Chapter 8 "The Infiltrator"
All original cast and characters of Urusei Yatsura belong to Rumiko Takahashi. I own only the OCs
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"Mendou family state, Shuutarou Mendou speaking. May I ask who is calling?"
A man, with a regal air about him, wearing a refined designer business suit and carrying a katana with his family crest, an octopus, had picked up the phone in a stately room with a majestic view of acres of field, all belonging to the middle aged man. His hair was slicked back with a slight greying out around the base of his head. This man was of course, Shuutarou Mendou, the one many would've called Ataru's rival...if he didn't actively take insult about that and if he didn't have a personal army at his disposal to silence any who do call him that. The Mendou's kept their great economic power with the passage of time, and Shuutarou himself had invested wisely to ensure that his family would continue to be a wealthy one. Yes, one could certainly call Shuutarou Mendou a successful man... however he had always one painful besmirch to his succesful record, the day the Oni princess had married the insufferable Ataru at long last, it was made even worse thanks to Ataru's decision to leave Earth, Mendou would not admit it, but Ataru was the closest thing he had to a best friend, even if most of the time they were at each others throats. Right now, Mendou casually wondered who was calling him today...
"Hello, Mendou-san?"
Only to be greeted by a familiar voice of his past.
"Shinobu-san! It's been ages since I've last heard of you!" This was true, when Ataru left Earth, many of the old gang drifted away. Mendou had heard that Shinobu had married and had a daughter, that the Gang of Four were teaching over in his old alma matter of Tomobiki High, that Cherry still scoured and raided people's fridges. Without the Oni princess or the Infamous letch, Tomobiki had quieted down...
"Oh hi, Mendou-san! How have you been in these years?"
"I cannot complain, though the economy has been in rough shape lately, the Mendou Conglomerate still stands strong. Hahahaha" The current head of the Mendou fortune jovially laughed.
"That's good to hear Mendou-san, but actually...I have a favor to ask of you..." Shinobu said, over the phone line, sounding...nervous.
"But of course, I will gladly help a dear friend from my youth! But I must ask, what is it that you need from me?"
"Yes...Umm..."
"Does your family still own a satellital surveillance system?" Shinobu asked uncertainly
"...Eh?"
A short time later...
"Now allow me to understand..." Mendou addressed the room, which had Shinobu and her family, Lum's former Stormtroopers, Cherry, and what was apparently a gang of wannabe-juvenile delinquents,all sitting on a rather large couch...not to mention the gaggle of foxes who curiously examined every inch and corner of the study quite amazed at seeing such an elegant and refined place for the first time in their lives.
"So...A young man named Ken Aoki-"
"Kenichi!" Came a collective correction from all the vulpine visitors in the room
"Err...yes, Kenichi Aoki, had been abducted by a UFO two days ago, am I correct?" Mendou synthesized the story
"If Cherry's witness account is to be believed then yes" Megane answered, adjusting his glasses.
"We were wondering if you could use any of your surveillance satellites to see if they got anything that could help us find him..." Shinobu pleaded, appealing to Mendou's chivalriousness.
"But of course we can!" Mendou snapped his fingers and instantly one of Mendou's personal guard delivered a laptop computer to his master. Mendou quickly sat down on his desk as behind him various panels (that the visitors had thought was a window) had flipped into a seamlessly large screen, which showed the Mendou family crest first and faded into a logo for the Mendou Conglomerate. "We had these installed after we invested in a small American research company, Overture Science or something like that..." He explained to all the amazed guests who merely gawked at the screen.
Mendou cleared his throat as the system initialized. "Ladies and gentlemen, and woodland creatures, I present to you the Mendou Intelligence Network!" The screen demostrated a 3D view of the Mendou Satellite Mk. 3, a logo of the M.I.N. appeared as the screen switched to a control panel with various readings on the current status of the satellite, recorded times of abnormalities recorded and a command window at the lower part of the screen, the main window kept the 3D view of the satellite, briefly rotating as it awaited commands.
"The Mendou Intelligence Network is a high grade satellite that allows us to not only monitor extraterrestrial activity, but also any activity back here on Earth. This includes any significant occurrence that might happen worldwide instantly." Mendou finished his overtly winded explanation of how his network worked, though most of the audience gave the typical 'ohs' and 'ahs', Minoru raised his hand questioningly. "How will this tell us what exactly happened to Ken? I doubt it got a good shot from up in space"
The billionaire man just smirked confidently. "That is why I'll connect to a street camera remotely." Mendou started to pace as he explained "You see, this satellite can not only take pictures of space and of Earth, but it can also connect to the Internet and connect to any public surveillance system. It can provide access to street surveillance cameras for example..."
Giving a few commands on the computer, the screen flashed showing the computerized interface for the satellite database. "Now all I have to do is enter the date, time and coordinates..." It wasn't long before an aerial scene of Tomobiki-cho appeared on the large screen behind Mendou, and flickered into a scene of a young man, running away from...
"A flying saucer!" All the teenagers, as well as all the kitsune gasped as one. Meanwhile Megane visibly deflated once he realized that spaceship was not Oni, but a different kind of spaceship all together. Usagi squinted her eyes, and instantly recognized Ken's trademark ponytail, it was true, that was Ken! "By the looks on your faces, It seems Cherry's story is true."
"Was there any doubt?" Cherry pointedly asked, merely to be met by the flat glares of everyone in the room, he blinked a couple times and poignantly sighed "...'tis fate..."
Mendou then noticed a warning message on his computer and promptly started typing some more commands. "Something wrong, Mendou?" Megane asked.
"It seems our sattellite had obtained some other significant footage but this time from around Earth's orbit..." The billionaire explained, as another screen showed up, this time one of an alien mother ship, ominously floating at a distance from Earth. Everyone stared at the video that was currently playing...when Minoru noticed something.
"Huh? What was that?" He asked. Everyone turned to him, Megane questioning the youth, with renewed hope "What was what?" He asked eagerly
"Didn't you guys see it? Rewind the video for a moment..." Mendou did so, also curious at what did the young boy see. After a few frames, Minoru spoke up again "THERE! Right there! Stop the video!"
Shuutaro stopped the video, and approached the screen of his laptop. The others could see on the larger screen a smaller, almost invisible yellow and black UFO, blasting out of the side of the larger space ship.
"Isn't there a way to amplify the image?" Natsu said, squinting to try to make out the shape of the unidentified, flying object. As Mendou did so, at first the image showed a bunch of undecipherable pixels, and quickly the image started smoothing over...once...twice...until the image became crystal clear. This time it was a tiger-striped spaceship blasting off the side of the larger ship. The teenagers stared at the image, tilting their heads. "A tiger-stripped UFO?" Bantarou asked the obvious. "That's a umm...interesting design." Souta added. "I suppose aliens have a lousy sense of style, right mom?" Usagi asked at her mother...only to see a haunting look on her face. Actually, all the adults had the same haunted look...Mendou stood up and turned towards the giant screen behind him, as if to make sure his eyes were seeing this correctly. The youths started to worry. The older folks started to stammer...
"Is that..."
"No way...it can't be..."
"I-I can't believe it!"
Megane stood, mouth agape, he grabbed his jaw and closed it shut, and as soon as he did this, his eyes watered. In a single instance he jumped towards the screen, landing flat on the image of the yellow and black UFO and he screamed from the bottom of his heart.
"LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! ! ! ! !"
A short while passed, and Megane was given some tea to help his system recover from the shock. The adults had now confirmed that at the very least, there was an Oni involved in all of this. Some of the older folks had decided to discuss the situation in a corner of the room while Megane and the children sat on the couch. Everyone discussed the next course of action.
Mendou kept a serious stare at the digital image of the flying saucer on screen. "At least now we know the Oni are involved, but we cannot say for certain that UFO belonged to Lum.." Shuutaro looked over at the rest of the adults, all nodding in agreement, Megane somewhat bitterly so. The younger crowd whispered amongst themselves. "Oni? As in 'In with good luck and out with the Oni' Oni?" Bantarou had asked, to him as well as to many in the world, this was the first they heard about 'Oni aliens'. "No way, it's gotta be a coincidence" Natsu commented but Minoru scratched his head unconvinced. "I don't know, maybe the Oni we hear in folk tales and legends are the same as the 'alien Oni'?" He suggested, everyone considering heavily.
Their elders kept a different discussion. "Is there any way to contact them?" Shinobu suggested, instantly the Gang of Four looked at Mendou expectantly. Megane nodding with excitement, as if to alter the answer by their friend.
"I'm afraid not..." Mendou bitterly answered "As advanced as we have come in the fields of telecommunications in recent years, to the point of reaching nearly anywhere on our world, we cannot transmit or receive any intergalactic signal as of yet." Everyone sighed dissapointedly, Megane even went as far as nearly deflating as he did so.
"However it's curious..."
"Huh...what is, Mendou?" Perm asked.
Mendou scratched his chin in contemplation..."Where have I heard the name Kenichi Aoki? I know it rings a bell..."
Bantarou's gang nearly fell over at hearing this, and inmediately started talking in a hushed tone amongst themselves. "Heard that?" Bantarou questioned to his loyal men, they all nodded. Minoru took word next. "To think that Usagi's mom is an acquaintance of the Mendou family..."
"And now Ken is apparently well known by these guys too..." Natsu added "I mean even if we don't count the aliens into all of this..."
"Ken is a real mysterious one, now that I think about it" Souta added his two cents to the conversation, this did not go unnoticed as seven of the eight foxes present stood ramrod straight and started sweating nervously, as if predicting what might happen next. Hikaru turned toward his sempais, slightly confused to their reaction, the conversation kept going as all this happened "I mean weird luck and alien abduction aside, of course." Souta commented "Yeah, first that demon-fox pops outta nowhere and becomes our most hated enemy..." this made the foxes ears twitch"...now he goes missing and a gaggle of foxes come to look for him..." Bantarou added to the recopilated facts so far. Usagi bit her lip overhearing the conversation and couldn't help but making the question on the minds of the all the teenagers in the room be vocalized "Just who is Ken really?" ...all except one.
"Kenichi Aoki is the most famous name in the world of martial arts..." A new voice had made itself known. Entering the room was a young man, in his 16 years of age, wearing designer clothes but of a more casual and modern fashion, a jacket and a silk shirt as well as a pair of designer class pants. He was quite attractive, as well as well groomed, with straight, smooth, shoulder-length black hair as well as stunning eyes, it bears to mention the young man was also carrying a katana blade by his waist. This youth was the current scion to the Mendou fortune. He looked oddly at the many foxes that stared back at him, not truly considering it all that odd, his family did own quite the collection of pet octopi, so what if other people chose other kinds of animals to keep as company the younger man considered, he made little note of all the other guests, focusing only on one person...
"Ah pardon me for not introducing myself..." The princely young man made a reverence and took Usagi's hand, ignoring all the other men in the room, as well as the adults. "My name is Shin Mendou, and it's a pleasure to meet you miss...?"
" *giggle* U-Usagi Miyake *blush*" Despite herself, Usagi couldn't help but fall for the regal and elegant man in front of her, currently being so courteous.
"Oh, I didn't know you had any children, Mendou-san" Shinobu noticing an oddly familiar scene developing infront of her. The older Mendou jovially laughed. "Hahahaha, well I suppose it's natural for you to be surprised. Both Asuka and I are proud of our son."
"Wait, you married Asuka? You don't mean the same Asuka Mizunokoji, the one that would go 'KYAAAA! A MAN!' at anything even remotely male, that Asuka?" Perm questioned out loud, even so far as to act her common reaction nearly all the male gender. To be frank, their memories involving the extremely naive, extremely strong, armored girl...well, they all involved pain to a big degree, but if anything she seemed like a lost case.
"Oh, you see, after my family helped pay a small fortune in therapies for Asuka overseas, she had finally been cured of her arrhenphobia(to some extent) some years ago and we were finally able to marry. Shin here is the product of our union."
"Oh..." It was surprising for Shinobu to know about this, if anything no one truly expected that Asuka would ever get over her fear of men, at least not as long as Ataru remained on the planet...Ah..So that was it. "Huh...that makes sense. I guess it must've gone much easier ever since Ataru left, huh?" She said, making sense of it all in hindsight.
Mendou merely nodded. "Yes, when they both left, our fair town returned into a sense of normalcy of sorts." He solemnly said, he couldn't help a small nostalgic feeling about the old days.
"Ah father, are these your guests?" The younger Mendou scion pointedly asked interrupting the trip down memory lane, Shinobu couldn't help but giggle at how incredible was the similarity between father and son, truly a son was a father's mirror...but maybe it's best to not to say that out loud, all things considered
"Yes Shin, these are friends from my high-school years. Treat them with respect. But you mentioned something about the Aoki boy just now, I take it you know more?"
Immediately Shin's expresion darkened and released Usagi's hand. "Yes, father. As I said, Kenichi Aoki is the most famous name in the world of martial arts..."
"Every fighter in the world knows him...and they all hate his guts." This had managed to catch everyone's attention. As Shin proceeded with his story, Shinobu and Usagi noticed the kitsune started fidgeting around, their reactions ranged from nervous fidgetting, to shamelessly innocent whistling, to deep embarrasment as some tried to hide their faces
"Umm...yeah, hey, howzzabout we concentrate on finding-?" Yoshi started to try and dodge the subject but was quickly shushed silent by Bantarou. Shin continued uninterrupted, wondering briefly who just spoke. "I take it no one's heard of the GMAC?"
"GMAC?" Everyone (but the kitsune) asked, Mendou slammed his fist on his open palm in realization. The kitsune silently hoped that this conversation would get interrupted or anything.
"The Global Martial Arts Competion, of course!" He explained, once hearing this everyone in the room paid close attention, the foxes were in sour luck. The former stormtroopers quickly recalled Hikaru mentioning something of the sort, but the little fox didn't go into much more detail, mainly because he honestly did not know much about the subject in specific. The other kitsune though, they were making signs to the Mendou heir to kindly 'shut up!' as it was, though they were pointedly ignored.
"A few years ago, there was a competition that involved our generation of fighters around the globe, it was at the final fight of the competition when it all occurred. If I recall correctly it was Shou Inoue of the Soaring Sparrow school of martial arts versus Kenichi Aoki of the Kitsune fist style. Aoki had defeated Inoue completely, but that's not all..."
"It's a nice story and all, handsome, but we really need to-" Chika tried to interrupt this time, only to be shushed by everyone in the room."SHHHHH!" Shin turned to the vixen, swearing he just heard her talk, Chika only looked to the side innocentlyhoping the younger Mendou would ignore her, when he finally turned, Chika let out the breath she didn't know she was holding.
"Well, I tried..." the nine-tailed vixen shrugged in defeat.
"...As I was saying, when Aoki was declared the ultimate fighter in the whole world, he did something unforgivable...he declared that he was retiring from martial arts altogether, and that he was stealing away the title of 'Strongest Fighter in the World' with him."
Everyone in the room stared at Shin, not truly understanding what he meant. The nearly all the kitsune sighed a quiet 'We knew it' as their collective heads dropped, only Hikaru exchanging worried glances between them. "Umm...Mendou-san..." Usagi hesitantly raised her hand. "What do you mean he stole the title?"
Yeah, from the sounds of it, he won it fair and square..." Souta commented, it was quite perplexing but apparently it was a big deal.
"You see, when he was awarded with the title, he said, and I quote: 'Since I'm the strongest in the whole world now, I'm gonna keep this title for the rest of my life. And to make sure no one can take it from me, I'm retiring as a martial artist, from this day forth, kon! !" Shin was starting to creep everyone out, so much so with how dead-on his impression of Ken had been. He quickly noticed the strange looks he was getting and composed himself instantly. Everyone was flabbergasted at this...but to a certain extent, the teenagers were capable of believing this to be true.
"So, Ken retired, just so no one else could get that title?" Minoru asked, verifying the nature of Ken's motive.
"Exactly" Shin said with a grim nod, his grip tightening on his sword.
"But couldn't they just hold another tournament and pick someone else to be the strongest in the world?" Kakugari asked, for him, this didn't quite seem like such a big deal.
"Of course they could, but since no one would be able to challenge Aoki officially, to many fighters it was pointless now." Shin explained. "Personally..."
"I HOPE THAT BASTARD ROTS IN HELL!" Shin yelled, chopping of the couch in front of him in half with his blade in a single Iai strike. Everyone gave him wide berth (those sitting on the couch squeezed to the sides of it, specially Minoru and Souta who had been sitting at different sides of the cut), staring at him nervously. The elder Mendou had recalled an important fact. "Oh that's right, you were looking forward to participate in the tournament the year after that one..." Shin quickly composed himself and gave a comforting hand to Usagi. "Please forgive me, I hope I didn't startle you Miyake-san." She in turn took his hand in hers and with a dreamy expression she said "Call me Bunny..." Minoru made a point of clearing his throat, loudly, saying sneakily "*cough* what about Ken?*cough*" Usagi blinked in surprise and quickly hid her hands behind her back, blushing brightly.
"Huh? Who's this Ken? Is it your boyfriend, Miss Usagi?" Shin asked curious, Usagi just laughed nervously. Minoru looked oddly at the younger Mendou.
"Actually, he's an...acquaintance of ours...We think that him, and Hmph!" Before Minoru could continue, Nobu climbed up behind his head and clamped his mouth shut with his paw, the kitsune sweating heavily and turning his head he made what could be called the best improvised ventriloquism act in history. "Ahehehehehe...kon, I meant that we think that he and Usagi might be dating, hehehehe." The seven tailed fox lied, receiving approving nods from nearly all his vulpine comrades (Hikaru was still confused as it was)
Shin looked seriously at the vertically-challenged teenager, as he processed this information. Standing up, and what with can only be described as a Machiavellian expression he said: "You don't say..."
"But still..."
He turned to his father. "Father, I do believe I'll be transferring into Tomobiki High shortly, do you have any objections?"
Mendou, the older one, scratched his chin contemplatively. It would be good for his son to study in his dear alma matter, if anything to forge character. "No, I think you will learn much in Tomobiki High."
"w-w-WHAT! ?" Megane yelled, standing up and spilling his tea. "No, I won't allow it! First that damnable Aoki and now your spawn, Mendou! ? No way! It will be the same story all over again! !" Megane marched, screaming at the billionaire, as Megane grabbed him from the neck of his suit. Mendou slapped his hand off, and instantly, his guards all surrounded the pitiful teacher all pointing swords at the bespectacled man.
"You make a mistake, Megane. My son and I are quite different, you'll learn soon enough." As he said this the had youths left the room. The kitsune all looked at each other and detecting a possible threat to their young master they all decided with a nod to follow the Mendou heir, Hikaru nearly falling behind as they all followed.
"I will gladly take you for a tour of my humble abode, Miss Usagi." Shin corteously made a reverence to the blond, skittish girl. Bantarous crew gave an annoyed and collective *AHEM*. The young scion stared at the four for a moment and finally said. "Your servants are welcome to follow, of course." The rich boy said amicably.
"Well, how very kind of yo-WHO THE HELL ARE YOU CALLING SERVANTS, PRETTY BOY! ?" Bantarou raged, a few seconds after the backhanded insult registered in his brain.
"*giggle* Are you really going to join our school, Mendou-san?" Usagi wondered completely ignoring Bantarou's banter, if it was up to her she would be more than happy.
"Oh? So you attend Tomobiki High, Miss Usagi. Well that certainly is a pleasant surprise." The chivalrous teenager gave a charming smile at the bunny-like girl.
"Oh Mendou~" Usagi blissfully answered
"Oh brother..." Bantarou groaned, just about having enough of this hammy romance. "That's it! Rich boy is gonna get his teeth kicked in." The leader of the gang started to crack his knuckles and made a (really lousy) martial arts pose "Huoyah!"
Shin didn't move, only the click of his sword unsheathing was heard, and in the blink of an eye, Mendou was re-sheathing his blade. As everyone wondered what had happened, Bantarou's school uniform had been sliced to ribbons! Even his undershirt had the japanese character for 'Shin'. His gang stepped away in fear while Usagi covered her eyes. As Mendou clicked his sword back in place, he said "Consider this a warning, 'friend'. While I have thousands of soldiers of my private army at my disposal, I am by no means a weakling. I am a true martial artist, be thankful I would never turn my blade to harm the weak."
"ARGH! W-Why you-?" Bantarou stammered trying to cover himself with the remnants of his clothes. "E-even if you defeat me, you'll still have to fight Tomobiki High's Kitsune!" Bantarou cried, ashamed to rely on his hated enemy to promise vengeance.
Shin turned away. "I'm counting on it. I've heard of a man nicknamed 'invincible' that hails from that school under that name, I wish to see if he lives up to the title." The four stared at the swordsman as he was about to leave, even Usagi was now considerably worried...whether she was worried for Ken or for Shin, no one could tell.
"Shall we go, Miss Usagi?" Shin said offering his hand to the blonde girl.
She looked at the offered hand, and blushing she took it. "All right, Mendou-san." The kitsune following her closely with Chika leading the group. "Ah, I forgot..." Shin said kneeling to the vixen, scratching her behind her ears, Chika of course didn't complain and actually wagged her tails at the treatment. "I've been meaning to compliment you on your refined pets, Miss Usagi"
Usagi for her part sweat-dropped embarrassedly. "A heh heh...umm, actually they're not my pets..." Shin blinked a little confused, but his confusion turned to shock as to what he heard next, in an alluring feminine voice no less.
"MmmMMmmm...a little to the left, handsome..." Chika sighed, immediately Shin jumped back shocked. "T-that fox! IT SPOKE!" Shin yelled, katana at the ready fearing it had encountered a real youkai.
"Hmph! And I was really enjoying that too..."Chika pouted, then in a puff of smoke, she turned into a very alluring, beautiful white haired woman, wearing a light-blue yukata. She walked towards Shin with an alluring gait. "You wouldn't hurt me with that big old sword now, would you?" Mendou faltered, blushing intensely at this attractive female, the only marks of her true identity were her tails and her ears. The other males (human and kitsune alike) blushed hotly at this display, Hikaru even covering his eyes. Shin started chuckling goffily, when all of the sudden he was struck upwards the head by a stone octopus statue, all while only hearing the battle cry:
"MEN BE DAMNED!"
"GAH!"
Shin crumpled to the floor unconcious as Chika couldn't help but giggle to herself. "My my my, young men are always so fun! Hohohohohoho!" The men blinked confused, as they saw Usagi glaring at the prone form of Shin muttering something like 'men are all the same'.
Hina jumped and bonked her sempai with her proverbial frying pan. "Chika-sempai, must you always do this to every guy you meet? !" Hina scolded to her alleged superior. Chika transformed back and rubbed the new bump on her head, and huffed, insulted. "I don't do it to every guy I meet! Only the cute ones." Everyone dropped to the floor. Usagi bitterly thought that this could explain a couple of things about Ken's behavior.
Meanwhile, on a certain space pirate ship...
*GROWL*
Emi's stomach growled loudly, as she was hiding in a cargo bay inside the pirate mother-ship . She was having a rather difficult time hiding keeping her hunger in check, she would have wanted to deal with all the pirates single-handedly, but she was never much of a fighter, as a matter of fact she was more of a runner (or in her case flyer). Not to mention she was currently trying to figure out were they kept all the food in this ship, she was famished, it didn't help she was hiding in dark cargo hold with only her pocket sized device to keep her company.
"So hungry...I could really go for some Tabasco Special Beef bowl...or some of mom's cooking." She smacked her lips as she thought of all the delicious food she could be eating right now, and instantly her stomach growled even louder as a complaint. She idly wondered how what Nu and Ken were doing so far, specially Ken...actually only Ken. The Oni princess couldn't quite put her finger on what really made the human male such a great impression on her mind...could it be his charming clumsiness? Or his brave spirit? Or his badass kung-fu moves?...Or maybe it was his cute butt? (This last one she had a rather 'lusty' expression on her face as she fixated on the mental image). Her stomach growled once more reminding her that it wanted some food.
"*groan* Maybe some music will take my mind off'a this mess."
She pulled a couple of headphones from her cleavage and plugged them in the multi-purpose device that was her Oniberry. It's screen still showed it was broadcasting a signal to her faithful assistant. Pressing some buttons , she enabled the music player and set it to shuffle, to her delight the first track was a romantic slow one. She sighed as her mind drifted...focusing on the music...
She imagined herself on atop a grand dance hall, wearing a beautiful flowing dress, an evening gown perfect which kept an elegant yet alluring air to her, her hair flowing freely and a tiara atop her head, as she slowly descended the stairs. There were hundreds of guests, aliens of all shapes and sizes dancing a slow ballad. Emi watched entranced the dancing when someone had offered her to take his hand and take the next dance.
This was Ken. No longer wearing ragged clothes but a rather elegant black suit, wearing a suit jacket loosely, with a white undershirt unbuttoned aroun the neck. His hair no longer messy, but combed and proper, still tied in a ponytail. To Emi, he looked HOT.
She blinked in surprise for a few moments and smiled, taking the offered hand and walking towards the dance hall, when another hand landed on her shoulder. This one belonged to Remy, who wore a much more conservative, tiger-stripped suit, also groomed and proper but obtaining a completely different reaction altogether.
"*groan* Not you!" Emi glared hotly at Remy. She had broken things up with the attractive Oni a few months ago, but he wouldn't listen to reason. If anything, Remy along with her own father were the ones responsible for scaring off any other potential boyfriends, even male friends as it would be. Whether it was her dad showing that awful poster (which, for some reason, blasted people away) or Remy scaring them off with his transformation, she was really getting tired of both their antics
"Please Emi, come back with me..." Remy pleaded, to which Emi only removed his hand off her shoulder, and stuck out her tongue.
"Bih! Get lost! I am never gonna go back with'cha!" Emi heatedly yelled. Remy's expression darkened into an angry scowl. "I will NOT lose you, Emi!" He started to transform into his tiger-cow for. Emi took position, ready to zap the annoying Ex-boyfriend aiming her fingers like a gun when Ken moved in front of her, his hands a top hers motioning her to stay at ease.
"You heard the lady, Burger-boy" Ken warned the irate Oni tiger-cow. "Scram or become the main course, your choice."
As Remy finished his transformation he only answered with an enraged "BUMOOOO!"
Ken shook his head, and cracking his knuckles he yelled offhandedly: "Ladies and Gents, tonight's main course: Bruised moron a la carte, with a side dish of pain!" Remy charged at the pony-tailed youth and pined him down with his paws, but was quickly kicked upwards by Ken. As the fighter recovered his stance and just as Remy fell, Ken booted him into orbit.
"Well now that he's gone..." Ken turned and took Emi's hand. "Where were we?" Emi smiled openly. The two danced a slow ballad for a while in quiet silence, only the smooth music breaking the silence. Then the song finished and both stood staring at each other, Emi losing herself in Ken's golden eyes. The song quickly another one seemingly slow one, the pair danced but the moment the tempo started to quicken, the spotlight shone on them. As they kept with each other both Ken and Emi separated, Emi looking over at Ken, and Ken beckoning her to come. Emi ran up to Ken and he grabbed her in such a way she almost touched the floor and in a quick spin they both ended, just in time with the song, interlocked in each others arms. Both staring once more into each others eyes. Ken, with a disarming smile he asked: "Well, how did you like that, Emi?"
Emi smiled, with an entranced expresion she merely answered: "It was brilliant, Sweetie."
Emi soon woke up from her daydream...only to find she had effectively started dancing by herself to the music, but not only that...she had an audience of a couple of utterly confused Selachian guards, the same she and Ken had encountered during his escape and which still were somewhat bruised and battered. Emi looked properly embarrassed and sweat-dropped.
"Oh crap..." she muttered, cursing her luck.
All things considered, today was gonna suck...
To be continued...
A/N: Thanks for keeping up so far, updates are gonna be a tad more sporadic from now on since I'll be involved in another project, so don't expect updates soon. I will finish this story though, it'll just take longer, so please be patient.
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