They all headed back to their homes and went to bed for a few hours of sleep and rest to recover their selfs, both physically and mentally. A panda Trueno pulled into a back ally and came to a stop in front of a tofu shop, at the front door stood a man in his mid-40s, smoking.

"How did it go?" the calm voice of the eye-closed, man asked.

Takumi closed the door and answered, "I felt the difference... I could feel the speed and everything else, going so much faster.."

"Good.." Bunta answered lighting up a ciggaretteand Takumi nodded, he hesitated asking his father about the fastest way down Akina. But he knew there was still some time, he wanted to get use to the current speed first and went into the house without another word.

After the younger Fujiwara went into the house, Bunta walked towards the Trueno and checked out the car, inside and out, a faint smile appeared on his face for a second after he checked the car.

Before he took another drag off the cigarette in his mouth, "You getting closer boy.. very close" he said quietly, got up and went into the shop.

The younger Fujiwara climbed up the stairs to his room and went in to see his girlfriend, Natsuki Mogi, sitted up, half-asleep and rubbing the sleep off his eyes.

"Mogi-chan? Why are you awake?" Takumi asked as he went into the room, sliding the door to a close behind him.

"Nothing.. a loud sound caused me to wake up.. but I have to be up soon anyway..." she answered knowing what her boyfriend will say, which happened to be as the racer thought: 'Must be my car..'.

Takumi nodded and took a fresh set of clothes to change before he went to sleep beside the girl.

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A black FD drove through the Wangan highway, cruising at 200KM/h, breaking the speed limit. But the driver wasn't shocked, surprise or in anyway, worried about it. Because he knew one thing, anything running above 180km/h, the police can't catch it. Or so they say...

He pulled out of the exit over the next couple of minutes yawning a little and drove through a street. A while later, he turned into an apartment building and parked his car in one of the lots. With a push of a button, the door flipped up and he got out.

The young racer was in front of his apartment door in a matter of minutes and he slide the key into the keyhole, he unlocked the door with extreme cautious of being quiet and took off his shoes, leaving his soft cotton socks and slowly stepped across the hall and into the room.

He opened the door to his room and saw a girl sleeping soundly on the bed, a smile creep slowly onto his face, he walked over to the girl and sat down onto the bed beside her, as his hand dropped softly onto her soft face.

Angel was sleeping soundly when she felt a rough, warm hand touched her face gently and she slowly woke up, her eyes sharpen and she saw the towering figure, "Lance?" she asked as she tried to sit up.

The racer heard her call, and answered, "Go to sleep.. I'm gonna bath.."

Angel nodded and dropped back to sleep, Lance stood up and went to his cupboard, grab a blue t-shirt and a pair of black Bermudas, wash up and went to change. He slowly slide into bed next to the girl and both fell asleep in his strong, warm arms.

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Heading towards Takasaki, were a white and a yellow RX-7 cruising at the speed limit. They turned into a housing estate in a few minutes and stopped in front of a mansion, parking their cars inside the garage, where two more FDs, a black and a panda one along with an old benz.

Both the engines while shut off in a moment and the drivers got out. "Oi, Aniki.." Keisuke called as he locked his car and popped the hood.

The older Takahashi turned to look at him, "What is it?"

"Are you really sure that Fujiwara can win?"

Ryosuke looked to him with an eyebrow up, "Keisuke.. sometimes.. I rather you find out things yourself.."

Keisuke looked up to him and knew what his brother meant, "Another test? For what?" he asked as he looked under the hood to his yellow RX-7

The white comet looked at him with an eyebrow up and smiled before going into the mansion, to his room and off to bed, leaving his brother to think about what he had to do. Keisuke than started to work on the 20B-REW rotary, in front of him. After an hour or so, the sun started to rise above the horizon, in front of him.

He smiled at the sight as he felt the warm touch his handsome face, he did the finishing touches to his car, shut the RE-Amemiya hood over the engine bay and went up to his room. He reached in a moment of time and opened the door to see a brown hair girl asleep on his chair, lying her head over a book on the study table.

Keisuke just smiled and thought, 'she must have stayed up all night, waiting for me and studying more to help me keep the school in place..'. He walked over to her as he thought of how thoughtful she is and gently carried her bridal style, brought the soundly asleep girl to his bed and lied her there, before he went to change and sat down onto the arm chair beside the bed, falling asleep almost instantly.

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Nakazato had reached the peak of Myogi after yet another super fast run with his super-powerful, or just too powerful for the Touge, monster Skyline along with his co-pilot or in his case, co-driver. He killed the engine and said, "Lets take a break for awhile..."

Sayuki nodded as the driver of the black monster opened the door and stepped out, she knew why, in front of her, she could see the sun slowly rise up. And she stepped out of the car as well.

"You sure you want to help that guy and race against Takahashi?" she asked.

Takeshi turned to her and answered, "It may be despicable.. but it might be the only way..."

The girl sighed and nodded before she sat down onto the hood.
As the morning dragged on, a distant rev could be heard when another Skyline had appeared this time, a green one, catching the attention of Nakazato, along with a blue S2000. He knew one man who drove that car that was accompanied always by the same S2000 and he waited. In a moment two man in their middle-ages climbed out of the cars and the man he expected walked over.

"Hoshino-san.. Joushima-san.. What are you doing here?"

"I was driving up and down Tsukuba with Joushima..and I got bored, so thought I came over to Myogi and see what kind of course it is like for you to want to make it your home course..." Hoshino answered as Toshiya just waited, leaning on his infamous AP1 for it's numerous wins under it's belt.

"I see.. so what did you think of it?" Nakazato asked, hoping to get a good response from the one and only god-foot.

"I must say.. skyline-drivers.. have the same kind of taste and style when it comes to the mountains...."

Nakazato was slightly confused but he didn't show it, and asked, "And what are they?"

"Long curvy hairpins..."

Nakazato just smirked and answered as he noted the same long curves on Tsukaba, "Ya.. maybe thats what connects us..."

"How bout we have a run.. I want to see how fast you can drive on your home course..."

"A full lap...."

"Getting cocky..." Kozo said as he started walking towards his own Skyline.

Nakazato smirked and said, "You're the same right..."

Just as the older-man reached for his handle, he faced him and said, "Lets see how fast you really are, to make such a statement"

In a matter of minutes, Toshiya had reached back at the base and place the corn to mark the U-turn while both Skylines were parked at the starting line ready to go at the peak with Toshiya as their countdown man. "First back up win, the corn at the peak marks the U-turn back down!" God-arm shouted over the growl of the RB26s in front of him.

The two drivers rev their engines in reply.

"5!"

"4!" both drivers tighten their grip on their own steering wheel.

"3!" their engage the hand brakes and inserted the first gear.

"2!" engines and blow-off-valves can be heard throughout the mountain.

"1!" the echo of the sounds slowly die off.

"GO!" the drivers release the hand brakes and speed forward, blowing pass the middle-age, mountain god. The Skylines took off at amazing speeds. Kozo Hoshino in the lead as always.

"I wonder how far you can push me this time, Takeshi... because you're.. after all on your home turf.."

As the race went through the next few hairpins of Myogi, Nakazato was well in the lead keeping the older-man behind him firmly. "Good.. blocking your opponent while keeping your line.." Hoshino commented as he stayed behind the Black R34.

The next hairpin came and Hoshino pitched the brakes, following Nakazato's line as he shouted, "DORRYYYAAA!!" the two skylines drifted at an amazing speed as the two of them charged forward with each straight.