Daughter of the Ogre

Hinalover 1010

Chapter 3: Yasha Mountain

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As soon as they wrote the note and left it on the table, they opened the door and looked at their traveling bag and Baki said," I might have packed too much…"

"You packed enough," Aki said.

"Your right," Baki agreed before he ran off with Aki following him.

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At night, in the mountains where Baki and Aki were last time, the two were climbing the mountain while carrying all of their things. Baki was struggling up the mountain while Aki was going through the mountain with ease. Aki looked down at her younger brother, who was catching up with her and smiled.

Then, Baki grabbed one of the rocks and slipped, causing Baki to fall to the down the mountain. Aki looked at her brother and yelled," BAKI!"

Aki smiled in relief as she saw Baki quickly grabbed onto another rock with one hand while the other dangled in the air." Ouch!"

"Baki, are you alright?" Aki asked.

Baki quickly put on a smile and yelled," I'm alright sis."

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In the morning, the sun was shining through all of the mountain and the next thing, the scene showed a panting Baki and a slightly panting Aki walking through the mountain and when they saw a log house in front of them, the two sighed in relief and Baki asked," Why does he need to live in a place like this?!"

"At least we got here in time," Aki said, trying to lighten Baki's mood.

The walked closer to the house and Baki fell to the ground on his hands and knees while Aki just stood with a smile on her face, like always. "We finally made it."

Then, the two each picked up a single hand found a tall, strong man who looked at the two as he said," It's been a year and a half since I've seen a human. I'm going to make a good lunch out of you two."

"I hope you don't mean you're going to fuck me, Ando," Aki said.

Baki ignored what his sister said and smiled as he said," Long time no see, Mr. Ando. It's me, Baki! Baki Hanma!"

"And it's me Ando, Aki. Aki Hanma," Aki said, pointing to herself.

Ando gasped in surprise and looked at the two with a large smile on his face." Oh! Baki and Aki! That snot face is a face I can never forget."

Then he turned to Aki and said," You've gotten more beautiful since I've last seen you, Aki. You definitely matured."

Aki blushed and covered her breast in embarrassment as she saw Ando looking at them while Baki glared at Ando but then smiled when Ando put them down and asked," How's Yujiro?"

Baki and Aki sat on the ground as Baki answered," He's the same as usual."

"I see. I'll make you two some bear sashimi for dinner," Ando said." It has a peculiar taste, but it's really good."

Ando and Aki heard snoring and looked at Baki, who fell asleep on the ground with his bag still on his back and was the one snoring. Ando smiled with disbelief and said," he must have really knocked himself out coming here."

"He did. He nearly fell down the mountain just to see you," Aki said.

Ando looked at the Hanma girl and asked," So how's Yujiro?"

"He's okay. I haven't contacted him in a while," Aki said. She grabbed Baki and carried him bridal style." Anyway, let's get Baki inside so he can sleep well."

Later, Baki and Aki were at a river where Baki took off his shirt and stuck his head in the river and shook it off as he grabbed a white towel that hung on a tree nearby him. Aki looked at her brother and asked," Are you done?"

"Yeah, you can come on now," Baki answered.

"Good," Aki said as she came out of her hiding place and immediately buried her head and neck in the river and threw her head back a few seconds later. She grabbed a piece of the towel Baki was using and used it to dry off her eyes.

"Thank you," Aki said. Baki said nothing, just looked at Aki and crashed his lips upon hers, which Aki reciprocated. She let out a moan as she felt Baki's hands moved everywhere around her body and when Baki pulled away, he smirked as he saw what a panting and blushing mess his sister had become.

"Baki, please don't do that when Ando can come upon us at any time," Aki said, attempting to scold Baki, but he knew that she loved it.

"You know you loved it," Baki said. Aki blushed even redder and nodded her head a bit, not looking at Baki, but instead at the ground.

Baki grabbed his sister's chin and forced her to look at him and said," I love you. I don't care if the whole world finds out about our love. I only care about you."

"Baki, I love you too and I guess that's all that matters," Aki said, looking at her younger brother with love.

"Let's go back," Baki said. Aki nodded with another smile on her face and ran back to Ando's log house while Baki just stared at his sister with a smile on his face as well.

When he walked back to Ando's log house as well, Baki was drying his hair with a towel and looked ahead, smiling as he saw large tree, a tree that stood out from the rest of the trees on the mountain, ahead of him and ran towards the tree as well instead of where his sister and Ando was and when he finally stared at tree, he gazed at tree's large form in awe and exclaimed," Wow! This is really huge!"

"There's a shorter way to get there," a voice said. Baki looked behind him to see a shirtless Ando right behind." Refreshed?"

"Yeah! This tree is awesome!" Baki answered.

"This tree?" Ando asked, looking at the tree as well and continued." It's been here a long time. 1,000 years, maybe more…"

"1,000 years?" Baki asked.

"Usually they die out, but this one is different," Ando said before he place his palm on the tree and continued." It's still at its peak. Humans are like babies compared to this tree."

Ando then looked at Baki and asked," What's your real reason for coming here, Baki? You didn't come here just to hang around, did you?"

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In the mountain, a bear swung his paw in the river which caused a small fish to come out of the river while moving around, trying to get water again. The bear was about to eat his fish when he heard something and looked over at his side and smelled the air to see something moving around in the bushes near him. The bear charged over the mysterious animal in the bushes while growling in an attempt to intimidate the mysterious animal. The bush was pushed aside a bit, revealing red eyes staring back at the bear.

Then, a large furry arm with claws swung in the air and the bear flew back in the air with a loud cry and fell to the ground, dead with its tongue sticking out and its eyes rolled back into its head. Then the bear was dragged into the bushes where it was then eaten by the mysterious animal that killed it.

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"Eat up," Ando said.

Baki and Aki looked at the meal in front of them, which was meat on a wooden plate with three knives sticking into the meal and horse radish in a bowl was next to the meat with two bottles of drinks." Did you hunt down this bear?"

Ando sat down and said," Even though I can't hunt down a polar bear like your dad, if it's a bear around here, my fist will be enough to hunt it down."

"Incredible," Aki said as she grabbed Ando's arm and felt it pulsing in her arms and gaped.

"It looks like your arm has gotten even bigger," Baki said.

"It really has gotten bigger," Aki commented.

Ando laughed loudly and said," The water and air around here are completely different."

Then, Ando dug into the meal and chewed on the meat with glee on his face, which made Baki and Aki to be curious and dug into their meal as well and smiled as they tasted bear meat. "This is great!"

"This is incredible Ando!" Aki complimented.

"You two think so as well?" Ando asked. Then he took a bit out of some horseradish and let out a moan of happiness. "This horseradish is really good afterwards!"

The two Hanmas laughed at their friend's comment and continued to have dinner with laughs and smiles.

Hours later, the entire bear meat was gone and empty bottle of drinks were lying across the table as the three people in the house were just talking." So you lost to a lightweight boxer?"

"But Yuri is the world champion," Baki said, using it as an excuse for his lose. Aki sipped on some water and placed the cup down, looking at Baki.

"You're still weak," Ando said. Baki glared at Ando for the insult and Aki just looked at Ando with a smile on her face, even though it didn't reach her eyes which instead held hidden fury towards the man before her.

"That's mean, even for you Ando," Aki said.

Ando just smiled and said," Let's go outside."

Ando, Aki, and Baki went outside with Aki sitting on the stairs with interest while Baki stared at the shirtless Ando who had an ax in his hand and a huge log in front of him." When Yujiro came, we used to do this everyday, competing."

Baki and Aki stared at Ando with amazement in their eyes and looked as he said," Watch this!"

Ando grabbed the ax with both of his two hands and swung the ax backwards, waiting as a killer aura surrounded his body and finally swung the ax down with all of his might, chopping the log with one swing, causing Baki to stare at Ando with wonder while Aki just yawned and stared with boredom." For fighting, the person who eats the most is going to be the winner."

Ando then grabbed Baki's hands and said," I'll make you stronger than Yuri. Hold on for one month and I'll give you everything I've got."

Baki just stared at Ando and could only say," Thanks."

Baki then looked at the ground as he said," I also have one favor that I would like to ask you."

"What is it?" Ando asked, curious as to what favor the red haired kid was asking of him.

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At the mansion where Baki's mother was living, the screen then went to inside the house where a TV was on and on it was Burion Redcross and Yuri Chiakovsky were in a room with Burion was smiling and placing his hand on Yuri's shoulder, while Yuri was doing nothing as a reporter said," Look over this way. Please."

"Could you make a pose? Please," another reporter said.

Then the screen was switched, showing a large TV with two chairs and in one of the chairs was Baki's mother, Emi Akezawa, who was looking at her TV with disinterest. Kurigawa walked up to woman and said," Ma'am, Mr. Baki has…"

"What about him?" she asked. Kurigawa bent down and whispered something in his boss's ear, but she showed no reaction to the new at all.

"What shall I do?" Kurigawa asked.

"Let him do what he wants to do," was all she replied.

Kurigawa looked at his boss with curiosity and she only said," It just means that he has started to follow in his father's footsteps."

Kurigawa looked at Emi before he bowed and said," I understand."

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In the mountains, Baki was punching and kicking a punching bag as he remembered the conversation he had with Ando last night

"What?!" Ando asked with disbelief in his voice and evident on his face, not believing what Baki told. Aki just looked at her younger brother with pride and shock on her face and continued to watch the two.

"I want to setup a camp on Yasha-crag by myself," Baki answered.

"What?!" Ando asked again. "Do you have any idea what that Yasha-crag is like?!"

"I heard about it from my dad," Baki said.

"It's just like a child walking around the New York ghettos by himself," Ando described before his eyes narrowed." Aren't you misjudging that place?"

"No, I'm not," Baki said, looking at his trembling hands." Just thinking of going to the place… gives me the creeps."

Baki got out of his backflash and was looking around his camp as he was surrounded by darkness and remembered him saying," But I must go."

"I know that," Baki continued.

"Do you have any ideas what kind of creatures live there?" Ando asked, trying to discourage Baki from going to Yasha-crag alone." Seriously, do you think that a child like you can come back alive?"

"That's why I'm going… to test myself out!" Baki yelled, he then calmed down and looked at the ground. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to yell."

"Ando, let him go," Aki said. "I went to Yasha-crag myself and I survived. Now it's Baki turn."

Ando frowned and looked Aki, seeing the determined look in Aki's eyes and back at Baki saying," Yujiro and your sister were exactly like you."

"What kind of a family are you guys?" Ando asked.

"We're Hanmas, Ando. Fighting and craziness is in our blood," Aki answered, giggling as she saw the disbelief on Ando's face.

Baki was attacking the punching and kicking the punching bag with determination and hugged the punching bag as he panted and looked at the cave in front of him. He then looked at the sky and saw millions of stars in the sky. "Wow!"

Later, Baki then began to resume his training by lifted weights and struggled a few moments to lift the weight.

"Baki, take this ax with you," Ando said, handing Baki his ax who held it up with his two hands.

"He's a demon," Ando said." Don't think of it as an ordinary ape."

"A demon?" Baki asked.

Ando nodded and said," That's right. Estimated age is 150 years, and is known as the Yasha-zaru."

"It's just like a mountain coming after you with fangs," Ando explained.

"A mountain?" Baki asked

"There were a couple of them on that mountain. Yes, and your dad and Aki did hunt one of them down," Ando answered. "Bu the difference between your dad, Aki, and you right now is…"

"Mr. Ando thanks for this ax, but I won't need it," Baki said, handing back Ando his ax.

"What?!" Ando asked.

"What I want right now is to fight a monster, exactly like you said!" Baki yelled.

"Baki…" Ando said.

"If my dad and sister did it, I should be able to do it!" Baki yelled.

Aki walked up to Baki and sat next to him. She smiled and kissed Baki on the cheek and hugged him with a few tears in her eyes. "I'm proud of you for not taking the ax Baki."

"Thanks sis," Baki answered.

"By the way, don't listen to Ando. He's not a demon, but rather a something else. You just have to fight him and see for yourself," Aki said as she leaned on her younger brother's shoulder and closed her eyes as she sighed. "We have different views of him and soon, you'll have your on view of him as well."

Baki was punching and kicking the punching the air with sweat and dirt covering some of his face as he thought of the Yasha ape and fighting him like the rest of his family, save his mother, and becoming strong like his father and sister.

While Baki was fighting the air, something behind him lifted the weights with its two hands and bent the weights like they were nothing which caused Baki to turn around and stared at the creature behind him in fear.

It was the Yasha ape with his weight bent like a bendy straw. The ape opened his mouth, showing his old teeth along with fangs and allowed a sort of smoke to come out of his mouth. Baki stared at the ape with fear and thought of how the Yasha ape looked and could only back away from the ape as he then roared and stood, ready to attack Baki.

Then, an ape was flying in the air and struck the ape in the back which caused the ape to turn around and dropped the weight as he saw Ando, who yelled," Baki!"

"Ando!" Baki yelled back. The Yasha roared for a minute before he took the ax out of his back and threw it at the ground.

"Is that thing nothing to you?" Ando asked before he grabbed the ax again and charged the ape with the intent to kill the ape or at least injure it.

"Ando!" Baki yelled. Ando ran towards the ape and swung the ax back with a loud yell only to have the ax caught by the Yasha with his mouth before he chomped on the ax, leaving a huge bite mark on the ax. Ando looked at the ax with horror and threw the ax away as he tightened his fist and swung it back, punching the ape that caught it with his mouth and shocked both Ando and Baki.

"Run Ando!" Baki shouted, fearing for his friend's life. The ape pulled on Ando's fist and tried to rip it off of Ando's arm. Ando pulled his arm from the Yasha ape's mouth to find his hand bloody. The ape roared and was ready to fight Ando once more when Baki decided to save his friend.

"Stop it!" Baki yelled. He charged at the ape with his fists ready only to get punched by the ape which sent him flying in the air and landed on the ground harshly.

"He's strong…" Baki muttered." There's no way I can beat him."

"Help me, Baki!" Baki looked from the ground to see Ando trying to fight off the Yasha ape while the ape was digging his claws into Ando's stomach, causing blood to erupt form Ando's body and Ando gave out a loud cry of pain.

"Damn you! Damn you!" Baki roared, throwing his lantern at the Yasha ape. Fire began to spread on the Yasha's back, but Baki didn't stop there and then threw gasoline at the Yasha ape and fire was all over the Yasha's back and Yasha could only run back into his cave with a ferocious roar.

Baki panted as he saw the Yasha ape rune back into his cave and turned to Ando, who was on the floor as he clutched his wound with painful groans erupting form his mouth." Ando… ANDO!"

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Back at the log house, Aki was treating Ando's wounds as Baki bottled down a bottle whiskey spat onto Ando's wounds as said injured began to let out a moan a pain as his body twitched in shock from the whiskey. Baki then said," I know it hurts, but it needs to be disinfected just in case."

"Aki get the bullets," was Ando's reply before he looked into Aki's eyes." They're in the drawer."

"Bullets?" Baki asked as he turned his head around and he saw two boxes Aki was getting from the drawer.

"Take out the gunpowder and break it down until becomes fine," Ando explained.

As Aki and Baki opened the boxes and began to take the gunpowder out of the bullet as they laid it on a sheet of paper, Ando then said," Those claws are like a block of bacteria. Vodka wouldn't have done shit to it."

Baki walked towards Ando with the paper and gunpowder in his hands as he said," here you go."

"Thanks," Ando replied as he saw the gunpowder in Baki's hands. Ando took the gunpowder and poured it onto his wounds as Aki and Baki looked at the man in shock.

"Bring me a towel," Ando ordered. Aki got a towel and handed it to Ando, who stuck it in his mouth and clenched on the towel as hard as he could. Ando then got out a silver lighter as he light the small thing.

"Are you going to be alright Ando?" Aki asked in concern as she saw the lighter draw closer and closer to the gunpowder that was set on Ando's wounds.

The three watched as a small bang rang throughout the house and Ando clenched down on the towel with all of his might as his body spasms from the pain his body had felt from the gunpowder being light." Baki, press the button that's right over there."

Baki turned around to a see a machine with a red button on it and pressed the button.

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A bright light loomed over the mountain and that light was revealed to be from a helicopter with someone inside that said," We got an emergency call from Ando Keiichi. Rescue him immediately."

Another person replied as they said," Roger, I'm almost there."

The light landed on the house and then moved towards a small figure, Baki, who was holding a small stick as a sign to the people in the helicopter.

Aki and Baki could only watch as Ando was being transported away by the helicopter to somewhere he could be treated as Baki thought of how fighting was fun and how he liked being feared by other fighters. The red haired teen then thought of how even though he would lose to a champion or pro fighter, how he could win if he started trained and starting with the basics.

While Baki was lost in his thoughts, Aki could only frown and looked at Baki with concern before she muttered under her breath," Please don't kill the Yasha ape, Baki."

As the helicopter flew away from the mountain to take Ando to a hospital, the Yasha ape stared at the helicopter.

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The scene goes outside of a hospital and then into a hospital room where Ando was being treated by dozen of doctors as someone said," It looks like he already disinfected the wound with gunpowder. He claims that he was attacked by a 9 foot ape."

"Have you ever of saying that is sung by the children of the region here? The strong shall go to Yasha Mountain and fight with the Yasha ape," a doctor said to a medical nurse.

"Yeah?" the medical nurse asked.

"It's said that in the past, people would go to Yasha Mountain to challenge a Yasha ape and they never came back," the doctor explained,

As the doctor said those words, Baki and Aki were eating some of their meals with Baki eating as if it were his last while Aki slowly ate as she looked at her younger brother with amusement.

Then, a roar was heard which caused the two Hanmas to turn their heads.

The roar came from the Yasha ape, who was sitting before a cave on a mountain before he walked back into his cave.

As this went on, the doctor further explained to the nurse," It's said that some of the people who challenged the ape were Musashi Miyamoto, Bokuden Tsukahara, and others who were pretty strong fighters. I can't really say what happened to them after that, but some people say that the Yasha ape ate them.

But, it's impossible and ridiculous to try nowadays."

The nurse looked down at the charts for Ando and exclaimed," This guy is huge!"

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The scene switched to Baki and Aki, showing Baki eating everything that he could while Aki looked at Baki and said," You need to slow down Baki."

Baki ignored his sister and still ate as he thought of how he needed to eat and grow bigger until he belly popped which caused Aki to pick up Baki and lay him down on Ando's bed as Baki panted form all the food he ate.

The, the two were outside as Baki was standing before a log with only yellow boxing shorts as he held an axe with red aura surrounding him before he swung and successfully chopped the log in half with one swing with thoughts of revenge clouding his mind.

As she watched her younger brother, Aki could only sigh in disappointment and said," Please don't let revenge take you over when the time comes Baki."

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The scene goes back to the city where there is a building it huge posters on it and a person asks," Will it Yuri or Burion?"

The scene went inside the building where Yuri was looking at his opponent with both of their boxing gloves readied to fight. A bell rang and the tow started to fight with fans cheering for both of the boxers. "The most important match of the century has begun."

As the fight began, Baki's mother, Emi, was watching the fight going on in the far back as she sat in a chair while Kurigawa stood and looked at the fight as well.

Meanwhile, the man from before sat in a large green chair as he watched the fight go on from the TV as he turned his head to say," The fight has, started young master."

Kaoru Hanayama looked outside a window with his hands in his pockets as the man asked," Are you going to watch?"

Kaoru ignored the man as he continued to look outside the window with no emotions on his face.

The scene went to Baki who was wearing a read wife beater and yellow boxer shorts as he was running in the mountains with a large travel pack on his back and sweat coated his entire body.

The scene then went back to Yuri and his fight, where Yuri was dodging his opponent's punches with a confident look on his face as the announcer said," Burion is giving it his best, but he can't seem to hit Yuri at all."

As she watched the fight from above, Emi sighed as she said," How boring. The match was over before it even started."

Emi turned her head towards Kurigawa as she asked," So..?"

"I'm sorry, but I still can't locate Baki at the moment," Kurigawa answered.

"That's alright," Emi said before she turned her head back to the fight before her. " I already know what he's up to."

"What?"

"Baki is attempting to cross the line."

"The line?"

"The human brain sends a distress signal to the body when one continues to train excessively over a long period of time. The signal is known as pain. The average human will rest as that happens but the human body can go further. If one can push one further, the brain will stop and produce a wonderful sensation throughout the entire body." As she said those words, Baki ran through the forest with pain evident on his face but the teen still kept pushing on.

"Wait. Do you mean…?" Kurigawa asked with confusion and realization

"Yes. Endorphins," Emi answered for Kurigawa.

"Endorphins," Kurigawa repeated before he continued." You mean the chemicals that allow fighters to continue until they die, right?"

"I have no doubt in my mind that Baki's trying to get his brain to send endorphins," Emi said.

Baki ran high and higher up the road he was running on as he told his body to keep on pushing until his body stopped and felt euphoric sensations occur throughout his body, questioning what the sensations were.

Baki then kicked a tree with all of his might until he again felt the familiar sensations run through his body once more as he asks himself," Is this it?"

"Yes, those are endorphins. Nearly all the top class athletes experience this," Emi explained.

Baki climbed with no help of his legs on a rope that only stopped at a large tree that high up in the mountain. As he climbed, Baki felt sensations and stopped in shock

"This is awesome!" Baki said as he did pushups, only to experience sensations.

"This is awesome! Now that I have this, I can… I can…" Baki said as he did pushups once more until he stopped.

"Baki, it's still too early for you to be happy," Emi said.

Emi looked at the fight as she saw Yuri dodge his opponent's punches until he finally punched Burion and with that one punch, the man fell to the flew as the bell rang which signaled that Yuri won the fight.

As Yuri got the trophy with his team beside him, Emi said," You're going to have to go even further than that."

"If you can't cross, that line, it's all over for you," Emi warned with sharp eyes." You'll never become a true grappler."

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At Baki and Aki's home, Kaoru and his subordinate were at the house with the man kicking the door and saying," Come out, we know you're in there! Show yourself!"

The man looked at the side and saw a note before he ripped it off of the door and read, turning back to Kaoru and said," It looks like he's not home. He left this note."

Kaoru read the note and proceeded to crumble it like garbage.

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The sound of birds were heard on Yasha mountain as the old tree Ando told Baki about before appeared and inside the tree was Baki who was meditating with his eyes closed. "It's time."

Baki got up and walked towards the edge a canyon as he said," I have to cross the line."

Baki was about to leap into the canyon before he ran and held a tree as he began to hit his head with the tree as she cried," I can't do this! I'll die doing this!"

As he closed his eyes, Baki then remembered Ando and how he defended him form the Yasha ape which caused the teen to look at the canyon as he said," I have to do it. I have to cross the line."

Baki turned around and back flipped into the canyon with a loud cry when he thought of how bad the idea was, saying," Oh crap!"

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Hey all of you fans out there! I hope you like this along with the last chapter. Happy New years to all of you. We had one hell of a year =) Hope next year is awesome!

Hinalover 1010