Zeke meeting Musaki's friends and introduces them to their secret handshake. This is gonna be sweet!
Chapter 9: Meeting Zeke
After some heavy training, Zeke took a breather to the Sacred Peach Tree to sort of look at the clouds for a while and was finally able to breathe after that energetic spar with Musaki. It's like he can actually call himself a self-trained student of kung-fu, but he still has a long way to go on his journey; not only doing some training with the others, but dealing with the fact that he has a long-lost twin brother.
Although, something twinged at him that makes this place feel familiar in some strange way. He's not sure about it, but it seems peaceful there.
"You must really like it there, right?"
Zeke turns around to see only Musaki there. He smiled and said, "Hey, how's it going?"
"Fine."
Musaki sat down next to Zeke and feels the wind blowing through his fur and Zeke told him, "So, how come you always come here?"
"Well, it's sort of like my safe haven for me when I need to be alone or something like that. It's basically a place to sort of get away from training and everything. I've only known you since yesterday, but I see you like coming out here, right?" Musaki said.
"Yeah, I do. Isn't that weird?"
"Weird how?"
"That we look alike, but we're....different."
"Dude, we're fraternal twins. Long-lost fraternal twins. We always look different."
"Yeah, I can only wonder how--"
Zeke paused for a second and wanted to change the subject as quickly as possible. Musaki turns around and asked, "Wonder what?"
"Nothing."
Musaki glared at him, thinking that something was up with him hat he didn't want to know about. He said, "Come on, dude. Don't act like I don't know anything."
Zeke sighed and said, "Well, I was just wondering what my real mom looked like."
"And your real dad?"
"Yeah. I mean, it's like I've wanted to know more about them than ever."
Musaki knew his parents until he was three when they were killed by Tai Lung and that memory was stilling playing on his head. He blinked twice and told him, "Sometimes I wonder about them as well, wondering if they're okay and all."
Zeke asked, "What do you mean?"
"Well, I don't know. I mean, I'm sure that they were great parents and reason why they have twins is because they're not sure if they can handle both of them, so give away the other to another family who hopefully has a better life and can meet the bio parents as soon as they get older." Musaki explained.
There was a brief pause between the two of them and only looked at each other and strangely, it seems as though they wanted to know more about each other than ever. Zeke stared at Musaki and said, "Can that happen?"
"Probably. It just depends if they're living or not."
Zeke almost understood what he said and kinda gave it some thought about it afterwards. He told him, "I should accept the fact that you're twin brother and if there's anything I need to know about you, can you at least tell me?"
"I'll do that if you can."
"Sure, I will. Hopefully."
They've come to an understanding already that whenever is a good time to explain, then they will form a brotherhood between both of them soon.
"SAKI-MAN!!"
Musaki turned around and sees his friends Shanghai, Miko, Ty, Sonic, Sudoku, Mookie, Ty, Brian, Seth and Joey coming through. He smiled and said, "What's up, guys?"
"Not much. Just chillin' at the Peach Tree?" asked Brian.
"As always."
"Hey, who's he?" asked Joey.
Joey looked at Zeke and Zeke looked at him and asked, "Who are you?"
"I'm Joey. Who are you?"
"I'm Zeke."
Musaki turned his attention to Zeke and wanted to tell them about it. He stands next towards him and said, "Guys, this is Zeke. I recently found out that he's my long-lost twin brother."
The guys were surprised and astonished that he's actually Musaki's twin brother, except for Miko and Shanghai, cause they already knew about it. Brian said to Musaki, "Dude...you never told us you had a twin brother before."
"Life is so full of surprises, isn't it?"
"I'll say!" exclaimed Sudoku.
"So how long have you know Musaki?" asked Joey.
"24 hours." Zeke answered.
"Has Musaki shown you intro-handshake?" asked Sonic.
"The what?"
"The intro-handshake. We made it up some time after we caught up with each other on how we can greet." Musaki said.
"Let's show the new guy how it's done!" Ty exclaimed.
"Agreed!"
Zeke was confused about this intro thing. All of them gathered together and Musaki came first with Shanghai and did this secret handshake. They both looked at each other and gace them high fives, knuckle touches, clapped their hands and soared their hands and touched the ground, then grabbed each other's hands and their palms, and finished with rolling their heads, grabbing their hands and spin around in different sides and ended with a handshake plus a high five and snapped their fingers. Both of them were laughing and everything and his friends repeated the same process until Zeke got it.
"This is how we normally greet each other." Miko said.
"Does it get confusing?" asked Zeke.
"Not really. If you include being dizzy when you spin too fast, then it does." Musaki said.
"You guys should totally do a secret handshake." Brian explained.
"And how are we gonna come up with it?"
"Just be creative."
"We'll think of it soon." Zeke said, uneasily.
"Just let us know if you want to see it. We're actually here to hang out with Musaki, but we can hang out with you if you want." Ty said.
"Is that okay with you?" asked Musaki.
Zeke looked at Musaki's friends and sees that they're trusting to Musaki, and Zeke was able to get to know most of them and replied, "Sure, why not?"
"Coolness!"
"Okay, so far, I've only known you for 5 minutes, but you're already the coolest brother ever!" Brian exclaimed.
Zeke was a little taken aback from that. Being called 'cool' in front of his friends has kinda earned his trust with them.
"Cool...."
Zeke definitely feels acceptance with Musaki and his friends. Think he can accept him later on? We'll see! Just stay tuned!
