DeNice: So things are getting VERY weird now... Batsu and Kyosuke are the
fighters remaining on the Taiyo side and Darrell and Sakura are
representing Tamagawa Minami. The losers gotta drink some nasty
beverages...
Darrell: CHAN!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?!
Sakura: Oh, relax...
Batsu: Yeah... You'll be drinking it soon enough, Darrell.
Darrell: You're testing me, Batsu...
DeNice: Hey! Save it for the fanfic... which is coming up... NOW!
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Chapter 15: Tamagawa Manami vs. Taiyo part 3
"Got that, Sakura?"
"Yeah... Karin mustn't as much help as we thought she'd be... I just hope you know what you're doing..."
"I know. I think I can still do it... but it's a last resort, so-"
"HEY! You coming or what?"
"Oh, hold on, Batsu! Sheesh... Let's go..."
The two fighters broke their little conversation and as they stood up to face Batsu and Kyosuke, the crowd, especially the Tamagawa students, created a big cheer of excitement. Some even chanted, "D&S, win for TM!" making Darrell blush. However, as Batsu spoke up, he regained his serious look.
"Okay... it's two on two," the Taiyo hot-head started, "old school style. No switching out this time, but Team-ups are still able to be used."
"Fine," Sakrua agreed.
"Oh... and I hope you heard what I said about who loses..." Batsu added with a devilish smile on his face. That made Darrell raise an eyebrow.
"What?"
Batsu smiled fully before looking over his shoulder to the water cooler Karin owned. On top of it were three bottles of a very dark brown drink...
"What the hell are those?" Darrell asked while jerking a thumb to the bottles.
"Oh... nothing... Just some turkey and gravy flavored soda... Whichever school team loses... has to drink the soda... ALL OF IT."
Both Tawagama fighters instantly grew tight in the stomach.
"You can't be serious!" Darrell whined while giving Batsu a disgusted look. "I'm not going to drink that!"
"Oh, that means you're SURE you're gonna lose to say that!" Batsu joked, triggering a vein to pop out of Darrell's forehead a bit.
"I'm not losing to you, Batsu! No way!"
"Then come on!"
Darrell let out a low growl, once again eyeing the drinks that waited either school team. Again he felt his stomach flip, but Sakura's whispered words caught his attention.
"You sure you remember how to summon that?"
"Sure... You just get in there and do what you do best..."
Sakura nodded and then walked forward a bit, fixing her headband and sparring gloves.
"Okay, Batsu... We'll do this little bet, but we're gonna win this fight so get ready to drink up."
"Sure, Sakura..." Batsu mumbled before stepping back, letting Kyosuke go first. As the redhead fixed his glasses, Sakura breathed deeply before getting into her stance, triggering another roar from the crowd. After about a second, Sakura attacked first with a hard punch to Kyosuke's gut that went blocked. She then went low with a kick, but Kyosuke was quick to the draw, throwing his arm up and making a bolt of lightning to strike Sakura from the ground, floating her and following with a Shadow Cut Kick. Sakura air recovered and threw a Hadouken downwards. Kyosuke evaded.
"Come on..." Darrell muttered to himself impatiently. "You can do it, Sakura... Just hold on long enough..."
The fighting schoolgirl took a blow from Kyosuke and then turned her back to him, kicking him in the stomach like a horse would. Kyosuke was blasted back quite a bit before he recovered and charged up.
"Aaaahhhh..." he let out and since Sakura knew Kyosuke was going for a super, she charged up herself.
"Shinku..."
"CROSS CUTTER!"
"HADOUKEN!!"
(Bad move, Sakura...) Ryu thought to himself as Kyosuke's many energy daggers collided with Sakura's super Hadouken. Most of them nullified it completely... leaving about two that caught Sakura off guard and hit her backwards onto the ground. By the looks of it, she seemed to be in more pain than was expected, emitting cheers from Taiyo and gasps from Tamagawa, especially Darrell.
(Oh, crap... Critical to that damn rib...)
Kyosuke gave a humph! as he saw Sakura sit up, holding her stomach with both ribs. He didn't respond as she slowly stood up... and as she tried to attack, turned around and smacked her in the cheek with a backhand, sending her spiraling to the ground again.
(This isn't good... At this rate, she'll be out... I'll have to jump in and do my Team up...)
"SAKURA!!" Darrell shouted to his wounded girlfriend. "Try our move! You know which one!"
Sakura nodded slowly and stood up again, shaking her head to try to get herself ready. Kyosuke didn't make that easy as he was already airborne and came down with a overhead lightning strike. Sakura blocked it and as Kyosuke landed, tried to nail the start up to Darrell's Team Up, a roundhouse kick to the face, but her body was slow to react... and Kyosuke had room to dodge it, moving to the back of Sakura...
"Batsu..." he yelled as he threw his fist into Sakura's body, paralyzing her... then backed away, where Batsu was waiting...
(NO! THAT'S NOT GOOD!!!) Darrell screamed inside his head.
"Yaaaa..."
"Haaa...."
"AAAAAA!!!!"
Both Taiyo fighters charged up twin Guts Bullets... and threw them forward, making them swirl around each other and nail Sakura in the back, making her scream in agony. The moment she hit the ground once the Team Up technique ended, the pain was too much... and passed out from it. Kyosuke then ran his hand through his hair as the crowd went wild and sighed. He then eyed Darrell, who's eyes were still on Sakura's beaten body, and thought silently, (he's obviously desperate, now...)
Indeed he was. All Tawagama students' eyes were on him, their doubts high. Can he take on both Batsu and Kyosuke alone? Can he win this rival school battle in this slump for his school? He clenched his fists, closing his eyes.
(Damn... I can't let Batsu win! I can't!!)
A flaring orange aura surrounded his body as his fists went ablaze. As he turned around to the two boys from Taiyo, he yelled out his secret technique...
"Shakunetsu... BURST X2!!"
His eyes went on fire and the crowd went silent. Never before did the schools see him in such a state... Batsu twitched a bit and Kyosuke started to sweat a bit.
"Batsu..." Kyosuke let out silently. "We've got a problem..."
"Yeah, you think?" Batsu asked. "He's been holding back... His power went up pretty well, too... This is really good..."
Darrell stepped forward, eyeing Kyosuke, and then dropped into his fighting stance. On the side, Ryu's eyes fixed on Darrell.
(Very impressive... I remember him doing this two years ago... when we defeated Akuma together... Let's see if he still got it...)
"Let's go," the dark-skinned fighter called and Kyosuke calmly fixed his glasses while facing him.
"I seem to have got you riled up to resort to your deep reserve," Kyouske said to Darrell. "I just hope it'll be enough..."
"Trust me... I'm just warming up... Kyosuke..."
"I see... Well, let's get this over with."
Darrell smirked... then dashed in, quicker than Kyosuke could react, then uppercutted him HARD in the chin, making him go aflame as he went up into the air, then followed him. Darrell then performed a small air combo before smashing Kyosuke to the ground. Somehow, Kyosuke safe fell into a standing position and gathered his energy...
"Super... Lightning UPPER!!!"
Kyosuke summoned a super large rod of electrical energy from the ground to where Darrell was about to land, bathing him in the energy. After about 5 seconds, it dimmed down and Darrell finally touched the ground, having blocked the burning vigor attack. Not letting Kyosuke realize his error, Darrell got in close and threw his elbow into his stomach, stunning him, then...
"REKKA NAKKURA!!!"
Kyosuke was long gone well before Darrell finished his 18-hit onslaught, the power of his flames too much to bear. Once Darrell threw the final Shakunetsuken, blasting Kyosuke's body into the Taiyo entrance wall where Ran was sitting on, the Tamagawa students cheered out loud, praising Darrell on his quick victory. Darrell wasn't paying attention to them, though. He instantly eyed Batsu, who was in turn eyeing him. Tension rose between the two rivals as they stood alone in the fight area. This was it. Darrell vs. Batsu, Taiyo vs. Tamagawa Minami, one-on-one, winner takes all (until their next battle, lol...)...
"Well... it's seems to be just you and me again, Batsu," Darrell announced.
"Yeah... it is... Nice little power-up," Batsu complimented flatly.
"Thanks..." Darrell returned his sarcasm. "Unfortunately, it's just my start... I'm making sure you drink that crap, Batsu."
"You wish..."
Batsu then grabbed his school jacket, unbuttoned it, and threw it off, then the black shirt under it to reveal some sort of metal vest or something. Darrell raised an eyebrow, instantly sensing Batsu's power go up.
"The hell...?"
"You missed a lot when you were gone in the hospital..." Batsu said while getting ready. "I've been training... That little spar we just had was nothing. Now we get serious... Now you're messing with Burning Batsu..."
Darrell smirked. "Burning Batsu... Nice little nickname... Unfortunately, I don't mess with nicknames... They're so tedious... SHAKUNETSU BURST X3!!!"
The aura around Darrell flared to outrageous strength as his flames grew again. "Now... let's finish this. I don't want you to be late for your beverage..."
"You sure do have a large sense of humor, Darrell. Maybe you should wake up and realize that YOU'LL be drinking that stuff..."
Darrell shook his head while getting into stance. The crowd could have already yelled at them to get the fight started but now it seemed as if they did... the consequences would be too severe. These two were buffed... and Darrell was first to prove it by throwing a punch to Batsu's face that was actually caught in mid-performance, slightly startling his rival. Batsu then countered with his own close-up fist, but Darrell blocked that with his free arm. They stayed in that position for a while, measuring each other's new strength, then Batsu went sneaky...
"Darrell..."
"Wha-mmm!!!"
Eyes bulged out of skulls as Batsu actually KISSED his rival quickly, totally throwing him off his defenses, then kneed him viciously in the stomach. Darrell let out a cry as he reeled back, still stunned by his rival's cheap trick.
"Y... you shonen-ai FREAK!!" he yelled as he wiped his lips. "I might have done that to Hinata to get the upper hand but at least she was a GIRL!!"
"Anything to win..." was all Batsu said as he followed up with an elbow to the same stomach he punished, then jumped into the elbow with an upward punch, flaming Darrell as well as knocking him away. Darrell managed to safe fall and dodge an orange Guts Bullet to nail an uppercut to Hadouken combo. He then guarded Batsu's punches to the head and body, as well as his crescent kick. The Tawagama fighter then followed with his own attack but Batsu ducked and nailed his own upper, then put his hands above his head, gathering his vigor..."
"Burning... GUTS BULLET!!!"
Darrell definitely felt the burn from Batsu's Burning Vigor attack as he rolled across the ground and rest on his back. It took a while for Darrell to get up, though, ignoring the few rants from some Taiyo students but welcoming some Tamagawa help, then wiped the blood from his lips.
(I... I think he's starting to know what I'll throw. Time to throw him off...)
"Here... I COME!!!" the dark-skinned fighter yelled as he ran forward. Batsu was tempted to attack, but he remembered that was his counter move... and grabbed him out of it, slamming him to the ground.
"Take THAT!" he yelled as he looked down to his floored opponent. "You think you'd see me fall for that twice? You're pretty gullible..."
Darrel shook his head as he got to all fours, facing away from Batsu. As he got to his feet, trying to recover, Batsu decided to end this quick, charging up his own fists to flames...
"Burning... GUTS..."
Going for his powerful Burning Guts Upper move, Batsu stuck Darrell with a downward blow... but froze. Something was wrong.
"You realize... you fell into a trap, right?" Darrell asked coolly, opening his eyes. Batsu grew wide-eyed, trying to back away. Darrell didn't let him. He, at the speed of light practically, spun around and kicked Batsu as hard as he could in the temple, causing his eyes to become glass as he started to fall down to his side... but Darrell then threw a Shakunetsuken Sword RIGHT into his head, planting him to the ground and turning his back to Batsu again in one full motion.
"Shakunetsu Zansatsu..." was all he murmured as he raised his right hand and gathered his flames in that hand again then looking at the crowd of students. There was quiet. For one, that was one of the coolest finishes to a fight this side of Tokyo. On the other hand, it was also the most gruesome, even for a street fight. Darrell didn't seem to care, though. All that mattered was that he won...
"Ryu..." Darrell asked while looking to his right to where the world warrior was standing. "Did I win?"
Ryu, oddly, didn't show as much shock as the rest. "You did perform a nice counter move, Darrell, I give you that... but... uh..."
"I... Iwamano..."
Darrell's eyes grew wide. The last voice... it... it was...
"Darrell! LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!" a female Tawagama sophomore warned. Darrell spun around to be grabbed by Batsu. He managed to see a bloodied- head Batsu look at him with an evil smile on his face, and his was shocked.
"B... b.... but how...?" Darrell asked.
"I... I do... don't know myself..." Batsu answered weakly. "A... All I know... is that you're going down..."
Batsu then lifted off, taking Darrell up about the height of the Taiyo roof...
"Mozu OTOSHI!!!"
...then brought him down HARD in a spiraling smash into the pavement... head-first. There was a large crash heard at impact as well as Darrell's cry of pain as Batsu flipped to his feet and got to one knee. Gasps were heard all over as all eyes were on Darrell, his aura still up but weakening...
"Did Batsu just win?" someone asked.
"I... I... I think so..." another answered.
"I don't believe it! How could Darrell LOSE?? He had it in the bag!"
"I don't think even those two know..."
Honestly, no one knew how Batsu managed to get up from that counter attack... and end the match with that new move. He thought that he was done... but apparently he wasn't. Then again... Darrell's weak moans signaled that he wasn't done...
"Wait! H..He's getting back up!"
"What? This is insane!"
"Who are these guys!??!"
Darrell coughed several times as he got up to one knee, looking at his rival weakly. He hardly felt any energy in his body... and wondered how he could still be up. He felt his head start to bleed from where he was slammed, but somehow he got to a standing position.
"Y... you're a freak..." Batsu commented.
"So are you," was all Darrell replied, not bothering to get back into his fighting stance. "...u... unfortunately... One of us has to win..." a grin crossed his face as he quickly formed a short Shakunetsuken Sword and prepared to get the win in at last... but...
Pow...
There was a faint thud that went out as sound. Batsu had jabbed Darrell softly in the side of the head... and it seemed to be enough for Darrell's aura and flames to die out completely.
"I... I... It's... o... over...?" Darrell asked in a whisper, his body fully out of vitality. Batsu just nodded firmly.
"Y... yeah. It is. Drink up," he smirked. Darrell frowned, then smiled lightly.
"Y... you... I hate you... you know... that?" he joked.
"Yeah... I know..."
"Sh... shut up... Uuuuugghhhh...."
Everyone's eyes went on Darrell as he fell backwards on his butt, giving Batsu one final look... then collapsed fully on the ground. He finally fainted... and Batsu sighed as he rested on the school gate wall, listening to the cheers for him from the crowd.
"The fight's over," Ryu declared. "Batsu and the Taiyo team win..."
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Sakura S.: Wow... what a fight...
Darrell: Ow... ow... Tell me about it...
Hinata: Yeah... I'm still seeing stars from Sakura's kick...
Sakura: No... those are my stars from that double bullet...
DeNice: Yeah... you guys better rest up. Chan's got the final chapter... and since you guys lost, Darrell and Sakura... you know what's waiting for you...
Darrell: *sweatdrops* Oh, no... Not that...
Sakura: *groans* Not cool....
DeNice: Well... I'll see you guys next chapter. Chan... You're ending this! Finish it! Any you readers... Review!
Darrell: CHAN!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?!
Sakura: Oh, relax...
Batsu: Yeah... You'll be drinking it soon enough, Darrell.
Darrell: You're testing me, Batsu...
DeNice: Hey! Save it for the fanfic... which is coming up... NOW!
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Chapter 15: Tamagawa Manami vs. Taiyo part 3
"Got that, Sakura?"
"Yeah... Karin mustn't as much help as we thought she'd be... I just hope you know what you're doing..."
"I know. I think I can still do it... but it's a last resort, so-"
"HEY! You coming or what?"
"Oh, hold on, Batsu! Sheesh... Let's go..."
The two fighters broke their little conversation and as they stood up to face Batsu and Kyosuke, the crowd, especially the Tamagawa students, created a big cheer of excitement. Some even chanted, "D&S, win for TM!" making Darrell blush. However, as Batsu spoke up, he regained his serious look.
"Okay... it's two on two," the Taiyo hot-head started, "old school style. No switching out this time, but Team-ups are still able to be used."
"Fine," Sakrua agreed.
"Oh... and I hope you heard what I said about who loses..." Batsu added with a devilish smile on his face. That made Darrell raise an eyebrow.
"What?"
Batsu smiled fully before looking over his shoulder to the water cooler Karin owned. On top of it were three bottles of a very dark brown drink...
"What the hell are those?" Darrell asked while jerking a thumb to the bottles.
"Oh... nothing... Just some turkey and gravy flavored soda... Whichever school team loses... has to drink the soda... ALL OF IT."
Both Tawagama fighters instantly grew tight in the stomach.
"You can't be serious!" Darrell whined while giving Batsu a disgusted look. "I'm not going to drink that!"
"Oh, that means you're SURE you're gonna lose to say that!" Batsu joked, triggering a vein to pop out of Darrell's forehead a bit.
"I'm not losing to you, Batsu! No way!"
"Then come on!"
Darrell let out a low growl, once again eyeing the drinks that waited either school team. Again he felt his stomach flip, but Sakura's whispered words caught his attention.
"You sure you remember how to summon that?"
"Sure... You just get in there and do what you do best..."
Sakura nodded and then walked forward a bit, fixing her headband and sparring gloves.
"Okay, Batsu... We'll do this little bet, but we're gonna win this fight so get ready to drink up."
"Sure, Sakura..." Batsu mumbled before stepping back, letting Kyosuke go first. As the redhead fixed his glasses, Sakura breathed deeply before getting into her stance, triggering another roar from the crowd. After about a second, Sakura attacked first with a hard punch to Kyosuke's gut that went blocked. She then went low with a kick, but Kyosuke was quick to the draw, throwing his arm up and making a bolt of lightning to strike Sakura from the ground, floating her and following with a Shadow Cut Kick. Sakura air recovered and threw a Hadouken downwards. Kyosuke evaded.
"Come on..." Darrell muttered to himself impatiently. "You can do it, Sakura... Just hold on long enough..."
The fighting schoolgirl took a blow from Kyosuke and then turned her back to him, kicking him in the stomach like a horse would. Kyosuke was blasted back quite a bit before he recovered and charged up.
"Aaaahhhh..." he let out and since Sakura knew Kyosuke was going for a super, she charged up herself.
"Shinku..."
"CROSS CUTTER!"
"HADOUKEN!!"
(Bad move, Sakura...) Ryu thought to himself as Kyosuke's many energy daggers collided with Sakura's super Hadouken. Most of them nullified it completely... leaving about two that caught Sakura off guard and hit her backwards onto the ground. By the looks of it, she seemed to be in more pain than was expected, emitting cheers from Taiyo and gasps from Tamagawa, especially Darrell.
(Oh, crap... Critical to that damn rib...)
Kyosuke gave a humph! as he saw Sakura sit up, holding her stomach with both ribs. He didn't respond as she slowly stood up... and as she tried to attack, turned around and smacked her in the cheek with a backhand, sending her spiraling to the ground again.
(This isn't good... At this rate, she'll be out... I'll have to jump in and do my Team up...)
"SAKURA!!" Darrell shouted to his wounded girlfriend. "Try our move! You know which one!"
Sakura nodded slowly and stood up again, shaking her head to try to get herself ready. Kyosuke didn't make that easy as he was already airborne and came down with a overhead lightning strike. Sakura blocked it and as Kyosuke landed, tried to nail the start up to Darrell's Team Up, a roundhouse kick to the face, but her body was slow to react... and Kyosuke had room to dodge it, moving to the back of Sakura...
"Batsu..." he yelled as he threw his fist into Sakura's body, paralyzing her... then backed away, where Batsu was waiting...
(NO! THAT'S NOT GOOD!!!) Darrell screamed inside his head.
"Yaaaa..."
"Haaa...."
"AAAAAA!!!!"
Both Taiyo fighters charged up twin Guts Bullets... and threw them forward, making them swirl around each other and nail Sakura in the back, making her scream in agony. The moment she hit the ground once the Team Up technique ended, the pain was too much... and passed out from it. Kyosuke then ran his hand through his hair as the crowd went wild and sighed. He then eyed Darrell, who's eyes were still on Sakura's beaten body, and thought silently, (he's obviously desperate, now...)
Indeed he was. All Tawagama students' eyes were on him, their doubts high. Can he take on both Batsu and Kyosuke alone? Can he win this rival school battle in this slump for his school? He clenched his fists, closing his eyes.
(Damn... I can't let Batsu win! I can't!!)
A flaring orange aura surrounded his body as his fists went ablaze. As he turned around to the two boys from Taiyo, he yelled out his secret technique...
"Shakunetsu... BURST X2!!"
His eyes went on fire and the crowd went silent. Never before did the schools see him in such a state... Batsu twitched a bit and Kyosuke started to sweat a bit.
"Batsu..." Kyosuke let out silently. "We've got a problem..."
"Yeah, you think?" Batsu asked. "He's been holding back... His power went up pretty well, too... This is really good..."
Darrell stepped forward, eyeing Kyosuke, and then dropped into his fighting stance. On the side, Ryu's eyes fixed on Darrell.
(Very impressive... I remember him doing this two years ago... when we defeated Akuma together... Let's see if he still got it...)
"Let's go," the dark-skinned fighter called and Kyosuke calmly fixed his glasses while facing him.
"I seem to have got you riled up to resort to your deep reserve," Kyouske said to Darrell. "I just hope it'll be enough..."
"Trust me... I'm just warming up... Kyosuke..."
"I see... Well, let's get this over with."
Darrell smirked... then dashed in, quicker than Kyosuke could react, then uppercutted him HARD in the chin, making him go aflame as he went up into the air, then followed him. Darrell then performed a small air combo before smashing Kyosuke to the ground. Somehow, Kyosuke safe fell into a standing position and gathered his energy...
"Super... Lightning UPPER!!!"
Kyosuke summoned a super large rod of electrical energy from the ground to where Darrell was about to land, bathing him in the energy. After about 5 seconds, it dimmed down and Darrell finally touched the ground, having blocked the burning vigor attack. Not letting Kyosuke realize his error, Darrell got in close and threw his elbow into his stomach, stunning him, then...
"REKKA NAKKURA!!!"
Kyosuke was long gone well before Darrell finished his 18-hit onslaught, the power of his flames too much to bear. Once Darrell threw the final Shakunetsuken, blasting Kyosuke's body into the Taiyo entrance wall where Ran was sitting on, the Tamagawa students cheered out loud, praising Darrell on his quick victory. Darrell wasn't paying attention to them, though. He instantly eyed Batsu, who was in turn eyeing him. Tension rose between the two rivals as they stood alone in the fight area. This was it. Darrell vs. Batsu, Taiyo vs. Tamagawa Minami, one-on-one, winner takes all (until their next battle, lol...)...
"Well... it's seems to be just you and me again, Batsu," Darrell announced.
"Yeah... it is... Nice little power-up," Batsu complimented flatly.
"Thanks..." Darrell returned his sarcasm. "Unfortunately, it's just my start... I'm making sure you drink that crap, Batsu."
"You wish..."
Batsu then grabbed his school jacket, unbuttoned it, and threw it off, then the black shirt under it to reveal some sort of metal vest or something. Darrell raised an eyebrow, instantly sensing Batsu's power go up.
"The hell...?"
"You missed a lot when you were gone in the hospital..." Batsu said while getting ready. "I've been training... That little spar we just had was nothing. Now we get serious... Now you're messing with Burning Batsu..."
Darrell smirked. "Burning Batsu... Nice little nickname... Unfortunately, I don't mess with nicknames... They're so tedious... SHAKUNETSU BURST X3!!!"
The aura around Darrell flared to outrageous strength as his flames grew again. "Now... let's finish this. I don't want you to be late for your beverage..."
"You sure do have a large sense of humor, Darrell. Maybe you should wake up and realize that YOU'LL be drinking that stuff..."
Darrell shook his head while getting into stance. The crowd could have already yelled at them to get the fight started but now it seemed as if they did... the consequences would be too severe. These two were buffed... and Darrell was first to prove it by throwing a punch to Batsu's face that was actually caught in mid-performance, slightly startling his rival. Batsu then countered with his own close-up fist, but Darrell blocked that with his free arm. They stayed in that position for a while, measuring each other's new strength, then Batsu went sneaky...
"Darrell..."
"Wha-mmm!!!"
Eyes bulged out of skulls as Batsu actually KISSED his rival quickly, totally throwing him off his defenses, then kneed him viciously in the stomach. Darrell let out a cry as he reeled back, still stunned by his rival's cheap trick.
"Y... you shonen-ai FREAK!!" he yelled as he wiped his lips. "I might have done that to Hinata to get the upper hand but at least she was a GIRL!!"
"Anything to win..." was all Batsu said as he followed up with an elbow to the same stomach he punished, then jumped into the elbow with an upward punch, flaming Darrell as well as knocking him away. Darrell managed to safe fall and dodge an orange Guts Bullet to nail an uppercut to Hadouken combo. He then guarded Batsu's punches to the head and body, as well as his crescent kick. The Tawagama fighter then followed with his own attack but Batsu ducked and nailed his own upper, then put his hands above his head, gathering his vigor..."
"Burning... GUTS BULLET!!!"
Darrell definitely felt the burn from Batsu's Burning Vigor attack as he rolled across the ground and rest on his back. It took a while for Darrell to get up, though, ignoring the few rants from some Taiyo students but welcoming some Tamagawa help, then wiped the blood from his lips.
(I... I think he's starting to know what I'll throw. Time to throw him off...)
"Here... I COME!!!" the dark-skinned fighter yelled as he ran forward. Batsu was tempted to attack, but he remembered that was his counter move... and grabbed him out of it, slamming him to the ground.
"Take THAT!" he yelled as he looked down to his floored opponent. "You think you'd see me fall for that twice? You're pretty gullible..."
Darrel shook his head as he got to all fours, facing away from Batsu. As he got to his feet, trying to recover, Batsu decided to end this quick, charging up his own fists to flames...
"Burning... GUTS..."
Going for his powerful Burning Guts Upper move, Batsu stuck Darrell with a downward blow... but froze. Something was wrong.
"You realize... you fell into a trap, right?" Darrell asked coolly, opening his eyes. Batsu grew wide-eyed, trying to back away. Darrell didn't let him. He, at the speed of light practically, spun around and kicked Batsu as hard as he could in the temple, causing his eyes to become glass as he started to fall down to his side... but Darrell then threw a Shakunetsuken Sword RIGHT into his head, planting him to the ground and turning his back to Batsu again in one full motion.
"Shakunetsu Zansatsu..." was all he murmured as he raised his right hand and gathered his flames in that hand again then looking at the crowd of students. There was quiet. For one, that was one of the coolest finishes to a fight this side of Tokyo. On the other hand, it was also the most gruesome, even for a street fight. Darrell didn't seem to care, though. All that mattered was that he won...
"Ryu..." Darrell asked while looking to his right to where the world warrior was standing. "Did I win?"
Ryu, oddly, didn't show as much shock as the rest. "You did perform a nice counter move, Darrell, I give you that... but... uh..."
"I... Iwamano..."
Darrell's eyes grew wide. The last voice... it... it was...
"Darrell! LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!" a female Tawagama sophomore warned. Darrell spun around to be grabbed by Batsu. He managed to see a bloodied- head Batsu look at him with an evil smile on his face, and his was shocked.
"B... b.... but how...?" Darrell asked.
"I... I do... don't know myself..." Batsu answered weakly. "A... All I know... is that you're going down..."
Batsu then lifted off, taking Darrell up about the height of the Taiyo roof...
"Mozu OTOSHI!!!"
...then brought him down HARD in a spiraling smash into the pavement... head-first. There was a large crash heard at impact as well as Darrell's cry of pain as Batsu flipped to his feet and got to one knee. Gasps were heard all over as all eyes were on Darrell, his aura still up but weakening...
"Did Batsu just win?" someone asked.
"I... I... I think so..." another answered.
"I don't believe it! How could Darrell LOSE?? He had it in the bag!"
"I don't think even those two know..."
Honestly, no one knew how Batsu managed to get up from that counter attack... and end the match with that new move. He thought that he was done... but apparently he wasn't. Then again... Darrell's weak moans signaled that he wasn't done...
"Wait! H..He's getting back up!"
"What? This is insane!"
"Who are these guys!??!"
Darrell coughed several times as he got up to one knee, looking at his rival weakly. He hardly felt any energy in his body... and wondered how he could still be up. He felt his head start to bleed from where he was slammed, but somehow he got to a standing position.
"Y... you're a freak..." Batsu commented.
"So are you," was all Darrell replied, not bothering to get back into his fighting stance. "...u... unfortunately... One of us has to win..." a grin crossed his face as he quickly formed a short Shakunetsuken Sword and prepared to get the win in at last... but...
Pow...
There was a faint thud that went out as sound. Batsu had jabbed Darrell softly in the side of the head... and it seemed to be enough for Darrell's aura and flames to die out completely.
"I... I... It's... o... over...?" Darrell asked in a whisper, his body fully out of vitality. Batsu just nodded firmly.
"Y... yeah. It is. Drink up," he smirked. Darrell frowned, then smiled lightly.
"Y... you... I hate you... you know... that?" he joked.
"Yeah... I know..."
"Sh... shut up... Uuuuugghhhh...."
Everyone's eyes went on Darrell as he fell backwards on his butt, giving Batsu one final look... then collapsed fully on the ground. He finally fainted... and Batsu sighed as he rested on the school gate wall, listening to the cheers for him from the crowd.
"The fight's over," Ryu declared. "Batsu and the Taiyo team win..."
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Sakura S.: Wow... what a fight...
Darrell: Ow... ow... Tell me about it...
Hinata: Yeah... I'm still seeing stars from Sakura's kick...
Sakura: No... those are my stars from that double bullet...
DeNice: Yeah... you guys better rest up. Chan's got the final chapter... and since you guys lost, Darrell and Sakura... you know what's waiting for you...
Darrell: *sweatdrops* Oh, no... Not that...
Sakura: *groans* Not cool....
DeNice: Well... I'll see you guys next chapter. Chan... You're ending this! Finish it! Any you readers... Review!