Chapter 20

She stood at the ready. Fubuki stared down the son of Garou, with intent on taking him down and into the fold of the Fubuki group. In doing so, she can ensure her rank in A Class. She would allow Eyelashes and Mountain Ape to keep the leash on him, and prevent Hunter from getting anywhere near A Class.

She has to keep him down, power like his would make it easy for him to climb the ranks break into her class and leave her behind. She refuses to let that happen. "So, boy. You claim your esper powers are as good as mine? Prove it!" she demanded.

Hunter smiled. He stood perfectly still for a moment, when Fubuki noticed something. A part of his forehead, right between his eyebrows began to pulse and move oddly. Before she knew it, the skin on his forehead split open! Another eye appeared! Just like his own a black colored eye with a red iris. Hunter opened his other two eyes and smiled. "Got my dad's esper powers a day or so ago. He's been training me ever since. I got pretty good at it."

Fubuki smirked. "I am more than aware of that esper power. It belonged to a person I use to call a friend, it's nothing compared to me!" she began to glow green, rocks and chunk of fallen buildings began to float up off the ground. "You are going to be in a hellstorm like you have never seen before!"

With that Fubuki summoned all her power. "HELLSTORM!" she shouted.

She sent everything her mind managed to lift up off the ground to Hunter, trapping him in a vortex of rock and debris. "This will shred your skin, shatter bone!" she announced.

Yet as the torrent continued to churn around Hunter, it suddenly began to slow down. She couldn't believe it despite her command of it to continue, it began to freeze!

Then, it all froze in place!

Fubuki shook her head in disbelief; it was as if time itself stopped. Hunter stood perfectly unharmed from her attack, yet everything she threw at him was frozen in mid air. "Are you done?" he asked. Then he smiled. Hunter began striking out the larger chunks of stone, launching them right at Fubuki! She avoided, destroyed and shattered his attempted strikes against her, yet in doing so, she lost sight of him!

"Where the hell…"

She turned, only to come face to face with Hunter who lingered behind her. He placed his index and middle finger on her brow, right where the third eye chakra resides. "Blocked." He said.

She pulled away. "What the hell, what do you mean blocked?!" she demanded.

"I blocked your chakra." He explained. "That is what flows through your esper power, your life force… I blocked it when you were avoiding my attacks, you didn't see or feel the strike since you were too preoccupied. Right now, you have no power." Hunter blinked his third eye, every bit of debris that was suspended in mid air dropped back to the ground.

She refused to believe it; she tried to summon a rock near by, but failed to lift it from the ground. However, something else was occurring.

The ground began to shake under the feet of everyone. A powerful presence was fast approaching. "I think I may have pissed off big sis…" Hunter muttered.

No sooner did he utter those words was Hunter thrown hard into the nearest rock pile! Tatsumaki appear in the sky. "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING FREAK!" she demanded.

Hunter brushed off the attack, it hurt no doubt but it wasn't anything he couldn't handle. He stared up at Tornado and announced. "Don't blame me on this one. She wanted to rookie crush me!"

Tatsumaki slowly descended, looking about, she noticed all the fallen Fubuki group members, then her sister who was reduced to her knees. "I didn't harm her, merely blocked her esper powers temporarily. It was the only thing I could do without hurting her… so you don't kill me."

Her arms refused to uncross. "You got some nerve." She muttered, then her sights turned to Fubuki. "And you! What makes you think this was a good idea? Did you forget that freak boy has sons who are just as big of freaks as he is!" Tatsumaki demanded of her sister.

"Again, standing right here!" said Hunter. "We're not that big of freaks!"

"Shut up!" she snapped. But her focus turned back to her younger sister. "Well? What do you have to say for yourself?!"

"I was handling it fine on my own!" she snapped back. "I don't need you to come and rescue me!"

"Really? Freak kid here has you on the ropes, he's right you know. He blocked your power…." Tatsumaki paused as she stared at Hunter. She noticed his third eye. But a sneer came over her face. "You're holding back!" she snapped.

Fubuki was stunned as she stared at Hunter. He only smiled when he too started to glow the same green as Tatsumaki. He began lifting everything loose around him in the general area before placing it back down again. "I was only using one of the esper abilities I got… I never got to use the second one."

"See, Freak kid!"

Fubuki was stunned to say the least, her sight then turned to Garou and Melee who have since gotten out of their chairs and approached. "I think we are done here, aren't we?" Garou asked.

Her head lowered, Fubuki nodded as she could no longer look up. Tatsumaki rolled her eyes. "I thought you were moving beyond this. You're in Class A! Act like it! Quit looking back at your old allegiances and move on!" she scolded.

"I was trying to keep him in B Class so I can move up in A Class!" she protested.

Tatsumaki wasn't impressed. "I don't have time for this, you're on your own. Freak boy, freak kid… you!" Tatsumaki muttered as she turned to Garou, Hunter and Melee. She took off shortly after. Garou called for Hunter to come home, but he waited. His hand extended down to Fubuki to help her up off the ground.

"You are strong, there is no doubt about it. But your sister has a point. You can't move forwards if you keep looking back."

Slowly, Fubuki reached for his hand, he helped her up to her feet before giving a nod. "I look forward to working with you in A Class."

With that, he turned and rejoined his family.

When Garou and his family left, Fubuki was left with a lot to think about. Her legions slowly came too, when they inquired about what happened, she told them to ignore it. "We won't bother with the sons of Garou or anything in his family." She said. "It's not worth it."

"We let him pass us?" asked Eyelashes.

"No, don't let him. If he's earned it, yes, but don't give to him. Never just give it to some punk kid like that!" she scolded. But it won't be long anyway. Hunter will reach the top of B Class sooner than later. And when that happens, he will be her rival in A Class!