-Chapter 6: The Fangs
Disclaimer: Decent amounts of violence this chapter, Sugou finds justice, and the Wolf Brigade go through their final test. So some intense stuff, read at your own disclaimer.
Kazuto hugged Klein instantly, the brown haired young man smiling.
"K-Klein. I'm so happy to see you." The teen said hugging him tightly.
Klein nodded, "Glad to see you too kid." He saw the bruises over his body.
"They got you good huh?" Klein asked letting his SMG hang at his side, kneeling to talk to him, "Don't worry man, we got a doctor back at camp."
"Camp?" Kazuto asked, "What're you talking about Klein?"
"My name's not Klein, Kirito. It's Tsuboi Ryoutaru. Call me Tsu."
"My name's not Kirito, Tsu. It's Kazuto."
Tsu smiled, "Still snarky as always huh? Good to see you haven't changed since SAO. This is my friend, you might know him from Aincrad too. Agil, whose real name is Andrew Mills."
The dark skinned young man removed his bandanna, "Good to see you Kirito. I-I mean Kazuto. Call me Drew."
Kazuto smiled, "Same here man."
Drew looked at the teen lying on the ground, "Can you walk man?"
The black haired boy nodded, "Yeah. Help me up though."
They helped their friend stand up and Kazuto limped to the street from the alleyway.
As he walked Kazuto asked Tsu, "So why don't you guys go by your in-game names?"
Drew responded, "The government kept tabs on every one's gamer tags. If we went by those names, it'd just let them find us easier when the rebellion breaks out for real."
Kazuto looked at the tall abandoned building, with the bell tower adorning it.
"We were right across the street waiting for those three assholes to move so we could nab them." Tsu said walking up the steps to the building.
Drew rapped on the old wooden door to the building four times.
A tiny slit opened two eyes peering out, "What's the password?"
Tsu rolled his eyes, "You saw us leave camp Kai, open up."
"Nope." The man said.
"Kai, open this door now." Drew said coldly.
"Not even close." He said looking at Kazuto bleed.
"We've got wounded here, c'mon man."
"Just say the password." Kai said.
Tsu sighed, "Dwarf cocks."
Kai giggled and opened the door.
They walked past him, and Drew explained quickly, "The only reason we let him join is because he's good with explosives. Not bad with a rifle either."
Tsu nodded, "Hey Nishida!"
The kindly old man emerged from his room, rubber gloves on his hands, "Ah! Kirito, it's so good to see you!"
Kazuto shook Nishida's hand, feeling the waxy rubber material under his palm, "It's Kazuto sir."
"Hey doc, patch him up I gotta go get a drink." Drew said walking off.
"Sure thing, come inside young man." Nishida said leading him inside the small infirmary.
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Kazuto looked at Nishida draw his aid kit from sitting on the infirmary bed, "Since when are you a doctor?"
"Well." The old man said drawing antiseptic, "I went to medical school for years and was about to graduate before I dropped out last second. Then I got into networking and met you in SAO."
Kazuto looked at him, "How've you been Nishida?"
"I've been all right. Lift up your shirt please." He asked his cleaning rag ready.
Kazuto lifted his sweatshirt and black tank top, wincing as the old man applied the cleaning agent.
Nishida wrapped the bandages around Kazuto's chest speaking, "Those bastards don't deserve to be called soldiers. Soldiers have honor, only a dog would beat a helpless boy in an alley."
Kazuto looked at his weathered face, remembering Teizen, "Some soldiers can still have honor."
The old man shook his head, "I'm assuming you have a friend in the army?"
"I guess. He told me how Asuna was doing, that was one of the nicest things anyone's done for me."
"Doesn't matter." Nishida said dismissively, "Given the right order, he'll shove a bayonet through your eye."
Kazuto stayed silent as the medic tightened the wraps around his torso.
"How does it feel?"
The teenager checked his chest, it was cleaned expertly, "Great, thanks Nishida-sama."
"Perfect." The medic said, "I gotta clean up that face of yours, can't having you go around looking like you've just gone through a beating."
He applied cleaning agents to Kazuto's face, making sure to limit the bruises.
"That should do it." Nishida said passing him a mirror, "Here."
The teen looked into his reflection, seeing all but a couple bumps removed, "Damn, you would've made for an amazing doctor."
"Thank you."
Kazuto put down the mirror, "What is this place?"
Nishida stood up and put away his medical supplies, "Go talk to Tsu, he'll explain everything."
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Tsu looked at Kazuto emerge from the infirmary, and Tsu looked at him, "You look beautiful. Beautiful."
"Klein, what is this place?"
"It's Tsu!" The young brown haired man sighed, "Anyway, come with me. I'll show you."
As they walked up the stairs, Kazuto saw the details of the interior of the building as Tsu explained, "This used to be an old concrete cathedral, before it was abandoned of course."
Kazuto passed a couple of rooms with young men inside, smoking and playing cards, guns sitting next to them on their cots.
Men, and a few young women wearing bandannas and tan trench coats were lying about wooden benches, chatting lightly as Tsu and Kazuto walked down the narrow hallway.
"There are many floors here, so its spacious enough for several people. Its roomy and dusty, but we cleared out all the rats and spiders and stuff ages ago."
Kazuto caught up to him, after lagging behind a little, "But wait, you still haven't explained what this place is for! Why are there armed people around here?"
Tsu looked at him, "I'm getting to that. About two months ago, Yuuki Shouzou and a few other pissed off businessman got together and discussed Japan's future. Most were angry because they'd invested heavily in the VR MMO industry, which Yashiro just banned. So they came up with a plan to oust him from power, and replace him with the old government in an armed uprising."
They passed a couple men smoking by a window and kept walking up the stairs.
"They set up a trust fund under the code name: Kozo Credit Corporation, which was really a huge bank account to fund the rebellion. Now at this point we were all still stuck inside SAO, so we knew nothing about this. But a small handful of players were selected to be asked if they wanted to join the uprising."
"When I woke up from the game, I was asked by a couple suits if I wanted to be part of their operation. At first I refused, but after seeing how oppressive and cruel Yashiro's regime was, and how they controlled the media and the web like communists, I accepted."
"So, after my rehabilitation, I joined. Then I was told to come here and start training, I met Nishida and his assistant Asuo, and obviously Drew."
"Wait so, this place is like a secret base?" Kazuto asked.
Tsu opened the door to the roof, where there was a ton of men and women milling about, the large bell sitting from its post. A couple of men with sniper rifles sitting next to the ledge.
Drew sipped his beer before waving Tsu over from the bar, "Hey Tsu! Come over here and have a drink with me."
Tsu walked over to Drew sitting down cracking open a beer, laying relaxed on a white pool lounge chair.
The foreigner passed Tsu his beer and the young man sipped it, "Ahh…"
Tsu laid down on the white chair next to Drew, who put his feet up and watched Tokyo glitter below with him.
Kazuto's eyes widened, "Wait, so you guys are the rebellion?"
Drew smiled before sipping his beer, "In the flesh baby."
"Awesome." Kazuto said looking around, "So are all of you guys SAO players, or are there just regular people here too?"
"Naw," Tsu said, "About half are people who showed up saying they wanted to join. Yashiro pissed off all of them in one way or another. Drew here, has a serious bone to pick with our good friend Yasshy."
The foreigner nodded, "Damn right I do. My bar was running fine until he started putting up all these new alcohol taxes in my area. Now I can make a living selling beer to my friends, and fighting to remove him from power."
Kazuto checked his watch, "Uh guys, my mom is going to get super scared if I don't get back home."
"Yeah sure, just check in with Kai before you leave." Drew requested.
"You won't tell anyone about us right?" Tsu asked.
Kazuto nodded, "Definitely, see you later!"
"Bye!" Tsu said putting his beer down and resting his hands behind his head.
..
Kai looked up from cleaning his rifle, "Oh, heading out?"
Kazuto nodded to the short red head.
"All right then, stay safe."
The Wolf Brigade stood in a perfect formation, their iron discipline keeping them like statues as Teizen addressed them.
"Men! You have all exceeded my expectations. You mastered use of the Wolf Suits, and are hardened for combat. You have almost completed your training. However there is one final test."
The men raised their eyebrows.
What could that be?
Teizen wolf-whistled and forty three puppies emerged from the storage room yipping happily.
The soldiers watched as their sergeant lifted one puppy by the scruff of his neck and pressed his pistol to his neck, high so the unit could see.
BLAM!
Teizen tossed the body of the dead puppy to the ground, and said, "Now its your turn."
"Your final test is to end the lives of these dogs. When you've finished, we'll march out."
The soldiers hesitated shocked, but then they stood up straighter and saluted.
"YES SIR!"
The went about the camp, grabbing the shaking puppies in their hands, and smashing them against the wall.
Teizen smiled as his men executed their objective, they were abandoning their weakness this way.
The puppy squealed as one soldier shot it down without a second thought.
Soon, the entire training camp was littered with dead puppies, the Wolf Brigade standing to and saying robotically, "ORDERS COMPLETED SIR!"
Teizen nodded, "Very good... You've all abandoned your weaknesses, I sense only strength and cold hard discipline in you, and you are ready to be killers. NOW WE MARCH!"
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CLOMP
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The Wolf Brigade marched in two perfect line of two men across, twenty two men deep, across the pavement.
Teizen was in front, his Wolf Mask adorned with his yellow Sergeants line across the forehead of his mask.
They were all wearing their Wolf Armor, it glinted in the sun as they marched down the street in perfect order, their machine guns hung on their shoulders.
None moved out of pace, their armored boots cracking the pavement as they marched loudly.
Twenty ravenous German shepherds skipped behind them, baring their teeth at anyone who looked suspicious.
The populace went inside their homes, watching as the men marched like robots almost, peeking out from their windows.
Teizen smiled from under his wolf mask.
I can't wait until the rebels emerge from their cowardice.
So I can mow them down like the weaklings they are.
The Wolf Brigade was only at the front of the parade.
Hundreds of soldiers marched behind them, as newly trained recruits marched off to their posts, tanks rolling down the street with them.
Shinichi fixed his glasses and watched from the window, "My god..."
The seven teenagers watched as the whole military procession marched down the street towards their junctions, hearing the soldiers boots from their school.
Suguha gripped her brother's sleeve in fright as Rika clutched her collar nervously.
Asada looked in disgust as Kyouji did as well.
Keiko squeaked nervously, "Is this...is this our country now?"
Kazuto and Keiko were frightened but then Kazuto stood up and spoke.
"There's a church I want to take you all to."
Teizen looked up from his post, watching his roadblock standing between two districts.
It had two long short concrete walls running in two directions, with two opening in the center for soldiers to enter.
The soldiers filed in marching, before dispersing to set up camp at the roadblock.
Two men wearing white lab coats walked up to Teizen.
"Sergeant Kouwahaka?"
Teizen nodded.
"Hello, we're to be your unit's medical specialists we-"
"What're you doing here for, talking to me?" The Sergeant said quickly removing his mask, "Go! Help set up camp!"
He smiled as he felt his phone ring.
Teizen answered, "Moshi moshi."
"Teizen-sama! He's here! Help!"
Teizen smiled deeply.
My prey...
...
Teizen kicked the door open, seeing Asuna covered in scratches.
"Where is he!?" The soldier yelled.
"He...he left..."
Teizen ran to the window seeing a man in a suit walking to his car.
That must be him.
Sugou opened the door to his apartment, seeing a soldier in his doorway.
"What the hell? Who're you?" Sugou asked.
"You're about to find out..." Teizen said stretching before sending his fist into the man's face.
The soldier walked inside the apartment, closing the door behind him.
Teizen looked at him on the ground and spoke, "You seem like a pretty handsome guy. I like beating up good looking people, it makes their beating all the more fun as I can bust their faces open."
He kicked him in the face, his boot hitting the suit's face so hard teeth flew out from his mouth.
Sugou coughed, "P-please. Stop, I'll give you anything you ask for..."
The soldier didn't respond, ignoring him completely, before saying, "Stand up and fight me."
Sugou staggered as he stood up.
"Hurting someone feels nice doesn't it? Here, punch me in the face. Go on." Teizen said offering his cheek,
Sugou threw a punch, but Teizen caught it and threw him inside his own bathroom.
The suit's head hit the porcelain bathtub loudly, dazing him.
Teizen entered his bathroom with a wolfish smile on his face, as Sugou asked him.
"How're you so strong?..."
The soldier leaned on the wall of the bathroom and smirked, "I've been doing military training since I was 10. So for 6 years I've been doing Judo, Jiu Jitsu and other forms of combat. You on the other hand probably hasn't hit the gym in the past decade."
Teizen looked around the apartment, "This is a nice place, you must be rich. I always wanted to beat the piss out of a rich man."
He kept talking, "This bathroom doesn't seem like it has a lot of weapons on hand, but let me show you what it has hiding."
Teizen ripped off the long metal bar that held up towels from the wall and said, "For instance right here, I've got a baseball bat."
He put it up to Sugou's forehead and said, "Rookie all-star Kouwahaka steps up to the plate and waits for the ball to come."
"Here comes the pitch."
"POW! AND HE KNOCKS IT OUT OF THE PARK!" Teizen yelled as he hit the metal bar over his head as hard as he could sending his glasses flying.
Sugou crumpled back to the ground as the soldier stood over him, hitting him with with his new baseball bat.
Teizen hit him a couple times to the temple before saying, "I watched all the clips of you touching my friend Asuna. Looks like you deserve to be shamed too."
"NO! PLEASE! I BEG OF YOU!"
Teizen as usual ignored his cries and went into full mount position, dominating the man completely.
He ripped off his clothes mercilessly, smiling as he cried.
Sugou was almost completely naked, the soldier was kind enough to let him retain some dignity with his underwear.
"I-I'm so sorry." The suit said, "What I did was wrong. I've learned my lesson."
Teizen gripped the suit's face, and said smiling, "Who decides that huh? Me."
Teizen picked up the single edge razor blade Sugou used for shaving his face and looked at it, "Fine little blade. I wonder how much pain you'll suffer under it."
Sugou shrieked as Teizen passed the blade across his chest, cutting deep enough to inflict some serious pain.
The business man saw the long red lines that now sat on his chest and looked at the soldier, "What I did was wrong, but that doesn't make this right."
Teizen shrugged, "This is just training for me. I'm gonna murder soon, so I better start getting mentally prepared for that."
Teizen dug the blade into the mans stomach, passing it cleanly across as Sugou screamed in pain.
It was music to Teizen's ears. He loved hearing the weak scream, Japan only deserved the strongest in her country. He was weeding out the weak currently.
Teizen stood up and gripped the metal bar, "Don't shit yourself from the pain."
He smacked the metal bar in his face, crushing Sugou's nose.
"Damn that feels nice." The soldier admitted, "Scream louder please."
He wailed the metal pole now smothered with blood onto his chest, hearing his ribs crack under it.
Teizen went to work, beating him senseless, hearing squelching sounds each time he struck.
Teizen wriggled his foot in the air, "My boot is getting jealous of my new baseball bat. It's his turn."
His strength was wielded purely for sport, to inflict pain, each time he kicked him, he smiled further, Teizen nodded.
"My men are the strongest wolves you'll see. Looks like you're gonna get the fangs of the whole pack." He said baring his teeth.
Teizen giggled loudly as he went back into mount position digging his teeth into Sugou's neck, feeling his blood-vessels pound in his mouth.
Sugou was barely holding on, the pain being set on him was almost making him pass out.
Teizen stood up and grabbed Sugou's short brown hair, dragging him out of the bathroom while he cried.
Teizen was on Sugou's balcony, holding him over the guardrail in the air, clutching his heels.
Before he was dropped, Sugou yelled, "Wait! I have some information for you!"
"Yes?"
"I know where Kayaba is!"
"The mass murderer?" Teizen asked.
"Y-yes! He's living in some village in Sado, there! He's hiding from the government there!"
"Sado huh? Thanks." The Sergeant said, continuing to smile.
"Before I drop you, I'd just like to say thank you for this wonderful experience. The police will find your body and probably think all this pain was self inflicted, and then you went full suicidal and killed yourself."
"W-what?" Sugou asked.
Teizen sighed.
Do I really want my first kill to be in this apartment?
No, it should be on the battlefield. I want my first kill to be a rebel.
Teizen threw him on the balcony and said, "Look. Here's what's going to happen. If you go to the police and tell them how I beat you here, I'll just release tapes of you in Asuna's ward."
Sugou was shocked but Teizen smiled, "That's right. There was a camera recording you there, I had it planted a while ago to record the evidence. Now, I want you to toss yourself off this balcony, or I'll come back here and do it myself, got that?"
Sugou nodded.
Teizen walked back inside the apartment and found Sugou's phone.
It was crushed under Teizen's boot, and the soldier walked out, leaving Sugou to kill himself.
...
Sugou gripped the balcony guardrail, helping himself over it.
He was so weak from the beating, that he just rolled off it.
There was a knock at the door, Kai looked out and saw seven teens standing outside.
"What's the password?"
Kazuto sighed, "Don't make me say it Kai."
"Just do it."
"Fine. Dwarf cocks." He said as his friends looked at him.
Kai giggled, "Nope. I changed it."
"Well then Sugar Titties, I don't know." He said shrugging.
Kai bawled laughing and then opened the door wiping a tear from his eye, "Lucky guess."
As Kazuto walked into the stone church he explained quickly to his friends, "He always makes the password something gross."
As the seven teens walked into the church, Tsuboi and Drew looked at them from their game of cards.
"Hey Klein!" Kazuto hollered, "I've got seven able bodied volunteers for the rebellion right here for you!"
