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Mito High School
12.00
The bell were ringing, students and their teachers bowed to each other before they take a break for 10 minutes before the next class begin.
Students waste no time to rush for the canteen, or visiting friends and relatives on the different class, converging and conversing, some went outside under the shady trees, eyes prying for the vast and endless of swirls around the city and other things running inside the school.
"Where the hell is that crazy chick? It's been two weeks she's absent from classes!"
"Why should you care about her? It's better not to have her here, can't stand with her!" Tetsuo retorted.
"Yeah, for you! I'm not messing up with her anymore, never forget for being pervy with her and she really almost broke my back and nose at a couple of swoops!" Tetsuo's friend, Shoji Kawaguchi, speak up to his two mates about the absence of Minami, after the topic of herself been hiatus ten days after they back to the school, now it's thanks to Tetsuo that other students turned their head for him for a moment and back to their friends changing topics same to theirs. "Lucky the Kendo club rejected her, if she's berserk while having those wooden swords on her hand, she's a moving disaster!" Rio remarked, then he argue things about her with Tetsuo, Shoji on the other hand were silent on his own realm, the unknown realm of Minami that he figured has more interesting.
Two days ago
It was seven mark on the morning, nobody were on the school just yet, nobody apart several janitors already unlocked all rooms two minutes ago, as well Shoji, alone in his own class, the sun were slightly colored the classroom out of the darkness of night, shone the row of tables and chairs before him, one is where Sonozaki being selected by the classmaster to occupy for the rest of the two semesters, thanks to the hard working janitors, her table were shiny and clean instead of being dusty. Shoji walk to her table, typically the top were liftable to store books and writing tools, and neither were there, instead, there's papers with sketches by her hand, her hand drawing of stuffs mainly boys get to catch, stuffs that few girls get or even interested, it was papers with Sonozaki's own hands drawing of cars, not the sort of Eco car or Kei Car, but hand drawing of sports car, and it is not just the old japanese sports famous on the Wangan and Touge, car the likes of the Silvia S15 and the turns out her favourite FD3S RX-7, many of those with each bearing mod render used by real-life local tuning houses, there's also several supercar drawings as well, two Lamborghini Veneno and Gallardo Super Trofeo and Ferrari's, 360 Modena, 458 Italia and F-12 N-Largo as titled on corner of the papers, few german cars with one being the famously new 918 Spyder, an M6 BMW with a wing from M3 GTS and even a P1, he even find one more paper drawn by herself the locally less known supercar maker, Koenigsegg CCX-R, she colored it blue, there's many unfinished car drawings stacked randomly, an R35 GTR, a Mk.4 Supra, and a nearly finished Pagani Huayra, all those threes has not a single paint from pencil colors just yet apart the blackish tone from the 2B pencil as the CF shade.
These all surprised him. He were just stand still like a statue as his minds were looming around the known energetic girl of the same classroom with him, known by outdoor and sports teacher for her full potention to proceed for national athletic academy after she finished the school, especially on sprinting, the person hid out her deeply impending passion for car, something not majority girls around her age would close with, there were still many girls and women that taking big interest to car world, but Sonozaki were among few who takes more insight of the motoring world, to recognize the motoring brands that not even himself would probably ever heard of.
"Hey, Shoji! You okay?"
Shoji went out of his thought, he looked to Rio and says "Yeah, nothings up!", "You looked like you have a flashback or something!" Rio asked again. Shoji just grinned, thought over making Tetsuo moaning, it would be like setting the whole world to burn.
"You know...I think I'm starting to like that One Megawatt sports car!"
"One megawatt sports car, what's that?" Asked Rio, same confused as Tetsuo.
"Yeah, that swedish 'Koni' One:1, the..." As he expected, Tetsuo immediately cut him, periodically until the next class. "Oh! Not that again, I told you many times : The Bugatti Veyron is the world's only fastes supercar, nothing would beat it anywhere, period! That thing..."
"Nice one, Shoji!" Rio to the giggling Shoji with clear annoyance said as he drop his face to the table as his hands lap over his hairs, then sigh, "Here we go again!" Rio muttered as Tetsuo continue bragging about the over 1000 horsepower supercar.
Shoji's giggle were stopped as he sunk back to the last time he saw Sonozaki, completely ignoring his 'Veyron Fanatics' classmate echoing non-factual stuffs to the entire classroom.
Just the day before that one she burst outraged to Tetsuo for not bringin their group homework like a cheetah ready to rampage it's rivals.
He was sitting on the grandstand, wore his sports uniform among many other boys and girls whose applying for athletic academy following their graduation. He, like Sonozaki, are among many students around him that volunteer to be sprinter, and he were qualified above average score certainly proceed to the athletic school and to be one, around him were other test participants, either all boys and few girls whose already done many tests and qualification runs or few boys whose not yet done it and prepared for it with mostly girls whose prepared for the next shift after the boys turn, some were same to him or far higher, others were right or few marks lower average and requires additional more works, liable to be or not to be, and few are those who scores far below the average numbers and lagging behind the others, not to be.
Loud pop were heard from the track surrounding the soccer field, there were the school's coach and six girls just dashed forward, their everyday expressive looks were turned to some kind of war face as they running as fast and as manageable as possible to be not only the fastest on the current session, but to lower the chance of them exhausted too early. Among them were Minami whose Shoji glued for a a while, she's 3rd behind the two others as the merging six were coming to the first turn of the track, steadily she just pushed herself further, she's back out to the straight track right before the others, then, midway to the last turn, Minami fall down hard.
It was all black, everything she saw were nothing but pitch darkness.
"It's okay, Sonozaki! I'm sure you could find a better option ahead!"
The pitch black were shoved away quick as she rise up her downed head veiling her anger with her arms on the table and gazed to her classmate Kamiya, "Yeah, right! Might be a drug dealer or bank robber, my only way to escape these transgressions were snap away, I don't know where else to go!" She complained before she sunk down her head under her arms again. Three other girls were there, all still worn their sports uniform, and likely to continue to be except for Kamiya whose scores a point of not to be, their joy were lost once they came to the locker room to find her mourning over her physical conditions.
"Heh! I loved your sarcasm, Minami!" Kamiya too remarked.
She rise her head up and look out the scenery of the city outside the school, ignored the people in the same classroom gazing all the time to her after her raging roar to Tetsuo had attracted lots of people in and even out of the building.
Medic has sees it, her Achiles Tendon has ruptured, a typical curse for sprinters, learnt from science classes, recovery of it would either be twelve or sixteen months, no sequel for her future, all hopes were nonexist for her anymore.
Kamiya was right, but now she were really tired of it all and decided that its best to think about her plan after graduation at home, wether it'll be recover her legs, accepting herself for office work, or even seriously became a bank robber, she saved it for now and just stare the city outside, see if there's something interesting about to pass by, particularly to the flyover highway, last year she observed it, for a lightning quick moment she's clearly glanced a blue Tricolore Pagani Huayra on the wild cruising among the traffic before vanished behind buildings, forever. But today, it's obvious that it's just a normal sighting she glanced everyday.
Break time were come when the bell ringed.
Sonozaki were on the school lawn under the shady trees, make herself alone from even her unaware friend Kamiya, whose sitted under the other nearby trees with her two class friends, the group were reviewing the previous tests, sharing papers and things, she just ignore them and open her smartphone hooking up with automotive blog while having a small lunch of a hamburger, thick of meat and two layers cheese, a bottle of mineral water were laid besides her, she has eight minutes before the next class starts, so she just calmly consume her meal. Every bites devoured into her were more of what just she had in the class be forgotten, and then, all around her school were snapped off her world as she gazed to the online video of the latest street racing footage at the faraway forest road, and that faraway forest road, as per videos info, were at the america's Redview County, the clip shows a silver AMG GT rammed the rear of the local police SRT Viper sending it to crash to a Ford Transit and barrel rolled twice until it stopped upside down, then an unlucky street racer, driving what looks like to be a Pagani Zonda C12 with Tricolore style dark blue coloration with yellow stripes and wheels, rammed the wrecked police interceptor, hitting right to the position people would called the cop car to be 'T-Boned' at 140 MpH, the other pursuer, the Black Lexus LFA with white stripes emblazoned on each sides marked the Japanese Supercar as the county's Enforcer vehicle, managed to swerve around the crash and going after the AMG car, "Waah!" She silently gasped, she were not sure wether its real or sureal.
"Sonozaki!"
Her eyes went larger due to shock as someone called her, there, to her right from where Kamiya still conversing with her classmates, were her class monitor Rena Suginami, walking to her, putting a poker face, she glad that Rena called her in low enough voice so as nobody even noticed her there. "What is it?", "You were watching a street racing videos again, Minami!", Minami frozen, but she did not panic, in fact she looks relent when Rena knows it, "I'm warning you, Minami! You don't want Sensei Kawanishi caught you watching those again, at least not within this school, because he said I would get the toll too since he caught me many times settle all ruckus that wasn't your fault you've always heightened up!" Rena said before she left Minami alone again. Her voice were still low to get nobody's attention but Sonozaki herself, but it were stern as well, and she's intimidating with that unexpressive face behind her contact lens.
"Street racing videos?" Kamiya baffled.
Which she share to her two friends, "Well, I'll admit it. She's a bit weird...well, I'd say she's weird, but...street racing? She's into street racing?", "Well, you hear yourself what Rena just said to her, Kanako!" The other replied to have the girl Kanako to frown and look to the lonesome Minami many times, "But she doesn't have any looks of so, in fact I don't think she can drive a car!", Kamiya somehow thought a bit deep about it.
Her little anger deep within were quickly switched to compelling compassion remembering all things that was someones first fire she tried made to major war. She took another bites of her hamburger as she looked to her class monitor whose goes into the building, then she saved the video before she closed the blog, and right as she done it, her phone vibrated.
"Ladies supposedly not to drive themself anyway, that's what a man for!"
Ashinoko Touge Battle
15:22:11_
With that in mind, she stuffed her phone to her black 55DSL jacket and continue finish her Ramen.
Gotemba, Shizuoka
09.00
Ashinoko Skyline, a twisty narrow course sitted west side of the Ashi lake, perfect place for hiking, perfect place for cycling, perfect for camping, and it's also perfect for driving, provided to have a good weather, or be as wise as possible when runs on night as several roads had no lightings at all but a small LEDs on guardrails and along the lane, illuminate at even the slightest presence of light so whoever drives around would not bumped in midnight accidents.
"Hmm?" Someone mumbles besides her, stood with pair of white sneakers, wearing white silk skirt lengthen right below her knees mated with gray jeans jacket over the red shirt, her hair were short with split on the left side with her face she recognize as the actress Ryoko Hirosue, looked to her intently as there's really an intention or two.
"You're Minami, right? Sonozaki Minami?" The woman asked, "Eerrr...sumimasen, but I don't know who are you", "It's me, Suzuki! The FTO you beat last night!" She whisper, Minami's eyes went larger for a moment, "Oh, I remember!". Eventually, Suzuki sit opposite of the table and conversations were started.
"I knew i've seen you before, remember you're riding with Kenzo when he's racing over the Rainbow Bridge? I...err...Yes, i forgot when!", "Yeah i remember that, pretty much the little ingredients that take me here!" Sonozaki smiled, it was snap moment when the two eventually get close together, started with the race almost a year before. How cool it was to drift the loop upward before the Tokyo Rainbow bridge out of Minato-Ku.
She were amazed with Kenzo's hands movement, she were riding in the gray Subaru BRZ, it is a home grown sleeper, as it now getting closer to the tail of no. 2s orange Panamera 4S, "Impossible!" The suit man driving the sports coupe gasped as he sees his rear mirror, compared to the lower price tag coupe he now up against, his car were slower when making turn, the BRZ went so fast that it was already passed him right side and onto the long highway straight, right along the pole sitter gloss white 2004 Aston Martin DB9 with a wide body kits (Same used by Wolf NFS C), again, it taking surprise out of everybody either driving beside him or at the open PA under the highway near the Tokyo Tower. The BRZ were about to enter an exit road out of the high way first, takes the win clean, before the phone ringed.
She took the phone to see herself received ping on her AllDrive.
The ping had led her to an empty construction area south of the Hakone mountain overlooking the beach, late 80s to 90s Nissans or BMW coupes either E36 or E46, some X100 Chaser sedans, hatchbacks, SUVs and some Minivans had gathered already there, the construction place were quite a venue with several roads aready made fitting for drifting with various layouts they could make, it's unclear for her why this place isn't continued. When Sonozaki looked to her Swatch watch, it's 21.40, not long after the sun has down among the mountains. She could hear rumbles of engine revs from the evercoming street racing cars here, it was all just like a typical JDM meets. Until she heard a louder engine growl somewhere, which when she looked around, the sound comes from two just visiting Porsche 911s, "Wonderful!" She muttered in awe, astonished with the sighting of a sky blue 911 GT3 R distincted with it's straight rear wing that colored red which same applied to the four wheels and side skirts stripping, following it were a white Carrera model by the void of the rear Downforce aids behind the rear mirror, two orange stripes were run from the tail lights all the way to the front boot door, the wheels were simple silver which she can't tell the model like the former, probably some BBS model she thought, "Wow, they're dangerous, be careful with them!" Suzuki whispered to Minami to which she nod.
"Now is the time!" Someone said by the walkie talkie, several of them then left north with many others stay as they were with their own drifting shows, and currently the only and closest place they could relieve it together.
Hakone, Kanagawa
00.00
She were sit alone, on the driver seat of her own Facelift 180SX carry her north of Ashi lake, which sits just on her left, nobody inside the car but herself and her Smartphone with the tingling tune of western rock (Gary Numan - I am Dust).
Roads before her were dark with some little lights shone before her, it was very illuminous only when they passed resting areas or villages, ocassionally few cars were running opposite to where they headed. Driving before the purple S13 Nissan weren't just the Honda Odyssey and three hatchbacks of two aqua blue Toyota Aqua and a plain metallic red Volkswagen Polo with WRC wide bodykits and wing carrying spectators which were many of other youths gather to watch the race, the other one after it is a typical white top and black low Corolla AE86 Trueno typically used by drifters worldwide, Typically too it has Carbon Hood that modeled not differ to the stock one, pretty much like the version to Suichi Shigeno one trademarked in various entertaintment shows. Then after it were two 991 series Porsche 911s, to be exact is a white 911 R with its distinct two orangish red stripes, then a sky blue 991 GT3 RS with red checkered stripes along the sideskirt with matching red BBS RK wheels and red straight wings like the 997 version of the same model, she knows it because they were at the RV (Rendezvous) near the beach after herself, parked close to each other which from it Minami nearly mistaken the former to Carrera 911 until she noticed they were both has same length when they parked side by side. As she drives the night like nothing happened just yet, she could hear a wailings to her left, far on the otherside of the lake, "Yeah, that's the Olympic Gettho Derek, he's struggling so much, I don't think his Audi can do it the way Takuya do!", the chatter lives up through her 'AllDrive', "Unbelievable! That Kanjozoku guy win it here! Hahaha...Uhh...ah there he is!". Her App pinged again.
Yo_VTak-Uya - Honda Integra (DC2) Type R
DerekdaKlutch - Audi TT RS
The only two list were topping the winner, the Honda driver, bested the Audi. Very funny name she sees it, live to the westerns stereotypes with hilariously underestimating quote "VTech Kicked in Yo!", and It seems this...Takuya person just Kicked it In, she just couldn't keep her laughter, but then again nobody knows it as she's not connected for chat. Until her phone got ping again, "Next up! I want that Kenzo's chick to go up next!" A boy radioed, her phone were green on top of the screen, which means she could talk, or rather must talk, "Alright...errr..." She stopped her words to think something, then she sighed, "You know what, bring me whoever you guys want!" She simply said. It was all silent from all channel.
"Let's talk about it when we get to the park, shall we!" Simply a woman settled it down.
"Which park?" One asked, "An observation park, it's a bit further north of the lake!"
They eventually gathered again on the said area, it's north slightly deeper of the lake itself, an open for public sighting place where pretty much everybody roam it around to sit on some benches having conversation or late dinner or see the mountains or the lake itself, even if it's so dark that they cannot see pretty much of the lake anyway. Sonozaki were closing the driver door and just stand for a while watching the crowds, to her left were pile of large rocks decorating the recreational spot and the parking lot, in front of her car were a white Toyota Celica SS-II Sports M tuned by TRD, evident by the beige five spoke wheels, it's rearing her, she could see the TRD's signature badge on the boot beside the taillights, the only thing that was not originated from the TRD, as she ever actually visited Tokyo Auto Saloon way back then, was the slightly large titanium exhaust with that bluish mark on the tip. Eventually, the SS-II owner comes out, and to see who is this person was is quite mind nerving, she was in black tank top and blue hotpants, her brown colored hair were neatly banged behind her head, and Minami even had to admit, eventhough this lady is slightly older look, she's...hot, and...she has the look anywhere not here in japan.
Probably she assumes.
The woman looked to the car behind her and it's owner, when she looked to both, she just completely lost in words, her poker face were both admired the S15 Facelifted Sileighty with it's non-Wide body kits, all excluding the rear CF wings and bonnets crafted by Chargespeed. "Hmm..." She just nod her head acknowledging the built, she then stared to Minami, then smiled, "Wow, you made it through here! I've seen you before, it convince me more that it's not just all down to luck upon you afterall!", "Err...Thank you! By the way, you know my friend Kenzo?", "Heh...He's notorious driver, there's always people sought him. Now it's you whose he passed his menacing ability, you should be grateful!" she smirked, "Why, yes, thank you! You race?", "Not tonight, i've come with these guys and they say they had it with me grabbing the winds for the week...well...it's me whose always run the show until he comes up to spoil the party!" The SS-II driver chuckled remembering many things that even Sonozaki herself yet to hear. It was quite a long ties building chatter until the girl gasped, "Oh, I forgot! The name is Sophie..eerrr...Belle Sophie, just call me Sophie!" The SS-II owner introduced herself, "Wow...that is...awkward, we talk a lot until we forgot to tell who we were beforehand, huh? Hahahah" Minami's hand covered little giggler were stopped as a vehicle comes to them.
Showing up before them were a White and Black Toyota Corolla Trueno AE86 that driven long before, it goes to standing right face to face with the TRD Celica, the particular AE86 has only a Noise Bomb sticker close the door mirror on each side, top of the windshield were another white 'Hoonigan' and a rather hilarious 'truecraigcrew', the owner must be a fan of Ken Block she thought she assume on the later sticker. "Ahh! Tetsuo!". Minami gasped when Sophie mentioned that name, it's an obvious Deja Vu for her to many past she just left behind as she comes here, then it's just washed out quickly and rather awkwardly, the Tetsuo person were someone else, and without any intention or anything, Minami let out sigh of relieve. "Always have ways to agitate people, are you?!" Belle said to the skinny balding man like a monk, in the gray 55DSL hoodie sweater on top of the black tights and white Converse hitting the tarmac, "I didn't know girls like you favored an old school Hatchback like i had here!" He were paused when she sees the other younger girl, Minami looked to his car without any ability to wether be impressed or disgusted, as she sees the Chameleon wheels. A Hachiroku with chameleon wheels she thought her self?. Sophie glanced to the little girl before she said to him, "Nice, Tetsu! Another one you just pissed around!", "Well...uu...Indirectly!" He funily defended, he just shrug. Then he meet Minami's eyesn "So this is the little girl people talk about?", "Heh...Little girl!?", "Sorry...uu...habit of me, assuming peoples age blantantly, didn't meant to...", "Funny is you call me 'Little'..." She coughed tries to held her laughter, "You were tall!" Minami retort hearing him called her 'Little Girl', not she is offended or anything, more like as she said it's just surprised her just how tall this Tetsuo was, maybe like Usain Bolt, the man just shrugged. Minami walked closer to this odd Hachiroku, inspect everything she can see, "Uuhh...well, the Hachiroku...err...chameleon wheels?", "Just like Sophie said, I...err..Riced it a bit just to agitate people looking to it! Hehe!" He explain a little, Well no wonder I had no idea what to feel about it she thought. The hatchback, apart the Riced orangish pearlescent five spokes TRD Wheels just to piss of his friends, rest of the car were pretty much a native drifting style from the land of Rising Sun, a simple yet boomed appearance to many Trueno AE86 owners around the world.
"You know what?", both Minami and Tetsuo looked to Sophie, she called upon her Walkie Talkie, "Let's we spare Kawamori-san with Sonozaki-chan here, what you boys and girls say to that?"
(Static) "Hell, yeah! Get them to the track right away!"
(Static) "Yeah, absolutely! That would be fantastic!"
"So...I race tonight!" Tetsuo had already excited, "Stakes?" Sonozaki asked, "Nothing, Minami, just points, you need it to get to Osaka!" Belle replied simply, "Okay then, Ashinoko Skyline, let's do it!" Tetsuo Kawamori immediately gone back to his car, people around them were yelling in excitement, they were already placing their bets as the two classic sports cars take off the park, Sophie just stared the two taillights until they disappeared out of here eyes, she get back inside her own car and switch on the central screen, from there is how she could monitor the race.
Tetsuo Kawamori - Toyota Corolla (AE86) Trueno GT-S Apex
Minami Sonozaki - Nissan 180SX (S13) Type S
"Oh, No!" Sonozaki whispered as Tetsuo whose she followed braked before her, he turned his car left following the corner ahead, she kept follow him, now she just can't calm herself down when she yelled 'Oh No!, "I've never been to Ashinoko Skyline!" She admited herself as she drive right onto the race track, now she feels so silly to it.
The race is, as always, on the next chapter, feel free to Review and leave a Fav!
It's been a long time, by the way, damn long time, eh? Well, habits of watching Documentaries which resulted in shifting of my interest, from cars to something else. Then when i got it shifted back to cars, i just wasting times watching Engineering Explained on Youtube and checking .com (Okay, you all know the drill, i don't own those! I'm obvious stupid anyway!), then comes this new AC7 trailer which completely hooked me back to Fighter Airplane stuffs quite much that i also sometimes were writing AC fics at the same time, that's why it's been this damn long.
Damn late Disclaimer : I don't own all of the existing characters that i put in this fic, such ass Neville, Mia, Nikki, Darius, and others whose to come at later chapters, are all belonged to EA, which i just simply spiced up their personalities on my accord. This include tuner names like Chargespeed, BN Sport, Origin Labs, FEED, and many many more to come, those mentioned company name were not endorse this stuffs i write.
This include...Hergh'ermm...'truecragcrew', YT subscribers sure know, right?
Well, hope you guys and gals liked it, thank you!