Utagaibukai
Peach Girl Fanfiction by Yohko.

Chapter Eight: The Fight

Momo and Kairi walked towards them slowly, not speaking.
"Hey Momo~!" Sae said happily. A little too happily for Momo's liking.
"Hello Momo Adachi." Chi spoke now, failing to hide her grin as well. Toji shifted uncomfortably in his seat and then glared at Kairi.
"Hey gang," Kairi said finally, "I thought you guys were going to the carnival."
"We were," Chi answered, "but we changed our minds."
"We agreed on a little date at the Pizza Parlor." Sae added smiling.
'Date,' Momo thought.
"Oh," Kairi rubbed the back of his head and looked at Momo.
Momo was looking at everyone around her, pointing at her and whispering amongst themselves.
"What's with everyone?" Kairi asked them.
"No idea," Sae lied through her bleached teeth.
Toji shifted uncomfortably in his seat again and reached for his coke.
"Okay well," Kairi took his right hand out of his pocket and waved, "we'll see you guys later." He put his hand on Momo's shoulder and turned her away.
Momo moved out of his arm stiffly and then whispered while looking around, "why is everyone starring at me?"
"I wish I knew," Kairi whispered back. "Here, I'll get the pizza since I'm the one with the discount. Why don't you go and get a table?" He looked around, "outside, perhaps?"
Momo nodded and made her way out the doors, relieved to get away from all those eyes. Looking around, Momo couldn't find an available table to sit. She walked farther to the side until she was almost at the alleyway between the Pizza Parlor and the drugstore. Momo turned to leave, but like so many times she would hear something and wonder what it was. Taking a step forward, she looked around cautiously. A little black kitten walked past her, startling her at first. She bent down to pick it up, "hey there, little kitty." The Cat purred in Momo's arms. "At least you're nice," she put the cat down gently and took a step outside the alley when she heard footsteps. Turning around, Momo could see three guys about Kairi's height walking towards her from inside the alley.
"You're Momo Adachi, right?" the one in the middle asked.
Momo froze and slowly turned to face them.
"Yeah, it's the beach bunny." The one on the right said.
"I'm not a beach bunny," Momo defended herself quietly.
"Oh yeah?" the one in the middle asked again, "then where were you all of today? not at school, that's for sure."
"I was sick," Momo answered, taking a step back as they walked closer.
The three of them laughed, obviously that wasn't what they heard.
"We heard," the one in the middle spoke again, "you skipped all of yesterday because you were busy with some clients, and you skipped today because you were too tired."
"Clients?" Momo was starting to get frightened. She could handle the girls, but not the boys.
"Yeah," the one on the left spoke, "the clients of your naughty little part-time job."
"I don't do anything like that," Momo spoke forcefully.
"What if we paid you?" the middle one spoke laughing, "how much for the three of us?"
"Leave me alone," Momo turned to walk away.
"You're a good actress," the middle one, obviously being the leader, grabbed her arm and pulled her back, "but we're still requiring your services so we'll just take it."
Momo was really frightened now and tried to pull her arm out of his firm grip, "No! Leave me alone!" Her attempts at escape turned against her as she tripped and fell on the ground.
"Stay still you little slut!" The other two moved in to help him by grabbing her legs and arms.
"NO! NO! LEAVE ME ALONE! NOW!!" Momo started screaming.
"Hey! Leave her alone!" a voice yelled.
Momo looked over to see who it was... "Kairi!" Kairi stood at the entrance of the alley with his arms crossed firmly.
They all look up and started laughing. "Hold her, I'll get this one." The one in the middle got up from over Momo and ran towards Kairi. "Why don't you mind your own business?" as he ran, he brought his fist into in to punch Kairi in the face. Kairi crouched and ducked under the swing, he countered with a tough uppercut, nailing the guy right under his chin and sending him back into some garbage bags.
Kairi looked over at the other two, "let her go." A crowd started to form behind Kairi in the distance. Watching, but not helping.
Momo's tear filled eyes were scared and she started to shake as the other two tossed her to the side and started to charge after Kairi. Kairi wasn't expecting both of them, but he gave it a shot. Stepping to the left he managed to send one flying behind him because he couldn't stop and he lost his balance. While the second guy nailed a good punch to Kairi's face. Kairi swung after the guy but missed, he tried again leaving his gut open for a harsh knee-in, and fell to the ground.
"Kairi!" Momo cried, standing up now. Suddenly an arm came from behind her and wrapped around her neck, choking her. She tried to yell for help, but it was useless. It was the first guy that fell in the garbage.
Kairi was up now and punched the guy behind him. He spun around, and nailed a hard back hand punch to the other guy. One punched to his head and Kairi moved to the side, as the punch went above his shoulder. Kairi grabbed the guy's arm, rolled back and sent the guy flying behind him. Standing up, Kairi noticed Chi, Sae and Toji in the crowd. "Toji! Help me, damn it!" Suddenly a kick to his back sent him flying to the ground hard. His back screamed in pain, as if it were broken, but he turned over. The guy was getting ready to kick him in the side when Kairi caught a glimpse of Momo farther back being strangled. The kicks to his side started hard and continued quickly, but Kairi stretched out his hand, "Mo...mo..."
Momo was fighting for air by kicking and moving around, but she became faint very quickly. Right when she felt she was about to pass out, the guy that was choking her flew to the side and Momo fell to her knees gasping for air. Toji knelt down beside her, "Momo? Are you okay?" Toji had kicked the guy right into the wall.
Leaning to the side, just about ready to faint, Toji caught her, "Momo wake up!"
Momo's eyes opened wide when she saw Toji's worried face looking down at her. Normally, she would have cuddled into his arms like a helpless kitten, but she remembered who really saved her life. "Kairi!" she cried and pulled herself out of Toji's arms.
Kairi was laying on the ground, half passed-out, taking repeated hard kicks to his side as Momo ran towards them. Momo jumped up into the air, after getting enough momentum from her running, and she kicked the guy as hard as she could on the curve of his back. He was sent flying forward.
"Let's go!" the three of them slowly and painfully got up and ran.
Kairi opened one eye to see Momo's worried and beaten face with tear-filled eyes looking down at him. "Mo..mo..." he spoke quietly and slowly, "you're.... okay..." He started coughing uncontrollably until it got to the point he was coughing up blood.
"WHAT ARE YOU ALL STANDING AROUND FOR?!" Momo yelled at the crowd, "SOMEONE CALL AN AMBULANCE!!!"