AN: gasp! Third chapter! My husband is asking me to finish it. Must… do… Gah!

Disclaimer: The only thing I own is the plot. The characters used are not mine. Do not sue me. I'm broke enough as it is.

Heir to the Shotokan By Xairylle

Chapter Three

Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku

"Stop asking me if I'm a girl because I am not and I can prove it to you by all means necessary." Ken was frowning as he heavily placed an ice bag on the reddened area on Ryu's forehead. He got hit by the Shoryuken for calling Ken a girl. The blonde thought long hair was cool but what does Ryu do? He calls him a girl. Seriously, Ryu knew nothing about looks. Why on earth was he still wearing that tattered Karate gi with no shoes?

Ken looked at himself.

Well, at least he was wearing something red. Hunka-hunka-burning-love reddie-red. And Ken smiled at himself triumphantly.

"Ken, you're doing a weird smile." Ryu was sitting on a bench outside and Ken was standing over him as he pressed on the ice bag.

"Ow!" Ryu complained.

"You get hit all over and you're complaining that this hurts?" Ken asked, poking the red with the ice bag, "Come on, Ryu."

"You're being sarcastic as always."

Well, at least he didn't need to be too clueless to gain dates. He had a date with Chun-Li for the heck. She was the toughest girl to ask out but Ryu didn't know what he was in for. The last time Ken went out with her, his limbs did not want to carry any more of her shopping bags. It was all thanks to those Chun-Li fan boys and fan girls that Chun-Li had loads and loads of cash in that gold card(s) of hers. Ken was now wondering how much Ryu earned from video gaming.

And how was he spending it all?

"RYU!" another female voice, commanding this time and the friends fidgeted and looked. Great, here comes the blonde braided chick, Cammy. And she looked angry. She was taking heavy steps towards them and the two men were exchanging looks as if to ask each other if they should run for it.

"My boyfriend dumped me for another girl from another video game." She was frowning. There's that angry red color again. Ryu was wondering if it were common for women to have faces colored as such at certain times of the day. Really, he should remember to ask Ken about it.

"That bastard." Ken was frowning, hitting his palm with his fist, "What do you want to do?"

"I want him to suffer." Cammy was looking homicidal first at Ken then at Ryu.

"So you tore a hole through him with your Cannon Drill?" Ken raised an eyebrow and Ryu chuckled, fixing the ice bag on his forehead.

"No, idiot." Cammy was frowning, hands on waist, threatening to hit Ken with her knuckles, "He doesn't know I'm the Cammy from Street Fighter."

"What? Then who does he think you are?" Ken blinked.

"Just a randomly-created character who's yet to be released." She smiled a bit proudly.

"Deception by camouflage. Has a great chance of pulling off success." Ryu commented, feeling proud of his comment as well.

Ken did not know who was stupider – Ryu or Cammy's ex-boyfriend.

"So what do you want to do?" Ken asked, "Want us to clobber him?"

"No, I want to go out with him."

Oh, no. "Him" meant Ryu again.

Wait, he's getting asked out by two women in one day? Ken blinked thrice. This was going to ruin his pretty boy reputation! And he began to imagine Ryu in a red karate gi while doing Ken's taunting and victory poses and saying, "Yatta, ne?"

Ken shivered.

Okay, that was horrible.

Ryu looks absolutely perfect in his white Karate gi turned serious mode.

"Why me?" Ryu asked.

"Yeah, why him?"

"Simple." Cammy said, "Ryu is the Capcom symbol and is rumored to have liked no girl his entire fighting life."

"That remains to be true." The Japanese said flatly.

Yeah, except for you have one high school fiancée and another Chinese date.

"If that guy sees me with Ryu, he's going to realize what he lost." Cammy was saying now, her expression turning to an evil devilish smile, "Me! Chosen to be taken out on a date by the man who chose no one for a girlfriend! Even he has to realize that!"

"But he's already got a date with Chun-Li." Ken was raising an eyebrow. Ryu was acting as if they weren't talking about him. "Right, Ryu?"

"Yes, she challenged me to go shopping for battle gear."

Challenged? To go shopping?

"I didn't know Chun-Li was your girlfriend." Cammy blinked.

"Kyaaaa!" A female voice squealed happily from somewhere, "Ryu and I are still just friends…! Kyaaa!"

"You witch!" It was a high-pitched high school girl's voice, "Stop trying to seduce him!"

Round 1!

Fight!

Wow, someone found a good opportunity to face off Chun-Li and Sakura out of some game.

"Well, it'll only be for show." Cammy was pouting. Ryu was wondering if men were also allowed to pout like that.

"Besides, my ex is from another fighting game." She smiled devilishly scheming again, "If he sees me with you, chances are, his pride's going to get damaged and he'll end up attacking you… or attacking me and you'll have to protect me, of course."

"A fighting game?" Ryu was serious now, "What fighting game? Is he strong?"

"He's from SNK."

"Kyo?" Ken and Ryu chorused.

"No. He's too handsome that you need appointments to just ask his number."

"Who, then?"

"Iori."

"IORI!?" Ken blasted, the image of a psycho killer as a boyfriend shooting through his mind like a nightmare. There goes the "Muahahahaha!" The last time he got a fight with that guy, he had to use a fire extinguisher to calm the freak down.

"Iori is a challenge. I will do it then." Ryu put the ice bag aside as he stood up, offering his hand to Cammy's for a good "It's a deal. Let's shake on it." situation.

"Oh, thank you!" Cammy squealed, taking Ryu's hand and jumping up and down. And then Cammy blinked, seeing the red area on his forehead, "What happened to that?"

"I… ah… er… kind of like hit him with a Shoryuken by accident."

Yeah, because he accidentally called Ken Masters a girl.

"Gah, Ken, you fool!" Cammy slapped Ken back and forth, "Don't you dare damage his face again until the date or I'll Cannon Drill a hole through your crummy ass!"

"Ow! Ow! Sorry!"

Why does everyone love his ass? Either it gets poked or Cannon Drilled… Sheesh. Ass. Asset. Asset. Ass. There's kind of something to it.

"Poor little Ryu, let mommy Cammy kiss that boo-boo away." And there was another tiptoe and a kiss on Ryu's reddened forehead. The Japanese uttered a small, "Ow!" and Cammy trotted away saying, "If we're out on a date, we'd better practice. Ta-tah!"

Okay, this is horrible. Ryu had kisses from three different Capcom girls in a day, got asked out by two and had an instant fiancée. And Ken… Well… Ken was still Ken.

Geez, Ryu had his stars aligned properly today.

Or maybe he had a thing with girls and just didn't know it.

"Iori…" Ryu was looking up with his white bandana flowing dramatically like in a video game ending, "I will show you the true power of the Shotokan mastery!"

Yep. He barely knew a thing.

AN: I really don't know if this is funny and I don't know if adding Iori to the mix was a good thing. What I know is I liked it. Hehe.