Disclaimer Stuff: Whatever I might mention along the away in this chapter belongs to the rightful owners. . .
I just own the amazing Kei! I bet you're wondering what his last name might be. . .I haven't thought about it yet.
Currently listening to. . ."Meet me on the equinox" by Death Cab For Cutie I haven't watched the Twilight movie and i don't really plan to. . .But I like DCFC a lot and this song is really good and if you haven't heard it
I'm pretty sure you fans that are pumped for New Moon will think this song was perfect for it. . .I don't like Twilight. . .
Anyway. . .Onward to Chapter 4: Runaway To Elsewhere pt. 2
They made it to the arcade without a hitch. With the exception of Kei's advances toward the lovely Asuka Kazama.
"One more remark Kei and I'm gonna punch you out and leave you in the middle of this damn city." She said as she clenched her fist in frustration.
Kei motioned his hands. "Ah! Ok ok! Come on babe, I'm only messin!"
With that Kei received a sharpshooter in front of the arcade.
"AHHHHHH! I give up! I give up! Forgive me! Uncle!!!" Kei was slamming the floor as hard as he can.
"I told you not to call me babe!" Asuka flawlessly pulled off the submission.
But where she learned how to do that was another story. After a couple of minutes they both headed into the arcade.
Asuka hopped on the first machine she saw Street Fighter 4. As Kei walked by to see her play, he looked over to see who she was playing.
"Uh-oh. . .That guy's good. . .He won the tournament not too long ago." Kei looked a little worried.
But Asuka was handling it very well. She was amazing with Zangief! She knew all the little tricks there was with the Red Cyclone.
"Holy crap! I didn't know she was this damn good!" He couldn't believe that she was handing the tournament players ass to him.
"Damn Kazama I didn't know you were that damn good!"
Asuka smiled. "Oh I love playing Street Fighter! Zangief is unstoppable!" And with that she finished her opponent off with Zangief's strongest move the Ultimate Atomic Buster.
"HOLY SHIT! Kazama do you know who you just beat?!"
"No. . .Who?"
"You just beat a tournament champion! No one can play Sagat like him and you beat the shit out of him! He's crying right now! Asuka you're the bomb!" He said as he held her hand.
Asuka blushed and raised her arms triumphantly. Everyone around that was watching were amazed that someone whom the never saw beat a regular at the arcade and a tournament champion no less.
Kei took her hand. "Hey let's go play something else!"
"Uh! What are we gonna go play?" As she ran through the crowd with Kei.
" Let's play Dance Dance Revolution!"
"DDR? I'm terrible at that game!"
"No worries, it'll be fun!"
The arcade was so lively from all the machines. Music based games, shooting games, fighting games and kids talking causing a commotion. For the most part they both were having a good time and enjoying themselves.
"Here we'll start out easy for you what son do you want to play?" As he scrolls through the list.
Asuka looked through the list and noticed a song that she thought was cute. "Ah how about this one, freckles."
At first she was having trouble but eventually she started to get the hang of it and had fun. All the guys that were walking around noticed her and started to build up a crowd.
(Think about it this happened one time when I was at the arcade. . .You see a cute girl with a banging body? Yeah guys will definitely start checking her out.)
Eventually a crowd was made around the two and Kei was getting pushed back by the onslaught of on lookers wanting to see the cutie that was playing DDR.
"Goddamn it! Back up already you bastards!" Kei was pushing and shoving the crowd. As he made it back to the front she was playing her last song. The smile she had on was really cute it made all the guys as well as Kei turn to jello.
When she finished playing her song the crowd that was made around her cheered and applauded. She couldn't help but blush, she thanked everyone and bowed. All of the guys that were there started to push each other around trying to talk to her as well as a glance.
"Damn it! Move you assholes!" Kei started to kick and punch but failed miserably. As he forced his way to the front again it was already too late. They were pulling her away from him. She tried to look back to see where he was but she couldn't find him anywhere.
Oh man I gotta lose these guys! She thought.
Kei scratched his head in frustration. "Damn. . .Maybe I shouldn't have taken her to play DDR, but she looked really cute playing it. I should probably go look for her."
As he started to look around he noticed two girls playing a crane game.
"Aww! I was so close that time!" One of the girls said.
Kei looked over at them for a moment. "Hey do you need help with that?"
The two girls blushed. "Uh! Yeah sure are you any good?" The other girl said.
"Yeah a little here let me try. . ." As he took a coin out of his pocket he couldn't help but over hear what the girls were saying.
"He looks like Hiro Mizushima!" One of the girls said.
Kei then put his coin into the machine, the game itself looks a bit hard. The crane was in the shape of the UFO and it had two prongs to grab a stuffed toy. Kei easily got the girls a stuffed toy coincidentally it was a 2 piece. One of the stuffed toys was holding on to the other.
"Ah what a cute bear! Thanks!" The girls said.
"No problem." Kei said as he handed the toys over. Before Kei could take his leave some other girls came up to him and asked him if he could win them something too. He couldn't say no to girls, after all he was a gentleman and soon after he was bringing in his own crowd of people and winning something for everyone.
Asuka managed to escape from all the guys that were hounding her. She had her arms stretched out as if she were an umpire in a baseball game. "SAFE!"
As she walked around the arcade looking for Kei. She noticed that there was a big crowd of people surrounding a crane game. As she walked closer she sees two girls walking by.
"That guy got me a cute white sea lion!" One of them said.
"He got me this white Donald Duck!" Said the other girl.
As she continued on ahead she noticed someone playing the machines. It was Kei she watched him grab something from the machine and then he handed it to a little girl that was waiting next to her.
"Here you go." He said while he was patting the little girls head.
The little girl who was probably still in the 1st grade smiled. "Fwank you bwig bwuthuh." She then ran to her mother and left the area.
Asuka smiled when he saw the little girl ran off happily with her plush toy. As she looked over to Kei he had won something else for another girl and this girl gave him a peck on the cheek.
She felt a pull in her chest again just as she did when they were at the cafe. She was jealous. Kei saw her and waved at her. She then turned around and walked away furiously.
"Hey wait! Where are you going?"
She stopped so he can catch up.
"What's the problem Kazama?"
"Sorry for interrupting your time with all those girls." She said as she looked down on the floor.
"Who them? Yeah they just wanted some stuffed animals and next thing you know, I'm getting something for everybody hahaha." He said with a wide grin scratching his head.
"That's real nice of you. . ."
"Yeah they all asked for one."
Asuka looked down upset. I would've liked one. Why didn't you get me one?
Then she felt something on her head. She grabbed the items and looked at them.
"Huh?" Her eyes widened a bit.
It was a chibi Gintoki with an arrogant look on his face as well as a stuffed Sadaharu.
She remained quiet and blushed a little, while Kei had a huge grin on his face.
"I think you deserve two. No need to thank me!"
Asuka continued on blushing and looking at the stuffed toys. Kei slowly sneaked up behind her and whispered into her ear.
"But if you'd like. . .You can give me a kiss as a thank you." Before he could plant a kiss on her cheek, she elbowed him in the gut.
"OOF! Ahahahaha! I was kidding!" She chased him all around the arcade.
"You IDIOT!"
Later on that day they decided to get something for dinner.
"Hey Kazama, do you wanna get something to eat?"
"Oh yeah, that sounds good actually what do you want for dinner?"
Kei pondered for a couple of minutes. "How about okonomiyaki?"
"Oh that does sound good."
They took off from the arcade and walked side by side looking for a place that might seem good.
They finally made it to a little restaurant that has okonomiyaki. As little as the place was it was quite packed with people their age as well as businessmen
that just got out of work.
Kei looked delighted. "This place is pretty small but it makes good business."
"Yeah I'll say." She looked around with glee.
They found a spot in the corner of the place and sat across each other.
"Gosh I haven't had okonomiyaki in a while." She said as she looked at the hot plate table with all of the raw ingredients fitted in.
"Yeah me too. . .I wonder if I can still make a good one." He rolled up his sleeves and got to work.
As he threw down the ingredients he was giving Asuka a little show as he flipped multiple ones in the air. Asuka was quite impressed.
"Wow Kei you're really good at flipping those! I usually end up making a mess!"
"Here you go. And thanks I'm not just good with this, I can cook other things pretty well too."
"Wow and here I thought you were a good for nothing." She laughed.
"Thanks?"
"I'm sorry Kei that came out wrong. What I meant to say is. . .You have a lot of talents that I'd never thing you would have. Is there anything that you're not good at?"
"Well I'm not really good at studying." He chuckled.
Asuka laughed. "Every time I look at you, you're always staring off into the clouds all day just day dreaming or something."
"I can't help it, class is boring as hell."
"I guess that's always then, huh?"
Kei grinned. "Well. . .I pay attention sometimes, like when you're answering something."
She was slightly confused by his statement. "Why's that?"
"Oh I don't know. . .I guess I like the sounds of your voice, since you're the only one that has that heavy kansai dialect in class. . .It's really funny actually."
"Ah! I'm kind of embarrassed about that and you were laughing at me?!"
"No! No! I'm not saying that to insult you! I'm saying that you it sounds cute coming from you was all." He reassured.
Asuka's face reddened. "Oh. . ." was the only thin she could muster up.
The former delinquent just shook his head with a smug grin. "Jeez Kazama, you get flustered over my compliments pretty easily, huh?"
"W-Well thats because no one really compliments me about anything aside from my fighting prowess." She said defensively.
"I see." Kei smiled warmly. "Come on let's continue eating before this gets cold."
After their little chat they simply sat in front of each other and ate quietly. Kei would look at her now and make remarks that were get her slightly irritated.
They started talking some more and things started to go more were both having a good time. When Kei was about to eat his second okonomiyaki, Asuka couldn't help but
notice that he kept brushing his hair away from his eyes.
"Kei have you ever thought about cutting your hair?"
"Yeah? You think so?"
"Well I think you should, your hair keeps getting in your way! How do you see half of the time?"
"Yeah. . .Maybe I should." He smiled as he brushed his hair once again.
"I think you'd look better with shorter hair than what it is now."
"Oh why thank you. I'm flattered."
"Don't get the wrong idea you loser!" She threw bits of lettuce at him.
"Hey cut it out we're wasting food Kazama!"
They ended up making a bit of a mess but they had a lot of fun. After realizing what time it was Kei paid for both of them and they took off.
The two walked side by side relatively slowly. Anyone could tell that these two didn't want the night to end.
"Hey um . . .Should I hold your hand and walk you to your house?" Asuka was slightly embarrassed from saying it. She simply looked at her feet so he couldn't really see her face.
"You don't have to do that. . .My eyes are pretty bad but I can see where we are going relatively well."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah I'm sure, and to prove it I'll walk YOU to you're house."
"Um okay sure. . .Whatever. . ."
Kei took a hold of her hand.
"Um. . .You might want to show me where you live. . . I've never been to your house before."
"Uh. . .Yeah sure. . ." Asuka felt her face really heat up.
Jeez. . .Why am I so blushing so much all of a sudden?! I held his hand the other day and it wasn't like this. . .She thought.
Kei was rambling on about something, but Asuka kept on zoning in and out. She was more concerned about them holding hands.
Kei looked over at her. "Hey is there something wrong Kazama?"
"Hm? Oh it's nothing just thinking. . ."
He simply nodded his head. "Ok. . ."
"Hey um Kei?"
"Yeah? What's up?"
"Have you always lived here? In Japan I mean?"
"Well now that you mention it I was born here, but then I moved to America up until I was probably seven or eight. . .So my English is pretty solid." He held his thumb up in a cheesy manner. "Why do you ask?"
"Well there was this one time when you walked pass by me. I overheard you speaking english."
"Oh. . .Hahahaha, yeah I was probably singing."
"I see. . .Hey how did you. . .You know become a-"
"Delinquent?"
"Yeah."
He sighed a bit. "Well it started back in middle school. . .I guess they didn't like the face I was from America or something. . .I don't really know."
"I see. . ."
"Another reason for them causing trouble with me. . .Was because I was stealing their woman." Kei laughed.
"What?!"
"Yeah a lot of girls in middle school were really interested with the fact that I was lived in America for a while. . . And that didn't fly too well with their boyfriends. . .Well you get the idea. . ."
"Uh-huh. . ." Asuka raised an eye brow.
"Well. . .I wasn't trying to start any trouble, things just kept on happening. So to some teachers, they saw me as a juvenile delinquent. . . And the next thing you know, I became notorious in my school! When we were graduating from middle school, a lot of my friends were surprised when they found out I wasn't going to a certain delinquent school. . . Some of my reputation still sticks with me." He smiled.
"Wow. . .So that's why you got into trouble a few times. . ."
"Yeah but it's no big deal." As Kei looked on ahead he noticed the big doors in front of her house. "Is that you're house?"
"Yeah that's my house. Thanks for walking me to my place."
"Hey no problem. I'll catch you later alright?"
"Ok see ya. . ." Asuka watched him walk away about to take the turn.
"Cut your hair too!!!"
"Yeah, yeah don't go beating up random people then!!!"
She stuck her tongue out at him as he took the corner. She stood there for a minute but she felt like she was being watched. As she looked over at her door she noticed her mom looking at her with a fox smile.
"MOM!!!!!!!"
Kei walked happily home with his hands in his pocket singing. " It's been quite of a while since I could experience your brightness. . .Now you got a brighter smile and I think I'm going to like it. . ."
Suddenly Kei noticed three guys standing in his way. It was the three delinquents from the other day they seem to be packing some weapons too. "Oh it's you guys. I don't think you should be playing with those. . ."
"We got you this time you bastard, and your little girlfriend ain't here to help you!"
"Hmph. . .You guys don't learn do you? Kei pushed up his sleeves. "And here I thought it was gonna be a great night. . ."
Meanwhile at Asuka's home. She was in her room and heard something drop on the floor when she took off her hoodie.
"Kei's phone? Why do I have this?" She thought for a moment and realized why she had it. "Oh right! I took it from him when we were at the restaurant. . .I should go give it back. . ."
With out hesitation she put back on her hoodie and took off to his house.
Alright guys. . .I kind of left it on a cliffhanger so you can stick with it. . .Did it work? No?. . .Well shit. . .
Anyway I hope you guys like this chapter and I'm sorry for taking a little too long. . .Or did I? Well either way. . .
For the most part I think this chapter went relatively smooth. . .I hope it doesn't confuse you or anything. . .
On another note I still haven't thought of Kei's last name. . .Any suggestions?