
"Sorry to interrupt, but I hear you're the queen bee at this school." Ryūko said to her.
"Ryūko, what are you doing?" I said to her. "Get back!"
"Stay out of this, Roku! I told you I was looking for answers and now I'm gonna get them." she said to me before talking to Satsuki. "Now, if you are the top dog, I got a question for ya."
It was only a moment before a student from the crowd surrounding Satsuki yelled out "How dare you? Get her!"
Those students tried to tackle her, but she smacked them away with her case. When more of them came at her, she then opened the case and pulled something she used to knock them away. After spinning what she had in that case, she held it up and pointed at Satsuki like a sword. What is was shocked everybody, even me. It looked like a giant pair of red scissors, well half of one anyway. Me and the rest of the students were amazed by this.
"So that's what you were carrying." I said to Ryūko as I then looked at the case she was using to carry that scissor. "That's not an instrument case, it's a weapons case!"
I looked back at the scissor Ryūko was holding, still amazed she had a weapon like this.
"That's the hugest Scissor Blade ever!" Mako said, just as amazed as I was to see Ryūko's weapon.
"Yep." Ryūko said to us all as she explained what she had. "It's one half of a giant pair of scissors. And I've been looking all over the place for the person who's got the other half." She then spoke to Satsuki as I looked to her as the student president looked unfazed by facial expression, but looked surprised in her eyes. "Hey, Prez. You okay? You look surprised to see this thing. Like maybe you've seen it before." Ryūko then got angry as she kept on talking. "You have seen it before, haven't you?"
"And what if I had?" Satsuki said to her.
Ryūko gasped before she gave a look of rage and yelled out "You have seen it. You've got the other half of my scissors!"
She then went out charging, jumped at Satsuki, and tried to attack her with the Scissor Blade. But, before she could even slash Satsuki with it, these two big, glowing, red fists came in, punched Ryūko. Those fist came from this guy who came out of nowhere.
"Tek! Ken! Fun! Sai!" the guy said as he sent Ryūko flying and crashing into a group of students with only four punches.
鉄
[Tek (Iron)]
拳
[Ken (Fist)]
粉
[Fun]
砕
[Sai]
[粉砕/Funsai (Smasher)]
"Ryūko!" I yelled, concerned for her safety.
"Fukuroda?" Satsuki said as I looked back and saw the guy who punched Ryūko.
It turned out the guy was a midget boxer with these large boxing gloves. His outfit looked like the casual boxer uniform with the gloves being bigger than his head and having spikes on the cuffs.
"Yes." The guy said as he stood in front of Satsuki. "Captain of the Boxing Club, Takaharu Fukuroda."
袋田 隆治
[Takaharu Fukuroda]
"I'll finish this insolent wench off." Fukuroda said. "With your permission."
"She's all yours." Satsuki said to him.
"Move it! Out of my way!" Ryūko yelled out as she came out of a crowd of 1-Star students and went charging at Satsuki.
She got block by Fukuroda, who used his glove to deflect her attack.
"Is that glove made out of iron or something?" She said to the boxer.
"Ha! Don't you know a Goku Uniform when you see one?" Fukuroda said to her.
"What? You're not even wearing a uniform." She said.
"What are you talking about?" Fukuroda said as he explained what exactly he was wearing. "A boxer's uniform means gloves and trunks and other stuff like that. Plus, Lady Satsuki gave me the Athleticism-Augmenting 2-Star Goku Uniform.
運動強化二つ星極制服
[Athleticism-Augmenting Two-Star Goku Uniform]
"It infuses my boxing gloves with their power, making them harder than hard, stronger than steel!" He said.
Hearing that made me curious about this and I looked at his belt to see two of the same black stars as the one's on Gamagōri's uniform on the buckle. One was in the top right corner of the belt and the other was on the bottom left corner, their point intersecting at the remaining to corners. There was an exact set of those stars on the front of his helmet.
"He's wearing a 2-Star Uniform." I said to myself as I stood next to Mako. "That must mean he's almost as strong as the Elite Four."
"Roku, do you see how those gloves are glowing?" Sōru said to me and I looked to see and realized those gloves weren't ordinary.
"Yeah." I said as I could recognize that glow anywhere. "Those things aren't made of steel, but it might as well be as hard as it. That guy's wearing Life Fibers."
"Roku, is someone talking to you right now?" Mako said to me, making me look at in confusion.
Could she have heard Sōru? But how could she do that? It's impossible for someone like her to hear someone else's Kamui. So how could she hear Sōru? I shrugged that thought off as I watched Ryūko's fight with the boxer.
"I don't get what you're saying, but, if they're that hard, I can stop pulling my punches." Ryūko said as she then flipped her Scissor Blade to its cutting edge.
"Grrrr! You think you can't handle it?! Get ready!" Fukuroda growled as he then sent a flurry of punches straight at Ryūko.
And when I mean "flurry of punches", I mean he shot multiple mini-versions of his glove at Ryūko like a gatling gun.
"Here's a left arm to rule your ass!" he said as he sent four fire lines at Ryūko, one hit her after the other. "And another! And a left hook!" I then watched the boxer the moved in a the gloves he fired linked together like chains, his left glove transforming into a four-spiral stack of boxing gloves. "And a right uppercut to finish you off!"
With that, he then punched Ryūko into the air and she crashed straight into the ground.
"Ryūko!" I yelled out as Ryūko laid there covered in bruises, her body twitch from the pain.
I heard some thunder rumbling and saw that some rain clouds formed above the area and began pouring. I looked back at Ryūko and was horrified by the sight of her bruised body as that boxer towered over her like he was her fucking superior.
"I was hoping you'd prove to be more amusing, but you have no idea how to properly wield your weapon." Satsuki said to Ryūko before she turned around and walked away. "Fool."
"Hold it." Ryūko said to Satsuki as she struggle to get back on her feet. "You better tell me what you know or else!"
I saw Fukuroda getting ready to kick her right in the kisser and decided that enough was enough. With that I began running and hoped that I made it in time.
"Shut your mouth!" Fukuroda said as he then kicked and there was a loud smack. He had his eyes closed when his kicked landed. "No one speaks to Lady Satsuki that way. No one." I watched as he opened his eyes and gave a look of surprise. "Huh?"
I looked over to see Satsuki stop walking and turn around to look back of what was happening. What she and everybody else saw was me standing between Fukuroda and Ryūko with my arms crossed in front of my face, blocking his attack. I managed to make it in time before he could do anything else to Ryūko. I heard everyone gasp as they saw it. Thanks to my Dragon ears, I was able to hear what everyone was saying.
"Whoa!" Mako said, surprised by this.
"Roku?" Ryūko said, surprised by me blocking this boxer's kick.
"What the…?" Fukuroda said to me, surprised by how I blocked his attack. "How the hell did you block my kick?"
"Same way I'm gonna push you back!" I said to the boxer as I then used my strength to send him flying, where he landed a few feet away from me. We stared at each other with glares as I spoke to him. "Listen here, boxer brain, I'm usually the one who doesn't resolve to conflict, but I don't like people who think they're above everyone picking on others. To put into words your animalist mind can understand, I hate bullies. Because of what you did, I'm gonna tell ya only once. Either apologize to my friend here right now or else I'll come over and stuff those gloves in your ass."
"You think you can come up and threaten me like that?" He said to me, angrily. "Well, now you're gonna get it now, buddy! Tek-Ken-Fun-Sai!"
He tried to attack me with the same attack he used on Ryūko, but, thanks to my Dragon powers along with Sōru's Life Fiber power, I was able to block all of his attacks without breaking a sweat. When he saw this, he then back away in shock to get some distance from me as I stood there without a single scratch on me.
"What?! You blocked all of my punches?!" Fukuroda said, still shocked by this. "Impossible! What the hell are you?!"
"You really want to know?" I said to him. "I'll tell ya. That way you know not to mess with me or my friends."
With this, I got ready to run, crushing the ground beneath my feet as I did. I then ran as quick as a flash and got to where I was in front of the boxer, making him yelp in fright.
"I'm the one who's strength outmatches the might of a 3-Star." I said to him as I glared at him, making him gasp in shock.
I then gave him an uppercut punch and, while he was still in the air, used my Dragon speed to punch him right in the gut. I must have punched him at least 90 times before I kicked him in the face and sent him slamming into the wall. He was lucky I was holding back and that attack only knocked him out. If he really pissed me off, then he would've been dead. All the students around me was surprised by this as I had to guess no one who was wearing a Goku Uniform had ever defeated a 2-Star before single-handedly. Though I got to say that was disappointing. I always like a good challenge. I didn't even need to break out Sōru for this. Compared to what I've been through, that boxer was nothing. Now with that guy out of the way, I can now face Satsuki. I looked at her as she smiled at me.
"And now…" I said until I heard someone yelling and looked to my left and saw someone coming at me with a sword. I managed to dodge it. "Whoa!"
Sōru then gave my Tonfa and I used them to block my attacker's sword as he tried to slash me over and over again. At one point I blocked and pinned his attack. After I blocked the attack, I saw the weapon was a bokken and who its wielder was. It looked like a guy somewhat my age wearing white pants, white shoes, and a white unzipped jacket similar to Gamagōri's with the same three black stars on the chest split with the jacket. The jacket had double, silver ring cuffs, silver (lineage in the bottom with spikes on the sides), and a flapped out color styled the same way as the jacket bottom with three silver stars between the two (silver lines). His pants had a big, sliver, spiked belt buckle. I managed to see a sheath for the bokken on the back of his jacket. Even though it had been a while since I've seen him, I recognized the green hair.
"Well, well, if it isn't Uzu Sanageyama." I said to him with a smug as Uzu glared at me. "How long has it been? 2 years?"
"Why you smug, little…" Uzu said as he tried to push his bokken further, trying to break my guard.
"Sanageyama, stand down!" Satsuki said as we both looked to her, her stoic expression on her face.
"But, my lady…" Uzu said as he kept on trying to break my guard.
"I said, stand down." Satsuki said in a more serious tone.
I took a moment before Uzu sighed in defeat and then said "Yes, Lady Satsuki."
He then broke off the attack and I broke my guard to look at this funny sight.
"You taking orders?" I said to Uzu, still couldn't believe this was happening. "Man, you've really gone down in the world, Uzu. Ha, ha, ha!"
"Shut it!" he said, threatening me with his bokken. "Just you wait, I'll…"
"Sanageyama!" Satsuki said to him.
"Yes, my lady." He said with an annoyed look on his face. He then sheathed his sword and went to stand beside Satsuki.
"I see you managed to turn even the lowest of lowlifes into your lap dogs." I said to her. "Though I wouldn't expect anything less from such a lowlife like a Kiryūin."
"So you know about my family?" She asked me.
"More than you know." I said to her. "You can say mine and yours had some history with each other."
"And what family do you belong to?
"One you undoubtedly know. The Ryū Family."
"Ryū? Then you wouldn't happen to be related to a man named Shinigami Ryū, would you?"
"Yeah, he was my dad."
"I should've known. You bear the same eyes as he does."
"Yes, I do. And I also bear a question for ya."
"And what question is that?"
"Do you know about a girl who goes by the name Harime?"
"And what if I do?"
I looked into her eyes and saw it. She knew who I was talking about. She knew where Harime was!
I growled before I said "You do know. You know where she is!"
Satsuki's view
I watched as the boy then started running towards me, the anger burning in his eyes. I could see he was just like the girl, he was seeking answers of his own. It was impressive that he managed to defeat Fukuroda, but he still needs to prove himself before he can ever challenge me. I then watched him as he jumped towards me, ready to strike me with his Tonfa. With this, I was able to recognize what weapon he wielded. Those weren't ordinary Tonfa, those were the Golden Dragon Tonfa, weapons that solely belong to the Ryū Family. This was just more proof that he was the son of Shinigami Ryū. I was ready to strike him with my Bakuzan until I caught a glimpse of his uniform. Before, I believed it was nothing more than a simple school uniform of the school he was previously enrolled in. But I saw that I was wrong when I bared sight at design of the scarf. They were design to pattern a set of eyes, eyes which I had only seen once in my life. There I realized it was not a Goku Uniform nor a uniform of any kind. For the first time since I started this academy, I was absolutely shocked by what was before me. It couldn't be… Was he truly wearing…a Kamui?
Roku's view
As I got closer to Satsuki, I saw her looking at me in shock. Though I wondered why she looked so shock right now, I ignored and continued my way to smack that bitch. With my Tonfa, I threw a punch at her, but Gamagōri came in and used his own body to block my attack. I growled at him as he glared at me. Looks like I underestimated the power of a 3-Star. If one could withstood a strong punch like that, then I was gonna have to be careful when I face one of them.
"How dare you try to lay a hand on Lady Satsuki?" Gamagōri yelled as he spoke to me. "For this act of defiance, you shall be purged!"
When he pumped his fist out and two whips popped out from under the knuckle bracers and they started heading towards me, I was shocked as only one thought came to my head: oh, crap. The whips were so fast that I couldn't dodge them in time and got the full blow. I had gotten whipped liked 30 times all over my body before he did one last whip that sent me flying.
"Roku!" Ryūko said as she then used whatever strength she had left to caught me as I fell to the ground, knocking her down.
Satsuki's view
As I saw Ryū fell upon the new girl, I regained my composition. It would appear he was lying when he said he could defeat a 3-Star Goku Uniform. Gamagōri defeating him was proof of this. It was disappointing that neither of them had the strength to be become a challenge. Still the weapons they hold still held themselves as a threat to my plans. I needed to relieve them of that Scissor Blade and those Tonfa.
"Gamagōri, confiscate Ryū and the girl of their weapons." I ordered my chairman as I prepared to return to my quarters.
"Yes, Lady Satsuki." Gamagōri said as he went to follow my order.
I then turned back to see that Ryū and the girl had managed to return to their feet with Ryū's arm on the girl as she supported them both with the Scissor Blade.
"Not gonna happen." Ryu said as he and Ryūko glared with an intensity that I could not help but find familiar.
Then Ryū raised up what appeared to be a small black pellet. When he tossed it on the ground, he dispersed a sort of smokescreen that concealed them from anyone's field of sight. A smoke bomb. Very clever, Ryū. When the smoke cleared, both Ryū and the girl were gone.
"Huh? Where's Roku and Ryūko?" I heard a voice said. "Did they go home already?"
Gamagōri growled in frustration before he then spoke out in rage.
"Damn it!" he yelled before he spoke to the group of 1-Star students before him. "Search the city! Those two must be captured!
"Yes, sir!"
With this, I watched as squadrons of 1-Stars marched forward to scour the city for Ryū and the girl.
"Well, there's one thing for certain about that kid, he knows how to retreat." Sanageyama said to me, referring to Ryū.
Though that wasn't the only fact that has me concerned about him or the girl.
In the Student Council Room, I drank the tea Soroi prepared and watched as Sanageyama punished Fukuroda for allowing himself to be defeated, striking him with bokkens. Gamagōri along with the other members of the Elite Four only observed as Sanageyama struck at the Fukuroda's back.
"You… Idiot!" Sanageyama said as his last strike caused the boken he wielded to break, half of the blade shattering on the floor around Fukuroda.
"I'm sorry, sir." The captain said, kneeling in shame before Sanageyama.
"You let the both of them mock Lady Satsuki." Gamagōri said to Sanageyama. "You let them escape. And you allowed a 2-Star captain to be defeated by Roku Ryū! A mistake made by club you run is your mistake, Sanageyama!"
懲戒委員長
[Disciplinary Committee Chair]
蟇郡苛
[Ira Gamagōri]
"Yeah, I know!" Sanageyama said to his fellow chairman as he went to sit in one of the designated chairs, placing his feet up on the table before him before throwing the grip of the boken away. "You think I've been punishing him for kicks here?" he then looked upon Gamagōri with a smile as he spoke again. "And by the way, the Disciplinary Committee should have stepped in when that girl dissed Lady Satsuki. And that's your mistake, Gamagōri. Though Roku was mine to finish off."
運動委員長
[Athletic Committee Chair]
猿投山 渦
[Uzu Sanageyama]
"I found some intel on the new girl." Inumuta informed us as brought up the information he found from his computer. "She's been starting fights at high schools in the eastern Kanto region."
情報戦略委員長
[Information and Strategy Committee Chair]
犬牟田 宝火
[Hōka Inumuta]
"Schools ruled by Honnōji Academy. Apparently, they were personal spats. That's why we never received reports."
"Any information on the boy?" I asked, wondering if he had found any knowledge on Ryū.
"Nothing yet." Inumuta answered me. "All the information I've been able to gather only has a few mentions of this Roku Ryū. They were simple pieces, such as his birth records and citizenship. Apparently he was registered here from Tokyo along with four other individuals. The puzzling thought is that he has shown no record in any education system, not even ones under Honnōji Academy. That's why we didn't receive any reports of him. I'm still searching for more information on both him and his heritage. As of now, there is no clear idea on why he registered or how he managed to."
"What about the other four who registered?" I asked of him as I became aware that there were others that had registered along with Ryū and the girl.
"I'm still searching for the identities of the others and it will take me some time to find any data on them." Inumuta said as I briefly glimpse at his computer's screen seeing silhouettes of the four individuals who registered. "In the meantime, I suggest we question Sanageyama. You seem to know about Ryū. Mind sharing to the rest of us about him?"
"All I can tell ya is that he's some punk who showed to be a pain in the ass." Sanageyama said, shedding light on his knowledge of Ryū. "Also that he's tougher than he looks."
"Yes. We all witnessed how he managed to defeat Fukuroda, all without the use of a Goku Uniform." Inumuta said, reminding him of what we all saw firsthand.
"That's because he doesn't need one." Sanageyama stated.
"What exactly do you mean?"
"Didn't you even notice the way he was dressed? The first time I met him, he was wearing that exact same sailor suit. It might not look like much, but that thing makes him just as strong and fast as us."
"So you're saying that the suit he's wearing somehow increases his own physical abilities?"
"Yeah. I should know because he managed to take on some of the worst things over in Tokyo and I saw him show what it could do firsthand."
"Ahhh. So that explains how he was capable of blocking the attacks of someone wearing a Goku Uniform. Though there's still the question of what exactly he's wearing and how he obtained such clothing."
"Such negligence." I said to myself before speaking to Inumuta. "Informer Branch is to keep an eye for those two."
"At once, my lady." Inumuta said, acknowledging my request.
"How shocking." Jakuzure said speaking to herself as she sat upon her are designated are littered with stuffed animals. "The Toad, the Monkey, and the Dog all screwed up big time."
非運動委員長
[Nonathletic Committee Chair]
蛇崩 乃音
[Nonon Jakuzure]
"Hey, Lady Satsuki." She said as she spoke to me. "You wanted to have that blade confiscated. Is it something someone should be that worried about?"
"Yes. And those Tonfa are just a great a threat as the blade." I said to her before informing them all of what exactly they were. "Both of them and that blade are weapons designed to combat Goku Uniforms."
"How do they have weapons like that?" Gamagōri asked me.
"The Tonfa Ryū wields are known as the Golden Dragon Tonfa." I said, explain to them about the Tonfa.
黄金色竜トンファ
[Golden Dragon Tonfa]
"They're a part of an arsenal of five weapons known as the Mystic Dragon Weapons, mystic artifacts of untold power. Those weapons had always been in the possession of one family: the Ryū family."
They all gasped from seeing how Ryū was able to obtain them.
"You seem to know a lot more about those weapons than you're leading on, Lady Satsuki." Inumuta said to me. "And wasn't it said by that boy that your families have a history of sorts?"
"Yes, our families were once cooperative with each other." I said to him. "I knew his father and was able to receive some information on these weapons. But it would appear that the Tonfa had been infused with technology, no doubt redesigned to be able to counter the power of a Goku Uniform."
"You think Roku had something to do with it?" Sanageyama asked me.
"In a way, yes." I answered him. "Though they were probably done by his father. I may possess a guess on where the blade and the suit that Ryū wears had come from. Inumuta, what is the girl's name?"
"Ryūko Matoi, my lady." Inumuta informed me, the name surprising me.
"Matoi, eh?" I said to myself as I smiled from learning this. "Interesting."
Roku's view
After running out of the city with whatever strength I had left as carrying Ryūko as she couldn't have been able to run on her own, I laid my back on a tree in the forest we were in to catch my breath.
"Good thing I had that smoke bomb." I said as I looked back Honnōji Academy out in the distance. "Always the greatest tool for escapes and retreats."
"Um, Roku?" Ryūko said to me. "You can put me down now."
I looked over and saw I was still holding her bridal style.
"Oh, sorry." I said to her as put her down on her feet.
"It's okay." She said as she stood next to me, holding her Scissor Blade. "Thanks for helping me back there. Where'd you learn to fight like that?"
"Learned it back in Tokyo." I said to her. "I'll explain later. Right now, we need someplace to hide until the heat dies down. I don't think I have enough strength to go through any more fights. Ah!" I groaned out in pain as skid a bit down the tree. "That Gamagōri guy did a real number on me."
"I know where to go." She said as she helped me up.
Where she led us gave me a mix of confusion and concern. She took us to a house that appeared to have been burnt and wrecked. I saw a sign at what I thought was the walk surrounding it and found the doc and Ryūko's names on it.
一身 そして 纏流子
[Isshin and Ryūko Matoi]
"Ryūko?" I asked her. "Where are we?"
"My dad's place." She said to me.
"This is the doc's house?" I said, surprised by this. "Why are there scorch marks all over it?"
"Well, it used to be a nice mansion before it burned down."
"Oh. I'm sorry. So you grew up here?"
"Yeah."
"Has it been just you and your mom since what happened to the doc?"
"My mom died a little while after I was born."
What she said there shocked me. Both her parents were dead. She was an orphan just like me. But…the only difference was that she didn't even get to know her mother.
"Oh, I'm sorry." I said, ashamed I brought that up.
"It's okay." She said as we walked inside. "You didn't know." She then began explaining how her life was when she was young. "My dad was a scientist, who was always in his lab. He and I didn't really get along all that good. So he shipped me off to a bordering school."
"He just sent you out there alone?" I asked her.
"Yeah." She answered. "I was always getting into fights there and, by my first year of high school, I was a straight up punk."
"So that's it. No wonder you can fight so well. Natural born fighter, huh?" I said to her, making her smile. "But all this still doesn't give me an answer on why you chose to come here in the first place. I know that you want to find whoever has the other Scissor Blade, but what did Satsuki have to do with it? With the way you asked that question, it sounded like it was more than just a common thief. What exactly do you have against the Kiryūins?"
"Well, about six months ago, I got a note from my dad saying he wanted to talk. So I came back." She said as she began to explain what happened. "But…when I got there, I found the whole place wrecked and my dad…was just lying there with this scissor stabbed in him." I was shocked by this. The Scissor Blade she was hold was the weapon that killed her father? I didn't know what to say. "I tried to help him, but he told me to stop worrying and gave me this scissor. I didn't really get what he was trying to say, only that he told me that if I found the other half of it, I'd find his killer. I tried to go after the scumbag who did it, but they were already gone. Only thing I got was seeing this place burn right in front of me…with my dad still inside. There were times where I hated the old man. But his dying was a wake-up call for me. ʹCause I realized I didn't know anything about him." I then watched as she walked to the center of the room we were in and planted the Scissor Blade into the ground, standing in front of a picture of her and her dad and crouching over with her head down. I decided right there and then I'd found out who killed him and why, what he wanted to tell me. And find out what this is. But now…I'm not even close to getting any answers." She then began talking to herself, no doubt speaking out to apologize to her dad. "Father… I'm sorry, Father. I was this close to finding out who killed you. If only I was stronger, I'd beat it out of her!"
As she began to sob, I really saw how much she cared got her father. Even though I got to know my father before he died while she didn't even get to know her mother, we both had one thing in common with what led us to our paths: both of us lost the only parent we had and watched them die right in front of our eyes. I really felt sorry for her that she had to go through something like that. I then heard sniffling and looked down to see it was Sōru.
"That's…that's the sa-saddest story I ever hear-hear-heard." My Kamui said as she began to sob, tears in her eyes.
Seeing all this, I then walked over to Ryūko and placed my hand on her shoulder, giving her a look to show I was trying to comfort her. She saw that and her eyes shook from realizing it. She then took her hands of the Scissor Blade, grabbed me, pulled me into a hug. It surprised me at first, but when I saw laying her head on my chest and crying, I realized that she was accepting my comfort for her. So I returned the hug as I comforted her. "Hey, it's okay." I told her as she continued to cry. "It's okay. I got ya."
"If it makes you feel better, you're not alone." I said to her, remember the deaths of my parents. "I know the feeling."
"Huh?" Ryūko said as she looked up at me with confusion as placed some space between us, holding each other in each other's arms.
"I get it." I said to her. "I know what you're going through. Even though you didn't actually know Dr. Matoi, he was still your father. You never got to know him and lost any chance to do so. Despite everything that you went through before this, the doc was the only family you had left. It always hurts…when you lose your family." After saying all that, I decided to lighten the mood by telling her the one thing not many people know about me. "You know, I didn't attend school before."
"Wait, seriously?" She said with surprise as we broke the hug.
"Yeah. I was homeschooled." I said to her, rubbing my neck in embarrassment and remembering those good moments. "Fortunately, I had some actual teachers."
"You were homeschooled by real teachers?" she said, surprised by this.
"Yeah. It's how it works in my family." I told her. "The only kind of lessons from my parents I got were in combat."
"So you're a fighter?" she said to me with a smug.
"Yeah and my educational teachers weren't that bad." I said to her. "I basically have enough education to be a high school sophomore. I never thought about attending a real school before."
"Why'd you start now?" she asked me, making my smile fade away from my face.
"Because you're not the only one who lost someone important to you." I said as I began explaining to her about my life, well without telling her about the Dragon Force of course. "When I was little, the only family I had were my brothers and my parents. My brothers and I played together, my dad taught me how to fight, and my mom took care of me. They were all there for me." I had a smile as I remembered those good times. But it faded when I began to remember the bad times. "But it changed one night. My dad decided to take me to a conference with a company representative. He was the one who dealt with that stuff. Though it turned out to be a trap. There, I watched as my father was attacked and had his throat cut. The man who led that assault was named Oruku Saki. He tried to kidnap me, but I managed to fight back and clawed him, scarring his eye, but he threw me to the ground. He tried to kill me, but I was saved by local law enforcement. Saki managed to get away, but was deemed a wanted criminal for killing my father. I was only nine when that happened. From there, I vowed that I would avenge my father. 6 years after that, I managed to do it and finally killed Saki. I thought it was over, that I could finally be at peace. But I was wrong." I then looked to Ryūko as I asked for her info on the one moment that led me to this. "Do you know about the attack in Tokyo a few months ago?"
"Oh, yeah." She answered me. "I read about that. They said it was the worst event in history. Lots of people died and some of the city was destroyed."
No doubt she realized why I asked that when she saw me looked down at the ground in depression.
"You were there, weren't you?" she asked me.
"Yes." I answered. "That attack was done by a single person: a girl who went by the name of Nui Harime."
"Harime?" She said as she remembered about what I said to Satsuki. "That's the name you were asking Satsuki about."
"Yes." I said as I explained to her what happened that day. "Harime was the one who did it all. She was an assassin sent to kill me. She tried to, but…she failed."
"What happened?" she asked.
"When Harime was about to strike me down, my mom took the blow." I said to her. "She sacrificed herself for me."
Feeling that rage return, I punched the nearest wall around me, damaging it.
"Harime… That bitch…" I said, talking to myself. "She killed my mother. She's the reason that I am now an orphan. I swear that I will avenge my mother and kill Harime for taking her away from me."
"But why would you ask that Satsuki chick if she knew her?" Ryūko asked me. "What does she have to do with this?"
"Because…" I said as I began to explain. "Harime and Saki worked for the same people who hired them to destroy my family. The Kiryūins, the family that Satsuki belongs to. There is no doubt in my mind that Satsuki knows where Harime is. She might be my only lead into finding my mother's killer." I took a moment to calm myself before speaking to Ryūko. "Ryūko…" I then began walking over to her. "Our pasts may be different, but our paths are the same. I'm going to help you. We both have the same goal and the same target. But neither of us can be able to achieve that alone. I don't know what kind of power is in there and you need the strength to fight against it. If we work together, we can be able to find the answers we're looking for." I then put my hand out to her, smiling at her. "So, what do you say?"
It took a moment, but she finally made up her mind, surprising when I thought she was gonna say no.
"Oh, what the hell?" Ryūko said to me as she then took my hand, gripped it, and returned my smile. "Fine, I'll team-up with you."
"Great." I said to her as we looked at each other. "And I promise I'll help you find your father's killer."
"Thanks." She said to me. "And I promise I'll help you avenge your mother."
We both smirked at each other for a moment as this was where I believed this was the start of a beautiful friendship. This moment lasted until we let go of each other's hands so she could get her Scissor Blade.
"Though I still wish I had that power so I can kick Satsuki's ass myself." She said as she grabbed her Scissor Blade.
The instant she did, I heard some hinges creak and we both looked down as a trap door opened and we both fell in.
As we were falling and we both tried to slow our falls and tried to stop, even though we were both screaming I could've sworn Mikisugi's real voice, him saying "You should be careful what you wish for, Ryūko Matoi. Take good care of her, Roku."
At one point in the fall, I hit something that would've stopped me from falling until Ryūko landed on top of me and we both went crashing through it. We landed on something and were luckily still alive. I was lying down for a bite, but managed to wake up to hear Ryūko groan in pain. I opened my eyes look and saw she was laying on top of me. As she sat up, I looked and saw that my waist was right between her. I was glad that she was wearing a skirt that covered up that sight, but unfortunately I was still able to feel her weight on me down there.
"Um…Ryūko?" I said as I looked away from how we were positioned, blushing in embarrassment.
"Yeah?" Ryūko asked as she recovered from the fall and looked at me.
"Mind getting off me please?" I said, my eyes closed with embarrassment.
I opened one eye and saw her blushing as she saw the way she was sitting on me.
"Oh, sorry!" Ryūko said as she got off me and sat next to me.
"It's okay." I said as we both recovered from that, I sat up, and we both took a look around.
"Huh. Never knew we had such a big basement." Ryūko said, surprised by this.
"Wait." I said as I took a look around at the piles of clothes lying around. "I don't think this is a basement. This must be your dad's lab."
"This is where my dad worked?" Ryūko said before she groaned in pain, hold her arm.
"Whoa, hold on. Take it easy." I said as I went over to check on her and saw her arm was bleeding. "You got a cut."
"Yeah." She said to me. "I guess I must've got it in that fight earlier."
"Come on." I said to her as I helped her up. "Let's get out of here so we can bandage it up."
"Right." she said as she then allowed me to hold on to her as we walked down the pile to the floor.
"Easy. Easy." I said to her before we got to the floor. "There we go."
As we were walking I heard something rustling around behind us, but ignored it so I can focus on getting Ryūko patched up.
Author's note: okay, before you start this segment of the story, I need to advice you on how this is gonna work. Even when it's not Ryūko's point of view, Senketsu will be talking, but no one, except for Ryūko, will be able to hear what he's saying. I know that you guys have reader fanfics that mostly had Kamuis and Kamui wearers understand Senketsu, but this is an entirely different case. Only a person who's blood is flowing through the Kamui can understand them. Roku and Soruketsu can't hear a single word he says. Now that we got that cleared up, let's continue with the story.
"Wait." A voice said to Ryūko and she gasped as she stopped.
"Ryūko?" I said to her as I didn't know why she stopped.
"More…" the voice said. "Give me more."
"Huh?" Ryūko said before she looked at me. "What did you say?"
"I didn't say anything." I said as I didn't know what she was talking about.
"More. More." The voice said. "I need more!"
"Did you hear that?" she asked me.
"Ryūko, the only thing I hear is you talking." I said as I couldn't hear anything else but her.
"Give me more." The voice said as Ryūko looked around, trying to see where it was coming from. "More! MORE!"
Then I actually heard something as we both looked to see something rustling around in the pile of clothes. When something popped out of it, Ryūko tried to slash whatever it was with her Scissor Blade, but only cut one of the close in the pile in half. When a shadow covered us, we both looked up and saw something floating above us. It looked like a sailor uniform, but it was different. It was black with red lining and had a red scarf. The shirt had a big gap in it that made it looked like it had a mouth. Though what really got me was what it had on its chest. The right side had a strange eyepatch shaped patch and the left side had a big yellow eye with an orange iris and a red pupil. I knew that eye. That was the same as Sōru's eyes. We were both shocked to see that.
"The hell?" She said as we saw the uniform. "Is that a sailor uniform?"
"What in the world?" I said as I watched the uniform pounce her and pin her to the wall, making her gasp in shock.
"Don't leave!" the uniform said Ryūko with an insane look in its eye. "Put me on! Put me on!"
"No!" Ryūko said as the uniform lower her jacket and opened her shirt, revealing her bra. "You perv!"
"Wear me and feed me blood!" the uniform said as it kept trying to take off her clothes. "I don't want to go back to sleep!"
"Sōru, you're seeing this too, right?" I asked my Kamui as we watched what was happening.
"Yeah." She answered me.
"Could that thing be…?" I said.
"No doubt about it." She said.
"You talk?" Ryūko said to the uniform as she tried to get away, now scared of the piece of clothing. "Sailor uniforms don't talk!"
"We're wasting time! Don't be scared!" the uniform said, scaring her even more. "Put me on! Put me on! Put me on!"
"Oh, my god! Where'd you learn to talk?" Ryūko said.
"That's not important now!"
"It is important! When do uniforms talk?"
"Stop talking!" the uniform said as it kept trying to take Ryūko's clothes. "If you don't put me on right now, I'll force you to put me on!"
"Roku, help!" Ryūko said to me as I decided to figure out what that suit was by seeing and finding out what it does. "Get this pervert off me!"
"Ryūko, wait!" I said to her. "Calm down. Let the uniform do its work."
"Say what?!" she said to me, shocked by what I said. "Are you nuts?! This thing's trying to strip me!"
"It's clothing, what did you expect?" I said to her. "It's just what you need. Just put the uniform on. Everything will be all right."
"How do you know?"
I knew she wasn't gonna trust me about this unless I showed her. I had to reveal Soruketsu to her.
"Because I'm wearing one just like it." I said to her.
"Say what?!" She said as she then looked at Sōru and saw her blink. "How did you get that?"
"From the same person who I have no doubt created that one." I said to her. "Listen to me. If you put that on, you'll experience a power that you've never felt before." She looked me, uncertain she should to it. "Trust me."
It took a moment, but Ryūko sighed in defeat, which meant one thing.
"Okay, fine." She said with a depressed look on her. "I'll put it on." She then looked at the uniform as it looked at her. "Okay, get off and let me get undressed."
After the uniform got off her, Ryūko started taking off her clothes. Though she forgot to tell me to turn away and, after she got her skirt off, I couldn't stop looking at her. After she got her shirt off, I got a full glimpse of her amazing body. She was wearing a blue striped bra and a pair of blue striped panties. I never thought I would actually say it but that girl had curves in all the right places. And I could tell that she had been working out. The muscle she had was perfect for her amazing figure. Also, I have to say, she had an amazing bust. A girl with a body like this was one you would never find just walking around, unless you count a stripper joint as a place to find one like that. Basically, this girl was a grade-A babe. I know it might make me sound like a pervert even though I'm really not and would look away from something like this, but I'm a 17-year-old guy. There has to be a time when I couldn't resist but look at a girl like this.
"Hey, turn around, you idiot!" Ryūko said as I then looked at her angrily glaring at me, blushing and covering her chest with her arms.
"Oh!" I said as I turned around for her to put on that uniform. "Sorry."
"Okay." She said, no doubt talking to the uniform. "Time to put you on."
"No need." The uniform said, just before it jumped on her. "I'll do it for ya!"
When I heard her grunting, I knew that uniform had started putting itself on her.
"Hey!" Ryūko yelled out.
"There! You see? A perfect fit!" the uniform said as it was now completely on her.
When I heard Ryūko groaning, I then turned back around to see that uniform on her and her entire body surrounded in red electricity. After a short while, her entire body began to glow red and, in an instant, it gave off this light flash so bright I had to come my eyes so I wouldn't be blinded by it. After a moment of that, the light faded away and I decided to see if Ryūko was okay.
"So how do you feel, Ryūk—oh!" I said as I was shocked by what I was looking at.
"What the…?" Sōru said, just as shocked as I was.
Ryūko was fine and that uniform didn't really do anything bad to her. She still looked the same but her hair became feathery and had vibrant red undertones from the bottom of her black hair and had these horn-like clips and the sides of her head. The thing that shocked us was what happened to the uniform itself. What we saw was that the uniform had transformed from being a sailor uniform into some kind of garter-belted bikini. It's upper and lower parts transformed into a black, skimpy suit of armor with red stripes. The top armor covered Ryūko's neck, lower-jaw, arms, and the top of her boobs, covering her nipples with these small fang-like things which really didn't help.
The armor sleeves had four cuffs on them (two on the wrist and two right underneath the shoulders on her upper arms), each with a single red line in the middle. The back had this vent thing that had this red string attaching to the skirt through her butt crack. It was the same about the front, but it had two of these string coming from those fangs and went down to attach to the top corners of the crotch piece. leaving everything between the underside of her breasts and her waist exposed. The thing's eye and eyepatch where now on the sides of this one piece of armor on the chest as these ribbon-like crests. It gave her thigh-height, high-heeled boots that connected underneath the skirt. Speaking of which, that skirt was actually shorter than one on a cheerleader, didn't even cover her ass and I could see her crotch from the front. All of the armor and the boots were skin-tight.
Even though this came as more proof that this was a Kamui she now had on, this went way beyond the boundary of indecency for me. I knew Kamuis were a bit revealing, but I didn't think it would be this revealing. If Ryūko was embarrassed about a guy seeing her in her underwear, she had to be completely out of her comfort zone with this.
"Uh!" Ryūko groaned out as she saw the uniform she was wearing, a blush of full embarrassment on her face. "Oh, my god! What kind of kinky outfit are you?"
"This is what I am." The uniform said to her, now in a more calm and normal voice.
"Yeah, well that doesn't answer the question." Ryūko said as she then tried to pull that thing off her. "Come on, damn it! Get off of me! I said off! Get off! Get off! Get off! If you don't come off, I'm gonna rip…"She didn't even finished she was about to say before she launched herself into the ceiling.
"Whoa!" I said as I walked over to where she was standing before, what just happened making mine and Sōru's assumption about that outfit spot-on. "Definitely no doubt about it now. That's a Kamui."
Ryūko's view
"How'd the hell did that happen?" I said as I laid there on the ceiling, having no idea how that even happened.
"This is our power." The suit said to me. "I awakened when I drank your blood. And when you put me on, or rather, when I'm worn by you, we can activate that power."
Before I could ask it anything else, I heard Roku yelling out to me.
"Hey, Ryūko!" Roku yelled out as I looked to him to see he was standing where I was before got up there. "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." I told him.
I then decided to get myself off there and jumped right down to him, now feeling that power he was talking about.
"Man, you were right." I said to him, standing next him and liking this strength I had. "This feels awesome! I never felt so strong!" I looked back at Roku and was a bit confused when I saw the back of him. "Huh? Roku, what are doing?"
"I'm sorry." He said to me, not even turning around. "Give me a moment." He took a deep breath and said "Okay."
When he turned around to look at me, I was still confused as I saw him blushing, looking a little guilt.
"I'm not used to seeing women like this." He said to me. "I was raised to be gentleman."
"Oh." I said, now just realizing he wasn't a perv after all. I then decided to change the subject and looked at the suit. "So do you know what this is?"
"It's called a Kamui," Roku said to me as he told me what I was wearing, "a very special type of clothing that gives special powers like a Goku Uniform."
"Huh." I said before talking to the suit to get some answers from it. "Okay, what are you doing here?"
"I don't know." It said to me.
"You don't know?" I said, annoyed by it giving me crap. "Don't give me that. You were just telling me how you work."
"I can explain the current phenomena, but there is still much I do not know." It said to me. "What you call 'memory'? I have gaps in mine. I can't remember many things."
"Well, what do you remember?" I asked it.
"I remember the man who made me." It said. "He had a beard and an eyepatch. And he wore a white lab coat. He was stoop, wore sandals, and used a cane and had a mouse on his shoulder."
I was shocked by this. The guy he was talking about…that sounded just like my dad!
"You're getting all this?" I said to Roku.
"Not a single bit." He said to me with a shrug.
"What?!" I said, shocked that he didn't hear this thing talk. "But you just told me you're wearing one! How could you not know a single thing it said?"
"Probably because I didn't hear anything except you asking it questions." He said to me. "You're the only one who can talk to it."
"Wait, what?" I said, not really sure what he meant. "How come you can't hear it?"
"Because that's not my Kamui. It's yours." He said to me. "I can understand mine, but I can't talk to yours. Our Kamuis are different from each other. From where we are now at this point, I'm the only one who can talk to my Kamui and you're the only who can talk to yours. Basically, you're gonna have to tell me what it said if you want me to understand any of its answers. So what did it say?"
"'It'?!" I heard the suit say as I looked down and saw it glaring at Roku.
"Okay, judging by the way your Kamui's looking at me, I'm guess it doesn't like being called an object." Roku said as I then looked and saw him looking at the suit.
"Would you please stop calling me that?!" the suit said as it continued to glare at him.
"Yeah, that's right." I said to him.
"Okay." Roku said as then looked at me. "Correction: What did he say to you?"
"Thank you." The suit said as I saw it calm down.
"Why do you think it's a he?" I asked Roku.
"Well, it's just a guess that the Kamui is the opposite gender of the wearer." He said to me. "That's what I've done with mine and she likes it."
"Oh, so your's a girl." I said, just getting what he meant.
"Yep." He said as he then motioned to his uniform. "Ryūko, meet Soruketsu."
神衣ソル血
[Soruketsu (Sol Blood)]
"'Sol Blood?'" I asked him, knowing what that name meant.
"Yeah, that's what I named her." He told me. "The name comes to show the dawn of a new age as I wear her. A new age of peace for all. Speaking of names," he then looked to the suit, "who are you?"
"I don't know." The suit said to him.
"What he say?" Roku asked me.
"He doesn't know." I said to him.
"He doesn't know what name he was given?" he asked me.
"I guess." I said to him. "He said he haves gaps in his memory."
"Well, is there anything he does remember?"
"Well, he remembers how to explain what just happened and who made him."
"And who was that?"
"He said it was a slouched guy with a beard, an eyepatch, a white lab coat, sandals, a cane, and a mouse on his shoulder. Sound familiar?"
"Yeah, that's the doc. So your Kamui was made by the same one who created mine."
"Wait, my dad created yours too?" I asked him, shocked by this.
"Yeah. It was a birthday present from him." he said to me. "Now he gave us a chance. With that Kamui, you can be able to fight back against anybody Satsuki sends."
"Whoa, seriously?" I said to him.
"It's true." The suit said to me. "I do give you great power. Just like the one he possess."
"Well, before we get moving, I should introduce myself." Roku said as he then talked to the suit. "My name is Roku."
"And I'm Ryūko." I said to the suit as I then figured out the perfect name for him. "The one who created you was my dad. I don't know why he created you, but you're coming with us, Senketsu."
"'Senketsu'?" Roku asked me.
"Yeah, since you named your Kamui, it feels right to give one to mine." I said to him. "Everyone needs a name, even him. And because my blood woke him up, it's perfect ʹcause 'Senketsu' means 'fresh blood.'"
鮮血
[Senketsu (Fresh Blood)]
Roku's view
"Huh." I said before I smiled at Ryūko, actually liking the name Senketsu for her Kamui. "You know it's a perfect fit."
"I like it." Sōru said.
"Nice to meet ya, Senketsu." I said to the Kamui before talking to Ryūko again. "Now let's go."
"Right." Ryūko said as she then walked over to a pile and then grabbed a tattered tarp lying around and wrapped it around herself, making a cloak out of it. "We're coming for you, Satsuki Kiryūin!"
After that, we managed to find a way out of there, but stopped and spent the night there at the mansion, only leaving and heading straight back to Honnōji Academy the next morning. Thanks to the power of Senketsu, Ryūko was able to keep up with me. When we got there, we found a boxing ring in the middle of the courtyard. Making sure we didn't draw attention to ourselves, we snuck right into the crowd to get a closer look and saw Uzu and that boxer Fukuroda, who held up a mike as he began yelling.
"Hey, new girl! New guy!" Fukuroda yelled as his voice was broadcasted all over Honnō Town. "You two listening? An hour from now, we're going to execute your little friend. She's an accessory to crimes of treason against Honnōji Academy! If you want to save her life, quit hiding like cowards. Show yourselves!"
Mikisugi's view
"Mr. Principal, the student council are animals." I said to the principal as him, me, and all the other faculty members watched this from inside the school, knowing that this had gone too far. "Do something."
"This doesn't concern us, so stay out of it." he said to me. "Kiryūin's mother is the chair of the academy's board of directors. Therefore, Lady Satsuki's our lord and master. We work for her. So there's nothing we can do about it."
Roku's view
Thanks to my Dragon senses, I was able to hear what Uzu and that boxer were saying to each other.
"Using a hostage is kinda clique, don't you think?" Uzu said to him.
"If I fail again, my Goku Uniform's gonna be confiscated." Fukuroda said as I realized he was being forced to do this. "Since Mankanshoku is the only one we know who actually spoke to the new kids, I don't have any other option."
"It sounds like you got your priorities straight." Uzu said to him. "Good. Now get out there and prove yourself."
"Oh, man! Oh, man! This is bad!" Mako yelled out as I saw her tied upside down on this X-shaped cross thing behind Fukuroda and Uzu. "Everyone in school is gonna see my underwear now! I knew I should've wore my sexy panties today!"
"Bring out the vat!" Fukuroda said as a bunch of students wearing hoodies, who I had to guess were members of his club, brought out this vat before he held up a shrimp. "Ta-da!"
A club member brought him a pan of flour which he then used to powder the shrimp before dipping it in the vat. After he pulled it out, we all saw it was now fried. That's when I realized that it was an oil vat and he was gonna use it to fry Mako like he did with that shrimp! Mako cried out in despair as the cross was moved to the vat with a pan attachment filled with flour right in front of her and over the vat.
"If you guys dip me in the oil, everyone's gonna see right through my uniform!" Mako pleaded to captors, wishing them to let her go. "This is bad! This is bad! This is so not good!"
"Either that girl's being incredibly brave or incredibly stupid." Uzu said as Mako squealed in fright and he stood outside of the ring, which I had to agree to him.
That was definitely not was happening now. Seeing how we need to save her, me and Ryūko then started moving closer so we could get her out of there. As we got closer, I stopped Ryūko as I found Mako's little brother Matarō and his friends somewhere else in the crowd. Seeing where that was going, we decided to go over there before those kids hurt themselves.
"Hang in there, sis." Matarō said as he got ready to go up to the ring with a look of determination. "I'm coming to…"
"Hold it, kid." I said to him at a volume that couldn't be heard by the boxer or Uzu as I held up my arm in front of him to stop him, me and Ryūko crouching down to not be seen by any of the other students.
Matarō yelped when he saw me and Ryūko before he said "It's you guys."
"Don't worry." I told him, speaking for myself and Ryūko. "We're gonna get your sister out of here. It's our fault she got in this mess." I then realized I still had my backpack on and knew I couldn't bring Mayhem into this. Seeing how Matarō was already here, I decided to give him a very important mission. "Though I do need you to do something for me." I then took off my backpack and handed it to him, having Matarō watch Mayhem as me and Ryūko took care of that boxer and save Mako. "Hold my bag."
"Okay." He said as he took my backpack and Mayhem then popped his head out, revealing to Matarō he was in there.
"Ready?" I said as I looked to my fellow Kamui wearer.
"Let's go." She said to me as we then jumped into the air, surprising everyone.
With this, I decided to say that little catchphrase me and brothers would say when springing into action.
"Cowabunga!" I yelled out as we then used to the boxing club members as step stools and finally made our way to Mako, making her gasp in surprise.
"You okay, Mako?" I said to her as she looked at us.
"Roku! Ryūko!" she said to us.
"Hang on tight, okay?" Ryūko said as she then used her Scissor Blade to cut Mako loose and she grabbed onto Ryūko.
When we heard a bunch of students coming at us, we then jumped out of the way, making them land on the flour pan, which tipped and sent them all into the vat. I smiled as I watched them climb out of it with broiled skin and parts of themselves as crispy as the shrimp.
"Hey, anybody order fried 1-Stars?" I said as me and Ryūko then landed in front of the boxer and Mako let go her and head off to join the crowd outside the ring. "With a side of ass-whooping?"
"So, new kids, we meet again." Fukuroda said, using the mike to amplify his voice.
"Using a hostage to get us here is pretty low." Ryūko said to him, ready to fight with her Scissor Blade.
"Yeah. Looks like you still haven't learned your lesson." I said to the boxer. "You want to fight so bad? Well, here we are. So let's get this party started! 2-on-1. Since you made the same mistake twice, you're gonna get double the pain."
"You're not in the club, but I can make an exception today." The boxer said to us. "And always like a good challenge. Get ready!"
With the bell rung and this sign girl wearing a bikini, laughing as she held a sign saying "Round 1" over her head, the fight began as the crowd began to cheer.
"I'm gonna nail you like freshmen!" Fukuroda as he got ready to went off to attack us, smacking the sign girl away as she was too close to him.
He punched with his left fist and sent a barrage of miniature gloves right at us, those gloves being slingshot back at us by the ropes of the ring.
"Yeah! You like that?" Fukuroda said as we kept being hit by those gloves. "The ring is being filled with my Juggernaut of Left Jabs!"
While it was lessening a bit for Ryūko, I was still getting hit by all those gloves.
"And those will make sure you won't interrupt while I thrash this bitch like last time, new guy." He said as he then went to attack Ryūko. "And…here comes…a right strike—psyche! It's really a corkscrew!"
"Ryūko!" I yelled out as I tried to smack all those gloves away to shield Ryūko from that attack, the boxer's fist spinning like a drill.
All the gloves that I smacked away ended up hitting some of the students in the crowd.
"Tek-ken-Fun-sai!" the boxer said as I got rid of the last of the gloves, but I was too late to stop the attack as it then managed to land.
鉄拳粉砕
[Tek Ken Fun Sai (Iron Fist Smasher)]
Ryūko luckily managed to block it by using her Scissor Blade as a shield. The down side of it was that some of her cloak got in front of it and was snagged on the corkscrew. Because of that, the entire cloak ripped off, revealing her in her Kamui in front of everyone. Every student there was shocked as they saw what she was wearing, even Fukuroda.
"Wh-wha-what the hell are you wearing?!" Fukuroda said to her, shocked by this as Ryūko kept blocking his attack.
"None of your damn business!" Ryūko angrily said, a blush of embarrassment clear on her face.
"What?" he said before he growled and looked at me as I stood there after getting rid of all those gloves. "You two are cheating! You having your girlfriend distract me with her sexiness!"
"Okay, three things you need to know." I said to him as I counted what I said to him, counting what I said with my fingers. "1: you didn't say any changes to the conditions of this fight would be illegal, 2: she is not my girlfriend, and 3: it's not her fault she's dressed like that."
"Yeah, he's right!" Ryūko said to him, supporting me. "This thing is just like this!"
"You bastard!" he said to me. "How dare you and this…" he looked back at Ryūko as he continued to talk, "slut mock this gentlemen sport?"
"We are not mocking anything!" I said as I then walked over to stand beside Ryūko as he back away, a little pissed that he called her a slut.
"Alright." He said as he straightened up with a smile, speaking more calmly before he put his hands to his shorts and began pulling them down. "In that case, I'm stripping down too."
"What?!" Ryūko said as me and her were both shocked as he actually taking off his clothes.
"No, dude! Keep your clothes on!" I said to him as I tried to look away from that disgusting scene. "We don't want to see that!"
"Now who's doing the mocking?!" she yelled at the boxer.
It was only until we heard some chains break that we looked and saw his gloves burst apart, revealing these thicker, square-shaped gloves with spiked knuckles underneath, the one that he used to launch those mini-gloves at us now looking more like a clawed version of a boxing glove.
"Time to take off the soft gloves I use for training and bring out the pain." Fukuroda said as Ryūko was gasping in shock from seeing his gloves transform like that.
"What?" Ryūko said, still shocked by this.
"Hold on! You've been holding back this entire time?" I said as I was shocked to see he wasn't using his full power.
"That's right. Behold!" he said as he held up the non-clawed glove up in the air. "This is what the real Honnōji Academy Boxing Club Athleticism-Augmenting Two-Star Gloves are like!"
運動強化二つ星グローブ
[Athleticism-Augmenting Two-Star Gloves]
"Wha-ha!" he yelled as he pulled a cord on the cuffing, making the entire glove become gloved in spikes before began monologuing how great his uniform was. "I bet you're asking yourselves: 'Why did he wrap them?' If I didn't, the challengers from other schools would be too scared to fight me! But when I bared them for all the world to see, I feel even stronger! It's my…Goku…Uni…form!"
"Okay, I don't get boxing, but I know that's illegal." I said as both me and Ryūko looked at those gloves with unsure looks.
"Oh, well." Ryūko said as her unsure look turned into a mug of confidence. "I'd say bring it on."
"Oh, I will." He said before he pointed at me. "But first I want to pumble this loser for humiliating me! You may have beaten me when my gloves were under wraps, but let's see how you handle them at full power!"
With this, I gained the same smug Ryūko had after seeing how he got stronger, deciding to use Sōru's power. I walked to stand in front of Ryūko and said "Fine with me. But I need to change first."
"Why? Did you shit your pants already?" he said as he then began to laugh at me.
"No." I said, making him stop laughing at me as he just smugly smiled at me. "I need to change for this battle to really get started."
"Huh?" he said with a raised eyebrow.
"Guess what?" I said to him. "I was holding back as well."
"What?!" he said, shocked by this. "You mean, when you fought me, you weren't…"
"Fighting at full force? No." I said to him. "Because I thought if I did, I would've killed ya." I then slowly raised my arm, placing my synchronizer, the Yoake Gantoretto (the name meaning Dawn Gauntlet), up in front of my face. "But seeing how you can increase your power…I now have a reason to stop holding back!"
With this, I pulled the pin and instantly transformed, the golden light caused by it forcing everyone around me to cover their eyes.
"Gold Power, Life Fiber Synchronize: Kamui Soruketsu!" I said as the transformation was complete.
神衣ソル血
[Kamui Soruketsu]
In case you don't know, when Soruketsu is in her true form, she becomes something that kinda looks like Senketsu, but becomes black with gold stripes. She also gives me with calf-high boots and the pants become tight with intimate definition if I might add. Some of the crotches were exposed as all the lower part of her was connected with straps (two in the front and one in the back which had an escape) with the upper part of her which left my back and the middle of my torso exposed. She gets long sleeves and her eyes become wing-shaped crests on the breastplate. The fangs on the chest twice as long as Senketsu. And, last but not least, coming from the center of the back of the waist was long, flat strand of fabric of black and gold that ended at a point (looking like a dragon tail) that moved around like a tail due to my Dragon power flowing through Sōru. I also go through some changes myself. My hair had changes from brown to black and the gold stripe I have turns into a gold horn.
I chuckled at Fukuroda as he looked at me with shock before I, with a confident grin, said "Takaharu, was it? You're about to see what I can really do, my true power. This is Soruketsu!"
After I said that, some steam came right out Soruketsu and I ended up hearing some female students squealing, smiling, and blushing as they looked at me. I should've known the girls around here would get all excited from seeing me like this. It was like this back in Tokyo. I mean, Sōru's true form is skin tight and I was basically muscle toned. Any girl would fawn over a big strong dude dressed like this.
Satsuki's view
After seeing Ryū transform, I heard Jakuzure groan and looked to see her mouth opened with shock before looking back at him to see if he could confirm my suspicion about his uniform.
Roku's view
"Holy bazonkers!" Mako yelled out as I took a quick look at her to see that she covered her eyes, but decided to open a gap between two of her fingers.
I heard Ryūko gasp and looked to see she was just as shocked as Mako and she had a bigger blush on her face. After seeing all that, I then looked back at Fukuroda, ignored all the commotion from the crowd, and regained my grin.
Ryūko's view
I was just shocked by this. I didn't think his Kamui could transform too and I didn't think it would look like this. He actually wore that and he was embarrassed about seeing me wearing Senketsu? That thing's just as embarrassing as what I was wearing! And it changed color? How the hell did he do that? And why the hell was I blushing so much from seeing this?
Roku's view
"Wha-what the…?!" Fukuroda said as he kept looking at me with shock. "What the hell are you wearing?!"
"Something more powerful than any Goku Uniform than you can get." I said to him. "What you see here is the true form of my power! The same that is in my friend's possession! These special uniforms we have increase our strength, speed, and agility up to 10-fold! Now you will witness…the power of the Kamuis!"
神衣
[Translation: Kamui (God Robe)]
Satsuki's view
"So I was right." I said after Ryū revealed the answer to my question of his uniform. "He wields the power of a Kamui."
Roku's view
Fukuroda growled before he then said "Doesn't matter what you wear! I'm still gonna kick your ass!"
"Heh. We'll see." I said as I stood next to Ryūko, doubting he was gonna kick anything.
With another ring of the bell, the crowd cheering again, and the now bruised sign girl weakly laughing and holding a sign that said "Round 2", our fight continued.
"Didn't think you would pull this especially when one of you was hiding themselves under a cloak." Fukuroda as he moved in to attack me and Ryūko, knocking the sign girl away again and spinning both his fists like drills. "But now that you're half-naked, I'm gonna rip that bikini and that overgrown fishnet to shreds and send you both flying!"
Me and Ryūko stood there ready for the attack with his fist spinning and trying to drill through our Kamuis, his right fist hitting me and his left fist hitting Ryūko.
"Heh!" Fukuroda smirked as he heard a crack.
"Mm!" Ryūko grunted as she heard another crack.
"Hm!" I smiled as I heard a crack too, both male and female students gasping in awe with smiles of bliss and blushes.
But all that cracking wasn't coming from me or Ryūko. It was Fukuroda's gloves. Those things couldn't get pass the armor, so half of them busted apart, their pieces lying on the ground in front of me and Ryūko.
"Huh? What the—what the hell?!" he said, shocked that his gloves broke like that. "My-my gloves!"
I laughed before I said "Your gloves aren't the only things that turn to steel. When a Kamui is in its true form, it becomes just as hard as steel. Which means your attacks are nothing to us now."
Fukuroda growled at us before he then went out attacking us any way he can with his attacks just feeling like pillows and him yelling "Impossible" like about 5 times.
"Geez! You call those punches?" Ryūko said as the boxer kept on attacking us. "ʹCause we're not feeling anything!"
Satsuki's view
As we watched the events unfold, my elite four were shocked to see the girl and Ryū withstanding Fukuroda's attacks.
"Whoa!" Jakuzure said as she saw Fukuroda's attack not having any effect on the new students. "What're they wearing?"
"I believe Ryū called them Kamuis." Inumuta said, remember what Ryū had said earlier. "Though I never heard of such a thing."
"Huh." I said, somewhat fascinated by how well these two were able to used their Kamuis.
Mikisugi's view
"Huh." I said, impressed by how well Ryūko seemed to be handling herself with her Kamui, especially with Roku showing off his own.
Roku's view
"Huh?" I heard Mako say as she was no doubt confused by this.
"You done yet?" I said to Fukuroda as he stopped his attack and backed away from us. I then leaned over and whispered to Ryūko. "When I give the word, strike him with your Scissor Blade."
"What?" she said to me, confused by what I said.
"Just trust me." I said to her before speaking out loud to Fukuroda. "Okay, time to fight for real. ʹCause this is a boxing match, I'm gonna bring out my own gloves!" With this, Soruketsu then handed me my Tonfa and I slammed the ends of their grips together, activating their power. "Aura-Jutsu!" with the golden aura now forming fists around my hands and forearms, I got into fighting stance as I was ready to teach this boxer a lesson. "Ready for Round 2?"
"Why, you son of a bitch! Raaaaah!" he yelled out as he then charged at me with a punch.
I dodged it and then moved in to attack.
"Right hook!" I yelled as I gave him a right hook punch right in the face. I then gave him a left jab "Left jab!" While he was in a daze, I decided to mix it up a little. "And, two of my moves: double hook!" I then gave him to hook punches at the sides of his head. "Double jab!" I then gave him two simultaneous jab punches clear in the kisser.
I then gave him a left hook, then a right jab, then another double hook, and then another double jab. After that, I then began giving him full repeats of all of those attacks, starting with the first punch I gave him. I bet your wondering how I knew how to box, huh? Well, let's just say it pays to have a brother who watches the sports channel, especially fighting sports.
No one's view
Within the crowd of students surrounding the ring, Mako watched with the other students in awe as Roku punches the boxing captain with actual boxing techniques.
"Whoa!" she said as Roku kept on attacking Takaharu. "I never knew Roku knew how to box!"
"Yeah, he's pretty good." Matarō said as he came up beside Mako, watching Roku for a moment before looking at Ryūko with a blush and a blissful smile. "But that girl is cool too. She's totally, freaking awesome. So awesome! So unbelievably awesome!"
Ryūko's view
My mind was completely drawing blank as I watched Roku beat the crap out of that boxer guy like he did the other day. When I first met him the other day, I thought he was just this clumsy dipshit. But, now that I got to know him better and saw him doing all this, I realized that he wasn't such a dipshit after all. All I can say is…this guy is one serious badass.
"Okay, Ryūko, get ready!" Roku said to me as he kept on kicking that guy's ass, snapping out of it.
"Right!" I said as I got ready, finally gonna get to have some fun.
Roku's view
I looked to Ryūko and saw here focusing her power for her attack, Senketsu tightening himself on her with steam coming out of him and his red lineage beginning to glow. With that, I then decided to get this boxer ready for her.
"Left jab!" I said as I then punched Fukuroda with a jab punch. "Right hook!" I then gave him a hook punch. "And, to finish it off…an uppercut!"
With that uppercut punch, I sent him flying into the air. I moved out of the way as he then crashed into the ground, bouncing off it from the impact. Seeing the way he was, I knew this was the moment for Ryūko to strike.
"Ryūko, now!" I said as I looked to her and she raised her Scissor Blade, it charging up with energy.
"Got it!" she said as she then jumped forward toward Fukuroda. "Now for desert…a right straight!"
With one clean slash through him, I watched as Fukuroda's Goku Uniform bust apart into nothing but tatters.
"Sen'i Sōshitsu!" Senketsu said after the uniform was destroyed.
戦維喪失
[Translation: Sen'i Sōshitsu (Fiber Lost)]
"Whoa." I said in amazement as I saw the Scissor Blade destroy something that had Life Fibers. No doubt that he did the same work on my Tonfa with that scissor too.
I may not know much about this girl… I thought to myself as I watched Ryūko stand up, a blush and a blissful smile forming on my face. But she's freaking awesome!
"Roku, your heart rate just sped up." Sōru said to me. "Like what you see over there with little Ms. Matoi?"
My smile faded after she said that, annoying me as I then decided to pinch my Kamui for saying that.
"Ow!" she yelled as I pinched her. "Ow! Ow! Okay, I'm sorry! Please stop! Ow!"
After I stopped pinching, I was able to hear all the commotion from the crowd as they were all shocked by this.
"Impossible!" Uzu said as he saw this.
Satsuki's view
All my Elite Four were shocked as we all saw a Goku Uniform fall to the hands of Ryū and the new girl.
"A Goku Uniform…" Gamagōri said.
"Was defeated?" Jakuzure said, finishing him.
"That Scissor Blade is powerful." Inumuta said. "So are those Tonfa."
I looked carefully and I saw there was still one Fiber left of the Goku Uniform: the Banshi. I then watched as the Banshi flew over and then became absorbed by the girl's Kamui.
"No, it isn't their weapons." I said as I realized where this power came from.
Roku's view
"Nice job, Ryūko!" I said as I went over to and she turned to me as the now naked boxer landed on the ground.
"Thanks." She said as she hanged her Scissor Blade over her shoulder, smiling at me.
"Mind if I help send this guy back where he came from?" I said as I then picked up Fukuroda, giving her the idea of sending that guy straight back at Satsuki.
"Not at all." She said and I then tossed Fukuroda up in the air, giving me enough time for me to deactivate my Tonfa, give them to Sōru, and then grab on to the handle of her Scissor Blade. "Now…"
"Time to send you back!" we both said as we hit Fukuroda with the blade like a baseball hitter and sent him straight at Satsuki.
Before he even made contact with her, a group of 1-Star students came up in front of her and formed a human shield, stopping Fukuroda a few feet away from her, but that didn't stop the blood that came out of him from the impact as it went on towards Satsuki. Then Gamagōri along with two other students, who I had to bet were the other members of the Elite Four, did the same as those students and managed to block the blood, but a small splash managed to get passed them and land on Satsuki's cheek. As those three looked at her with shock, Satsuki continued to look at me and Ryūko as she wiped the blood off her with her thumb, completely unfazed by it. We heard Uzu gasp as we looked to see him glaring at us.
"How dare you!" he angrily said to us as he was about to enter the ring.
"Stand down." Satsuki said to Uzu, stopping him before she spoke to me and Ryūko. "Roku Ryū, new girl, where did you get your hands on those outfits?"
Ryūko then picked up the mike that Fukuroda dropped when he was fighting us and grabbed it before speaking to the Kiryūin.
"We got them from my father." She said, using the mike to amplify her voice.
"Really?" Satsuki asked her.
"Yeah, really." Ryūko answered her before she put up her Scissor Blade in front of her. "And are you seeing this Scissor Blade? It was left by the same scumbag that killed him!"
I then put my hand over to her, letting her know that I wanted to say a little something to Satsuki.
"Yeah, that's right." I said after Ryūko passed me the mike. "These uniforms and this Scissor Blade are all that remain of the work of her old man, a man that was like family to me. I have no doubt that the one who killed him was a lowlife you Kiryūins hired to do like you hired Harime to try and kill me! Now you're gonna tell us who possess the other half and where the hell is Nui Harime!"
"And don't you think we'll take no for an answer." Ryūko said after she took the mike back as we both glared at Satsuki, her pointing the Scissor Blade straight at her. "We won't stop until we get our answers, Satsuki Kiryūin."
Roku Ryū has finally arrived at Honnōji Academy and has now made new allies: Ryūko Matoi, the daughter of the great scientist Dr. Isshin Matoi, and her Kamui Senketsu. Now the adventure had begun! What lies ahead for our heroes? Find out next time on Mystic Dragon Force!
There you have it, the first chapter of Book 3. Now you got learn more about Roku. Now, before I continue, if you have any questions about this, just PM me and I'll answer them. Also, I'm looking for help to really get this story going. If anyone would like to help, PM me and, once we got out own little group, we can get to work on getting this book done. That's all I got for now. See you all next time after I write the next chapter, Chapter 2: Ryūko and Senketsu!
