~NRK~
The return to their Zaibatsu's medical facilities had been, thankfully, uneventful.
Once treated, the five were laid up in the medical wing, most of them asleep leaving only Obito and Eruza, who were next to one another, awake.
The girl's stomach, biceps, and lower half were absolutely covered by bandages, the cheetah hybrid needing a wheelchair for the next week which will only then be followed by crutches.
Obito, meanwhile, had his injured leg in a cast, his stomach completely wrapped, his forehead wrapped in bandages, and his hands covered by tape.
He, too, would be using crutches for the coming week.
"Haa, how are you doing, senpai?" Eruza asked as she adjusted her rear but hissed at a sharp pain. "Y-Yup, going to the bathroom's going to be… painful for the next two weeks," she noted with a whine.
"I'd help if I could… but I can't say I'll be doing any better," Obito said with a grunt as she blushed before chuckling nervously.
"You're in a better position than I am, at least."
"Eh… the damage to our legs was still severe, just because I'm using a crutch doesn't mean my legs are in a better position."
"Well, yeah, that certainly wasn't a good wound," Eruza said as she leaned back against her pillow. "... Still, we beat Brute Lion… Hm, hm, hm!"
"You all should be proud," Obito said and she grinned slyly at him.
"All of us should," she shot back and he snorted.
"Very well, I am glad we beat our opponent."
"Yep!"
"... Hmm?" The sound of the door to the wing opening caused both to turn and see Itomi, Obito's mother blinked at the two before smiling. "I guess you would be the ones awake," she said softly as she came into the room before quickly finding her way by Obito's bedside. "Your father is currently handling your recent calls."
"My what?" Obito blinked as Eruza tilted her head.
"... Oh, right, senpai, this was your first ever Kill Bites," the cheetah girl remembered and Obito's eyebrow twitched. "I think a lot of people would want to meet you, after all of that."
"Annoying."
"Hmph, Masanobu certainly wasn't… happy about some of the offers," Itomi continued as her son's eyebrow twitched more. "Many of them want you as their Brute… And have offered… ahem, all forms of compensation," she huffed and Obito was afraid to ask.
Call him an idiot, then. "What did they offer?" He asked with a worried look-
"A harem," Eruze sneeze-coughed as Obito pinched the bridge of his nose. "I'm not gonna lie, son, the people in these companies are very… odd."
"I don't want to be reminded," he said with an annoyed huff. "It was a 'no' before but now I'm not even going to entertain it."
"Hmph, well, nothing loss when it comes to Sumitomo," both Brutes felt their hackles raise at the mention.
"Fuck them," Eruza said and Itomi nodded.
"Well, the Ishida Zaibatsu actually wanted something different," Itomi added, confusing her son. "Well, Seira Son wants a reservation on the first day of your restaurant's opening, hm, hm," she giggled at the request.
"... Really?" He asked as Eruza blinked.
"... I think Yashin opened his long-faced mouth again," the cheetah brute said and Obito rolled his eyes.
"I believe so," Itomi said.
"... Well, I haven't heard bad things about her work… Sure, I'll concede to that."
"Alright," she pulled out her phone and texted Masanobu. "Let's see, Jerome Hongou has awoken and requested a meeting for a drink," Itomi sweatdropped. "My son, we've all seen that man, he probably puts away drinks like Eruza-chan does tomatoes."
"Hey that's… kind of true," Eruza blushed before shivering at the thought of Hongou's alcohol tolerance. "Eh, yeah, senpai, you'll have to be easy with the drinks."
Obito snorted. "Look, I'm fine, I promise. I'll meet him."
"Sent," Itomi said. "Hmm… Ah, right, Youko-chan wants to meet with you as well," Itomi looked sly while Obito's gaze went flat. "Come on! There's no harm in a little good thinking!"
"It is to me," he said as Eruza snickered. "... Fine, fine, I'm sure she's going to ask for my 'secrets to Brutes' or something like that."
~NRK~
"I-I need to know!" Youko shouted in the Mitsukado Observation Room!
~NRK~
"I'm sure it'll be harmless," he said. "Anything else?"
"Hmm… that's all the big ones, for now. There's a little meet-n-greet happening at the end of the month, too. They want you there to meet all the other brutes," Itomi said with a frown as Eruza rubbed the back of her head. "That's awfully close to the Destroyale, though."
"..." Obito considered it. "I'll see if I can, the building might be done by then."
"Oh, well, that's gonna be true," his mother said as he looked surprised. "All it's missing right now is the roof and furniture."
"Oh, nice," Eruza grinned and Obito nodded. "So, did you pick a name?"
"Yes, I'll go with 'Akatsuki'," Obito answered. 'That name will be something positive, dammit.'
Still, this was a hilarious twist on the previous goal.
~NRK~
"He denied us?!" The man, at the desk of the large office a small group was in, shouted. "What the fuck does that rabbit think he's doing?!"
Miyabi was a tall, built, bald man with fair skin, dark eyes, and a wicked frown as he stood up from his desk in his crisp black suit.
"Tsk!"
"I guess he was pretty smart, no?" Came the voice of a woman from within the room. "I mean, wasn't your plan to kidnap him?"
It was from a dark blue-haired woman with fair skin and eyes the same color as her hair. Wearing a pair of black heels, brown pantyhose, a black skirt, and a white dress shirt, she crossed her arms as she observed the young man on its screen.
"Don't test me, Kazama. That fucking rabbit shouldn't have been so damn powerful! And in the Yatsubishi group?!"
"We can't plan for everything, think about it," Kaede Kazama said with a shrug as she paused the video of Obito Shinada mid-kick at Jerome Hongou. "Hm, hm, hm, he is delicious-looking, though," she grinned at the idea of having kidnapped him.
Getting her fill in this pigsty would be nice for once and she'd nab someone who wasn't a lust-drenched asshole.
Honestly, she was the most disappointed about all of this.
"Hmph, I can see it all over your face," came the voice of the short man beside her, his long, pointed, tongue slipping out before she slammed the back of her fist into his nose. "Ah! You bitch!" He rolled on the floor with his hands covering his nose.
His skin was fair like Kaede's while his hair was black and spiked upward like a familiar anime show's rival character.
His eyes were a sick yellow that shined with that lust Kaede disliked. The short man wore a white shirt, tan jacket, and black pants, his feet bare as he walked everywhere within the building.
His reasoning was as disgusting as his eyes. 'I'll never know who I'm gonna fuck in this place, gotta be ready and shoes are a chore.'
As she said, disgusting.
"Den, weren't you busy?" Their Zaibatsu president asked with annoyance and the short man rubbed the back of his head.
"I got her done!"
"Annoying, fuck, I might need to go and handle that myself," the president said as he observed the world outside his office. "... If Obito Shinada ever shows up at our doorstep, you know what to do."
"So, what about his new restie?" She asked with a grin and wide hands. "I know I'll be visiting when it's open."
Miyabi snorted. "If you can pull that off, be my fucking guess, I have some bitches to find."
~NRK~
Seira let out a hum as she managed her paperwork.
Coming into her office, Okajima carried several boxes of documents, the woman directing his carry to the side of her desk.
"Hmph!" He placed it down gently. "How's the work looking, ma'am?"
"Well, I believe this can all be done this week," she said with a smile. "And, from what I hear," Seira grinned. "Our reservation is made."
"Oh, that's good," Okajima said with a smile. "Now, I've called Inaba Ui, thankfully she was in the lobby."
"H-Hello! Inaba Ui, here to be spoken to!" Came the announcement of a teenage girl from the door.
Her hair was long and pink, three bangs by her forehead coming down in thick clumps that framed it with one down the middle. Her skin was fair and her eyes a soft brown that looked around the room and gaped at several stacks of boxes by Seira Son's desk.
Wearing schoolgirl uniform, she blinked before saluting her superior.
"I'm here, ma'am!"
"Welcome, Inaba," Seira said as her eyes flashed across a document before putting her signature on it. "I wanted to ask you if you were doing anything two weeks from now."
"?"
~NRK~
Hitomi flopped down on her bed in her school clothes, eyes on the ceiling above.
'Obito, huh?' She crossed her arms under her head and closed her eyes, replaying the battle. 'Let's see how you handle mental me,' Hitomi grinned.
Every time she saw one of the fights, she'd take her time and replay it in her mind before pitting it against her mental image of herself.
In most of the 'matches', she found herself coming out on top. She'd leverage her speed in most cases, it wasn't like all the animals she'd seen so far were grand racers.
This Obito guy, and that Eruza girl, would be big changes for her mental rhythm.
She played it all over in her head, time and time again.
The entire video was locked within and she replayed it close to a hundred times before nodding.
She got their moves down, now for some application-
She died.
Hitomi's eyebrows narrowed as she played that little combo all over again-
She was badly injured.
Better? She growled.
She ran the scenario with the both of them again… and on the first combo, she died?!
Red eyes opened and she sat up, gaze on the other end of her room.
'What the hell?' This was the first time this had ever happened… 'It's not the girl, right. I can react to her… if she's not doing some endgame bullshit,' but this meant that rabbit guy was the reason she died in her mental scenarios? 'His reaction speed is too much,' she realized in disbelief.
She could handle Eruza by wearing her down but then Obito's form came into play and pushed her to her limit, causing Eruza to get her blows in without issue. With the two of them together s-she…
'I can't beat them?' That wasn't the type of idea she liked to think about. 'Again!'
She replayed several scenarios, some a bit more tilted in her favor with others she gave outright wank to.
The end result… she didn't think she had the odds to 'like her odds'.
That was… invigorating!
She grinned widely at the imaginary back of Obito Shinada.
This might be more fun than she imagined!
~NRK~
Yashin grinned at the sight of the other presidents on his computer screen.
"Why I can't force him to do that, Miyabi, what kind of man would that make me?" Iwasaki asked with battering eyelashes as the bald man growled at him. "Goodness if he didn't want to meet you, you may want to cut your losses."
-Don't fuck with me, Yashin!-
-U-Um, well, what was his word on meeting with my wife and our brute?- Came the word of another man, the president of the recently rising Ishida Zaibatsu.
"From what I heard from Masanobu-kun, he agreed."
-That's bullshit!-
-Quite now, Miyabi- Came Youzan's gleeful words. -And of I and Youko?-
"He's agreed," Yashin grinned, enjoying Miyabi's roar of anguish. "Well, well, well, sir, if your brutes had better reputations, he might have wanted to meet you!"
-That son of a bitch!- Miyabi looked angered beyond words. -Then I want him in the next Killing Bites, him alone against my entire brute roster!-
-That's kind of unreasonable- Youzan noted with a smile. -Ah, I wonder what he'll be serving-
"Well, well, well, I might be able to pull that off," Yashin smiled. 'What silly things, humans are,' he sometimes wondered how he was of the same race.
If you want someone to be agreeable, be an agreeable source. Why Iwasaki wasn't surprised that Obito didn't want to meet the man! His very brutes were rather gross as is! So, what could one assume of the man who'd employ them?!
'Shidou's loosening of the rules works in odd ways.' If the man himself just wanted his little brute to come in, why not just ask? 'Anyone of odd circumstances is quite the big generalization.'
It'd bred the brutes of Sumitomo, that man honestly needed to think about his choices.
"We'll see what I can do, Miyabi-san, that's all!"
-Grrr, I'll deal with that fucking rabbit eventually, Yashin- He disappeared after that.
-He does remember that you hold most of the power here, yes?- Youzan considered. -All it'd take is an alarm, Yashin. This wouldn't even reach the ears of our brokers-
"You're not wrong… but I wonder what Obito-kun's reaction would be like."
~NRK~
A week passed and Obito was happy to note, his restaurant was finished and he could walk on his own, again.
He couldn't run, mind you, but he could walk and that was good enough.
Of the five of them, he and Kaori were the most able, at present. Eruza was still in need of walking assistance, Taiga's eardrums hadn't fully healed yet, and Ryuko couldn't really sit down normally or sleep on her back yet.
Still, they were alive and well, doing a little more for all of them wasn't the worst thing.
Right now, he was cooking for their dinner as Kaori helped Eruza to the bathroom. Taiga and Ryouko sat at the dinner table, the former with some manga in his hands while the latter was groaning against the tabletop.
Never before had Taiga been thankful for not hearing her groaning.
"Dammit, are all the fights going to be like this?" The pink one moaned and Obito hummed.
"No, as we said before the match, Yugo isn't normal when it comes to Killing Bites opponents, especially when we realized he'd trained to be at his best against us. Trust me, unless we've started a chain reaction, which won't even be that effective yet, whatever match comes next is going to be magnitudes easier."
"Huh… Well, it's nice to have downtime-"
"Obito-kun! How would you like a match at the end of the month!" Yashin came in with a grin and a question.
Taiga lowered his manga in confusion and Obito's twitching eyebrow was all he needed to see to know he should growl.
"Yashin, sir… what?" Obito was deeply unsettled. "Sir, we just got through fighting Leo, is another match really necessary? Especially since it's me and I'll be running a restaurant, soon?"
"Well…" Iwasaki shrugged. "Sumitomo was quite annoyed you blew them off."
"Fuck them, I don't give a fuck about them and their disgusting brutes."
"Ah but their leader is quite… aggressive," Yashin said with a finger on his chin as red eyes began to grow dark while the air around him grew colder. 'Yesss! You are clearly more than just some skillful fighter!'
The young man had to harbor some form of darkness within him that made him a killer if necessary.
"Well, I don't control him like that… but, I could, as long as you have the fight," Yashin said and the cold lessened but remained.
"What are the stipulations? I can already tell they'll be bullshit," Obito said with a frown.
"He wants you, alone, versus his whole group of brutes."
"... What?" Ryouko balked. "Excuse me, isn't the end of the month two fucking weeks away? Obito's not even going to be fully healed by then!"
It was true, unfortunately.
The damage to his leg had been severe and required more healing.
He'd need until the beginning of October to be at full power.
"... Fine, I'll do it," Obito said and Ryouko gaped, getting Taiga's attention. "What do I get if I win?"
"Hmm… how about, a guarantee?" Iwasaki suggested. "I can guarantee, with the utmost of my power, to prevent your teammates, once, from being assaulted either to a deadly extent or otherwise."
"Deal."
"What?" Ryouko's eyes widened as Kaori and Eruza entered the room. "W-What the hell was that?!"
"Whoa, wait, what happened?!" Eruza asked in confusion and alarm as Kaori frowned. "Obito-senpai?"
"It's nothing, just one more match before I start working," Obito explained, getting frowns out of both females.
"No, this is clearly more than just a fight, Ryouko's even surprised," Brute Civet noted.
"He's doing this on stupid terms!" Brute Porcupine said as Obito sighed.
"Explain," Eruza said before Yashin did.
One quick explanation later and Eruza was rushing over in her wheelchair.
"Let me slap you!" She said as she made it to him with a twitching brow, crossing her arms. "Lean down, I can't reach."
Obito's eyebrows went flat… but he did as suggested.
A quick kiss to the cheek, got a confused look out of him before it was quickly followed by a slap.
"What the hell are you thinking?!" She yelled at him and Taiga was left feeling confused.
He looked at Kaori who rubbed the back of her head with a shrug, mouthing 'I don't know'.
He grunted.
"Listen, it's one fight," Obito said and she looked ready to go in for seconds. "Calm down. I'll still be mostly healed by then, I'm not worried."
"Yeah but you can't use your transformed state, what will you do?!" Eruza asked in disbelief but Obito raised a brow.
"Eruza, I'm easily able to handle everyone on Sumitomo's team, even like this," Obito said before turning to Yashin. "Yashin, how about one more condition for this fight?"
The president looked intrigued.
~NRK~
Two weeks later, most gathered for the Killing Bites.
The extremely early Killing Bites.
"What is this about, Yashin?" Seira asked, fan over her face as a frown sat upon it. "What's with this rushed match?"
"I was put in quite the predicament due to Miyabi-san, Seira-san," the long-faced man said as the two sides came out. "But Obito-kun made this interesting!"
"Excuse me?" Okajima blinked. "What did he do?"
"It's the most amazing condition for a fight we've had in a while!"
A bit down, Shidou stood next to Hitomi, the two looking at the fighters of the match in confusion.
"Wait, he's going to fight 'em alone?" The girl asked in confusion. "Shidou-san, this is kind of… didn't he just heal up?"
"Yes, it is odd," Shidou frowned as he looked across the upper-level bleachers to the other side of them to see the bald bastard sneering down at the combatants. "And I've realized someone got snuffed in the past weeks."
"Eh?"
On the opposite side of the others, Youzan ran his hand down his beard with one of his eyes closed.
"This is still rather odd," he said to Youko and Yugo, the latter still having some bandages on him. "What do you think of this, Leo?"
"I think someone got pissy," Yugo said out loud so Miyabi's hands clenched together. "You couldn't leave it alone, huh? Ya old bastard?"
"Youzan!" Miyabi looked incensed. "Handle your brute!"
"Hmph, I told you this was in bad faith and you didn't listen," Youzan said as he locked eyes with the younger man who grimaced. "Whatever comes from this fight, you'll deal with it."
The man looked ready to kill someone.
"Still…" Yugo saw Obito step into the ring with a weapon on his back. "This is going to be curious," he noted with interest as Yoko saw what he meant.
"A stake?"
Standing at Obito's entry corner, his team grimaced, the group in their medical scrubs.
Eruza frowned as she remembered that stupid stipulation before the speakers came to life.
"I know this match is rather sudden! We barely got the presidents together for this!" Yashin spoke up. "Sumitomo was rather perked by our little reveal and couldn't say nothing!"
They could see the man himself growing angrier with each word.
"Still, this match is more interesting than just the match-up! Why, Obito-kun even added a stipulation!" He looked happier than ever before. "During this match, he won't be taking a single hit from them or he shall enter Sumitomo Zaibatsu."
The outrage was immediate.
"Whoa now," Yugo's eyes narrowed. "That's steep."
Youzan was of the same mind while Yoko's eyebrow twitched.
But, angrier than they, was none other than Miyabi.
The bald man's forehead popped a blood vessel and he grabbed his microphone.
"You three better kill that rabbit if you know what's good for you! Do you hear me?! I want him dead!"
"I didn't like that," Hitomi said with a frown as Shidou sighed.
"He's trying to prove something, that Obito," he said. "And he'll either fail or die."
Seira frowned before looking at Yashin who didn't look the slightest bit displeased.
"You're planning something," she said and he chuckled.
"I have all my back-ups, Seira-san, but Obito-kun clearly has more of a grasp on his abilities than I do," the man said, eyes filled with a giddy madness she turned away from.
'Don't take your life, lightly, young man,' she thought, mind considering the money she had in some off-shore accounts. 'Or I'll work you to the bone to make sure you know how valuable a life is.'
Obito, standing in his ninja sandals, dark blue pants, and a skin-tight sleeveless top, rolled his neck as he looked at his opponents, tightening his light blue arm warmers.
Den Onuma was dressed in a white t-shirt and black pants, no shoes on but a wicked grin making up for them.
Kaede Kazama was looking at him curiously in a dark blue leotard with pantyhose and extra padding around her breasts that all came together by the fact that she wore no shoes. The woman smiled pervertedly at him and Obito had several thoughts on why before realizing even the women, that existed anyway, at Sumitomo might be horrid perverts.
Finally, their third member, was a man he guessed was new.
His hair was short and brown, with his eyes being the same color, while his skin was white.
Wearing an unzipped black hoodie, a green skullcap, and a pair of tan pants, he, too, was barefoot like his teammates.
This was Shinna Ryuji.
All in all, not impressive. "This will be a quick match," he said to their faces and the three blinked in surprise.
Then Den's mouth widened as he grinned viciously. "This is going to be the first time I eat an opponent, it sounds like fun," he said with a low hiss, fangs dripping with venom. 'This will be easy,' he thought with a gleeful chuckle.
With their normal enclosed area, this meant his poison was at full effect! Leo wasn't the only one who could make use of these areas.
Ryuji grinned as he looked around. 'Each wall's another weapon if I don't rip off his limbs first,' he thought as he shed his top. 'There's no worry about repercussions here! I can kill as much as I like!'
Then he could go back and fuck a bitch! This was his amazing life now!
Kaede, meanwhile, was considering her options.
'He has to know about Vanderslap by now,' she thought with a hum. 'He's a smart, lean, nicely muscled, young man,' careful, careful, control. 'Still, once I catch him, he's dealt with.'
He was still slightly injured and was possibly suffering some stiffness from the continuous healing.
This was their match.
"Are the two sides ready?!" Came the voice of Yashin from above. "Then I'm announcing this Killing Bites started!"
That was their smoking gun-
A bloody stake left the chest of their third teammate.
Obito flicked the blood to the side as he pushed the man's forehead.
He hit the floor, eyes set in disbelief as blood left his lips and a hole in his chest.
"What? Surprised?" Obito asked as he used the man's hoodie to clean his weapon some more. "Did you think I wouldn't kill you before you could transform? Did you forget I can kill you as well?"
She froze as he walked towards her before a form sprung up behind the young man.
Obito sighed and his arm blurred.
The bottom of Brute Crocodile's head let out a spray of blood as Obito's stake found purchase.
Removing the weapon, the now-dead man's corpse fell to the floor.
"I'm not going to be playing with you anymore," the rabbit man said. "Enjoy your next seconds of living, I'm capable of killing every single one of you in just as few," Obito said, looking to the bleachers.
"Hahahaha! The boy's chosen the right strategy!" Yashin praised with several claps as Okajima grimaced.
"He's completely disconnected himself from it," the man said with a sadness that Seira reciprocated. "He's correct, he's just as allowed to kill them as they are him, I just wish this wasn't the answer he found."
"You believe otherwise?" Yashin asked kindly. "You do remember that your lives are always in danger, yes?"
"Of course but there comes a point that there's a victor and loser," the man said with a frown and crossed, powerful, arms. "That young man down there simply can't just allow that distinction."
Seira's eyes looked at Obito's back as she sighed before looking at the corpse.
"..."
Down to the side, Shidou rubbed the back of his head.
"Kill them before they can kill you, huh?" He said with crossed arms. "If nothing else is viable, this is his only shot."
"If you're fighting for your life, that's it," Hitomi said with a frown. "There's no fine details, clauses, or anything. It's your life vs theirs."
"Not wrong."
Yoko let out a sigh of relief. "S-So, it seems it's in his favor," she said to her grandfather whose eyebrow rose at the display below them. "Grandfather?"
"... Hmm, it's nothing, Yoko, I'm just wondering if you're trying to marry the man or plead with him."
"Grandfather?!"
Yugo snorted at her. "This is life in the jungle, madam," he said with an ominous chuckle she grimaced at. "Don't look at me like that. You're the one trying to meet some dude, you clearly have the hots for, in private."
Yoko blushed bright red. "I-I do not!" She squeaked but the lion simply laughed.
Finally, Miyabi's eyes widened as his hands shook as red eyes locked onto him.
He died several times before fainting.
The Mitsukado blinked at that before Yugo's laughter grew.
"I knew it! He's a real killer!"
Kaede didn't answer before transforming immediately in response to his threat.
'Too fast!' She jumped back just in time to dodge his stab at her midsection. 'He took down Shinna way too easily!' Wasn't he still healing?!
Then there was a hiss from behind her and she grinned with sweat on her face before jumping to the side and allowing Den's large cobra-esque form to shoot towards the still human Brute Fleming Rabbit.
Obito jumped and landed on the back of the cobra's hood.
"Not this time!" Den shouted, throwing his body towards the walls. "Take Shinna's special!"
Obito jumped to another wall, dodging the attack, before kicking off as a reptilian hand swung out at him.
"Don't let him get away!" Kaede shouted as she lunged off the wall. "One hit!" She declared as she caught up to him and swung out a palm only to let out a wet cough as a kick slammed into her midsection. 'He's still able to move like that?!'
Obito bounced off the floor once before righting himself to land in a crouch just in time to see Den coming.
The cobra man made a sharp angle at the opposing brute's thrown stake only for his head to hit the floor as a kick slammed into his temple.
He swung in his tail but Obito simply hopped over it.
Then Den grinned as Kaede's grabbed his.
"Our win!" She declared as she swung him out at the floor to a nearby wall and back several times. 'This is our win-!' Kaede had thought, she really had but when she tried to release his hand, she couldn't.
"W-What?"
"That's not a bad move," Obito said, crouching on the wall where a big dent was that mirrored the ground. "It'd have been better to use it on someone weaker than you."
A sharp crack sent her slamming headfirst into the opposing wall.
Obito kneeled down for a moment and breathed out a curious breath. "Poison?"
"I did it!" Den declared as he curled dangerously around the rabbit, the imagery of their forms only causing him a quick chuckle. "You never thought about it, did you? My poison can become airborne," he hissed quietly at the rabbit who raised a brow. "You, my little bunny,are going to hate this."
His tail coiled-
Pain shot up to his noggin and Den screeched as he shot away from his opponent.
"What the fuck?!" He cursed only to gape at his missing lowers. "W-What?!"
Obito dropped the man's tail, claws going back to normal hands. "You're an idiot," he said as Eruza breathed out in relief by his corner. "Do you know how many animals have poison as a weapon? I've prepared myself and my team for this for years."
Seira's eyes widened. "Poison training?" She asked Yashin who grinned.
"The boy's a marvel, Seira-san! It's like he's an expert killer and he knows the ins and outs of such things," the CEO of Yatsubishi said with a grin. "Why, they've done slight ingestion for so long, I sometimes forget they're eating poison!"
"That's certainly excellent preplanning," Okajima considered with a hum. "He has a point, there are tons of animals who use poison as a weapon…" He shivered. "Does he share tips?"
"You'd have to ask him!"
Down to the side, Shidou cupped his chin curiously. "That's a good idea, Hitomi," he said as the girl chuckled nervously. "While your animal is good at holding its own against poison, having close to immunity would be rather vital."
"I-I get ya, Shidou-san," she said nervously. 'Damn rabbit's getting me to eat poison?!' Well, in for a penny, in for a pound, right?
"Ooh, mentally writing that down," Leo said with his arms cross and one hand cupping his chin. "Let's see, there are ones who paralyze, poison, and have acid… can we become immune to acid?"
"Leo, please, don't do that," Yoko declared with a pale face as her grandfather laughed. "D-Don't test it, okay?!"
"Eh, I'll look it up."
"That's not a 'yes'!"
"Obiboya's training kicks in at last," Kaori said with a sigh of relief before blinking and tilting her head. "Oh, right, we'd have been dealing with it, too, wouldn't we?"
"Yeah… Stupid senpai," Eruza pouted and the civet chuckled.
"Go tell him how you really feel."
"He's a dumbass!"
"Hahaha!"
"He's got this in the bag… I'm just confused," Taiga said as Ryouko shot him a weird look. "It's that corpse."
"Corpses aren't new," she said and he threw her a flat look.
"God, you are worse when I can hear you."
"Oi!"
Obito sighed as he looked at both his opponent's current states.
Brute Gecko, Kaede Kazama, was struggling to stand after the blow to the head that kick caused while Brute Cobra, Den Onuma, was missing a good portion of his tail.
Brute Rabbit checked his body out, touching his biceps, stomach, thighs, and calves.
'I can do it but I'm basically putting myself back in the medical wing,' he thought but a point had to be made, no? 'Well, it's been fun, walking,' Obito thought.
He put his stake into the floor before breathing in and leaning down into a sprinter's position, the bottom of his right foot back his planted stake.
"Brute Tiger calls this his own Tiger Cannon," Obito said to his opponents. "But I'm not as clever," he said as he leaned further down. "But Burst Hop sounds right-!"
He vanished with a rupture of the floor at his last words.
"Where'd he go?!" Den thought.
"It's simple really," his voice echoed around them, nowhere in sight. "But here's a clue!"
The two were knocked to the side by a force that wasn't there.
And, at the same time, several explosions of metal echoed around the area.
"Ah, I see, Leo's not the only one who can make the most out of this arena," Yashin stated and Seira hummed.
"He said it before, yes, Burst Hop," Seira giggled a bit and Okajima chuckled a bit. "It's a cute name for a devastating technique. He's not making any noise whenever he lands but he's hopping around. With a 'small' area like this, he can keep building up momentum to the point of becoming faster than the speed of sound."
The two reptiles were battered by three more blows as more explosions of metal happened.
"It's a pretty simple but precise technique," Okajima considered as Seira smiled. "Hmph, Inaba really could learn from this man, for the most part," he said as he looked at the corpse on the floor.
"Inaba? Oh, you mean the normal Brute Rabbit," Yashin noted even as both sweatdropped at him. "Yes, I believe she could learn from Obito-kun. Wanna set up a play date?"
"What?"
Shidou blinked from what Hitomi heard.
"What is he planning?" He wondered in confusion. "Is he trying to have another brute gain Obito's seemingly endless potential?"
"I mean, if this other rabbit is the same, she's gotta, right?" Hitomi asked.
"He called her the 'normal' kind, right?"
"Yep."
"So, she's probably the kind that gets sold as pets," Shidou hummed, pulling out his phone and checking. "If that's the case, I don't think she'll have as much potential as Obito Shinada would, then."
Yugo whistled. "Man and he was trying to say I abused this place," he said with a big grin as Yoko swallowed.
"You're fighting him in here," she said in horror at the idea of the damage.
"Hm, hm."
The two lizards began to be beaten within a tornado of invisible blows.
"I believe it's about time he'll end it," Youzan before grinning as Obito appeared above the two lizards.
Who was beaten into position right below him.
Obito's eyes were blank as the area around them erupted.
"Blast off!"
He slammed into both before slamming down into their bodies.
Their destination erupted into a giant hole in the floor, the air shooting up and cratering the ceiling as Obito flipped out of it before stumbling into a landing.
His formerly injured leg bled but was able to stand hesitantly and look at the giant hole in the floor.
His rabbit ears appeared on his head and he held them for ten seconds before releasing them.
"That's it," he said as Taiga ran out onto the field and placed one of his arms around his shoulders. "And you might want to get Shinna Ryuji to the medical wing, he's going need the surgery!" Obito announced.
"Are you saying you didn't kill him?"
"Why the hell would I get the blood of trash like him on my hands?" Obito asked.
Seira's eyes were alight with wonder as Brute Rabbit said it.
He'd not killed the man.
"R-Really?!" Okajima gaped. "How, young man?!" He asked into the microphone on his collar.
"If I know how to kill someone, I can not kill them too," Obito said. "I stabbed several pressure points on his body when I hit him the first time. The only reason he was able to stand after is because of an involuntary transformation, I guess. One quick shock put him back down."
"Fascinating!" Seira said with a big smile. "Was this always the plan?"
"Yes. There's no point in killing these three."
"Hmph, hmph! Impressive!" She said with a smile as Okajima chuckled. "I'm looking forward to our talk, young man."
"Affirmative."
Shidou hummed as he and Hitomi considered the new information.
"I'm surprised," she said and he nodded. "I think I might have just maimed him to make sure he could come back."
"His knowledge is worryingly exact," Shidou noted and Hitomi nodded. "Poison training, pressure points, weapons training," he said and Hitomi blinked.
"Oh, right, he did bring that stick out."
"Exactly, he's trained himself to such a degree that he has tools in all manner of ways… Even though he'd never be in these games?" Shidou thought about it before his expression went flat and he pinched his nose. "Right, Yashin exists."
"Oh, that horse-faced dude?"
"Yes, him."
"Whoa, whoa, that's some scary shit," Leo said with an impressed look. "False death isn't exactly something I've thought about."
"I'm not surprised," Youzan said with a hand rubbing his beard. "Still, what sort of training could he have done to learn these skills? More curiously, I don't know when he became a brute."
Yoko, meanwhile, let out a long sigh of relief. 'Uchiha-kun, this isn't good for my health,' she thought with a frown before considering the still-alive Shinna Ryuji. 'But grandfather is correct, you're so skilled in a lot of ways.'
How did someone become like this?
"Hmph, I'm going down," Yoko said to them before looking at Miyabi Sumitomo and shook her head. "I guess someone will get him, eventually."
Youzan grinned wickedly as Leo chuckled.
"Well, I'm sure Yashin has prepared something for him."
Obito grunted as Eruza wrapped his left leg while Kaori did so to his right.
"Honestly, you fight twice in a month and you don't look the slightest bit bothered," the older feline said as she tied off her bandages. "There, done. Luckily, we're at the Yatsubishi underground zone, so we're good."
"Senpai, I'm not gonna tell you how annoyed I am," Eruza said and Obito's expression went flat.
"That doesn't mean you won't show me."
"It's a good thing you're smart."
"Hah, sucks to be you," Taiga said with a smirk before Ryouko blinked at their guests.
"Incoming," she announced and the group turned to see everyone who'd been in the 'bleachers' minus Miyabi.
"How is our second oldest brute?" Yashin asked and Obito blinked.
"Second oldest?" He asked as he looked at Ryouko. "How old are you again?"
"Rude!" Brute Porcupine shot back but their CEO chuckled.
"Ryouko here is actually one year younger than you," he answered and Eruza blinked.
"She is?" The cheetah gaped. "I thought you were older!"
"Well, I'm not, okay?!"
"Right…" Obito hummed as he looked at the smiling Seira Son and Okajima. "Pleased to meet you, ma'am, Okajima-san."
"Polite," Seira said with a bigger smile. "Rather rude but how will this impede your restaurant?"
"Well," Obito flexed his toes. "This is probably one more week of healing, apologies."
"Understandable, this will help me sort some things out," she smiled.
"I can't say I'm not impressed with your training," Okajima said as Hitomi slunk towards the rabbit man's side. "You're remarkably trained."
"Yeah, you're weird," Hitomi said and Eruza, Taiga, Leo, and Youzan laughed.
"And who's this pretty little morsel?" Leo asked and Hitomi's grin showed her sharp teeth. "Oh?" He grinned back. "Someone lookin' for a fight?"
"Any time-Shidou-san?" Hitomi made to say something only for Shidou's hand on her shoulder to stop her. "Hmph, my time will come. And you'll be a stepping stone on my way to the top, kitty cat."
Yugo Tani's eyes dilated as he grinned wider.
"Can you two not do that when I have to worry about collateral damage?" Obito asked flatly and both chuckled. "That's not 'yes' so, please, take me away from them," he said to Taiga.
"You should be taken to a medical facility," Yoko said as Obito raised a brow at her. "Lead the way, Taiga Nakanishi."
"You don't need to say my full name, ya know."
"It's good to remember."
Taiga shrugged.
~NRK~
After being treated by actual medical professionals, Obito sat in a medical cot surrounded by the Mitsukaido group, Ishida group, and Shidou's pair. All of them there minus Youzan and Yashin, much to the group's pleasure on the latter.
"Wait, you're not going to fight again after this?!" Hitomi gaped in horror as Obito shrugged.
"It's not like I wanted to join Killing Bites," he said. "That said… it's not like I'm against personal spars if that's what people want," Obito shrugged as Yugo, Hitomi, and Seira looked intrigued. "I don't need more death games in my life."
"Hmm, I do like fighting," Yugo said with a contemplative look as Yoko sighed.
"Well, it's not like all of you thrive on it," she noted as Obito's eyebrow twitched. "Hmph, if that happens, I'll simply referee, you can even keep a tally, Leo."
"Heh, I like that."
"Then, I can fight him, too! Right, Shidou-san?!" Hitomi pleaded and the man raised a brow before humming.
"It'd depend on him, yes? I'm not against it," the man suggested to Obito who shrugged.
"I take it she's new," he said and Hitomi grinned with her hands on her hips. "Well, I don't mind giving your newest brute a fight."
"Hehehe!"
"She's cute enough, I guess," Eruza said with a shrug as Kaori snorted. "Still, you might want to be easy with that little spar idea or people are going to flood you in no time, Obito."
"... Ah, this is the beginning of her anger."
"I have no idea what you're talking about," Eruza said with a proud huff.
Yes, it was contradictory.
"Huh, I could go for a few rounds," Taiga considered with a grin and Leo smirked. "I can fight Leo whenever he wants? That's interesting."
"They're the same…" Yoko realized with muted horror. "Oh, God, they're the same."
"Yeah, you get used to it," Ryouko said with a hum. "So, what does this mean for the next fight?" She asked with a grimace.
"Well, since Sumitomo pushed one forward and lost, they'll be dealing with the repercussions," Shidou explained as Seira nodded.
"You can't just force a Killing Bites on your own whims and lose, you're putting yourself at a severe disadvantage," she explained. "He's going to be forced to pay for your Zaibatsu's arena, the medical crew cost, our travel fare, and other small things."
"Travel fare? You guys are a few miles apart, aren't you?" Hitomi wondered in confusion.
"Hmph," Seira smiled wickedly. "It's all for the sake of understanding, Hitomi-kun."
"Hmph," Hitomi crossed her arms with a tilt of the head. "I guess this is one way things changed from the old days in the wilds."
"Yes."
"With this, there's not going to be another Killing Bites in the coming month," Okajima explained and Ryouko looked relieved. "Hmph, that said, with how close the Destroyer Royale is, it's kind of a moot point."
Ryouko blinked. "Oh, right, someone threw that phrase around, what is it?"
"Ah, that's going to be interesting," Shidou noted. "It's a competition where all companies with Beastilization technology can compete for a chance to become the one with the most resources. All funds emptied into the event will go to them along with a small percentage, 5%, of every company's assets."
"Whoa, now, hold on! That sounds ridiculous!" The porcupine shouted in disbelief.
"That's the first time I've heard it phrased like that," Kaori realized in disbelief as Eruza gaped. "T-The Destroyale isn't a small event, either! The money alone could probably redecorate a small county!"
"Yes, it can," Yoko said with a hum. "The way the Destroyer Royale works, it's supposed to give that company with the greatest brutes the ability to keep producing them. It's all for the sake of continuing these odd events, at least, that's what I understand."
"I guess this is still all for the sake of a bunch of old rich assholes," Taiga noted and Yoko looked alarmed. "... Oh, right, rich kid," he said, rubbing the back of his head as Leo laughed.
"She is, isn't she?!"
"Leo!"
Seira wouldn't disagree with the tiger boy.
This really was just a game for those above even her.
~NRK~
Miyabi Sumitomo shot up from the couch with a gasp, the sound of chuckling drawing his attention to the side to see…
His eyes widened at the sight of Yashin behind his desk and Youzan sitting in front of it.
"Hm, hm, hm, how was your nap, Miyabi-san?" The long-faced man asked as the Sumitomo man's features shifted in horror. "And, you'll be glad to know, your team lost!"
"W-What?!" He choked. "What do you mean they lost?! You mean that boy could defeat them with nary a scratch!?"
"Well, none that weren't self-inflicted," Youzan noted. "But I'm pretty sure he did that for the sake of proving his point… You lost."
The bald's hands clenched into fists! "T-That's not right! I can fix this!"
"No, as a matter of fact, you can't," Yashin said and the muscular man growled. "Do you honestly think we weren't going to handle you even if you won? Do you not remember what was agreed upon? What you chose to agree to in the name of those before us?"
"I didn't forget!" The Sumitomo head shouted. "This is all within the rules!"
"Yes and yet you lost even with an easier stipulation given to you by the very brute you wanted to win against," Youzan noted with a hum. "You realize that even with the rules, what happens after is also determined by the state of the fight, right?"
Miyabi froze, sweat falling down his cheek. "Y-Yes, I do."
"Then you know that your lost means you've been put into a contract," the old man continued. "You can't very well try and have your team fight him again and if he ends up in another Killing Bites with your members, you automatically lose."
Miyabi's hands clenched and Yashin smiled.
"But that's not all, isn't it?" The bald man growled. "At current, Obito Shinada now has 5% of your company stocks."
"The fuck he does!" The baldie shouted. "I know how the rules work! That's not in them!"
"You would be right if you didn't agree to his condition," Youzan said as the man froze. "Did you forget how that works? Additional conditions, by either side, mean he gains more if he loses. You've not only altered the rules by having your entire roster against him but you've accepted his powerful condition. He's contractually obligated to some form of compensation."
"I-I-I."
"It's not like you losing much," Yashin said with a thoughtful expression. "It's 5%, he's not immediately on your committee. That said, he does hold a nice bit of your company's stocks."
"It's 5% of my empire!" Miyabi roared. "And because of one fucking fight, this boy gets 5%?! Fuck that!"
"Hmmm…" Yashin considered that before grinning. "Then, how about this?" He spoke up. "If you're going to say that… then we'll be legally allowed to stifle your production of brutes," Miyabi's eyes widened. "You knew this, Miyabi."
"..." The man's knuckles were white and his eyes shook in their sockets. "Y-You… Y-You!?" He shot up out of his seat before removing something from the back of his dress shirt beneath his blazer. "You think you can command me?! What's stopping me from blowing both of your fucking brains out, huh?! Did you think this far ahead you pieces of shit?!"
"Hmm… Well, Youzan, we do have one more person here."
Miyabi froze as sharp claws found themselves near the back of his neck, the creek of leather from the couch he'd been in coming from behind.
"W-What?"
"Now, will you agree to Obito-kun's compensation?" Yashin asked kindly even as Youzan hummed in interest, leaning to the side to see the hybrid behind the Sumitomo CEO. "Tick, tick."
~NRK~
It was the following day that Obito was given his 'compensation'.
"Whoa, that's probably worth a good couple hundred millions of YEN!" Kaori noted with Yen-sign eyes.
"Whoa, wait, really?!" Eruza said in surprise. "Senpai, you just got a super meal ticket!"
"It's a good bit of safety net money, I suppose," Obito noted with a snort as Yashin grinned while the young man's parents chuckled. "I take it he wasn't too pleased with this."
"Well…" Yashin grinned.
~NRK~
"You worthless motherfuckers!" Miyabi slammed his fists down on his desk. "How the fuck did you lose?!"
"S-Sir, we kind of," Kaede was covered from the head down to her stomach in bandages. "... No comment."
Den, in a wheelchair, grimaced at their boss's rage. "He's a freak of nature! We couldn't do anything after he fake-killed Shinna!"
The man in question grimaced, head down, as his bandaged chest and mouth made it difficult for him to respond.
"That fucking rabbit," the bald CEO growled at his desk. 'Yashin, I will kill you and your little bunny fucker eventually, count on it.'
For now? He had to not just recoup his losses, ignore 5% of his company, and figure out what to tell his committee.
~NRK~
At the end of the week, Obito hobbled up out of his father's car.
Wearing a dark blue kimono and hakama secured by a white belt that sported several white and red fan designs he was familiar with.
His sandal-covered feet slipped against the sidewalk, the rabbit brute ignoring the random businessmen who gaped at him.
Coming out behind him was Eruza, his 'daily helper' as the girl forced him into having.
Wearing a kimono like he but with geta sandals, the kimono being light brown in color with several flowers on it, she huffed before taking him into the building, hair set in a low ponytail as she hooked her elbow around his. "Still mad," she said with a blush that she hid as well as she could.
T-This certainly worked in her favor!
The two of them walked into the building and hummed at the normal office setting before going further into the building and finding one Yoko Mitsukado waiting by the elevator.
Dressed as she always was, her eyes zeroed in on the two's 'hold' before huffing and gesturing to the elevator.
Once they went in, the box went down with a swipe of Yoko's ID card.
Standing on Obito's other side, her fingers flexed many times as she peeked at him out of the corner of her eye.
When the elevator arrived on the desired floor, Yoko pulled the corner of his kimono sleeve, confusing him while Eruza's eyebrows twitched.
But her attention was taken away to the floor they'd ended up in because, crazy, it was a giant hot spring!
She gaped as Obito blinked.
"I'm guessing the Mitsukado likes its luxury," Obito said as Yoko smirked.
"Is it wrong to enjoy the money we've rightfully made?" She asked and he shrugged.
"No, it isn't," he said as he removed his shoes in the wooden area they were in. "... Now, a bit premature, which gender's section are we in?"
"Section?"
"... Oh," Obito realized what this was before turning to Eruza. "Eruza… You might want to turn around," he said.
"Why?" She asked but then Obito began disrobing and her face shot up several shades of red. "What?!" The cheetah's body turned on a dime as she covered her face. "W-When did you get so bold?!"
"... I won't lie and say it had nothing to do with my leg aching for the hot springs," Obito said with a small blush himself. "Yoko?"
The woman closed her eyes. "This is good enough, Obito-kun," she said with a smile that he raised his eyebrow at.
"Right…" He said as he walked over to a cubby and found a towel in it.
He removed his kimono and pants, both pieces of clothing hitting the floor and gaining the females' attention.
They peeked and Obito had already shifted into his towel, folding his clothes.
But his back, though, that was an appealing piece of the man that didn't disappoint!
Yoko closed her eyes when he turned around to look at them while Eruza had her eyes covered by her hands.
His face went flat. 'Okay, so is everyone a pervert?' Himself included even though his own perversion was due to his animal genes. "Dammit, you two," he grunted before walking off into the springs. "Ah, Jerome-san, there you are."
Hearing the man's splashes, the two opened their eyes.
Then they locked and both females' eyebrows lowered ever so quickly.
Obito hummed as he simmered in the water, the bigger brunette chuckling loudly.
"I take it your last match has taken its toll?" Jerome said as he, too, leaned back against the stones bordering the waters. "And this is your biggest break?"
"Yes," Obito said with a roll of the shoulders. "I should go to hot springs more often."
"I can suggest many. While these are convenient, nothing beats an actual hot spring."
"I bet."
Then there were two splashes next to him, leaving the rabbit man to blink before he turned his head to see a victorious-looking Eruza and annoyed Yoko.
"Hm, hm, hm," Jerome chuckled and Obito was left confused. "You'll learn in time," the former sumo said with an amused expression.
"What?"
"So, how are the waters, Obito-kun?" Eruza asked with a big grin as she leaned on his shoulder, getting a confused grunt out of the rabbit man.
'Don't, don't, don't, don't,' he told his body but it was a pretty lopsided battle against his instincts in the worst of ways. "I'm fine, it's helping relax my wounds," focus only on the water.
Do not give in to the libido!
"It's made for the sake of the brutes of Mitsukado," Yoko deliberated.
Then she swam over to his other side and sidled up to the rabbit who blinked in confusion.
Jerome laughed before grinning as he brought a sake bottle, and a long plate with small plate-sized sake cups, onto the water, the big plate floating easily on the water's surface.
"Care for a drink?" Jerome asked with a smirk as Obito rolled his eyes before nodding. "And you, girls?"
"I…" Yoko hesitated.
"I'll take one!" Eruza said with a grin. "I mean, I could get hurt pretty badly in any of these Killing Bites, might as well live it up," she said and Jerome grinned.
"Exactly," he said before turning to Yoko. "Ma'am?"
"... V-Very well, I'll partake," Yoko said with a stutter as the big man chuckled.
Pouring four cups, he slid the three's towards them through the water.
Obito caught his before catching Yoko's as she struggled to grab it before it passed. "Here," he said and she smiled graciously at him.
Eruza pouted as she caught her cup. "..."
"Hmm?" Obito blinked in her direction and she huffed before sipping a good bit of hers. "Wait, Eruza-"
"Kauff, kauff, kauff!" Eruza nearly choked as she coughed out the contents. "Why does it burn?!"
"That is what I'd expect of a first-timer," Jerome said as he tilted his head back and drank his. "Tsk, aaaahhh," he let out a breath of relief as Obito sighed at his teammate before doing the same.
"Hmmm, this is remarkably smooth," he said to Jerome as Eruza shot him a look of disbelief. "I've drunk more than my fair share of alcohol ever since I turned 18, at Yashin's horrible manners, no less," Obito explained and understanding dawned on her.
"Why's he suck so much?"
"I honestly don't know."
Yoko, seeing the two begin to hit it off, swallowed before tilting her cup to her lips and drinking some.
She wasn't a virgin when it came to alcohol… s-she just had a small tolerance!
As she lowered it, she hiccuped before quickly covering her mouth, Obito's gaze going to her.
"I-It's nothing," she said immediately with a shaky grin even as her cheeks began to grow rosy. "S-So, you'll be opening your restaurant next week, r-right?" Yoko asked with a small giggle. "Is reserving ahead of time possible?"
"I've no problem saving you a seat, Yoko," Obito said and she grinned, resting on his shoulder. "?!"
"O-Oi! What's the idea?!" Eruza snarled as she pulled on his other arm. "You can't be doing this!"
"Why not?" Yoko asked lazily, pulling on Obito's other arm and causing the former shinobi a crisis the likes of which he'd never dealt with. "I'm allowed to do as I please as long as it's not forbidden," she said with a giggle as she tight-roped his bicep through her breasts?!
"Yoko, are you good with alcohol?" Obito asked nervously even as his 'rising sun' decided to try to make itself known. 'Down, down!' He cursed this stupid rabbit.
"?" She looked at him oddly before giggling. "Nope!"
His eyebrow twitched as Jerome laughed.
"I believe she's trying to be more courageous," is what Brute Bear said but Obito could see the man's amusement shining through. "Yup, just that."
"You're a horrible influenc-" Obito began to say only for another set of breasts to lock his other arm in between them. "Oh, no," he turned and saw a determined Eruza on his other side. "Wait, no, be reasonable."
"I am, like I'm still angry, O-Bi-To-kun," the cheetah said with a defiant look, and Obito was left with no defense.
Like, sure, he had many but he knew she'd ignore them.
And no here was here, suffering silently.
"Jerome, you are no help."
"Guilty as charged."
~NRK~
The week following the incident left Obito… tried, for lack of a better word.
He was reaching points of lust that he didn't think were possible. This had never been a problem in his former life save for once and that was post his 'crushing' from a boulder and he solved it.
Right now, he had to figure out how to solve his current libido and he knew one thing.
His ass could not be seen in the red light district, no ifs, ands, or buts, he'd be screwed socially if he was. The son of Masanobu Shinada following in his father's footsteps sounds like a great title for some headlines.
No, he needed this to be done quietly and subtly… which didn't exactly leave him with a lot of options!
He couldn't… ask his female members, he wasn't like that.
Obito knew he wasn't gay, no matter how attractive the men were.
He wasn't going to Sumitomo to screw that gecko woman on principle.
And he couldn't call a 'mistress' here due to knowing how that's going to go.
In his room, Obito was doing some vertical sit-ups, hanging off a bar by his door, working off his frustrations with some form of control that he hoped lasted until he had a solution.
Wearing only a pair of black shorts, he frowned as he went up again and again.
'There has to be a way out of this,' he thought as he came up. 'I could summon someone when I'm at work, for a night, but that can't be soon,' Obito came up again with a growl.
Fuck, rabbits, dammit. He'd never hated the animal more than he did now.
Then there was a scent that reached his nose and he stopped mid-way, eyes widening before the pupils dilated.
'What is this… scent?' His mind fogged for a moment before he flipped off the bar and landed on the floor. 'By my door?' He didn't put on the shirt on his bed, utterly ignorant to everything but that scent. 'What is it?!'
He opened his door a moment later with a look of concentration that broke into disbelief at the young woman before him.
~NRK~
Moments earlier, Ui Inaba hummed as she moved into the building of Yatsubishi Zaibatsu.
Wearing a pair of white sneakers with pink laces, a pair of pink shorts, a white shirt, and a pink, zip-up, hoodie, she double fistpumped at her CEO's wife's idea of this whole thing.
'M-Maybe he could make me not useless!' She thought with some hope as she moved past the secretary with a quick showing of her ID and her other ID which designated her as a brute.
The woman blinked before shrugging and gesturing to the elevator.
Going in, Ui… blinked.
Moments later, she came back out with tears in her eyes. "C-Can you get me down to the lower floors?" She asked tearily but the woman's eyebrow twitched.
"I'm not allowed that level."
"Oooohhh."
"Hmm?" Came a voice from the front doors, Ui turned her head to see none other than Eruza Nakanishi, the cheetah girl in some shorts and a shirt as she drank from a smoothie. "... Snff, snff, what's up?" Eruza asked and Ui wilted.
~NRK~
"You know, you need to get more confidence, right?" Eruza asked with a snicker at the jelly-spine the rabbit teen had, said spine in clear effect as Ui slumped next to her. "But you want to get pointers from Obito-kun?" She asked and Ui's teary-eyed gaze got another snicker out of her. "Well, I don't know how Yashin would take to another Zaibatsu's brute getting trained by one of ours."
"I-I know b-but if I can get a bit stronger, I won't be useless," Ui said and Eruza raised a brow at her, the similar-aged girl twirling her pointer fingers together. "I-I was always called 'Useless' ever since I was younger s-so it's been a title I've always had."
"But you work for Ishida Zaibatsu."
"But I can't fight!" The girl whined and Eruza laughed nervously. "I-I'm just a courier pigeon, at this point!"
"W-Well, those are still useful," Eruza didn't really get it. "You've still got a job, looks, and superpowers, why come here if you've got it made without needing to fight in a death match?"
"... S-Seira-san, she picked me up when I was even abandoned by my parents… I-I want to at least be in one Destroyale, just to prove I'm worth it."
"... I get it," she did.
Proving your worth was something everyone understood, Eruza believed. Wanting to show those who took care of you that you were happy and grateful? That was another thing she understand well.
"Y-You do?!"
"Yeah, Obito helped us all out time and time again," she said with a giggle. "You could even think of him as a superhero, of sorts. Like Batman!"
"B-Batman?" Ui could see it.
He was seemingly a neverending marvel when it came to skills from the videos she watched.
She grew more determined and Eruza chuckled as they exited the elevator.
"Alright, alright, here," Eruza helped her to the male rabbit's room with a grin, presenting it before heading off. "I need to get cleaned up, don't try and break or something!"
Ui swallowed before nodding rapidly. "I-I won't!" She'd come prepared to be worked to the bone!
She shivered. 'I-I haven't used my 'Happy Carrot' lately,' she thought with embarrassment.
As it turned out, becoming a cute bunny definitely came with downsides. One, she couldn't fight but she hoped that would change!
Two, she was 'little prey'. Going against other animals, no matter what kind, was scary as long as they were bigger than her or had super scariness!
She hoped he could help with that, too.
And, the worst part, number three in her weaknesses… S-She got incredibly horny and it drove her mad in the worst of ways!
It was like a snowball going down a hill, the more she didn't do something about it, the worse it got!
A-And she'd been so drained from work lately, she hadn't handled her horniness in the past week.
'... H-He won't want to as well w-will he?' Her mind played the image in her mind and her blushed increased tenfold but she swallowed in excitement at the thought. 'I-I mean, he's probably drowning in women, right?' He had so many pretty and cute female teammates.
He was cool, attractive, clearly skilled in cooking if he was opening a restaurant, powerful, and the son of the General Director of Yatsubishi.
Obito Shinada was probably quite the catch in more circles than Ui probably knew about!
'S-Still… no, no, no!' She shook her head as she droned outside his door, never seeing it open. 'T-There's no way he'd love such a useless rabbit-' Her mind thought up as she looked at his door, once more.
Only to notice that it wasn't closed anymore but open and, standing at it, was her potential… potential…
Her mind blanked as his scent reached her, both of their pupils dilating at the sight of one another.
Her panty soaked and Obito's boner pressed against its underwear confines.
'I'm horny as fuck,' they both thought as they saw one another. 'And so is she/he.'
Ui blinked as he grimaced before covering his mouth, turning around and hiding his impressive cock.
"N-No, wait," she stepped forward and wrapped her arms around his powerful abs. 'T-They're so firm,' Ui realized she was descending down that 'rabbit' hole again.
He flinched at her touch and Ui felt her body activate at his hiss.
Red eyes turned around to catch soft hazel and both locked as her arms loosened and he turned in her grip.
At that point, it was too late as his long, powerful, arm reached out and closed the door behind her, the two of them already inside his room.
Soft hands spread out over his chest as she stood to her full height, the realization that she only stood up to his pectorals resonating with her perverted nature.
Their eyes never left the others and his head lower before she pushed hers up.
Their lips met and it was over.
Time to fuck.
~NRK~
That's a wrap on this chapter and you all will have noticed the change in the pairing.
I just feel like Eruza deserves her love life as much as Ui does.
Now, here, we have Obito basically ripping through Sumitomo and the results of it. We get a little showing of an unknown brute who protects Yashin.
Also, Ui has been aged up two years so she'd be 17 here while Obito is 20, a little less weird, and Eruza's in that same range.
We are a year and some change from canon, just so you all know. With these changes, though, things are going to be different.
Ciao.
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~NRK Out~